Chapter 22

Qiao Wei felt guilty after he told her so. She carried the basket and led Yan Xiang home in a hurry.

After closing the gate and going back to the house, she dared to take out the four cans and put them on the eight-immortal table in the main hall. The four glass bottles were sparkling, and they looked like trophies.

Yan Xiang was standing on tiptoe and holding the edge of the table, saying "Wow~, wow~, wow~"

Qiao Wei patted him on the head: "Have you eaten it before?"

"Yes!" Yan Xiang said in a clear voice, "But I haven't eaten so much."

In an era of scarcity, who would buy four cans of canned food at a time? And the town is not as large as the city, where the purchase volume is large. The town is so small that when the supply and marketing cooperative gets the goods, each store gets one cent, and each store gets one or two boxes.

That’s why she happened to rush here today, when the goods were just put on the shelves. The salesperson also told her that this is because everyone doesn’t know about it yet. Once everyone knows about it, they will rush to buy it, and it will be sold out in one or two hours.

Qiao Wei always couldn’t understand the hoarding article before, but now she finally understands the fun of the hoarding article.

When she was cleaning the house yesterday, she had already roughly counted the various property items in the house. Basically, except for rice, flour, grain, oil and coal, there is no surplus of various items.

The only thing that has surplus is cigarettes. It's not that Yan Lei is addicted to smoking. In fact, recalling what Qiao Wei said, Yan Lei usually only smokes when he is in a bad mood or when he is entertaining people.

But cigarettes can almost be regarded as hard currency among men. Any man with some connections will try to get some at home, which is very useful when he needs to ask someone to do something.

Other things are basically limited in quantity.

Qiao Wei's family is considered good because men have high wages and are allocated more industrial coupons.

For example, the wages and various coupons of Captain Zhao's family are similar to Yan Lei's, but his family has many people and consumes a lot. The most direct manifestation is reflected in the clothes, which consume a lot. Therefore, as a cadre family, the two little ones still have a lot of patches on their clothes, and their shoes are all the leftovers from their older brothers and sisters.

It's not because they have no money, but because they don't have enough tickets.

Captain Zhao's salary is definitely enough to support five children. However, although the salary is high, the tickets for one person are limited.

Yan Lei also took a jeep back from work, and he and Captain Zhao separated at the intersection and went home.

As soon as they got home, Yan Xiang rushed over: "Dad, dad!" Yan

Lei picked up Yan Xiang and said: "Son!"

Yan Xiang clung to Yan Lei's shoulders, his eyes shining, and told his father the good news: "We bought canned food, canned yellow peaches!"

Canned food is not something that can be bought at any time, you have to be lucky to catch it. Yan Lei's eyes lit up when he heard this: "The supply and marketing cooperative has canned food?"

Yan Xiang leaned close to Yan Lei's ear and covered her mouth with her hand: "We bought four bottles. Mom said not to tell anyone. Otherwise, we won't be able to buy it in the future."

Yan Lei was very surprised.

If it were him, he would definitely be able to do this. But Qiao Wei... Qiao Wei is a working-class girl from the city who was demoted to a small town and looks down on everyone in the town. Let her deal with such social matters, she will give you the cold shoulder for three days.

Yan Lei patted Yan Xiang: "Have you eaten it? Is it delicious?"

"No!" Yan Xiang's eyes were full of expectation, "Mom said it doesn't taste good when it's warm, it tastes better when it's iced. Let's eat it in the evening." In the

days when there were no refrigerators, only cold water could be used. Qiao Wei soaked the cans in a bucket of water. The water pumped up from the hand-operated well was groundwater, which was cool.

Yan Xiang pulled Yan Lei to see the cans soaking in the bucket, and then pulled him to see the other three bottles stored in the cupboard. For children, cans are happy moments.

His family has four bottles, happiness x4.

Yan Lei smiled and patted Yan Xiang on the head, letting him go play. He went into the house to take off his uniform, and when he came out, he saw the smelly rubber shoes hanging under the eaves. He went

to the kitchen, and sure enough, Qiao Wei was cooking.

He put his hands in his trouser pockets and leaned against the door to look at her.

Qiao Wei was flipping the pot, turned around and saw him, smiled at him: "You're back."

This is good, they have a car to pick up several cadres, and they are very punctual at work and don't have to work overtime.

Yan Lei asked her: "How did you get four cans?"

"It's the supply and marketing cooperative. They brought two boxes of cans yesterday afternoon and put them on the shelves this morning. I happened to pass by and no one else knew about it." Qiao Wei waved the spatula and gestured, "I quickly took down four bottles at lightning speed."

Yan Lei didn't believe it: "How could they be willing to sell it to you?"

Qiao Wei said: "The man's child wanted to buy a pair of rubber shoes, but he didn't have an industrial coupon. I gave him an industrial coupon. Is it okay?"

She turned her head to look at him. After all, industrial vouchers are relatively difficult to obtain here. If he says no, he won't do it this way in the future.

But Yan Lei did not deny her approach. Instead, he looked at her with a strange look: "Okay, you've improved."

Qiao Wei asked: "Then it's okay for me to use industrial vouchers, right?"

"Use it. We don't need it at home." Yan Lei said affirmatively, and after a pause, he said, "If you need it, tell me."

Qiao Wei smiled.

Yan Lei seemed to like to say "If you need it, tell me." No matter how you put it, it can't be said that it's a peacock spreading its tail, but it is true that in this era, it is actually of the same nature as the domineering president in the later romance novels who buys, buys, and buys.

"I bought myself a pair of rubber shoes today and used another industrial coupon." She said, "I spent two in one day."

Her eyes were wide open, as if she was uneasy because she used two industrial coupons in one day.

Yan Lei straightened his back even more: "Things are meant to be spent, otherwise how can you keep them and give birth? Just buy whatever you need."

This man is really easy to please.

Qiao Wei held back her laughter: "Okay." Yan

Lei remembered and asked: "Why buy rubber shoes? Why don't you wait to go to the market to buy a new pair of leather shoes. Aren't your leather shoes old?"

Leather shoes are expensive things, and Qiao Weiwei's pair of leather shoes has been repaired twice. She wanted a new pair of leather shoes, but she had to go to the market to buy them. It was not easy to go to the market, and it would take at least a day to go back and forth. She was unwilling to ask Yan Lei about this.

Yan Lei once took the initiative to ask her if she wanted to go to the market. She was reading a book sent by a technician at the time, and she felt that he was disturbing her, so she said impatiently, "No," and ignored Yan Lei.

Yan Lei's efforts were met with a cold shoulder, and he would not ask for the second time.

But today, he took the initiative to bring it up to Qiao Wei.

Qiao Wei didn't want to wear that pair of leather shoes at all.

It was not that they were old, but the key point was... they were quite ugly.

Of course, they were rustic in general for that era, but in Qiao Wei's eyes, there was still a difference. Some things, such as the blue homespun gowns and handmade cloth shoes worn by the old ladies in the town, were definitely more rustic than leather shoes in the eyes of the natives. But in fact, in Qiao Wei's eyes, this kind of special traditional thing carried a cultural background for her, and on the contrary, the leather shoes that others considered "Western" were extremely rustic in her eyes.

"I feel like I lack exercise, so I want to get up early in the morning and go for a run or something. So I bought a pair of rubber shoes."

Rubber shoes are also called liberation shoes, with military green rubber soles and canvas uppers. The army is equipped with liberation shoes.

Qiao Wei originally wanted to buy a pair of white sneakers that her mother had told her about before.

Her mother said that when they were young, there were no sports shoes or casual shoes, which were things that came later. Even earlier, all the children wore in school were white sneakers. It can be regarded as a combination of sports shoes and small white shoes. Qiao Wei wanted to buy a pair of running shoes, and this was the first thing she thought of.

She thought white sneakers were standard in this era. Who knew that she got the time wrong, and this time was earlier than her mother's "childhood". The salesman at the supply and marketing cooperative told her that white sneakers, which were so fashionable, were only sold in big cities. In town, there were only Jiefang shoes.

So she bought Jiefang shoes.

Jiefang shoes are popular now and will be even more popular in the future.

In the future, the streets will be full of green.

To round it off, it's like owning a pair of fashionable canvas shoes.

"The food has to wait a while, you should go read a book first." She yelled at him.

Yan Lei didn't know why, but he was a little reluctant to leave.

Seeing her busy in the kitchen and talking to her in such a peaceful and sweet way made people feel comfortable in their hearts.

He made small talk: "Why does it smell so good? What did you make?"

Yan Xiang raised his head in the yard, his eyes full of light: "It's oil residue! Dad, the oil residue smells so good! Let mom give it to you! It's delicious!"

Qiao Wei was happy, put down the shovel, picked up a piece with chopsticks and dipped it in salt, held the chopsticks in one hand and held it in the other hand and walked quickly to Yan Lei: "Open your mouth!"

Yan Lei opened his mouth as he was told, and a piece of oil residue was stuffed into his mouth. When Qiao Wei picked it up, she deliberately found a piece that was fat and lean, which was crunchy and fragrant when chewed.

Yan Lei swallowed it: "Another piece."

Qiao Wei fed him another piece.

Is it an illusion? Why do I feel that the lines on the man's face have become softer?

The "cold", "stern" and "indifferent" look when they first met were gone. He was chewing in his mouth, but his eyes were looking at her.

The temperature in the kitchen seemed to rise.

Qiao Wei screamed "Ah--", ruining the atmosphere!

She turned around and dropped her chopsticks, picked up the spatula to turn the dishes: "It's almost burnt! Get out, get out! Don't make trouble for me!"

Yan Lei smiled and went out.

He went to get the book and read it on the small bamboo chair under the eaves. When he looked up, he could see his son playing in the yard, and when he turned his ear, he could hear his wife busy in the kitchen.

He turned the pages of the book and felt comfortable.

When Qiao Wei shouted "It's time to eat", he quickly put on the bookmark and went to help.

At the dinner table, he told Qiao Wei: "I asked someone about your thing, and it can be made. The only thing is that the wood needs to be oiled."

"Preservation, right?" Qiao Wei said.

Yan Lei glanced at her and said: "You know everything."

In fact, it is just common sense. But don't ignore the spread of information. For people who are exposed to a large amount of information, they will understand a lot of common sense. And for people who are exposed to less information, many things that should be common sense may not have been heard of at all.

Even in the future of information explosion, you can meet many people without common sense on the Internet. Not to mention this era where communication depends on shouting.

But Yan Lei naturally attributed it to "her high level of education" and "she is indeed a cultured person."

"I even complimented you, saying that you really know how to think of a way." He took a bite of rice and praised her.

Qiao Wei found that Yan Lei had a very good personality. It might be because he was an official and led soldiers under him, he was obviously not stingy in praising and affirming others.

This shows that he is actually a person who can communicate well with others.

"It's nothing, just the principle of leverage, just save some energy." Qiao Wei said modestly.

"The principle of leverage" and so on were enough to make Yan Lei feel awe for knowledge. The way he looked at her was full of yearning and awe for knowledge.

No way? No way?

Qiao Wei remembered that this man tried hard to show in front of her that "you can spend money and tickets as you like". As

a dignified male protagonist, it's not possible that he is actually inferior in his bones, right?