Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Human Diversity

The food in state-owned restaurants is delicious, but it is also very expensive.

In this era, the monthly salary of workers is generally around 10 to 20 yuan, and senior technical workers only earn 30 to 40 yuan. Don't underestimate these dozens of yuan, they can buy a lot of things. In the countryside, you may not be able to save even a few dozen yuan in the whole year.

Putting aside all kinds of bills, the current prices are: matches cost eight cents each, sweet potatoes are no more than twenty cents at their lowest price, twenty yuan can buy about one hundred pounds, white flour costs fifty to eighty cents per pound, rice in the north is a little more expensive, pork costs more than two yuan per pound, pure fat meat is even more expensive, and candies, fruits, biscuits and other things are all expensive luxury goods.

They all saw it when Zhao Qing just paid the bill. It cost more than six yuan in total. They spent half a month's salary of the workers in one meal, and that was just for two meat dishes!

No wonder ordinary people rarely come to state-owned restaurants to eat. Only rich families can afford to eat here every day.

The three siblings grew up in Yanjing City. In the past ten years, they only remembered buying big meat buns in state-owned restaurants, which were already a rare delicacy. Such an expense made Ye Lan's pupils dilate slightly, surprised that it was so expensive.

Zhao Qinggang also thought it was expensive, but he was still very generous and asked them if they were full. In response, Ye Yu swallowed the three words with difficulty.

Both sides said goodbye.

Ye Yu asked: "How is it?"

"I'll give him a reply within two days. If there's hope, we'll arrange for both parties to meet their parents." Ye Lan bit her lower lip and said, "I'd like to take another look."

"Then let's take a closer look. You deserve better." Ye Yu felt that Zhao Qinggang was only acceptable because others were worse off, and she didn't know whether his mother and sisters were easy to get along with.

Ye Lan blushed and glanced at Ye Yu: "I'm not as good as you say!"

I feel so sweet in my heart.

Ye Yu:

"Oh, woman."

The three siblings returned to the park.

There were two or three more people there in the afternoon, but what can I say? The quality was not very good.

One of them has the worst conditions among all the people I met today. He is an ordinary worker who can't even be considered a skilled worker. Not to mention his second marriage, he has elderly parents and young children at home. But he still thinks he is great and is ordinary and confident.

Ye Yu gave him two minutes to show himself, out of consideration for Ye Lan and Auntie.

Today's blind date is completely over.

It was still early, and Ye Yu and his friends didn't go home yet. They planned to go to a nearby state-owned store for a stroll. Ye Yu was about to go to the countryside and needed to buy some things.

The state-owned stores of this era certainly did not have as rich a range of supplies as the department stores of the future, but the state-owned stores in Yanjing City also had three-story buildings.

The second and third floors sell large items that are not daily necessities or luxury items, such as iron pots, agricultural machinery, sewing machines, watches, tape recorders, bicycles, etc. It is said that there are also Feiyue brand black and white TVs and Shanghai vinyl cameras, but they are not necessarily available.

Ordinary people don’t care whether such things are available or not, they simply can’t afford them.

Most people only shop on the first floor, which is surrounded by wooden shelves against the wall, and there is a wide variety of goods on them.

The attitude of the waiters in the state-owned store was quite bad, but Ye Yu was already dazzled by the food and refused to leave the non-staple food area.

Not to mention noodles, flour, malted milk, cigarettes and alcohol, there are also bulk candies, raisins, peach cakes, glutinous rice noodles, ox tongues, biscuits, egg cakes, frosted persimmon cakes, etc. The aroma of the food makes people unable to stop swallowing their saliva. There are also canned fruits and canned meat.

If it weren't for the fact that she needed food coupons, sugar coupons, and non-staple food coupons to buy these things, Ye Yu would have spent all the twenty-plus yuan in her pocket. Unfortunately, she couldn't buy them even if she had money now, but she was also glad that she couldn't buy them even if she had money now. After all, her brain was already clouded by food.

Ye Yu spent all the food coupons, sugar coupons and non-staple food coupons he had. In addition to the Fuqiang flour, he also weighed some fruit candies, persimmon cakes and glutinous rice candies. He also bought a can of meat very lavishly. Ye Baoguo almost drooled at the sight of it.

Ye Lan cannot stop:

"Mom will definitely regret giving you these tickets."

Ye Yu peeled a candy and put it in her mouth. Hehehe, she couldn’t hear anything. She couldn’t hear anything.

I happened to have a few oil tickets, soy sauce tickets, and vinegar tickets, so I spent them all. They can be used anyway, and they won't deteriorate if kept in the space. Other condiments such as salt, chili peppers, and Sichuan peppercorns do not require tickets. They are expensive in the city, so it is better to buy them at the brigade supply and marketing cooperative later.

The rest remains.

You must buy a toothbrush and toothpaste, as they are indispensable for foodies; you must also buy some sewing needles, thread, and buttons for daily use; you must also buy soap and clam oil.

Clam oil, also known as shell oil, refers to a skin care oil packed in clam shells. It has obvious effects in preventing frostbite and skin cracking in the cold winter.

Ye Yu didn't buy this clam oil to prevent frostbite. She had been to temperatures hundreds of degrees below zero. The awakening of her superpowers had optimized her body genes to the point where she was not afraid of these things. Even high-level superpowered people could survive and regenerate as long as their heads and hearts were not exploded.

That's why she buys clam oil.

The mutation has optimized her skin condition to its best. Her skin is fair, delicate and smooth. Now it can be attributed to her invincible youth. But after working in the fields for ten years, it is still the same. It would be a bit strange if her appearance did not change at all.

Ye Yu knew that even if she continued to use clam oil, there would still be doubts, but at least she had an excuse: proper skin care + natural beauty?

She was too lazy to spend more time hiding herself. Instead of hiding it, she might as well work hard to upgrade her supernatural powers. No excuse was better than a strong fist. She would strive to live a leisurely life when she was 100 years old, even if it was like she was 18.

In addition to clam oil, similar products include vanishing cream and vaseline, which are more expensive and more popular because of their strong fragrance.

Ye Yu felt that clam oil was less irritating to her nose than vanishing cream. Ye Lan looked at it again and again, compared it again and again, and also bought a clam oil, just because it was cheap.

The ten or so yuan in Ye's pocket disappeared. If it weren't for the ticket, there would be nothing left.

Ye Lan felt sorry for her:

“No wonder you can’t save money!”

"They're all necessary. I think I've been pretty frugal." Ye Yu didn't think candy or canned meat was a waste. "There's a saying that goes, 'You can't save money if you spend it.'"

Ye Lan was amused and asked, "How do you do that?"

“…I’m sorry. I was wrong.”

Ye Yu was defeated again. In this era, money was really saved by every penny, and the money she spent came from her mother Ye Xing's frugality. She couldn't earn money, so she could only go to the countryside to send them more mountain products and meat.

go home.

The first thing Wang Lai Di asked about today's situation after get off work. Ye Lan looked at Ye Yu with a blush.

Ye Yu: "Why are you looking at me?"

"...You say it." Ye Lan squeezed out the words from between her teeth.

"oh."

Ye Yu made a brief summary, and Ye Lan completed it.

Wang Lai Di could tell that among the people who were on blind dates today, the one with the best conditions and the one her daughter liked was only the soldier Zhao Qinggang. Fang Qiang seemed to have a good temper too, but unfortunately he had a problem with his foot.

When Ye Weiguo heard the word "soldier", he clapped his hands happily, but was suppressed by Ye Hongjun: "Isn't he too old?" He was older than his eldest daughter Ye Xing and son-in-law.

Wang Lai Di felt that age was not a big problem. She was more concerned about whether Zhao Qinggang's mother and elder and younger sisters-in-law could get along well. Being a military wife was not easy. After Ye Xing got married, she spent the most time with his mother.

"There's also the issue of children." Wang Lai Di suffered a lot because she couldn't have a son. She looked ten years older when she gave birth to Ye Baoguo, and her hair started to grow white after Ye Weiguo. Zhao Qinggang was away from home all year. What would Zhao Qinggang's mother do if she wanted a grandson? Would Ye Lan be blamed?

Ye Lan replied with a blush: "He is the battalion commander and his family can accompany him in the army. Because his mother is with him, he can't always be with him. But he can go and stay for a few months every year. His garrison is in the south, and the winter is not as cold as here. It doesn't snow."

In this way, as long as Zhao Qinggang's mother and two sisters-in-law are fine, it is not impossible.

But everyone just thought that they could wait and see, what if there was something better?

Don’t we have two days to think about it?

Because they were discussing this matter all the time, Wang Lai Di forgot to ask Ye Yu what she bought and what she was missing in the state-owned store, which gave her a good opportunity to be scolded.

The next day, the blind date continued.

It's just that my luck is not very good today. The quality of my blind date can be said to be much worse than the first day. All kinds of ugly and ugly ones showed up, and there was not a single good one.

It also allowed Ye Yu to see the so-called diversity of human species. It was an exaggeration to say that they were human beings. The monkeys and gorillas in the zoo looked more like humans than they did.

After a day, Ye Lan was so devastated that she didn't want to go on. Auntie did add some new candidates, but they sounded even worse than the first batch.

That night, Ye Hongjun's elder sister Ye Cuihua suddenly came to visit and said that she had found a very good family for Ye Lan. If her daughter Hu Niu was not only thirteen years old and not suitable, she would have wanted to marry Hu Niu off immediately.

Ye Hongjun and Wang Lai Di didn't know what to say. Wang Lai Di could only change the subject awkwardly: "What kind of family?"

"A cadre comrade!" Ye Cuihua revealed the answer mysteriously. "This Sun Shizhong's whole family is on the government payroll, and he's not just an ordinary cadre. He's a university student in Yanjing City. He has a bright future and isn't too old, in his early twenties. He's a perfect match for Erya."

Wang Lai Di was also tempted by what she heard, but fortunately she was able to maintain some composure and asked suspiciously, "His family is so well-off. He's a college graduate, a cadre, and he's on the government payroll. Compared to Erya, they're like heaven and earth. How could he possibly be interested in our family?"

Ye Yu also felt that there was probably a trap. It wasn't that she thought Ye Lan was not worthy of him, the problem was that this Sun had never met Ye Lan.

"The main thing is that Sun Shizhong has been married before. If he hadn't, it wouldn't have been Lan's turn!" Ye Cuihua added, "His ex-wife only gave birth to a daughter. After the divorce, she couldn't bear to part with her daughter and took her away. This way, it's not much different from a first marriage. He wants to find someone who is good-looking, virtuous and takes care of the family."

Wang Lai Di thought about it over and over again, but still didn't believe that this pie in the sky would happen.