Traveling between the 70s and the modern world

Chapter 152 Nostalgia

Things from the 70s, sold in modern times? As soon as this question popped up in her mind, Lin Qingyan felt that her mind suddenly became clearer.

What can be sold?

Food? No, they don't even have enough to eat!

Meat, fish? No, no, there wasn't enough food in the 70s.

What else is there? Lin Qingyan thought about going back and forth so many times in the modern world, what do they need? Her mind was in a mess, empty.

She travels between the 70s and the present, but in the present she always feels like a passer-by and doesn't learn much about what is popular nowadays.

From Zhou Limei and the customers in her shop, we can see that they care about natural food and food without pesticides.

But these are all food. In the 70s when food was scarce, there was no way to exchange them for things in modern times.

When she returned to the educated youth point, she took off the backpack on her body, patted her head, and temporarily put aside the things she couldn't figure out.

I'll go to Hyundai tomorrow and search on my phone to see what's popular, or ask Zhou Limei.

Silent all night.

The next day, Lin Qingyan rode her bike to deliver the vegetables to the store, but Zhou Limei arrived earlier than her.

"Sister Zhou, why are you here so early today?"

"Tongtong went to her grandmother's house last night. She came directly here this morning without me having to take her to school."

Zhou Limei and Lin Qingyan moved the vegetables and fruits into the store together.

"I posted the reservation rules to the group last night. Most people were supportive. There were a few who really disagreed but there was nothing we could do. We only have this amount of stuff and we can't sell it to everyone."

"We will first sort out and separate the dishes that were ordered yesterday and wait for them to pick them up. The rest will be sold as normal."

Lin Qingyan looked at the reservation list printed out by Zhou Limei.

"After deducting the reservations, there's basically not much left!"

"Yeah, there must be someone who hasn't seen the message, otherwise there wouldn't be any left."

As they chatted, the two arranged the vegetables according to the order and marked them.

After we finished sorting, people came to pick up the goods one after another, and we ended the busy day before noon.

Lin Qingyan and Ye Yi were sitting there chatting.

"Sister Zhou, what do you think is popular now?"

"What's popular? Just browse on some books or videos and you'll know. People of different ages like different things. For example, this winter, the big flowered coats from the Northeastern China in the 70s and 80s are suddenly popular!"

"Big flowered jacket?" Lin Qingyan was surprised. Could this be the same jacket she bought?

Zhou Limei took out her cell phone, searched for a video and handed it to her. The video showed a classroom. A group of boys walked in first wearing military coats, while the girls behind them were all wearing large flowered jackets.

The video has tens of thousands of comments and even more likes.

"This is what the post-00s generation likes now. Retro styles have been popular in recent years."

Zhou Limei found another video on her phone, and Lin Qingyan's eyes lit up when she saw it. The scene in this video was a bit similar to theirs. Before she could ask,

Zhou Limei continued, "This is where I took Tongtong out to play during the summer vacation. It's an amusement park with a nostalgic style. The scenes inside are all inspired by those from the 70s and 80s.

The specially designed nostalgic style has become a check-in spot for internet celebrities and is very popular among young people!

I brought Tongtong there specifically because I wanted her to see how hard life was for people in that era, and how happy she is living in modern times."

Lin Qingyan stared at the video on her phone. Seeing that she liked it, Zhou Limei said to her:

"There are still many photos. I'll show them to you later."

Zhou Limei slid her finger across her phone and enlarged a photo:

"For example, this record player is said to have been bought by the boss at a high price. And this Yan'an radio that looks like a small house is also antique. It is said that they were very famous objects in those days."

She continued to slide her phone and pointed at the photo: "There is also this kind of dial-up phone. I had never seen it at home when I was a child. My mother said that when she was a child, there was this kind of phone.

But those were only in telephone booths. Now we can only see them in TV dramas.

Qingyan, look at this, it’s a Peony camera, and there are also Seagull cameras and Pearl River cameras, these cameras were all camera brands back then.”

Zhou Limei flipped through the photos on her phone and pointed to one and said to Lin Qingyan:

"There are also these stamps, which are very popular now. There is a high price but no market for them. Many big bosses buy them for collection. However, the stamps here are fake. The real stamps are too valuable. The real bosses dare not release them for fear that they will be robbed."

Lin Qingyan looked at the stamps on her phone and asked uncertainly, "Is this stamp valuable?"

"Yes, this stamp is valuable! Especially this monkey stamp, which is said to have been issued in 80 and is the leader of the zodiac series of stamps.

Five million stamps were issued that year, but because people did not pay much attention to or take good care of stamps at that time, many were damaged, resulting in very few monkey stamps left. Now the price is very high, with a single stamp costing 4000 to 6000 yuan.

"What? This 80-cent stamp is sold for 4000-6000 yuan? Sister Zhou, are you serious? Are you kidding?"

Lin Qingyan was extremely surprised, because she had seen this monkey stamp before.

In her previous life, she lived to 83. Ye Yi once sent her a letter with this stamp. She remembered it very clearly.

But at that time she was determined to die and didn't want to make her sad, so she simply didn't reply to her letter.

I just didn't expect this to be so valuable.

Zhou Limei nodded to her affirmatively.

"Yes, that's the price. The key is that it's still out of stock. People who have this stamp won't sell it, so the price is getting higher and higher."

Lin Qingyan swallowed and stared at the photo on her phone carefully. She wanted to remember it well. When 80 years come, she would stock up some so that she could make a fortune in the future.

Zhou Limei saw her action and laughed.

"You're jealous, right? This thing is hard to come by. Not to mention the stamps, just the items here make me want them all."

Pointing at a TV, he said, "Look here, this black and white TV. When I was a kid, my family had color TVs. This kind of TV had already been eliminated when I was born. It looks very bulky, doesn't it?"

Lin Qingyan looked at the TV, and scenes from her past life flashed through her mind. When she was still alive, ordinary families already bought black-and-white TVs.

The family next door bought one and it broadcasts the news every evening at 7 o'clock.

Because of her health condition, her brother spent all the family savings on his wedding and even owed some money. Although she received assistance from the Women's Federation in the following years, the family still had to spend a lot of money on her.

Her parents no longer had extra money to buy a TV, so her father could only lie at the door every night and listen to the TV in the neighbor's house.

She suddenly missed home and wanted to put down what she was doing and go back home.

After Zhou Limei finished speaking, she looked up and saw tears in Lin Qingyan's eyes.

"Qingyan, what's wrong with you?"

Lin Qingyan looked at Zhou Limei's concerned eyes and suppressed her emotions. The store had just opened and the costs had not yet been recovered. If she left now, who would deliver the vegetables?

Thinking of this, she could only force a smile.

"Sister Zhou, I miss home."

Zhou Limei was a little stunned. Didn’t she just come from home?

But she still hurriedly urged her, "Then you should go home quickly. You don't have to work here anyway. Next time, just bring the food and go back!"

Lin Qingyan knew that she had misunderstood, but it was difficult to explain.

However, seeing the nostalgic photos that Zhou Limei had just shown her gave her an idea.