Chapter 16 Buy, Buy, Buy

Wang Fang asked Du Ruo: "Your team 5 will have a day off tomorrow, right? That's great, we can actually have two days off. When will I ever get such treatment?"

Du Ruo jokingly said, "How about you transfer our group 5 as well?"

Wang Fang immediately shook her head and said, "Forget it. You guys only get a small salary. You can only make 50 or 60 yuan a month. What's the point of that?"

Du Ruo laughed. That was true. “People travel thousands of miles to be officials just to have food and clothing.” People become officials to support their families, let alone common people like them.

Wang Fang asked: "What are you going to do tomorrow?"

Du Ruo said: "Go shopping in the department store with my son!"

The next day, Du Ruo found the best set of clothes for Xiaozhe, and she also dressed neatly, finding a piece of clothing with inner pockets. She put enough cash in her pocket, and the mother and daughter set out to go shopping in the department store in the provincial capital.

It was a rare occasion for Xiaozhe to dress up beautifully and go out to play with his mother. In the past, his mother was very busy and always tired, but now, he felt that his mother smiled more often.

His mother is happy, and so is he.

Du Ruo called a "yellow taxi" and agreed with the driver on a fare of five dollars to take him to the department store in the provincial capital.

With her son, she didn't want to force herself to squeeze into the bus. Of course, that was because she didn't have to worry about money now.

She was not in a hurry to carve the imperial green jadeite yesterday. She needed to think it over carefully. Anyway, she had nothing else to do at work, so she could slowly carve it in the workshop.

The taxi took the mother and son to the door of the provincial capital department store. It was Xiaozhe's first time here.

Looking at the five or six-story building, Xiaozhe hugged his mother's thighs excitedly and jumped up and down: "Mom, let's go in quickly."

In fact, Du Ruo doesn’t come here very often. The last time she came here was when Han Ming was still safe.

They had just gotten married at that time, and that bastard Han Ming had always been pretty nice to her.

I took care of most of the housework, and whenever I earned money I would always buy things for her. They lived a simple and ordinary life, but it was manageable.

Unfortunately, they did not have a deep bond as husband and wife after all.

In her previous life, after losing Xiaozhe, she left this sad place and never came back. Her memory of the department store still remained at the time of her wedding.

Du Ruo led Xiaozhe into the building and took a look at the sign.

The first floor is the food area, selling milk powder, maltose, and high-end nutritional products.

The second floor is for daily necessities such as pots, pans, and various cosmetics.

The third floor is the clothing area, which has all kinds of clothes for men, women, young and old.

The fourth floor is for fabrics, wool, accessories, etc.

The fifth floor is the home appliance area. In the first few years, you had to use a ticket to buy a color TV. This year, the policy has been relaxed a lot, and the TV ticket requirement will be cancelled next year.

However, the tickets have been cancelled, but the price has gone up. This year it is less than 2,000 yuan plus a color TV ticket, but next year it will be more than 3,000 yuan per TV.

Du Ruo took her son to the counter on the first floor and bought a bag of milk powder and a can of maltose. Both mother and son were seriously malnourished. The body is the capital of revolution, so we must not be careless.

Seeing Xiaozhe staring at the milk biscuits on the counter, Du Ruo smiled and asked for another pound of them for him and carried them upstairs.

Xiaozhe was skipping in front, and Du Ruo was following him. Xiaozhe ran back, pulled her clothes and whispered, "Mom, you smell so good."

Du Ruo led her son to walk past the cosmetics counters one by one. She had some impression of some things, such as the small blue iron box of Pechoin, the small white bottles of Great Friendship and Butterfly Frost, but she couldn't remember some other things clearly.

The weather is getting hotter, so Du Ruo bought a box of cooling oil for Xiaozhe. This thing is very useful in repelling mosquitoes.

I bought myself a box of Pechoin and a bottle of Dayouyi to use for hand washing. It’s very economical.

The salesperson saw that she was dressed neatly and was not shy about her sales. She enthusiastically promoted Olay to her: "This is a big international brand. Our country has just introduced it and is only now starting to test sell it. Do you want to try it?"

If this had been a few years ago, the sales clerks would not have had such a good attitude. But that’s no longer the case now, it’s all about market economics.

The director said at the meeting yesterday that everyone outside is busy in the market, and if they still have a stern face like before, they will just have to wait for the business to close and go home.

There are old and young people in this house. Who wants to close the door and go home?

Du Ruo took a look and found that she really had no impression of Olay at that time. So she decided to try one.

The mother and daughter went to the third floor and bought a bunch of clothes, including those for Du Ruo herself and Xiao Zhe, and went downstairs with the bags.

There was a stall selling all kinds of snacks downstairs. I bought a popsicle and gave it to my son, and then bought two bowls of liangpi, and the two of us went home to eat.

Du Ruo took a yellow-faced taxi and went home. He felt like a wealthy local tycoon, which was great!

The taxi drove all the way to the door of Han's house. Liu Mei, who was washing clothes at the door of her house, widened her eyes.

My goodness, what is this little devil crazy about? Where did he get so much money? Or did he spend all his savings in one go? Is he just living like this?

Liu Mei opened her mouth wide, and it took her a long time to come back to her senses. She wiped her hands on her clothes twice, and ran to the room of her mother, Han, to complain.

Han's mother and father were whispering about Han Ming's affairs.

Father Han said, "Last time, the second son called and said that he was afraid that others would hear some things, so he couldn't say them over the phone. He would write a letter home. How come I haven't seen the letter in the past few days?"

Han's mother said, "Maybe it's too late. I estimate it will be in the next two days. Second brother, what's the matter that can't be said directly on the phone?"

Han's father said, "It must be about the mother and the two of them. He's afraid that the news will leak out and make a big deal out of it."

Han's mother asked, "What should we do?"

Father Han said, "No problem. I have already asked around secretly. The second son's wife's uncle's family has moved to Pengcheng Special District. I heard that their son made a fortune there, so the whole family moved away."

Mother Han asked, "Does the second son's wife know about this?"

Father Han said, "You should know. How could they not tell the second son's wife that they were moving?"

Han's mother said: "She has been an orphan since she was a child, and she grew up in her uncle's house. Now that the eldest brother Du's family has moved away, there is no one left for the second brother's wife's family to take care of her."

Father Han said, "There must be no one left."

Mother Han asked, "What do you mean by saying this?"

Father Han rolled his eyes at her and said, "What I mean is that we can just leave quietly and sell the house without telling her. When they ask her to vacate the house, she will naturally know that it is Xiaozhe..."

Mother Han said, "Xiaozhe, what's wrong? It's not like the second son's newly married daughter can't have children. If she gives birth to an heir to a wealthy family, I'm his grandmother. How can he still treat me badly?"