sbdcsierra Chapter 3 Leaving
Chapter 3 Leaving
After the commotion, Qin Yingxue was wide awake. After closing the door, she lay on the bed and began organizing the storage space.
While at the Xie family's house, Qin Yingxue had already spent a thousand yuan to upgrade her storage space to fifty cubic meters, which was crammed full, with boxes folded together, making it look very crowded.
Upgrading to 100 cubic meters would cost 10 million, while 500 cubic meters would cost 100 million...
Qin Yingxue realized that the further along the upgrade path, the more money was required.
Qin Yingxue used her mind to organize all the cash, keeping 1,000 yuan for spending money and planning to use the rest to upgrade her space.
Ten million requires ten thousand large bills, which is equivalent to 100,000 yuan in 1980. Qin Yingxue spent more than half an hour counting out that she only had 60,000 yuan in cash.
In other words, we are still 40,000 yuan short of the space upgrade.
Qin Yingxue glanced at the several boxes of yellow croakers of various sizes on the side, hesitated for two seconds, and finally decided to take out her jewelry to exchange for them.
The set of ruby jewelry looted from Jiang Qingfeng's room, along with a large gold bracelet, a few loose rings, and a box of jewelry from the Xie family, were barely enough.
Qin Yingxue felt a pang of regret, but considering that those were all inanimate objects and she still had several boxes left, and that the space would be more useful to her, she gritted her teeth and clicked to upgrade.
Suddenly, a dazzling light flashed before her eyes. Qin Yingxue looked closely and saw a line of bright words pop up on the interface: "Congratulations on upgrading your storage space to 100 cubic meters. One whitening pill is given as a gift."
Qin Yingxue wasn't very interested in things like skin whitening pills.
Thinking that she would soon be returning to the countryside, Qin Yingxue took out several sets of jewelry, exchanged them for RMB, and spent 10,000 RMB at the mall to buy a Power Pill and a Swift Wind Pill as a gift.
The effects of the powerful pill were long-lasting, and Qin Yingxue swallowed it without hesitation.
As for the Gale Pill, it will be stored in the space for now and used in case of emergencies.
I learned Taekwondo in my past life, but unfortunately I started late and had limited time, so I only reached the sixth-degree green belt.
But facing three or five strong men, self-defense is not a problem.
Now that the "power pill" is available, there's no need to worry about safety.
After tidying up the space and looking at the neatly arranged treasures, Qin Yingxue was in a good mood. She drank milk and ate bread to fill her stomach. After seeing that it was getting light outside, she tidied up a bit, took a bundle of clothes wrapped in a bed sheet, and opened the door.
Qin Yingxue didn't turn around and walked straight outside.
Behind her, two doors opened simultaneously, and three pairs of eyes were fixed on her bundle.
After leaving the Jiang family home, Qin Yingxue took advantage of the fact that no one was around and threw her bundle into her spatial storage, carrying only a small cloth bag, and went straight to the supply and marketing cooperative.
There were a lot of various tickets and coupons in the space, especially cloth tickets and sugar tickets, and many of them were about to expire.
If she remembers correctly, cloth coupons were abolished in 83, while sugar coupons were abolished a little later, in 92.
In her previous life, she married directly into the Xie family and never recognized her biological parents.
But during the most difficult years for the Xie family, the elderly Qin Jiasheng brought his elder brother Qin Dahai to visit him once, carrying grains, free-range chickens and ducks, and fresh vegetables and fruits that they had grown themselves.
Qin Dahai even stuffed a handful of change into his hand, some small and some large.
The rough-looking man was tongue-tied and couldn't speak well; he just looked at himself with red eyes, both excited and heartbroken.
At that time, Qin Yingxue was still grieving the loss of her first child and had no feelings for the father and son; she was indifferent to them.
Now that we're going back, we can't just leave empty-handed.
Buying some snacks for the kids, or a few yards of cloth, won't look too bad.
With Douyin Mall by her side, Qin Yingxue could have lived however she pleased and however she wanted.
Unfortunately, in this day and age, you need a letter of introduction to go out.
The day after the Jiang family recognized Jiang Linlin, Cai Lihua couldn't wait to use her connections to transfer Jiang Linlin's household registration back.
It is estimated that Jiang Linlin was worried that she would compete with her for Xie Guodong, so she encouraged Cai Lihua to transfer her household registration to Qin Village Commune, Guangfeng County, Qingdao.
Therefore, Qin Yingxue had to go to Qin Village Commune no matter what, live there for a while, and see if she could separate her household registration later.
When Qin Yingxue arrived at the public sales company, it was already eight o'clock in the morning.
As soon as I entered, I saw several bottles of Moutai liquor prominently displayed on the counter.
Qin Yingxue's eyes lit up. She rummaged through her small cloth bag for a while, then took out a few liquor coupons and went to the sales clerk with a big smile: "Comrade, I want to buy Moutai liquor."
The saleswoman was a plump, fair-skinned girl. Seeing Qin Yingxue's drab gray clothes, which, although unpatched, were faded from washing, she was somewhat indifferent: "Eight yuan a bottle, two wine coupons, limited to two bottles per person."
Qin Yingxue clearly noticed the sales clerk's attitude was off, but still smiled and said, "Wasn't it one bottle per coupon? When did the price go up? I'm buying this for my boss. My boss has a bad temper, and if he goes to the head of the sales office, I won't be the only one suffering..."
The plump young woman's expression changed, her disdainful attitude vanished, and she hurriedly said, "Sister, since you're a regular customer, I'll make the decision to give you a wine voucher today. Here, two bottles of Moutai for you!"
She needed to go to the post office later to catch the bus back to Qin Village Commune. Not wanting to waste time, Qin Yingxue took out two large unity bills and two liquor coupons, got four yuan in change, and then carried two bottles of liquor to the snack counter. She bought a pound of chicken cake, a pound of lampwick cake, a pound of fruit candy, and a pound of brown sugar.
Then he went to the fabric counter and bought a few pieces of plain-colored fabric before heading to the post office.
Unfortunately, the complete set of Gengshen Year Monkey stamps was long gone, so Qin Yingxue, adhering to the principle of not leaving empty-handed, bought thirty ordinary stamps in one go.
When I arrived at the station, it was already 10 a.m.
I boarded a bus to Guangfeng County, which cost 12 cents and took half an hour.
Back then, Cai Lihua went to visit relatives in the countryside and ate something wrong that caused her to go into premature labor. She was rushed to the county hospital and ended up in the same delivery room as Qin Yingxue's biological mother, Li Hehua.
One of the nurses was new and got flustered, so she mixed up the two children.
Eighteen years later, Cai Lihua suffered severe bleeding during surgery for uterine fibroids. At that time, the hospital's blood bank had no blood available, so the doctors had no choice but to have the patient's children donate blood. It was then that they learned that Qin Yingxue was not a child of the Jiang family.
Cai Lihua cried and begged Jiang Qingfeng to use his connections to find her child. After three months, they finally found her own flesh and blood.
After resting for half an hour in the car, we arrived in Guangfeng County at exactly 11:00 AM.
Qin Yingxue rubbed her slightly rumbling stomach, found the state-run restaurant, and ordered a braised pork, a clear mushroom soup, and four ounces of rice.
Braised pork cost 1.5 yuan per serving, with 3 liang (approximately 150 grams) of meat coupons. Clear broth mushrooms and 4 liang (approximately 200 grams) of rice cost 3 mao (approximately 10 cents) with 5 liang (approximately 250 grams) of grain coupons.
The braised pork in the 1980s was really delicious, unlike later generations where the meat flavor is completely lost.
Qin Yingxue was enjoying her meal when a figure rushed towards her. Just as she reached out her hand, Qin Yingxue kicked it away.