The Snail Spirit Travels to the 1970s

Neither of them had any food or meat coupons on them, so they paid 40 cents and sat there waiting for the wontons to be delivered.

The wonton guy was very quick. He took out two large bowls, put two rows of seaweed in the bowls, then picked up two handfuls of wontons and threw them into the steaming pot. At this time, everyone added a spoonful of lard and put some salt and soy sauce in the bowls.

The water in the pot was boiling all the time, and soon the wontons were cooked, flying up and down in the pot. The wonton guy scooped out the wontons neatly. The wontons were exactly two large spoonfuls, which were placed in two bowls. He then poured a spoonful of wonton soup into the bowls and sprinkled chopped green onions and coriander on top. A bowl of wontons was ready.

Seeing the wontons being served on the table, Tian Tian swallowed her saliva and said, "It smells so good!"

The wonton was quite big, not smaller than a dumpling. Tian Tian took a bite and the gravy immediately splashed out in her mouth.

"Hmm!" Tian Tian hurriedly put the wonton in her mouth, "So delicious!"

The quality of meat is good nowadays, and the taste will be good no matter how the meat is cooked, and the wontons taste very good too.

What surprised Tian Tian was that there was actually quite a lot of meat inside the wonton. Such a big wonton was full of meat.

"Do you come here to sell every day?" Tian Tian asked curiously.

"Yes, I set up a stall here every day. Come here around six in the morning. If you want to eat wontons, just come directly to my place! To be honest, we are the only wonton stall in this county, and the taste is definitely not worse than those in state-owned restaurants." The wonton guy wiped off the soup from the edge of the pot and said with a smile.

"Okay, next time I want to eat wontons, I'll come to your place!" Tian Tian said with a smile.

After Tian Tian finished speaking, she quietly asked Gu Zhao, "I just saw that the small box he brought was full of wontons, with several layers. Do you think he got all the noodles and meat from the black market?"

Now you need tickets to buy meat, grain, and flour, and the supply of flour tickets is limited here. It is basically impossible for one person to make so many wontons, and it is also impossible for someone to sell wontons every day.

Gu Zhao ate wontons and nodded, "He probably has connections in the black market. Look at how white the flour is. It must be top-quality flour!"

The white flour they eat now is mostly a bit yellowish. The supply of Fuqiang flour at the grain station is very limited. Ordinary people cannot get Fuqiang flour coupons. Only those with better-off families can eat it occasionally. Using Fuqiang flour to make wontons is simply a luxury.

Tian Tian sighed after hearing this, "It seems that there are thresholds for doing business. If you don't have some connections before, how can you get these flour and meat? But those people in the black market are smart. Even if they don't set up stalls to sell things, they should be able to live well!"

What’s interesting is that only those involved in the black market have the courage and capital to be the first to try something new.

Others were envious of these people doing business, but they had no connections to get rice, flour, grain and oil, so the business died at the first step.

After all, those people in the countryside who have no connections, even if they have the courage to want to get a piece of the pie, they don't have the capital, and in the end they can only give up the idea.

"I thought this small business gave everyone the opportunity to make money, but it seems that people are different," said Tian Tian.

Come to think of it, if she wanted to open a snack stand now, she couldn't do it by herself. She still had to rely on Gu Zhao, who had worked in the black market before, to help her get various materials so that she could start her business.

"If everyone can come out to sell things, then who will grow the food? Where will it come from? Who will produce the country's industrial products? If there is no threshold, and everyone knows that small businesses can make money, then everyone will definitely come to do business. Even if more people do business, they will not make as much money as they do now. On the contrary, it will not be good for the country's development!" said Gu Zhao.

Tian Tian thought about it and felt that what Gu Zhao said was right, but they were just ordinary people and could not worry about these things. It was good enough for them to live their own lives well. They were not experts.

But Tian Tian still had to say, "You have to give farmers more subsidies. Farmers work in the fields all year long, but they only get so little money. After a long time, they can't make any money. Who would want to farm at home? They must be looking for money!"

Tian Tian has lived in the countryside for so many years and feels that the income there is too little.

Their home was in the countryside, and their conditions were relatively good. Tian Lisong was also quite capable, but they could only eat meat once or twice a year. Normally they ate sweet potatoes and corn. When there was no grain left in the autumn harvest, those of them who did not work in the fields would not have enough to eat.

Basically, after sending these children to school, there is little money left from the family's annual earnings.

People like Tian Lisong, who work as accountants in the brigade, live like this. There are many people in the brigade who are not as well off as their families. Some of them cannot even eat a bite of meat all year round.

It has been said before that workers and peasants are one family, but workers live better than peasants. They can earn a lot of money every month, have a supply of various bills, and even the city distributes food to urban residents every month.

As for the farmers, they are supposed to work, and they are not allowed to raise one more chicken. It is normal for them to pay more than half of the harvest from the fields to the state every year, and they don't even get any subsidies or income.

It is obvious that these farmers in their rural area are not lazy, and are even more hardworking than anyone else, but their lives just can't catch up with others. Sometimes Tian Tian feels depressed.

After hearing this, Gu Zhao fell silent. He had never thought about this question before going to the countryside, but after going there and experiencing for himself how hard life was in the countryside, he realized that life in the countryside was indeed not easy.