"How much does an orange cost per pound?" Fang Dajun asked. There are three dense orange trees in the Shouhou family. It is now September in summer. Shouhou usually picks a few waiting for them to come out of the coal cave to quench their thirst.

"I've found out clearly that the big ones can sell one cent to five cents per pound, and the small ones can sell one cent to one pound." The skinny monkey looked satisfied when he said this, and was very happy with such a "high price".

This made Fang Dajun feel like he was falling to the ground. He just sold similar oranges a few days ago. It costs more than three yuan per catty, which is a 200-fold gap.

"Da Army, come up, I will carry you downstairs!" Qin Daban squatted down and shouted.

Fang Dajun was not pretentious. He was indeed weak at this time, so he fell on Qin Da's back. At this time, his mother said, "Son, mom is going to the market to cut his flesh. You can wait in the dam below for a while."

"Okay, mom, go and do it!"

As soon as I got off the stairs, my father came up and said, "Master Li, who is driving the ox cart, will take another twenty minutes to come over. Let's wait outside for a while!"

This is the "car" arranged by the commune cadres before. A bamboo cart pulled by an old cow. The village has opened up the road, but no motor vehicle passes by. It is good to catch the ox cart. Even the hand-held tractor is not seen a few times a year. Every time I see it, the children chase it all the way, and even the adults put down their work to see the fun.

The building of the health center is a kind of small rooms on both sides. When passing through the long passage, it is a basketball court with a flat concrete floor and two basketball piles that are still eye-catching.

However, this place can only be used by the people in "dry days". In "campaign", that is, on market days, this place is the main battlefield for vendors, mainly selling clothes, shoes and other essential daily necessities.

The number on the town is on the market day, and the number on the double number is on the drought, which is not the market day. In the drought, almost no one sets up stalls, and even some stores may not be open.

This September 5th is just the day of the market. There are quite a few villagers going to the town, each carrying a small backpack called "Jianhu". It is made of nanzhu. It is strong and durable and can hold about 20 kilograms of goods. It is the first choice for the market.

In fact, half of the ten villagers who went to the market might not buy anything. They just wanted to just come and see the fun, especially children. Fang Dajun had been to the town many times before, and it was only a dozen minutes from the street to the end of the street, but he could go for a long time before he was still feeling unfulfilled.

The ox cart was tied to the end of the street, and the master who drove the ox was afraid that he would go to watch the fun, so everyone patiently waited by the dam for a while.

At this time, the skinny monkey said, "Dajun, I put my oranges on Lao Wangtou, who sells vegetables in front, so I will pick them out and sell them."

His oranges were sold for one dollar at a time. What could he do after thirty years? Fang Dajun felt that the only thing he was not used to now was the price. When he touched his pockets of clothes, he didn't even have a penny receipt. He saved more than two dollars, but he didn't bring them with him.

As soon as the skinny monkey left, Fang Dajun said embarrassedly: "Old man, have you brought money with you?" He hasn't asked for a penny from his family for several years. Of course, that was before time travel. Now he is only fifteen years old, so it's normal to ask for money from his parents.

"I've brought it. I borrowed some from the brick shop's staff and raised more than five yuan. I was going to treat you." Fang Donghua said, then unbuttoned the buttons of his left chest pocket and took out a thick stack of money from it. It was all the trump sum tickets, and the other was to separate tickets.

Fang Dajun thought for a while and said, "I'm hungry and want to eat flower rolls. Old man, go buy a few more."

"Okay, how many people are sold?" Fang Donghua asked. He usually obeyed his son, not to mention that his son almost disappeared now, so he was even more obedient to him.

"Buy ten, is it OK?" Fang Dajun recalled that steamed buns, buns, and flower rolls are always relatively strong foods. This is following the price of wheat. Nowadays, wheat is only more than one cent per pound, and it doesn't rise much in thirty years.

"Okay, I'll go back, Qin Wa, look at the army!" Fang Donghua greeted and left quickly.

At present, there are few buns sold in the town, only steamed buns and flower rolls. The shape of the rolls is like buns. They are steamed with flour sticks and are filled with saccharin. There is a hint of sweetness that is slightly more expensive than steamed buns. Some children cry when they go to the market, but adults don’t buy a flower roll.

He now has ten mouths, which can afford to pay two full-time jobs, which means he needs to dig coal for two days without eating or drinking, or to feed pigs for three days with a thin monkey.

A full worker can be worth about one or two cents. He is very open about money and grain. There is coal everywhere in the town and is afraid that he will not be able to make money. And if he remembers correctly, the country's policies will change by the end of this year, and the people's commune system will be abolished one after another. At most, wait for another three years, and all farmers will be assigned to their own land.

He was afraid that he could not grow enough food to eat with his own land, but he could not wait for three years and was thinking about how to use the current commune collective system to earn his first pot of gold.

Seeing the two sisters sitting obediently on the stone, staring at the direction where their father disappeared, Fang Dajun felt funny and was in a very heavy mood. Although he knew that the children in the village were basically in this situation now, his sister could not suffer any more in the future.
Chapter completed!