Chapter 65 Buy a Boat Tomorrow
Along the way, Lin Baixian became quieter than ever before.
It wasn't that he suddenly changed his personality. It was mainly because Liang Ziqiang found that he had been holding on to the money in his pocket tightly and didn't want to talk nonsense.
This is good, my ears suddenly feel quiet.
After entering the department store, I first found the Xinhua Bookstore.
Liang Ziqiang took out a small piece of paper with the names of three books on it.
Liang Ziqiang later secretly looked at the titles of the three books that were soaked by the rain yesterday, and found a pen and a piece of paper to write them down.
Although he felt sleepy when he saw a book, and was not as eloquent and well-read as his younger disciple Feng, he had at least finished elementary school and half of junior high school, so reading and writing were no problem for him.
Fortunately, these three books were not difficult to buy. The bookstore clerk looked at the titles of the books on the small piece of paper and quickly brought them to him.
The books were really cheap at that time. Three books were 15 cents, 18 cents, and 20 cents respectively. The total cost was less than 60 cents.
Liang Ziqiang had taken out a few bills from the hundreds of yuan and put them in his outer pocket. Now, he took out the one-yuan bill from his outer pocket and handed it to the salesperson, who gave him 47 cents in change.
After buying the books, both of them planned to buy some things from the department store.
Compared with the supply and marketing cooperatives in the village, the department stores have a much more complete range of products. But there is one big difference: the sales clerks are not very friendly and are very Buddhist in their work.
This time Liang Ziqiang bought two more bags of Fuqiang flour, a total of four bags. After all, it was for eating, so the money was not wasted.
I bought five packs of Joy brand cigarettes in small quantities and two packs of them. I also bought a pair of bottles of wine.
The reason why I bought a whole pack of cigarettes and a pair of wine was mainly because I thought that the matter of proposing marriage and giving gifts could finally be put on the agenda.
The original plan was to buy a good boat for the family first, and then use the new boat to go out to sea to catch more fish and earn the bride price money earlier.
Now it is obvious that plans are not as good as changes. The large sum of money that suddenly came to him allowed him to buy a new boat and still have money left to consider the dowry.
In this way, the gift will be brought forward. Later, marrying a wife, giving her a nice kiss, hugging her, and sleeping with her can also be brought forward accordingly! Thinking about it, it’s still quite sweet…
After buying the above items, I specifically asked for three packs of White Rabbit milk candy.
One pack was naturally for Chen Xiangbei, and the other two packs were for Liang Lizhi and Xiaohai.
My mother told me that sometimes young men in the village would secretly give Liang Lizhi candy.
Lizhi is not a child anymore, she is already sixteen years old, and she is still pretty and cute. Those young guys don't express their love openly, but secretly pass candy to her. Who knows what they are thinking?
Liang Ziqiang has not encountered such a person. If he had met him, he would have beaten him up.
But Liang Lizhi has no resistance to sugar. Once she sees sugar, her already pitifully low IQ is basically reduced to zero.
Instead of accepting candy from others, it is better to buy a big bag and let her eat it slowly.
After buying the milk candy, Liang Ziqiang thought about it and asked for a bag of brown sugar.
This brown sugar was, of course, bought specifically for Chen Xiangbei. He didn't understand some of the girl's things, but with more than sixty years of experience, he finally understood them.
But Lin Baixian really didn't understand at all. He looked at the bag of brown sugar in confusion and asked Liang Ziqiang:
"Aqiang, so you like to eat this? Is this thing better than sugar? If it's really delicious, I want to buy a pack and eat it slowly..."
Liang Ziqiang was speechless, hummed and said in a low voice:
"It depends on you. If you have stomach pain once a month, this is the right thing for you to buy!"
Lin Baixian pressed his left upper abdomen: "You know what, it really hurts a little. Especially when I eat late, my stomach hurts more obviously. I never thought that eating brown sugar can solve this problem. Then I'll have a pack..."
Liang Ziqiang grabbed Lin Baixian who was about to pay, and was so angry that his head hurt:
"You have a stomach problem! Just eat on time! I just bought some candy, I don't know why you're joining in the fun. You can follow the trend for such a thing..."
Lin Baixian was finally persuaded not to buy any candy, but he also bought two bags of Fuqiang flour.
In addition, he also bought a bottle of 80-cent white wine to honor his father who loved to drink. This was really what he wanted.
After Liang Ziqiang bought all the things, he only spent about 30 yuan in total. Among them, things like cigarettes and alcohol were indispensable and had to be bought sooner or later.
There was still more than four hundred and twenty dollars left in my pocket.
The two of them didn't spend too much time buying these things. After buying them, they didn't stay in the department store for even a second, after all, they still had a huge amount of money on them.
I immediately walked out of the building and crossed the street. Only then did I realize that my stomach was growling.
I found a small restaurant that sold rice, noodles, and rice. The noodles were 18 cents, and the rice was 25 cents.
Considering that people get hungry quickly after eating rice noodles, they both ordered 25-cent meals, which were mostly vegetarian, but also had some meat.
After eating, I waited for the bus on the side of the road and returned to the bus station along the same route.
Since the two of them were very efficient this time and did not waste much time in the city, there were still buses to the county town available at the bus station at this point.
The two waited for a long time before they got on a bus to the county town, and then took a bus to the town. It was almost dark when they walked back to the village from the town.
When he got home, his mother came over and took a quick look at his bucket. She was not sure if her son could sell the goods smoothly during his trip to the city.
When she saw that the two barrels of seafood had all turned into flour, cigarettes, alcohol, etc., Liang's mother's face lit up with surprise:
"Are they really sold out? Why did you buy so much food this time?"
"Not much, mainly rice flour, which is something we always eat at home."
Liang Ziqiang walked towards the inner room and took out a large stack of money from the inside of his pants.
When he heard that his sister-in-law Kuang Haixia was not at home and had gone to the fields to water the vegetables, he quickly pulled his mother aside and handed her the large stack of money.
This time the amount of money was much more than any other time, and he didn't want his sister-in-law to see it. Although she would hear about it sooner or later, at least she would be less upset if she didn't see it with her own eyes. He was worried that once she was upset, she would start to think of crooked ideas and mess with this little money.
Liang's mother had just taken the money when she heard Liang's father coming home.
She called Liang's father in and handed him a huge stack of money that she couldn't even hold in her hand.
"Guess how much? Ah Qiang brought back more than 420 yuan from selling those goods!"
Liang's father felt like his wife was lying to him. He took the money from her and counted it twice. His excitement was almost as great as Lin Baixian's at the restaurant...
After counting, Liang's father couldn't speak clearly:
"Should I... take this money and go to the shipyard right away? Look at me, if I had known earlier, I should have ordered a ship from the shipyard five or six days in advance! Now it will take many days to buy a new ship!"
Seeing his father getting excited for once, Liang Ziqiang smiled: "Dad, have you forgotten that we can't go out to sea these few days? Isn't it just right to take our time to buy a boat?"
"Oh, right! Let's go order a boat tomorrow." Liang's father clapped his hands and said, "Wait for the new boat to arrive in a few days, and we should be able to go out to sea soon. Also, when we go to the Mazu Temple these days, we must make a wish and ask Mazu to let us open the new boat and fill the cabin with fish and shrimps, so that we can have a good start!"
Liang's father couldn't help imagining the scene of sailing back and forth on the sea on the new boat to fish.
My second son is so lucky in terms of wealth, it seems that he must go with us when the new ship sets sail!
The next chapter will be sent out in a few minutes, not until noon.
(End of this chapter)
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