The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 45, Shopping

At 07:30 in the morning, Li Weiguo was ready to go out early in the morning.

I made an appointment with Zhou Can a few days ago to go to his house for lunch today, so I asked for leave from Master Wang Zhenhai in advance.

If you come to eat at home, you have to prepare some decent gifts, not too shabby.

Apart from food, there are few other things in the space, but there are a lot of tickets, but I haven't had time to buy them yet.

Simply get up early and go to the department store.

Put on your clothes and shoes and leave as soon as you want.

Close the door, push the car, and walk out of the courtyard.

Suddenly, the little girl He Yushui appeared from behind.

He patted Li Weiguo on the shoulder: "Hey Brother Weiguo, where are you going during your break today?"

"Go to the department store and buy something." Looking back, it was this girl, Li Weiguo smiled and gave her a pat on the head.

"Department store? Wow, I want to go too. Can you bring me Brother Weiguo?" Yuyu leaned over and hugged Li Weiguo's arm with both hands and said coquettishly.

Since this little girl got acquainted with Li Weiguo, she has grown a lot more courageous, and she doesn't see outsiders at all.

"Okay, let's go."

Li Weiguo secretly shook his head, and the pair of A's imitated other people's gestures of holding hands and acting coquettishly.
It's not appropriate not to take her so hard, forget it, take her.

"Alright, let's go."

After leaving the courtyard gate, Li Weiguo took He Yuyue and rode slowly to the Imperial Department Store.

There are still many pedestrians on weekends. It is rare to have a day off, so many people get up early.

Those who go shopping, go out to play, and buy things, the more you go to Wangfujing Street, the more people there are.

When we arrived at the Imperial Department Store, there were even more people. You could see a large number of people coming in and out at the gate, and the nine entrances and exits seemed not enough.

Store the car in the parking shed, hold Yushui's hand, and slowly walk inside along the flow of people.

It took several minutes to get through waves of people before reaching the stairs.

Don't say anything, hold Yushui's hand and hurry upstairs. There is no way to go shopping on the first floor. There are too many people and noisy, and the crowded people are uncomfortable.

On the second floor, there are not so many people, and even breathing feels much more natural and smooth.

He Yushui looked at the various commodities around him curiously, and was almost lost. He grabbed Li Weiguo's hand and asked, "Brother Weiguo, what should we buy?"

"Well, it's not decided yet, let's go shopping first, and we'll buy whatever we fancy."

The two wandered aimlessly on the second floor, which mainly sells clothes, shoes and hats, cloth, children's clothes, toys, models and so on.

Although there are not many varieties, it is one of the very popular places.

Ordinary people only save a few feet of cloth throughout the year, but don't they just hope to buy a few feet of good cloth for tailor-made clothes?

When he came to the wardrobe counter, Li Weiguo realized that he didn't seem to have much clothes. He usually wore uniforms to work and his daily clothes were relatively shabby.

I didn’t know how to make it myself, so I simply bought ready-made clothes and wore them first. I pointed to the polyester-cotton khaki men’s uniforms hanging on the wall behind the counter and asked, “Comrade, how do you sell poly-cotton khaki men’s uniforms?”

"The jacket is 19 yuan, and the cloth ticket is 7 feet and 14 inches; the trousers are 7 yuan, and the cloth ticket is [-] feet."

"Take one set, and two for the other handkerchief." Li Weiguo saw that there were finished handkerchiefs, and pointed to the checkered and plum blossom handkerchiefs to the salesperson.

The salesperson took the abacus in hand, and counted it cracklingly: "A total of 35 yuan, cloth tickets 14 feet 6 inches, and 2 handkerchief tickets."

"Okay, let's issue the ticket." Li Weiguo took out the money ticket and handed it to the salesperson.

The salesperson took the bill and checked it for confirmation, then quickly opened a bill, clamped the bill and the bill together, put it on the wire above his head, and pushed it to the cashier on the other side.

After a while, the cashier threw the bill back again.

After taking off the receipt, the salesperson quickly packed the clothes and handkerchiefs and handed them to Li Weiguo.

After receiving the clothes, Li Weiguo took out a handkerchief from it and handed it to Yushui: "Yushui, this is for you, plum blossoms are very suitable for you."

"And me, thank you, Brother Wei, this is the first time someone has given me something." Yushui blushed slightly, and happily took it.

After visiting the second floor, Li Weiguo led He Yushui to the third floor. The third floor is mostly large household items, such as bicycles, watches, sewing machines, radios, TV sets and various non-staple foods, all of which are relatively high-end products.

It was the first time I saw so many big things, and even the rain was lost in my eyes.

When he walked to the watch counter, Li Weiguo suddenly remembered that his master seemed to have given him a watch ticket, and he almost forgot about it when he threw it in the space.

Now that you're here, let's buy it, it's really hard to tell the time without a watch.

After all, it is not a later life. Everyone has a mobile phone and can determine the time at any time.

Pulling the confused rain, he walked to the watch counter and glanced at the dazzling array of watches in the counter.

Shanghai card, plum blossom card, seagull card, peacock card, Roman card, Yingnag, gas needle
Seeing Li Weiguo looking around at the watch counter, Yushui asked curiously, "Brother Weiguo, do you want to buy a watch?"

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Well, I happened to have a ticket and bought a good time to watch it."

As he spoke, he took out the watch ticket from his pocket and took a look at it.

Oh, you can only buy Shanghai brand. Foreign brands require imported watch tickets, and you can't buy them without tickets.

That's all, it's just to tell the time, it's all the same, our domestic ones are not bad, classic.

So he pointed to the Shanghai brand on the counter and asked, "Comrade, how much is a Shanghai brand watch for me?"

"An all-steel anti-shock watch is 120 yuan, and a semi-steel anti-shock watch is 90 yuan. Tickets are required." The salesperson glanced at them and said lazily.

Li Weiguo thought for a while and decided to just buy the good ones. It would give him face when he goes out.

"I want a piece of all-steel shockproof." He said and took out a money ticket and handed it to the salesperson.

The salesperson took the bill and performed the same operation again. The bills were flying around above his head. When he was done, he took out a brand new Shanghai brand all-steel shockproof watch from the counter and handed it to Li Weiguo along with the bill. .

Take the watch, adjust the time, put on the bracelet, and put it on directly.

Fortunately, Li Weiguo's wrist was big enough, so he didn't need to adjust the strap, it just fit.

Shanghai brand watches were launched in Shanghai Sanhuo Store on July 1958, 7. Once on the market, they became a new fashion and were so popular that they even had to queue up all night to buy them.

Poor cars, rich watches.

In this era, wearing a Shanghai brand to work and go to the street is fashionable, and it is more beautiful than riding a [-] bar.

"Brother Weiguo, did you spend 120 yuan like this?"

It cost one hundred and twenty in the blink of an eye, which made Yu Yu’s head buzz with shock, and he couldn’t calm down for a long time.

Usually, when she eats at school, Shazhu always pays her a few cents for her food, and she has never seen a scene where she spent 120 once.

"Well, isn't it about spending money? Silly girl, let's go buy some other things." Li Weiguo smiled and touched her head.

"oh oh."

Then the two of them held hands and looked around, and before they knew it, they reached the non-staple food counter.

It's raining now that it's hard to walk. Looking straight at the two kinds of snacks on the non-staple food counter, and swallowing constantly, it made her greedy.

Li Weiguo glanced at the greedy cat next to him, shook his head helplessly, took her hand and walked to the non-staple food counter.

He collected a lot of non-staple food tickets, such as candies, biscuits, canned fruits, canned meat, candied fruits, peanuts, melon seeds, etc., a lot.

When he came here, Li Weiguo was not polite. He took out a stack of food stamps from his pocket and handed them to the saleswoman: "Comrade, please help me calculate how much it will cost."

The eldest sister of the salesperson was taken aback, looked at the ticket in her hand, and then at the brand new watch on Li Weiguo's left hand, her eyes were shining brightly.

"Oh, comrade, you really have the ability to make so many good things."

Such old tickets really made the salesperson look sideways for a while, and even her attitude became extremely enthusiastic.

He took the abacus and divided it by three times five and divided it by two: "If you buy all these tickets, you will get 86 yuan and six."

"Okay, let's buy them all, I'm too lazy to run away next time." Li Weiguo fumbled out a wad of money arrogantly, counted out the corresponding amount, and handed it over.

The eldest sister of the salesperson took the money, and asked jokingly while packing: "Young man, do you have a partner, or can I introduce you to one? Girls in our department store are in short supply, and the family conditions that can come to work here are good. It's a decent job."

Before Li Weiguo could answer, Yushui preempted by a ghost and said: "Yes, don't worry about it, you can pack it quickly." After speaking, his face turned red like a fire.

"You can't tell, the little girl has such a sharp eye, she has been eyeing her for a long time. You have to hurry up, little girl, there are many people who are greedy for such a good partner, hehehe" the salesperson's aunt immediately teased.

The 15-year-old girl was no match for the old driver, she blushed with a few words, and didn't dare to lift her head.

After the eldest sister of the salesperson had finished packing, she quickly took five or six packed net bags, grabbed Li Weiguo and fled.

　Alas, there are always people who say that you have to eat peanuts if you hold hands with me. There is no way, so I want to explain it here.

　　I don’t know if you have seen the department stores in that era. There are huge crowds of people, shoulder to shoulder.

　　In addition, you can check when Liu Mangzhi came out, and you will probably know whether the idea of ​​holding hands and eating peanuts before the 80s is reliable.The atmosphere at that time was conservative at best, not as scary as everyone thought.I don’t know when it started, and I don’t know who made it up. They described the environment at that time in such a bad way, but most people believed it.Readers who don’t know the truth can just believe it, but some writers actually believe it too, and continue to write and deceive along with it... I’m really speechless.Here, I want to say something, fellow veterans, every era has its own characteristics, so don’t jump to the wrong page. As I said before, when reading chronology, you need to read and think for yourself, don’t follow what others say...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)