Jiangcheng is still dominated by state-owned food markets. Regular farmers' markets have appeared. Chickens, ducks, fish, meat, fruits and vegetables are all sold, but they are about 20% more expensive than state-owned food markets. Most families are reluctant to buy them, but when guests come to the house, they will go there. Buy chicken, duck and fish at the farmers market.
Market prices are also rising slowly with the pace of price reform, and the state controls the speed of market price increases.
There has been no change in the scholarships of Jiangcheng Health School in the past three years, but the Jiangcheng government provides food subsidies to students in colleges and universities. The price of meals in the school canteen has not changed significantly in the past three years, and the food subsidies for Z Hospital employees have all been supplemented. It goes into the salary of the employees. It is normal for the food in the cafeteria to be more expensive than the school. It is impossible for the school headquarters to provide food subsidies for the thirty-nine students and subsidize them specifically for the hospital cafeteria. It is also impossible for the cafeteria to open a separate restaurant for them. Xiao Zao, they suffered a loss.
In the middle of every month, the Student Affairs Department of the Health School sent someone to deliver the check to the Z Hospital branch and gave it to the class teacher Lu Jianwei. Squad leader Sun escorted the life and labor committee member Jiang Jiting to the Bank of China branch on Nanjing Road to get back the class's 226 yuan and 20 cents. National scholarships are awarded to students.
The state clearly prohibits the trading, counterfeiting and speculation of priceless securities such as food stamps, oil stamps, meat stamps and egg stamps.
Cloth tickets have long been cancelled!
The year before last, classmate Sun Jian bought a sunny and rainy zip-up shirt at Xinqiao Department Store for nine yuan and two cents, and a brown T-shirt for eleven yuan and four cents.
Later, Sun Jian remembered that when the food stamps at home could not be used up, his mother used them to exchange for eggs.
Classmate Sun Jian became Teacher Sun. After receiving his salary, the food quota was reduced to twenty-nine pounds. In addition to food stamps, other tickets were also cancelled. In 1993, the weather was good and there was a bumper grain harvest, so food stamps were also cancelled. , but as soon as it was cancelled, food prices in various markets soared!
Mr. Sun was in the second year of his master's degree at the Chinese Medical University on a paid basis. He ate in the school cafeteria and didn't feel very obvious.
Although he is studying for a paid master's degree, Teacher Sun's household registration for food and oil has been transferred from the collective household registration of Jiangcheng Health School to the collective household registration of Hua Medical University, and he has become Sun Jian's classmate again, and the food stamp quota has changed to 32 kilograms.
Come to think of it, Huaji Medical College will be renamed Huaji Medical University when the semester starts this fall! I didn’t go to Chenghua Medical University to get a bachelor’s degree in medical science in my previous life, but I must go to it this time!
Nowadays, a box of matches costs two cents. In the second half of the year, the price will rise, by 50%, to three cents! Grandmother spent one yuan to buy five big bags in advance! I saved five cents, made a wise decision, and talked about it for more than a year.
A pound of refined salt costs 1.5 cents, and a pound of coarse salt costs 1.3 cents.
A bar of soap is quartered.
A pound of sugar costs nine cents.
A pair of men's cloth shoes, size 43, costs 4.55 cents, and a pair of women's cloth shoes, size 39, costs 3.85 cents.
A bottle of Maotai costs 11 yuan and 80 cents, and a bottle of Wuliangye costs 6 yuan and 60 cents!
The cheapest cigarette Big Rooster costs 9 cents, a pack of Swimming cigarettes costs 2.3 cents, a pack of Yangtze cigarettes costs 2.7 cents, a pack of Starfire cigarettes costs 2.9 cents, a pack of Daqianmen cigarettes costs 3 cents, and a pack of Yongguang cigarettes costs 3 cents. , a pack of Ashima cigarettes costs four jiao, a pack of Hongtashan cigarettes costs six jiao, and a pack of China cigarettes costs one yuan, the top cigarettes on the market!
Panda cigarettes are not sold outside!
Ashima, spread all over the place! This is Jiangcheng's rich brother having a taste outside!
As wages have risen, the price of cigarettes has also skyrocketed. In the 1980s, Hongtashan sold a pack of three cents for six cents. Only self-employed business owners on Jiangzheng Street or Jiangyang Street can afford to smoke! Generally, Jiangsu Steel workers like Sun's father smoke cigarettes for a long time.
Those who can afford to smoke a pack of Yongguang cigarettes for three cents and a half are young people from well-off families or factory directors and managers.
A pack of Hongtashan cigarettes costing six cents is equivalent to a pack of soft Huanghelou cigarettes costing sixty yuan in the previous life!
One yuan per pack of China cigarettes is equivalent to one hundred yuan per pack of 1916 cigarettes in the previous life!
The price of cigarettes also increased a hundred times in the previous life!
A classmate in the class kicked a football bought by a classmate in his dormitory outside the wall and it was picked up. Sun Jian and two classmates accompanied him and bought one from Jiangcheng Shopping Mall to compensate for thirty-eight yuan and forty cents. This classmate was half sad. More than a month, this is the private money he saved for more than half a year through frugality.
A Universal brand 722 radio costs 80 yuan, a Forever 26 men's light bicycle costs 254 yuan, and a Shanghai brand 19-jewel all-steel, three-proof men's mechanical watch costs 70 yuan (down 20 yuan). Yuan).
A pair of men's leather shoes costs thirty yuan, and a pair of women's leather shoes costs thirty yuan!
Teacher Sun's salary of 58 yuan at that time planned to buy a pair of men's leather shoes produced by Jiangcheng Leather Shoe Factory No. 2. When he saw it, he was shocked and immediately gave up the idea. When he was in secondary school, he still wore white sneakers and cloth shoes in autumn and spring, and plastic shoes in summer. Sandals and slippers, and in winter, cloth shoes and cotton shoes made by my mother. Everyone wears them like this. The eldest brother doesn’t laugh at the second brother.
When I was in college, most of my classmates had a salary. Many of them were married and had children. They had a high salary of more than 120 yuan a month. The dressing was very high-end. Cow leather shoes were common. Sun Jian also gritted his teeth. I bought a pair of small square-toed cowhide shoes for 34 yuan, just a pair of leather shoes, and I have worn them for many years.
The soft leather shoes cost nearly 600 yuan a pair, and now I can’t bear to destroy them!
Since the cancellation of food stamps at the end of 1993, food prices have skyrocketed, and other food-related prices have also risen accordingly. Inflation has intensified. The one-year bank deposit interest rate has exceeded ten points, and money has become worthless.
If that doesn't work, Sun Jian will first convert US dollars into 10,000 yuan at the Bank of China, and then improve his family's living and food! Anyway, he still has a monthly salary of fifty-eight yuan, which allows his younger siblings to eat meat three days a week.
Nowadays, life has improved significantly, and Jianggang's profits are booming. When Sun Jian goes home on weekends, the Sun family eats three meals of meat, and they also make pork rib soup once at the end of the month.
In the past, buying meat was a big deal at home. Parents had to get up early, line up, and watch the face of the meat salesperson at the state-owned market. The salesperson would look up. If the customer wanted to order more fatty meat, it would depend on whether he was in a good mood.
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Looking at the scenery along the way outside the window, Sun Jian's thoughts wandered. The main road has not changed much. There are no flowers and grass on both sides, and the road has not been painted black. There are not as many high-rise buildings as in the previous life. One of Jiangcheng's landmarks, the Jiangcheng TV Tower, is still under construction. .
The bus crossed the Han River Bridge, but there were no viaducts along the way. The Beijing-Hankou Railway was still running trains. The Jiangkou Railway Station in Jindun was not completed and opened to traffic until 1991. The European-style building built in 1898, Dajiang The Laojiangkou Station on the road has just withdrawn from the stage of history.
Although the bus was overcrowded and smelled of sweat, there were only a few motor vehicles on the two-way four-lane road, except for the long-braided trams. The bicycles commuting to and from get off work were like an endless ocean. The bus soon arrived at the terminal road. .
