Chapter 17 Purchase
Li Wen was very disappointed when he heard this: "That means we have to wait for a long time!"
Xia Juanjuan also reached out and pinched the little adult's face, saying angrily: "You little bastard! Do you think I'm a spendthrift? Then don't eat your noodles, I'll share them with Xiaowu and Beibei!"
When Li Wen heard this, he subconsciously protected the bowl, but he quickly thought about it and said, "Well... after Xiao Wu and Bei Bei have finished eating, I can eat the rest, okay?"
Xia Juanjuan couldn't help but soften her heart when she heard Li Wen say this, and said, "Eat yours. From now on, we will provide you with enough food at our house!"
After hearing this, Li Wen first looked up at Xia Juanjuan, then began to eat noodles, secretly raising his hand to wipe away tears while eating.
Lizhan looked at his wife tenderly, then moved the bowl over and gave some of the eggs in his bowl to Xia Juanjuan.
Xia Juanjuan raised her eyes and glanced at Li Zhan.
After several contacts, she also felt that although Lizhan looked gentle on the surface, he was actually quite domineering at times.
If she wanted to call back, Lizhan would definitely stop her, so she gave up and ate the egg obediently.
After lunch, Lizhan went to wash the pots and bowls.
Liu Lan is out to sow discord again.
"Zhan'er, why are you washing the dishes? Where's your wife? Mom married you a wife so that she can serve you! You can't get used to her!"
Li Zhan was unmoved. Instead, he turned around and looked at her, saying, "Mom, we have already separated. Don't worry about our affairs in the future. Also, I won't give you the ten yuan allowance for this month."
Liu Lan was shocked when she heard this: "Why? Was it your wife who instigated this? I know that vixen..."
Li Zhan raised his voice slightly and said solemnly, "No! This is my decision and has nothing to do with Juan Juan. On our wedding night, not only was the new room undecorated, but even the bedding on the kang was borrowed from my second sister-in-law's house. You should know this, right, mom? I have to use this month's allowance to buy bedding for my wife, so I won't be able to spare the ten yuan for you!"
Li Zhan has been in the army for many years. When he gets serious, the murderous aura he exudes makes Liu Lan shudder and take two steps back.
Liu Lan forced a smile and said, "This...this...this quilt won't cost ten bucks! Buying some cotton fabric will only cost one or two bucks at most..."
Of course, one or two dollars could not buy enough cloth and cotton to cover a quilt, but Liu Lan, relying on her ignorance of the price, made up an estimate of one or two dollars.
"Anyway, it's settled. I'll give you another ten bucks starting next month."
After that, Li Zhan no longer paid any attention to Liu Lan and went straight back to the house.
In the afternoon, Wang Guixiang and her family reluctantly moved out of the two brick and tile houses.
Xia Juanjuan went in to inspect the house and was so angry that she laughed.
Everything that needed to be looted was searched thoroughly, even the nails on the wall and the ropes used to hang clothes were not spared!
But Xia Juanjuan didn't care, and she and Li Zhan moved the few things in the small room into the brick house.
Lizhan originally wanted to accompany Xia Juanjuan to the market to buy bedding and other things, but he came back temporarily and had only half a day off. If he didn't leave now, he would be late for returning to the team.
Therefore, I had to say goodbye to Xia Juanjuan reluctantly and left.
Before leaving, he gave Xia Juanjuan some of the food coupons and cloth coupons he had with him. The army had extra quotas of various coupons for married soldiers.
Liu Lan didn’t know this. If she knew, she would probably cry and make a fuss about it again!
Xia Juanjuan looked at Lizhan's back, and somehow she felt a little lost in her heart.
But she quickly shook her head, swept away this strange feeling, and planned to go to the market to buy something.
She left her three little boys at home to look after the house, and took the forty yuan and grain and cloth coupons given by Lizhan and headed for the town market.
Several of the commune production teams here have a large supply and marketing cooperative opened in the town. In addition to the supply and marketing cooperative, there are also hotels, butcher shops, cloth shops and other stores, of course, all of which are state-owned.
Xia Juanjuan went into the fabric shop first, looked at the patterns, and compared them with the patterns she had stocked in her own space.
Fortunately, when she was wholesale fabrics, she purchased fabrics with older patterns, which were similar to those sold in the store.
So she picked out some cotton cloth with some patterns and bought five feet of it. One foot of cloth was one piece, and she needed a cloth coupon, so she spent five pieces of it.
If there weren't enough left, she planned to take them out directly from the space.
Then she went to the supply and marketing cooperative and the butcher shop to check the prices of grain, eggs, meat, cotton and other items.
In this era, white flour was 1.8 cents per pound, corn flour and sweet potato flour were cheaper, 1.5 cents per pound. Sweet potatoes were 1.0 cents per pound. Rice was the same price as white flour, 1.8 cents per pound.
Eggs are sold at 5 cents each, and by the pound, it's 30 cents per pound.
The better quality pork costs 90 cents per pound, while the inferior quality costs 80 cents.
Cotton was a cash crop, and people in that era could not even get enough to eat, so there was little land for growing cotton, and the price was almost 90 cents per pound!
Overall, compared to the world before she traveled through time, it was a steal!
She already has all of these in her space, so she plans to buy some later as a token of her appreciation.
I'll go shopping for things that I haven't stocked in the space first.
She didn't bother to stock up on small items like needles and thread, nor did she ask for tickets. She just spent twenty cents to buy them.
After thinking for a while, I asked the salesperson if he had a thermos.
Winter is coming soon, and without a thermos in the house, it is difficult to drink hot water. She also forgot to stock up on this.
The salesperson was very disdainful of her when he saw her looking around in the store for a long time and ended up buying some needles and thread.
Country women are country women, they are reluctant to buy anything they see! Why would you visit the supply and marketing cooperative if you have no money?
So he said arrogantly, "A thermos? A thermos costs two yuan! Do you have one? Even if you have one, you need a ticket to buy it!"
Xia Juanjuan was stunned. She had the money, but she didn't have the ticket.
There was no ticket for the thermos among the tickets that Lizhan gave her!
When the salesperson saw that Xia Juanjuan couldn't take it out, he looked even more contemptuous: "If you can't afford it, just move aside! Don't block others from buying things!"
Xia Juanjuan naturally saw that the salesperson looked down on others and said, "What's your attitude? I'm here to buy things, so I'm a customer. This is a state-owned supply and marketing cooperative. With this attitude, are you qualified to serve the people?"
Upon hearing this, the salesperson sneered, "My good attitude is for good customers! You just bought two cents worth of needles and thread, and you still dare to ask me to greet you with a smile? Do you deserve it?"