When he got home, his aunt was still cooking and cooking in the yard and preparing lunch for the family. Lu Li entered the house, took out a basin that was placed obliquely under the basin rack, poured water, and then took out a pair of sneakers from behind the door to soak it in, held the basin at the door, and then turned around and picked up a brush and a small box containing light blue powder inside, and sat at the door. He started brushing his shoes.

Yu Fang looked back and seemed to have completely forgotten what happened just now, and said in a joking tone, "Is it useful to just brush your shoes? Don't wash your socks, look at your socks and you can stand up by yourself."

Luli burst out laughing and continued to operate without raising his head; this is a sneaker that imitated Huili brand; Huili brand was the most popular at that time. This shoe has a high waist, thick sole, two or three centimeters thick upper side with a half-moon red film pattern as a sign. A pair cost more than ten yuan, once worn on the feet, no matter what kind of clothes you wear, it can become the focus of the crowd.

With the Wu family's financial ability, it is not a problem to buy a pair of such Huili shoes, but Lu Li never opens his mouth to find his aunt for special reasons. Fortunately, because of the best-selling Huili shoes, counterfeit products have emerged, that is, the sneakers he is working hard to wash. The biggest flaw of this shoe is the soles of the feet, Huili shoes are noisy and thick, and the bottom of this shoe is green, not only is it not thick enough, but it is also stiff and non-elastic, and it is a bit upward, especially the tip of the shoe.

In addition, the half-moon logo of the real Huili shoes, three breath eyes and round leather at the ankles, these shoes are not all, and the price is naturally low. Wearing them is used to deceive those illiterate women with surplus, but in the eyes of other children, it is obvious. Fortunately, the children around them are not able to afford the real Huili shoes, which is not embarrassing.

Put soap on, brush all the uppers, uppers, and shoes, and then pass with clean water. While the shoes were still wet, Luli picked up the small box and used his finger to pick up a small pinch of white shoe powder and apply it on the upper. The shoe powder should not be applied too much, as long as it can dip a very small part of the shoe corner. When I first brushed my shoes, Luli didn't understand that he had to apply a thick layer of shoe powder on the wet upper, thinking that in this way, the shoes would look white. Unexpectedly, waiting for the shoes to dry, making a joke: there was too much shoe powder. When walking, as the footsteps vibrate, the shoe powder rustled down, as if moving on the snow.

While cooking, Yu Fang looked back from time to time, "What's this for?"

"Qing... Ming..."

"Ah, isn't it? Qingming Festival is coming soon," Yu Fang also reminded him, "When you look back, let your uncle take you to the grave."

Luli blinked, and his tongue quickly passed between his lips, brewing for a moment, "Uncle, mom,"

"What are you doing?"

"White...suit, clothing,"

"I understand, white shirt and blue pants, aren't it?" Yu Fang turned around and looked at the child's head while moving up and down, "When your second sister comes back, she will pick up your clothes and ask her to come back to find you."

Luli licked his lips, looking like he had something to say: he wanted to ask his aunt to make him a new pair of blue pants; now he has women's pants worn by his second sister, with a flat front and no mouth - it is very embarrassing for boys to wear such clothes. When going to the bathroom, they have to wait until the other children are exposed before they are willing to go.

But looking at his aunt's busy figure, he squirmed a few times and swallowed the words back.

Put the sneakers on the windowsill of Xiangyang, see that my aunt is still focusing on cooking, quietly open the door and heading towards the opposite yard. "What are you doing? You run to Dogli's house all day long, you can grow up with their house!"

Gou Li's name is Han Xiaodong, which is his nickname. He is one year younger than Luli and will not go to school until this fall. This place is almost the same as Luli's second home, and there are too many visits. "Ah, Xiaoxiao is here? Let's eat here at noon?" Aunt Han called inward, "Gou Li, Xiaoxiao is here. Xiaoxiao, wait and eat here for a while?"

"Oh?" Luli leaned over and looked at Aunt Han was cutting cauliflower. On another plate were the dried radish that had been cut into shreds - fried with dry radish in large oil, with a little spicy and raw flavor, accompanied by a little lard aroma, which was much better than the potatoes made by my aunt. He nodded immediately, "Good!"

On the other side, Dog Li led a little girl out of the room. Dog Li was a little fatter than Luli. When she smiled, she had two dimples. It was not ugly. As for the girl, she was his sister, also known as Xiaoli. She was only four years old this year. She smiled with a few missing front teeth, "Little Brother."

"Oh." Lu Li ignored her pleasing approach, frowned hard, and said slowly, "Dong Yuqiang said, the department store... there is a cloth in the big building today... Come."

"Really?" Gou Li's eyes shone and he spread his sister's hand, "Mom, I'm out."

"It's time to eat."

“Come back and eat.”

The two little girls walked side by side, Xiaoli stepped behind her little heels, and shouted in a slight voice, "Brother, take...I'll go."

"I won't take you there." Gou Li waved his hand like a fly, "Go back, go back, come back, come back to play with you." After saying that, she didn't wait for her to express her dissatisfaction, she rushed out of the door.

Second Primary School walked along the alley and walked over a long gentle slope. On the most prosperous Heping Road in Tianjin, it was called prosperous, but it was just a two-lane road. A bus No. 24 was stopped at the station on the side of the road. This was a busy route from Tianjin West Station to East Station. The diesel engine spitted out black smoke from its tail. Passengers up and down were walking in a hurry. A ticket seller with a ticket clip in his hand stood at the end of the back door, muttering, "Those who just got on the bus go in, hey!" She pointed at a man in the car window, "That comrade, go in."

Lu Li pulled his companion's hand. The two of them, relying on their little sensuality, slid into the crowd of people who were boarding the bus from the back door, stepped on the pedal, and their bodies grew longer. They pressed their fingers on a button beside the car door, then jumped, using the button as a toy, and pressed it several times in a row. As if in response, the driver's voice in a loud voice came from the front of the car, "This unlucky child, Sister Zhang!"

There were two types of buses in the 1960s, one was a single car, and the other was a articulated car, with three passengers, one driver was not mentioned, and there were two ticket sellers. One of them was still moving, sitting at the rear door of the car - there were special seats - and the other was a mobile ticket seller. The ticket sales for the rear half of the car was the responsibility of the fixed ticket seller, and the front half of the articulated car was the responsibility of the mobile ticket seller.

Most of this person is a woman. When the car is driving, she goes from the middle door to the front door in turn, sells tickets along the way, and after arriving at the station, gets off from the front door, and then gets on the bus from the middle door, and goes back and forth.

Another type is a single carriage - as seen today - there are only two doors in front and rear. A button is installed next to the rear door of the car. When the button is pressed, the electric bell next to the driver will ring. Its function is to remind the driver to close the door and drive when the ticket seller finally gets on the bus. If it is done wrongly, it is easy to give the driver a wrong signal. Once the door is closed, there may be troubles of clamping hands, feet, and even throwing people away.

The ticket seller heard the shouts of his colleagues and knew that someone was coming to make trouble. He reached into the crowd to catch him. Seeing that the matter was exposed, the two children jumped off the pedal and laughed and turned around and ran away. Behind him, the ticket seller was scolding, "Thousand-slayed things! Let's talk about it later!"

The car was filled with black smoke again and drove away. The two of them saw that the department store was not far away. They accelerated their pace and rushed in through the back door of the building.

The department store has front and back doors, and there is no need to mention the front door, but the back door is much deserted. This place was originally used by the mall for loading and unloading cargo personnel, and also has an elevator. It can also be used as customers to go up and downstairs, but through the back doors of the mall, it takes a long way to go and go around and not selected by customers. Over time, it will become a paradise for children.

I went up the third floor along the stairs. This floor was a store of cloth, clothing and goods commissioned for sale. The two young people did not enter the store, but focused their attention on the huge enamel trash can at the corner of the stairs. "No." Gou Li said disappointedly.

This time they came to get sandwich paper sticks. The so-called paper sticks are hollow sticks used in the production of cloth wrapped in kraft paper layer by layer. The cloth itself is soft, so they are used as support. When the cloth is sold out, only a paper stick as thick as a teacup is left. This thing can be recycled, so children cannot get it. Sometimes, the paper sticks are dirty and will be thrown away - the children pick it up and use it to fight and play, and will not really hurt people. There is also a handy weapon that treats this thing as a treasure. Anyone who can get a brand new and clean paper stick can be shown off for a while.

Luli was extremely disappointed, his eyes turned and he said unwillingly, "Let's go in... and see."

The two entered the building, turned a corner, and arrived at the center of the sales hall. It was lunch time. There were no people in the building, and there were even very few salesmen. Above each counter, iron wire was hung at a height of one person, and several iron clips were swinging back and forth. Lu Li, uncle and aunt came here and knew that this was used to transfer payments and tickets (Note 1)

When I walked to the cloth counter, the half-person-high counter was filled with various fabrics. Although there were many types, the colors were extremely monotonous, either gray or blue. A very small number of cloth rolls that looked quite pleasing to the eye, such as red, yellow, flowers, and green, were placed on the shelves, and the customers could not get them themselves. When purchasing, they would ask the salesperson to help take them down and then choose.

Two small children turned back and forth a few steps, Lu Li jumped and leaned over the wide counter, leaning his head down, "Is there any?" Gou Li asked anxiously.

"Yes, good... so much." Looking at the counter full of paper sticks, Lu Li swallowed. Although he had the courage to lie on his feet, he did not have the courage to go in and steal. He just looked at it and felt greedy.

"Oh!" A loud voice came, a salesperson put down his lunch box and walked over from the rest area.

Lu Li hurried down and looked at each other with Dog Li, "Uncle..."

The salesperson looked at it and saw that it was two little boys with a slightly clear face, "What are you doing?"

"Paper...paper..." Gou Li was timid and did not dare to answer at all. He had to speak by the stuttering Luli, "Paper..."

"What's paper?" The salesperson's loud voice echoed in the empty store, causing colleagues who were eating to look out, "What's wrong?"

"The two kids, don't know what they said."

Luli gritted his teeth and tried hard to correct his stutter, but the words he said could not be said, "Paper, stick!"

"Oh, you're talking about this?" The salesperson bent down and picked up a hollow paper stick. Seeing the children's cute nodding hard, he smiled slightly, "Why do you want this thing for?"

"play!"

The salesperson nodded and smiled, "I'll give it to you if you call me a good one." (Note 2)

"uncle."

"Call me, uncle."

"uncle."

"Salute!"

The dog raised his left hand, and Luli raised his right hand, and saluted like the People's Liberation Army in the picture. The man laughed and thought that it was really good to have two children for him to play with today. "Okay, go back."

"Paper, paper!" Lu Li was anxious and angry. The other party didn't even count? When he got angry, his stuttering became even worse.

"What about paper? This is all useful! Go quickly, go quickly."

The two stingy were helpless. Seeing the man turn back to rest, he rolled his eyes and looked at the other person's back with a hatred. He felt that he was confused. Luli suddenly had an idea, took a step back, pulled out the elastic band on his pants, took out the small bird, and peed at the counter! While peeing, he leaned back hard. The peeing was rushed and splashed onto the counter! Wet a corner of the cloth.

Gou Li imitated him, took off his pants, urinated for a while, and before they finished peeing, he discovered it, "Hey! You two unethical children! Lao Cai, they peed at you."

The man who was playing with the second little girl was startled, but only saw two small figures running towards the stairs at the door, while running, he turned around and scolded them on the street that they didn't understand the meaning, "Cnmb's big sb!Cnmb's big sb!"

Note 1: Wire delivery. In the 1960s, if a customer went to a larger shopping mall like a department store to buy items, pay the money, and after handing over the ticket, the salesperson clamped the money and tickets that he had clearly ordered with an iron clip, and passed the wire directly to the cashiers at different counters. After the latter took it into consideration again, he would pass the bills and the remaining change back directly with an iron clip. When he was busy, the most common sound heard in the store was the hissing sound of the clip passing through the wire, which was a scene.

Note 2: Uncle, these two words are pronounced as ‘bye’, and when pronounced, it is ‘bye bye’. In the language habits of people in Tianjin, it means uncle; corresponding to it is ‘uncle’, which means uncle.
Chapter completed!