"Then I'll ask Qiusha and Caiyue. If they want to go too, we can take a group action!" Bai Qiaolan was very excited when she thought about tomorrow's itinerary.
"I won't wear a padded jacket tomorrow. It's not cold anyway." Bai Qiaolan happily picked up her red velvet lapel jacket and tried it on herself.
He also asked for the opinions of several people present. Except for Qiu Yuling, everyone showed genuine envy.
Qiu Yuling wasn't envious, but she was very supportive. At that age, everything looked good on them. So much so that when these girls later recalled it, they all felt that those were the most unrestrained two years of their entire youth.
The next day they went to the largest department store in Lan City early.
The department store in Lan City was more prosperous than the one her fourth aunt had run before. On the shelves were Double Happiness ceramic basins, bamboo thermoses, yarn rugs, towels, bee flower sandalwood soap, large porcelain bottles of Friendship Cream, iron boxes of Friendship Body Cream...
On the food cabinet, there are trough cakes, fruit candies, White Rabbit milk candies, orange loose sugar, and granulated sugar...
The cashier counter is also quite unique.
The salesperson would clip the receipt and bills together, hang them on the wire above his head, and give them a push with his hands, and they would slide smoothly to the cash register on the other side.
The cashier took the receipt and money, stamped them, and then slid the change and the stamped receipt back the same way.
Only then did Qiu Yuling realize that there were wires running in all directions above her head, connecting various counters to the checkout counter. This was quite convenient as it saved customers the trouble of queuing up in front of the checkout counter to pay.
It's a big city after all, it's different. Weiwu City is far inferior to here.
The girl next to her bought a hair ornament and a hairpin, while Qiu Yuling weighed a pound of assorted candies, using two half-pound candy tickets and one yuan and four cents.
There were purchase restrictions at the time, so she asked her roommate to contribute a person's life before she was able to buy it.
In addition to fruit candies and pineapple milk candies, there were also three White Rabbit milk candies mixed in.
This was the first time she bought candy of this era, so she immediately peeled one and put it in her mouth. She wanted to taste it and see if there was any difference between it and the ones she bought from the system mall!
"Yuling is still a little kid, she's still trying to figure things out."
Seeing that she was only staring at the food and couldn't wait to get it once it was in her hands, everyone started to tease her.
Qiu Yuling smiled and gave each person a few pills, and put the rest into her bag.
Zhang Caiyue was just a spectator and really didn't buy anything, but she was also very impressed by Qiu Yuling's generosity, "Yuling, why did you buy so many candies?" Candy tickets are so rare nowadays, and her family wouldn't use that one-pound ticket in a year.
"My second brother is in the army, and he sends me everything he saves." The first Good Brother Award was given to Qiu Dahe.
"No wonder Yuling didn't apply for a scholarship. You really don't need it, eh? No, then why are you so frugal on weekdays?" This was asked by Liu Xiaofang, but there were others who were as curious as she was.
"What's so strange about this? The little kid loves to eat candy. He usually eats and dresses frugally, but he can't walk when he sees candy." Bai Qiaolan thought this was obvious and asked.
Qiu Yuling nodded and acknowledged the name of the candy-eater.
That day they not only visited the department store, but also the Wuquanshan Park. They had no time to go back at night, so they begged for help from everyone and only managed to get a room in the guesthouse with their student ID cards.
There are plans for both sleeping on the floor and on benches.
"Yuling is the youngest, let her sleep on the bed." Everyone agreed with Li Feidan's suggestion, and the rest of the people drew lots, which was the most fair and just.
Qiu Yuling also wanted to participate, but she didn't expect that the seven people this time had such a unified opinion.
"Go away, you're just a kid, don't meddle in adult affairs." Even Qiu Pandi took surprisingly good care of her.
That’s right, after a day of in-depth communication, they all knew that there was another story behind the fashionable name Qiusha.
Qiusha is the third child in the family. She has Zhaodi and Yingdi above her, and Mengdi and Laidi below her. Qiu Yuling thought that the only thing missing was the express delivery.
She was the middle child in the family, neither loved by her father nor by her mother. If her mother had not later told her when she would have a child through fortune-telling and a blind man had not predicted a good fate for her, she would not have had the chance to go to school.
Qiusha was changed by her junior high school teacher. It implies the kindness, dignity, and generosity of women. The character "草" (grass) and "沙" (sand) represent the tenacious grass in the desert, which thrives endlessly.
She did not elaborate too much on her misfortune with her classmates, because in such a family, she was lucky to have the opportunity to study and climb out of the quagmire.
Several people took out match heads, and the four long ones slept on the ground, while the three short ones and Qiu Yuling slept on the bed.
"It's divided, it's divided. Yuling, Xiaogu, Qiusha, and Feidan will be in pairs, sleeping head to toe on the bed. Xiaofang, Huihui, Caiyue and I will sleep on the floor." Bai Qiaolan announced the final result.
The bench was too narrow, and after some discussion, it was unanimously rejected.
Although the weather was getting warmer in early May, and the two quilts on the bed were given to the friends who slept on the floor, they were still a bit cold.
But everyone's heart was burning with excitement. Although they were tired after a whole day, no one was willing to fall asleep.
Everyone chattered, sharing the past and looking forward to the future.
Qiu Yuling didn't say anything, and everyone thought she was young and didn't have a clear understanding of the future.
Only she herself knew that she was feeling unprecedentedly conflicted at the moment.
After spending a few months together, apart from some minor frictions, they are actually a group of lovely girls. If it weren't for the upcoming storm, they would undoubtedly have the life they dreamed of.
But Qiu Yuling understood that everyone's expectations would probably just be expectations, including her own. It was unknown whether she could get a diploma.
What's even more frightening is that there are many of them with good conditions. Oh yes, here we have to consider the background. In Qiu Yuling's eyes, good conditions refer to those with poor background.
Bai Qiaolan, in particular, said that her grandfather was a very good painter and his paintings were even sent abroad for exhibition before liberation.
Bai Qiaolan said she was proud of it, and Qiu Yuling felt nervous when she heard it. Just before she could say the words about the exhibition certificate, Qiu Yuling interrupted her.
When she talked about this yesterday, only she and Li Feidan were present. If she said it again now, with so many people talking, it would inevitably cause trouble in the future.
The topic she started talking about was what all boys and girls like to discuss most in private: relationships between men and women!
"Why do the boys in the water conservancy class always deliberately block the door to the girls' dormitory?" As soon as Qiu Yuling finished speaking, the building instantly tilted.
"What else? Just look at the pretty girls!" As Zhang Caiyue said this, everyone burst into laughter.
By the way, their school prohibits dating, but it is impossible to completely prevent young people from being attracted to each other.
Everyone was excited at once, eager to find out who the school hunk was staring at...
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