Seventies Sweetheart: From Breakup to Billionaire-Chapter 238: Free Ration Tickets

Chapter 238: Chapter 238: Free Ration Tickets
The refrigerator needs tickets, a two-door one costs over a thousand yuan.
The TV needs tickets, a black-and-white one costs more than three hundred yuan.
The problem is, both items are restricted purchases, you can’t just buy them with money and tickets.
The TV can wait a bit longer to buy, the refrigerator’s capacity is small, Lin Xiang doesn’t plan to buy it.
What she wants to buy is a freezer!
"What are you buying a freezer for?"
"For opening a store." Lin Xiang said honestly, "After I settle down when school starts, I plan to open a small restaurant. Whether it makes money or not is one thing, but the most important is to find something for mom to do, otherwise, she might overthink things if she’s not creating value."
"I’ve figured out while buying vegetables recently that if the purchase volume is large enough at once, the price of vegetables will be according to wholesale prices, saving quite a bit. But many items don’t last long, so having a freezer perfectly solves this problem."
Lin Yun said, "I’ll help you look around and see if there are any freezers for sale."
"But the department stores only sell refrigerators. It seems you have to buy freezers from the ice cream factory."
She had already inquired at the ice cream factory in Mianyang Town, the factory annually had decommissioned freezers available, did not require tickets, and weren’t expensive.
It’s just that this thing consumes a lot of electricity, and most families can’t afford to use it, so they usually dismantle it and sell it as scrap.
"I know." Lin Yun said, "A comrade of mine is the child of the director of the Meihua Ice Cream Factory. I can ask him, and if it’s suitable, we can buy two."
Lin Xiang’s eyes sparkled, "Brother, you’re simply amazing!"
Enlisted Lin Yun was no longer the silent Lin Yun at the Li Hua Team, and he knew what "amazing" meant.
Hearing Lin Xiang praise him, he blushed with embarrassment, "Am I... really?"
"Huh? What did you say?"
Lin Xiang was talking with the delivery staff about the address, turned her head to see Lin Yun’s lips moving a bit, but she didn’t hear what Lin Yun said, so she asked again instinctively.
Lin Yun naturally wouldn’t repeat himself and immediately shook his head, "I said I would definitely ask for you."
"Okay, let’s go home first!"
The delivery person arrived home earlier than they did.
When Lin Xiang and Lin Yun returned, Mrs. Lin was already happily eating a big watermelon.
"Mom, where did you get the watermelon?"
"The landlord gave it." Mrs. Lin spit out the watermelon seeds and pointed to the chunks of watermelon on the table, "You two eat some too."
There’s nothing more pleasant than eating watermelon while blowing the electric fan.
Lin Yun only ate two pieces and couldn’t eat more, he simply sat beside Lin Xiang, took out a wallet from his pocket, and handed it to Lin Xiang.
"Why are you giving me money?"
"...It’s not money, it’s tickets."
"Tickets?" Lin Xiang suddenly felt the watermelon in her hand wasn’t sweet anymore, she put the watermelon on the table, rushed out to wash her hands, then opened Lin Yun’s wallet and indeed took out a thick stack of tickets.
"Food tickets, meat tickets, sugar tickets... Brother, where did you get so many tickets?"
The stack of tickets was basically all related to food, with only a few industrial tickets.
"Didn’t I tell you before? That person runs a restaurant, it’s considered the only privately-run restaurant in Beijing sanctioned by the state, even during those years, it wasn’t ordered to close."
"He runs a restaurant and has his own special supply channels, so he uses a lot of these tickets, when I went to his house last time, I took some."
The situation was, Lin Yun’s brother accidentally hit a cabinet while playing, and when the cabinet door fell open, a pile of tickets scattered all over the floor.
Many were expired.
Unexpectedly, the tickets that were cherished at the Li Hua Team had no use at the Cheng Family.
Seeing Lin Yun’s look at the tickets, Chen Miaoying sarcastically mocked him as a country bumpkin who hasn’t seen the world.
"I really haven’t seen the world, nor have I seen so many tickets, since your family doesn’t use many, can I have some?"
Maybe it was that phrase "your family" that pleased Chen Miaoying, she generously let Lin Yun take all the tickets away.
The tickets in the cabinet were all food and meat tickets the Cheng Family couldn’t use, the useful ones had long been collected by Chen Miaoying, she didn’t feel heartache giving Lin Yun some, and could gain a reputation for being generous.
Lin Yun calmly described the situation back then, but Lin Xiang listened with a heavy heart, "Brother, you must have been really upset back then?"
"Why be upset?" Lin Yun asked back, "I was thinking at the time, when you come to Beijing, I’ll give you these unexpired tickets, you’ll definitely be happy, where would I have the thought to be upset?"
"But... that was yours after all..."
"That’s not my home." Lin Yun seemed to guess what Lin Xiang wanted to say, interrupting her before she spoke, "Before I was three, I either lived at my grandparents’ house or was taken care of at my uncle’s house, rarely living at my home. After I was four, picked up by dad, since then, wherever you all are is my home."
"That man only gave birth to me, yet never raised me, I have no feelings for him, nor would I torment myself because of his indifference. On the contrary, I’m very happy to get these useful tickets for you from his house."
Lin Xiang looked at Lin Yun for a while, seeing that he really wasn’t sad about it, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and then broke into a big smile.
"Brother, you’re really wonderful! Just the other day I was telling mom, I’m running out of tickets and didn’t know what to do, these tickets are simply timely rain, they’ll help me a lot!"
Lin Xiang exaggerated a bit because before she left for Beijing, Director Chen, Director Zhao, Director Wu, and even the Township Party Secretary had given her a lot of tickets, all of which were nationally valid, she wouldn’t run out for three to five months.
But she’s great at providing emotional support.
Sure enough, after she said that, Lin Yun’s mood brightened, and he began to plan when to visit the Cheng Family again to figure out Quanfu Building’s supply channels set up by Cheng Jianfeng.
Luckily, Lin Xiang didn’t know what Lin Yun was thinking, or else she would have pouted!
With Lin Yun’s help, the mother and daughter pair relaxed a lot, every day after selling out their meals early, the family of three would snuggle into the living room, blow the fan, eat watermelon, it was blissful.
Another few days passed, on the 16th of August, Lin Xiang went to the guesthouse.
"Sister, has there been any phone calls for me recently?"
"There really was, a lady with the surname Ge called, asking how you’ve been doing. I didn’t know where to reach you because you haven’t been back for a few days."
"Thank you, sister." Lin Xiang gave the snow cream she bought at the department store a few days ago to the receptionist and borrowed the phone to return Aunt Ge’s call.