Qin Xiaoxiao saw that he had enough time, so he did not go to the Educated Youth Office first. Instead, he went to the state-owned store and spent his alcohol and cigarette tickets to earn four bottles of Maotai, one Wuliangye, and a large production line.
The purchase of wine is limited. One person can only buy two bottles of Maotai. Qin Xiaoxiao specially spent one yuan to find help from someone to buy it.
One dollar is exchanged for Maotai, it's worth it, Qin Xiaoxiao doesn't feel bad at all.
After leaving the state-owned store, Qin Xiaoxiao went to the supply and marketing cooperative.
The supply and marketing cooperative was a converted warehouse. It was quite big inside. Qin Xiaoxiao walked around and found that most of the things required tickets, and the waiters here were just like what was written in the book. They looked at people with their nostrils turned upward, which was awesome. Still sitting.
Qin Xiaoxiao couldn't control the attitude of the service, she had to spend all the tickets in her hand.
After walking around the supply and marketing cooperative for half an hour, Qin Xiaoxiao walked out of the supply and marketing cooperative with satisfaction, then turned back to the nearby grocery store.
Fruit candies, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, fruit cakes and various meats are all sold in non-staple food stores. Qin Xiaoxiao wanted to buy some sugar and cakes, but found that there were also apples here, so Qin Xiaoxiao quickly bought two kilograms.
Fruit is hard to come by these days.
After spending all the other tickets, leaving only coal stamps, food stamps, meat stamps, bath stamps, and a few industrial stamps in his hand, Qin Xiaoxiao was going to go to a state-owned hotel to experience it.
The state-owned hotel is not far from the supply and marketing cooperative. He found an empty alley to put everything in the space, and then turned around and went to the state-owned hotel. As soon as Qin Xiaoxiao walked in, he felt how popular state-owned hotels were in this era. .
Because it was noon, it was dinner time, and the spacious hall of more than 200 square meters was packed with people. More than 20 tables were all filled with people. The restaurant was so full of people that the noise made people's ears hurt.
Qin Xiaoxiao really wanted to turn around and leave, but she smelled the delicious smell of braised pork.
Qin Xiaoxiao frowned.
The braised pork was good, and she wanted to eat it, but she couldn't. It was close to home and the coal mine. If neighbors or colleagues from Qin Min's work unit saw her eating meat, they might look back and tell her what to do.
Meat cannot be eaten here, which is a pity.
Meat can't be eaten or bought, so she has to find a way to sell the meat stamps in her hand, and she also has to deal with the coal stamps, otherwise she won't be able to take the coal with her!
The target is so big, how can she fit it into the space?
The coal in the family's coal shed can be collected, but outsiders don't know how much coal her family has, but the coal she buys cannot be used, because everyone is watching.
While thinking about whom to sell coal stamps and meat stamps to, he walked to the window and glanced at the small blackboard in front of him.
The staple food and vegetables served today were written on the small blackboard. Qin Xiaoxiao ordered a portion of braised noodles with green peppers and fried eggs with leeks. After paying the money and food stamps, he found a place to sit.
After a while, the waiter called. Qin Xiaoxiao hurried over to serve the food. After sitting down, he took a bite of the noodles. Not to mention, it was really delicious. The noodles were chewy, the green peppers were tasty, the fried leeks were fresh and tender, and the eggs were even more flavourful. It's trembling, and the heat is controlled very well.
A large bowl of braised noodles with green peppers was eaten, and there was no scrambled eggs with leeks left. Qin Xiao was full of snacks.
Looking at the remaining food stamps in his hand, Qin Xiaoxiao decisively ordered twenty more vegetarian three-fresh buns and five kilograms of dumplings.
The waiter looked at her curiously and did not move. Qin Xiaoxiao smiled and said: "I'm going to the countryside soon. I want to have the last reunion dinner with my family, but I don't know how to cook, so..."
The waiter didn't ask any more questions. He glanced at Qin Xiaoxiao with a complicated expression, hiding the sympathy in his eyes.
Not long after, Qin Xiaoxiao left the state-owned hotel carrying the packed buns and dumplings.
After seeing how popular the state-owned hotels were, Qin Xiaoxiao had no intention of shopping anymore and was going to go to the street to complete the procedures for going to the countryside.
As a result, when she went to the street to sign up, she was invited into the director's office.
Opening the door, a middle-aged man with outstanding qualities looked up from behind his desk and was visibly relieved to see it was Qin Xiaoxiao.
"Qin Xiaoxiao, right? You are here. If you don't come, I will go to your house to look for you."
Qin Xiaoxiao realized something was wrong and said, "What's wrong? I'm Qin Xiaoxiao. Are you looking for me? What's the matter?"
Director Liu of the Educated Youth Office pushed up his glasses, "Do you know a man named Huang Yuan? Just now, he and his mother came over to sign up for you to go to the countryside. I happened to bump into you because I know your name. , knowing that you have decided to go to the countryside, let people drive them away.
Xiaoxiao, your Uncle Li and I have been old neighbors for many years. I am also considered half of your elders. I have also heard about your family’s affairs. As an elder who cares about you, there are some things I want to remind you. If something is wrong, please forgive me. You can also pretend that you didn’t hear me and just make up your own mind.
Xiaoxiao, you have to keep your eyes open when making friends. Don’t trust people so easily. If I hadn’t been here this time, you would have decided to go to the countryside. Have you thought about the consequences?
If we accept their offer and you have never thought about going to the countryside, will you have to go to the countryside?
What about your house and your job?
What if we arrange for you to go to the most difficult place after you go to the countryside? Can you bear that kind of suffering?
Xiaoxiao, you’re getting older too, so please be more careful. I’m going to say this. It’s up to you whether you want to listen or not. "
After hearing this, Qin Xiaoxiao was so angry that he almost cursed.
What a shameless family!
Oh, you Huang Yuan, you are waiting for me here!
Fortunately, I decided to go to the countryside and found someone to go to my hometown to go to the countryside. I was lucky enough for you to meet Director Liu, otherwise I would have fallen into your trap today.
Qin Xiaoxiao never expected that Huang Yuan had such a hand and dared to harm her.
Qin Xiaoxiao took a deep breath, smiled and thanked Director Liu.
"Thank you for this matter, Director Liu. This is what happened."
Qin Xiaoxiao explained what happened between himself and Huang Yuan, and also told Huang Yuan and his damn plan.
Want to be alone? no way!
If you dare to harm her, you will have to bear the consequences.
I'm gone, but you don't want to feel better. Don't ask for reputation or anything like that. Think of it as compensation for me.
After arriving home, Qin Xiaoxiao thought for a while, then went out to the neighbor's grandma Cheng's house, and sold her all the coal stamps and meat stamps that she couldn't use.
Then Qin Xiaoxiao borrowed a bicycle from Cheng's house and took all his luggage to the place where cotton was played.
Six quilts were turned into two double thick quilts and one thin quilt, plus a thick mattress, for a total of five yuan.
After agreeing to pick it up in three days, Qin Xiaoxiao packed up other items at home and prepared to mail them back to his hometown together with the bedding in three days.
The time to go to the countryside was ten days later. Qin Xiaoxiao walked through the streets and alleys of this fourth-tier town in the past few days. She didn't want to look for the black market. She just wanted to see what the city was like in the 1970s. She carried it on her back. Use your cell phone to record it as a souvenir.
As for the junkyard that all time-traveling women go to, Qin Xiaoxiao didn't go there, because there is no shortage of smart people in any era. Didn't you see that all the famous bosses in the country in future generations made their fortunes in this era? Qin Xiaoxiao didn't have the confidence to compete with them and felt that he didn't have the luck.
