Chapter 217 Holding a position without doing any work

Dai Duo breathed a sigh of relief. "Let's go in and choose some fabric first. Once we've decided, I'll take the fabric ration coupons to the textile factory to get the materials. I can make the trench coat for you in three days at most. The down jacket might take longer because I need to figure out where I can find the kind of duck down you mentioned."

"good."

Cen Yan followed Dai Duo into the inner room, holding a color chart book to select fabrics and colors.

Fortunately, she had come into contact with these things in Hong Kong in her previous life. Although she didn't know the specific names of the fabrics used for trench coats and down jackets, she could usually tell the difference by touching them.

Finally, Cen Yan spent half an hour choosing a trench coat made of nylon and polyester composite material, which has strong waterproof and windproof functions, making it especially suitable for outdoor activities. This is perfect for a soldier like Qi Jingchuan.

Lightweight and highly practical.

The down jacket is made of the common polyester taffeta fabric, which is very durable and has a good yarn density, so the down will not leak out.

Considering that these two outfits were prepared for Qi Jingchuan, Cen Yan chose iron gray, which looks calm and dignified, and is more in line with Qi Jingchuan's status.

After making her selections, Cen Yan took out the cloth coupons. Dai Duo couldn't eat so many cloth coupons, so she used half of them to exchange for some national grain coupons, meat coupons, and ten daily necessities coupons.

This settled the payment, and Cen Yan and Dai Duo agreed to come and pick up the clothes three days later.

After settling the purchasing matters, Cen Yan saw that it was almost time, so she went directly to the Health Bureau.

After explaining her purpose to the security guard, Cen Yan went directly to a service window as instructed.

Cen Yan leaned towards the window and handed over the letter of introduction. "Comrade, I'm here to pick up my admission ticket for the primary-level TCM physician qualification exam. This is my letter of introduction."

For a long time, the staff at the service window didn't reach out to take her hand, nor did they pay any attention to Cen Yan, not even giving her a glance.

Cen Yan thought they were busy with something, but when she peeked inside on tiptoe, she saw several women doing chores there, pulling yarn balls and knitting sweaters, looking quite carefree.

It's not that they didn't hear her; they were clearly just occupying a position without doing their job properly and not taking it seriously.

Without any hesitation, she quietly took out her camera from her storage space and snapped a few pictures at the service window, not at all worried about wasting the film in her camera.

When things got to this point, a woman inside the window became unhappy. She put down the ball of yarn in her hand, pushed open the door, and came out shouting.

"Which newspaper do you work for, lady? Don't you know this is a government office? What are you doing taking pictures? Hand over your camera right now!"

"If you dare to try and steal it, I'll just accidentally throw the camera on the ground. You know how expensive cameras are these days, don't you?"

Cen Yan was neither humble nor arrogant.

"I'm not from any newspaper, I just came to pick up my exam admission ticket, but my throat is practically hoarse from shouting, and no clerk is helping me with this. Instead, they're knitting and spinning yarn at their posts, just slacking off. Luckily, I have a bit of a connection with a reporter from the Liberation Daily, so I figured he'd be happy to accept my submission and publish it the next day."

Upon hearing that Cen Yan had not only taken their photos but also intended to submit them to the newspaper for publication, the women immediately stood up from their workstations.

But they didn't dare to snatch the camera. As Cen Yan said, the camera was too expensive. Even if they sold it, they might not be able to afford to buy one, let alone give it away to someone else for no reason.

Seeing Cen Yan's firm attitude, they had no choice but to take out a stack of admission tickets and angrily search for the names on the letters of introduction.