Chapter 397 Queue
After returning to her mother's house for lunch, Jiang Xia took a nap for an hour before getting up. Both Jiang's father and mother went to work.
Jiang's mother packed two red, white and blue plastic bags for Jiang Xia to take home.
One bag contained baby clothes, quilts and diapers that she had asked the factory workers to help her make.
They are all made of the softest and most breathable fabrics that she personally selected.
The factory started its holiday in January, and now it’s relatively idle at the end of the year, but I’m busy preparing summer clothes again when I come back.
The other bag contained maternity clothes she bought for Jiang Xia. Her pregnancy would be showing soon, so she prepared some in advance.
Jiang Xia left two chickens and a pound of sea cucumbers for Jiang's father and mother, asked his aunt to kill the chickens and put them in the refrigerator, and then left with Zhou Chenglei.
The couple first went to get the tractor licensed.
There isn't enough time in the morning to do this.
Fortunately, I had submitted the application documents for the license before, and the license plate had been prepared, so I could register it directly when I arrived.
After signing in, the two went to the Friendship Shopping Mall. Jiang Xia wanted to buy some underwear, so she went in to buy it herself and asked Zhou Chenglei to look at other things.
There aren't many styles of underwear nowadays. Fortunately, she is still young and good-looking, so she doesn't need any functions.
I picked out a few of the most comfortable vest-style sports bras and old-fashioned cotton bras.
After buying it, she went to find Zhou Chenglei.
Jiang Xia saw that he was holding something in his hand: "What did you buy?"
"Clothes and a hairdryer."
Jiang Xia smiled: "Did you buy a hair dryer?"
It's out of stock every time I come.
Jiang Xia took a look and saw that he had bought her two more sets of clothes.
"I have too many clothes. I don't need to buy any more. My mom gave me another bag today."
"These two sets are not that thick, so you can wear them when the weather is not that cold." He thought Jiang Xia looked good in them as soon as he saw them, so he bought them.
Jiang Xia: "Now the closet can't hold any more."
"There are still empty rooms on the second floor. We can build a few more wardrobes to store clothes."
He took the things from Jiang Xia's hand and carried them himself.
Jiang Xia asked: "Did you buy the water heater?"
“It’s out of stock.”
When Jiang's father knew that they were planning to buy a water heater, he said it might be out of stock.
It's still winter now, and water heaters are selling well.
The main reason is that the only domestically produced water heaters of this era are the Yuhuan direct-discharge water heaters, and the four major families of water heaters have not yet appeared.
Zhou Chenglei asked the other party when the goods would be available, and the other party said that they would be available tomorrow and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Jiang's father said he would buy them one, but Zhou Chenglei wanted to buy three, or at least two.
There is one on the first floor and one on the second floor.
He was thinking about whether he should ask someone else to help buy it so as not to trouble Jiang's father.
The couple went to buy three more chandeliers and saw that there were electric fans for sale, three Diamond brand pedestal fans and one ceiling fan.
Zhou Chenglei took out the industrial tickets without hesitation and bought them all.
Otherwise, in the summer, it will be difficult to buy electric fans and you will have to wait in long queues.
When we finished our work, it was already past five o'clock.
Under normal circumstances, Zhou Chenglei would have gone home, but now it was dark at six o'clock, he couldn't see the road clearly, and it was not so stable to drive the tractor.
He brought Jiang Xia with him and did not take the risk, so he simply went back to Jiang's house to stay for one night.
Zhou Chenglei called the village and told his mother that he would be home tomorrow and would stay at Jiang's house tonight.
Then the next day he got up at 4:30 to queue up to buy an electric water heater.
When he arrived, it was not yet five o'clock and no one else was there.
There were not many people on the street.
Probably because it's very cold today.
After waiting for a while, Jiang's father also came to line up.
Zhou Chenglei: "Dad, it's so cold, why did you get up so early? Go back! I can just wait in line here."
Father Jiang smiled and said, "I get up early every day to exercise, it's okay, let's queue up together and buy one more, we will have one upstairs and downstairs."
While eating, he learned that the house built by his daughter and son-in-law had three floors, and he thought that one water heater might not be enough.
Anyway, he gets up early every day to exercise, so he comes to queue up.
So the father-in-law and son-in-law stood in the biting cold wind, talking and waiting.
In the dim sky, you could see the breath of the two people as they spoke.
After a while, someone came, and then more people came.
By dawn, the line was already very long.
At half past six, someone came to the queue to sell buns.
Zhou Chenglei bought buns, and Jiang's father reminded him not to buy too much, because Jiang's mother would bring breakfast over.
Zhou Chenglei bought four buns, two each for himself and Jiang's father.
After eating the steaming hot buns, it doesn’t feel that cold.
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At 7:30, Jiang's mother drove Jiang Xia over and brought breakfast for the two of them.
The mother and daughter got out of the car and said to them, "There is breakfast in the car. Go eat it in the car! We will line up."
Jiang Xia added: "Dad, you should go to work after breakfast! Mom, you too, I'll just wait in line."
"Okay." Jiang's father responded, took off the scarf from his neck and wrapped it around his daughter's neck.
A reporter on his way to work saw this and quickly took a picture of the scene.
Jiang's father put a scarf on his daughter before getting into the car with his son-in-law to have breakfast.
Neither of them was full just now, so they only ate two buns to fill their stomachs.
The people in the team looked at the car and then at the mother and daughter.
Even if you are so rich, do you still have to get up early in the morning to queue up to buy a water heater?
Some people even recognized Jiang's father and were even more shocked! Everyone in the queue knew that the first one arrived before five o'clock!
After Zhou Chenglei finished his breakfast, he returned to the queue.
Jiang's mother told them to be careful on the way home, and then went to work with Jiang's father.
At eight o'clock, the shops open.
Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei each bought a water heater.
When someone asked them why they bought two, Zhou Chenglei said, "One is for my parents."
Then he carried a water heater in one hand and went back to Jiang's house with Jiang Xia, drove a tractor back to the village, and stopped by the textile factory.
The fabric that Jiangxia had ordered had arrived, and they had taken it home successfully.
It was just past nine o'clock when we got back to the village.
Zhou's mother is stuffing sausages.
The yard was filled with pieces of bacon, alternating between fat and lean, drying in the sun.
Jiang Xia washed her hands, put on an apron and sleeves, and went forward to help.
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "I made some pork trotter vinegar. Go and have some."
Jiang Xia: "We'll eat it later. Have you made the whole pig into bacon and sausage?"
"Almost. I kept some lean meat and put the pork leg meat in the refrigerator at the purchasing office to keep it fresh. A Lei said to keep it for making pork jerky. The pig head, pig blood and pig offal were distributed to the neighbors. I left some pig blood and a pig stomach, and I plan to make pig stomach chicken today. Your sister-in-law originally wanted to sell half of the pig and keep the other half for bacon. I'll take the other half and make bacon and sausage. A Lei will give it as a gift at the end of the year, right? I can give it to him."
"We still have a pig. We will kill it the day before we move to the new house, so we won't have to buy pork. I will give the remaining half back to your eldest brother."
"Okay." Jiang Xia replied.
Jiang Xia is an expert at stuffing sausages, and after Zhou Chenglei moved everything, he came to help.
All three of them were efficient workers and they managed to fill dozens of kilograms of meat in an hour.
Zhou Chenglei took it to the rooftop of the new house to dry it.
Mother Zhou took a few toothpicks and went over to poke some small holes in the sausages. In the living room, she saw several fans on the floor. "Why did you buy so many fans?"
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "It just so happens that each of our family members has one room each, and we can install a ceiling fan in the dining room. When summer comes, we won't feel hot when we eat or sleep."
Jiang Xia imagined that installing a ceiling fan shouldn’t look ugly, but there was nothing that could be done even if it looked ugly. Practicality was the most important thing. It was really hot to eat in the summer!
"This costs too much money. We are old and not afraid of the heat." Zhou's mother felt bad that her son spent so much money on them, but she also felt warm in her heart.
The son and daughter-in-law are filial. They buy the best things for them and never miss anything for them. How can they not be happy? *Early the next morning, the production team personally delivered the newspaper Zhou Chenglei ordered and said excitedly: "A Lei, Xiao Xia, you are in the newspaper!"