Looking at the pork, Youdi kept her mouth open and kept laughing. She couldn't remember how long it had been since she had eaten pork.

Nowadays, pork costs 70 to 80 cents per catty, and it also requires meat coupons. Who would eat it if it is not the New Year or the festival?

Now each person gets half a catty of meat per month, and there are meat coupons. The meat coupons of several people can be enough to eat dumplings for the whole family.

There were so many things that Wang Mudan hid them quickly for fear of being seen by others.

Liu Jiefang smoked a cigarette, with the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

Liu Chen took out a disposable lighter and handed it to Liu Jiefang.

"Baby, what is this? Why is it still burning?"

Liu Jiefang didn't pay attention and pressed it. The flames roared and almost burned his beard.

"This is the lighter that the second uncle gave me. He said it belonged to the Japanese."

Liu Chen disagreed. These disposable lighters are everywhere. In 2022, they cost only one yuan each. They are ordinary gadgets that can be seen everywhere.

"This is great. It's much better than matches."

Liu Jiefang looked at it and pressed it twice more.

"This shouldn't be cheap, right?"

"Who knows? One yuan or fifty cents."

I heard it cost one yuan a piece, which was too expensive, but the matches were pretty good, so I had to buy a lot of matches. I couldn't bear to part with them, I really couldn't bear to use them, so I gave them back to Liu Chen.

Liu Jiefang carefully placed the lighter on the chopping board. He was a bigot, so if he broke it, he would be in trouble. He was an expensive guy.

"Dad, you can use it, I still have it."

"Okay, okay, my baby gave it to me, I'll keep it."

Liu Jiefang is an accountant. If he takes this job, he will gain both face and dignity. No one should look at him twice.

Liu Jiefang took out the flashlight and looked at it again. This is really a good thing. The things people in the city use are good, but he has never seen them before.

Liu Jiefang turned on the flashlight, turned it off, turned it on, and turned it off again. He started playing like a child.

"Okay, okay, this thing is good."

While fiddling with it, he spoke with a smile on his face.

Youdi put on new clothes, spinning around with a smile on her face.

"Mom, does it look good?"

"It's beautiful, it's beautiful."

This is really good, and it has a waistband at the bottom. I don’t know if it is sold in the county.

Youdi took out her mother's suit and forced her mother to put it on too.

Wang Mudan couldn't remember how many years it had been since she had worn new clothes. After putting on new clothes, she felt much more energetic and felt younger.

"It's beautiful, it's really beautiful." Liu Jiefang said with a smile.

"Dad, go and put on your new clothes."

Youdi pulled Liu Jiefang, who was sitting and smoking.

"I won't go, I won't go."

When Liu Jiefang heard that he was asked to put on new clothes, he immediately felt embarrassed. He vaguely remembered the new clothes he wore when he got married.

"Go, go, baby, please put it on and take a look."

Wang Mudan also pulled her husband up to try on the new clothes.

Putting on his new tunic suit, Liu Jiefang smiled shyly,

"Baby, does it fit?"

"It fits, it really fits. My dad is so handsome."

"You're such a talkative kid, you're getting old."

Liu Jiefang raised his hand and was about to knock Liu Chen, but he was only pretending to do it, and was reluctant to knock it for real. This was his treasure.

Seeing his family put on new clothes with smiles on their faces, Liu Chen felt warm in his heart. This requirement is too low. He must work hard and make sure his family can live a good life.

"Dong...dong..."

The sound of the work bell broke everyone's joy.

"It's time to go to work. Quickly change your clothes. Fold these clothes and put them away."

Take off your new clothes, fold them, lay them flat, and put them away. Be careful not to wrinkle or tear the clothes.

Liu Chen still led the mule to pull the stone roller to crush wheat today.

Liu Chen took some new straw hats, and each of his family members gave one to them.

On this hot day, it would be too hot not to wear a straw hat, so wearing a straw hat is much better.

"Hey, you got rich, and you even wear a new straw hat."

"The second uncle in my city knew that I was stationed in a production team and was worried that I would get too hot when I started working, so he sent this specially."

Liu Chen lied randomly, his face not red and his heart not beating.

What kind of relatives are there in this city? What's so scary about the sun? Isn't it just a basking in the sun? It can't burn people out. They even sent us a new straw hat. This straw hat must be expensive.

Others gathered around to see what was strange. Some even took off Liu Chen's straw hat and put it on their own heads.

"This is great, the sun has really disappeared, it really doesn't shine anymore."

"Come on, let's all smoke."

Liu Chen took out the mouthed cross-river cigarettes he brought and scattered them one by one. Liu Chen brought these cigarettes specially. He went to several places to buy them. He brought one.

"Wow, it's smoke from crossing the river."

"Wow, it's a cross-river cigarette with a mouthpiece."

This guy is really awesome. Yesterday he was at Daqianmen, and today he was smoking across the river with a mouthpiece. It’s good to have relatives in this city.

Everyone hates themselves for not having such good relatives.

In order to mingle with everyone, Liu Chen also took out one and bit it in his mouth, and then took out a lighter.

"Pop" the cigarette was lit.

"Ah? What is this? It will burst into flames."

"Lighter, a foreign gadget invented by a kid."

Everyone stared and opened their mouths. Good guy, this guy is really awesome. He can use all the little devil’s gadgets.

"Liu Chen, let me take a look."

"I want to take a look too."

"I want to see it too."

Everyone swarmed over.

"This is really beautiful. There are paintings on it."

"What's in it?"

The disposable liquid sloshed back and forth in the lighter.

"I don't know either. This little devil has so many tricks up his sleeve."

"I'll try it too."

"Wow, the flames are so big."

"Hey, hey, I burned your beard, haha..."

Everyone laughed and talked about Liu Chen's lighter, as if they were looking at some treasure.

"Okay, okay, work, work."

Look at the strange, look at the strange, work still has to be done.

Everyone envied Liu Chen's good relatives in the city, so why didn't he have such good relatives?

Liu Youdi here was wearing a straw hat and happily harvesting wheat. Several women saw this and walked over to Youdi in surprise.

"Youdi, your hat is beautiful. It has tweed on it."

"Yes, it's so beautiful. Is it true that the sun won't let you out?"

"Youdi looks even more beautiful with her hat on."

Listening to everyone praising herself, Youdi smiled and became embarrassed.

"This is from my brother's relatives in the city. He said he was afraid of being exposed to the sun while working."

Youdi said and took off the hat. The women looked at it, and everyone put it on their heads and tried it on.
To be continued...