It was already eleven o'clock and almost time for lunch.
"Go to the state-owned restaurant for lunch and then go shopping in the department store?" Xie Qingxiao asked.
"That's fine," Lin Xiangyi said. It's better to go shopping after eating. "But do you know where the state-owned restaurant is? Do you want to ask a passerby?"
The city is much more prosperous than the county town, and there are many state-owned hotels, naturally also near the bus station.
Lin Xiangyi has never been here and I don’t know where she is.
Xie Qingxiao was very familiar with the place. He took Lin Xiangyi and walked for seven or eight minutes before finding a restaurant.
Although it was not lunch time yet, there were quite a few people in the restaurant, most of whom were probably catching their bus.
Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi were lucky. As soon as they entered, two female comrades sitting by the window had finished their meal, so Lin Xiangyi sat down immediately.
"Then you take a seat here and I'll go order the food. What do you want to eat?" Xie Qingxiao asked.
"Let's eat," Lin Xiangyi said, "Just scrambled eggs with cucumber will do."
Xie Qingxiao went there, and ten minutes later, he came back with two meals and two dishes, including the fried cucumber and eggs that Lin Xiangyi ordered, and twice-cooked pork.
At that time, the portions in state-owned restaurants were generous, with several-inch plates filled to the brim and smelling delicious.
Especially the twice-cooked pork that Xie Qingxiao ordered, which must have just been taken out of the pot, with steam still rising from it, and the overbearing aroma went straight into people's noses.
Lin Xiangyi glanced at him, and Xie Qingxiao placed the twice-cooked pork in front of her: "Let's eat together."
Lin Xiangyi didn't hesitate and took a piece of twice-cooked pork and ate it.
Xie Qingxiao also ate Lin Xiangyi's scrambled eggs with cucumber.
This restaurant is not like the ones in the county town where you have to pay food coupons based on how much you eat. The food here is provided as much as you want, and after paying the food coupons you can help yourself to food, but you are not allowed to take it out and you cannot waste it.
Xie Qingxiao prepared food for Lin Xiangyi, and Lin Xiangyi suspected that he prepared the food according to his own appetite.
She had just come out after having breakfast, and now it was not mealtime, so she couldn't eat that much.
She ate so much that she couldn't eat any more.
"I can't eat that much, so don't give me so much next time," Lin Xiangyi said to Xie Qingxiao, putting down his chopsticks and planning to take a break before eating.
Xie Qingxiao ate quickly and had already finished his meal. He just came back with two cups of hot water.
Hearing Lin Xiangyi say this, he put a cup of hot water next to her and bent down to take her leftovers: "I'll eat it."
"Hey?" Lin Xiangyi subconsciously reached out to take the food back.
Xie Qingxiao glanced at her: "Can you still eat?"
"But I made it so..." so ugly.
Lin Xiangyi looked at the leftovers in her bowl. There was a lot of soup and egg crumbs on it. It looked disgusting...
Xie Qingxiao used a spoon to push all the rice together without any disgust, scooped a spoonful with the spoon, raised his head and glanced at Lin Xiangyi. The look in his eyes seemed to be saying that she was being pretentious again.
Lin Xiangyi: "..." Although they discussed the marriage the day before yesterday, they were not familiar with each other before that. She didn't have as strong adaptability as him. What's wrong with being a little pretentious?
"Eat, eat, eat more. You'll be tired after shopping in the mall later," Lin Xiangyi picked up the dish and poured all the juice on it into his bowl. How childish.
Xie Qingxiao didn't care and finished all the soup and rice.
After eating, the two went straight to the department store.
It's called a building, but it's actually only two floors. However, the area is very large, and the goods are not like those in a supply and marketing cooperative, where everything is sold at one counter. There are special areas here, one for daily necessities, and another for clothes and shoes...
There is a counter at the door of each shop. Customers line up behind the counter and ask the salesperson to help them get what they want.
There are a lot of people, and it is very bustling and lively.
Lin Xiangyi and Xie Qingxiao walked around for a while and then turned into the clothing area. They had to buy a new set of clothes to wear on their wedding day.
“There are more styles of clothes here than in the county,” Xie Qingxiao said.
“Yes, there will be more in a few years, and they will look better,” Lin Xiangyi agreed.
After the reform and opening up, big cities were the first to absorb new things. Now, several years have passed, and big cities have already undergone earth-shaking changes.
The clothing market was one of the earliest industries.
In two years, when the clothing factories in Guangdong Province develop, there will be more styles.
That is to say, the information in small towns is lagging behind and the thinking is conservative. Until now, there has not been much change, especially in clothing. The colors are still mainly black, gray and blue, and the styles are also very simple.
After hearing her words, Xie Qingxiao looked at her in surprise: "How do you know?"
Xie Qingxiao has many friends and is not bound by family. He has been traveling around in the past two years and has discovered the differences between big cities and small towns.
With more experience, I have a better understanding of the country's future economic development direction.
But Lin Xiangyi lives in the county town all year round, so how did she know?
"I found out from the newspaper," Lin Xiangyi made up an excuse to get by.
Xie Qingxiao understood and had no doubts.
He knew that Lin Xiangyi was a studious person.
When she was in school, her academic performance was very good. He thought it was a sure thing for her to be admitted to university. Although she didn't pass,
We can only say that she had bad luck, but we cannot say that she is not smart.
"Do you think that suits me?" Lin Xiangyi asked, pointing at a pair of blue straight jeans hanging on the shelf.
Xie Qingxiao followed her gaze and saw that this was a new style and no one in the county wore this kind of pants yet.
To be honest, he couldn't imagine Lin Xiangyi wearing these jeans.
However, they did see a few young lesbians wearing them in the mall, and they did look better and more novel than ordinary pants.
In Xie Qingxiao's eyes, Lin Xiangyi is prettier than any other girl, and of course she looks good in it too.
So he nodded: "Suitable."
Lin Xiangyi had never worn any beautiful clothes in her life.
Before Chen Fengmei opened the door, Lin Shan loved her, but he was a rough man who was satisfied with buying her delicious food and didn't know how to dress her up.
After Chen Fengmei came in, it was even more impossible to dress herself up. Most of her clothes were picked up from other people's homes.
Now she still holds the huge sum of 200 yuan that Lin Shan gave her, and a wide variety of beautiful clothes.
Lin Xiangyi decided not to let herself down.
When she asked Xie Qingxiao, she had already decided to buy the jeans.
Hearing that Xie Qingxiao didn't tease her or say something sarcastic on purpose, she was somewhat happy. She walked towards the counter and said to a salesperson who was leaning against the counter eating sunflower seeds, "Please help me get that pair of jeans, thank you."
The salesperson didn't move, and even glanced at her with a contemptuous attitude: "Twenty-eight yuan, no cloth coupons, and you can't try it on."
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