bookbashuk Chapter 125 Familiarizing Yourself in Advance
Chapter 125 Familiarizing Yourself in Advance
Judging by the material and workmanship, it must be expensive; it's obviously a high-quality product.
Qin Yunzhou chuckled softly, appearing even more refined and handsome, his voice clear and melodious.
"I can't get the exact same one right now, but I can try something similar in style."
For items sold in foreign exchange shops, special foreign exchange tickets are required.
He doesn't actually have that thing right now.
Even if he managed to get the foreign exchange bills back, they didn't include the women's version of the watch he had.
Therefore, I can only ask someone to look for a similar style.
Xu Sui pursed her lips. "Okay."
"No rush, take your time. I'm not in a hurry to use it right now."
In just a few days, she will be starting work at the grain depot.
The salary for this position is higher than that of a regular worker, at 33.5 yuan, and the benefits are also good. The company will occasionally provide fruit or other agricultural products to the employees.
Female employees would receive half a jin of brown sugar coupons and some milk powder coupons during childbirth. Just this alone made their treatment better than many other companies.
Not to mention the other benefits during holidays and festivals.
Although they didn't manage to buy the watch, the two of them didn't go back for a while.
Xu Sui's belly is getting bigger, and her old clothes are getting too tight, so she has to get new fabric and make new clothes.
Especially since it's confirmed she's carrying twins, and twin pregnancies grow much faster, the clothes that fit now might not fit in a few days.
Before Qin Yunzhou came, he brought all the cloth coupons he had. It wasn't much; it was only enough to buy twenty or thirty feet of cloth, just enough to make one set of clothes.
In years of famine, the shortage was not only of food, but also of cloth coupons, cotton coupons, and other supplies.
He held a high position in the army and had a lot of cloth coupons before, which he had kept but hadn't used much. However, when he got married, he bought this and that, and used them all up.
These things I have now were obtained by exchanging them with someone in the army back then.
In this day and age, the cloth coupons that an ordinary family saves up throughout the year may not even be enough to make a single set of clothes; patches on clothes are a common sight.
As long as the clothes are clean and have no patches, they are considered decent clothes by most people.
"Let's hold onto these cloth ration coupons for now and take the cloth back. I'll figure out what to do if we don't have enough later." Qin Yunzhou, a grown man, had always lived and worked in the army and never had to make his own clothes.
He didn't really have a concept of how many cloth coupons were needed to make a set of clothes.
However, looking at the older women ahead of me, they took out the eight or nine feet of cloth coupons they had painstakingly saved up for half a year to buy cloth, only to end up with very little cloth at all.
He roughly understood that the twenty-five feet of cloth ration coupons in his hand were actually only enough for one set of clothes for Xu Sui.
Xu Sui didn't think Qin Yunzhou gave too few cloth coupons. As far as she knew, with so many people in the Qin family, the cloth coupons they painstakingly saved up throughout the year were only enough to make a set of clothes for one or two people in the family.
"It's alright, let's leave it at that for now."
"We'll talk about what happens next later."
She doesn't actually lack fabric much; ever since her mother found out she was pregnant, she's been making plans for her.
The textile factory lacked everything, but it never lacked cloth, especially defective cloth, which was a valuable commodity that ordinary people couldn't obtain without connections.
Don't be fooled by the flaws; if you just cut them off or cover them up, you'll have a good piece of material.
The reason she used to have so many clothes was that most of them were made for her by her mother using flawed fabric.
……
I bought some things and just stepped into the courtyard.
The sound of a radio telling a story came from inside the Qin family's house.
It wasn't just Grandma Qin and Tian Hua sitting together listening; there were also Qin Hai and Qin Yan, siblings who had just come home from school, Xu Sui's younger brother Xu Fei, and a neighbor from the courtyard, among others.
Everyone was gathered around the radio, listening intently, chatting and laughing.
Xu Sui usually keeps this radio outside so that anyone in the family can listen to it when they have nothing to do.
Sometimes, when she gets tired of studying, she likes to take a break.
"Xiaofei, your sister and brother-in-law are back. They're quite obedient. Hurry up and do your homework."
The radio was placed in the open space in the very middle of the group of people.
Xu Fei and Qin Hai, along with a few other children, carried a small stool and stood guard there, preventing the adults from changing the channel.
They love listening to storytelling, and the adults love listening to operas, singing along endlessly.
In particular, Old Lady Qin and Aunt Liu, who lived in the same courtyard, loved listening to operas.
As soon as the two saw Xu Sui and the others return, they immediately teased Xu Fei, since everyone in this compound was a neighbor and most of them knew him.
Xu Fei is fearless, except for his sister Xu Sui.
No sooner had Old Lady Qin finished speaking than...
The next second, Xu Fei froze, forgetting even about the small stool, and immediately rummaged through his schoolbag to find his books and homework.
Unfortunately, it's still a step too late.
Xu Sui had already walked over and noticed all of someone's little actions.
She walked directly up to Xu Fei and reached out to turn the book around for him.
"The book is upside down. Also, you need to use a pen to do your homework. Your fingers don't have ink or pen ink, so you can't write."
Xu Fei: "..."
He looked down and saw that it really was.
I was actually using two fingers as a pen, pretending to be engrossed in doing my homework, and I was even holding the book upside down.
Oh my god, how silly.
He's such a big idiot.
Xu Fei lowered his head sullenly, and for the first time began to doubt his own intelligence, and even wondered if he and Xu Sui were born to the same parents.
Otherwise, how could Xu Sui learn so easily and pass the first test so effortlessly? Even though he graduated many years ago, there are still teachers in the elementary school he attends that remember Xu Sui's name.
As a result, he also got a nickname: Xu Sui's younger brother, and no one called him Xu Fei anymore.
"Sis, I'm sorry, I was wrong. I shouldn't have come to play before finishing my homework." Xu Fei lowered his head, his attitude of admitting his mistake was extremely good.
"I promise I won't do it again next time."
Xu Sui sighed and called the person into the house, along with his homework.
Seeing this, Qin Hai and Qin Yan, the brother and sister, silently took out their homework and started writing.
Grandma Qin, who loves listening to opera, was delighted and quickly tuned the radio to the opera channel, listening to the opera while watching the excitement.
She knew that as long as Xu Sui could control this kid.
In the room.
Xiao Fen and Du Mei are mending clothes.
Qin Yunzhou followed him inside. He stood beside Xu Sui, glanced at his brother-in-law bowing his head in apology, and at the homework in his brother-in-law's hand, and immediately understood what had happened.
"I happen to have some free time, so how about this: Xiaofei can bring his homework and textbooks to my house after school every day, and I'll tutor him."
It's good to get familiar with him in advance so that he can better guide his two children after they are born.
Before Xu Sui could say anything, Xu Fei was already excited. His eyes lit up and he immediately hugged Qin Yunzhou's uninjured left leg.
"That's great, brother-in-law, I knew you cared about me."
"But I'm a little slow, brother-in-law, you can't look down on me for being slow. Of course, I'll try my best to learn from you."
He had previously thought that he could improve his grades quickly in a short period of time and become a good student like Xu Sui.
However, he overestimated himself.