Yun Yan was happy when she heard the old lady's words, but her face showed a look of panic.
"Grandma, please don't misunderstand me. I'm not speculating. My family asked me to send this to Section Chief Liu for exchange."
Looking at her, the old lady thought she had scared her.
"Don't be afraid, little girl. I'm not from the inspection team, so I don't care about these things."
"Then what's the matter with you calling me?" Yun Yan pretended to be relieved and asked cautiously.
"You just said that your family asked you to send these things in exchange for something. What do you want to exchange them for?"
"Bicycle tickets, industrial tickets, and sugar tickets. My brother is getting married, and we don't have any of these tickets at home."
"I asked many relatives before I found out that a distant relative, Section Chief Liu, had some extra bills. My parents asked me to bring the things to him."
"I have these things at home. I think you don't need to go to that Chief Liu. Why don't you give them all to me? I'll find you any tickets you need."
"This isn't a good idea." Yun Yan looked embarrassed.
"There's nothing wrong with it. Your parents only told you to come and exchange things, but they didn't say who you had to exchange it with."
He then pulled Yunyan home, fearing she would regret it. He had seen what was in her backpack: rice, flour, and meat, all good things.
Although my family is well off, the food is rationed. Sometimes I would secretly go to the black market to buy meat to improve my diet.
The things this girl carries seem to be much better than those in the black market, and they are not as risky as in the black market. I can't let her go.
Yunyan followed the old lady home. When she met an acquaintance of the old lady on the way, the old lady said that she was a relative of hers.
After entering the house, Yun Yan put down the backpack, and the old lady came over and took out the things in the basket one by one.
Yun Yan spent a lot of money to buy a bicycle ticket, including 20 kilograms of rice, 10 kilograms of flour and 3 kilograms of pork belly.
The old lady was very satisfied looking at the rice and flour. She had never seen rice and flour of such good quality.
Although they were all cheap goods prepared by Yun Yan, they were already very good things to have in the 1970s when people were short of food and drink.
The old lady poured Yunyan a cup of tea and turned to go into the bedroom. After a while, she came out with some bills in her hand.
"Little girl, do you think these tickets are enough?"
Yun Yan took the bills, which contained a bicycle bill, several industrial bills and several sugar bills.
"That's all I have, thank you, grandma."
Yun Yan was not greedy, as her main goal was the bicycle ticket.
After leaving the family compound, Yunyan found a state-owned restaurant to eat.
Braised pork and sweet and sour spare ribs are available today. Yun Yan went there early and there were not many customers in the restaurant.
"Beautiful sister, please give me one portion of braised pork, one portion of sweet and sour spare ribs and a bowl of rice."
The person serving the food was a female employee in her thirties. She looked at Yun Yan when she heard the voice.
This little girl actually called me "pretty sister", which made me feel very happy.
He immediately said with a smile on his face: "You are so sweet, little girl. I am over 30 years old and you still call me pretty sister."
"If you hadn't told me, I would have thought you were only in your twenties. You've taken really good care of yourself."
Anyway, nice words are free. If you say a few more words to make her happy, maybe she will give you a few more pieces of meat.
The waiters in state-owned restaurants today are not like those in the 21st century who treated customers like gods. There are even signs on the walls: No beating or scolding of customers without reason.
Sure enough, the waiter became even happier after hearing Yun Yan's words and gave her two full plates of meat.
Yun Yan gave her half a pound of meat coupons, three ounces of grain coupons, and one yuan and thirty cents, then left with the plate.
Eating the braised pork, I can see that the chef's cooking skills are really good. The braised pork is fat but not greasy, soft, tender and sweet. The sweet and sour spare ribs are also just the right amount of sweet and sour, and go very well with rice.
After finishing the two meat dishes and a bowl of rice, Yun Yan left the state-owned restaurant contentedly.
When we arrived at the department store, there were not many customers because today was not a holiday.
The waiters were gathered in groups of three or four to chat. Yun Yan walked to the bicycle area and saw a women's bicycle.
"Hello, how much is that ladies' bicycle?"
"This is a Haiyan brand women's bicycle. It costs 180 yuan and includes a bicycle ticket." The waitress replied without looking up while knitting a sweater.
Seeing her attitude, Yun Yan was not angry. Nowadays, waiters are all very arrogant. If she cares about it, she will be the only one who gets angry in the end.
"Please push it out for me to see."
After hearing Yun Yan's words, the waiter put down the sweater in his hand, stood up and pushed the bicycle out.
Yun Yan looked up and down and compared it to her own height, she found it very suitable.
"Please give me a ticket." Yun Yan said as she took out the money and bicycle ticket.
The total cost of the bicycle, lock and license plate was 185 yuan. After collecting the money and ticket, the waiter reminded Yunyan.
"Someone will help you get the license plate, but you have to remember to go to the Public Security Bureau to register it yourself."
"Okay, thank you." After putting the license plate on the bicycle and locking it, Yun Yan pushed the bicycle away from the counter.
When passing by a candy counter, Yun Yan remembered that she still had a few candy coupons, so she went forward and used the coupons to buy some White Rabbit milk candy.
I also bought a thermos and lunch box at other counters, and used up all the tickets I had in one trip.
I rode my bike to the Public Security Bureau to register my license plate, and then went home.
On the way, Yun Yan found a deserted place and put the bicycle into the space.
I don't want to be too conspicuous, otherwise the neighbors downstairs will stop me and ask me questions.
When she returned home, luckily it was dinner time and no one was downstairs, so Yunyan hurried home.
She took out some food from the space and started to pack up after eating.
This house is rented, and since I am going to the countryside, I naturally have to give it up.
Put all the still usable things in the original owner's room and the original owner's parents' room into the space. As for the original owner's parents' clothes, give them to the neighbors.
The next day, Yun Yan told several neighbors that she was going to the countryside, and she also gave away the clothes of the original owner's parents.
After finding the landlord and explaining the situation, the landlord expressed understanding and allowed Yunyan to stay until she went to the countryside.
In the next two days, Yun Yan went to several family compounds and exchanged various tickets.
He went to the black market and exchanged it for a Daqianmen cigarette and a few bottles of liquor, which he planned to use to bribe people.
The day before going to the countryside, Yunyan went to a scrap collection station. People said that you can find treasures here, so she came to try it herself.
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