1968: At the beginning, the beautiful sister-in-law came to borrow food! Chapter 201

As later generations of experts would say, Li Yunfeng’s trip with his wives was the beginning of a spree of “revenge spending.”

“You two go buy things, I’ll go ask about the prices of other items!”

After saying that, Li Yunfeng walked towards the courtyard of the supply and marketing cooperative.

There, a large pile of red bricks, asbestos tiles, cement, and various stone slabs were stacked.

“Comrade, what do you want to buy?”

No sooner had Li Yunfeng arrived than someone emerged from the building, asking him.

“I’m looking to see how much these red bricks and such cost.”

“Also cement, and stone slabs.”

Li Yunfeng intended to buy quite a few stone slabs.

These items could not only be used to build heated brick beds (kang).

They could also be laid on the ground to create underfloor heating (dilong).

The main reason was that stone slabs transferred heat quickly!

They also retained heat very well, far superior to adobe bricks.

“All of these don’t require tickets, just money.”

“If you buy a lot, we can even deliver them to your home!”

“Red bricks are three fen each!”

“For stone slabs, it depends on the size you want. A five-centimeter thick, one-meter by one-meter slab is one yuan and five jiao.”

“As for cement, one ton is fifty yuan!”

“Basically, if you’re building a house, for a hundred-square-meter house,”

“with fifty-centimeter thick walls, twenty tons of cement should be enough.”

The salesperson introduced the prices of these items to Li Yunfeng with a smile, along with their approximate usage.

How to put it? Very few people bought these things now.

At this time, it was difficult for rural families to come up with two or three thousand yuan to build a new house.

Even if they built a house, it would be an adobe house.

Let alone now, even in the 1990s, most rural houses were adobe.

It wasn’t until after the year 2000 that brick and tile construction became popular.

At this time, if a family could build three large tiled rooms,

they would be incredibly impressive in the local area!

It could be said they were very formidable.

“Alright, then I’ll come back to buy them in a few days when the weather gets warmer.”

“I’ll go back and measure roughly first, to see how much material I’ll need!”

Li Yunfeng thought for a moment; he didn’t know the exact amount of materials he’d need yet.

Moreover, after returning, he also planned to expand his house.

Currently, the house used wood for many parts.

Li Yunfeng intended to replace all of that.

He wanted to replace everything with cement and red bricks.

This would make it much sturdier.

Especially the floor, fireplace, heated walls (huoqiang), heated brick beds (huokang), and underfloor heating (dilong).

Otherwise, the indoor temperature in winter wouldn’t be enough.

It was truly possible to freeze to death.

No joke.

Especially at this time, global temperatures hadn’t warmed up yet.

At minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius, let alone people, even an old ox would freeze to death here.

“Alright, then, comrade, go back and tally things up properly.”

Hearing that Li Yunfeng was going back to measure,

the salesperson also couldn’t help but say with a smile.

“By the way, comrade, do we have a glass factory here?”

“Or do we sell glass here?”

“I also need to buy some glass to take back!”

“We have glass, but the price is a bit expensive.”

“It depends on how big of a piece of glass you want.”

“Currently, the glass here at our supply and marketing cooperative is two yuan per square meter.”

“The largest glass available is two meters by two meters.”

“Anything larger cannot be transported.”

“A two-meter by two-meter piece is ten yuan.”

Upon hearing this price, Li Yunfeng immediately felt reassured.

It seemed the money in his spatial dimension was temporarily sufficient.

He still had eighteen hundred yuan in his spatial dimension.

Decorating his house well would be no problem at all.

After all, he would be staying here for a very long time.

Li Yunfeng also planned to tidy up his home properly.

Actually, the best time to return to Sijiucheng would be after 1984.

Initially, studying abroad was funded by the state.

But after 1984, the state introduced a policy for self-funded study abroad.

This allowed many people with financial means to study abroad.

Later, this situation escalated, with people going abroad to work, immigrate, and so on.

At the end of 1984, in 1985, Li Yunfeng would directly return to Sijiucheng.

He would then rely on his accumulated wealth to acquire courtyards and shops.

He would simply lie back and make money.

At that time, Li Yunfeng could also indulge in leisurely pursuits.

He wouldn’t need to work at all, just enjoy himself at home for over a decade.

By 2003, he would buy Moutai stock.

When BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) emerged, he would buy some of their stocks.

Later, he would dabble in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

It could be said that as long as Li Yunfeng didn’t act recklessly, becoming a hundred-billionaire was a certainty.

“Are you done shopping?”

Just as Li Yunfeng was lost in thought,

his two wives walked out of the supply and marketing cooperative, carrying items.

Li Yunfeng quickly went to meet them, taking the purchased items from their hands.

“Yes, we’re done!”

“Let’s go, let’s head straight back!”

Li Yunfeng quickly glanced at the items; the two women had also used their family’s quota to buy some fabric.

“Why buy this fabric?”

“You can get this stuff on the black market.”

Li Yunfeng asked curiously, as he had bought quite a lot of clothes back then.

He had even bought a lot of fabric and cotton.

“Oh, isn’t Shuhua about to give birth?”

“We plan to make some baby clothes at home.”

“And we need to make some cloth diapers.”

“Anyway, we have many women in our family, and when other children are born later, we’ll still need cloth diapers.”

The two women explained to Li Yunfeng why they bought the fabric.

“Alright, let’s head straight back!”

Walking this distance would take about one to two hours.

But driving a tractor, it would basically take only half an hour.

Chug-chug-chug!

With a burst of black smoke, Li Yunfeng and his two wives headed home.

Meanwhile, on the other side, his mother and eldest brother, after arriving in Xuecheng,

carried large and small bags towards the train station.

In those days, everyone carried large and small bags.

There were those who went to the countryside to settle, those who went to support construction in the Great Northern Wilderness,

and those who went to visit relatives.

“I didn’t expect it, coming this time, we originally intended to help out.”

“Who knew we’d bring back so many things!”

“Exactly, but that boy is doing much better than he was in Sijiucheng!”

“Perfectly, Yunfeng’s childhood friend, Aiguo, isn’t he also going to the countryside to settle?”

“When we go back, let’s see if we can have Aiguo give some gifts and arrange for him to be sent here too!”

“Aiguo is a good kid; he often comes to our house to visit.”

“And helps out.”

“If he comes here, Yunfeng can keep an eye on him.”

“At least he won’t starve!”

The mother and daughter chatted leisurely at the train station.