Counterattack 1988

Chapter 80 Buying a Sofa

Wang Lin groaned and slapped the back of his hand: "I really forgot about this! Let's talk about it tomorrow!"

Li Wenxiu said: "It was you who made an appointment with Comrade Deng Dabao, and it's your fault if you miss the appointment."

Wang Lin smiled and said, "It's such a big deal, I just need to call him and tell him. You missed the appointment too, why didn't you tell me?"

Li Wenxiu said: "How can I miss the appointment?"

Wang Lindao: "You promised me to buy a sofa? Where's the sofa?"

Li Wenxiu chuckled and said, "What are you talking about, I'll go when I'm free."

"Go tonight?"

"Go at night? I have to paste matchboxes."

"How much money can I earn? This trip—" Wang Lin looked at Sun Xiaodie, walked up to Li Wenxiu, and whispered in her ear, "I made 18!"

"It doesn't matter how much you earn. I wash the rice and cook." Li Wenxiu's face was calm, "I don't know if you came back today, I didn't buy any good food. There is only one vegetable and one fried pork with green beans. "

Wang Lin said: "Then you do it first, I'll go out and buy a chicken and eat it back."

"A chicken costs four or five yuan!" Li Wenxiu said, "Buying half a chicken is enough!"

Wang Lin said with a smile: "Buy one, the two of us will eat a big chicken drumstick!"

Li Wenjuan said: "Brother-in-law, what about me?"

Wang Lin said: "You and Xiaodie, each eat a big chicken wing!"

"Okay! Thank you brother-in-law! I haven't eaten chicken for a long time!" Li Wenjuan licked her lips, "My mouth is watering."

Li Wenxiu said: "Look at you, you have been fattened up by your brother-in-law!"

Li Wenjuan said: "This shows that my sister's wife is good and can make money!"

Wang Lin chuckled and went to buy chicken.

In the evening, the family had a delicious meal of stewed chicken and mushrooms, without even a drop of soup left.

After dinner, Wang Lin urged Li Wenxiu to buy a sofa.

"I can't see the color of the sofa clearly at night, so it's better to go during the day."

"Want to wait for Sunday again? Don't wait, why don't you just buy a sofa? Why not just sit?"

"Okay, I'll do the dishes first."

"Leave it to Wenjuan and Xiaodie to clean up! Let's go."

Li Wenxiu had no choice but to go shopping with him.

She put on a new dress she made herself and added a tube top so she wouldn't look too sexy.

In fact, Shencheng is also the forefront of my country's reform and opening up. Many foreign trends of thought and clothing have taken root here. Compared with Guangzhou, the world of flowers and flowers, it is not far behind.

However, Li Wenxiu is more traditional and conservative, and she dare not wear skirts that are too revealing.

At the end of the 80s, Shencheng had a rich variety of furniture. With the improvement of people's wages, private furniture stores also began to bloom everywhere.

In a furniture store on Nanjing Road, Wang Lin fell in love with a set of fabric sofas. Although the style is not as beautiful as later generations, it is not inferior in comfort.

The salesperson introduced: "Sir, this is a sofa imitating European and American styles. The style and workmanship are the best."

Wang Lin smiled and said: "European and American style? It's not like this at all. European-style sofas are divided into European-style pastoral sofas and European-style classic sofas. European-style pastoral sofas pursue to return to nature. , vividly portraying the rustic atmosphere. The European-style classical sofa is more of a continuation of the aristocratic atmosphere of the European-style imperial court, with strong colors, high-end styling, noble and elegant. Yours can be regarded as a modern and simple style at best."

The salesperson smiled and said, "Sir, it looks like he has been abroad and is a well-informed person. Did you like this sofa?"

"How much?" Wang Lin asked.

The salesperson asked, "Do you buy it for your own home? Or for your work unit?"

"Is there any difference?" Wang Lin asked.

The salesperson said: "If you are buying for a unit, we can help you to charge a higher price on the invoice."

Wang Lin understood in seconds.

But Li Wenxiu didn't understand, and asked, "Why do you charge a high price on the invoice?"

The salesperson smiled and said nothing.

Wang Lindao: "We buy it at home."

The salesperson said: "Sir, if you use it for home use, it will be 780 yuan."

"So expensive?" Li Wenxiu said, "Don't buy it! Buying a set of two or three hundred yuan is about the same."

The salesperson said: "A sofa that costs more than two hundred yuan? Then you can only buy the leather sofa over there."

Li Wenxiu said: "The leather sofa is cheaper?"

"That style is outdated, and there is only one rectangular three-seater. This one is a set with four sofas!"

"Then buy leather. It's enough." Li Wenxiu said.

Wang Lindao: "The leather is not real leather, it's all artificial leather. When the weather is hot, there's a big smell. It's hot to sit in summer, but it's cold in winter. It's better to buy fabric ones, which are easy to remove and wash."

The salesperson complimented: "Mr. is a man of knowledge."

Li Wenxiu said: "It's too expensive. Can you sell it for five hundred? If not, let's change it and see."

The salesman said: "I can't buy it for five hundred, can you add more? Six hundred and eighty will sell you."

Li Wenxiu said: "It's only five hundred yuan! I think five hundred yuan is too much for me to bargain! My monthly salary is only a little over one hundred yuan. If I don't eat and drink for five months, I can buy such a sofa! No need You issue an invoice, and there is no place to reimburse it anyway. Will you sell it? If you don’t sell it, we’ll leave.”

The salesperson smiled and said, "Okay, I'll sell it to you. Really, we've never sold it at such a low price."

Wang Lin thought to himself, Li Wenxiu is really good at bargaining!

If it were him who came to buy it, it might be possible to buy it without counter-offering.

Li Wenxiu said: "We want this set, we don't need to take it from the inside, I'm afraid you'll pass it off as a good one, put it on the outside as a good product, and send it to your door as a defective product. You can send a car now and take it home. .”

The salesperson said with a smile: "Please rest assured that we are a branded furniture store, and we will not do such tricks."

Li Wenxiu said: "That's hard to say. Uncle Chen next door bought a rattan reclining chair. The one he liked and the one he sent home were completely different. The sample product was a real rattan chair, but the one he sent home was A rattan chair woven from fake leather. He asked someone from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to return that chair!"

The salesperson didn't dare to say any more, and arranged for the delivery driver to carry the sofa set into the car and take it back to Wang Lin's home.

As soon as she got home, Li Wenxiu started to take measurements to make sofa covers.

Wang Lin waited for her to finish measuring, then lay down on the sofa, and said with a smile, "It's comfortable! I'll buy a refrigerator tomorrow."

Li Wenxiu said: "The refrigerator is useless, we all buy fresh vegetables every day."

Wang Lindao: "Summer is here, buy more popsicles, soft drinks, and Coke and keep them at home."

Li Wenjuan immediately raised her hands in approval: "Long live brother-in-law!"

Li Wenxiu said: "Don't buy it! The refrigerator is consuming electricity, and with that electricity bill, it's enough for you to eat popsicles!"

Wang Lindao: "I went to the villages and towns in Chang'an City this time, and I heard that there is no electricity there."

Sun Xiaodie said: "My hometown doesn't have electricity either! The only electrical appliance in my house is the flashlight!"

Li Wenjuan laughed and said, "Is a flashlight considered an electrical appliance? Xiaodie, is your hometown really so poor?"

Sun Xiaodie hummed: "My hometown is on the mountain! Before I came to work in the city, I never watched TV. After I came to Brother Wang's house, it was the first time I watched color TV! My aunt's house used to only have black and white TV. , is still a small one.”

Li Wenjuan said: "My house is also a black and white TV. So I said, my sister is really lucky to marry such a good man as my brother-in-law! We are also enjoying the blessings! It is a color TV and a sofa, so comfortable! Look at this Sofa, how bouncy! Sitting on it, my ass sinks in!"

Li Wenxiu memorized the size of the sofa, took out the fabrics stored at home, and was looking at which piece of fabric would be suitable for tailoring sofa covers. Hearing what his sister said, he couldn't help but glance at Wang Lin, then pursed his lips and smiled lightly.

(End of this chapter)