Nowadays, vegetables are all ripened naturally, and there are not many choices. But the advantage is that they are not sprayed with pesticides, so they are green, healthy and pollution-free.
Jiang Yue picked two lettuces, some romaine lettuce, and some eggs. She weighed some broad beans when she saw them. There was a stall selling tomatoes of all sizes, which didn't look good, and many of them were still green. Jiang Yue didn't mind and weighed two kilograms.
At that time, all the vegetable markets were state-owned, and most of the sales clerks looked arrogant and ignored customers.
However, Jiang Yue was pretty, smiled at everyone she met, and wore a Dacron skirt. She looked like she came from a wealthy family. The sales clerks were quite polite to her, and several grocery stalls enthusiastically invited her to taste their food when they saw her coming.
Jiang Yue tasted a few pieces of cakes and found them too sweet and not quite to her taste. But thinking Ningning might like them, she weighed them all and paid fifty cents plus three taels of food coupons.
The prices were so low in those days that Jiang Yue couldn't stop buying and enjoyed the long-lost pleasure of shopping.
Jiang Yue originally planned to buy meat last, but when she got to the meat stall, she found that she needed to queue up, and the line was very long. The butcher was already shouting, "Today's meat is sold out, the people behind don't queue up!"
Jiang Yue was dumbfounded. It was sold out already? It seemed that she had to get up early tomorrow, and the first thing she did when she arrived was to buy meat!
Unable to buy meat, Jiang Yue thought that she needed protein, so she bought a sea bass weighing more than three pounds and prepared to steam it in the evening.
After buying this whole thing, Jiang Yue calculated the cost and found that she had only spent less than five yuan, which in her world was not enough to buy even a cup of milk tea.
Looking at the full basket of vegetables, Jiang Yue felt a sense of accomplishment. Then the question came: how could she carry such a heavy basket of vegetables back home?
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