Seeing how excited his younger brothers and sisters were about owning bicycles, the eldest brother lost no time in starting his ideological and political education:

"Are bicycles good? Do you want one?"

"Think about it, I want..." San Cang and Xiao Si'er jumped and screamed crazily.

Ercang muttered in a low voice: "Who doesn't want it?"

"Actually, it's not difficult at all to own a bicycle," said the eldest brother, "as long as you work as workers like the eldest brother -"

"I'm not a worker!" Mikura immediately refused as if he was stung by a scorpion.

"Is it okay to think of it as something else?" Xiao Si'er looked at his elder brother timidly.

Obviously, these two boys were frightened by getting up before five o'clock in the middle of winter and walking more than 20 miles to work in the freezing cold.

Ercang stared at the bicycle and couldn't move his eyes away, but he also asked hesitantly: "Brother, do you have to get up so early to be a worker? Doesn't working in the factory coincide with the same time as we go to school?"

"Oh -" the eldest brother sighed, "I finally understand, you don't want to be a worker because you are afraid of hardship."

Then he looked at his sister: "Yingzi, you get up at 4:30 in the morning and walk with your elder brother to Xiashan school. Are you going?"

"I'll go!" Yingzi replied without hesitation.

"It's so early and it's extremely cold in the morning. Aren't you afraid?"

"Not afraid!" The answer was so simple.

"Okay!" The eldest brother patted his sister on the shoulder and looked at the three younger brothers:

"You can only become a master by enduring hardships. If you are afraid of suffering, let alone become a master, you won't even be able to get good things to eat."

These good things, if you don’t get a share, only Yingzi and I will eat them.”

With that said, the eldest brother began to untie the things on the back seat.

Several boys have been watching eagerly, wondering what they are?

I think it should be delicious.

But my mother had strict rules. No matter whether it was a guest or something brought back by an adult, no one was allowed to touch it without the adult's permission.

Now when I see my eldest brother untying the rope, my eyes are shining with excitement.

"Go, go, go play. If you don't want to eat from the workers' bowl, don't eat the food distributed to the workers." The eldest brother drove them away.

During the holidays before and after the New Year, you can play as much as you want, eat good food, and set off firecrackers. This is the happiest and most exciting time for children in the year.

The children on the street have already rebelled.

If they hadn't been attracted by the big brother's brand-new bicycle, the big cardboard box on the back shelf and the things on it, Sancang and Xiaosier, who were playing crazy, would not have thought of calling them home.

Now the eldest brother has taken down the big cardboard box and the things on it, and the two boys can't even drive it away.

On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the gifts were brought. Except for a very small part that they were given a try, most of them were kept by the mother.

Micang and Xiaosi'er waited all day long for all their family members to work in the fields so that they could implement their excavation plan.

However, it was Chinese New Year and the whole family was at home 24 hours a day, so the two boys had no chance at all.

Seeing the New Year's Eve approaching day by day, they knew that once the first lunar month arrived, those gifts would completely disappear from home and fly to the homes of relatives and friends.

The two of them have held several meetings, but they have no good plan. The result is that the more meetings they have, the more hungry they become.

Seeing the eldest brother carrying something into the house, the two boys followed him involuntarily.

"Go, go, stand away. If you don't want to be a worker, stay away from workers' things." The elder brother pulled the two boys aside by their collars.

The two boys stood at the door and became door gods.

Watching every little move of the elder brother eagerly.

The eldest brother hadn't opened the carton yet, he just took the saury, sugar, peach cakes, and the scariest thing from the carton, they saw there were also water cakes!

Water cake!

The two boys jumped immediately:

"I want to be a worker, I want to be a worker!"

"Brother, I also want to be a worker..."

Water cake!

In this age of material scarcity, this kind of delicacy is the second most fatal temptation to survive for half-year-old children who can eat stones.

These two boys only ate it once, and it was brought by the most powerful relatives in the family, their sister-in-law and uncle.

There are more wolves and less meat, so the share they share is just enough to attract greedy insects.

That taste became a lifelong memory of delicious food.

The so-called water cake is basically the honey three swords of later generations.

It's just that the Mi San Dao is square, while the Shui Pan is round and in the shape of a pancake.

Moreover, the color of Mi Sandao is deep red, and the color of water cake is light yellowish white.

These days, in addition to using the freshest ingredients, there are absolutely no additives such as preservatives to ruin the taste.

For a half-year-old child with taste buds as pure as snow, the deliciousness of water cakes is simply unimaginable.

Now the eldest brother actually took out two large paper packages, tied with paper twisters, and covered with a piece of red paper as a label.

The entire paper package, including the red paper, was soaked with oil.

The two boys, besides jumping and screaming and strongly demanding to be workers, inevitably drooled.

"I want to be a worker now, but it's too late!" The eldest brother looked at the two of them with disdain, "Stand still, if you dare to get close and kick them out, if you don't want to suffer, then don't eat anything."

As he spoke, he opened the paper bag, took out a water cake and handed it to Yingzi: "Eat first, don't worry, the two big bags are all yours."

Yingzi took it very cooperatively and tasted it in small sips, her face lighting up.

The fourth child burst into tears "Wow".

It’s so painful!

Mikura also had tears in her eyes.

The eldest brother was hard-hearted and unmoved, looking at the two of them: "Really want to be a worker?"

The two boys nodded desperately.

"What time do you get up in the morning?"

"Whatever time is fine!" the two boys said in unison.

"No nap?"

Uh--He shook his head desperately.

"not afraid cold?"

"Don't be afraid!"

The eldest brother finally smiled with satisfaction: "That's right. If you want to eat delicious food, you have to be neither afraid of hardship nor cold. Only when you have to endure hardship can you eat water cakes."

So, each of the two boys got a water cake.

The fourth child cried again.

As soon as I took a small bite, I cried with happiness.

Then, it's still early.

Open the cardboard box.

There is a dazzling array of things inside...

First take out two ounces of sea rice.

This is an unheard of luxury!

Seeing that Xiao Si'er was drooling a lot, I broke off half of one to "stop the water" for him.

Little Si'er carefully bit off a little bit of the shrimp tail in an extremely sacred manner, chewed and tasted it carefully, and then saw the boy's eyes widening, filled with unbelievable magical starlight.

I thought water cakes were the ultimate delicacy in the world, but I never thought there was anything more delicious than water cakes.

Prawns are no longer available, and they have to be peeled and eaten. It is said that the peeled shrimps are thrown away... The fourth son pretended not to care and asked the elder brother many times where the peeled shrimps were thrown away.

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A good cigarette, two bags of tea, a pound of jasmine, a pound of orchid, and four bottles of good wine.

Lao Wai only glanced at the cigarette and did not dare to look at it again. It was too dazzling.

"This tea must be special, it smells so good! How much does it cost per pound?" Lao Wai approached the tea bag very sacredly, sniffed it luxuriously several times, then raised his face, closed his eyes and was intoxicated.

When he took out the four bottles of wine, Lao Wai was shocked by the high quality of the wine and the number of "four".

In this era when cigarettes and alcohol are in short supply and need to be purchased with tickets, many families are unable to buy cigarettes and alcohol for weddings.

The boss got back a whole carton of cigarettes and four bottles of wine at once!
To be continued...