"Deputy company commander, can you borrow your three-joint leather shoes for me to wear?" That year, Xiaozhang under my hand asked me to borrow leather shoes for a blind date. Triple joint leather shoes in the 80s are a rarity. My salary is 80 yuan a month, and it costs me half a month's salary to buy a pair.
I lent my shoes to Xiao Zhang, and his daughter-in-law got them, but my shoes were rotten.
When I heard the news, I was furious. In Xiaozhang said that he wanted to compensate me for a pair, I angrily reprimanded: As long as your salary, you can afford it!
Since then, Xiao Zhang has kept his head down every time he meets me. Later, when I was injured during military training, it was Xiaozhang who carried me down the mountain on his back, and tried his best to earn money to replenish my body.
The above is from a veteran's self-report, was a pair of leather shoes really so rare in the past?
