Chapter 134: Chapter 134 Indeed Ill
Xia Chuyi stopped talking.
Zhang Xiaoling thought she was scared, so she said triumphantly, “In any case, don’t let me see you again, hmph!”
Having said that, she turned around with her nose in the air and walked away with Li Cai strutting beside her.
“Does she have something wrong with her brain?” Zhao Xiaogui asked his cousin, pointing at Zhao Xiaoling’s retreating figure, not understanding at all.
“Mmm, she does.” Xia Chuyi nodded calmly and said, “Princess Syndrome.”
“…What is that? It sounds so weird.” Zhao Xiaogui scratched his head, not really understanding.
She just smiled and didn’t explain but instructed, “Alright, let’s not worry about her. Let’s hurry and tidy up the store and go to the department store, then catch the shuttle bus back.”
Zhao Xiaogui’s eyes lit up, “Sis, can you give me my red envelope early? I also want to buy some stuff!”
Eating, buying, the dreams of boys and girls during a shortage of goods, strikingly similar.
Xia Chuyi couldn’t help but chuckle.
“Sure, once we finish up here, I’ll prepare a red envelope for you,” she told her cousin.
Inspired by the prospect of having some money, Zhao Xiaogui immediately became a diligent little pioneer, running up and down energetically.
In the afternoon, after they had tidied up the store, the two siblings rushed to the department store while they still had some time.
“Here, this is thirty yuan; ten for your hard work these past few days, ten as your New Year’s money, and ten as your bonus.” Xia Chuyi took out four steel worker and five mechanic notes and handed them to him.
A steel worker, also known as Mawu, is five yuan. A mechanic, also known as a blue note, is two yuan.
In those days, an average family giving a child one yuan tractor note was considered pretty good. More affectionate and slightly wealthier families might give a blue note or Mawu.
Uncle Xia typically practiced the ‘poor sons, rich daughters’ method of upbringing, giving his niece Xia Chuyi the best of everything, while being very strict with his own son about money.
Thirty yuan, in an era when a worker’s salary was only around thirty to fifty yuan, was absolutely a huge sum for Zhao Xiaogui.
“Ah ah ah, sis, I love you the most, you are my living Bodhisattva, my Red Sun, my idol…” Zhao Xiaogui babbled.
What nonsense was he talking about?
Xia Chuyi knocked him on the head.
“Xiao Gui, the money is yours now, I won’t control how you spend it. But I think, now that you are fifteen, and soon to be sixteen after the New Year, you should have some planning for your finances. How much money to spend and how to spend it, you should have an idea in your mind,” she took the opportunity to instill some financial planning concepts in him.
Zhao Xiaogui scratched his head.
“…It’s just spending money, okay, okay, I got it!” Seeing that she was about to hit him, he quickly changed his tone.
After all, being a boy, with the thirty yuan substantial amount given by Xia Chuyi, he dashed to the industrial counter.
Since they had agreed to meet at the entrance later, Xia Chuyi didn’t bother with him.
Though the food business wasn’t ostentatious, and she hadn’t been doing it for long, the net profit was still a good hundred or so, and even after giving thirty to her cousin, she still had about a hundred left.
Thinking it over, she first went to the women’s clothing department and bought Aunt Xia a silk scarf from the southern region for fifteen yuan.
Then she went to the shoe department and bought Uncle Xia a pair of genuine leather shoes for thirty-two yuan.
No matter the era, luxury goods were always the most profitable business.
After buying New Year gifts for her uncle and aunt, she visited the food counter.