After selling the vegetables, the cardboard box was already soggy and deflated.
Xia Chuyi felt some heartache; this was a box she had bought for ten cents in someone's store!
In this era of extreme material scarcity, even a box for packaging things was very valuable, and average families simply didn't have them.
Although resources were scarce, people's spending power exceeded her expectations.
Her box of vegetables, from start to finish, took only about twenty minutes to sell out.
Precisely because of the lack of goods, people actually had saved up quite a bit of money. For anything that only required money and no ration coupons, everyone's purchasing power was beyond imagination.
Today's trial had filled Xia Chuyi with hope for the future.
When she reached a deserted corner, she quietly tossed the box into her secret space, took off her headscarf, and leisurely strolled back to the hostel.
"Xia Chuyi, where did you go!"
As soon as she entered the door, she saw He Qing standing at the entrance with a livid face, while Xia Lan stood beside him like a delicate bird, her eyes red, obviously having tattled.
"I've never been to the big city before, just went out for a stroll," Xia Chuyi replied nonchalantly, sticking to the script.
"You, look at your attitude!" He Qing trembled with anger, "Do you even act like a lady?"
"I don't act like a lady? How do I not act like a lady?" Xia Chuyi rolled her eyes, giving him a sidelong glance, "It's not like you're engaged to a man instead of a woman, right?"
"You..." He Qing, furious, made as if to grab her.
"What do you want to do?" Xia Chuyi glared at him coldly.
He Qing was startled by her gaze, reminded of Huo Shiqian.
"If there's nothing special, I'm going back to my room."
Not giving He Qing a chance to lecture her.
Back in her room, Xia Chuyi's expression immediately became somber.
Xia Lan, He Qing, you can't bear it anymore, can you? Well, go ahead and make your move.
This revolting engagement weighed on her constantly, making her miserable.
She moved into her space, scattered the seeds she had bought outside, took a bath, and began planning her next move.
Suddenly, there was a noise from outside the space, and she immediately emerged from her secret place, on alert.
"Who?" She held a stick taken from the space in her hand.
Xia Chuyi clutched the stick tightly, hiding by the window.
When she saw the whole figure climbing up the window from outside, she abruptly yanked the curtain open, opened the window, and swung the stick with all her might.
The stick did not hit a vital point; the intruder deflected the stick with a swipe of his hand, swiftly turning his body, and did a flip lightning-fast into the room.
"I'll kill you, you damn thief!" Xia Chuyi shouted angrily, swinging the stick ready to attack again. But as she lifted her hands above her head, she got a clear look at the intruder's face.
"Why is it you?" Her tone shifted rapidly to one of surprise.
The person who had climbed through the window was actually Huo Shiqian.
Huo Shiqian stood there in his crisp military uniform, his military boots on, his face expressionless. Just standing there simply, he exuded an aura of inviolability, showing no sign he had just climbed through a window.
Even climbing through a window, he managed to radiate an air of righteousness.
"What are you doing here?" Xia Chuyi held the stick, looking at him with confusion.
And to arrive in such a manner.