Chapter 34: A Day in the Town (Part II)
After coming out of Xinhua Bookstore, Xu Yuwei's family went straight to the place where popsicles were wholesaled in town. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info That's the first priority of their business.
At this time, the popsicle wholesale was a small faΓ§ade house with a large freezer inside. Xu Yuwei had seen such a freezer before, and knew that she had to wear a thick yellow coat to get this large freezer. She had always been curious about the popsicle and wanted to see what it looked like, but she hadn't had a chance to see it until she was reborn.
"Hello comrade, do you wholesale popsicles?" Father Xu asked a middle-aged man.
The man glanced up at Father Xu, and replied casually, "Wholesale." Then he turned again and went about his own business.
"What kind of wholesale method is this?" Father Xu didn't care about his attitude and continued to ask.
The man didn't even raise his eyelids this time: "We take the whole box here, and we don't sell it in small quantities." Looking at the clothes of Xu Yuwei's family, the man looked like a farmer. I thought I was here to buy a few popsicles to eat.
"And what about the price?" Women are generally most concerned about the price, and this is not Xu Mother couldn't help but ask the price.
"Put it on the wall, see for yourself." Xu Yuwei was originally very unhappy with this person, but when she saw that Xu's father and Xu's mother didn't say anything, she put up with it. But when Xu's mother asked the price, she was afraid that the person would look down on people and quote the price indiscriminately.
After hearing him say that the price list was posted on the wall, Xu Yuwei's heart was relieved.
Xu Yuwei followed Xu's mother to look at the price list. Nowadays, popsicles are very simple, there are only a few varieties, such as salted water popsicles, and there are red beans, and even better, milk-flavored and strawberry-flavored.
Xu Yuwei still has a little impression of the taste of these kinds of popsicles, not that she ate too much when she was a child.
Among these kinds of popsicles, salted water popsicles are the cheapest, only a dime, and the rest are slightly more expensive for only 3 dimes a piece, (sorry, I don't remember the price of popsicles at that time, so I just thought of a price).
Xu's mother looked at the price list and didn't express any opinions, Xu's father thought that everything he should know understood, and he was so busy, so he was ready to call Xu's mother and Xu Yuwei to leave.
"Uncle, can I ask you something?" Xu Yuwei thought about what she hadn't asked, so she hurriedly spoke.
The man heard a little girl's voice and looked up at Xu Yuwei. She is such a beautiful little girl, although she is wearing old clothes, but it does not affect her beauty at all. You will have a good impression of her at a glance, "Little friend, there is something to ask uncle." The man's voice was noticeably softer.
"Uncle, I want to ask, do you have any ice cubes here?" Xu Yuwei tilted her little head and looked at what the man said.
"Ice? No, what do you want to do here? The man asked suspiciously, and even Xu's father and mother next to him looked at Xu Yuwei suspiciously.
"If you use ice, you can make the popsicle melt more slowly." Xu Yuwei said simply. When she saw that everyone suddenly realized, Xu Yuwei continued: "Uncle, my family is going to come over to batch popsicles the day after tomorrow, can you prepare some ice cubes for us in advance?" β
The man was a little embarrassed when he heard Xu Yuwei say this, but when he saw the little girl's expectant eyes, it was difficult to refuse. "Uncle, you prepare a big bucket of ice cubes for us, I'll buy it from you then, can you buy it for 5 jiao?" Xu Yuwei said with a gesture.
The man thought about it for a while, and felt that it was not a difficult matter, and there was money to take, so he nodded and agreed.
After Xu Yuwei's family came out of the popsicle wholesale, Xu's mother asked Xu Yuwei why she spent this money to buy these ice cubes, Xu Yuwei blinked her little eyes and told Xu's mother the secret.
Xu's mother thought that since she was in town, she would go and buy some clothes for the child. Thinking that the clothes on her daughter's body were all her sister's previous clothes, my heart was sour.
"Let's go, mom will take you to buy clothes." Xu's mother pulled Xu Yuwei into the real supply and marketing cooperative. At this time, there were no large department stores, only this kind of supply and marketing cooperatives.
Xu Yuwei followed Xu's mother to the place where children's clothes were sold, and Xu's mother looked at these clothes and felt that her daughter looked good in any dress.
But for these current clothing styles, Xu Yuwei really can't look down on them. It's all red and green, it's too earthy.
"Yuwei, do you have any fancy for it? Mom bought it for you. Mother Xu turned around and asked.
Xu Yuwei shook her head, "Mom, I don't want it." β
"Why?" Mother Xu was puzzled, don't ordinary little girls like beautiful clothes?
"I don't like it." Xu Yuwei didn't want to buy clothes, there were factors that really didn't look down on these clothes, and a more important reason was that she knew that her family's economy was not very rich.
"How can you not like any of them when you take a closer look?" Xu's mother said as she tried her best to introduce Xu Yuwei to a few clothes that she looked at.
But no matter what Xu's mother said and introduced, Xu Yuwei still shook her head vigorously. "Mom, don't show me, go show you the clothes." Xu Yuwei remembered that the clothes worn by Xu's mother were very old.
"Mom has clothes to wear, so she doesn't have to buy clothes to look at." Xu Yuwei knew that it was not Xu's mother who wore clothes again, but Xu's mother who was reluctant to buy clothes for herself.
Xu Yuwei's eyes were a little sour, and she stretched out her little arm to hug Xu's mother's leg, thinking in her heart: "Mom, I will definitely let you live a good life with Dad." β
Mother Xu looked at Xu Yuwei, who was holding her legs, "What's the matter, since you can't buy clothes, your mother will buy you something to eat." β
Xu's mother heard from the people in the village a while ago that the town has recently sold cookies and sponge cakes, which are particularly delicious. When she heard this, she wanted to buy something for her daughter, but she never had the time. When I came to town this time, I had to buy some for my daughter to try.
"What's delicious?" Xu Yuwei asked.
"I've heard it's called cookies, and sponge cakes." As soon as Xu Yuwei heard Xu's mother report these names, she was petrified. "No, go to Zhang Yimei's to buy it, isn't that going to be exposed?"
Xu's mother only cared about pulling Xu Yuwei to find Xu's father, and didn't pay attention to Xu Yuwei's expression. "What to do, you have to think of a way, otherwise something big will happen." Xu Yuwei was in a hurry.
"You guys came out so soon, did you buy the clothes?" Father Xu looked at the mother and daughter who came out so quickly and asked.
"Yuwei didn't like the clothes she liked, so she came out, and I was going to buy her something to eat."
"Oh, where to buy, I'm going to go to the market over there to buy something."
"It's like it's across the street from the market. Just drop by. When Xu Yuwei heard this, she suddenly thought of an idea, "Mom, you will give me the money later, and I will buy it." β
"You?" Mother Xu looked at Xu Yuwei in surprise.
Xu Yuwei nodded, "I'll experience it in advance, when the time comes, you and your father will go shopping, and I will go to buy food alone, and when you buy it, come to me." β
Mother Xu thought about it for a while and thought it would work, so she didn't say anything to agree.
Xu Yuwei was taking the money given by Xu's mother, and after making sure that Xu's father and Xu's mother entered the market, she ran in the opposite direction to Zhang Yimei's shop.
After stuffing the letter into the mailbox, Xu Yuwei hurriedly returned to the original flight, and then took out the cookies and sponge cakes in the space when others were not paying attention. She was glad for her seer.