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bought one bottle for myself. I suddenly wanted to drink it." Fan Yanxing quickly handed the money and the ticket to Sister Li, and then picked up the bottle opener and soda.

But his hands and feet were not very obedient. He slipped two or three times before he succeeded in opening the bottle cap.

"Oh." Knowing that she was being too sentimental, Liang Qingqing laughed dryly. Seeing Fan Yanxing's clumsy hands, she couldn't help but mocked him: "Tsk, a grown man can't even open a bottle cap properly..."

Before she finished speaking, Fan Yanxing's dark eyes looked over. He was really scary when he frowned. Liang Qingqing pursed her lips in anger and didn't dare to pull him to make jokes anymore.

"Here you go." A bottle of opened soda was handed straight to her.

Liang Qingqing took it and drank two big mouthfuls in succession. The cool liquid slid through her mouth and throat and spread straight into her body. She felt as if she had been cleansed. It was a blessing to have a mouthful of ice in the hot summer!

"Thank you!" She generously showed Fan Yanxing the most perfect and gentle smile since they met.

Her eyebrows curved, and the intoxicating charm spread across her face, like the drizzle of spring in the south, hitting his heart again and again.

"I have something else to do, so I'm leaving first. You should be careful in the city by yourself." Fan Yanxing looked away. He didn't know when the soda in his hand was almost empty, as if he was cooling down his owner. As for where the temperature was lowered, only he knew.

"I know, go to the police for everything." Liang Qingqing winked at Fan Yanxing, "Go quickly."

"Yeah."

Liang Qingqing stood there and watched Fan Yanxing leave. It was not until he disappeared from her sight that she remembered something important. She sighed and said, "Oh, by the way, I didn't ask his name." After

feeling annoyed, she lowered her eyes to look at the soda in her hand, smiled and murmured, "He seems to be quite nice."

After saying that, Liang Qingqing slapped her face as if she had seen a ghost, "It's over, it's over, what am I talking about? You bought it with a bottle of soda? Liang Qingqing, can you be more promising?"

While hypnotizing herself, she continued to walk into the supply and marketing cooperative.

In Liang Qingqing's cognition, one of the best ways to fully understand an era or a city is to understand its prices.

Having just had an unpleasant quarrel with a salesperson, Liang Qingqing was naturally not stupid enough to go to the candy cabinet to cause trouble. She first wandered around other places on the first floor, and then went up to the second floor to browse around. While browsing, she wrote down the corresponding names and prices in the small notebook she carried with her.

Rice was 15 cents per pound, pork was 78 cents per pound, cabbage was 2 cents per pound, soap was 35 yuan per dollar, and a pair of mid-range leather shoes was about 5 yuan...

Compared with later generations, these prices were so cheap that she was shocked. With a ticket, she could buy a lot of things with 10 yuan, but the same 10 yuan was also a lot of money for most families today. After all, the monthly salary of an ordinary worker in the city was only more than 20 yuan.

Liang Qingqing put the notebook in her bag and walked down the stairs to the first floor. However, she was stopped halfway down. When she looked up, it turned out to be the middle-aged salesperson.

"Comrade, as an apology, you can take these egg cakes."

Sister Li rushed to meet Liang Qingqing when she came down from the second floor. From the moment she stepped into the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, she focused all her attention on her.

I thought she was just strolling around, but who knew that she took out a pen and paper to write and draw in the next second. Who would do this? Only when the leaders above come to inspect will there be such a scene!

Could it be that my initial judgment was wrong? Is this female comrade really a small leader sent by the higher-ups to inspect secretly?

Liang Qingqing's eyes stayed on the golden cakes for a few seconds, and finally shook her head: "No need."

Since the salesperson had apologized, there was no need for her to take more. The cakes were made of good ingredients, eggs, flour, and sugar, none of which were cheap, so the price of the cakes was relatively high.

"Comrade, just take it, otherwise we will feel guilty and can't sleep well at night." Seeing that Liang Qingqing was unmoved, Sister Li was more convinced of her guess and stuffed the cakes into her arms. "Really

no need..." Liang Qingqing and Sister Li pushed and pulled back and forth three or four times, and finally couldn't refuse her kindness, so she had to accept the cake she stuffed.

Seeing her accept it, Sister Li smiled and after a moment of hesitation, she tentatively asked, "Comrade, you speak Mandarin so well, are you from our county?"

Hearing this, Liang Qingqing, who noticed something unusual, flashed her eyes, and then fell on the other person's face, until she stared at her until she moved away embarrassedly, then she curled her lips and smiled, "Guess what?"

The topic that was inexplicably opened up, at first glance, sounded like a normal casual conversation, but Liang Qingqing had seen too many people who were profitable to approach her, and had developed the habit of automatic screening, so she could basically see through people like Sister Li at a glance.

Although she didn't know why she was approaching her, and she also "generously" gave her a bag of cakes, but not revealing any real information to protect herself was undoubtedly the wisest choice for Liang Qingqing now.

Hearing her say this, Sister Li knew that she couldn't get anything out of Liang Qingqing, so she laughed twice and made way.

Liang Qingqing also laughed, walked to the door, opened the umbrella she was carrying, and soon disappeared at the end of the street.

"Sister Li, who is this person?" The pretty saleswoman, Xiaotian, dared to come forward only after seeing Liang Qingqing leave.

Sister Li stood at the door and watched for a long time before retracting her gaze. She glanced at Xiaotian and poked her forehead with hatred: "If your aunt hadn't asked me to take care of you, I would definitely not let today's matter go so easily."

Xiaotian covered her slightly aching forehead, wrinkled her delicate eyebrows, and whispered: "Is it that serious?"

"What is the most important thing for us as salespeople? It is to act according to circumstances and treat people with the right attitude. It's okay to just turn a cold face to ordinary customers, but we have to treat people like today who have extraordinary looks and temperament well, otherwise we will really offend them and lose our jobs." After

Sister Li finished speaking, she saw that Xiaotian still looked like he didn't care, so she sighed helplessly, waved her hand and went back to her work position. She had said what she should say, and whether they would listen to her or not was up to fate.

According to her intuition, those two people must be not simple.

Sure enough, just three days later, the higher-ups inexplicably issued a notice to retrain the sales staff's comprehensive qualities and thoroughly implement the concept of "serving the people". Although there was no written explanation for the reason, Sister Li had a hunch that it must be related to the two people Xiaotian offended a few days ago.

Of course, this is all later.

Now Liang Qingqing, who has no background, is standing at the gate of the county textile factory and asking the security guard if the factory is hiring.

"No." The two cold words completely destroyed the smile on Liang Qingqing's face. This was the nth person who had said this to her today. Either they were not hiring, or they were full. Anyway, there was no position waiting for her.

"Can I sit here?" Liang Qingqing was exhausted after running across half of the county in such hot weather. Seeing an empty chair under the shade of a tree, she asked.

"Sit down." The security guard raised his eyelids, glanced at her, and nodded.

Summer is hot and humid. The green plants on both sides of the road look droopy under the scorching sun, just like Liang Qingqing's current state. She supported her chin with her hand, and sticky sweat beads slid across her skin, leaving a shallow mark. Her eyes looked into the distance but she didn't know where they were.

Confused and hesitant, with all kinds of emotions entangled, she finally turned into irritability.

It's so difficult to find a job! She might as well go home and lie down! But lying down without working is not a long-term solution. The day before yesterday, she got up in the middle of the night to go to the kitchen to drink water, and heard her second sister-in-law arguing with her second brother.

The point of the dispute between the two was that she was still staying at home to eat free meals after she became an adult.

The second sister-in-law suggested that she should either marry her off or let her work in the fields to earn work points. In short, she should not stay at home to eat and drink for free.

The second brother said that what she ate was from her parents, and her parents did not let her get married or go to the fields. As a brother and sister-in-law, they had no right to bring up this matter. Besides, he was willing to support his sister, so he did not agree with the point of view of his wife.

The second sister-in-law started to refute again, saying that they had not yet divided the family, and all the things were mixed together, so how could she know whether Liang Qingqing had eaten their food.

Then the two of them started to quarrel, and in the end Liang Qingqing stopped listening.

It was really a sin. In her previous life, her family was well-off and she was an only child. Every month, her parents would transfer an astonishing amount of money to her bank card, so she never felt how shameful it was to be a parasite, and she never worried about money.

She always felt that being a good companion and working hard to learn to grow herself in the direction her parents expected was also a way to repay their love.

But now that she has come into the book and has been there for so many days, Liang Qingqing gradually understands a truth: if the family conditions are not good, even if the parents and brothers and sisters love you, every penny and every grain of rice will become a point of conflict between them without you realizing it.

The second sister-in-law is not a bad person. After marrying in, she became a member of the Liang family. However, she is not a flesh and blood relative who has witnessed Liang Qingqing's growth. She cannot tolerate her unconditionally like Liang's father and mother. This is normal.

Liang Qingqing does not think there is anything wrong with her idea. On the contrary, she agrees with it.

As an adult, not a student, she really shouldn't stay at home and rely on her parents. She should earn money to support herself.

But her mind told her that it was right to do so. On the other hand, her body was very reluctant to do farm work under the scorching sun in the summer. Both she and the original owner were raised with petite habits. They had never done housework, let alone farm work.

"I want to die, I want to die, I want to die!" But this desire to die was just talk. It would not be carried out, and it could not really die.