After returning to his room, Li Ming suddenly remembered that he still had a bicycle ticket, so he turned around and walked back.
"By the way, Dad, I got a bicycle ticket here today. You can take a day off tomorrow afternoon and let's go buy a bicycle together."
Li Ming held a bicycle ticket in his hand and put it on the table.
Father Li and Mother Li looked at the bicycle tickets on the table, and for a moment they had not yet realized what they were about to introduce to their son.
"Brother, where did you get this bicycle ticket?" My sister Li Rui saw the bicycle ticket on the table, grabbed it in her hand and started studying it.
The Li family currently only has two bicycles. The first one was bought after Li's mother received a commendation for her work at the street office a few years ago, and the second one was assigned to her by Comrade Li Ming's stock. It's hard to ride.
"Son, where did you get this?" Mother Li looked at her son with curiosity. Recently, she felt that her son was getting more and more powerful.
Seeing this, Li Ming had to tell his family about today's fishing again.
"So, this bicycle ticket was given to me by a retired cadre I know from Diao Diao. It is used to congratulate me on my formal employment. Many people have seen this, including my colleagues in our unit, so I can rest assured."
Father Li lit another one for himself, "Tsk, tsk, my son is getting better and better. He feels like he is almost catching up with me."
After hearing this, Mother Li rolled her eyes at him, "Yes, it seems that our family can add another big car. If we get married, this will be enough for us."
Li's mother insisted on getting married, which made Li Ming gnash his teeth.
"Okay, I'll take a day off tomorrow afternoon to accompany you to the department store to buy this bicycle. It looks like it will last forever." Father Li took the bicycle from Li Rui's hand and took a look at it.
"Okay, then I'll wait for you at the door tomorrow afternoon." Li Ming left the bicycle ticket and went back to the house to rest. There are no mobile phones and wireless these days. In addition to making little people, he can only go to bed early and get up early. .
Li Rui saw that there was nothing exciting to see, so she went straight back to her room.
"When you go to the steel rolling mill tomorrow, be sure to ask them for photos. I'll go back to the street office tomorrow and ask for photos from the person they want to match the girl with."
"When the time comes, let's go through it first and show the good ones to our son." Mother Li gave Comrade Li Weiguo a few more instructions before getting ready to go to bed.
"Okay, okay."
Yan family.
"Honey, I had to wait in line to buy rice and noodles today, but when it was my turn, I didn't buy all the food."
The third aunt was sitting on the kang and talking to Yan Fugui about buying food today.
Yan Fugui frowned, "That's right for you to say. During this time at school, I heard our director often whispering to the leaders about buying food. The amount of lunch in our school canteen has also been reduced a lot recently. "
"Are you saying we're going to run out of food?" Third Aunt asked worriedly, as if she was remembering the famine in her childhood.
"That shouldn't be the case. It's just been a bit dry this year, so we shouldn't be out of food."
"I'll go find out tomorrow. I heard it inadvertently when I heard it from the leaders in the school."
"It's better to go to bed first, otherwise you'll be late and hungry later."
Although Yan Laoxi was worried about this matter, he was undoubtedly more worried about being hungry after sleeping late.
Nothing happened all night.
The next day.
Steel Rolling Mill Purchasing Section Three Stock Office.
"Brother Xu, if nothing happens, I'll go buy a bicycle in the afternoon!"
Li Ming said to Xu Qiang who was picking his teeth on the side.
"Well, go ahead, go ahead, we'll be fine anyway." Chief Xu finished picking his teeth and was about to take a lunch break.
"That's right, you go quickly. With one more person, the four of us can find a place to sleep and it will be more spacious." Zhou Tian walked over and put Li Ming's stool together with his own stool and got ready to sleep.
"Okay, you guys go to sleep. I'll go home after buying the bicycle." Li Ming looked at a room full of salary thieves getting ready to sleep, shook his head, and then turned around and left the office.
Steel rolling mill welder workshop.
"Director, I'm going to take a day off this afternoon."
Comrade Li Weiguo saw the workshop director coming to the door to smoke, so he quickly followed him and handed him a cigarette.
"Old Li, what's wrong? Is there something wrong?" Director Liu took a sip and looked at Comrade Li Weiguo.
"Hey, aren't we planning to buy a bicycle for Xiao Ming? An acquaintance gave Li Ming a bicycle ticket yesterday. I thought I would take him to buy the bicycle today and save money on buying it later."
"Hey! That's good. Go quickly and come back to work tomorrow."
Director Liu has a very clear understanding of Li Weiguo, a welder in his workshop. His family is in good condition, his wife still works in the street office, his eldest son has already joined the steel rolling mill, and their girl is also a technical secondary school student. Not surprisingly, the family of four will be together sooner or later. He is a regular employee, and generally no one in the steel rolling mill would cause trouble for the other party because of this trivial matter.
"Okay, thank you, Director Liu."
When Father Li saw that the workshop director had agreed to this, he turned around and left the workshop without saying much. When he walked to the gate of the steel rolling mill, he saw his son already waiting for him.
"Mingzi, you are quite fast! Did your unit chief give you a day off?"
"Hey, there is no such thing as asking for leave in our department. If you have something to do, just go out on your own. They are still sleeping in the office."
Li's father expressed his real envy for the living conditions of the three members of the Purchasing Department.
"Okay, let's walk to the department store." Father Li smacked his lips, feeling envious of his son's workplace environment.
The father and son walked on the street for more than half an hour before arriving at the department store. This was Li Ming's first time here.
Under the leadership of Comrade Li Weiguo, they passed through the crowds of people buying daily necessities before arriving at the permanent bicycle counter. Li's father familiarly took out the ticket and money, slapped it on the table, and shouted to the sleeping teller. .
"Comrade, buy a car!"
The salesperson who was woken up rubbed his eyes and was not angry. In the 1950s, not everyone who could afford a bicycle was ordinary people. There was no need for a salesperson to offend someone for nothing, especially a salesperson in a department store who had good eyesight.
"Okay, okay, forever, right? One hundred and twenty, please wait a moment."
The salesperson looked at the ticket, then wrote "shuashua" from the receipt book. After writing, he took the money and tickets and stuffed them into the small basket on his head, and then swung the basket forward hard, and the basket followed The wire slid right over the cashier's head.
After the cashier got the receipt, he slid it back along the wire. This was the first time Comrade Li Ming had seen this kind of operation, and he was quite curious.
