Chapter 183

The department store was located at a fork in the road, occupying all the frontage of the two streets, it was as tall as a flag, and could be seen everywhere in the city, for there were few buildings taller than it.

Unlike other streets, this one is still busy with traffic, with well-dressed men and women coming in and out, and the whole city’s automobiles and yellow buses seem to converge here, with horns honking and hawking.

Inevitably, many small vendors also gathered here.

Su Chunjun’s car had a mayor’s house license plate and a Secret Service pass on the front window of the car, which allowed him to pass through the city without any obstacles and go anywhere. Recently, because of the Sino-Japanese friendship, the Japanese power had risen so much that the mayor was forced to back down, so the car also had a Japanese flag in front of it.

So X’s car, of course, drove to the front door, stopped not go.

The driver ran down to open the car door. As soon as Su Chunjun and Yang Yuyan got out of the car, vendors holding cigarette boxes and girls carrying flower baskets ran over, and four or five of them shouted.

“Sir, do you want cigarettes? American ones! And chewing gum!”

“Miss, want a flower? Sir, buy the lady a flower to wear!”

The driver rudely pushed the people out of the way: “Get out of the way! Get out of the way! You’re poor, aren’t you?”

Su Chunjun pulled Yang Yuyan quickly ran from behind the driver, into the department store’s door, Yang Yuyan looked back to see those people before dispersing, just a swarm of people up really scary, in case there are thieves or robbers inside, it would be bad.

The world is not safe now.

Su Chunjun put his arm around her shoulder and comforted her, “It doesn’t matter, Xiaochen and I are carrying guns.”

Yang Yuyan’s eyes widened, “You know how to shoot?”

Su Chunjun nodded, “Recently, I’ve been practicing two to three hundred rounds every day.”

This is really an impressive sight.

Walking on the glistening marble floor, the brown marble spelled out beautiful patterns. The large flower beds and small flower baskets placed in the mall were full of flowers, and one could see a few pairs of young men and women using this place as a good place to take pictures, they stood in front of the flowers, right in front of the mall’s lights, and took beautiful pictures to record their youthful time.

It was only then that Yang Yuyan realized that the young people who disappeared from the streets had all come here. Maybe they would still appear in places like the Grand Theater, movie theaters, and cabarets.

After the streets became unsafe, she thought the young people had all hidden in their homes or else in schools.

It turned out that they had found good places where they were safe and could spend their time.

Compared to them, Yang Yuyan, who had been at school recently, looked much shabbier.

She didn’t wear jewelry, she wore a cotton skirt, her hair was simply tied into two braids, and her shoes were also very ordinary cloth shoes.

In the school every day running around, cloth shoes really more comfortable than leather shoes.

Fortunately, there is youth to do her makeup, and there is the imposing Mr. Su arm accompanied, which has not been compared to others.

Department store is also often come to shop, cotton dresses on the third floor. But it is not easy to get out to stroll around, every inch in the department store is not to be missed.

Yang Yuyan walked towards the first counter with Mr. Su on her arm, vowing to look at all the counters.

The first counter is selling skin care products, Yang Yuyan used to love small and delicate things, after living in school for a few months, her vision has changed a lot, she held a kilogram of Vaseline and couldn’t let go of it.

Yang Yuyan: “It’s so big, this can be used in many places!” Not only can you wipe your hands and face and feet, but you can also maintain your leather goods and lubricate some machine parts, it’s really a must for home travel!

Su Chunjun took out his wallet.

The clerk put this can of Vaseline oil into a paper bag, and also specially attached a small porcelain bottle that can be divided and a small silver knife, as a gift for purchasing Vaseline oil at the counter of the department store.

Yang Yuyan carried the beautifully packaged Vaseline oil, and for a moment felt that she might have been the wrongdoer.

Su Chunjun didn’t wait for her to think it over, and three times a day, he lifted the paper bag over to her, took her by the arm and said, “Let’s go, let’s see what’s over there.”

The second counter was selling tobacco, and Yang Yuyan was very much an insider and helped Su Chunjun pick a box of American-made tobacco.

The counter uncle was very enthusiastic and asked if he wanted to take a look at the pipes. They had a new African ivory pipe, the only one in the whole of China.

Yang Yuyan, who had recently received a lot of inculcation at school, even remembered the environmental protection concepts of her past life, and pulled Su Chunjun to say in a deep voice, “No sale, no killing.” Why hurt the lovely elephants? Do not buy ivory, reject animal products, start from me.

Su Chunjun naturally called it good.

Uncle Counter immediately changed his words, “We also have emerald pipes here, which are not even available in the Forbidden City.”

Su Chunjun smiled and said, “How do you know the Forbidden City does not have it? Does the emperor not smoke?”

Uncle Cabinet laughed, “There is no emperor in the Forbidden City now, except for the emperor, who can afford to use this emerald pipe? If you use it, you will be living like an emperor!”

This sales technique of Uncle Counter is very skillful ah, there is no guarantee that there will be any tycoon who is willing to pay for it.

Su Chunjun first laughed, but then suddenly thought of Captain Zhang, and said to the uncle with a smile, “Keep this emerald pipe for me, I’ll bring a friend over in a couple of days, he’ll love it.”

The uncle of the cabinet took out the emerald pipe from the cabinet and put it into the safe, and thanked Su Chunjun.

In a short while, Su Chunjun’s hands were full of carrier bags.

A dark-skinned Indian boy wearing gold and red clothes and a hat came over, made a bow to Su Chunjun, and said in somewhat broken English, “Sir, do you need help? One pound.”

Su Chunjun smiled and shook his head, “Twenty pence.”

The little boy muttered, “You are a cheap gentleman.”

Su Chunjun, “It’s enough to feed you for a day, isn’t it?”

He still reached out and took all the carrier bags in Su Chunjun’s hand and followed them.

Yang Yuyan saw that there were many people followed by one of these Indian servants, all of whom were carrying carry bags of carryalls and other things that their guests had bought. Most of them were children, but there were also young people who were nearly eighteen or nineteen years old.

Still, there were no women.

Although these Indian servants looked like slaves who had been trafficked here, Yang Yuyan still couldn’t help but think about what happened to the women who stayed in India ……

She wanted to ask the little Indian boy, but she was worried that it would stab him in the sore spot, so she had to hold back this bit of curiosity.

Walked to the watch counter, Yang Yuyan surprised to find that not the previous cabinet uncle.

She couldn’t help but ask the counter uncle, where did the old man go?

Seeing that she asked, this counter uncle knew that she was a familiar customer, sighed and said, “Old Yang was beaten by the gendarmes and broke his leg, so he couldn’t come, now he can only lie down at home, his wife had to come out to work, alas, his son is still small.”

Why was his leg broken by the gendarmes?

That was because Lao Yang was dressed to look richer because he worked in a department store. The gendarmes stopped him to ask for money, but he had to support a large family, and his monthly salary was withheld by the department store, so he didn’t have much money on him. When the gendarme realized that he was a poor man, he beat him up and broke his leg. After his leg was broken, of course, he could no longer work at the counter in the department store, so the department store dismissed him and did not even pay him back the money they had withheld.

Uncle Counter said, “Lao Yang is still a foreign student, his family used to be quite rich, then the French soldiers smashed their family store, his father died because of this, the family house was repossessed by the debtors, and it was not easy for him to find a job here in the department store.”

To be able to work in a department store and stand on the counter, first of all, the appearance must be outstanding, the mind must also be resourceful enough, but also know one or two foreign languages so as to receive foreign customers.

So such a seemingly inconspicuous job requires the most elite group of talents in China to be able to do it.

For the sake of the old customers, the counter uncle talked to them for a few more words, and dutifully sold them some more, before they left.

But after leaving, Yang Yuyan’s mood became low.

In this day and age, it seemed like for every extra bit of happiness, there was an extra bit of guilt. People in the world are so miserable, what right do I have to live a happy life?

Su Chunjun held her joked: “First the world’s worries and worries, after the world’s happiness and happiness is the words of the saints, we are such a small people to be compared to the saints? First live your own life.”

Thinking like this, it seems to be too arrogant.

Yang Yuyan sighed, “But it’s still not good in my heart.”

Su Chunjun comforted her, “Haven’t you done a lot already?”

Yang Yuyan: “It’s still not enough.”

Stealing half a day’s leisure, but after going back to school, you still have to work twice as hard ah.

Su Chunjun smiled, “That’s enough. Over there is the one that sells cotton skirts, go pick and buy a few more.”

Yang Yuyan pulled herself together, “Alright. One for me, one for mom, one for sister, and one for Zhang Ma.”

Buy four!