Gu Ranzhou rubbed his neck, and Lu Zhenchuan went over to knock on the door.
There was a knock on the door. Lu Zhenchuan and Gu Ranzhou heard the footsteps outside the door and hurried over.
"Who is it? Coming, coming." People in the yard shouted.
Gu Ranzhou and Lu Zhenchuan heard the voice inside and identified it as a woman.
With a creak, the door was opened.
"Who are you?" As expected, it was a woman who opened the door and asked when she saw Gu Ranzhou and Lu Zhenchuan.
"I'm here to exchange tickets." Gu Ranzhou said in a low voice.
The woman nodded and let them in. She stuck her head out and looked around. When she found that there was no one around, she closed the door.
In the yard.
"What tickets do you want to exchange?" the woman spoke first.
Gu Ranzhou said directly without hesitation: "Do you have a bicycle ticket?"
The woman frowned and said, "Wait for the bicycle ticket?"
Gu Ranzhou looked at Lu Zhenchuan and the other man looking at each other, and thought to himself, it seems like it really is true?
The woman hurried back to the house. After a while, she came out with a ticket and said, "You guys came at a really good time. I just received a bicycle ticket not long ago. It looks like it will expire in a few days. Do you want it?"
"What's your price?"
"Five dollars?"
Gu Ranzhou frowned. This price was indeed a bit expensive. Just one ticket cost 5 yuan. He did have some in his space, but they were all single-person mountain bikes. He had no choice but to accept this. "5 yuan? That's a quarter of a worker's monthly salary."
The woman didn't get angry, but simply said, "You know how expensive bicycle tickets are these days, and few people in town have them. This is already the lowest price. I used to sell them for over ten yuan. If I hadn't seen that the ticket was about to expire and I had no use for it, it would have become waste paper in a few days."
Gu Ranzhou didn't bother to bargain anymore because it was such a busy day. He looked at Lu Zhenchuan and nodded, "Okay, 5 yuan!"
Gu Ranzhou took out money from his pocket and handed it over, and Lu Zhenchuan took the bicycle ticket.
After leaving the alley, the two people went straight to the mall.
After arriving at the mall and going to the place where bicycles were sold, he had to admit that there were only three bicycles in the mall. It can be seen that the consumption in the town is not something that an ordinary family can afford, unless the family is really rich.
Gu Ranzhou asked about the price of a bicycle, 120 yuan, wow... it's basically equivalent to three months' salary in a state-owned enterprise, no wonder ordinary people can't afford it.
You must have a ticket to buy a bicycle, otherwise you can't buy it even if you have money.
Alas, even a bicycle is so hard to buy these days!
"Comrade, do you need to buy a bicycle?" the salesperson asked enthusiastically.
Gu Ranzhou looked at Lu Zhenchuan, then looked at the salesperson and nodded.
"Which one do you like?"
Gu Ranzhou pointed at a bicycle and said, "Please help me push that one out. I want it."
"Okay! Please wait a moment." The salesperson turned and left.
After a while, she came out pushing a bicycle and said, "Here."
"Thank you." Lu Zhenchuan took the bicycle.
"Please go to the counter over here to pay, thank you!"
"Yeah." Gu Ranzhou followed the salesperson to the counter. Gu Ranzhou took out the money and bicycle ticket from his pocket, and then after counting to 120 yuan, he handed it to the salesperson together with the bicycle ticket.
"Have a nice day." The salesperson took the money and ticket and waved.
When Gu Ranzhou and Lu Zhenchuan pushed their bicycles out of the gate, Gu Ranzhou felt lazy after walking all day, so the person riding the bicycle was naturally Lu Zhenchuan. Lu Zhenchuan took Gu Ranzhou with him on the bicycle.
The backs of the two people slowly disappeared from the salesperson's sight.
Another saleswoman suddenly came over and said, "Qingqing, those two guys were so handsome!"
The saleswoman named Qingqing nodded and said, "They are indeed very handsome. I have been a saleswoman for so long, but I have never seen two men who are so handsome."
"But they are so rich. Our mall only had three bicycles, and they bought one."
Qingqing nodded and said, "Go back to your job quickly. It would be bad if your boss caught you."
"Well, I don't know if they will come."
Gu Ranzhou and Lu Zhenchuan, who were being talked about by the two female sales clerks, had no idea that someone was secretly talking about them behind their backs.
Lu Zhenchuan rode a bicycle and took Gu Ranzhou home.
When they returned to the village entrance, many people were looking at them. It must be said that in this era, few people could afford to buy a bicycle. This was equivalent to driving a Lamborghini on the street in the previous life.
"Hey, look at them, they seem to be very rich." Someone said to one of them.
"A bicycle."
Who doesn’t want it!
The educated youth in the village had a lot of free time because they didn't have to do farm work. After all, it was almost harvest season when they arrived.
Therefore, they did less work and earned fewer work points. Most of the time, they could only get food in exchange for the work points they earned from the village. During this period, they mainly relied on the subsidies issued by the government for educated youth going to the countryside.
If villagers wanted to go to the town, they had to go to the village head's house to get a permit. Without a permit, they could not leave the village at all. This was also to prevent some educated youth from having bad intentions and wanting to sneak back to the city. Moreover, in this era, without a permit, you could not go anywhere. After leaving the village, if you did not have a permit anywhere, you would be sent back as a refugee. The educated youth who went to the countryside were all noted in the local area.
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