Chapter 87: Distress (I)
Half an hour later, the ox cart arrived at the county town. Lu Xiaoxiao said hello to Uncle Liu and headed towards the state-owned hotel.
When she arrived at the state-owned restaurant, she saw that steamed buns, steamed buns, dumplings and noodles were served, so she ordered ten steamed buns, five steamed buns and a portion of dumplings. When the food was served on the table, she did not eat it, but directly took out the lunch box to pack it up.
After leaving the state-owned hotel, Lu Xiaoxiao went straight to the post office. This time, the person who helped her with the procedures was the same person as last time. When he handed the subsidy to her, he told her to be careful. She thanked him and left the post office.
Lu Xiaoxiao hummed a song she liked very much, and then walked briskly towards the department store. As she walked, she shouted loudly in her heart: "Moutai, sister is here to take you home."
When she arrived at the liquor counter in the department store, Lu Xiaoxiao saw six bottles of Moutai liquor in the glass cabinet. She really wanted to buy them all, but unfortunately she only had three tickets for special liquor.
She sighed silently in her heart and said to the salesperson: "Sister, I'm here to buy Moutai for my father. How much is a bottle?"
The salesperson saw that it was a little kid asking about the price, so she did not answer the price immediately, but asked: "Little kid, why didn't your parents come with you?"
After hearing what the salesperson said, Lu Xiaoxiao realized that the salesperson had no ill intentions and was just asking out of habit, so she pretended to be a good kid and said, "Dad is talking to an uncle at the door and asked me to buy wine for him first. This is the ticket Dad gave me.
The salesperson took the ticket that Lu Xiaoxiao handed to her and looked at it. When she saw that it was indeed a special wine ticket, she told Lu Xiaoxiao that a bottle of Moutai cost eight yuan plus a ticket, so three tickets could buy three bottles of Moutai for twenty-four yuan.
After Lu Xiaoxiao handed the money and ticket to the salesperson, she carried three bottles of Moutai out of the department store.
She walked to an empty alley, put the wine into the space, and then walked towards the supply and marketing cooperative. It was past nine in the morning and there were not many people in the supply and marketing cooperative. She quickly bought all the cakes and candies.
Seeing that it was still early, Lu Xiaoxiao wanted to go to the scrap yard. Last time, she had picked up a small wooden box there and found a treasure. She wondered if she would be lucky enough to find something again this time.
When they arrived at the scrap station, Lu Xiaoxiao saw that the old man was still listening to the radio and drinking water, so she gave the old man a handful of candy and then entered the scrap station easily.
Unfortunately, she didn't find anything good this time, but she did find a pack of silver needles, which could be used to practice the Nine-Turn-to-One Needle in the Fengming Jue.
Lu Xiaoxiao took a stack of newspapers weighing about two kilograms and went out of the house. Then she handed the newspapers to the old man, who charged her ten cents.
After leaving the scrap yard, Lu Xiaoxiao looked at the time and saw that it was almost time for lunch. She remembered that many of her meat and grain coupons were about to expire, so she planned to use them up at a state-owned restaurant.
After arriving at the state-owned restaurant, Lu Xiaoxiao saw that the supply was very rich today, so she ordered a dish of braised pork, a dish of mutton soup, a dish of chicken stewed with mushrooms, and ten steamed buns, thus using up all the tickets that were about to expire in her hand.
She took two lunch boxes and asked the waiter to help her put the braised pork and chicken stewed with mushrooms directly into the lunch boxes.
Lu Xiaoxiao took a look at the mutton soup and ten steamed buns on the table and started eating. She ate until her stomach was full, but there was still more than half of the mutton soup left. She didn't know whether to say that she had a small appetite or that the state-owned restaurants nowadays were too honest and served everything in a big bowl without any pretense.
She packed the remaining food into a lunch box and walked out of the state-owned restaurant, feeling her bloated stomach.
After walking on the street for a while, Lu Xiaoxiao felt that her stomachache was not so severe anymore, so she wanted to go to the black market to see if she could get something good.
(End of this chapter)
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