Chapter 828: Living Requires Frugality; You Are Being Far Too Extravagant

Hearing this, Liu Chuxue said, "I don't know much about this matter either; I'll ask the elders at home later."

Thinking of something, she nudged Duan Ruirui with her elbow, a smile flashing in her eyes: "So you really want to be my cousin-sister-in-law?"

Hearing her tease, Duan Ruirui's face immediately turned red: "Stop talking nonsense."

Seeing her reaction, Liu Chuxue stopped teasing her; after finishing their meal, the two hurriedly headed to the Department Store Building.

With limited lunch break time, the two went straight to the counter selling wool yarn.

Liu Chuxue looked at the wool yarn displayed inside the counter: "Comrade, how much is the wool yarn per jin?"

Inside, a sales clerk was knitting a sweater; she glanced up at her casually and said offhandedly, "It depends on which type you want; the prices are all different."

Duan Ruirui leaned over the counter: "Sister, how much is the pure wool?"

The sales clerk put down the sweater she was knitting, stood up, and pointed to the wool yarn beside her: "Pure wool also comes in several varieties, ranging from one yuan five jiao to three yuan per liang; which one do you want?"

She brought over three balls of yarn: "Here, this one is one yuan five jiao per liang, this one is two yuan five jiao per liang, and this one is three yuan per liang; which one do you want?"

In this era, an ordinary worker's monthly wage was only a little over thirty yuan; calculating based on one jin and two liang of yarn per sweater, choosing a mid-range price of two yuan five jiao per liang meant one sweater would cost nearly a month's wages.

Duan Ruirui looked directly at the red yarn on the counter: "Comrade, give me one jin of big red wool yarn."

The sales clerk turned around, took two balls of yarn from the shelf, and said: "For red, we only have the two yuan five jiao and three yuan varieties; the one yuan five jiao is temporarily out of stock; which one do you want?"

Without hesitation, Duan Ruirui pointed directly at the three-yuan-per-liang ball of yarn: "I want this one."

After speaking, she leaned closer to Liu Chuxue: "I figure one only gets married once in a lifetime, so naturally, one must treat oneself well."

Liu Chuxue agreed wholeheartedly: "That's right; this three-yuan-per-liang red is very true and vibrant; your skin is fair, so this color suits you very well."

Duan Ruirui thought the same: "We both thought of the same thing."

After the sales clerk wrote out the receipt and handed it to Duan Ruirui, she looked at Liu Chuxue: "Which color do you want?"

Liu Chuxue looked at the counter: "Comrade, please give me one jin and a half of the navy blue wool yarn at two yuan five jiao per liang, and one jin and two liang of the brown one."

Originally, she had wanted to get one jin of army green for herself, but upon second thought, she decided against it.

While writing out the receipt, the sales clerk said: "That comes to sixty-seven yuan and five jiao in total, plus five industrial coupons."

Just then, Duan Ruirui returned and, seeing the sales clerk writing the receipt, asked: "What colors did you choose?"

Taking the receipt, Liu Chuxue replied: "Navy blue and brown."

Upon hearing this, Duan Ruirui immediately knew who they were for: "You bought these for your parents; what about you?"

Liu Chuxue looked at the receipt in her hand: "I'll buy mine next month after I receive my wages."

Duan Ruirui sighed and said nothing more.

Knowing what she was thinking, Liu Chuxue smiled and said, "Don't worry; by Chinese New Year, I will definitely have finished knitting my own sweater."

Just as the two were talking, they heard someone exclaim in surprise: "Oh, it's Fourth Sister-in-Law."

Liu Chuxue looked up and saw Zhang Yurong: "Third Sister-in-Law, what a coincidence?"

The previous sales clerk looked at Zhang Yurong: "Is she your relative?"

Although Zhang Yurong was smiling, the smile did not reach her eyes; pointing at Liu Chuxue, she said, "This is my younger brother-in-law's fiancée; I didn't expect her to come over while I was just out eating a meal."

Having said that, she asked, "Fourth Sister-in-Law, are you here to buy wool yarn?"

Her colleague held up the items in her hands: "I am wrapping them up."

Zhang Yurong looked at the items in her colleague's hands: "Are they all for her?"

Her colleague nodded at her.

For some reason, Zhang Yurong began to lecture Liu Chuxue: "Fourth Sister-in-Law, one must be frugal in running a household; you are being far too extravagant."