The ticket actually has an expiration date, and the ones workers usually have are valid for one year.
If the tickets are not used up by the end of the year, they will become invalid, so purchasing New Year’s goods is a top priority for every family.
Families with many children will queue up separately to ensure that they can receive supplies in a timely manner. When Xiang Lili and her friends arrived, there was already a long queue.
"There are so many people every year. Hurry up and line up, there are more and more people!" Xiang Lili exclaimed and immediately rushed to the meat queue.
Rice, meat, coal and sugar are indispensable items in life. According to Zhang Jidi's arrangement, they actually have a second round of queues, but these four items are necessities.
The four siblings each found their corresponding team, put down their small stools, tucked their hands and necks into their cotton-padded jackets, and lined up in the cold wind.
Fortunately, there were many people at the scene and the crowd was dense, so the cold wind was relatively not that cold.
However, Xiang Mianmian is still afraid of the cold. She has always had air conditioning in the New Century and has never suffered the pain of queuing up to blow the cold air. Who would blow the cold air for several hours for more than ten kilograms of sugar?
You can't skip the queue, or you'll have no food.
She could only be thankful that she had bought new wool and asked her second sister to knit her a sweater and trousers. She also replaced her cotton-padded jacket with a new one to keep her warmer.
I also made a new pair of cotton shoes for my frozen feet, and they are still warm now.
Last year, she didn't have much of a nest egg, so she queued up to buy New Year's goods wearing only old clothes. When she got home, she caught a cold, which took her half a month to recover.
This year I got a system storage grid. Although there are only ten grids, I still saved some money from trading, so I naturally want to replace all my clothes with new ones.
Before long, Xiang Mianmian was at the front of the line.
When she took a look, she was surprised to find that they had replaced their equipment this year, no wonder it was so fast.
In the past, white sugar was sold in bulk in a large vat. The staff had to weigh it, and if there was too much or too little, they had to add or subtract it again, and also count the tickets and money, which was of course slow.
This year's white sugar is different. It is packed in a plastic bag. The sealing part is heated with a saw. Just press the seal and it will be sealed naturally.
One bag is one kilogram, and the number of bags depends on how many kilograms of sugar tickets the person gives. Of course it’s fast.
The staff was an older woman, and she asked impatiently, "How many pounds do you want?"
"Twenty pounds. I see there's rock sugar too. Give me five pounds of rock sugar." She handed Mianmian the money and bills, which also contained the small treasury she had earned.
The aunt glanced sideways, but these days there are many large families that have not split up, some with 20 or 30 people, so naturally there are so many tickets after pooling together.
She quickly counted out twenty packets of white sugar, and then knocked five pounds of rock sugar onto the scale from the back. The weight was slightly tilted, but the aunt was too lazy to care and poured it directly into the sugar jar.
"Twenty kilograms of white sugar, five kilograms of rock sugar. I'll give you twenty-five kilograms of sugar coupons and twenty-five yuan. Okay, next one!"
Yes, sugar is more expensive than meat.
With the same ticket price, pork is 80 cents per pound, while sugar is 1 yuan per pound. It is no longer the case that meat is more expensive than sugar in the new century.
It is understandable that every era has its own prices. Think about it, gold is only 5 yuan per gram.
Taking pork as an example, it cost 80 cents per pound in this era, but 10 yuan per pound in the new century. If the same ratio is converted to gold, it is only 60 yuan per gram.
I have never seen gold priced at 60 yuan per gram.
Xiang Mianmian struggled to squeeze out of the crowd holding the candy and the candy jar, ran to a secluded place, and put his ten bags of candy into the system storage compartment.
She also likes to eat sweets, but unfortunately there is no candy, otherwise she would have exchanged some.
After packing up her things, Xiang Mianmian walked out and saw a cart next to Xiang Lihua who was unloading coal.
She walked over and put the candy down first: "Fourth brother, where did you get the cart? Didn't the eldest brother go to the eldest sister-in-law's house?"
Xiang Lihua curled his lips and said, "My friend, he had diarrhea and went to the toilet. He handed over the car to me. We will go to get coal together later. I think he was lazy!"
"It's okay, we can help each other. It's convenient for us to have a car." Xiang Mianmian could only comfort him.
"Little sister, you're so quick today. Is it so easy to get candy?"
He nodded to Mianmian and pointed to the bags of candy: "Yes, they have improved the packaging. They are packed in plastic bags. It is very convenient because they don't need to weigh them."
Xiang Lihua's eyes lit up: "Little sister, talk to the girl with the red hairband and the mole on her chin over there, she's this guy's sister, tell her not to queue up for salt, go get the sugar first, otherwise it will be all over by then."
New Year’s goods are not supplied in unlimited quantities. Once they are gone, they are gone forever. That’s why so many people line up to get supplies.
He said the little girl was easier to find, so he told Xiang Mianmian. The little girl's eyes lit up, and she immediately gave up queuing to buy candy.
Xiang Mianmian naturally took this position and queued up to buy salt.
Both parties were very satisfied. The little girl came back with the candy, and Xiang Mianmian also bought salt and was holding the salt shaker.
The two met in front of Xiang Lihua's cart. The little girl chirped, "Luckily my sister told me that there were only twelve bags of candy when I went there. If I had been any later, there would have been none for me!"
Although there is still rock sugar in the jar, white sugar is more convenient and can be used in more scenarios, so the girl is very satisfied.
She didn't care that she had to queue up again to buy salt. There was plenty of salt available anyway, so she didn't worry about running out.
Xiang Mianmian was only assigned to buy salt and sugar, and there was nothing to do now. However, Xiang Lihua had another task besides coal, which was to buy two washbasins and washbasin stands.
He gave the money and ticket to Xiang Mianmian: "Little sister, I haven't got a coal queue yet, please help me queue up. Here, buy a washbasin and washbasin stand over there for my eldest brother's wedding."
The tickets are industrial coupons, two washbasins means two tickets, and the washbasin stand is made of wood, so you only need money.
He said "oh" to Mianmian and went to line up obediently.
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