Qiao Qiqi followed his gaze and saw a piece of white fabric with small blue floral patterns, clearly something a girl would use to make clothes.
Realizing that Qin Huai was buying it for her, she immediately waved her hand.
"I don't need cloth, I have clothes to wear, I don't need to make new clothes."
As he spoke, he quickly said to the salesperson who was halfway there, "I want shoes, just give me the shoes!"
Just as the sales clerk was about to turn back, she heard Qin Huai say again, "Take the floral fabric! I don't want the shoes!"
Qiao Qiqi frowned, glared at Qin Huai with dissatisfaction, and said loudly, "I already said I have clothes to wear, I don't need to buy cloth, I want shoes!"
“My shoes are still wearable, so I don’t need to buy any more. You can buy two pieces of cloth and make two new outfits.”
"I don't want to!"
Just as the two were about to start arguing, Huang Jiajia suddenly burst out laughing.
Qiao Qiqi and Qin Huai turned their heads at the same time and looked at her sharply.
They asked in unison, "What are you laughing at?"
"I……"
Stared at by the two of them, Huang Jiajia, being a young girl, blushed instantly. Then, with a look of envy, she said, "I find it quite interesting that you two are thinking of each other and buying things for one another."
As she spoke, Huang Jiajia took the initiative and took down all the cloth shoes and floral fabric.
"Hey, let's get this straight, I'm not doing this for money. I'm just really touched by your relationship. So, I'm going to give you a discount on these shoes and floral fabric, like I never would before. You can have both of them, okay?"
Qiao Qiqi's eyes lit up, and she thought that would work too!
But she still looked at Qin Huai and asked, "Will this work?"
Although Qin Huai still felt that buying shoes was unnecessary, he also realized that if he didn't want shoes today, Qiao Qiqi would definitely not want the floral fabric either.
Thinking of this, he nodded and said, "Let's do it this way!"
"Alright, I'll cut the fabric now!" Huang Jiajia worked quickly and soon wrapped up three feet of floral fabric and a pair of size 43 cloth shoes, putting them together with the pile of things Qiao Qiqi had bought.
Qiao Qiqi suddenly remembered that Qin Huai's tank top had holes in it when he washed his face at home at noon, so she said, "Give me two men's tank tops, in his size."
Qin Huai looked up in surprise.
Then Qiao Qiqi said in an unyielding tone, "You're not allowed to say you won't buy it. You said you'd listen to me, so whatever I say you'll buy, you'll buy."
"..." Qin Huai swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
After thinking for a moment, he suddenly pointed to the counter on the other side and said, "Give me two more feet of red ribbon."
He saw that when people in the village got married, the brides wore red ribbons on their heads, which looked very festive. Qiao Qiqi was fair-skinned, so she would definitely look even better wearing one.
Imagining that scene, Qin Huai couldn't help but stare at Qiao Qiqi for a few more seconds.
Qiao Qiqi felt his gaze and her face turned slightly red.
This man, just a moment ago he said he was shameless.
Now, however, he's staring intently at me.
Like a complete idiot!
Seeing this, Huang Jiajia covered her mouth and chuckled secretly, finding the two of them quite amusing.
Qin Huai was startled awake by the laughter and realized that he had been staring straight at Qiao Qiqi, which made him blush deeply.
"I...I'll load these things onto the car first."
As he spoke, he rushed forward, picked up his things, and was about to leave.
Qiao Qiqi was speechless and quickly said, "What are you moving? They haven't even settled the bill yet. You want to take it without paying? Aren't you afraid they'll arrest you?"
Qin Huai's face darkened.
They were so focused on getting out that they completely forgot about this.
Qiao Qiqi smiled and looked at Huang Jiajia, "These are all we want, can you calculate the cost for us?"
"Alright! Let me do the math. A box of matches costs 2 cents, two boxes cost 4 cents, salt costs 1.8 cents, pork costs 0.87 cents, rapeseed oil costs 0.88 cents, and 20 jin of rice costs 3.1 yuan..."
Huang Jiajia was checking things while fiddling with the abacus.
However, he was clearly not very familiar with the movements and often made mistakes, which resulted in him calculating incorrectly several times without getting a result.
The more anxious Huang Jiajia became, the more mistakes she made. She quickly looked at the two of them apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, I've only been working here for a month, so I'm not very familiar with the job yet. Please wait a moment."
"It's okay, take your time."
Everyone has to start as a newbie, Qiao Qiqi said she understands.
But after waiting for more than ten minutes, seeing that the sales clerk still couldn't calculate it, she couldn't stand it anymore and finally said, "Why don't you tell me the price and I'll calculate it for you?"
"You? You can do accounts?" Huang Jiajia glanced at her suspiciously.
In those days, few people in rural areas could go to school or were good at accounting, so it's no wonder that Huang Jiajia was suspicious.
Qiao Qiqi didn't explain, but simply took the abacus in front of her and started typing away.
She remembered everything Huang Jiajia had been calculating and muttering, and quickly figured it out.
Then, Qiao Qiqi pointed to the remaining pile and said, "Tell me the price of these next few, and I'll continue calculating."
Huang Jiajia was already amazed by Qiao Qiqi's abacus skills. After hearing her words, she subconsciously listened to her and began to quote prices one by one.
After finishing the calculations, Qiao Qiqi looked at the abacus and said, "It's 51 yuan and 36 fen in total. I bought so much at once, can you round it down for me? Is 51 yuan okay?"
Huang Jiajia: "..."
Huang Jiajia was still in shock when she saw Qiao Qiqi starting to bargain with her, which left her completely bewildered.
After realizing what was happening, he quickly said, "Rounding it down is fine, but you have to wait for me to recalculate it and make sure there are no problems."
Qiao Qiqi felt a headache coming on when she heard that she had to do more calculations, but she did come up with a good idea.
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