Less than ten minutes after Jiang Yue left, Aunt Yang came back with a worried look on her face.
"Grandma!" Yang Cuiling called out, but Aunt Yang seemed not to hear her and walked straight to the back.
"Cui Ling, where are the three skirts?" asked Aunt Yang.
"Grandma, why are you looking for a skirt?" Yang Cuiling suddenly became nervous. Could it be that her grandma's acquaintance wanted a skirt again?
What should she do? The skirts were all sold! Where could she get a skirt for her grandmother?
Aunt Yang angrily cursed, "I just found out that Yang Fugui lost money playing mahjong and got a loan shark from someone, and he can't pay it back! This son of a bitch, he brought a few rolls of worthless cloth to cheat me out of my money! He said he would use the cloth to pay off his debts, but who the hell am I going to sell this cloth to? No! I can't swallow this! Cuiling, give me the skirt, I'm going to go to Yang Fugui's house and cut it off in front of the whole team!"
Yang Cuiling breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. As long as Yang Fugui didn't want the skirt again, it would be fine.
"Grandma, I was just about to tell you that all the skirts are sold! Here are sixty yuan. Sister Jiang Yue asked me to tell you!"
Aunt Yang was angrily looking for the skirt everywhere to cut it up to vent her anger, but she was caught off guard when she heard that the skirt was sold for sixty yuan and also heard Jiang Yue's name. She was unable to connect the two for a moment.
"Cui Ling, what are you talking about? What sixty yuan, what skirt sold? What does Jiang Yue want you to tell me?"
Yang Cuiling quickly told her about Jiang Yue helping her to alter the skirt today. Aunt Yang's eyes widened when she heard it. "What? A skirt sold for 30 yuan? Someone actually bought it?"
"Yeah, I was so scared. I thought I was going to be scolded!" Yang Cuiling still can't believe it.
"Then why is there only sixty yuan here?" Aunt Yang counted the money.
"Sister Jiang Yue said she charges ten yuan for the design of a skirt." Yang Cuiling replied.
"Is that so?" Aunt Yang held the sixty yuan in her hand, feeling mixed emotions.
After realizing that she was cheated by Yang Fugui, she lost her appetite for several days and ran to Yang Fugui's house several times a day to ask for money. She was about to give up when she didn't get any money. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden turn of events and Jiang Yue actually helped her sell all the skirts.
And it was sold for thirty yuan a piece. The high-end ready-made clothes in department stores were also sold for this price!
She was cheated out of twenty yuan and felt like the sky had fallen, but she earned it back double in the blink of an eye. Even if Jiang Yue took ten yuan for a skirt, she still earned forty yuan, which was something she could never have dreamed of.
"Cui Ling, next time Jiang Yue comes to make clothes, don't charge her for her work!" Aunt Yang instructed Yang Cui Ling.
After leaving Aunt Yang's tailor shop, Jiang Yue rode her bike to the department store. She wanted to look at electric fans. The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and it would be difficult to get through the summer without an electric fan.
Jiang Yue has been going to the department store frequently recently. Although she usually goes directly to the second floor to buy fabrics, because she is pretty, the sales clerks upstairs and downstairs all recognize her after going there and back.
Today, as soon as she arrived at the electrical appliance section, the female salesperson came up to her and asked enthusiastically, "Would you like to see an electric fan, comrade?"
"Yes, I want to buy a fan for my home. Can you recommend one to me?"
Jiang Yue originally thought that in that era, industry was backward, materials were in short supply, and electrical appliances should be rare. However, when she looked in the electrical appliance area, she unexpectedly found that there were seven or eight brands of electric fans alone, such as the Old Shanghai Lotus, Watson, Camel, Wuyang, etc. Electric fans were also divided into floor-standing and table-top ones.
"A floor fan costs 185 yuan, which requires six industrial coupons. A desktop fan costs 135 yuan, which requires five industrial coupons."
The salesperson gave Jiang Yue a detailed introduction to the prices of electric fans of various brands, which were roughly in the range of one hundred to two hundred yuan, and required five to eight industrial coupons.
Jiang Yue could accept this price, but she didn't have industrial coupons, and Gu Ye usually gave her meat coupons and vegetable coupons.
Jiang Yue went to look at the TV and the refrigerator again. The TV cost 420 yuan. When he turned it on, the picture was full of snow. Nowadays, TV is still black and white, and there are only a few channels to watch. It is better to read a book. Jiang Yue is not very interested.
Jiang Yue was interested in the refrigerator. She had seen this green Snow Flower brand refrigerator in TV dramas before. However, when she asked the price, she found out it was more than two thousand yuan. Jiang Yue gave up immediately.
Not to mention that Gu Ye’s annual salary is not enough to buy a refrigerator. Moreover, even if she bought it, the electricity in her home would not be able to support the operation of the refrigerator.
If you buy it and can't use it, it's just useless!
Moreover, according to the current purchasing power, two thousand yuan is equivalent to hundreds of thousands of yuan in Jiang Yue's era. What kind of refrigerator can be worth hundreds of thousands of yuan? Jiang Yue would rather save the money to buy a house.
"Sister, I don't have enough industrial coupons. Come back in a few days to buy an electric fan." Jiang Yue was going to go back and talk to Gu Ye to see if he could still get some industrial coupons.
"Okay!" The saleswoman was very enthusiastic towards Jiang Yue and even chatted with her, "Why didn't you bring your sister with you today?"
"I came here to do some work today, so I didn't bring her with me." Jiang Yue answered casually.
"Are you sisters?" The saleswoman seemed very curious about the relationship between Jiang Yue and Ning Ning, and asked, "Are you from the county town? How many people are there in your family?"
Jiang Yue felt the tone was familiar, as Aunt He had asked her the same question that day!
No way, is this elder sister also going to introduce her to someone?
The corners of Jiang Yue's mouth twitched suddenly, but she thought that she might be overthinking it, she didn't even know this saleswoman!
However, in order to prevent the same thing from happening again, Jiang Yue clarified: "No, big sister, that's my daughter. We were just joking, she called me sister, but actually I'm her mother!"
"My family is not from the county town. I live in the military's family compound and my husband is a soldier."
Jiang Yue felt that she should have made it very clear this time. Regardless of whether her elder sister was willing to introduce her to someone or not, she didn't want to experience the death scene again.
"By the way, big sister, do you have the kind of cloth that doesn't require a ticket?" Jiang Yue looked up and saw the cloth counter on the second floor. She asked with her eyes rolling.
"You want to buy cloth without tickets? The only cloth without tickets is rehabilitation cloth." Upon hearing this, the eldest sister raised her eyebrows and looked at Jiang Yue warily.
"Rehabilitation cloth? That won't work. It will break if you pull it." Jiang Yue shook her head.
She had bought cloth many times, so she naturally knew what reclaimed cloth was. It was a kind of coarse cloth made from broken fibers such as torn cotton wool, waste cotton, and torn clothes. After being washed, it was re-spun into thick threads and then woven into coarse cloth. Sometimes it was even made of fibers from plant straw. You can imagine how fragile it is.
The eldest sister asked Jiang Yue again: "What are you going to do?"
Jiang Yue sighed and said, "I want to make clothes, but I don't have enough cloth coupons at home."
"Is that so?" the saleswoman said enthusiastically. "How about this? I'll ask for you later. Come back tomorrow and I'll tell you if there's any."
"Okay! Thank you, big sister!" The reason why Jiang Yue wanted to buy cloth was because she sold three skirts today, which suddenly gave her an idea. Perhaps, she could design her own styles and make ready-made clothes to sell.
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