The manager brought malted milk and said there would be two cans, but he actually brought six cans, one for each child, including Huo Jinxi.
"This is too much, a huge sum of money. How can we accept it?" Old Man Shen was a little worried.
"Why are you embarrassed? I gave it to you willingly, you have to accept it, don't be polite to me! After all, we are from the same village, being too polite will make you look distant!" The manager didn't take it seriously, and put a few cans of malted milk into a big cloth bag and handed it to Shen Jianlin, "Brother, take it, use it to nourish the children, you see how thin they are... If you don't accept it, I will be angry with you!"
Unable to resist the manager's enthusiasm, Shen Jianlin smiled naively and had to reach out to take it.
Seeing that they accepted it, the manager breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "You can look around here and tell me if you need anything. You don't have to pay a penny."
"No, no, no, we can't ask for any more money from you, otherwise our whole family will feel uneasy." Old Man Shen felt that the few cans of malted milk he gave were enough. It was a lot of money and he couldn't ask for more.
Old Lady Shen nodded and said, "Yes, Xiao Huang, it's enough that you have this intention. We are not without money now, we can just buy it ourselves."
Knowing that this was an honest family, the manager had no choice but to give up.
State-owned stores are good in every way, with all kinds of goods available. However, one bad thing is that you need tickets to buy things. You need oil tickets to buy oil, grain tickets to buy rice and flour, and cloth tickets to buy cloth... Although it is not so strict now, you still need tickets to buy some daily necessities.
Where would the Shen family get so many tickets? So looking at the dazzling array of goods, they could only get angry.
Especially Mrs. Shen, she wanted to buy some clothes for Fubao, or buy some good fabrics to make her daughter beautifully. The fabrics produced in Haishi were very exquisite, but now she couldn't buy them even if she had money. After shopping around, she only bought some stationery for the four boys. Her daughter still had nothing. How could she not be anxious?
Lin Xiujuan thought of something and smiled and said, "Mom, there is a department store not far ahead. Let's go there to buy it. They don't need tickets."
"Really? How can you get it without a ticket? How come it's so good?" Old Mrs. Shen felt it was strange and couldn't help but ask.
“It’s not a state-owned business, it’s a self-employed business, so no tickets are needed.
"Is that so? That's much more convenient!" Old Mrs. Shen's brows relaxed, and she couldn't wait to pull Fubao along, "Come on, little girl, grandma will take you to pick out beautiful fabrics and make clothes for you!"
After saying goodbye to the manager, the family headed towards the department store, all of them full of energy. As expected, with money, they felt more confident and confident.
The Shen family had never been to a department store before, so they all found it new. Look at the storefront, it's more impressive than a state-owned shopping mall. After entering, they found it was surprisingly large, selling everything, and there were a lot of people, bustling with people.
Seeing that the ceiling was full of electric lights, which were on even in broad daylight, Old Lady Shen, who usually only used kerosene lamps, sighed, "My goodness, how much electricity will it cost to have so many lights?"
Lin Xiujuan smiled and said, "Mom, this kind of department store is very profitable. This electricity fee is nothing to the boss. It's less than the rent collected in a day."
"Really?" Old Mrs. Shen's eyes widened. "This department store is so profitable?!"
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