Chapter 121: Showing off at the Village Entrance
Li Daju had a bit of pride on her face when she said this. Li Dequan had only been playing in the area for two days before going back to work.
You have to know that Li Dequan's daughter and daughter-in-law are both workers, and they only have two days of free time after arriving in the area.
After staying in the city for two days, Li Daju could no longer sit still, fearing that the villagers had not taken good care of her piglets and that there would be no pork to send to Zhao Yi and others during the New Year.
On the morning of the fourth day, I rushed back to the bus station.
Zhao Yi took the prepared gifts and bought a bag of malted milk for his mother, then sent her to the bus station.
Now Zhao Yi's family has changed a lot.
After spending more than a hundred yuan, the house now has four bedrooms and the walls have all been painted. Zhao Yi even bought wood wax oil and painted the doors and windows twice. It is much better than the tube-shaped building.
As for converting the utility room into a bathroom, there are no suitable materials now, and Zhao Yi can't buy them even if he has them.
We will make the change when this material becomes more common. For now, we will still use public toilets.
Li Daju was wearing new clothes made by Zhang Jing and a pair of brand new cloth shoes. She walked with a breeze.
It was the little one's first month at home, and we received a lot of cloth. The little one had more clothes than he could wear out by himself. Zhang Jing and Zhao Yi had work clothes, as well as internal consumption of the department store, so they had more than enough clothes to wear.
Looking at the patched clothes on her mother, Zhang Jing did not busy herself with fake collars for the department store these two days, but made a new set of clothes for Li Daju.
Li Daju was so happy wearing this new dress made of blue cloth that imitated work clothes.
As soon as I got back to the village entrance, I started chatting with the aunties who were not working.
"Daju feels much more energetic after this trip to the region."
"This is the second time. Last time I went there in a hurry, Xiaoyi and Xiaojing didn't have time to accompany me. This time they took me to many places in the region. I was not allowed to buy this dress, so I had to spend that much money."
Li Daju boasted.
The stitching of Zhang Jing's clothes is just like those of the finished clothes in department stores. After all, she is a regular worker in a garment factory, so she has some skills, which can be seen at a glance compared to the clothes she sews herself.
"Then Xiaoyi and his friends are really filial. The captain went to the region and didn't even have time to play for two days."
"Of course not."
Zhao Yi and Zhang Jing both have to go to work, so they don't have time to hang out with Li Daju. After get off work, Zhang Jing has to help Li Daju make clothes, so she has even less time.
Instead, Zhao Xiaoxiao came to Zhao Yi's house and took Li Daju to the cinema to watch a movie.
"The TVs in the district are bigger than our walls, and hundreds of people can sit together to watch a movie at a time."
Li Daju said with a smile.
"That's a movie theater, it's a piece of cloth, not a TV."
Wu Lan just came back from a meeting and saw Li Daju, so she quickly took over the conversation.
My daughter is getting married soon, and our house has almost all the high-end gadgets, including a television, refrigerator, and washing machine.
Three turns and one ring are considered standard equipment for a well-off family, and there are very few people in the city who can afford them now.
Of course, she had also seen things like televisions when she went to department stores.
"By the way, Director Wu, isn't your Xiaofang coming back to the village for her wedding?"
A group of women asked.
As for Li Fang, everyone in the village originally thought that it would be impossible for such a widow to marry into a good family. Unexpectedly, she has become a worker and married a worker.
"It would be too troublesome to get married that way. Xiaofang already has a house in the city, so we can just leave there."
Wu Lan smiled.
When talking about her daughter, Wu Lan still looks very proud. She now has a city hukou and is married to a worker.
"I heard that in the city, weddings require three turns and one ring. What is that?"
"It's a bicycle, a watch, a sewing machine, and a radio. The cheapest radio cost 45 yuan. We originally said there was no need to go through so much trouble, but the in-laws insisted on buying it. Now they've bought the watch before we even got married.
The watch cost 120 yuan. ”
After Wu Lan finished speaking, she smacked her lips, as if her family didn't want it but others were insisting on buying it.
"Daju, does Xiaoyi have a three-turn and one-ring at home?"
Everyone turned to look at Li Daju and asked.
"No, only a bicycle, a sewing machine, a radio, but no watch."
Li Daju shook her head.
Zhao Yi wanted to buy a watch for Zhang Jing, but he had never gotten a watch ticket. If he went to the black market to buy it, it would cost twenty-four yuan for a watch ticket, and the ticket on the black market was twenty percent of the price of the watch.
For example, a bicycle costs more than 30 yuan.
When everyone heard this, the envy on their faces became more and more intense.
"Are these things expensive?"
"I heard from Xiaoyi that the bicycle cost him 178, the sewing machine cost 145, and the radio was given to him by someone else without paying for it."
Li Daju naturally asked about the prices of these things.
"Then getting married in the city must cost several hundred dollars, right?"
Everyone was surprised and began to talk about it.
"Some cost thousands of dollars. A TV, a refrigerator, and three wheels and a buzzer, that would cost thousands."
Li Daju took over the conversation.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk.”
Everyone had a look of hope on their faces. In the village, one could barely save 20 yuan in a year, but a wedding in the city cost so much money.
There is no concept of dowry in the village now. If you like a girl, you can just bring some gifts and ask the matchmaker to come to the girl's house and tell her. The more expensive gifts are a pound of brown sugar, some fruit candies, plus ten pounds of noodles or several dozen pounds of grain.
It mainly depends on how diligent the man is.
If the woman is going out, if her family has good things, they will prepare a new quilt and a new set of clothes for her. If her family does not have any, she can just go like this, depending on the situation.
If there is a family in the village who has a side job and can save more than 100 yuan a year, they will prepare some furniture.
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Zhao Yi had just got off work when he ran into Li Chao coming to the gate of his house.
"I got off work early today."
Zhao Yi joked.
"Xiao Yi, I want to share some meat tickets with you. You know it's not easy to learn a skill nowadays. Master Zhou has agreed to have a drink with me."
Li Chao did not hide anything and directly stated the purpose of this move.
Nowadays, in addition to socializing, the relationship between people also comes from drinking. Of course, you will also meet people who eat and drink for free and end up not helping you in any way. However, there are very few such people. Even if they are hypocritical, they will give you some sweet treats to keep you hanging so that you continue to let them eat and drink for free.
Of course, there are also stubborn donkeys who will ignore you no matter how you invite them.
"You want to arrange the braised pork so soon?"
Zhao Yi smiled.
Zhao Yi still has a lot of receipts from the sale of the pig. Occasionally, Zhao Yi would buy a pound of pork to make braised pork for Zhang Jing. Now he still has more than 50 pounds of receipts.
"I'll lend you five kilograms of tickets. When you become a master chef, you must return them to me."
Zhao Yi joked.
Learning to drive is very simple. Nowadays, there is no theory involved in driving. As long as you can drive away, reverse, and not hit other things, you have learned it. People nowadays will not stand in the middle of the road and do nothing when they see a car, but will quickly avoid it.
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