The salesperson packed the candy into three portions as required, tied them up with ropes and handed them to Li Xu, saying,
"Little brother, where did you get so many candy tickets?"
"Hey, aren't these the sugar coupons issued this quarter? I have a large family, so I was given a lot, but they only let me come over to buy them now."
"Can you share some of your candy with my eldest sister? One of my relatives is going to give birth soon, and all the candy at home has been eaten up. Now I'm worried about how to get some candy to give to her."
The general idea among people in this place is that drinking some sugar water is the most nutritious thing for a woman who has just given birth.
There are always people saying that in that era, whatever was available in the factory was available at home, and you could just get whatever you needed yourself. A candy seller like him definitely had no shortage of candy. In fact, this was all about the 1980s and 1990s.
It is now the 1960s, and during that period few people dared to steal public property.
Stealing public property is a serious crime in this era, and serious offenders can be directly taken to shooting range.
"Sister, my family asked me to buy this. I wouldn't dare to do it without their permission."
"Okay, little brother, if your family agrees, you can come and see me."
Li Xu nodded and walked to the cigarette counter with the candy.
The salesperson at the counter was a man. Li Xu took a look, asked the price, and immediately bought 5 packs of cigarettes.
The salesperson even joked with a smile, "Little brother, how come you buy so many cigarettes at such a young age?"
"Isn't this the cigarette coupons that were just issued? I came here to buy something, and a few of my family smokers asked me to buy some on the way."
"That's what I thought, but little brother, your cigarettes are not cheap. You bought two boxes of Daqianmen, which cost 80 cents, and three boxes of Dazhong, which cost 51 cents. The total cost is 1.31 yuan and 5 cigarette coupons."
The price is indeed not cheap. Nowadays, people of average conditions smoke popular cigarettes, and those with poor conditions smoke economical cigarettes, which cost 7 cents a box; those who are worse off just roll up paper or something like straw as cigarettes; Daqianmen cigarettes are a luxury item, which cost 40 cents a box, and only those with good conditions can afford them.
Li Xu smiled and responded twice, handed over the money and bills, and then took the cigarette.
I took the things I bought and walked to my final destination, the place where candies were sold.
Li Xu bought 2 kilograms of White Rabbit milk candy and one kilogram of fruit candy.
When the supply and marketing clerk asked why he bought so many, he casually said that a relative of his family was getting married and asked Li Xu to help buy them. Some of the food was bought for his family to eat.
This made it even more expensive. Fruit candies cost 1 cent each, which came to 98 cents; White Rabbit milk candies cost 2 cents each, which made Li Xu's heart bleed, as he spent 5.56 yuan.
The total cost of buying candy was 6.54 yuan.
I thought that if I hadn't sold a few pounds of white flour on the black market, the money in my pocket wouldn't even be enough to buy White Rabbit milk candy.
Li Xu walked out of the supply and marketing cooperative with a bunch of things in his hands, found a dead corner on the road, put all the things into the space, and only left some White Rabbit milk candies and a pack of Daqianmen in his pocket.
After putting it away, he immediately opened a piece of candy and put it in his mouth.
You know what, it tastes sweet and is much better than the ones in later generations.
Then Li Xu walked to the house in the back row of the supply and marketing cooperative, which was the purchasing department of the supply and marketing cooperative.
The supply and marketing cooperatives of this period not only sold various supplies, but also purchased local products for sale, and some even had their own fleets.
Tang County, where Li Xu is located, is a populous county, and the supply and marketing cooperative also has its own fleet to transport supplies.
Li Xu arrived at the gate of the purchasing department and saw a man about 40 years old standing at the gate.
The man had a dark complexion, a square face, thick eyebrows and small eyes, and his hair was also black and white, but there were not many wrinkles on his face.
Although he is a little thin, he looks very energetic.
Li Xu walked up to him and said hello, "Uncle, can I ask you something?" As he said this, he took out a Daqianmen from his pocket, opened it, and handed him a cigarette.
The man glanced at the cigarette in Li Xu's hand, then looked at Li Xu's face and said casually, "What do you want to know?"
"Uncle, I just want to ask if the purchasing department buys fish?"
Hearing this, the man's eyes seemed to brighten even more. He then reached out to take the cigarette, but changed the subject and said, "You are quite well-off, and you are from Daqianmen."
"Uncle, you misunderstood. I saved up money for a long time and finally bought a box of cigarettes. I can't afford to smoke these normally." Li Xu hurriedly explained.
The man didn't say anything after hearing this. He took out a match and lit the cigarette. He took a deep puff and slowly exhaled the smoke with an expression of enjoyment on his face.
After a moment he said, "How many fish have you got, boy?"
"Not much, just a few pounds. My family thought it would be a waste to eat all the fish I caught, so they asked me to ask the supply and marketing cooperative if they would accept them."
"We'll accept it, but the quantity is too small. We can't sell it even if we accept it!"
Li Xu understood his subtext, which was that it was too little to accept.
"So what's the current price of fish?"
The man pondered for a moment and said, "The price of fish has gone up a lot now. It's around 0.28 yuan per pound."
"Okay, thank you, uncle. You can take these remaining cigarettes and smoke them yourself." After saying that, Li Xu threw the newly opened front door to the man, turned around and ran away.
"Hey, young man, come back." Seeing this scene, the man was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and shouted loudly.
But Li Xu ran away without looking back.
Li Xu actually doesn't even have a fish scale now. His main purpose today is to get in touch with the people in the purchasing department first.
Although I couldn't get in touch with the car team, I could still be at the gate. As everyone knows, gate guards are well-informed. Especially now that gate guards are usually part-time security guards, it's really not something that ordinary people can do.
Seeing that everything he needed to do today had been completed, Li Xu ran for a while and then walked back home.
"Second brother, you're back."
As soon as I walked into the house, Li Ju, who was playing in the yard, rushed over to me.
Li Xu rubbed Li Ju's little head and took out a candy from his pocket and handed it to her.
"Little sister, look what this is?"
Li Ju opened her eyes wide and looked at what was in Li Xu's hand. Suddenly she shouted, "It's candy."
"This is your favorite White Rabbit candy, try it."
Who doesn’t love candy these days? Not only children, but even adults love it.
"Wow, it's delicious and sweet." Li Ju took the candy, tore off the candy wrapper and put it in her pocket, then put the candy in her mouth, then squinted her big eyes and said happily.
"Hehe, if it tastes good, eat more." Li Xu then took out a few more candies from his pocket and put them into the small pocket of Li Ju's clothes.
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