“Your daughter is thirteen this year. Girls of this age are cute and beautiful. If conditions permit, make a new dress for your daughter, a new pair of shoes, or buy some hair flowers and handkerchiefs. Oh, and some vanishing cream. This kind of fragrant cream is loved by women of all ages.”
“I bought a box for my wife before, but my daughter used up most of it, which made her very angry. In order to protect my daughter from being beaten by her mother, I used up my own pocket money to buy her another can…”
This man was also very outgoing and talkative. He was not shy at all and kept talking about his family affairs.
However, he was indeed a good father. When it came to matters related to his daughter, he always had something to say.
Xie Changzheng sat on the back seat of the bicycle and listened carefully. These would be the teaching materials for him to coax his daughter in the future.
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After all, Xie Changzheng was reborn from the future. He didn’t think much of the goods provided by the supply and marketing cooperative in this era. However, due to the times and limited supplies, Xie Changzheng could only pick out the best from the worst and try to pick out some things that his daughter might like.
In addition to white sugar and brown sugar, the supply and marketing cooperative only sells two kinds of candy. One is ordinary assorted candy, which costs 1.2 yuan per pound. The other is fruit candy, which is sold by the piece, one cent each, and there are many flavors to choose from.
In the past, Xie Changzheng’s allowances were all sent back to his hometown. But this time, when he was injured on the battlefield and returned to his hometown for recuperation, the army gave him a subsidy and bonus, most of which he gave to the families of his fallen comrades, and the remaining small part was hidden by himself.
In addition, before returning home, he asked his comrades to exchange some tickets.
In addition to the brown sugar that the doctor had told him could replenish blood, he also used the sugar tickets to buy a lot of candy for his daughter.
In addition to candies, Xie Changzheng also found some good things in the supply and marketing cooperative, such as salted dates and fruit leather. These snacks did not require tickets, and a small bag could be bought for three cents.
Xie Changzheng recalled the day when he and Xu Chunxiu got married. He brought Xu Chunxiu to the county town and bought her a bag of salted dates. At that time, Xu Chunxiu was still a shy girl, but she was still brave enough to stuff a few into his mouth when there was no one around and ask him if they tasted good.
For Xie Changzheng, this happened more than 60 years ago, but when he thought back, the scenes were still vivid in his mind.
Since when did that shy but bold girl become a lifeless and timid woman?
Feeling an indescribable sense of guilt, Xie Changzheng couldn’t help but buy several bags of salted dates and fruit leather and put them together with the bag of candy.
“Comrade, do you have brightly colored fabrics here?”
After buying snacks, Xie Changzheng wanted to buy some fabrics to make new clothes for his wife and daughter.
He noticed that the clothes on his wife and daughter had been washed to the point of losing their original colors, and there were patches of various sizes on them.
The clothes on his daughter Xie Wu did not even fit her well and were obviously old clothes that had been given away by others.
Because of his experience in the previous life, he had long known that the cloth tickets he sent home were probably not used on his wife and daughter at all. But when he really saw them, he couldn’t help but feel sad and blame himself.
“No.”
The female comrade guarding the fabric counter was knitting sweaters by herself, not even bothering to lift her eyelids.
Xie Changzheng didn’t react for a while.
It took a long time before he realized that it was still 1974, and the Great Revolution had not yet ended completely. The mainstream colors of this era were still black, blue, gray, and green.
He felt that the brightly colored fabrics that might be suitable for his daughter would have to wait at least four or five years before they would reappear in people’s daily lives.
“Comrade, please bring me that off-white cloth.”
Xie Changzheng looked at the few pieces of fabric on the counter, and a piece of cotton fabric with a warm yellow hue caught his eye.
“How much?”
The female comrade guarding the counter spoke briefly, put down the knitting needles in her hand, pulled over the cloth that Xie Changzheng liked, and asked impatiently.
“I want…”
Xie Changzheng took out a lot of tickets from his pocket, but there were not many clothes tickets among them because clothes tickets were also relatively rare in this era, and almost everyone was short of clothes tickets.
The tickets that Xie Changzheng had sent home before were all in the hands of the old lady. Because he was eager to go home after his rebirth, Xie Changzheng did not have enough time to exchange more clothes tickets with his comrades.
At this time, the clothes tickets in his hand were only enough to buy more than two feet of cotton fabric.
“Comrade, how much fabric do you need to make a dress for a woman with a body shape similar to yours and a child around ten years old?”
After all, Xie Changzheng is a person who has been reborn, and he is actually a little unfamiliar with many things of this era, such as the fact that it is still in a planned economy and that life requires tickets everywhere.
In later generations, many things are too convenient. Clothes and shoes can be purchased online, and there is no need to cut fabrics to make clothes by yourself.
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