Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Human Diversity

The food in the state-owned hotel is delicious, but it is also very expensive.

In this era, the average monthly salary for workers is around 10 to 20 yuan, and for highly skilled workers it is only 30 to 40 yuan. Don't underestimate these few dozen yuan, as they can buy a lot of things. In rural areas, you may not be able to save even a few dozen yuan in a whole year.

Putting aside all kinds of bills, the current prices of goods are: matches are eight cents each, sweet potatoes are no more than twenty cents at their lowest price, twenty yuan can buy about one hundred kilograms, white flour is fifty to eighty cents a kilogram, rice in the north is a little more expensive, pork is more than two yuan a kilogram, pure fat meat is even more expensive, and candies, fruits, biscuits and dried foods are all expensive luxury goods.

They all saw it when Zhao Qinggang settled the bill. It cost more than six yuan in total. They spent half a month's wages of the workers in one meal, and that was just for two meat dishes!

No wonder ordinary people seldom eat in state-owned hotels. Only very wealthy families can afford to eat here every day.

The three siblings grew up in Yanjing City. In the past ten years or so, they had only bought big meat buns in state-owned hotels. They were already a rare delicacy. Such an expense made Ye Lan's pupils dilate slightly, and she was surprised that it was so expensive.

Zhao Qinggang also thought it was expensive, but he was still very generous and asked them if they were full. In response, Ye Yu swallowed the three words with difficulty.

Both parties said goodbye.

Ye Yu asked: "How is it?"

"I'll give him a reply within two days. If there's hope, we'll arrange for both parties to meet their parents," Ye Lan bit her lower lip and said, "I want to take another look."

"Then let's wait and see. You deserve better." Ye Yu felt that Zhao Qinggang was being lenient because other people were worse off, and she didn't even know if his mother and sisters got along well with each other.

Ye Lan blushed and glanced at Ye Yu: "I'm not as good as you say!"

My heart is filled with sweetness.

Elm leaves:

"Oh, woman."

The three siblings returned to the park.

There were still two or three people there in the afternoon, but what can I say? The quality was not very good.

One of them has the worst conditions among all the people I have met today. He is an ordinary worker who is not even a skilled worker. Not to mention his second marriage, he has elderly parents and young children at home. Yet he still thinks he is something special and is ordinary and confident.

Ye Yu gave him two minutes to show himself, out of consideration for Ye Lan and his mother.

Today's blind date is completely over.

It was still early, and Ye Yu and his friends had not gone home yet. Instead, they planned to stop by a nearby state-owned store for a stroll. Ye Yu was about to go to the countryside and needed to buy some things.

The state-owned stores of that era certainly did not have as rich a supply of goods as the department stores of the future, but the state-owned stores in Yanjing City also had three-story buildings.

The second and third floors sell large items that are not daily necessities or luxury items, such as iron pots, agricultural machinery, sewing machines, watches, tape recorders, bicycles, etc. It is said that there are also Feiyue brand black-and-white TVs and Shanghai vinyl cameras, but they are not necessarily in stock.

Ordinary people didn’t care whether such things were available or not, as they simply couldn’t afford them.

Most people only shop on the first floor, which is surrounded by wooden shelves against the wall, and there is a wide variety of goods on them.

The attitude of the waiters in the state-owned store was quite harsh, but Ye Yu was already dazzled by the food and couldn't leave the non-staple food area.

Not to mention noodles, flour, maltose, tobacco and alcohol, there are also bulk candies, raisins, peach cakes, rice noodles, ox tongue, biscuits, egg cakes, frosted persimmon cakes, etc. The aroma of the food makes people swallow their saliva. There are also canned fruits and canned meat.

If it weren't for the fact that grain coupons, sugar coupons, and non-staple food coupons were needed to buy these things, Ye Yu would have spent all the twenty-plus yuan in her pocket. It was a pity that she couldn't buy them now even if she had money, but she was also glad that she couldn't buy them now even if she had money, after all, her brain was already filled with food.

Ye Yu spent all the grain coupons, sugar coupons and non-staple food coupons he had. In addition to the flour, he also weighed some fruit candies, persimmon cakes and glutinous rice candies. He also bought a can of meat very extravagantly. Ye Baoguo almost drooled at the sight of it.

Ye Lan cannot stop:

"Mom must regret giving you these tickets."

Ye Yu peeled a candy and put it in her mouth, hehehe, can't hear it, can't hear it, she can't hear anything.

I happened to have a few oil coupons, soy sauce coupons, and vinegar coupons, so I spent them all. I could use them anyway, and they wouldn't go bad if I kept them in the space. Other condiments such as salt, chili, and Sichuan pepper didn't require coupons, and they were expensive in the city, so I might as well buy them at the brigade supply and marketing cooperative when the time came.

The rest remains.

Of course you have to buy a toothbrush and toothpaste, as they are indispensable for foodies; you also have to buy some sewing needles, thread and buttons, as they are needed in daily life; you can also buy soap and clam oil.

Clam oil, also known as shell oil, refers to a skin care oil packaged in clam shells. It has a significant effect on preventing frostbite and skin cracking in the cold winter months.

Ye Yu didn't buy this clam oil to prevent frostbite. She had been in temperatures several degrees below zero. The awakening of her superpowers had optimized her body genes to the point where she was not afraid of these. Even high-level superpowers could survive and regenerate as long as their heads and hearts were not exploded.

That's why she bought the clam oil.

The mutation has optimized her skin condition to the best. Her skin is fair, delicate and smooth. Now it can be attributed to invincible youth. After working in the fields for ten years, it is still the same. Her appearance has not changed at all, which is a bit strange.

Ye Yu knew that even if she continued to use clam oil, there would always be doubts, but at least she had an excuse: proper skin care + natural beauty?

She was too lazy to spend more time hiding herself. Instead of hiding, she might as well work hard to upgrade her superpowers. No excuse was better than a fist. She wanted to be able to live a carefree life at the age of 100 even if she was just 18.

In addition to clam oil, similar products include vanishing cream and vaseline, which are more expensive and more popular because of their rich fragrance.

Ye Yu felt that clam oil was less irritating to her nose than vanishing cream. Ye Lan looked and compared again and again, and also bought a clam oil, just because it was cheap.

All of a sudden, the dozen or so yuan in Ye's pocket disappeared. If it weren't for the ticket, there would be nothing left.

Ye Lan felt sorry for her:

“No wonder you can’t save money!”

"They are all necessary. I think I have been very frugal." Ye Yu did not think candy and canned meat were a waste. "There is a saying that goes, money is not saved by spending it."

Ye Lan was amused and asked, "How do you do that?"

"…I'm sorry. I was wrong."

Ye Yu was killed again. In this era, money was really saved by every penny, and the money she spent came from her mother Ye Xing's frugality. She couldn't save money, so she could only wait for the countryside to send them more mountain products and meat.

go home.

The first thing Wang Lai Di asked about today's situation after get off work. Ye Lan looked at Ye Yu with a blushing face.

Ye Yu: "Why are you looking at me?"

"...You say it." Ye Lan's words came out from between her teeth.

"oh."

Ye Yu gave a brief summary, and Ye Lan supplemented it.

Wang Lai Di could tell that among the people who went on blind dates today, the only one with the best conditions and the one that the lady liked was the soldier Zhao Qinggang. Fang Qiang seemed to have a good personality as well, but unfortunately he had a problem with his feet.

When Ye Weiguo heard the soldier, he clapped his hands happily, but was suppressed by Ye Hongjun: "Isn't he too old?" He was older than his eldest daughter Ye Xing and eldest son-in-law.

Wang Lai Di felt that age was not a big problem. She was more concerned about whether Zhao Qinggang's mother and his elder and younger sisters-in-law could get along well. Being a military wife was not easy. After Ye Xing got married, she spent the most time with his mother.

"There is also the issue of children." Wang Lai Di suffered a lot because she couldn't give birth to a son. She looked ten years older when she gave birth to Ye Baoguo. Her hair started to grow white after she gave birth to Ye Weiguo. Zhao Qinggang was away from home all year round. What should Zhao Qinggang's mother do if she wants a grandson? She won't blame Ye Lan, right?

Ye Lan replied with a blushing face: "He is the battalion commander, and his family can follow the army. Because his mother is with him, he can't always follow the army, but he can go and live with us for a few months every year. His army is stationed in the south, and it's not as cold as here in winter, and it doesn't snow."

In this way, as long as Zhao Qinggang's mother and two sisters-in-law have no problem with it, it's not impossible.

But everyone is thinking that we can wait and see, what if there is something better?

Don’t we have two days to think about it?

Because they were always discussing this matter, Wang Lai Di forgot to ask Ye Yu what she bought at the state-owned store and what she lacked, which gave her the opportunity to be scolded.

The next day, the blind date continued.

It's just that my luck is not very good today. The quality of my blind date is much worse than the first day. All kinds of ugly and ugly people showed up, and there is not a single good one.

It also made Ye Yu realize the diversity of human species. It is an exaggeration to say that they are human beings. The monkeys and gorillas in the zoo are more like humans than they are.

At the end of the day, Ye Lan was so devastated that she didn't want to go on. The aunt did add some candidates, but they sounded worse than the first batch.

That night, Ye Hongjun's elder sister Ye Cuihua suddenly came to visit and said that she had found a very good family for Ye Lan. If her daughter Hu Niu was not only thirteen years old and not suitable, she would have wanted to marry Hu Niu off immediately.

Ye Hongjun and Wang Lai Di didn't know what to say. Wang Lai Di could only change the subject awkwardly: "What kind of family?"

"A cadre comrade!" Ye Cuihua revealed the answer mysteriously, "This Sun Shizhong's whole family is employed by the government. He is not just an ordinary cadre, but a university student in Yanjing City. He has a bright future and is not too old, in his early twenties. He is a perfect match for Erya."

Wang Lai Di was also moved by what she heard, but fortunately she was able to keep some rationality and asked doubtfully: "His family is so well off, he is a college student, an official, and eats public food. Compared with Erya, it's like one is in heaven and the other is in hell. How can he be interested in our family?"

Ye Yu also felt that there might be a trap. It wasn't that she thought Ye Lan was not worthy of her, but the problem was that this Sun had never met Ye Lan and had no sincere opinion.

"The main reason is that Sun Shizhong has been married before. If he hadn't, it wouldn't have been Lan's turn!" Ye Cuihua added, "His ex-wife Huai only gave him a daughter. After the divorce, she took her daughter away because she couldn't bear to leave her. This is not much different from a first marriage. He wants to find someone who is good-looking and kind to the family."

Wang Lai Di thought about it over and over again, but still didn't believe that this pie in the sky was falling.