Chapter 104 Buy Buy Buy
Buy, buy, buy.
This is the purpose of Gu Qijiao bringing her parents to the market today.
Afraid that her parents might not have enough food to eat tomorrow, she would bring a sack of flour and rice.
If she was worried that her parents had no clothes to wear, she would take them to measure their sizes and make clothes for them.
The most scarce thing is oil. At this time, the price of oil is very high. Most people can't afford it. Gu Qijiao bought three bottles.
It’s not that I can’t afford to buy more oil, it’s mainly because I don’t have the oil coupons. I can only think of a way to deal with this later.
Food and oil coupons
Oil was too scarce at that time, so the team grew peanuts and pressed oil, and each family could get dozens of kilograms of oil every year.
Some families have many children. When adding oil to cooking, they only dare to dip the spatula into the oil barrel, otherwise there may be no oil left in the pot by the end of the day.
Sometimes there was not enough oil, so I had to pick up tea rice, bring it home, stay up all night to stir-fry it repeatedly, and filter it to extract cooking oil.
Flour, rice, and oilcloth all require tickets. Gu Qijiao could only buy as much as possible with the limited tickets she had.
As for other things that didn't require a ticket, she would buy them without hesitation.
She was still unable to take her parents away from the countryside, so she could only try her best to provide them with food and clothing and keep them from starving or freezing.
It was anything that could be bought on the street, food or clothes, as long as they could be found, Gu Qijiao waved her hand and asked Zheng Yunsheng to load them into the car.
Making money is so confident.
It's just that Gu Qijiao and Xie Jinxiang can't stand the speed at which Gu Qijiao spends money. With this kind of wasteful style, no amount of money can withstand her spending!
But Gu Qijiao totally ignored the old couple's instructions and just kept walking around the market buying all kinds of things.
In the end, Xie Jinxiang was so frightened by Gu Qijiao that she simply hugged her tightly and didn't let her move.
"My dear, please don't buy more. If you buy more, you won't be able to take them with you."
Apart from the clothes she made for her parents, all the other things Gu Qijiao bought were bought with the excuse that she planned to take them away.
The things in it were from Yanjing and were more expensive than those at home, so she wanted to buy more to bring to Yanjing.
At the beginning, Gu Ligan and Xie Jinxiang really believed what Gu Qijiao said and helped her to choose.
But as they kept shopping, the old couple gradually realized something was wrong, because the ox cart was almost full.
If you buy so many things like this, how can you take them on the train?
So Xie Jinxiang didn't let Gu Qijiao buy it anymore.
But at this time, Gu Qijiao had almost bought everything, and she said:
"Okay, Mom, let me go. I'm going to buy one last thing and then we can go home, okay?"
After hearing Gu Qijiao say this, Xie Jinxiang let her go.
The weather was hot, so Gu Qijiao went to buy two red bean popsicles, each costing one cent, one for each family member.
Gu Xiaogan and Xie Jinxiang had never eaten this thing before, and they only bought it for Gu Qijiao when they went to the market in the past.
While they were yelling that Gu Qijiao was wasting money, they were eating popsicles with a look of enjoyment on their faces, as if they were enjoying some kind of delicacy.
Seeing her parents like this, Gu Qijiao couldn't help but feel sad.
Life in the countryside at this time was really hard.
Not having enough to eat or warm clothes to wear, and having to work hard in the fields, life was miserable.
After buying things, I took the ox cart back home.
Seeing the ox cart piled high with things, Xie Jinxiang felt a little suffocated, thinking that she should have taken care of Gu Qijiao earlier.
It's just that Xie Jinxiang has never restricted Gu Qijiao in terms of money. No matter how poor the family is, she will make new clothes and shoes for Gu Qijiao every year.
Xie Jinxiang never lacked her for her favorite snacks and daily necessities.
So when Gu Qijiao said she wanted to buy some things to bring to Yanjing, Xie Jinxiang and Gu Xiaogan didn't take it seriously at first.
Although she bought half a car full of things, Gu Qijiao didn't spend too much money. She wanted to be generous, so she only spent more than 60 yuan.
Of course, more than 60 yuan is already a large sum of money in the eyes of Gu Qijiao's parents.
The main reason is that the prices are too cheap. Sugar is 70 cents a piece, salt is 15 cents a piece, rice cakes are 4 cents each, and rice costs 14 yuan to buy 100 pieces...
Plus, I needed tickets to buy a lot of things, so I didn't spend much money at all.
When the ox cart was approaching the village, it suddenly started to rain.
For fear of rain, the wheels would get stuck in the mud, so the ox-driver drove the cart faster.
When the ox cart returned to the village, it had to first pass by Gu Qijiao's parents' yard before it could reach the small yard where Gu Qijiao lived.
When the oxcart arrived in front of her parents' yard, Gu Qijiao stopped the driver and said:
"Uncle Ma, stop here."
Then Gu Qijiao and Zheng Yunsheng got off the ox cart and started moving the things on the cart to her parents' yard.
At this moment, Xie Jinxiang was finally sure that Gu Qijiao bought these things for her and Gu Xiaogan.
Thinking of the money that Gu Qijiao kept passing out when she spent money, Xie Jinxiang felt a pang of pain.
"Girl, you must be eating mushrooms. What are you doing? Why are you buying so many things? Are you bored?"
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