Chapter 268 I Want to Buy a TV
After Yu Hui and the child fell asleep, Gu Huai quietly slept at the end of the bed and held Yu Hui's feet, which were as cold as cast iron, in his arms.
And her cold feet slowly warmed up in his warm arms.
After lunch, Gu Huai went to the division headquarters and found the purchasing officer who was responsible for purchasing various supplies and equipment for the army.
"You want TV tickets?" The buyer looked at Gu Huai in surprise.
Televisions are not cheap, and many people in the military district asked him to help get tickets, but almost no one asked him to help get TV tickets.
It's nothing, the TV is too expensive.
Some people are reluctant to buy a TV even if they have a TV ticket.
"Yeah." Gu Huai nodded, "My family wants to buy a TV."
"It's possible to get it, but the ticket might cost a bit of money."
"It doesn't matter if you spend money, just find a way to get me one."
"Okay, I'll let you know when I get it."
"Thank you. Let's go to the noodle shop for noodles when we have time." Gu Huai patted the buyer's shoulder.
The buyer smiled and waved at him.
After waiting for three days, there was finally any news about the TV tickets.
There is a TV ticket, the quota was given by other units, but it costs one hundred yuan.
Gu Huai immediately said yes, and went home to tell Yu Hui about the situation. Yu Hui gave him a hundred yuan.
The next day, Gu Huai took the TV and plane tickets home.
"The state-owned store will have a shipment of televisions arriving next week. There will only be ten of them. Just go get your ticket and buy one."
"When are you going?" Gu Huai looked at Yu Hui and asked, "I'll have Xiao Li take you there. The TV is a bit heavy."
Yu Hui looked at the TV ticket in her hand and said, "Of course, the sooner the better. I'll go early on Monday morning and buy it as soon as the state-owned store opens."
Recently, she has also been teaching Gu Hongmei how to make braised beef and braised pork intestines. Hongmei can also make them when she is away for a few hours in the morning.
"Okay, I'll have Xiao Li take you there on Monday."
"That's great, we're finally going to have a TV at home." Yu Hui turned around holding the TV ticket in both hands.
Gu Huai looked at her and laughed. He didn't know why, but seeing her happy made him feel happy too.
On Monday morning, Yu Hui took the money and ticket and got into the city in the car driven by Xiao Li.
When the car stopped in front of the state-owned store, it was still closed.
At nine o'clock, as soon as the store opened, Yu Hui rushed in first, went to the electrical appliance counter on the second floor, and slapped her ticket on the counter. "Hello, comrade, I want a TV."
The salesperson looked at her for two seconds, then smiled and said, "You're well-informed. Ten TVs just arrived at our counter and haven't been put on the shelves yet."
"Hehe." Yu Hui smiled.
"How many inches do you want?" The salesperson picked up the TV ticket and looked at it.
Are there any sizes available?
"The biggest one."
"The largest one, which is 14 inches, costs 450 yuan," the salesperson reminded.
There is only one 14-inch machine, three 12-inch machines, and six 9-inch machines.
"I want fourteen inches."
"Then wait a moment, I'll issue you an invoice first, and then I'll get it for you from the warehouse." After saying that, the salesperson took out the invoice book and started issuing the invoice.
After the ticket was issued and Yu Hui paid the money, the salesperson went to the warehouse to take out the TV.
The TV was in a cardboard box, and the salesperson took it out and showed it to her.
It was the kind of black and white TV she had seen in TV dramas of the period.
When Yu Hui walked out of the state-owned store holding the TV, people around her were looking at her with envy in their eyes.
Nowadays, buying a radio is something to be envied, let alone a TV.
She walked out of the state-owned store holding the TV under the envious gaze of many people.
"Sister-in-law, did you buy it?" Seeing her come out, Xiao Li, who was guarding the car, went to meet her.
Yu Hui nodded and said, "I bought it."
Xiao Li took the TV from her and put it in the car.
"Are we going back now?" Xiao Li asked again after putting away the TV.
Yu Hui nodded and said, "Let's go back now."
After bringing the TV home, she still had to help out at the store.
"Brother Xiao Li."
Xiao Li was the first to walk into the yard carrying the TV. Gu Xixi, who was sitting under the eaves, ran over as soon as she saw him.
There were six or seven children sitting under the eaves reading comic books.
"Mom, is that the TV that Brother Li is holding?" Gu Xixi ran to Yu Hui excitedly and asked.
“I bought it back.”
The other children stopped reading the comics and stood up, staring at the TV in Xiao Li's hands.
"Gu Nan, did your family really buy a TV?"
A few days ago, Gu Nan said that their family wanted to buy a TV. They thought Gu Nan was bragging, but they didn't expect that he actually bought the TV.
Gu Nan raised his chin proudly and ignored the person who asked him the question, then jumped down the stairs happily.
"Where is my sister?" Yu Hui looked at Gu Nan and asked.
Gu Nan: "My sister is playing with her doll in the room."
Yu Hui followed Xiao Li into the living room. The children standing under the eaves all called her "Auntie Yu."
Beibei, who was sitting on a chair playing with a doll, saw his mother coming back. His round eyes suddenly lit up, and he called "Mom" in a baby voice and opened his little arms for a hug.
Yu Hui walked over, picked up Beibei with a smile, and kissed her smiling face.
"Missing Mom?"
"Yeah." Beibei nodded vigorously.
Beibei misses her mother very much.
"Sister-in-law, where should we put the TV?" Xiao Li turned around and looked at Yu Hui while holding the TV and asked.
The latter looked at the chest of drawers against the wall and pointed with his chin, "Put it on the chest of drawers."
Xiao Li put the TV on the chest of drawers and said, "Sister-in-law, the TV is ready. I'll go back first."
"Wait a minute." Yu Hui put Beibei down, walked to the chest of drawers, opened the first drawer, and grabbed a handful of shelled five-spice peanuts for him.
"I bought some peanuts and fried them myself a couple of days ago."
Xiao Li did not refuse and took it with a smile, "Thank you, sister-in-law." He put the peanuts in his shirt pocket.
"I'm leaving. Goodbye, sister-in-law."
"Goodbye, Nannan, Xixi, and Beibei."
"Goodbye, Brother Li."
"See you at the pot debt..."
After Xiao Li left, Yu Hui saw that Gu Nan's little guests were all looking at her and the TV on the chest of drawers, so she grabbed two handfuls of peanuts and asked Gu Nan and Gu Xi to share them with the other children.
Gu Nan and Gu Xi divided the peanuts reluctantly.
Yu Hui took the TV out of the box, plugged it in, erected the antenna, and turned on the TV.
The TV screen was filled with snow. She turned the channel knob to channel 2, and the snow disappeared.
The paper-cut animation short film "The Trumpeter" was playing on TV, and the children's eyes were immediately wide open.
"Mom." Gu Xixi looked at Yu Hui with sparkling eyes, her eyes full of desire to see.
Yu Hui smiled and said, "You guys can watch it, but not for too long. Once you finish the movie, you have to turn it off."
Gu Nan and Gu Xixi nodded vigorously, so fast that they almost left afterimages.
Yu Hui explained to Gu Nan how to turn off the TV and then went to the noodle shop.
"Do you want to come in and watch TV?" Gu Nan asked his friends standing outside the door.
"Yes." The friends nodded and said in unison.
Gu Nan curled his lips and said, "Watching TV once costs one cent."
"Okay." Everyone took out money from their pockets without hesitation.
Yu Hui walked to the noodle shop and didn't know that Gu Nan, who was full of business acumen, had started a business with the TV at home.
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