Chapter 18 Liquor
Uncle De looked at them carefully.
After looking at them, he said, "They are all good things. The headscarf is sold at RMB 3.5 at the supply and marketing cooperative. The material is thicker than yours, but yours is a circle larger and the color is brighter, so I will charge you RMB 4.5 each. I will give you RMB 360 for a pair of Plum Blossom watches."
"This chemical comb..." These days, everything plastic is called chemical.
He hesitated for a moment while holding the plastic comb. "A chemical comb from the supply and marketing cooperative costs 35 cents, but yours looks better and feels more delicate. I'll give you 55 cents."
"This head ornament..." Uncle De was in a dilemma holding the small fat sausage head ornament.
"It's 2.5 cents each, and it's made of velvet. I guarantee that young girls and wives will like it. If you think it suits you, keep it. If not, I'll take you to Haishi. The girls there like it." She always believed that it was easy to make money from young girls and wives.
Uncle De thought about it and decided that if this thing was seen by his two girls, he would definitely be willing to spend 30 or 40 cents on it.
He said, "It's 23 cents a piece. You should give me some profit. It takes time to deal with all the small changes."
The price for this trip was basically what she wanted, so she didn't bargain: "If you have national grain coupons, tobacco, alcohol, and sugar coupons, give me some, and I'll pay for the rest. If it's convenient, exchange for more big black stones, which are convenient for me to use when I'm out."
Uncle De nodded, checked the quantity of each item with her, and then his younger brother went to count the money.
The younger brother was very professional and counted out the money quickly. Uncle De took it and put it in her hand: "A headscarf is 4.5 yuan, 10 pieces are 45 yuan, a comb is 5.5 yuan, 20 pieces are 11 yuan, 100 hair ornaments are 23 yuan, and 3 pairs of watches are 1080 yuan. The total is 1159 yuan. There are 1000 yuan in here. The rest will be exchanged for bills. Please count it."
Xia Zhizhi took them and counted them. They were all large black stones, 100 in total. The big group release had only been less than two years, so there were still quite a lot of large black stones circulating in the market.
She also counted the remaining tickets. At that time, the national food coupons and tobacco and alcohol coupons were not cheap, so the price Uncle De gave him was fair.
Once you get the money, you have to spend it, so you go to the department store and buy a pound of several more expensive candies.
Then we went to the wine counter. There were quite a lot of liquor brands at that time, not to mention the well-known Maotai and Wuliangye, there were also Dongjiu, Xifengjiu, Yaxijiaojiu, Fenjiu, Xinxin Daqu, Gujinggongjiu and more than a dozen other brands.
Xia Zhizhi didn't know much about liquor, so she bought a few bottles simply because she thought she had to have some since she was already wearing them.
Uncle De exchanged 6 wine tickets for her, but there was no point in keeping them in her hand, so she might as well spend them.
He leaned on the counter and asked, "Comrade, let me see some Moutai."
"Maotai only has Golden Wheel and Feitian now. Golden Wheel is 8.2 yuan, and Feitian is 7.9 yuan." The salesperson replied while unravelling the wool, without even looking at her.
"Then give me six bottles." Xia Zhizhi took out the wine ticket and pinched it in her hand.
The receiver put down the yarn in his hand and looked up at her.
"I'm purchasing for the company." Xia Zhizhi handed the ticket over. She was still wearing the men's suit, and looked like she was purchasing for a factory.
There were only 6 bottles of Moutai in total, 4 bottles of Jinlun, and 2 bottles of Feitian. There was no choice, she bought them all.
Then I went to the cigarette counter to buy some cigarettes.
The cheapest Qinjian cigarettes are 9 cents, the better Goldfish cigarettes are 1.2 cents, the better Pegasus cigarettes are 28 cents, and the famous Daqianmen cigarettes are only 3.5 cents.
Xia Zhizhi didn't mind the extra 10 cents, so she handed all 15 cigarettes to the salesperson: "Comrade, give me 15 boxes of Daqianmen."
The salesperson resisted the urge to roll his eyes and said, "There are only 6 boxes in Daqianmen. You are lucky to have caught it as it was just delivered today."
"Okay, comrade. Thank you for your hard work in getting me six boxes of Daqianmen." Xia Zhizhi handed him the money. He gave her the change and returned the remaining tickets.
I carried my bags and avoided pedestrians to go to Liulichang to change into women's clothes. I was about to go home, but when I passed by the post office, I suddenly remembered that how could I travel through time without buying stamps!
I went in and said to the staff, "Comrade, I want to buy a few stamps. I will graduate this year and want to make a few stamp books to give to my classmates and teachers as graduation gifts."
There aren't many people who collect stamps, but there are some. It's not the first time that the comrades at the window have encountered such a situation.
Xia Zhizhi is beautiful, well-dressed, and smiling, which makes people like her.
The comrade at the counter was young and full of enthusiasm to serve the people. He patiently took out a few more copies of the magazine from the counter and spread them out on the counter for her to choose.
The only sets she bought were Special 49 "The First Group of Chinese Folk Dances", Special 50 "Ancient Chinese Architecture", "Zunyi Conference", "Bandung Conference", "28th Table Tennis Championships", "Mountaineering", and "Jinggang Mountain". There were no complete sets of the others, so she bought two tickets of each, spending a total of 14.5 yuan. Now a factory apprentice earns 18.2 yuan a month, so this is not a small amount of money.
After paying, Xia Zhizhi carefully put the stamps into her backpack and smiled at her colleague: "Comrade, you are really kind and helpful. Thank you for your help!"
"We are all comrades who should serve the people!" The girl was embarrassed by the compliment: "If you collect stamps, come back later. If there are new ones, I will keep them for you."
"That's great!" Xia Zhizhi thanked her and took out a piece of red apricot candy for her to eat.
This kind of candy is the most expensive candy in the department store besides chocolate. It costs 2.7 yuan per pound and you need a ticket. You should know that the famous White Rabbit candy is only 2.5 yuan now.
The little girl was a little embarrassed, Xia Zhizhi put the candy in her hand and said, "I didn't mean anything else. I just saw a kind-hearted and pretty little girl and wanted to be friends with her!"
The girl was very happy and began to introduce herself: "My name is Fang Yuan, I'm 18 years old, and I just started working. I can have one day off every week, and then we can play together!"
You can definitely tell that he's new to the job. After working for a long time, all he has left is no enthusiasm but rolling his eyes.
Xia Zhizhi also briefly introduced her situation. Fang Yuan was still at work, so the two of them didn't say much.
After returning home and entering the space, Xia Zhizhi finally found a box of stamp albums. She put the stamps she had just received into the box. Looking at the stamps lined up in the stamp album, she suddenly experienced the joy of collecting cards. She took out ten stamp albums and decided to collect ten sets, ten times the happiness!
After dinner in the evening, she was ready to take a bath. Unlike northern cities, Yang City did not have public bathrooms. People washed at home using hot water in bathtubs.
The bathtub is about one meter in diameter, about thirty to forty centimeters high, and weighs nearly 20 pounds. When filled with bath water, it can weigh thirty to forty kilograms.