034: Prices are extremely unreasonable
Seeing the money in hand, Yu Xiaoye had fifty cents more than he had expected. He couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing. After he finished laughing, he realized that he shouldn't have laughed, so he quickly saved the situation and said foolishly:
"I earned fifty cents for my mother. She will definitely praise me!"
Everyone: “——”
The old woman with the pipe put the pipe into her mouth, took a puff, and said worriedly:
"Girl, when your mother comes out, you must run away quickly and hide at a relative's house for two days, otherwise your mother might beat you to death."
Yu Xiaoye immediately showed a look of horror and nodded stupidly:
"Oh, I'll run now!"
After saying that, he really ran away.
Everyone watched Yu Xiaoye running away, and some of them felt a little regretful. They regretted not stopping the man with glasses and actually watched him take the fish away.
"Tsk tsk, we really screwed the little girl this time. Her mother will really beat her to death when she gets back."
"That's right. Although the girl didn't seem to lose money after selling the fish and even made fifty cents, think about it, where else can you buy such a big mackerel? You'll never be able to buy one again!"
"Isn't it?" Xu Ying tried hard to suppress her laughter, her face full of sorrow. "You can't buy it anywhere!"
The crowd talked and sighed, and gradually dispersed.
Xu Ying also put his hands behind his back and pretended to stroll away.
As soon as I left the vegetable market, I spread my legs and ran to the hospital gate.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw my daughter coming up to me with a smile on her face:
"Mom, your acting just now was amazing. You even fooled me!"
"Our daughter is truly amazing. She came up with such a brilliant idea. She was able to sell the fish without breaking the law, and she even made the buyer think they got a great deal."
"Hahahaha, look, Mom, we earned five dollars and fifty cents in one go."
Yu Xiaoye took the two banknotes and shook them in front of Xu Ying, and both mother and daughter were very excited.
Yesterday the family was still feeling hopeless about their future, but today their luck changed and they took the fish out of the ocean to sell.
It’s five dollars and fifty cents each!
Although five dollars and fifty cents won't make them rich, at least they have some income, and the family finally sees hope in life, right?
Xu Ying then discussed what to buy with the five dollars.
However, Yu Xiaoye didn’t think about how to spend the money. She thought about it and returned to the ocean space.
When I went to the deck of the space yacht, I saw that they had caught another giant mackerel weighing about ten pounds.
After discussing it, the mother and daughter decided to re-perform the script they had just performed and sell the mackerel.
While it was still not too late and the workers were getting off work, the two went to a nearby cotton textile factory.
This time, because of my experience, I performed more realistically and fluently, and the sales were smoother.
The two men stood at the factory gate, one pretending to be stupid and the other acting as a shill, and they sang in unison. In more than ten minutes, they sold the giant mackerel that was more than one meter long for four yuan.
It wasn't sold too expensive, mainly because women are different from men. Women are usually better at managing their lives and they calculate everything they buy. They are not like that big idiot with glasses just now who is so obsessed with face. He will take the bait after just three words and will spend any amount of money just to save face.
Also, Xu Ying is worthy of being the original owner's ultimate shrew. She plays the role of a shrew very naturally, and her ability to stir up trouble is also controlled freely.
Throughout the entire plot, Xu Ying unexpectedly seemed to have found herself again.
Just like that, the two fish were sold for a total of nine dollars and fifty cents!
A huge sum of money!
Only then did the mother and daughter begin to really discuss what to buy.
Xu Ying listed several things she wanted to buy yesterday but had no money, such as a washbasin, a toothbrush, a comb, a mirror, etc.
Yu Xiaoye reminded Xu Ying:
"Mom, we don't need to buy the things you mentioned now. You forgot that they are all on the yacht."
"Oh, yes, Mom is really getting old and confused!"
When Xu Ying thought about the fact that the yacht had almost everything, which would save them a lot of money, she was so happy that she didn't know what to do.
Yu Xiaoye added:
"We will definitely buy those things in the future, but we don't have much money right now, so let's buy a few necessary things now. We have to buy two lunch boxes, otherwise we won't even have anything to eat. We can't just buy steamed buns and cornmeal cakes every day, right?
Buy two more enamel pots so that everyone has their own drinking cup.
It always feels wrong when the whole family shares a cup to drink water. It's not that I dislike you two, it's you who taught me that only you can use your own cup and you can't use it casually.
Also, our family doesn't have a pair of proper socks yet. Mom, at least you have two pieces of cloth to wrap your feet. I'm cold and uncomfortable wearing cotton shoes with my bare feet. Let's buy each of us a pair of long socks to wear."
"Yes, let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy lunch boxes, cups and socks!"
The mother and daughter happily went to the supply and marketing cooperative with a huge sum of money.
Compared with yesterday's stingy and poor appearance, today he is really holding his head high and speaking with confidence, and his voice has unconsciously become much louder.
It turns out that being rich and powerful is real.
The two of them finally picked out two aluminum lunch boxes, two enamel pots, three pairs of stockings, and bought three pairs of real chopsticks.
Among these items, except for chopsticks which are relatively cheap at one cent a pair, the others are quite expensive. The aluminum lunch box costs two yuan each, the enamel pot costs one yuan and twenty yuan each, and the stockings cost sixty cents a pair.
After thinking about it, Yu Xiaoye felt that the wages and prices were extremely unreasonable.
In this day and age, the average wage for an ordinary worker is about one yuan a day, but a lunch box costs two yuan?!
So two days' wages are enough to buy an aluminum lunch box?
One day's salary is only enough to buy two pairs of socks?
Or an enamel pot?
This is too unreasonable!
Disaster
No wonder people say that life is hard these days, with a shortage of food and clothing, and nothing to ask for. Isn’t that true? Compared with wages, these daily necessities are sold at sky-high prices. Who can afford them?
How can life not be hard?
If you support your family with a monthly salary of more than 30 yuan and you don't budget carefully, you might not even be able to eat fresh food.
It seems that I have to adapt to this era as soon as possible, adapt to the unreasonable prices, and develop the habit of frugality, otherwise I will suffer in the future.
The salesperson used an abacus to calculate the total bill and found that the total cost of buying these things was eight dollars and twenty-three cents.
Finally, Yu Xiaoye bought a nylon rope net bag to hold things and deducted another two cents.
Now, of the nine dollars and fifty cents I earned from selling fish at noon, only one dollar is left.
Yu Xiaoye paid the money, and this time, his pocket was empty again.
After counting, I found that I only had two dollars and sixty-one cents left on me.
Once we return to the time before liberation.
Fortunately, there were enough supplies, which at least solved the problems of eating, drinking water and having no socks to wear.
After taking the items and the change, the mother and daughter left the supply and marketing cooperative.
As soon as Yu Xiaoye walked out of the supply and marketing cooperative, he sat on the side of the road and put on his newly bought socks.
It was already past noon and time for dinner, and both of them were starving.
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