Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 1409: Enemies on a Narrow Road 1

Chapter 1409: Chapter 1409: Enemies on a Narrow Road 1

Meeting Li Shuitian in Baozhou, Lu Jiang was especially happy.

Thinking about it, it had been quite some time since Li Shuitian left the army; time really flies, back then Zhuangzhuang had just started calling "mama".

"Comrade Shuitian? What are you doing here?" Lu Jiang remembered that Li Shuitian’s hometown was in Hebei, but it wasn’t Baozhou, and he was supposed to go directly home when he left the army.

Li Shuitian handed over a Fish Ticket and the urban resident supply certificate to the fish-selling lady, then pulled out five yuan and handed it over, while watching the lady accept the money and catch the fish, he said with a smile: "First I will buy some fish for Xiongxiong, then come to my house for dinner, and we can talk slowly about why I am here; it’s a long story, not easily summarized."

That one sentence blocked whatever Lu Jiang was going to say next.

Lu Erxiong was the happiest, watching two big carps jumping lively out of the bucket, he also jumped around cheerfully shouting, "Big fish, big carp, sister, big carp!" His empty hand gripping Fubao’s clothes.

Fubao looked stern, "The fish isn’t yours, it belongs to Uncle Shuitian."

Lu Erxiong immediately handed over the one cent in his hand to Li Shuitian, who stood there dumbfounded, staring at the warm coin, then looked at Lu Jiang, "Is Xiongxiong trying to buy the fish from me with one cent?"

Lu Jiang held back a laugh, "Exactly! And it’s all his belongings."

For a little kid as young as Erxiong to know that buying things requires money is already quite good, as for the concept of prices? Sorry, he doesn’t have that notion yet.

"Very smart, but the fish is bought for you to eat, I don’t want your money." Li Shuitian put the cent back in Erxiong’s pocket.

Lu Erxiong blinked his big eyes several times, "Thank you, Uncle!" His little hand tightly covered his pocket.

"You’re welcome." Li Shuitian patted Erxiong’s head and took back his urban resident supply certificate into his canvas bag, then picked up the two carps tied with straw ropes in his hand.

They were said to be big carps, but actually they weren’t very large, about two jin each.

In many places, Fish Tickets are only available during festivals such as Labor Day, National Day, and Chinese New Year, and each person only gets half a jin, except for those close to rivers, lakes, or seas.

Li Shuitian explained to Lu Jiang: "There is a big lake nearby, here each person gets half a jin of Fish Ticket every month, and it doubles during the festivals. Many residents are reluctant to buy and will transfer their Fish Tickets to others, just like Sugar Tickets, if they don’t want to buy or if they have a larger household and get more supplies, they transfer them to those in need."

He had been in the army for many years, after his son passed away, the couple’s expenses were limited, and they saved quite a bit of money. Cao Hongzhu and the neighbors got along well, the excess or unaffordable subsidiary food tickets from others would often be transferred to them, making their life quite flavorful.

The fish-selling lady clearly knew him, and pointed at the barely alive shrimp in the bucket, "You can buy with the supply certificate, no ticket needed!"

Li Shuitian glanced into the bucket and took out the returned supply certificate, "Sister Zhang, I have guests at home, a comrade from the army, it’s not easy to meet, and I brought three kids, I want three jin of living shrimp, don’t you dare give me the dead ones!"

"Alright, dare I give you anything bad, Comrade Hongzhu will come to settle accounts with me!" Cao Hongzhu’s fierceness was well known to all.

Li Shuitian chuckled, not ashamed but proud.

After buying fish and shrimp, Li Shuitian also bought a few jin of seasonal vegetables and some meat skins and pig offal that didn’t require tickets, just enough for several dishes before he stopped. Dundun went off to play with Fubao, and Ping Zhengkai hurriedly stepped forward to help.