Chapter 007 For Her Good

Aunt Qian helped Tang Yuan with the work of making clothes, which made Tang Yuan's life much easier. She promised that if she met "Xiao Fang" again, she would help buy fabrics.

Not counting the material that came later, the batch she just bought and gave to Aunt Qian made her more than two yuan in the bank, and with the eight yuan salary she had just received, she had exactly ten yuan in the bank.

In addition to money, the factory also issued various receipts. She was short of things and had used up almost all the receipts. She did not buy the meat herself with the meat coupons, but planned to eat in the cafeteria. The main reason was that her cooking skills were not good enough. Even if she bought the meat, she could not make delicious dishes. It was better to spend money to buy the ready-made meat.

After the tickets were issued, everyone in the boiler room started exchanging tickets with each other. You want industrial tickets, and I want cloth tickets. It's a good opportunity for us to relieve each other's pressure. Your family has enough food, but I'm short of food this month, so I can also exchange industrial tickets for cloth tickets.

Knowing that Tang Yuan was short of many things, no one spoke to her.

However, after this experience, she probably saw clearly everyone's needs. Because the machinery factory has industrial tickets every month, and living in such an environment, the demand for industrial tickets is relatively weak. Many people exchange industrial tickets for the purpose of buying things as gifts, or to exchange useful tickets with others.

Cloth coupons, oil coupons, and meat coupons were all in short supply. Even for a working-class family, a year's worth of cloth coupons could only buy a few sets of clothes. In addition, they had to give gifts and honor the elderly, so they were even less likely to have cloth coupons.

Although there were oil coupons and meat coupons, the quota issued was for one person. If someone in your family was unemployed, the quota had to be distributed evenly. At that time, many families had many children, often three or five. It was common to eat only one meal of meat every few days. Many families could only eat a good meal of meat once every ten days, and most of the time they had to make up for it with bacon.

The amount of meat used to make a portion of braised pork can be made into bacon and eaten for ten days or half a month without any problem.

It’s a pity that she can’t raise animals in her game, otherwise she could have some snacks for herself. Now she can only eat a few cucumbers to fill her stomach.

It was time for another working day, so she went out for a while. When she came back, she carried a cloth bag and went straight to the boiler room. When she got there, she first poked her head to look at the people in the room, then walked in to Aunt Qian and blinked at her.

Aunt Qian looked up and saw Tang Yuan staring at her blankly. She suddenly came to her senses and asked, "Any news?"

It had been several days since Tang Yuan last bought cloth, and there had been no news. She thought she would never meet him again.

Tang Yuan was pulled to sit on a small chair: "She said that she has some, but she has to sell them all at once. It depends on how much you want. I'll go out and tell her in the afternoon, and we'll meet outside in two days."

"Okay, I'll ask for you later and give it to you together with the money when I get it." Aunt Qian said with a happy face.

Tang Yuan also smiled, took out a cucumber from his bag, put it in his mouth and took a bite.

"Did she give you the cucumber too?" Aunt Qian asked her.

"Well, five cents a cucumber." Tang Yuan opened the cloth bag, revealing a bag full of particularly plump cucumbers.

Aunt Qian's eyes lit up: "Give me two?"

Tang Yuan reached into the bag, grabbed two and put them directly into Aunt Qian's hand, and quickly got his ten cents back.

In the game, cucumbers are sold for one cent each, but in reality they sell for five cents, and ten cucumbers for fifty cents. Cotton cloth is sold for ten cents per meter, which is equal to three feet, but in reality it sells for ninety cents. With this calculation, it is more cost-effective to sell cotton cloth.

But she couldn't keep eating the cucumber secretly, so she had to eat some of it evenly so that she could eat it openly in the future.

This thing is big enough to be a dish. People from the kitchen in the back came in one after another. When they heard Tang Yuan say that she could still buy some, they took away her whole bag of cucumbers, and the total deposit was 60 cents.

The big business was naturally cotton cloth. After listening to Aunt Qian's brief explanation of the whole story, everyone stated the quantity they wanted. You wanted three feet, I wanted five feet, and some wanted ten feet or eight feet. The total was thirty feet, which was charged at thirty cents a foot, for a total of nine yuan.

Tang Yuan's current monthly salary is 15 yuan, and these nine yuan are equivalent to three-fifths of her monthly salary.

"Is that okay?"

"Okay, she said yes." Tang Yuan nodded.

All the money was temporarily kept in Aunt Qian's hands, and when Tang Yuan wanted to go out to buy something, she would give the money to her. This way, there would be no need to worry about someone not wanting the fabric, nor would there be any need to worry about her hiding the money.

During the evening break and lunch time, Tang Yuan went out again. When he came back, he brought everyone "good news", which boosted everyone's mood.

On the third day, she left the machinery factory again.

There is a lot of traffic outside the machinery factory because it is close to the railway station. In addition to the machinery factory, there are also furniture factories, textile factories and large and small residential buildings. In addition, some people come here to take the train and will come here to stroll around when they have some time, which leads to the coming and going of people in the market here.

This also led her to want to find a place where no one would notice her, but it was not easy to bring "Xiaofang" out.

Fortunately, she finally found a hidden alley.

Go back to the game from here and bring out "Xiaofang", and a new message will pop up in front of you.

[Whether to build a temporary residence, which can be hidden/shown] She twitched her eyebrows, and after she confirmed her choice, a transparent rectangle suddenly appeared in front of her. As she thought about it, the rectangle gradually disappeared into the environment. Even if "Xiaofang" went in, the rectangle could be completely hidden.

This means that she has a new place to live outside.

After that, she didn't need to go out by herself anymore and could let "Xiaofang" move freely.

After confirming this, she walked around the area again and finally found a relatively safe corner that would not attract too much attention and placed the rectangle there.

Then he hid the rectangle, stuffed the cotton cloth he had redeemed early in the morning into his backpack, and carried the backpack back to the factory.

In addition to the original gray, white and black, this time the cotton cloth also comes in dark blue and dark green, with gray, blue and green being the most common, followed by the rest. In addition to the quantity everyone ordered, she deliberately prepared a few extra feet, thinking that if she could sell them, it would save her a lot of trouble.

Back at the factory, she went straight to the furnace room.

Everyone came to the boiler room extra early today. Probably because as soon as her footsteps were heard, everyone stopped and came out, standing at the door waiting for her.

Seeing the bulging backpack she was carrying, their eyes lit up.

"Did you buy it?"

"Of course I bought it. That's nonsense. Come on, clean up the house. The table is very clean."

"Oh, there's blue material too. I can even see the scraps of cloth."

"You are the only one with sharp eyes."

"Of course not. I like this blue material. No one is allowed to snatch it from me later."

"I want the gray one. Who wants to compete with you for the blue one?"

"Come on, come on, come in."

Tang Yuan was crowded into the boiler room. Under everyone's expectant gaze, he opened the bag he was carrying and took out the fabrics one by one, saying, "She said that this is all we have. There is no loose material. We can't divide it by length. She said we can divide it ourselves. She took some extra. I want all of it. You can divide it. The extra ones are mine. The scraps can be used to make shoes."

"You won't be at a loss, don't worry, we can even out the extra money ourselves."

"That's right, it doesn't matter if you make an extra 1 or 2 feet."

As they spoke, someone pulled out a long ruler, and someone else pulled out a pair of large scissors. They looked very clean, and it was obvious that they were well maintained or were specially used to cut cloth. There was not a trace of grease or dirt.

With a ruler and a pair of scissors, several feet of cloth were instantly cut out.

"My, my."

"And mine. This color is not enough. Give me a green one. It doesn't matter if the top and bottom are different colors."

"The bulk of this is mine. If you get one more foot, I'll pay you more."

"And a piece of white cloth."

"The white one is for Xiaoyuan, it's perfect for the inner clothes," Aunt Qian made the decision. "Don't worry, I'll make the inner clothes for you too, I guarantee they'll fit your size. I'm telling you, girls must pay attention to changing and washing clothes frequently. If you don't change and wash clothes frequently, you'll suffer, and you'll be the one who suffers."

"Yes, yes, that's true. You grew up in the village, so no one would tell you this. Anyway, you should remember that girls should be cleaner, especially the private parts. You should wipe them more often. This white cloth is big, so you can make two towels for me. You can use them alternately to wipe your face and feet."

"Then give it to Xiaoyuan. It's hard to find material that doesn't require a ticket. Your current salary is more than enough to buy these fabrics. When your father comes to see you later, don't listen to him and give him all the money. Do you understand?"

Tang Yuan has no shortage of fabric, but she was still deeply touched after hearing what everyone said. At least in this matter, everyone was doing it for her own good.

Facing the crowd, she nodded and promised not to give the money in her hand to Tang Jianguo.

While they were talking, all the cloth was distributed piece by piece, and Tang Yuan had more than one yuan in his hand. Together with the nine yuan for other cloth, he had exactly ten yuan in his hand.

The white cloth was handed to Aunt Qian, and she now had an extra pair of pants in her hand to change into. Finally, she was no longer constrained by only two pairs of torn pants to change like before.

A few days later, the people in the boiler room or the family changed into new clothes one after another, which attracted a lot of people's attention, but everyone kept their promise. Outsiders thought that it was someone else's good luck and they came across cheap cloth to sell, and they did not connect the source of this batch of cloth with her at all.

The white underwear and towel were ready, adding a bit of white to her dark little room, which finally looked better than before.

Although it is not yet suitable for living, she has been sleeping in the cabin in the game all this time, so it doesn't affect anything.

She woke up again, put on her new white lingerie, and walked to the door of the cabin.

The soybeans in the field were planted yesterday. They are now ripe and ready to be picked. They are still green in color. She plans to wait a little longer until they are more mature and turn into yellow soybeans before picking them. She will plant more and sell them.

Compared to cucumbers, soybeans are longer in storage and can be used to make tofu, sprout beans, and stir-fry beans as snacks. They are also filling and tend to sell better.

She usually steams her own rice and vegetables, and puts soybeans in them to make soybean stewed with sauerkraut, which tastes even better.

She didn't go to work this morning. After walking out of the game space, she put all her clothes in a wooden barrel and carried the barrel to the river.