Chapter 230 That Man Will Shine

The supply and marketing cooperative is as prosperous as ever, selling all kinds of daily necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Yue Feng comes here relatively often, so he is no longer surprised by many things. However, Wang Xiaona only came here once with her father last year, around the Chinese New Year. She didn’t even get into the house and was outside showing off the bicycle to her father.

It’s a bit sad to say it. As a girl of this age, this is the first time for me to enter the door of the supply and marketing cooperative in the city.

“There are so many things in this supply and marketing cooperative!”

Wang Xiaona looked around like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden. Some of the things she knew, but there were many things she had never seen before.

“Of course. Look at the butterfly hairpin on the counter over there. The one I gave you was bought here! Sister Li helped me pick it out! If there’s anything you like, I’ll buy it for you.”

Yue Feng had already made plans to buy something for his wife and spend a lot of money, but Wang Xiaona looked at this and asked that, and in the end just asked Yue Feng to help buy some dragon beard candy.

“Buy some candies and bring them back for Xiaoyu and me! We won’t buy anything else!” Wang Xiaona said to Yue Feng in a low voice while enduring the day.

The more his wife said this, the more distressed Yue Feng felt.

This silly girl, after finally getting into the city, is still thinking about saving money for herself.

Yue Feng actually has no experience in buying things for girls, but he is not afraid because he has a military advisor next to him.

Yue Feng walked up to Li Li and whispered, “Sister, I want to buy something for Xiao Na, but I don’t know how to buy it. Can you help me?”

Li Li has worked in the supply and marketing cooperative for many years. She has much more experience in this area than Yue Feng. She immediately smiled and said, “This is easy. Do you have the cloth coupons? The supply and marketing cooperative has just received a new style of large floral cloth. You can buy some cloth to make a dress for your sister-in-law!”

Rip the cloth to make clothes? That’s a good suggestion!
“I have it with me, but I don’t know if it’s enough!” Yue Feng rummaged in his pocket, took out all the bills on his body, and then found the cloth coupons and put them together.

“It’s okay. If it’s not enough, I’ll make it up to you. Just pay me back when you have more. Wait, I’ll go get it for you. It’s new stock that just arrived this morning and hasn’t been put on the shelf yet!”

Li Li greeted them, turned around and went to the warehouse at the back, then returned to the counter with a few large rolls of cloth.

“Xiao Na, take a look at these pieces of cloth. Which pattern do you like? Let my brother get some cloth to make new clothes for you!” Li Li asked enthusiastically.

“This…” Wang Xiaona felt a little embarrassed. She liked it very much, but she didn’t want to open her mouth. She always felt that this thing was too expensive.

“What are you talking about? Take a quick look. If you like any of them, let me pick them for you. Hurry!”

Yue Feng took Wang Xiaona’s hand and walked a few steps towards the cloth roll so that the little girl could see it more clearly.

“This blue cloth print looks more beautiful and elegant!” said Wang Xiaona.

“Okay, let’s take this! Cotton-padded jacket and cotton pants, all included, how many meters of cloth do we need? Sister Li, I don’t quite understand, do you know?”

Yue Feng made the decision, but was a little confused when he was making the decision. He was an expert in falconry and hunting, but he really didn’t understand the trivialities of daily life.

Li Li looked at Wang Xiaona’s body shape, height and other general data, and then said: “Xiaona is tall, so we need to have a little more cloth. If we want to make a cotton coat for the upper body, about 2.5 to 3 meters of cloth should be enough!

If you include cotton trousers, adding another 1.5 to 2 meters will definitely be enough, maybe a little extra.

This piece of blue floral cloth is of the best quality, and its price is slightly higher than the other two pieces. Normally, it is 3.5 yuan per meter. I will help you get our internal employee price, 3.1 yuan per meter!”

“Then let’s talk about five meters! I still have four and a half meters of cloth coupons in my hand. Please help me add the rest. I’ll pay you back when I come back later!”

“Okay! Then I’ll be the one to talk nonsense!”

“Well then!”

After deciding on the style and length, Li Li measured the length with a ruler, then used scissors to cut a slit, and then, holding the two ends in her hands, she pulled the printed cotton cloth off with a “swish”.

This is how the phrase “chebu chebu” came about. I have to admire the application of the Chinese language, it is quite vivid.

After pulling the cloth, Yue Feng strolled around the grocery counter again.

“Weigh four pounds of dried apricots, and pack them in two pounds each! We need two pounds of Bu Lao Lin sugar, and pack them in one pound each. We need ten pounds of frozen pears, and pack them in two pieces of five pounds each. We need ten pounds of frozen persimmons, and pack them in two pieces of five pounds each!
Then there are canned foods. Sister, does our supply and marketing cooperative have canned oranges? Xiaona has a mouth ulcer, eating some canned oranges may help! “

“Yes, wait for me to find it for you!”

“Take four cans of oranges and four cans of peaches!”

Yue Feng waved his hand and bought a bunch of side dishes that Xiao Na liked. “Xiao Feng, we can just buy less. How much does it cost?”

Seeing her boyfriend shopping like crazy, Wang Xiaona was almost crying. How could he buy things like that? No matter how much money he had, he couldn’t resist spending like that.

Yue Feng grinned: “This is just a drop in the bucket, it won’t cost much! We have limited food coupons, so we can only buy these!

Wait for me to ask my friend to get some more tickets, and I’ll buy you some of the other dishes you haven’t tried!

I finally drove into the city. Normally, when I come here, I buy too many things and it’s hard to bring them back! Be good and I’ll buy them for you and take them with me!”

Li Li, who was standing by, also chimed in at the right time, saying with a smile: “Sister-in-law, don’t save money for me. I have the ability, and this little thing won’t cost him much. When you get married, you will enjoy a lot in the future, and I will definitely not treat you badly!”

“Hehehe! Sister Li, I feel a little proud that you praise me like this!” Yue Feng scratched his head and grinned.

Soon, all the big and small packages were packed and weighed. After a total calculation, it only cost more than 30 yuan. The bulk of the money was cotton cloth and canned food, and the other small things were only a few cents each, so it wouldn’t cost much to buy a bunch.

Yue Feng took out the receipts and cash and paid on the spot. Then Li Li lent a hand and helped carry the purchases to the carriage in the backyard.

When they were ready to leave, Yue Feng took out a piece of deer leg meat weighing four or five pounds from the back of the carriage.

“Sister, this is the venison I brought back from hunting in the mountains! There isn’t much of it, and I didn’t prepare any for other people, so I wasn’t in a hurry to take it out when I came. You can try it with your brother-in-law later, it’s a token of my appreciation!” Yue Feng said with a smile.

“Ah! You and your sister are still outsiders, little brother, you always bring me things every time you come back!”

Li Like is a connoisseur of goods. In terms of market price, venison is more valuable than wild boar meat and blind bear meat.

Ever since he accepted this adopted brother, Yue Feng has been bringing her many gifts. Not only for her, but also for other leaders and colleagues in the supply and marketing cooperative. This has greatly improved Li Li’s status in the unit.

“It’s not a rare thing. It’s the only thing you can find in the mountains. Just give it a try! It’s getting late. We have to go home before dark! I won’t talk to you anymore!”

“Okay, I’ll open the door for you. Please be careful on the road. Be careful when you get to the second entrance. I heard that someone was extorting money a few days ago!” Li Li warned.

“Don’t worry, it’s okay! There’s a gun in the car!” Yue Feng nodded.

Soon, the backyard gate opened, and Yue Feng led the carriage out of the yard. He then jumped into the cab, gently pulled the reins of the chestnut horse, gave the start command, and the chestnut horse started to move.

When they were alone, Wang Xiaona finally said what she had been holding back: “Xiaofeng, I think we were a little irrational in buying things today! It’s not good to spend money so lavishly!”

Yue Feng felt warmed at heart when he heard his silly wife’s words.

Only a woman who truly wants to live with you will control you and not let you spend money on her. If it is a selfish woman like your sister-in-law, she may even think that you don’t spend enough on her.

“Don’t worry, this little money won’t make me broke! As the leader of our hunting team, I get most of it! The income from falconry every other day is pretty stable too! Not to mention that we don’t go to the city every day, even if we come here once a day to make purchases, we can still afford it!”

It’s only thirty yuan a day, which is a huge amount of money comparable to a worker’s monthly salary for ordinary people. But in Yue Feng, it is not considered a lot of money now. It’s not easy for him to bring his wife to the city for the first time, so he can’t be stingy.

“Well… that’s not the way to spend it! There are many other places to spend money. When we get married, you have to build a new house, right?”

The more Wang Xiaona spoke, the lower her voice became. When she mentioned building a new house, the sound was barely more than the humming of a mosquito.

It’s not that she’s embarrassed or anything, but as a young girl who isn’t engaged yet, it’s a bit awkward for her to bring up these things.

“How much does it cost to build a new house! Even if it’s a brick and tile house, we can build four rooms, and it will only cost more than a thousand yuan! Not to mention four rooms, even if we build ten or twenty rooms, the money will be enough after I sell the bear gall at home!” Yue Feng said confidently.

As the old saying goes, money is a man’s courage, and this is indeed true. In his previous life, when he was 20 years old, Yue Feng was still a timid and incapable boy. What’s wrong with that?

What they lack is experience, ability, and even more, money.

After being reborn, Yue Feng has successfully overcome the difficulties faced by ordinary people in contemporary times in their struggle to survive in just a few months, and no longer has to worry about dealing with those trivial matters.

At this moment, Wang Xiaona looked at Yue Feng, who was the same age as her, and felt that this man exuded an indescribable charm, as if he was facing the sun and his whole body was glowing.

The two men drove the carriage while talking in low voices, and before they knew it, they were out of the city.

On the other side, next to Erdaokouzi, in a deserted forest not far from the old railway track, four people wrapped in tattered cotton jackets and wearing dog-skin hats had been lying in a snow pit on the side of the road for quite some time.

The big man in the lead turned around and asked, “Pihou, are you sure you saw that fat sheep heading out of the city?”

(End of this chapter)