After being abandoned by the educated youth, I became rich in the 80s

As soon as Lan Xin's words came out, the gossipers at the door couldn't help but lower their voices.

Now that they were praised by Lan Xin, how could they continue to be compared with those gossipers in the countryside?

After all, they are city people and educated people. How could they be fooled by Zhou Rongxin like the country people?

After Director Liu said this, he immediately tactfully changed the subject.

"Oh, does this mean that Zhou Rongxin can't even do the work that a woman can do?"

"Then what did he do in the countryside? Did he go there to enjoy life?"

"Isn't it just enjoying life? Look at how healthy he is, and then look at his ex-wife and children, they are all skinny. People who have done farm work, there are two people working next to him. Just by looking at Zhou Rongxin, you can tell that he lives a good life in the countryside."

"Isn't this just fooling around? He has betrayed the trust of the Party and the organization..."

Listening to the increasingly biased words of the onlookers, Zhou Rongxin could no longer care about Liu Yunfei. If he let these people continue talking, he was afraid that he would be labeled as a capitalist, so he hurried to stop them.

After the Finance Department gave Lan Xin and the others the full amount of money, Lan Xin counted it again and found that it was 4960 yuan, not a penny less.

He took out two hundred yuan from the bank and gave it to Brother Lan and Sister Lan. This was the money Zhou Rongxin owed them.

Zhou Sheng on the side looked at Lan Xin eagerly, opened his mouth again and again, but still no words came out.

Lan Xin guessed what he was thinking. He was definitely eyeing the money and was waiting for Lan Xin to give him half of it, or all of it.

He wants money and is acting so arrogantly. He probably thinks she will force him to give him the money.

Bah, he's been spoiled like this, he's just as disgusting as his father.

Lan Xin pretended not to see anything and took Yingying, Yueyue, Brother Lan and Sister-in-law Lan with them and left the Sugar, Tobacco and Alcohol Company with their bags.

The crowd that had gathered at the company's gate had dispersed, and the people who had come with Lan Xin and the others had also left.

However, Lan Xin could still feel the eyes looking at her along the way. She guessed that the gossip had moved behind the scenes.

Only after leaving the company did Mrs. Lan breathe a sigh of relief. The room was full of workers, and she was feeling suffocated. She didn't even dare to breathe heavily for fear of being laughed at.

However, after seeing this, Mrs. Lan felt that these city people and workers were not much different from the rural people in their countryside. They all loved to gossip about others!

"Lan Xin, are we going back to the guesthouse now?"

Mrs. Lan patted the money in her bag and asked happily.

Getting back the two hundred yuan that she had owed for five years was like finding money to her, so she was in such a good mood.

Lan Xin looked up at the sun. It was probably only around four o'clock. It would be too early to go back to the guesthouse.

Lan Xin thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the department store to buy some things, and then go visit Sister Sun and the others tonight to thank them for their help in helping us deal with Zhou Rongxin and the others."

More importantly, she is rich now, so she can ask Sun Shimei, Li Hongwei and others what to do with the children's burping condoms.

"We have to thank Sister Sun and the others, but what is this department store?" Mrs. Lan asked curiously.

It's so new, she has never heard of it before.

"Yes, it's a place that sells things just like the supply and marketing cooperatives, but this is privately run. There are more things in it than in the supply and marketing cooperatives, and the things are more complete. We are going to the Shanghai market anyway, so how can we miss these places."

Lan Xin explained as she spoke.

In big cities like Shanghai, the capital, smart and capable people started opening department stores as soon as the cities opened up.

Unlike their small place, they are afraid to set up a small stall for fear that the policy will change and all their goods will be taken away.

Lan Xin was thinking about the novels of the period she had read. There seemed to be a huge second-hand goods market in Shanghai these days, called Huaiguojiu or something.

Now that you are here, you must visit these places.

Mrs. Lan thought about it and had no objection. Now that she had money in her hands, she felt confident and decided to go shopping in the mall.

Brother Lan and Little Brother Lan didn't have any, so Lan Xin and her group asked for directions and headed towards Nanjing Road.

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As soon as Pu entered the department store, Mrs. Lan couldn't help but exclaimed "Wow".

These rows of bright light tubes are filled with goods of all kinds.

Brother Lan and Sister Lan were immediately attracted by Lin Liang's various merchandise and kept looking around.

"Lan Xin, where are we going?"

I don’t know when Lan Xin became their backbone.

When the country people came into the city, they instinctively panicked, but seeing Lan Xin's calm appearance, they felt that there was nothing to be afraid of.

"It's still early, let's go around and walk around. Come on, tell me what you want to go shopping for," Lan Xin said with a smile.

Mrs. Lan looked at the bright clothes worn by the people shopping around her. She couldn't help but look down at her own gray clothes with a sense of inferiority. This was her best outfit.

"Let's take a look at the fabrics first. Then grab a few feet of nice-looking fabrics and go back to make a new dress."

You no longer need cloth coupons to buy cloth, but when you go to the supply and marketing cooperatives there, there are still no nice-looking cloths.

The colors are all gray, and the best looking ones are either ant green or navy blue, but even so you still have to fight for them to get them.

Seeing people around her wearing clothes made of fabrics of other colors, Mrs. Lan felt itchy.

Now that I have some money, I want to go and have a look, and buy a few feet of cloth to make some clothes for my children.

"Okay." Lan Xin nodded with a smile, and Lan Xiaodi beside her also took the opportunity to speak.

"I want to go to the home appliance section over there. I heard there will be refrigerators, washing machines, watches, radios, etc. I want to take a look at them all."

Lan Xiaodi rubbed his head, a little embarrassed. But at his age, he was just interested in these things.

Actually, Brother Lan was also interested, but he thought those things were expensive and they couldn't afford them. If they couldn't afford them, why bother to go and see them? It made people itch and they couldn't get excited about anything.

"Didn't you say you wanted to go see Brother Li and the others? Hurry up and cut two pounds of meat, buy a bottle of wine and go over." Brother Lan said.

This is considered a generous gift in rural areas.

Lan Xin was just about to say that people in the city didn't like to buy meat and wine when she heard someone calling them.

"Lan Xin??"

Who is it?

The group of people turned their heads in confusion, wondering if someone they knew had also come to Shanghai?

The person who was speaking was a pretty girl wearing a red polka-dot skirt and the most fashionable Hong Kong-style curly hair of the era. She looked to be no more than twenty years old, and was accompanied by two little boys who were also dressed fashionably.

The younger boy, who looked about 8 or 9 years old, stuck out his tongue at Yueyue as soon as he saw her.

"Lululu, Zhou Yueyue!"