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“Come on, come on, let me go with you to buy a bicycle first. I have never bought a bicycle in person before,” Qian Lailai excitedly pulled her to the bicycle counter.
When the people who were shopping around heard about bicycles, their eyes all glanced over.
Those who could get bicycle tickets were all rich and powerful people!
Yi Qingqing felt the way they looked at the rich and suddenly understood Qian Lailai’s excitement. In this era, buying a bicycle might be equivalent to buying a hovercraft in the previous life, right?
There was nothing to choose from. The bicycles all looked the same. They were Phoenix brand, and each one cost 150 yuan. She also needed a bicycle ticket. Most of the 200 yuan her mother gave her was spent in one go.
After giving the ticket and the money, she got the bicycle.
The whole process took less than five minutes.
“Qingqing, I’ll carry my things by myself today. Don’t let this new bicycle get crushed,” Qian Lailai said as she touched the shiny new bicycle.
It was hard for Yi Qingqing to be so generous that she was willing to help her carry things on her new bicycle.
Yi Qingqing didn’t think that it was not a big deal. “If you say that, then the free meal at our state-owned restaurant will be gone. Alas, it’s a pity. The joy of buying a bicycle can’t soothe the sadness of not being able to eat at a big restaurant.”
Qian Lailai pretended to pinch her waist, “…Eat, eat, eat. I’ll let you eat as much as you want!”
She didn’t say that she wouldn’t let Yi Qingqing carry the things. She just thought about buying as little as possible later. Anyway, there was a supply and marketing cooperative in the commune, so some things could be bought there.
The person pushing a brand-new bicycle was different wherever she went. Yi Qingqing used up all the daily necessities tickets her mother bought for her so that they would not expire later.
From beginning to end, she did not see a salesperson with a bad attitude, and they were all very enthusiastic.
In her backpack, there was an enamel basin, a kettle, a flashlight, two strips of toothpaste, a toothbrush, two bars of soap, a box of vanishing cream, and other things.
Qian Lailai bought toothpaste and a toothbrush and then pulled a few feet of coarse cloth, saying that she would separate the kang like her when she went back.
Then, the two of them went to the non-staple food store. Yi Qingqing bought a catty of maltose, a catty of fruit candy, and a catty of brown sugar.
“Why did you buy so many candies?” Qian Lailai asked curiously. She remembered that she hadn’t finished eating the fruit candy she brought.
What else could she do? Who made someone love candy?
In the future, she would have to find an opportunity to touch him when signing in, and it was less likely to be rejected if she used candy as an excuse.
This morning she tried it, and when she gave him candy, there would be physical contact.
However, these words could not be said, so Yi Qingqing just said that she loved to eat it.
“Be careful not to break your teeth if you eat so much candy.” Qian Lailai said with concern.
In addition to candy, Yi Qingqing also weighed two catties of meat and a bag of egg cakes and bought some oil, salt, and seasoning. When she saw the vegetables supplied, she thought of her private plots.
The educated youth point had its own private plots, which were opened by the old educated youth themselves, on both sides of the assembly hall.
If they wanted, they would have to open them by themselves.
After leaving the non-staple food store, she went to the grain station to exchange 10 catties of fine grains and a bundle of noodles. At this point, the only tickets her mother brought her were some grain tickets and meat tickets.
Looking at Yi Qingqing’s heavy backpack, Qian Lailai had a new understanding of her generosity. “You are too extravagant. How much coarse grain can you exchange for this fine grain? Do you have enough food tickets to eat like this?”
Qian Lailai’s family conditions were actually better than Yi Qingqing’s. Although they were a little biased toward boys, they didn’t treat her badly. It was just that she and her sister had to go to the countryside, and each of them couldn’t get much.
All the food tickets that could not be used up at home were given to the two of them, but this was only enough for her to barely fill her stomach. She dared not even think about fine grains.
“It’s enough. The team also lent us some coarse grains. It tastes better when mixed with it. Besides, the tickets my mother gave me are about to expire. She is afraid that I will save them and refuse to use them.” Said Yi Qingqing.
She didn’t want to torment her stomach in order to fit in with others, and a lie always needed to be covered up with more lies. She never knew when it would be exposed.
Besides, she had already bought a bicycle for 150 yuan, so a few catties of fine grains should not be a big deal.
Qian Lailai saw that she knew the situation, so she felt relieved. She was just worried that Yi Qingqing would use up all the tickets at once and go hungry later.
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Translator’s Little Encyclopedia
Rural Supply and Marketing Cooperatives
China’s supply and marketing cooperatives were established in the 1950s. They were created to act as a mechanism to distribute products and commodities, forming a bridge between cities and the countryside between industry and agriculture. Since the 1980s, they’ve undergone a series of reforms.
As a bridge between city and countryside, industry and agriculture, producer and consumer, Rural Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (RSMCs) play a key role in distributing commodities and purchasing rural products for some 800 million people in China.
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