After four years of marriage, the military officer husband came back

After work in the afternoon, Xia Qingning took Wu Xiaodong's car and went directly to the department store. Mai Miao was already waiting at the door, and the three of them walked in together.

The department store has three floors in total. The first floor sells bicycles, sewing machines, watches... these valuable items. The items are good, but they cost over one or two hundred yuan at a time.

Xia Qingning's current financial situation did not allow her to buy things without looking at the prices, so she did not stay on the first floor and went straight to the second floor with Mai Miao.

Wu Xiaodong was fascinated by the latest radio at the door, so he didn't go upstairs with them and agreed to meet at the door later.

The second floor is divided into a daily necessities area and a food area. Xia Qingning first came to the food area and bought five kilograms of fruit candies. Fruit candies of various flavors were wrapped in different candy papers, which were colorful and very beautiful.

After buying the fruit candies, she bought a pound of White Rabbit milk candies. Although these are more expensive than the fruit candies, they contain real milk and are loved by both adults and children.

After buying the candy, she and Mai Miao went to the daily chemical area together. Mai Miao came here mainly to buy cosmetics. There was a young wife in their commune who bought an imported agarwood powder here. It made her skin white and rosy when she applied it. It was very easy to use, so she recommended it to them.

Soon Mai Miao bought agarwood powder, a box of ointment and an eyebrow pencil.

Xia Qingning bought two bottles of special care cream that is moisturizing and anti-chapped, and is particularly useful for "red face", and Seagull shampoo cream. Finally, under Mai Miao's strong recommendation, she also bought the agarwood powder.

After the purchase, the two went up to the third floor together. The third floor sold shoes, fabrics and ready-made clothes. As soon as they walked up, Mai Miao went straight to the middle of the counter, looked at the red dress on the model, and said to Xia Qingning:

"Qing Ning, come and take a look at this skirt. Isn't it beautiful? Several of our colleagues want to buy it."

Xia Qingning followed her gaze and saw a red skirt placed in the most conspicuous position.

The skirt is made of Dacron, with a round neck, sleeveless and large skirt, four large buttons on the chest, and a wide black belt around the waist with a large leather flower in the middle of the belt.

Judging from today's aesthetics, this skirt is not really good-looking, especially the leather flower on the waist, which looks cumbersome and tacky.

But the styles and colors of clothes in this era were very simple, and people had rarely seen beautiful clothes. A red dress with a little design sense like this was really eye-catching.

"Well, it's okay." Xia Qingning replied cooperatively. As a student studying fashion design, it was really conscienceless to say this.

"Not bad?" At this time, a shrill and contemptuous voice suddenly came over, followed by a "hum" from the nose and said:

"Such a beautiful skirt, and you said it's okay. You are indeed a country girl who doesn't know the value of things!"

The two looked in the direction of the sound and saw Zhao Cuilan standing behind the counter, looking at Xia Qingning with disdain.

Xia Qingning did not avoid her gaze, and even smiled, looking at her and asked:

"Aunt Zhao, you're probably still angry because you didn't get to eat the country folks' loquats yesterday." After saying that, she looked at the red skirt and continued:

"It has four ugly buttons on the chest and a tacky belt. If I say 'it's OK', it's a compliment."

"What do you know? This is our latest style. Can you afford it? You're just making random comments here! Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?" Zhao Cuilan sneered, rolled her eyes, and looked down on others.

Xia Qingning glanced at Zhao Cuilan and asked calmly:

"Why should I buy it? Not only does it look ugly, it's also uncomfortable to wear. It sticks to my body when I sweat, and it's exposed when it rains. It's hot and stuffy, and it's not breathable at all..."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Zhao Cuilan interrupted her immediately. The arrogance she had just shown disappeared in an instant, and she even felt a little guilty.

Everything Xia Qingning said was right. The skirt looked nice, but people who bought it also reported all the problems Xia Qingning mentioned above.

Mai Miao, who was standing by, was stunned when he heard this. He looked at Xia Qingning with some confusion and asked:

"Are you serious? Several of our colleagues are saving money to buy it."

Just as Xia Qingning was about to speak, a rose-red figure suddenly came over, looked at her contemptuously and said:

"That's really funny. Don't you see what she wears on a daily basis? She wears those ugly clothes over and over again for several years. How can she know what's good and what's bad?"

The one who spoke was He Shanshan. She had put on careful makeup today. Her face was dark, with thick foundation on. There was a large area of ​​blue eyeshadow under her thick eyebrows, heavy blush and thick lipstick. To Xia Qingning, her whole face was simply horrible.

"Wow, Shanshan, you are dressed so fashionably today." Zhao Cuilan came up to praise her, and did not forget to belittle Xia Qingning beside her:

"Unlike some country girls who pretend to know when they don't."

He Shanshan was so delighted by the compliment that she used her sturdy body to push aside Xia Qingning and Mai Miao in front of her and said contemptuously:

"If you don't want to buy, just get out of the way. Why are you blocking others?"

"Why are you pushing me?" Mai Miao and He Shanshan had always been at odds with each other, so she was naturally unhappy about being pushed, and continued:

"We were the first to see it. Do you understand first come first served?"

"So what if we arrived first? Are you going to buy it?" He Shanshan sneered and asked contemptuously.

"How do you know we won't buy it?" Mai Miao replied, obviously lacking in confidence, but not wanting to lose face in front of He Shanshan.

"Then you pay, twenty yuan." He Shanshan stood there, with her hands on her chest, looking at Mai Miao with disdain and asked:

"do you have?"

Mai Miao's face changed suddenly. How could she have so much money? Even if she did, she would not be willing to spend it all on buying a piece of clothing.

"You don't have money, but you're still telling me it's first come first served." He Shanshan was even more proud, and looked at Zhao Cuilan and said proudly:

"Aunt Zhao, I bought this dress, please get me a new one."

After saying that, he took out two big unity notes from his pocket and waved them in front of Mai Miao on purpose.

Looking at the complacent He Shanshan, Mai Miao was holding her breath but couldn't vent it. This was the first time that she was choked by He Shanshan and couldn't fight back. She was feeling depressed when she suddenly heard Xia Qingning beside her say with certainty:

"Well, yes, this dress really suits your temperament."

Hearing her say this, Mai Miao felt even worse. He Shanshan was already so arrogant, why was she still praising her? Just when she couldn't help but want to refute, she heard Xia Qingning say the next second:

"With this makeup and this dress, hmm, you are really...ugly in a unique way."

He Shanshan, who was originally waiting for her envy and praise, lost her compliments after hearing this and shouted:

"Who are you calling ugly? I think you're just jealous." She rolled her eyes and looked at Xia Qingning and asked back:

"If someone says my makeup is not good, would you put it on? If someone says my dress is not good, would you be willing to buy it?"