"We are not like your city in the countryside. We still need food coupons now, so you can eat it with confidence." Huang Aiguo thought Tang Lei was going to take out the dry food, so he hurriedly said.

Tang Lei knew that Huang Aiguo had misunderstood him, but he still followed Huang Aiguo's words: "Then I won't be polite to Brother Paiguo. I still have a few candies in my bag, so I can eat them for Xiaoying."

After Tang Lei finished speaking, he stuffed the big white rabbit milk candy into Huang Aiguo's daughter's hand.

"Oh, this is the Big White Rabbit milk candy. I saw it once at the leader's house when I was in the army. This candy is too expensive. Why are you so embarrassed? Yingzi, please give it back to your uncle!"

When Huang Aiguo saw the candy in his daughter's hand, he hurriedly said to his daughter.

"Brother Patriotism, I didn't even be polite to you. Why are you still being polite to me now?"

"Besides, this is what I gave to Yingzi!" Tang Lei looked at Huang Aiguo with a pretended unhappy voice and said.

"Haha, it's me wrong. Yingzi, thank you, Uncle Tang!" Huang Aiguo said to his daughter.

"Thank you, Uncle Tang!" Yingzi's soft and childish voice was filled with joy.

"Oh, no thanks, you're so good!" Tang Lei touched Yingzi's head and said in a low voice.

"Dad, Xiao Tang, the Patriotic Dining is ready. Come in and have a meal." Huang Aiguo's wife came out and said.

Huang Aiguo's father spoke out: "Xiao Tang, go in and have a meal and try the grain wine I made."

"Uncle, then I will be disrespectful and follow the guests!" Tang Lei replied with a smile.

Tang Lei and Huang Aiguo and his son returned to the main hall. After they were separated from the host and the guest, they began to drink and eat.

As for Huang Aiguo's wife and his daughter Yingzi, they can only eat in the kitchen. For the countryside, when guests come to their homes, women cannot serve the table.

Tang Lei doesn't like this custom, but he can only follow the guests.

In the 1970s, there was a shortage of supplies, but this was much better in the countryside.

Of course, this is much better, it only refers to the rice, flour, oil and vegetables that are usually eaten in the countryside.

Because in the 1970s, the materials were still in a period of centralized supply, and they were distributed to citizens to purchase them at low prices with food coupons. Although rural farmers had to pay public grain, some things could be produced and sold by themselves.

Although it will take one year before the country can implement the policy of dividing land to households, in some rural areas, the brigade group contract system has begun to be implemented, and Huangjiawan is such an experimental village.

Of course, in terms of some high-tech products, rural areas still lag far behind urban residents.

For example, urban residents can often buy goods such as radios, bicycles, sewing machines, watches and other things through units and timely distribution of materials with tickets at low prices. In the countryside, these high-tech products often represent symbols of identity.

The dishes on the table are not shabby or rich. A large basin of boiled crucian carp soup was filled with a few pieces of tofu and carrots, a plate of pickled radish fried pheasant, a plate of salted peanuts, and then a plate of vegetables.

On the family table in the 1970s, the dishes were basically not braised or fried, because the oil that people ate at that time was still a very expensive luxury.

Tang Lei would have a great time eating this meal, drinking authentic grain wine, eating pure natural and pollution-free vegetables and wild game. For Tang Lei from the future, the table of dishes in front of him is hard to come by in the future.

In the end, Tang Lei was happy to drink and took it out of his backpack. The fried peanuts he brought from the future were placed on the dining table for the three of them to drink and eat.

After dinner, Huang Aiguo and his son continued to sit in the main hall with Tang Lei, drinking tea and chatting.

...

"Xiao Tang, that's why you used the school holidays to come to Wu County to find your uncle's family?" The lame old man asked Tang Lei with a smile.

"Yes, I didn't find my uncle here, so I can only go back now." Tang Lei looked at Huang Aiguo's father and continued to lie.

"Brother Tang will go to Wu County early tomorrow morning and then take a bus back to Jiangcheng? I will no longer continue to look for your uncle?"

"If Brother Tang doesn't dislike you, you can stay at my house for a few days. I can accompany you and go find your uncle with you." Huang Aiguo continued.

"I won't look for it anymore. Now I think it's almost the Chinese New Year. Even if I find it, I haven't seen you for so many years, so it's not appropriate to disturb you." Tang Lei shook his head and replied.

At this time point, where did Tang Lei get relatives? What he said just now came here to find his uncle was just an excuse.

His current idea is to arrive in Jiang City as soon as possible so that the things he prepared can be useful and start his journey of getting rich by buying low and selling high.

"Okay, then I won't persuade you. It's not too early. Brother Tang, you should rest early. It will take several hours from Daowu County, Huangjiawan tomorrow!" Huang Aiguo said when he saw the light in the main hall dim.

In the 1970s, most areas in the countryside had not yet been powered on, and now the kerosene lanterns are all lighted in the countryside.

But kerosene is a scarce product, especially in the countryside, it requires materials to be purchased with tickets!

So for rural farmers, they usually go to bed and rest when it gets dark, which is why although they are poor in that era, they have a lot of children.

The couple went to bed early and couldn't sleep, so they could only exert their strength and do things for sex.

After Huang Aiguo finished speaking, he took Tang Lei to the guest room, said a few polite words, took him to the door and left.

Tang Lei put his backpack on the edge of the bed, took out a portable light from his backpack, and looked around the room. There was a stretch bed with a mosquito net, an old desk, and an oil lamp made of cotton core was also placed on the old desk. Tang Lei guessed that it should not be a kerosene, but an oil lamp for cooking oil.

In addition, there is also a wooden wardrobe that looked like it was before liberation, placed in a corner of the room.

Tang Lei came to the bed and sat down. He flipped over the cotton wool under the bed, and smiled silently. It seemed that Huang Aiguo's wife should have taken the newly-made cotton wool for Tang Lei to mat.

After a while, Huang Aiguo came to Tang Lei's room with a basin of hot water for washing and knocked on the door.

Tang Lei opened the door, took the hot water basin and put it into the room. After thanking him, he closed the door again.

...

January 7, 1980 at 6 a.m.

Tang Lei actually didn't sleep well last night. He lay down very early, but he just didn't feel sleepy and didn't fall asleep until late at night.

Tang Lei felt that there were many reasons. First, he was just in 1980 yesterday, and his excitement and eagerness to make money made him excited!

Second, although Huang Aiguo's wife put the newly-made cotton wool on Tang Lei, the texture of the sheets and quilt covers, compared to the softness and silkyness of modern bedding, still makes Tang Lei, who is used to modern life, feel a little uncomfortable. Of course, it may also be the reason why he recognizes the bed.

After Tang Lei got up and sorted out his belongings, he left a Shanghai brand watch ticket and a 5-yuan banknote on the bed.

Then Huang Aiguo called for breakfast, and the two ate the breakfast of sweet potato porridge with pickles. After eating, Tang Lei and Huang Aiguo set out to Wuxian County together.

Huangjiawan is about 35 kilometers away from Wuxian County. It takes about 5 hours to get there if you walk, but if you use a carriage, it only takes about 3 hours to get there.

After Huang Aiguo pulled out the horse from the horse shed and put the horse on the old-fashioned cart, Huang Aiguo and Tang Lei sat on the edge of the head of the cart, Huang Aiguo drove the horse, and Tang Lei's eyes were full of novelty.

"Driving!"

Huang Aiguo issued an order, whipped the horse's butt and the carriage began to move.

...

"Brother Tang, are you admitted to the National University of China in 1977?" Huang Aiguo looked ahead with a whip and chatted with Tang Lei.

"I didn't make it through the college entrance examination in the winter of 1977, but I only passed the college entrance examination in the summer of 1978." Tang Lei replied with a smile.

Tang Lei was glad that he had been looking up the information before he came to answer Huang Aiguo's questions.

"Good college students, I will always be a strong job in the future and become a high-ranking official!" Huang Aiguo glanced at Tang Lei and said with a big smile.

Tang Lei also agreed and said with a smile: "It's all for building a socialist country, and there is no level of profession."

But I was thinking about MMP. Huang Aiguo didn’t know that there would be college students everywhere in the future and would not be assigned to work!

For example, Tang Lei, a bachelor's graduate of the National University of China, did not go well after graduation after finding a job for more than a year. In the end, he could only use his family's savings to open a convenience store that had nothing to do with his major!

Tang Lei's ambitions and dreams when he was in college were finally smashed by society and could only lick his wounds silently in the grocery store.

Three hours later, Huang Aiguo and Tang Lei successfully arrived at the railway station in the five counties.

"Brother Patriotic, we are separated here. There is no banquet that will last forever. Thank you and your family for your kind hospitality! We will have a date later!" Tang Lei jumped out of the carriage and looked at Huang Aiguo and said with a smile.

"Hahaha, Brother Tang, we will have a date later!" Huang Aiguo patted Tang Lei on the shoulder and laughed.

After saying goodbye to Huang Aiguo, Tang Lei came to the ticket hall of the train station to buy a train ticket from Wu County to Jiangcheng, which costs 60 cents and 80 cents.

In the era when the train had not yet accelerated, the 130-kilometer journey took three or four hours to arrive. Tang Lei waited in the simple waiting hall for almost an hour, and the train he was on finally arrived.

After Tang Lei spent all his efforts, he finally squeezed into the train. The small space where people were crowded and unable to get off the feet made Tang Lei frown.

Especially the "toxic gas" that blew from time to time in the carriage, the smell of sweat, feet, and other odors made Tang Lei disgusted.

Tang Lei did not care about his gentleness and tried his best to squeeze to the open window of the train, breathing the fresh air outside the window greedily.

The ability to open the window is the only advantage that Tang Lei thinks is that green trains are more advantageous than future trains.

...

Three and a half hours later, the train arrived at the destination Jiangcheng. Tang Lei followed the crowds that disappeared from the beginning and end and slowly walked out of the train station.

Tang Lei looked at the scene of Jiangcheng era in the late 1970s and said with a smile.

"Hello, 1980!"

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