Chapter 181 Good Wine
Gu Ci also came back with a large dusty backpack, and he opened it to show her as if he was presenting a treasure: "I bought ham, dried fish, and a bottle of Maotai."
The aroma of the ham was so strong that it made Chu Hong hungry.
Chu Hong asked him first: "Have you sent the things you bought for your uncle?"
Gu Ci really liked her calling him by his name, and his eyes and eyebrows smiled even more: "I bought thirty yuan worth of food, and the rest I bought was some brown sugar, white sugar, milk candy, biscuits, needles and thread, etc."
"There was also a pack of cigarettes, some kelp, dried fish, and some sesame seed cakes."
He wrote the letter after careful consideration last night and sent it out as well.
He knew that when these things were sent to the destination, they would definitely be checked by the management first, and the cigarettes were prepared for them.
He also understood that it would be good if half of the things he sent over could reach his uncle and aunt.
But even so, he had to send it, so that at least the captain would take care of his uncle and aunt.
Therefore, he simply said in his letter that he had sent them something, but did not give the specific quantity.
After sending them all out, I thought that since I was going out, I couldn't forget to buy some things for Yue's family, so I went to the black market and bought these things at a high price.
Finally, he was penniless.
He didn't know how to ask Chu Hong for money at this moment. After thinking for a while, he handed her the food coupons he had just exchanged this morning: "These food coupons are used in this place. Take them."
"There are still ten kilograms of general food coupons left. Leave them with me first, just in case."
The general food coupons were more expensive than the regional food coupons, so he bought two kinds of food coupons.
Chu Hong's eyes lit up when she took the Moutai he bought.
She has always wanted to trade in some supplies and save them for future appreciation.
But she didn't know much about calligraphy and paintings and antiques, and it was hard to find them now, so she didn't know where to start. Last time, she got some calligraphy and painting books from Wang Dazhi, and now she has put them all in a box and hidden them in the small attic between the beams and tiles of their new house.
It can be considered a free investment. As for whether it will appreciate in value in the future, only God knows.
In fact, Lao Jin might understand something, but Chu Hong is not in a hurry.
Now she remembered that Moutai was a good thing. She remembered that she once went to an auction with her boyfriend, and a bottle of Moutai produced in 1958 was sold for more than one million yuan.
So what you are holding in your hand now may very well be a million-dollar bottle of Moutai sixty years later?
Of course, if it is not stored properly, or the origin batch or something like that, the price may be lower.
But even if the price is lower, it is easy to sell it for tens of thousands.
She took the food coupons and took out a handful of money from her pocket and handed it to him: "Go buy two more bottles of Moutai later."
Then he asked belatedly, "How much is a bottle of Moutai?"
Gu Ci put the money in his pocket: "If you have a Moutai ticket, you can go to the mall to buy it, it's eight yuan a bottle. I don't have a ticket, so I bought it from the black market, it's a bit more expensive, ten yuan."
Chu Hong was very curious: "You don't like drinking, so why did you think of buying wine?"
Could it be that he actually likes drinking? Is it just because good wine is too expensive now that he doesn't show it?
Gu Ci said naturally: "Our father, grandfather and second uncle all like to drink. This kind of wine is rare in town, so I want to buy a bottle and bring it back for everyone to drink."
He looked at her again and asked cautiously, "Did I spend money recklessly?"
Although he didn't know why she asked him to buy two bottles of good wine, he suspected that Chu Hong didn't know the price of the wine at all.
Now that I know, I’m afraid I won’t let myself buy it again.
"Ten dollars a bottle?" Chu Hong suspected that she had heard it wrong. Seeing him nod, she took a breath and said, "Okay..."
Almost said it was cheap.
Fortunately, she still had her wits about her shoulders, so she quickly swallowed the bargain and changed her words to: "It's so expensive?"
Then he said to Gu Ci, "But I heard that this wine will be very valuable in the future. Let's buy two more bottles. When we sell the wine in the future, we won't have to worry about money anymore."
When Gu Ci heard her say this, he wondered if someone had fooled her.
Anyway, he couldn't imagine that such an expensive wine could increase in price a lot in the future.
But he didn't refute it: "I'll go and look around later. There's only one bottle of Moutai on that stall, and there's also Daqu Laobai Gan and Erguotou."
Chu Hong quickly waved her hand: "Forget it then. You should pay more attention next time and only take the ones that are intact."
Afraid that he would not take her words to heart, she said to him, "Just consider it as a gift from you, okay? I want ten bottles of wine."
The main reason was that she was not a diligent person and was unwilling to go to the black market to look for it, so she could only coax him to buy it for her.
Of course, ten bottles of wine is just a small goal for now. I will save more and buy more if I have the chance in the future.
What others leave for their children are houses and money, but what I leave for my children is decades of wine.
Gu Ci didn't like drinking and didn't know how to drink, so he felt that it was not cost-effective to spend money on such expensive wine.
But now when he heard her say that, he nodded immediately: "Okay, I will pay more attention to it in the future."
It’s just a hundred dollars, right? You have to be willing to spend it.
Didn't she give herself more than a hundred yuan before and asked me to buy things for my uncle and send them to him?
It's rare that she wants something, so I have to buy it for her.
Chu Hong didn't know that she had cultivated a good habit of buying wine in her young husband.
After packing up, Chu Hong took the fried dough sticks and shared them with him with hot water: "You must be hungry. I brought them back specially for you because they tasted delicious this morning. Let's eat something to fill our stomachs before going shopping."
You can't say that I have big eyes and a small stomach. When I bought them, I thought I could finish two fried dough sticks.
She has also kept in mind that food should not be wasted.
Then you can only say something nice so that he will eat more willingly.
Gu Ci really didn't doubt her words, his eyes sparkled: "It's delicious, very chewy."
Chu Hong thought to herself: Hot fried dough sticks are a bit crispy, and now they are cold. If you don’t have good teeth, you may not be able to bite them.
But after all, the raw materials are good and it doesn’t taste bad.
When Gu Ci bought things before, he had already asked for the two addresses given by Lao Jin. He went to the bus stop and waited for nearly half an hour before he got the bus.
Maybe it was almost eleven o'clock and people who worked had not yet gotten off work, and people who did not work were either cooking at home or waiting to eat at home, so this was the first time they could take a bus without having to squeeze with others and with empty seats.
There were not many people on the bus and it didn't stop for long. We arrived at the destination at 11:30.
When they got out of the car, they saw the state-owned hotel diagonally opposite.
There is nothing more to say now, let’s go have lunch first.
With yesterday's experience as a lesson, both of them took lunch boxes and prepared to go out and find a place where no one was around to eat.
Of course, even if they wanted to eat in a restaurant, it would be unlikely.
There are only five or six tables in the restaurant now, and it is dinner time now, so every table is full of people.
However, there are also benefits to not eating in the restaurant.
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