Chapter 136 Buying a Watch
After buying the meat, Zhou Ziwen did not delay and pushed his bicycle to the post office.
It is worth mentioning that when sending things to the Chen sisters’ homes, Zhou Ziwen also got their home addresses.
Zhou Ziwen carefully wrote down the address. This is his wife's natal home, and she will definitely visit her in the future.
Because it was still early, there were not many people sending letters at the post office, so Zhou Ziwen completed the procedures quickly.
After coming out of the post office, he walked towards the supply and marketing cooperative.
There are a lot of things to buy today, but you can buy them all at the supply and marketing cooperative.
Soon, Zhou Ziwen came to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought first a saw and then a set of masonry tools.
Masons use many tools, including crowbars, chisels, hand hammers, sledge hammers, hammers, holes, etc.
Zhou Ziwen was not short of money and simply bought a complete set.
The chisel and hand hammer are used to process stone, while the second hammer and hole are used to mine stone.
Sledgehammers are used to mine large stones. For example, the stone jar Zhou Ziwen wants to build requires a sledgehammer.
The crowbar is a common tool for masons. Using this tool saves effort. It is needed whether it is mining or subsequent processing.
Since the chisel is easy to wear, he also bought a bellows to facilitate polishing.
It cost almost ten yuan to buy this set of things.
Even Zhou Ziwen felt a little heartbroken for such a large amount of money.
However, if you buy these tools once, they will last for several years. If you take good care of them, they will last a lifetime.
Some old masons regard the tools in their hands as family heirlooms.
After being used by this generation, it can be passed on to the next generation.
Although Zhou Ziwen did not regard masonry as a profession, he planned to keep the tools carefully so that when his children grow up, they can tell him how hard life was back then.
In addition to saws and mason's tools, he also bought a sugar bowl, which was used to hold honey.
After buying these, the next step is to buy a watch.
Zhou Ziwen came to the counter selling watches and counted the industrial coupons in his hand, feeling that they should be enough.
“Comrade, I want to buy a women’s watch.” Zhou Ziwen said to the salesperson who was knitting a sweater.
"Take a look for yourself and let me know if you like it." The saleswoman was not enthusiastic. She just made a gesture with her eyes and continued to knit her sweater.
"I want this Shanghai brand women's watch." Zhou Ziwen said.
The same rice feeds all kinds of people. Zhou Ziwen doesn't mind the salesperson's attitude because he is used to it.
Before going to the countryside, he encountered people with even worse attitudes.
"Sixty-eight." said the salesperson.
"Let's write the invoice!" Zhou Ziwen cleared a stack of industrial coupons and made enough money.
The styles of watches in this era are relatively old-fashioned, and their only advantage is that they are durable.
But in this era, if someone has a watch on his hand, it is too late for others to envy him. Who cares about whether it is old-fashioned or not.
What’s more, as long as it’s a watch, it’s very fashionable in their eyes.
“Here.”
Seeing the real money and tickets, the salesperson stood up, took out the watch from the counter, and then issued the ticket for him.
Zhou Ziwen took the watch in his hand and checked it carefully.
This kind of old Shanghai watch is the same as the one he wears on his hand. It needs to be wound, but it only needs to be wound once a day.
The last time the clockwork was wound, it could last more than a day. Zhou Ziwen was afraid of forgetting to wind up his watch, so the first thing he did when he looked at his watch when he got up every day was to wind it up.
While he was checking his watch, the salesperson had already issued the ticket.
After counting the money and tickets, the watch officially belonged to Zhou Ziwen.
I bought a watch, and Zhou Ziwen has finished going to the city today.
Seeing that it was still early, he pushed his bicycle to the bookstore.
This time I mainly want to find a few more technical books. Although I may not necessarily be able to use them, I want to be prepared. In the future, if there are more AFK slots, I can AFK some skills that are not commonly used.
It’s always good to learn more skills, but what if you need them sometime?
When he came to the bookstore, there were not many people inside. Zhou Ziwen didn't care about anything else. He just took a look at the books he was interested in. Before he knew it, it was almost noon.
During this time in the bookstore, Zhou Ziwen also found several books of interest.
One was about cooking. He discovered that Chen Shiying was very passionate about cooking and bought a copy so that he could read it with her.
There is also a book on how to make soy products, which explains how to make tofu, dried tofu, tofu skin, konjac and so on.
There is also a guide to woodworking techniques and a history of Chinese architecture.
These books are all very practical skills for Zhou Ziwen.
Let’s not talk about cooking skills. Although he comes from a later generation and has received cooking methods from all over the world on the Internet and in daily life, there are still many cooking methods that he does not know.
After all, he is not a professional chef, nor does he have any special knowledge in this area.
This kind of book that specifically introduces cooking skills is quite useful to him.
As for soy products, he knows nothing about them. He used to buy them as finished products and didn’t know how to make them at all.
Carpentry and construction are also his knowledge blind areas, and he needs to learn them from scratch.
Fortunately, he has an AFK panel. You only need to read the skills in the book and learn them through AFK, eliminating the painful learning process.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Zhou Ziwen came to the state-owned restaurant and ordered a large bowl of shredded pork noodles.
He doesn’t have any special hobbies in eating. The only thing he likes is noodles.
In my previous life, I was busy with work and had no time to cook. I only had a bowl of noodles in the morning and evening.
He ate all the noodle restaurants near his home and work place.
In order to eat noodles, he even spent money to learn from several masters, and then opened a noodle shop by himself.
Of course, the result is not very good.
After waiting for the noodles to arrive, Zhou Ziwen huffed and finished a large bowl of noodles quickly.
When he came to the county town, he waited until noon just to have a bowl of noodles.
Although he can also buy noodles and cook them at home, the taste is always a little worse.
This is not due to cooking skills, but to the heat.
The restaurant's stove is a high-fire stove. Whether it is dishes or noodles, the taste is different from what is cooked at home.
After eating and drinking, Zhou Ziwen came out of the state-owned hotel and rushed home on his bicycle.
He had already thought about how surprised Chen Qiaoyi would be when he gave the watch away.
After walking quickly, it only took more than half an hour for Zhou Ziwen to return to his yard.
At this time, the Chen sisters and Shen Zhaodi had finished work and were having dinner.
Zhou Ziwen went home and put down his things, then took the sugar bowl to the home of the Chen sisters.
As for the watch, he planned to give it to Chen Qiaoyi when he was alone with her. I believe the girl would be very moved by then.
(End of this chapter)