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Chapter 176: : New Year's goods sent by Zhou Cheng (1 more)
Chapter 176: : New Year's goods sent by Zhou Cheng (1 more)
Chapter 176: : New Year's goods sent by Zhou Cheng (1 more)
It was only on the third day of the Lunar New Year that Zhou Cheng took apart the things Xia Xiaolan had brought.
There are two Chinese cigarettes in the package.
There are various pastries wrapped tightly.
There are cosmetics bought from the Beijing Friendship Store.
There is a small gun made of bullet shells.
The more expensive one should be the foreign exchange roll that Zhou Cheng stuffed in it. He said that the winter is cold, and the foreign exchange voucher plus money can buy two washing machines, so that future mother-in-law and aunt will not have to wash clothes in cold weather.
Oh, the two words "future" were added by Xia Xiaolan, and Zhou Cheng's original words in the letter were mother-in-law and aunt.
He also cared about whether the injury on his uncle Liu Yong's back was fully healed, and put two roots of ginseng in the package to replenish his uncle's body.
This package, let alone unwilling, these things are very expensive.
Cigarettes and cakes are the cheapest, cosmetics are more expensive, foreign exchange rolls are hard to get, and two ginseng roots are as thick as Xia Xiaolans little finger.
"...Xiaolan, do you like watching TV? When I save up the foreign exchange voucher, I will send it to you to buy a TV. In fact, the foreign exchange voucher you receive can be bought first, but I still think the washing machine is the only thing. The invention that can change the standard of living the most. I miss your sincerity."
Xia Xiaolan has a sour toothache.
It's not that she can't afford home appliances such as TVs and washing machines, but she feels that keeping the money in her hands is more useful, so she doesn't buy appliances.
Zhou Cheng was right. It doesn't matter whether you watch TV or not, but the washing machine is what she and uncle's family need.
She was not as meticulous as Zhou Cheng considered. Liu Fen and Li Fengmei were both the "main laundry workers" of the two houses. The winter clothes were very heavy. The quilted jackets could not be put in the water directly, so the cloth face was removed and the outer layer was washed. But jeans cant be removed. Hard denim needs to be washed by hand...not only in winter, its troublesome to wash clothes anytime!
Xia Xiaolan took out everything. The cosmetics were for women, and the pastries were for everyone. The Chinese Tobacco must be for Liu Yong, and the two ginsengs were also for Liu Yong. Except for Xia Xiaolan, only Liu Yong heard about foreign exchange rolls.
Although I moved to live in Shangdu, the mud spots on the trouser legs of a few people were not cleaned, so where did they use foreign exchange rolls?
How to use this thing, where to buy things, asking Liu Fen and Li Fengmei must be asking three questions!
But Xia Xiaolan said that he could buy washing machines, but they were imported ones.
Liu Fen didn't say anything, Li Fengmei's eyes lit up: "Can I buy a TV?"
The washing machine is not a washing machine. Li Fengmei really doesn't need it so urgently. She didn't use her hands to rub her clothes for so many years.
She wanted a TV very much, and Xia Xiaolan said that she could buy imported color TV sets with foreign exchange voucher, and Li Fengmei was moved.
The villagers still use color TVs. At first, only Uncle Das house had a black-and-white TV. The villagers liked to run to Chen Wangdas house to enjoy the cool in the summer. They all watched TV in the yard until the TV program was over. Snow appeared on the screen, and the TV-watchers reluctantly left the yard.
Watching TV is sitting in the yard with a small bench. Li Fengmei only went to watch it twice because of mosquito bites.
If you have an imported color TV at home, you don't need to be very satisfied.
Li Fengmei wondered if he could exchange foreign exchange coupons for TV instead of washing machines with his niece. After all, this was a gift from Zhou Cheng. Liu Yong said that foreign exchange coupons were exchanged in U.S. dollars, and only foreigners could exchange them. Xiaolan, Zhou Cheng knows which green onion she and Liu Yong are!
When Xia Xiaolan took out the two ginseng roots, Liu Yong and Li Fengmei were stunned.
"What's this?"
"...Is it like, like ginseng, it looks like the ginseng that Uncle Da soaked in a wine jar."
Liu Yong was uncertain.
It is even more unlikely that he and Li Fengmei have seen ginseng. This thing is not produced in Henan Province. It may be found in a Chinese medicine shop, but it may not be wild.
Liu Fen didn't even know.
Anyway, no one in the Xia family had eaten this thing. She remembered who had heard the story of "Ginseng Doll" when she was a child, but it was a story.
Zhou Cheng said that he was looking for Liu Yong to replenish his body, and Xia Xiaolan estimated that it would not be artificially planted. Depending on the thickness, there would be seven or eight years of growth in less than ten years.
"It's not a ginseng doll, or a wild ginseng. It looks like it's about 20 years old... Zhou Cheng said to replenish your uncle's body. Aunt, you will stew with the chicken for my uncle. Cut one third at a time, one piece at a time. Ginseng can be stewed three times."
A whole root stew is fine. Xia Xiaolan is afraid that Liu Yong might get a nosebleed.
The kind of ginseng that has great medicinal effects in the film and television works must be the old ginseng that has been used for more than several decades. As for the 500-year-old ginseng at every turn, Xia Xiaolan felt that it was too nonsense. After all, this superb quality would be provided to real big people to continue their lives, and ordinary people would not even want to smell the taste of century-old ginseng.
Its not easy to find a century-old product. You should be able to buy it for 20-30 years, right?
Xia Xiaolan realized that it was 1984, and the probability of buying real wild ginseng was at least a hundred times higher than in 2017! In addition to hoarding her house desperately, it seems that she should hoard a little of this precious medicinal material that will become harder to find in the future.
Xia Xiaolan took this to heart.
Liu Yong touched the two ginseng roots, wondering whether he wanted to discuss with Li Fengmei whether one can be stewed, and the other one would be left for him to soak in wine.
Xia Xiaolan divided the cosmetics again. These were not the general merchandise she bought casually, but the imported cosmetics that could only be bought in places like the Friendship Store. Li Fengmei and Liu Fen refused to take it, and Xia Xiaolan had to keep it first.
The adults all have gifts. Liu Zitao's mouth is full of cakes. He doesn't know if it is too much or he is angry, and his cheeks are bulging.
But when Xia Xiaolan gave him the small pistol made of bullet shells, Liu Zitao swallowed the cake in his mouth and almost choked himself. Li Fengmei quickly drank him a bowl of water, Liu Zitao's choking face turned red, and he gasped for breath:
"Is this the gun for me?"
After receiving Xia Xiaolan's affirmative reply, Liu Zitao squeezed the bullet shell of the pistol tightly, and jumped up:
"Thank you my brother-in-law, my brother-in-law is so kind!"
People nowadays admire soldiers. Not to mention that Liu Zitao's bullet-shell pistol sweeps invincibly in the countryside. When he took it to the elementary school class in Shangdu, he took it out to show off, and it was shocked that a kid of the same age knelt down and screamed. Brother Tao. Anyway, as long as you can touch and play with the small bullet pistol, there might be a silly kid who would call him a father.
With this gun, for Liu Zitao at this moment, it is more effective than sending him many red envelopes.
The kid still can't fully realize the charm of great unity, but he likes this bullet shell pistol, which will not be returned to others for any amount of money. Chen Qing, his brother-in-law has only one brother-in-law, that is, Zhou Cheng's brother-in-law!
Everyone is happy.
Xia Xiaolan sees everyone happy, can she be upset?
Zhou Cheng is really good at giving gifts. Everything is done with such care. Even if he hasn't saved Liu Yong, he will come a few times like this. Which family members around Xia Xiaolan can't help him?
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