"Really? I can buy everything I like?" The surprise came so suddenly that Jiang Yue was a little caught off guard.
She almost suspected that Gu Ye had taken the wrong medicine.
Until Jiang Yue heard Gu Ye say affirmatively again: "Yes!"
Jiang Yue bought a summer chair and a summer bed in one go, and also took a fancy to a rattan cabinet.
When Gu Ye was about to pay, Jiang Yue held his big hand and said to the man selling the bamboo products with a smile: "Brother, we are buying so much, give us a discount!"
The man looked to be about 30 years old, with a very honest look. He scratched his head a little embarrassedly. He had never seen such a beautiful girl smile at him before, so he agreed straightforwardly: "Okay!"
The bamboo bed cost 22 yuan, the chair 19.5 yuan, and the rattan cabinet 15 yuan. The man calculated and said, "The total is 56.5 yuan. Girl, give me 55 yuan."
When he was told to give him fifty-five yuan, the man looked as if he was bleeding profusely.
Jiang Yue didn't know until she asked, and was shocked when she asked, "Fifty-five? So expensive?"
A sweet-scented osmanthus tree costs two and a half months' salary, a summer bed and a summer chair cost almost a month's salary, and even this kind of wicker cabinet costs fifteen yuan. Jiang Yue feels that she has lost her comprehended understanding of the prices of goods in this era.
The man waved his hands quickly, "It's not expensive, it's not expensive, I made this up myself, the supply and marketing cooperative usually buys it at this price, they even add a markup to it!"
He even pointed at the cooling bed and said, "I'll sell it to you for twenty-two. If you go to the supply and marketing cooperative, it'll be at least this amount."
The man held up three fingers, meaning that the supply and marketing cooperative would sell it for thirty yuan.
"Is it really not expensive?" Jiang Yue turned her head to look at Gu Ye. Her current concept of price is to measure it with the average person's monthly salary. If she buys something that exceeds the average salary level, she thinks it is expensive.
Gu Ye nodded slightly, "It is indeed a normal price!"
"Is that so?" Jiang Yue heard Gu Ye say that, thought for a moment, and held up five fingers, "One price, fifty yuan, we'll buy all three!"
When the man heard Jiang Yue bargained him down by five dollars, he almost cried and said with a bitter face: "Sister, you are too good at bargaining! The price I give you is really the lowest price, it can't be any lower! You said you bargained down by five dollars——"
Jiang Yue looked at Gu Ye again, asking with her eyes, was she really too cruel?
Gu Ye nodded. He didn't expect that the first time he went out shopping with Jiang Yue, she would be so bold in bargaining.
"How about this, I won't bargain with you, but since we're buying so many big items, you can give me a bamboo basket as a gift. If you agree, we'll have a deal!" Jiang Yue went to negotiate with the man again. Five dollars seemed a bit too much, so a vegetable basket shouldn't be too much.
The man wanted to cry again, "Girl, aren't you trying to undercut me? I sell this bamboo basket for three dollars each!"
But he immediately said, "Well, okay, okay! Since you really want to buy it, I'll give you the basket!"
Jiang Yue felt sorry for the man as he struggled. While he was getting a bamboo basket for her, she asked Gu Ye in a low voice, "Did I go too far? I made him cry!"
Gu Ye: “…Not bad!”
As he spoke, the man brought over a few bamboo baskets and handed them to Jiang Yue, "Girl, pick one."
Jiang Yue had seen this when she was looking at the summer beds and chairs just now. This man had good craftsmanship. The bamboo baskets he picked for her were also very good, firm and sturdy without being prickly. It was obvious that he was an experienced craftsman.
"This is it!" Jiang Yue chose one.
"Okay!" The man took the others back, looked at Jiang Yue, then looked at Gu Ye, "Are you guys living in the military family compound over there? Do you want us to send you there now?"
Although Gu Ye was not wearing a military uniform, one could tell from his temperament that he was a soldier. There was only one 179th Division Headquarters nearby, so the man asked this question.
"Send it when you get the next episode. We still need to shop for a while." Gu Ye took out three big unity notes and said, "I'll give you a deposit of thirty yuan first, and the rest will be settled when it's delivered."
"Okay! I live in Hujiang Village. I have to pass by your place on my way home, so it's just on my way." The man took the money and carefully counted it twice before putting it carefully into his pocket.
When Jiang Yue saw Gu Ye said he wanted to walk around for a while, he glanced at her. She was a little puzzled. Why was he looking at her?
After walking for a while, Jiang Yue suddenly came to her senses. Tsk, could it be that the look in Gu Ye's eyes just now was expressing his disdain for her, disdain for the fact that she walked too slowly?
Humph! I'm so pissed!
This big market is a big market for several nearby villages. Villagers bring out the fruits and vegetables that they can’t eat at home to trade, and no tickets are required.
Jiang Yue bought a lot of vegetables. She didn't have to spend any money today, as Gu Ye paid the bill. She was extremely happy with her purchases and wanted to buy everything she saw.
Jiang Yue also saw some villagers selling their own dried sweet potato chips, dried apples, dried plums and dried apricots, which she also weighed. The villagers wrapped them in oil paper and tied them with ropes so that she could carry them in her hands.
It was not until Gu Ye's hands were full of things and Jiang Yue had no hands left, and even Ning Ning was holding a bag of peanut candies, that Jiang Yue was ready to go home reluctantly.
"Jiang Yue, take Ningning and wait for me here for a while!" Gu Ye accompanied them throughout the whole process, but when it was time to go back, he walked away.
Jiang Yue thought Gu Ye was going to buy something, so she didn't ask and took Ning Ning to find a rock under a big tree to sit down.
The sun was already very strong at this time, and her clothes were all soaked with sweat. Fortunately, she was not wearing Dacron, because that kind of non-breathable material would stick to her body once it got wet with sweat, making her look like a see-through dress.
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