Chapter 828: You should live frugally, you are too extravagant
Chu Xue heard her say: "I don't quite understand this matter, I'll ask the elders at home later."
Thinking of something, he nudged Duan Ruirui with his elbow, a smile flashing in his eyes: "So you really want to be my cousin's wife?"
Duan Ruirui blushed when she heard her joke: "Stop talking nonsense."
Seeing her like this, Chuxue stopped teasing her. After they finished their meal, they hurried to the department store.
Since lunch break time was limited, the two went straight to the wool counter.
Chu Xue looked at the wool on the counter and asked, "Comrade, how much is one pound of wool?"
A salesperson inside was knitting a sweater. She glanced up at her and said nonchalantly, "It depends on what you want. The price is different."
Duan Ruirui leaned over the counter and asked, "Sister, how much is the pure wool one?"
The salesperson put down the sweater she was knitting, stood up, and pointed at the yarn beside her: "There are several kinds of pure wool, ranging from one dollar and fifty cents to three dollars and one ounce. It depends on which one you want."
She brought over three balls of yarn: "Here, this one is one ounce for one dollar and fifty cents, this one is two ounces for two dollars and fifty cents, and this one is three dollars for one ounce. Which one do you want?"
These days, the average worker's monthly salary is only more than 30 yuan. If we assume that a sweater weighs one catty and two ounces, and you choose a middle price of two yuan and fifty cents per ounce, then one sweater is almost equivalent to a month's salary.
Duan Ruirui looked directly at the red yarn on the counter: "Comrade, give me a pound of bright red yarn."
The salesperson turned around and took out two balls of yarn from the shelf. "The red ones are only 2.5 yuan and 3.2 yuan. The 1.5 yuan one is currently out of stock. Which one do you want?"
Duan Ruirui didn't hesitate and pointed at the ball of yarn that cost three yuan per ounce: "I want this."
After saying that, she leaned closer to Chuxue and said, "I think I'll only get married once in my life, so I have to treat myself better."
Chuxue agreed: "That's right, this red one that costs three yuan and one ounce is very bright, and it suits you very well with your fair skin."
Duan Ruirui also thought so: "We think the same way."
After the salesperson wrote out the ticket and handed it to Duan Ruirui, he looked at Chu Xue and asked, "Which color do you want?"
Chu Xue looked at the counter and said, "Comrade, please give me one and a half kilograms of navy blue wool for two dollars and fifty cents per ounce, and one and a half kilograms of brown wool."
She originally wanted to get a pound of military green for herself, but after thinking about it, she decided not to.
The salesman said as he wrote out the bill, "The total is sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, plus five industrial coupons."
Duan Ruirui just happened to come back at this time and saw the salesperson issuing the ticket: "What color did you choose?"
Chuxue took the ticket and replied, "Navy blue and brown."
Duan Ruirui knew who it was bought for as soon as he heard it: "I bought it for your parents, what about you?"
Chu Xue looked at the ticket in her hand and said, "I'll buy it after I get my salary next month."
Duan Ruirui sighed and said nothing more.
Chuxue knew what she was thinking and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I will definitely be able to finish knitting my own sweater by the New Year."
As the two were talking, someone exclaimed in surprise, "Oh, it's the fourth brother's wife."
Chu Xue looked up and saw Zhang Yurong: "Third sister-in-law, what a coincidence?"
The salesperson from before looked at Zhang Yurong and asked, "Are you a relative?"
Although Zhang Yurong was smiling, that smile didn't reach her eyes. She pointed at Chuxue and said, "This is my brother-in-law's fiancée. I didn't expect that she would come over while I was having dinner."
After saying that, he asked, "Fourth brother's wife, are you here to buy wool?"
Her colleague raised the things in his hands and said: "I'm wrapping it."
Zhang Yurong saw the things in her hand and asked: "Are they all hers?"
Her colleague nodded to her
Zhang Yurong didn't know what she was thinking, but she actually lectured Chuxue, "Fourth sister-in-law, you need to be frugal. You're being too extravagant."
(End of this chapter)
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