The two of them rode their bikes back to the factory's residential compound. Taking advantage of their familiarity with the area, Xiao Weiguo sold off the remaining socks in less than two hours.
After giving Liu Ye another 125 yuan and settling all his debts, Xiao Weiguo counted the money. Excluding the money he spent on lunch and the 50 cents he spent on cigarettes, he now had a total of 490 yuan.
Liu Ye received 250 yuan, which was equivalent to her father getting more than half a month's salary for free.
This result can be described as a win-win situation.
He glanced at Liu Ye's watch while holding her wrist; it was only three in the afternoon. He then carried Liu Ye to the supply and marketing cooperative.
First, I bought my younger sister Xiao Shanshan a white floral dress and a box of face cream.
His younger sister toiled in the fields every day, exposed to the wind and sun, and on top of that, she suffered daily torment from her brother. The sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl looked haggard like an old woman. Xiao Weiguo felt a pang of heartache just thinking about it. He silently cursed himself for being a bastard.
I wanted to buy my younger sister a pair of high heels, but then I realized that Shanshan probably wouldn't wear them, so I just bought her a pair of flat velvet shoes based on the style of Liuye's feet.
I also bought a set of children's clothes for Xiao Jiang and Xiao Yue, a pair of plastic sandals for each of them, plus a big bag of peanut brittle candy.
Several pretty hair clips in the glass display case caught his eye.
He picked out two, one shaped like a dragonfly and the other like a butterfly.
He handed the butterfly-shaped one to Liu Ye.
"Liu Ye, thank you for helping me today. Please accept this hair clip as a token of my gratitude."
Although it wasn't anything particularly valuable, Liu Ye hesitated for a moment before accepting it, after all, it was the first time she had ever received a gift from a man.
He also bought a few kilograms of rice and flour from the supply and marketing cooperative, but since his bicycle had a limited load capacity, he didn't dare to buy too much.
When passing by the Hongxing Restaurant, Xiao Weiguo ran in and bought four braised pig's trotters and a large roast chicken.
He owes his younger siblings too much, and now that he has some ability, Xiao Weiguo always tries to make it up to them as much as possible.
After a lot of shopping, Xiao Weiguo spent about one hundred yuan.
Seeing that it was getting late, the two of them rode their bicycles home.
On a country road bathed in the setting sun, a bicycle laden with odds and ends is sped along by two vibrant young lives.
I returned in the 1980s, and in this lifetime, I will never let regrets repeat themselves.
The old bicycle beneath him and the willow-leaf-shaped chair behind him were more exhilarating than the luxury cars and beautiful women of his previous life.
Right now, Xiao Weiguo felt like he wanted to raise his arms and roar, to release the burdens that had weighed on his heart for his entire previous life.
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