She saw her mother standing at the door with a carrying basket on her back, chatting with Sister Fang.
"Let’s go inside first."
Da Bao walked last, closing the yard gate, and followed into the main room.
"Xiao Yun, I called you here because I bought quite a few good things at other places at the Cooperative, and I’m not sure if you need them; you can pick some out in a bit."
Could you really buy other things at other places?
Fang Meiyun didn’t know that the outside world had already opened up for reform, with Individual vendors too.
As long as they had goods, they could make money.
"I saw nylon stockings for sale, and I bought ten pairs. Do you want two pairs?"
All of Fang Meiyun’s stockings were stitched together from scraps of cloth.
"I also saw bananas and apples for sale, so I bought some of those too. The goods are all here; do you need any? I can share some with you."
And stockings, towels too.
"I’d like a towel, two pairs of stockings, and I also want to buy two apples, as well as these bananas..."
As soon as Fang Meiyun finished speaking, Yun Xiaoxiao took out the items for her.
"This towel doesn’t need coupons, one yuan each, stockings are 50 cents a pair. As for these bananas and apples, I’ll charge you 50 cents, a total of three yuan."
Not expensive, really not expensive.
These didn’t require coupons.
Fang Meiyun quickly took out her money and picked up these things with her vegetable basket.
"Thank you, sister-in-law."
"I was pretty lucky today too; I happened to catch up. I asked, and he said that as the New Year approaches, they’ll bring even more goods to sell. When you go to town to shop for New Year’s goods, you can call me to join you."
Shopping for New Year’s goods?
"Sister-in-law, I’ll definitely call you."
She, however, wouldn’t encounter such luck.
Fang Meiyun left joyfully.
Yun Xiaoxiao watched the other party leave and then turned to see two little ones eyeing the food on the table.
The two little ones hadn’t forgotten the soda their mother promised to buy for them before she left.
"Yes, I bought a bottle for each of you, but we’ll drink it when we come back; first, we’ll take some things to Grandma."
This rice banana wasn’t as big or thick as a regular banana, it was more delicate. Now it was eighty percent ripe and needed to sit before it could be eaten, as for the apples, of course, they were Red Fuji.
"Okay," the two little ones knew their mother had bought it for them, it was just that they couldn’t drink it right now, and they didn’t fuss or demand to drink it immediately.
"Bring the vegetable basket to Mommy."
She had bought five jin of rice bananas, sold two big apples to Fang Meiyun, and now eight remained.
Packing a few bananas, two apples, two pairs of nylon stockings, and covering them up, she then took the two little ones to her in-laws’ home.
"Educated Youth Yun, are you heading to the Team Leader’s home?"
The two little ones were eager to respond to the other party’s question but then remembered their mother’s warning: not to tell others about the tasty things, lest they become the object of envy.
"My mother asked me to bring her some things, I’m delivering them to her."
What was that unfamiliar enticing scent?
To bring delicious treats to Team Leader and Xiangzi’s mother.
Dealing with the curiosity of these aunties all the way, she finally made it to the old house.
It was probably getting close to lunchtime; not just Mrs. Zhao was at home, but Captain Zhao was there too.
"Grandma, Grandpa....."
"Da Bao’s mother is here." What’s with the basket she brought?
"I ran into a street vendor in town and bought a lot of things from him; I brought some here for Dad and Mom to try too."