On the Eve of Going to the Village (4)

Lu Xiaoxiao went to the tree to wait for the man first, but she did not take out the items. One had to be wary of others. It was never wrong to be careful.

Not long after, Lu Xiaoxiao saw the man from before walking over from afar. Seeing that only the man was approaching, she used the tree as a cover to take the things out of her space. Then, when the man came under the tree, she asked him to go forward and inspect the goods.

When the man heard Lu Xiaoxiao's words, he reached out and flipped through the rice and flour. He nodded in satisfaction and handed the tickets to Lu Xiaoxiao.

She took the ticket from the man and after checking it, she nodded at the man and left in a different direction.

Lu Xiaoxiao used the same method to make transactions with a few other people. When she saw that it was almost dawn, she found a private place to put the cloth around her head and basket back into the space. Then she took out a clean towel and wiped her face clean before walking towards the state-owned hotel.

She went to the state-run restaurant and ordered a bowl of porridge and a bun. After eating, she went home.

After returning home, Lu Xiaoxiao entered the villa to take a shower. Then, she transported out of the space with a cup of milk tea. After lighting the coal stove, she picked up the cloth bag and poured out all the tickets she had exchanged that day. At a glance, there were so many types of tickets that it was dizzying.

She roughly looked at the pile of tickets. There were food stamps, cloth stamps, meat stamps, sugar stamps, wine stamps, industrial stamps, and some miscellaneous stamps. The supply in the city was tight now. Even if they had stamps, they might not be able to buy anything. No wonder those people would exchange them for food with her.

After Lu Xiaoxiao arranged all the tickets, she planned to go to the supply and department store in the afternoon to buy what she needed.

She thought about how she was about to leave Jing City. No matter what, she had to say goodbye to Zhang De and his family. They were the first people to bring her warmth when she came to this world. They were a family that was sincerely good to her.

When Lu Xiaoxiao arrived at the department store in the afternoon, she saw that there were boots and rain shoes. She bought five pairs for each for men and women. She bought size 38 for woman's shoes and size 43 for man's shoes. These were meant to be exchanged with the locals in the countryside. Shoes were hard to come by there. One had to know that a pair of shoes cost eight industrial tickets and six yuan. Farmers were not workers and could not get many tickets a year. It was too difficult for them to buy a pair of shoes.

After Lu Xiaoxiao bought the shoes, she went to the place where sugar and pastries were sold. She bought three catties of white rabbit milk candy and five catties of fruit candy. Then, she bought two catties of brown sugar and two catties of white sugar with the remaining sugar tickets.

As there were too many things, Lu Xiaoxiao went out to find a place with no one around to store them in the space before entering the department store to continue buying.

When Lu Xiaoxiao arrived at the place where pastries were sold, she saw that there were only cakes and long biscuits. Coincidentally, she had enough pastry tickets to buy two catties each.

After buying the pastries, she saw that there were cigarettes sold a few counters away. She remembered that she had three cigarette tickets. One cigarette ticket could buy two packs of cigarettes, so she went over and bought four packs of Cooperation brand cigarettes and two packs of Hundred Flowers cigarettes.

Lu Xiaoxiao saw that there was a wine store at the counter next door. She thought about the four wine tickets in her hand and looked at the things in her hand, so she went out to put the things in her space before going in to buy wine.

Lu Xiaoxiao went to the wine shop and took out her tickets to buy two bottles of Wuliangye, a bottle of Fenjiu, and a bottle of Xifeng Wine. She wanted to buy Maotai, but unfortunately, she did not have the high-grade wine ticket.

When she was paying, the woman at the counter asked her how she could buy so many things at such a young age. She had seen her buying things at a few counters just now. Where did she get so much money and tickets?

When Lu Xiaoxiao heard the other party's sarcastic tone, she knew that she was jealous and wanted to cause trouble. When she saw that the people at the other counters were also craning their necks to watch the commotion, Lu Xiaoxiao sighed at her own carelessness. Fortunately, she had gone out a few times. Otherwise, the scene of her holding everything in her hands would be terrifying.

Hence, Lu Xiaoxiao said loudly, "Sister, my two brothers are getting married and the time is tight. The tickets that my family has saved up for a long time are for my two brothers to use when they get married. There are a lot of things that we need to buy now. My mother is looking at things outside, so I came in to buy. It's difficult to walk with too many things. It won't be good if we bump into something."

When the onlookers heard Lu Xiaoxiao's words, they all nodded. Now that it was a big deal for someone in the family to get married, they basically had to start preparing things half a year in advance. There were many people who did it a year in advance. When the wine seller saw this, she snorted and turned to chat with the cigarette seller.

After Lu Xiaoxiao carried a few bottles out of the department store, she put the wine into her space and entered the department store to continue shopping. Since the situation had become like this, she planned to use this excuse to use up all the tickets.

Then, Lu Xiaoxiao went to the second floor and bought a pair of plum blossom watches for man and woman. When she saw that the imported watches did not cost tickets, and she liked the Omega model very much, she bought one too.

After Lu Xiaoxiao bought the watch, she thought about how her remaining tickets were all for small items, so she left the department store and went to the supply store. When Lu Xiaoxiao left the building, she even heard the wine seller exclaim about how she had finished her purchase so quickly and she even thought Lu Xiaoxiao had more tickets. There were strange people every year and it was exceptionally more that year.