60s: I have a store

Chapter 82: Street Office Someone (Subscription Request)
After saying hello, Zhou Yimin took Zhou Dazhong to the street office.

Zhou Dazhong followed behind, happy, excited, and expectant...

I have a job and will soon have a house, so I can be considered a city dweller. In the future, when I return to my hometown wearing my work clothes, I wonder how many people will envy me.

"Uncle Sixteen, I'm going to go to the Red Star Commune tomorrow. The commune has more grain, maybe I can buy some." Zhou Dazhong had an idea.

The small village below is actually similar to their Zhoujiazhuang. Where is the food?
Basically, everything that can be eaten has been eaten up. There are still many people who are hungry! You go to buy food? What's the difference between that and fishing in the desert?
Therefore, he set his sights on the commune.

"Well! You can try your luck." Zhou Yimin nodded.

He had a plan to get the goods from the store in his mind and let Zhou Dazhong "sell" them to the steel plant. This was also a way to trade materials and downplay himself.

However, there is no rush now. Let Zhou Dazhong go and try his luck first.

The two came to the street office.

"Yimin is here? Come in quickly, Director Li just came back." This time, the gatekeeper didn't ask what he came for and let him in directly.

Who in the subdistrict office doesn't know Zhou Yimin's name? Who doesn't know his relationship with Director Li?

"Uncle, take it back and let your grandson have a taste." Zhou Yimin took out a handful of candies and stuffed them over.

This made the gatekeeper very happy.

Zhou Yimin came to Director Li's office: "Aunt Li, are you busy?"

When Director Li saw that it was Zhou Yimin, a look of joy immediately appeared on his face: "Yimin, you've come just in time. Reporter Fang from Kyoto News is here again. He should be heading to the courtyard where you live now.

You! You have invented something wonderful without knowing it. I heard it’s called a solar stove. It can boil water and cook food without burning wood or coal.”

She really likes this invention which is of great help to ordinary people.

After she finished speaking, she noticed the person behind Zhou Yimin.

"he is……"

"Aunt Li, he is my nephew from the countryside. He found a job at the steel mill! The factory allocated him a house in Yard 55, next to my courtyard.

I brought him to the street office to register and get the keys, food certificates and so on. Zhou Yimin did not expect that the Kyoto newspaper would act so quickly. They came to interview before the solar stoves were officially introduced into people's homes.

"Is it your nephew? Okay, I'll help him and take him to see the house later. You'd better go back first." Director Li said.

"Okay, thank you Aunt Li for your help."

Then, Zhou Yimin gave Zhou Dazhong a few words of advice and hurried back.

Zhou Dazhong sighed, saying that Uncle Sixteen was really powerful and that he was so popular even in the street office. His popularity and connections were unparalleled.

Whether it is at the steel plant or at the street office, it feels like home.

awesome!
Director Li asked a few questions and then helped Zhou Dazhong register. He registered the empty house in the front yard of No. 55 yard in Zhou Dazhong's name and gave him a grain book.

In this era, household registration books, grain purchase books, and grain coupons were all very important.

Every year, the street office collects your household registration books and grain purchase books, checks and reports them one by one, and then issues grain and oil coupons and other tickets to each person in your family so that you can buy food.

Large factories like steel mills sometimes give out food coupons or something like that as rewards to their employees.

But most of the food coupons were distributed by the street office based on the situation of each household.

The grain purchase book contains information such as name, occupation, ration standard, and amount of grain purchased.

In fact, at the beginning, people could buy food at the grain store with their grain purchase books. Later, grain coupons, oil coupons, cloth coupons, tobacco coupons, coal coupons, and sugar coupons were issued based on the household registration books and grain purchase books.

"You must keep your grain purchase books, grain coupons and other things safe. If you lose them, you won't be able to buy grain," Director Li reminded.

"Thank you, Director Li. I will definitely keep them safe." Even if you lose yourself, you can't lose your food grain book and food grain coupons!

"Let's go! I'll take you to Courtyard 55."

In fact, such a small matter did not require her, a director, to go in person, and she could just assign a clerk to go. But Director Li also wanted to go to Zhou Yimin's yard, and since this was Zhou Yimin's nephew, she went in person.

When Zhou Yimin returned to the courtyard, he happened to see reporter Fang who had come back empty-handed and was about to leave.

"Brother Fang, let's go to my house and have a seat." Zhou Yimin said familiarly and enthusiastically.

Reporter Fang saw Zhou Yimin and was in a good mood. He did not return disappointed.

"it is good!"

After entering the house, Reporter Fang and his colleagues looked around the newly renovated house. Although it was not luxurious, it looked clean and bright, making people feel very comfortable.

They also like this decoration style.

"Comrade Zhou Yimin..."

Zhou Yimin interrupted him: "Brother Fang, just call me Yimin! Why are you addressing me in such a formal way?"

Reporter Fang was even happier and nodded: "Okay! From now on I will be bold and call you Yimin."

Zhou Yimin brewed a pot of Maojian tea, which he bought from a store in his mind. It was not expensive.

"A friend gave me this tea, and he said it's new tea. Let's have a taste of it," Zhou Yimin said with a smile.

"Oh! That's something you have to try."

Nowadays, most people cannot drink good tea, especially new tea, after all, tea is not grown much in the north. Even in Beijing, many people drink Gaosu!

Afterwards, reporter Fang talked about solar cookers.

Let's get straight to the point and begin the interview with Zhou Yimin about solar cookers.

Zhou Yimin was relatively relaxed in dealing with this simple interview. Today's reporters are not as unethical as those in later generations, and one can easily fall into the trap set by reporters.

Besides, given the current relationship between Zhou Yimin and reporter Fang, if there are any sensitive answers, he will correct them and will not let Zhou Yimin fall into any trap.

Reporter Fang and others were moved. Who could have thought that a person who had not even attended college could invent products that benefited the people twice in a row.

Before they came, they had seen the solar cooker, which took 20 minutes and 9 seconds to boil a pot of water.

Yes! They have actually measured it. As a journalist, we must seek truth from facts. Reporter Fang cannot stand some of the exaggerated reports in the past two or three years, such as the yield of 10,000 catties per mu and the fat pigs as big as elephants.

But the current social atmosphere is like this, and his power alone is so small that he can't change anything.

Reporter Fang was taking notes while interviewing, and some content was circled.

After returning, he would polish the interview content, picking out all the mistakes and correcting them.

"Yimin, have you thought about your next invention?" Reporter Fang asked after taking a sip of tea to moisten his throat.

Zhou Yimin shook his head: "I have no idea yet. Let's see what the people need! Besides, my current knowledge reserve is very shallow, and I still need to study hard."

"Do you have any thoughts on going to college?"

"You don't have to go to school to learn. We can learn while building our country and benefiting society. As the saying goes, you can learn as long as you live!"

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(End of this chapter)