Traveling between the 70s and the modern world

Chapter 107 Memories

Zhou Limei drove and took Lin Qingyan along two roads and turned two corners before arriving at the address of their store.

Lin Qingyan was actually very excited as she watched the renovation workers coming in and out of the shop.

This can also be considered as her shop. Although she can't spend the money she earns directly in the 70s, she can buy things to bring back.

"I asked a professional design company to design the store. It's not a simple place to buy vegetables like a vegetable market." Zhou Limei said as she looked at the busy workers.

Lin Qingyan looked at her, waiting for her next words.

Zhou Limei smiled and said: "The first floor is simple, similar to some high-end fruit and fresh food stores. The upstairs is divided into two rooms, and there is a bathroom upstairs and downstairs.

I plan to convert the downstairs bathroom into a kitchen. When the store opens, I may be in the store all day and won’t have time to go back home to cook. So I design the upstairs into two rooms.

If you are delayed by something, you can stay here for a night, and you can also rest upstairs during the day.”

Lin Qingyan thought about it and agreed. Although she didn't dare to spend the night in modern times, she could rest during the day.

"Sister Zhou, I don't understand any of this, just look at the design."

"Well, I know. I didn't discuss it with you. I told you the result directly."

Zhou Limei suddenly started joking seriously.

"Yes, just notify me directly from now on. I will be responsible for providing the vegetables. By the way, Sister Zhou, I have planted some of the vegetable seeds you bought for me last time, and they have already sprouted."

In fact, Lin Qingyan almost said that it was ready to eat, but then she remembered the normal cycle of vegetables and swallowed her words back.

But Zhou Limei was already surprised by this progress.

"It hasn't been long since the flowers sprouted. Even in this weather, even a greenhouse can't grow that fast!"

"My home is special, the temperature is more suitable for planting." Lin Qingyan said halfway and didn't continue.

Zhou Limei glanced at her and didn't ask any more questions. She just said to her, "Then I'll get you some rare seeds."

"That's fine. If they can all be grown, the store will have a lot more varieties and business will definitely be good."

Lin Qingyan lived to 83 in her previous life. Before 83, some cities already had shopping malls.

Before shopping malls were built, people went to supply and marketing cooperatives to buy things because they had a wide variety of products and many choices.

But since the emergence of shopping malls, the things in shopping malls are more numerous and more complete than those in supply and marketing cooperatives, and the service attitude of the staff is better, so people have shifted their shopping from supply and marketing cooperatives to shopping malls.

However, these were what she heard from her parents and younger brother in her previous life. Thinking of this, she remembered that she had not received a reply to the last letter she wrote home, and she didn't know when her brother would get married.

Just as she was thinking about it, she heard Zhou Limei talking to her over there.

"Of course. The store we are going to open has already spread among the mothers' circle. As long as our products are of good quality and as good as the ones you brought before, we will definitely have no problem selling them."

Zhou Limei is very confident now, but she cannot control the supply of goods by herself, so she still has to urge Lin Qingyan to control the supply of goods.

"Don't worry about this, Sister Zhou. The stuff won't be bad." Lin Qingyan came back to her senses and quickly made the assurance.

"Qingyan, to be honest with you, what I'm most worried about now is whether the food can be supplied."

Zhou Limei pondered for a while and finally expressed her concerns.

"Sister Zhou, don't worry. The supply will definitely be stable before the New Year. However, I have to go on a long trip during the New Year, so I may not be able to come for half a month."

Lin Qingyan told her plan.

"That's fine. If it's Chinese New Year, the store will be closed early, and I can go out and play with Tongtong."

The two did not stay here for long. The shop was under renovation and there was nothing interesting to see.

After a while, Lin Qingyan followed Zhou Limei back to the community, rode away on a bike, and went to the address left by the greenhouse installer according to the last call she made yesterday.

Xishui Town is not very big, and the address left by the boss is near the wholesale market. Seeing the wholesale market, Lin Qingyan suddenly remembered to buy a set of cotton clothes for her parents and brother and send them back.

The last time I received a letter from home, my mother said that she was preparing for my brother to get married in the winter. I don’t know if my brother is married or not, as he got married at this time in his previous life.

At that time, I had been taken back home by my parents. It was because of the girl my brother was dating that I knew my brother had a sick sister who was lying at home and could not go out to work.

She is not willing to marry my brother unless it can solve her problem.

At first, the brother just looked sad and hesitated to look at her, but in the end, his parents couldn't stand it anymore and took him outside to discuss in a low voice.

I remember that her parents were very angry at that time. After her brother was depressed for two days, he didn't care about anything and quarreled with his parents in front of her.

His parents were exhausted and emptied out all their savings. They asked someone to use their connections to get his brother's company to allocate him a house.

The girl agreed to get married only when they asked her to live outside directly after marriage and not come back to live with them.

It was from that time that she decided to die. If she hadn't seen her parents pretending nothing had happened in front of her,

I tried my best to give her the best and kept her alive, but she might have ended her life early.

In this life, she has never been forced to go back home due to illness, nor has she been lying in bed unable to move and become a burden. The girl probably won't make a fuss about this issue again, but I don't know what else they will do.

In fact, after she was reborn, she had thought about changing her brother's fate and keeping him away from that woman.

But every time I think of my brother's disgusted, helpless and sad expression in his previous life, and the way he seemed to want to say something but hesitated every time he looked at her, and the way he was anxious because she had delayed him from marrying his beloved.

Lin Qingyan felt very annoyed. She didn't want to think about him at all, let alone care about him. She didn't blame him for giving up her, his sister, in order to marry his sweetheart.

But she is not a saint, and not blaming him does not mean she can forgive him.

The brother-sister relationship between them in the previous life had been exhausted, and there was no need for them to have a deep friendship in this life. As long as he didn't go too far and considering her parents' feelings, she could ignore their existence.

Lin Qingyan was thinking about something and did not delay her walking. She had already entered the wholesale market.

After coming to the wholesale market several times, she was familiar with the layout and found the place where old cotton trousers and cotton jackets were sold.

Why are they called old cotton pants? It’s because most of the cotton clothes nowadays are not made of cotton. Instead, they are made of silk cotton, soybean cotton, or even some cotton of very poor quality.

These are what she saw recently on the Internet using her mobile phone.

"Sister, I'm here to buy cotton clothes again."

Lin Qingyan came to the shop where she bought the flowery cotton-padded jacket last time. The proprietress was busy at the moment and there were two or three people in the shop.

"Come on, take a look for yourself. If you like anything, tell me and I'll take it."

Although the boss was very busy, he was still very enthusiastic and greeted Lin Qingyan warmly when he saw her.

"Okay sister, you go ahead."

Lin Qingyan was just there looking at the clothes on the wall.