The Snail Spirit Travels to the 1970s

But after going to Kyoto, her life depended entirely on Fang Siwen, and she felt a little uncomfortable asking Fang Siwen for money.

"You can go out and do some small business or something, make some snacks, and sell them at a stall outside. There are a lot of people doing this now, they make breakfast in the morning, cook wontons, and cook noodles, and actually quite a lot of people go to buy them." Tian Tian suggested.

She is in school now, and sometimes she goes out to find a snack stand to eat breakfast, because the food at the snack stand is cheaper and tastes better than what she gets at school.

The only drawback is that it’s a bit troublesome when you start doing this, because you still have to buy things with tickets. If you don’t have enough things at the beginning, you can’t do this business.

Most of the snacks that Tian Tian ate at the school gate were made by rural people. They had stored grain at home, and if they managed the business well in the first few days, they could receive grain coupons, and the business would gradually be maintained.

"Set up a snack stand?" Shen Lingling hadn't been out for a long time, and didn't know much about the outside world. She didn't know that the outside world had changed so much. "Can we set up a snack stand now?"

"Sure!" Tian Tian said.

These small places don't have the courage to take advantage of this opportunity yet.

But some of the bolder ones in big cities started selling things secretly in 1979.

At that time, many people were still waiting and watching, but later they found out that those people were not serious, so gradually more and more people started to join in.

After all, the economic policy of opening up to the outside world and revitalizing the domestic economy was introduced in 7 and , but this phenomenon is not very common now.

Shen Lingling didn’t understand and was greatly shocked!

She thought seriously about the feasibility of this matter and felt that she might not be able to do this in Beijing. "My mother-in-law and father-in-law don't have that much food for me to set up a snack stand!"

"Then I won't set up a snack stand. I have a friend now. I'll call a few friends to make clothes together, and then sell the clothes. I can make a lot of money in a month." Tian Tian said.

The friend she was talking about was Li Jiuniang. However, it was illegal to purchase goods from the south and sell them in the north, so she did not tell Shen Lingling about it.

"Is this possible?!" Shen Lingling was shocked.

She thought about this possibility seriously, then shook her head, "Making clothes also requires a lot of fabric. Where can I get so many fabric coupons?"

"Then make snacks?" Tian Tian suggested to Shen Lingling, "Not the wonton and noodle kind. You can try it in our brigade first. Boil some cicadas and make a pot of cicada tofu soup, or stir-fry some chestnuts and hazelnut kernels. You can sell all of these!"

She felt that roasting chestnuts and hazelnuts was a good job. In autumn, the mountains and fields were full of chestnuts and hazelnuts, and they could not be eaten up. It did not cost any money, and at most she just had to go up the mountain to collect some firewood.

"I saw that some of them use that black sand to fry chestnuts? They put them in it when frying, and it seems that this way they will be fried very fragrant!" Tian Tian was thinking about the sugar-fried chestnuts in her previous life, but she didn't know what the black sand in it was?

"Actually, you can cook the chestnuts. Set up a big pot there and sell them while you cook. There should be a lot of people coming to support you. Besides, chestnuts can be eaten as a meal. They require fewer food coupons than rice and flour, and the price can be cheaper. Small profits but quick turnover, there will definitely be people who will buy them!" The more Tian Tian talked about it, the more she felt that this idea was feasible. She even wanted to set up a pot to sell chestnuts.

Shen Lingling also thought this was quite reliable and was somewhat tempted.

"I have to go back and discuss this with my parents. If I do this by myself, I will not be able to do it. I need my parents' help!" Shen Lingling said.

It just so happens that she will be able to go up the mountain to pick chestnuts in a while, so she can go to the county town to experiment for a few days. If she can sell them for money, that would be great. If not, she can just treat it as an experience.

At most it would just take a little effort and cost some firewood, and there's no cost involved.

"Okay! When you want to do it, tell me in advance and I will help you. It's just for the first two days, but you have to pay me when you make money later!" Tian Tian said.

"We haven't even started yet, and you're already thinking about making money. Don't worry, if I can really make money, I will definitely pay you a full salary!" Shen Lingling said with a smile.

The two of them went to the river to wash clothes, and when they got home Shen Lingling went to discuss the matter with her parents.

When Mother Shen heard about this, her first reaction was to disagree.

In the past ten years, she had seen too many people who were locked up, paraded through the streets, or even died because of secretly selling things. She didn't know why Shen Lingling had such an idea, but it still couldn't stop her from madly resisting this matter.

"It's not like you haven't experienced those ten years. Have you forgotten that the brigade where your grandmother lives was tied up and beaten to death just because someone secretly sold a bundle of vegetables? Now you want to do the same thing as him, and sell it openly in the county town. Do you think your life now is too comfortable?" Mother Shen was very emotional.

"Mom! Calm down and listen to me!" Shen Lingling had to calm her mother down first.

"I did this for Niuniu. She has never had a good life with me. She can't eat meat once a year. Her father brings her new clothes. I can't even buy her candy. Isn't it because I don't have money?"

"I just want to earn more money for her! So that she can eat snacks and wear small clothes like the children in the city. I don't have to spend her father's money to buy her anything, and I don't have to ask my old lady for money! But how much money can she earn in the brigade all year round?"

"Are you disgusted with your father and I for not being able to provide you with a better life? Are you disgusted with us for not being like your parents-in-law, who work in the capital, earn a salary, and eat the public rations?" Mother Shen asked emotionally.

Shen Lingling was helpless, "Mom! How could I possibly dislike you? It wasn't easy for you to raise us. I know all the hardships you've endured at the hands of my grandma and my second aunt over the years. I do this because I want you to live a good life."

"Don't worry, Mom. There are many people setting up stalls to sell things in the city now. Fang Siwen wrote to me before and told me that there are many breakfast vendors outside his school every morning, selling things like bean juice, fried dough sticks, and fried dough sticks. Tiantian also told me that the wontons outside their school are more delicious and affordable than those inside the school."