Qiao zhiqing followed his gaze and saw a piece of white fabric with small blue floral patterns, clearly something a girl would use to make clothes.
Realizing that Qin Huai was buying it for her, she immediately waved her hand.
"I don't need cloth, I have clothes to wear, I don't need to make new clothes."
As she spoke, she quickly said to the salesperson who was halfway there, "I want shoes, just give me the shoes!"
Just as the sales clerk was about to turn back, she heard Qin Huai say again, "Take the floral fabric! I don't want the shoes!"
Qiao zhiqing frowned, glared at Qin Huai with dissatisfaction, and said loudly, "I already said I have clothes to wear, I don't need to buy cloth, I want shoes!"
"My shoes are still wearable, so I don't need to buy any more. You can buy two pieces of cloth and make two new outfits."
"I don't want to!"
Just as the two were about to start arguing, Huang Jiajia suddenly burst out laughing.
Qiao zhiqing and Qin Huai turned their heads at the same time and looked at her sharply.
They asked in unison, "What are you laughing at?"
Stared at by the two of them, Huang Jiajia, being a young girl, blushed instantly.
Then, with a look of envy, she said, "I find it quite interesting that you two are thinking of each other and buying things for one another."
As she spoke, Huang Jiajia took the initiative and took down all the cloth shoes and floral fabric.
"Hey, let's get this straight, I'm not doing this for money. I'm just really touched by your relationship. So, I'm going to give you a discount on these shoes and floral fabric, like I never would before. You can have both of them, okay?"
Qiao zhiqing's eyes lit up, and she thought that would work too!
But she still looked at Qin Huai and asked, "Will this work?"
Although Qin Huai still felt that buying shoes was unnecessary, he also realized that if he didn't want shoes today, Qiao zhiqing would definitely not want the floral fabric either.
Thinking of this, he nodded and said, "Let's do it this way!"
"Alright, I'll cut the fabric now!" Huang Jiajia worked quickly and soon wrapped up three feet of floral fabric and a pair of size 43 cloth shoes, putting them together with the pile of things Qiao zhiqing had bought.
Qiao zhiqing suddenly remembered that Qin Huai's tank top had holes in it when he washed his face at home at noon, so she said, "Give me two men's tank tops, in his size."
Qin Huai looked up in surprise.
Then Qiao zhiqing said in an unyielding tone, "You're not allowed to say you won't buy it. You said you'd listen to me, so whatever I say you'll buy, you'll buy."
"Oin Huai swallowed hack the words "..." Qin Huai swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
After thinking for a moment, he suddenly pointed to the counter on the other side and said, "Give me two more feet of red ribbon."
He saw that when people in the village got married, the brides wore red ribbons on their heads, which looked very festive. Qiao zhiqing was fair-skinned, so she would definitely look even better wearing one.
Imagining that scene, Qin Huai couldn't help but stare at Qiao zhiqing for a few more seconds.
Qiao zhiqing felt his gaze and her face turned slightly red.
This man, just a moment ago he said he was shameless.
Now, however, he's staring intently at me.
Like a complete idiot!
Seeing this, Huang Jiajia covered her mouth and chuckled secretly, finding the two of them quite amusing.
Qin Huai was startled awake by the laughter and realized that he had been staring straight at Qiao zhiqing, which made him blush deeply.
"I...I'll load these things onto the car first."
As he spoke, he rushed forward, picked up his things, and was about to leave.
Qiao zhiqing was speechless and quickly said, "What are you moving? They haven't even settled the bill yet. You want to take it without paying? Aren't you afraid they'll arrest you?"
Qin Huai's face darkened.
They were so focused on getting out that they completely forgot about this.
Qiao zhiqing smiled and looked at Huang Jiajia, "These are all we want, can you calculate the cost for us?"
"Alright! Let me do the math. A box of matches costs 2 cents, two boxes cost 4 cents, salt costs 1.8 cents, pork costs 0.87 cents, rapeseed oil costs 0.88 cents, and 20 jin of rice costs 3.1 yuan..."
Huang Jiajia was checking things while...fiddling with the abacus.
However, she was clearly not very familiar with the movements and often made mistakes, which resulted in him calculating incorrectly several times without getting a result.
The more anxious Huang Jiajia became, the more mistakes she made. She quickly looked at the two of them apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, I've only been working here for a month, so I'm not very familiar with the job yet. Please wait a moment."
"It's okay, take your time."
Everyone has to start as a newbie, Qiao zhiqing said she understands.
But after waiting for more than ten minutes, seeing that the sales clerk still couldn't calculate it, she couldn't stand it anymore and finally said, "Why don't you tell me the price and I'll calculate it for you?"
"You? You can do accounts?" Huang Jiajia glanced at her suspiciously.
In those days, few people in rural areas could go to school or were good at accounting, so it's no wonder that Huang Jiajia was suspicious.
Qiao zhiqing didn't explain, but simply took the abacus in front of her and started typing away.
She remembered everything Huang Jiajia had been calculating and muttering, and quickly figured it out.
Then, Qiao zhiqing pointed to the remaining pile and said, "Tell me the price of these next few, and I'll continue calculating."
Huang Jiajia was already amazed by Qiao zhiqin's abacus skills. After hearing her words, she subconsciously listened to her and began to quote prices one by one.
After finishing the calculations, Qiao zhiqing looked at the abacus and said, "It's 51 yuan and 36 fen in total. I bought so much at once, can you round it down for me? Is 51 yuan okay?"
Huang Jiajia: "..."
Huang Jiajia was still in shock when she saw Qiao zhiqing starting to bargain with her, which left her completely bewildered.
After realizing what was happening, we quickly said, "Rounding it down is fine, but you have to wait for me to recalculate it and make sure there are no problems."
Qiao zhiqing felt a headache coming on when she heard that she had to do more calculations, but she did come up with a good idea. "This way, you calculate 10 items at a time, and write the total next to it. This way, even if you make a mistake in the middle, you don't have to recalculate everything. After you've calculated all the items, you can add all the totals together to know the final price."
"That's right! How come I didn't think of that?"
Huang Jiajia thought the little girl in front of her was really smart, and immediately started calculating as she had said.
This time she quickly calculated the result, and it was the same as Qiao zhiqing's result: 51 yuan and 36 fen.
Huang Jiajia was so excited she almost cried. Thinking that this was all the good idea of the girl in front of her, she immediately looked up at her and said, "You are really good at using an abacus! Can you teach me? If you are willing to teach me, I will give you 50 yuan for these things."
Although the temptation was great, Qiao zhiqing still told the truth: "Using an abacus requires practice to master, it can't be done in a day. Also, don't be nervous, the more nervous you are, the more likely you are to make mistakes. If you encounter this situation again in the future, just calculate it as I said."
Qiao zhiqing wasn't born with this skill; she learned it all by helping out at her mother's supermarket during junior high school.
After calculating everything, Qiao zhiqing took out 51 yuan from her cloth bag, then placed all the required grain coupons, cloth coupons, and oil coupons on the counter, and helped Huang Jiajia pack them up.
Qin Huai was responsible for carrying the packed items out.
While busy with her hands, Huang Jiajia didn't forget to chat with Qiao zhiqing, "Where do you live? You look familiar, like I've seen you before."
Upon hearing this, Qiao zhiqing immediately recalled the time when the original owner of the body and Hou Yan went shopping in town a while ago.
The supply and marketing cooperative did come at that time.
Seeing Qin Huai carrying his things out, Qiao zhiqing quickly laughed it off and said, "You might be mistaken. I haven't been to town in a long time, and I have a very ordinary face."