Chapter 045 The Enemy Met
Before returning to her parents' home, Zhang Yunxiu took her daughter to a visit to the department store.
The things in the department store are much more complete than those in the supply and marketing cooperatives, and some do not use bills.
During the years when she married into the Bai family, her parents and sister-in-law were afraid that she would suffer grievances. First, she did not dare to go to the Bai family to see her. Second, even if she came, she would always come over with big bags and then leave empty-handed.
In this way, the Bai family always looked down on her country bumpkins sarcastically. Every time her mother's family came over, they would be ridiculed by them and did not give her any face at all.
I was ignorant when I was young, but when I got older, I realized how much grievances my parents and sister-in-law had suffered for me.
Now she is still well-off, so she wants to buy something for her family.
At least we can’t let the acquaintances in Miaoer Village laugh at her as a married daughter again and again. Every time we go back to our parents’ home, we will leave with big bags.
After these days, my sister-in-law probably had a grudge in her heart.
Naturally, there are not as many things in the department stores in Huaixiang County as in the provincial capital, but in this era of material scarcity, there are not many things in it.
Zhang Yunxiu remembers that she was so poor in her pocket that she had never visited the department store in the 1970s, but she was not as excited as she was to visit the building in this era.
After all, she has lived for twenty years. She has even been to the Demon Capital twenty years later, and the prosperity there is even more unimaginable.
"Mom, what are you going to buy?"
There are many people in the department store, most of whom are old and young women with no money in their pockets come in to see the world.
There are only two floors in total, and it is crowded.
Zhang Yunxiu was afraid that the child would be lost, so she kept holding Zhuzhu in her arms.
"Buy something for your grandparents and grandma back."
Zhang Yunxiu had an idea before coming, so she went straight to the counter for candy and pastry.
The candy and pastries here are more expensive than those sold by the supply and marketing cooperative, but the tickets are not restricted and you can buy them with money.
There were many buyers in front of the counter. Zhang Yunxiu held the child and squeezed forward inconveniently. She waited for more than half an hour before she got to the front.
"Oh, why are you squeezing? Get out of here if you squeeze again!"
Several salesmen selling candy and pastries were full of impatient faces and kept cursing, looking at these country people who were dressed simply and were petty for a little candy.
The buyers didn't dare to say anything. They just scolded them and they still had to buy pastries.
Zhang Yunxiu didn't say anything. Nowadays, people who can work as salesmen in supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores have better family conditions than ordinary people.
It is common to show the buyer's face. She had seen a buyer who was making a fuss when buying something and causing a seller to knit sweaters. She directly called the seller to scold and cry.
If it were placed in a metropolis twenty years later, such a salesperson would have been fired long ago.
But in places where the reforms were not yet open in the 1970s and 1980s, salesmen were favored by everyone.
If there is a salesperson among relatives and friends at home, they have to come to the door to give gifts during the Chinese New Year and the holidays, and they are looking forward to the fact that some "flaws" goods leaked out on their hands!
"Comrade, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this, and I weigh one pound."
Zhang Yunxiu held his daughter with one hand and pointed at four medium-priced pastries and smiled at the salesperson.
The salesperson, who was not young, had a cold face and wrapped pastries for her with grease. He wrote a sign and threw it from the iron wire above his head to the other side. After a while, another sign returned to her hand. Then she said coldly: "A total of three yuan, seventy-eight yuan."
Zhang Yunxiu counted three yuan from her pocket and eight cents.
The salesperson picked up a piece of peanut crispy placed on the side for her, "This is two cents for you."
As he said that, he didn't look for the money after collecting it.
Zhang Yunxiu understood the "unspoken rules" of these salesmen.
Sometimes they are a few cents apart, and they will use something instead of changing if they don’t want to find change. If the buyer accepts it, they will make the money. If the buyer does not accept it, they will scold them, and the scolding will not dare to refute it.
Most of the time, buyers always accept this anger. Who makes them a salesperson hold their own rice bowl?
Of course, Zhang Yunxiu is not sure whether there are salesmen like those in Huaixiang County Department Store.
Carrying pastries, Zhang Yunxiu went to another place where Jiefang Shoes were sold.
Jiefang Shoes are the most popular shoes of this era. One pair costs several pieces, and ordinary people are reluctant to buy them.
Zhang Yunxiu has also seen this kind of green rubber shoes in the plane mall. The price is even more expensive than that in department stores. A pair of seventy or eighty coin coins!
At that time, she had an idea in her mind.
She didn't dare to put the grain or something in the plane mall on the black market to resell, but she could find some things that were more expensive than the real price. She bought them from the real world and put them in the plane mall to sell them!
If this cosmic currency with a price difference of 10 or 20 yuan can be sold, one or two yuan!
It’s not bad to earn seven or eight yuan a week for peeling the flame fruit, but Zhang Yunxiu doesn’t plan to spend all her time on it. After all, she still has to find out which production team the old doctor was locked in and check on her daughter’s body!
A pair of green rubber shoes from the 1970s were of great quality and they would not be easily broken after wearing them for several years.
Zhang Yunxiu thought of buying a pair for her father and two brothers, so she became picky.
"Oh, isn't this Zhang Yunxiu!"
Suddenly, someone patted her on the shoulder and called her name full of surprise.
Zhang Yunxiu subconsciously turned around and saw a woman with a national face, about 20 years old, with her former sister-in-law Liu Wen standing beside her.
"Zhang Yunxiu, are you getting rich? You actually have money to buy pastries!"
When the woman saw what she was carrying, she reached out and wanted to take it over and take a look. Zhang Yunxiu subconsciously avoided it.
"What a stingy thing? I just take a look, but I won't eat yours!"
The woman snorted, obviously feeling unhappy.
Zhang Yunxiu really doesn't know who this person is, but seeing her standing with Liu Wen, she looks very familiar with her. She probably was a neighbor who used to live around the Bai family.
"Zhang Yunxiu, you have moved out for this week, why haven't you come home to see it?" Liu Wen saw that Zhang Yunxiu had two pairs of shoes in her hand, and she felt refreshed and pretended to be intimate, "My parents miss their granddaughters at home!"
When Zhang Yunxiu saw this face that was twenty years younger, she felt disgusted. The murderer who had harmed her in her previous life was right in front of her, but the aggrieved feeling of not being able to take revenge made her look cold.
"Comrade Liu Wen, have you forgotten? When I left, we signed the document to cut off the relationship. What does your parents want to do with my granddaughter?"
As she said that, she picked a pair of shoes that she could wear, and the two pairs of shoes she had chosen before were ready to carry the child and leave.
Chapter completed!