A silver dollar in Chinese language class in the 1960s

The full text of "A Silver Dollar" is as follows:

"At that time, I was in the fifth grade of elementary school. One morning, the workers who were building the school playground dug out the silver dollar from the soil. I remember. The school first asked the workers to evacuate immediately, and then suspended classes for the fifth grade, asking the students to go to the construction site on the playground to look for silver coins

In that closed era, we only knew that silver coins were the money of the past, but it How much is it worth? But they don’t know anything. They just think it’s fun to dig out the “big ingot” from the soil. All the students opened their eyes wide and dug around in the soil with their little hands... When they found a piece, they were happy! I quickly handed it over to the teacher.

Later I heard that hundreds of silver dollars were found that day. Before school ended at noon, the principal and the dean suddenly walked into the classroom. The principal said solemnly: The school discovered that eighteen silver dollars were missing! They suspected that some students had hidden them secretly. “Ah! Who is it? How could you do such a thing? "Everyone was very surprised. So, under the command of the class teacher, the class cadres searched all the students: desks, school bags, clothes, and even shoes and socks had to be taken off? In the end, not a single silver dollar was found, indicating that the silver dollar was stolen. The "thief" was not in our class!

Many years later, I suddenly remembered that something was wrong! Maybe it was because of the chaos of war, or maybe it was to avoid bandits... You can imagine the panic at that time... Then there was no time to count the number, but a few years later the school leaders actually knew that ten were missing. Eight yuan? It’s just “taking the evil hearts of adults to judge the innocent bellies of children”

Extended information:

The living standards of people in the 1960s

In the 1960s, their living standards were far lower than ours today. Take buying things as an example. As long as we have enough money in our hands now, it is very convenient to buy whatever we want, even in physical stores. If you can't buy it in the store, you can also buy it online.

But in the 1960s, a planned economy was implemented. In an era when the supply of commodities was extremely scarce, in order to ensure the balance between supply and demand, the state implemented planned supply of daily necessities such as food, clothing, and clothing for urban and rural residents. Special purchase tickets such as food stamps and cloth stamps were issued according to the population ration. Therefore, at that time, I pursued frugality in terms of food and clothing, and did not dare to waste any of my hard-earned money.

Especially for families with more children, their living standards are even worse. In this case, one dollar at that time was as important to most families as one hundred dollars now. After all, the purchasing power of one dollar at that time was not comparable to that of one dollar now.