Chapter 178: Chapter 178 Scaring the Children Chapter 178: Chapter 178 Scaring the Children Wandering the streets and alleys?
Do you think I believe that?
Captain Zhao was aware of the changes happening outside.
“For Da Bao and Xiao Bao to eat.”
“We still have so at ho.”
Yun Xiaoxiao said, went into the central room, and began taking items out of the vegetable basket one by one.
“These are nylon socks, warm to wear in winter.”
Nylon socks?
Mrs. Zhao knew about this item; one daughter had married into town and was given a pair of nylon socks this year, which she’d shown off for months.
And now Da Bao’s mother had brought over two pairs all at once.
“Are these bananas?”
Captain Zhao glanced up and also saw the bananas on the table.
“They look like plantains.”
“We have to wait a few days for these, the banana peel has to turn yellow before you can eat them. As for the apples, I’ve heard they co from the Northeast, but I don’t know if that’s true.”
The apples were not small, and the fragrance was enticing.
“Dad, Mom, we’re going to head back first.”
Mrs. Zhao, looking at these items, nodded, “Alright.”
Seeing Yun Xiaoxiao leave, she quickly put everything from the table away in the room, feeling the nylon socks, so thick and instantly warming to the touch.
“Old man, why are you keeping such a straight face? Even though Da Bao’s wife doesn’t work the fields, her parents have been sending her parcels and money for all these years. Laosan hasn’t said a word about it, and here you are, her father-in-law, can’t you just turn a blind eye?”
He hadn’t been keeping a straight face; he’d always been like this.
Now he was getting blad for it.
Fang iyun had also arrived ho by then.
“Grandma, I’m back.” Fang iyun was in a particularly good mood.
Grandma Fang, upon seeing her granddaughter return, looked at her kindly, “Going to town with Shitou’s wife, what did you buy?”
Fang iyun’s smile broadened, she imdiately pulled Grandma Fang to the room, and only after peeling off the patched cloth covering, revealed what was inside.
“I went to town initially to buy so soy sauce and vinegar, but sister-in-law was lucky. She got so goods from soone else, and I bought them from her: towels for one yuan apiece, no ration coupons needed, socks for 50 cents a pair, two apples, four bananas for one yuan.”
Apples this big, only 50 cents for two?
And bananas?
Such fruits were rarely seen around here, transported from other places to be sold in their region.
And nylon socks for just 50 cents a pair?
No ration coupons needed?
All these items, they normally required coupons, and the Cooperative might not even have them in stock.
Their family had struck quite a bargain.
“Sister-in-law said the bananas should be left to turn yellow and soften before we eat them.”
Fang iyun also thought of the aunties she t today, “Grandma, you have no idea, on our way back today, those aunties were nearly dying to peek into sister-in-law’s pack to see what good things were inside.”
“It seems the incident with Wang Laowu didn’t make them learn their lesson.”
Fang iyun nodded in agreent, “With Third Brother and the others not at ho, and sister-in-law managing on her own with the kids, they’re fearless.”
“Don’t worry about those gossips; let’s go cook.”
Back with Yun Xiaoxiao, upon her return, she took out a bottle of soda.
“You brothers share one bottle; you kids are young and can’t drink too much of this stuff. Otherwise, whatever color the soda is, that’s what color your tongues will turn.”
Da Bao and Xiao Bao were startled; they had drunk it before and it had never happened.
“Go ahead, I’ll get you a mirror.”
She warned them, beverages were not to be consud in excess; this was one way to keep them from asking for more.
“Brother, let take a sip and see.”
Xiao Bao took a sip from the enal mug and then stuck out his tongue, asking unintelligibly, “Did it change color?”
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