She just finished signing in at the sign-in location on the Educated Youth Special Train and then it disappeared. It was obviously a one-time thing, so she didn’t know what the gift package for educated youth was.
When she saw the small red paper package in her backpack, Yi Qingqing couldn’t help but complain.
What about the promised ‘big’ gift package? Two things as big as a palm, were the words deceiving?
She used her mind to control it to open.
Looking at the stack of colorful money tickets inside, Yi Qingqing said: “System Dad, I was wrong!”
In addition to 100 yuan, there were also food coupons, meat coupons, oil coupons, sugar coupons, cloth coupons, cotton coupons, soap coupons, towel coupons, toothpaste coupons, toothbrush coupons, etc.
In addition to having multiple coupons of each type for things, although she could only get one coupon for daily necessities, it was also very rare.
In the past few days, she had been looking for sign-in locations everywhere, but her only regret was that she could not find a sign-in location where she could get a coupon. This big gift package came just in time.
Yun Guyuan felt a little uncomfortable as the girl opposite him kept looking at him. He raised his head and was about to speak when he saw her smiling brightly. Her eyes filled with stars.
It seemed like there was him and yet there seemed to be no him in her eyes.
After all, he still didn’t speak.
But he still couldn’t stand the book anymore, so he turned his head to look at the scenery outside the window.
After Yi Qingqing admired her solid system background, she turned off the system. Feeling a little bored, she hugged the bag tightly and leaned on the seat with her eyes closed to relax.
In fact, her spirit had already entered the skill-teaching mode.
This train would take three days and two nights, which was a long time. The guy opposite had books to kill time. She could only stay in a daze unless she improved her skills.
Yun Guyuan looked at the scenery for a while, finally calmed down, and started reading again.
A few hours later, when they arrived at Haishi Station, their quiet place finally became a little livelier.
Suddenly, two women and two men came.
The empty seats here were all filled.
“Hello, everyone. I heard that the tickets for educated youths are issued according to the assigned areas. We should all go to Daxing Commune in Tieling County, right?”
The more lively of the two boys sat down and said, “Let me introduce myself. I am Zheng Xiaolong. I am from Haishi. I go to Xiangshui Village, Daxing Commune.”
Another boy also said, “My name is Chen Zhihe. I am a high school classmate with him and I also go to Xiangshui Village.”
Yi Qingqing immediately perked up when she heard the introduction of these two people. Wasn’t this Zheng Xiaolong, the second male lead in the book?
Then opposite him, was it the heroine, Li Mengxue?
In the book, her original existence was just like a background. She only knew that she was an educated youth from the same group as the heroine, but her future was blank.
But, she didn’t expect that she actually sat with the heroine on the train going to the countryside. There was also one girl in the middle.
The book described that Zheng Xiaolong had a crush on the heroine from the first time they met. The two people had an ambiguous period and almost achieved good things.
It turned out that Zheng Xiaolong came to the countryside to avoid his family’s pressure to get married. There was a childhood friend who grew up with him and was engaged to him, and later, she followed Zheng Xiaolong to the countryside.
After some emotional entanglements, the heroine finally got tired and chose to recuperate from her heart’s injury in Tieling County.
Yi Qingqing’s eyes flashed with excitement. She looked toward Zheng Xiaolong. Sure enough, opposite him was a girl wearing an off-white shirt with a doll collar and fishbone braids.
Very good, one look at this braid, it was from modern times.
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Translator’s Little Encyclopedia
China’s Commodity Ration Coupons (Part 2)
These ration coupons were used for the allocation and purchase of rice and grain. The average ration was 15 kilograms for a man and 13 kilograms for a woman each month, though it varied somewhat with age, profession and location.
These coupons were given per person, no matter how poor or rich that person was, therefore, these food ration coupons (also known as rice coupons) were much scarcer than Chinese yuan banknotes.
However, not only food, there were also clothes, cotton, coal, coal stoves, cigarettes, matches, and light bulb coupons. Bicycle, watch, and sewing machine coupons were very rare, and they were given to government-owned companies instead of individuals. In order to get those coupons, people needed either to be very lucky to win a coupon lottery or bribe people.
It limited the things people could own or consume. Also, it limited people’s ability to relocate. People could only get coupons from their local government. However, exchanging/borrowing coupons was allowed.
(Source: Wikipedia & china-briefing.com)
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