Stargirl's guide to life in the 70s

A few days later, Yu's mother took Yu Jiang to the county.

The two first went to the department store to buy a skirt for Yu Jiang.

Yu Jiang thought, what should he say?

He had to force her to choose a relatively good-looking one among a bunch of clothes with old-fashioned colors and very single styles.

Sorry, can she not choose?

"Mom, don't I still have several skirts in my wardrobe? Why do I need to buy new ones?"

"This is not because you have just recovered from a serious illness and you are not allowed to buy two pieces of clothing to celebrate!"

Mother Yu answered while carefully selecting among a pile of clothes. But judging from the look on her face, she didn't like it either.

"But these clothes are not as good-looking as the ones I had before. Where did I buy them before? Can I go to that store?"

After hearing what her daughter said, Yu's mother stopped choosing clothes.

He pulled his daughter over and said quietly but proudly: "Hey, your mother and I made that myself, doesn't it look good?

Your mother and I graduated from Q University majoring in design. I only have two pieces of clothing. These are all basic skills.

When we go back, you tell mom what you want, and I will design it for you within the scope allowed. "

The reason why it is said to be within the allowable range does not mean that Yu Mu's ability is limited and she cannot do it. But now the inspection of customs is particularly strict. Even the clothes can only have some simple decorations, and any slightly novel and special patterns will be labeled as capitalist ladies.

But after all, it was her daughter's request, so Yu's mother said she would try her best to fulfill Yu Jiang's idea.

When Yu Jiang heard this, he immediately felt that his eyes were about to be liberated.

Fortunately, there were so many people in the department store at the moment that no one noticed Yu Jiang and his daughter, so Yu Jiang took Yu's mother and left straight away.

Then Yu's mother came to the place where shoes were sold, waved her hand, and spent 6 yuan and 5 shoe tickets to buy a new pair of winter cotton shoes for one person in the family.

After buying, Yu's mother took Yu Jiang to the state-owned hotel.

Yu's mother first gave Yu Jiang the menu and asked her to order two things she wanted to eat.

"I'll just order one braised pork. Mom, you can order the rest. Just order another one. We won't be able to finish any more."

Mother Yu nodded and took the menu and ordered a pickled fish and two steamed buns.

The waiter wrote down the dishes they ordered in a small book, and said with a smile to the mother and daughter who were wearing unpatched clothes: "Okay, I'll make it for you right away. The total cost is 1 yuan, 2 jiao and 6 cents and 2 national tickets." Food stamps.”

Mother Yu took out a purse from the inside of her clothes, then counted out the money and tickets and handed them to the waiter.

After a while, the window called for them to pick up their meals. Yu Jiang brought two dishes and two steamed buns on a large tray.

To be honest, the cooks in state-owned restaurants do have two brushes, and the braised pork has enough oil and water.

Anyway, even Yu Jiang, who is becoming more and more picky about taste, cannot say so-so without conscience.

You must know that Yu Jiang now is not the little girl who ate delicious food when she just came through.

During this period, Yu Jiang's taste has made a qualitative leap due to the continuous feeding of Yu Mu and Grandma Yu.

Yu Jiang once again said sorry to her taste buds for the past twenty years. It was all her fault that she was handicapped and couldn't make it even though she had the ingredients.

After dinner, Yu’s mother took Yu Jiang to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Their county supply and marketing cooperative is slightly different from other places in that goods are loaded twice a day, at 7 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Because there are several villages nearby, but this is the only supply and marketing cooperative.

Although the amount of goods every day is not small, if the goods are really only delivered at 7 o'clock every morning, then how can those people who come all the way from the countryside to buy things still buy things.

So this is why Yu's mother took Yu Jiang to visit the department store first.

It was already 1 o'clock, and the supply and marketing cooperative was crowded with people. It was with great difficulty that Yu's mother completed the purchase before she was squeezed into a meat pie.

This time I bought two kilograms of pork, 50 kilograms of cotton, 20 meters of cloth, and seasonings such as salt and vinegar.

When I finally got home, the back seats of the two bicycles were already fully strapped.

Yu Jiang looked at the full back seat and asked questions from deep in his heart.

"Mom, why do we buy so much cotton and cloth?"

"Is it a lot? This is enough for the whole family to have one set of clothes and make two or three quilts."

Yu Jiang thought about the winter clothes he just saw in the department store.

This is actually an era where you rely on thick clothing to keep warm?

Thinking of the clothes I wore in the interstellar world, they were not only light and close-fitting, but could also adapt to the outside temperature to regulate one's own body temperature...

As soon as you put on winter clothes in this era, your whole body becomes like a ball!

She is really incompetent!

Yu Jiang planned to search for interstellar thermal particles in the bracelet space. When making clothes, he would secretly mix the thermal particles with cotton and put them in.

After all, the winter here is so cold that it freezes your bones!

Although in the interstellar era, Yu Jiang had even been to planets with temperatures over one hundred degrees below zero. But one piece of clothing was enough to keep warm back then.

Now?

It’s really because we don’t have enough technology to make it work.

What Yu Jiang didn't know was that the clothes she disliked now were no longer the envy of others.

In this day and age, not every family makes new clothes and quilts every year like theirs.

Cotton is in short supply!

Many people use old cotton that they have saved over the years to renovate and continue to use it.

Of course, even if it is refurbished, the warmth retention of old cotton is incomparable to that of new cotton.

Fortunately, the Yu family is not a family short of money.

I don’t know where Father Yu’s ability as a captain comes from. The Yu family has never been short of bills, even the most scarce cotton bills. The Yu family has a small stack.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the Yu family wanted to use new cotton every winter, that would be possible.

The mother and daughter returned home with a full load.

……

It was night, Yu Jiang was lying on the bed, thinking about the scenes he saw during the day.

The difference between this place and the interstellar era is not just that you can only go all the way to buy things in person in the most primitive way.

And these stores are all publicly owned. Not only are there no diverse customized services, there are even unified regulations for many things.

Take buying clothes as an example. In the interstellar era, clothes can be directly customized online using bracelets. In this era, the variety of clothes in county department stores is pitiful.

Although most people buy cloth from supply and marketing cooperatives and make clothes at home, cloth and cotton are also in short supply.

Yu Jiang recalled that when he first learned to knit sweaters, he felt that knitting sweaters was primitive enough. Now...

And although Yu Jiang had already been popularized about ticket knowledge before, when he saw this kind of buying and selling scene where money was useless and tickets were needed, Yu Jiang felt that he was still far from integrating into this society.

Sure enough, I still have to look more!

She heard that there was something called a black market in this era. It was a place where everyone bought and sold privately, and Yu Jiang thought she could go and have a look.

Maybe you can make money? After all, the scarce cotton and food are not scarce to her now, and even countless cotton and food will grow as soon as the power is used.

This is probably the only role of plant-based superpowers in this era. After all, the spikes grown from superpowers cannot even penetrate walls.

You must know that in the past, these vines and thorns could easily pierce fighter planes.