Chapter 33

Zhang Ping seemed very familiar with every item. She was detailed when introducing the products to customers, and her measurements were always accurate.

Jiang Zhizhi gave her a thumbs up. You have the potential to be an excellent saleswoman.

In this era, people who could work in the supply and marketing cooperative usually had a good family background.

After all, this was a good job that everyone envied.

It was a coveted iron rice bowl in everyone’s eyes.

You didn’t have to worry about whether the business was good or bad. As long as you didn’t do anything stupid, you could pretty much work comfortably.

You could also enjoy some perks internally. Many things in the supply and marketing cooperative could be consumed internally.

Especially the flawed fabric in the supply and marketing cooperative. You couldn’t buy it without connections. It was all divided up by their internal staff.

Things that people outside lined up for early in the morning couldn’t buy.

People who worked here could easily buy them.

So that’s why there was so much competition for a sales position in a supply and marketing cooperative!

Jiang Zhizhi understood. The staff at the grain depot at this time were absolutely awesome!

They were even more sought-after than the salespersons in the supply and marketing cooperative because they could buy grain without coupons.

Just this alone made many people envious. As long as you had money in your pocket, you basically wouldn’t lack rice or flour.

Zhang Ping introduced, “The homespun fabric sold in our supply and marketing cooperative is all hand-woven.

Look, these colors are very popular. They are all dyed by ourselves. It’s old coarse cloth with starch.

You can use a lighter to burn a bit of the scraps. When you burn it, there will be no residue. If you rub it with your fingers, it will become powder.”

“If you’re a young lady wearing it, this old coarse cloth will be a little prickly on your skin. After all, your skin is white and tender.”

“If you’re buying it to make clothes and pants for your family to wear for work, then it’s perfect. This old homespun fabric is durable and dirt-resistant.”

Jiang Zhizhi smiled, “Okay, I’ll choose some colors.”

One bolt was twenty meters, one meter was three feet.

Jiang Zhizhi’s mind raced, calculating how much fabric she needed.

She had heard her mother say that a quilt used fifteen feet of white cotton cloth.

Then use silk fabric for the quilt cover, it would be just right.

She had two five-foot cloth coupons, which she got on the black market.

And the cloth coupons her parents gave her were enough to make clothes and pants for several people.

Just then, someone next to her was buying enamel plates. Zhang Ping said to Jiang Zhizhi and her three brothers, “You guys look around for a while. I’ll go busy, I’ll come back later.”

“Okay.”

Jiang Yuanfeng saw Jiang Zhizhi’s eyes shining as she stared at the patterned fabrics. He smiled and asked,

“Zhizhi, do you want to buy fabric?

To make clothes or quilt covers?

The quilt cover in our house is sewn by ourselves. If it gets dirty, we’ll take the quilt cover off and wash it.

In winter, when the sun is good, Mom will take it to the creek to wash and then take it back to the yard to dry.

I still remember how many aunties in the village liked to go to the threshing ground, sewing quilt covers and chatting.”

Jiang Zhizhi’s voice was soft and sweet. “I want to make some for Dad and Mom.”

Whether it was clothes and pants for work or bedding for winter, Jiang Zhizhi planned to buy fabric and make them herself.

At least she would make them on the surface first.

Then she would take out other things from her space later.

Besides, it was too expensive to buy ready-made clothes at the supply and marketing cooperative. It wasn’t worth it at all.

Even if she needed to buy ready-made clothes, she would prioritize the Peach Mall.

Besides, winter was long here. People had no work to do and hid at home to stay warm. Every household had a kang, it was warm and comfortable at home.

But the place where her father and mother were sent definitely wouldn’t have such good living conditions. They were probably living in a cowshed.

It was drafty everywhere in winter.

If it rained or snowed, it would be wet everywhere, which would be even worse.

In that case, winter cotton clothes, cotton jackets, cotton pants, and cotton shoes had to be arranged.

Jiang Zhizhi bought cotton and fabric first.

When she got back, she would ask her aunt to teach her. At least her eyes would learn!

If the needles and thread were similar to the fabric, no one would notice.

She could just sew some scraps of fabric onto the cotton clothes and pants.

Then her parents would wear the cotton clothes and pants inside, and wear their old clothes on top.

The more worn out the outer clothes were, the better. That way, people wouldn’t easily notice.

Right, Jiang Zhizhi thought of smocks again. She would get a few more smocks.

See if her parents needed them. If not, she would keep them.

As for shoes, did her aunt’s family have shoes in different sizes?

If not, then she would need to measure them!

Besides cotton shoes, Jiang Zhizhi also planned to get a few pairs of liberation shoes.

One pair for each family member.

Woolen socks were also essential. In the winter, your feet would be freezing cold, what a pain!

This time she also had to buy yarn. Actually, Jiang Zhizhi knew how to knit.

Before she crossed over, her master, Old Mo, had a birthday. Jiang Zhizhi knitted a sweater for him in her spare time and gave it to him. It made him cry.

He wore it out every day in winter to show off, making the other old men envious.

That was all for now.

She would buy other things later.

You can’t eat a big fat man in one bite.

She would also send a set of these things to her brother and Lu Xingchen in H province.

Jiang Zhizhi would knit sweaters for her parents first. If she had time later, she would also knit one for her brother and Lu Xingchen.

Although the army also issued cotton clothes, Jiang Zhizhi could send sweaters.

She would call her brother in a few days and discreetly ask for their height and measurements.

She wondered if her brother and Lu Xingchen liked to eat dried meat and pine nuts.

She would also send some special products.

Jiang Zhizhi hadn’t forgotten that Lu Xingchen and Mr. Lu had helped Jiang Xiang Sheng and Lin Ting.

If they hadn’t helped, her father and mother’s situation would have been even worse.

Jiang Zhizhi was worried that her father and mother were too far away from her. She couldn’t take care of them if something happened.

Today, she had only one goal.

Buy, buy, buy what’s suitable!

Buy, buy, buy what’s needed!

After all, there was such a good opportunity now.

On her way back, she quietly put some supplies in the basket and covered them with other things.

She bought so many things, her brothers wouldn’t notice the extra items.

Her plan was to go to the county by herself later.

See if she could find a scapegoat!

Someone who could take the blame for where she got the things!

Jiang Yuanfeng understood immediately. His sister was already planning to make clothes for his second uncle and second aunt.

It was true, winter was coming, they had to prepare.

After finishing her work there, Zhang Ping came over and introduced with a smile, “We have magpie perched on plum blossom velvet here. It’s very warm for making quilt covers.

The color is festive and the style is the latest.

If you hadn’t come today, you wouldn’t even be able to get in line to buy it.”

Jiang Yuanyang nodded, “After the autumn harvest is over, every production team will distribute money, coupons, and grain.

If some places pay the public grain early, they will get it earlier.

When everyone has money, they will definitely come to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things. I’m afraid the counter will be crowded then.”

Zhang Ping nodded, “That’s when we’re busiest. We won’t have enough goods to sell.

Besides the large number of farmers coming to the city to buy things.

Some residents who have some money will also come to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy supplies frequently.

Usually, you can’t even buy good fabric.

The people in the county are each supplied with fifteen feet of cloth coupons per year.

Have you heard a saying?

“Enough or not, sixteen feet.” Everyone wants to make new clothes and pants to wear before the New Year, so they all come to the supply and marketing cooperative to grab fabric!”

Jiang Zhizhi listened to this information with a smile.

Seeing that the siblings were interested, Zhang Ping continued without any malice, “Besides, our supply and marketing cooperative doesn’t have enough rice to supply. After all, rice and flour are popular items.

“Our supply and marketing cooperative also has the business of collecting agricultural products.

For example, we’ll put up a sign outside that says we’re collecting duck eggs, chicken eggs, straw hats, straw mats, chickens, ducks, pigs, etc.

But the eggs are already sold out.

If anyone has extra grain, that’s even better. Our supply and marketing cooperative wants to buy it back and sell it.

But reality is too difficult. Many families don’t even have enough food to eat.

They can’t even eat their fill, where would they have extra grain to sell?

Some people even have to buy grain at the grain depot.”

Zhang Ping pointed to the place where the price tag for eggs was hanging, but there were no eggs there.

Jiang Zhizhi: “……….”

Why put up a sign then!

Jiang Zhizhi couldn’t help but smile at her second brother.

It was a good thing her second brother knew the old lady outside.

Otherwise, how could he have bought so many eggs.

Jiang Zhizhi was about to praise her second brother to the skies.

The smile on Jiang Yuanfeng’s lips deepened. He was thrilled!

It was a coincidence that his sister couldn’t buy eggs, but he had a way to buy them.

Oh, no wonder his third brother liked to show off all the time.

It turns out that showing off in front of his sister was really great!