1979: My fiancée is a goddess

Chapter 381 Xu Yuxiu's Sorrow (asking for monthly ticket)
In the Zhao family’s house in the west wing.

Aunt Zhao's middle-aged, sharp and mean face was flushed. She leaned against the door and calmly directed her son Zhao Jianjun and his husband to move things around the house.

Hearing the footsteps behind her, she was delighted.

Finally, the neighbors in the yard have arrived.

It’s just that these young people came too early today. When they were carrying the new furniture in and out, everyone was still washing and cooking, and didn’t come home to watch the fun.

"Hey~ Yuxiu is here?"

Aunt Zhao looked back and smiled happily.

"Sister Zhao, have you eaten yet? I saw your house was very busy this morning, so I came to take a look."

Xu Yuxiu glanced at her complexion and smiled faintly.

"Not yet. These apprentices came too early and moved everything in at once. We haven't cooked yet."

Aunt Zhao moved aside a little and pulled Xu Yuxiu into the house so that Xu Yuxiu could see the brand new tables, chairs and benches inside.

"These things look pretty good. What wood ones? They don't look cheap, do they?"

Xu Yuxiu followed Aunt Zhao into the house and walked to the wooden table in the middle of the main room. She looked at it carefully and touched it. The wood felt hard and cold to the touch, so she asked curiously.

Furniture is not cheap these days, it can easily cost more than ten yuan. A good wardrobe or bed can cost dozens or even hundreds of yuan.

Many families cannot even afford a complete set of furniture when they get married.

"Hehe! Isn't it!"

This sentence, "not cheap", seemed to trigger a key word. Aunt Zhao immediately lowered her chin in pride, and her voice became a little shrill because of her joy and excitement.
"These are made of elm, real elm. They were made by Master Liu at Dashilan Woodware Street in Qianmen. It cost this much!"

Aunt Zhao stretched out five fingers and made the number five.

"Fifty dollars for this table?"

Xu Yuxiu was surprised. An ordinary solid wood square table would only cost more than 30 yuan if it was custom-made by a carpenter.

"That's right! This is nothing. The bed in Ruixue's room is more expensive. It cost one hundred and eighty!"

Aunt Zhao pulled Xu Yuxiu into the room to look at the bed. It had a palm-leaf bed frame and drawers on the sides. The headboard was embossed with delicate patterns and was coated with a layer of oil, making it shiny and bright.

“This bed is great!”

Xu Yuxiu looked at it again and again and liked it very much, especially the drawers next to the bed where she could store clothes.

It's just a little expensive, one hundred and eighty yuan.

“Expensive things have no other disadvantages except being expensive.”

When Aunt Zhao saw Xu Yuxiu's expression, she was secretly delighted and blurted out a famous saying as soon as she opened her mouth.

After these words were spoken, Aunt Zhao herself was stunned.

"That makes sense."

Xu Yuxiu looked at her with some surprise and nodded in agreement.

"Haha, I'll tell you."

Aunt Zhao smiled brightly and took Xu Yuxiu to introduce other things one by one, such as desks, sofas, wardrobes...

Looking at all the furniture and their prices, Xu Yuxiu calculated silently, feeling worried.

The move to a new house was for their engagement, and it was Kaiyan and Xiaoli’s wedding room.

Of course, you can't use some miscellaneous smuggled furniture to make up the number. It's not good to use and doesn't look decent.

But there are only four or five hundred dollars left at home. After deducting the decoration, how much will be left?

One hundred, two hundred?

At most, you can only buy a bed with this money, you can't even afford a table or a sofa.

How do you get engaged? How do you move?

If Awan saw this, wouldn't she stab her in the back?

At that time, they will definitely say something like, my daughter came to your house, but there is not even a table for eating and a bed for sleeping, what kind of engagement is this! Look at the new furniture in Sister Zhao's house.

The more Xu Yuxiu thought about it, the more upset she felt. She had finally bought a house, and her son was getting engaged, so the good days were just around the corner.

This suddenly posed a big problem.

"What's going on?"

The two were close to each other, so Aunt Zhao naturally noticed that Xu Yuxiu was in a low mood.

She guessed that Xu Yuxiu might be envious, and felt secretly happy.

You have to know that Xu Yuxiu has been the woman she has been looking up to for decades.

"We are planning to buy some furniture recently. Kaiyan will be getting engaged soon. By then..."

Xu Yuxiu explained casually.

"Getting engaged?!"

"Congratulations! I'll give out wedding candies to everyone when the time comes!"

Aunt Zhao was shocked at first, but then she was happy. Now that was good, the engagement would definitely make her Ruixue give up that idea.

"Haha, definitely."

"Getting engaged is a big deal, so you have to buy good furniture that is both practical and decent, right? The furniture made by Master Liu is of very good quality. I recommend you go to him to make furniture."

"Yes."

"Hey, this set of ours cost about four or five hundred yuan. Your Kaiyan is a famous writer, so this amount of money must be easy for him to earn. He can earn it by writing a few more articles."

"hehe"

Xu Yuxiu forced a smile, "It's not that easy. Kaiyan often writes until the clock runs out. The money earned from writing articles is hard-earned money. Every word written is hard-earned money."

“This isn’t easy!!”

Aunt Zhao's eyes lit up and she thought she had finally found an opportunity!

Her voice immediately rose a few notches, and she shouted with a flushed face: "Don't I know? Our Ruixue is studying in Japan now. While studying, she is also working as a writer to earn foreign exchange. It's much easier for them as writers to make money than for us as workers."

The money for our family's furniture purchase was sent back by Ruixue from abroad, so Kaiyan in your family can certainly do the same."

"What? Are you saying Ruixue is working as a writer abroad to earn foreign exchange?"

Xu Yuxiu suddenly opened her eyes wide, her lips slightly parted, and she didn't react for a moment.

"Hehehe~"

Seeing Xu Yuxiu was very shocked, Aunt Zhao smiled happily and said, "Yes, I didn't expect it either. This child has been promising since he was young. Now he has become a writer and earns Japanese yen and foreign exchange. I can also enjoy the good life with him..."

"..."

Xu Yuxiu opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say for a moment. After a while, she bowed and congratulated: "Congratulations."

"thanks, thanks."

Aunt Zhao's face was flushed, and she waved her hands with satisfaction, then shouted into the room: "Jianjun, bring out some chocolates. These are all imported goods. I can't bear to give them to ordinary people, except Yuxiu..."

"understood."

Zhao Jianjun responded from inside the house, and soon came out with three or four large pieces of chocolate. He didn't act as exaggerated as his mother, but his mouth was still wide open, "Aunt Xiu, please have some candy with Brother Kaiyan."

"Thank you. I'll go back first."

Xu Yuxiu took it and took a look. The chocolate packaging was quite exquisite, with incomprehensible Japanese words printed on it.

I thought to myself, “It seems to be true.”

As the old saying goes, a tree that is moved will die, but a person who moves will live, and it is indeed true.

Ruixue went abroad and saw the world. Her luck really turned for the better and she became a phoenix!
They can all earn foreign exchange for the country, and their future prospects are limitless!
Just then, a shout was heard from the yard.

"Is Comrade Cheng Kaiyan here? We are from the Foreign Language Bureau and the Foreign Exchange Administration. Here is a letter sent to you from the United States..."

(End of this chapter)