Jill just hoped that her father would contact the bicycle shop to find out when they would have the goods in stock, and then he would inform Natasha of the information.
He never expected that his father would come, so when he saw the letter, he was no less surprised than Natasha.
Now, Jill asked a crucial question: "Natasha, how much money did you withdraw?"
"Well, I have prepared fifteen hundred rubles. Do you think it is enough?"
"you……"
Natasha spoke so lightly that Jill was frightened.
"Ah! My dear classmate, you...you actually withdrew so much? Fifteen hundred rubles? How...how do you have so much money."
"What? Isn't it enough to buy a car?"
"No! That's enough! That's completely enough. I told you that a bicycle costs five hundred rubles. Why did you withdraw so much money?"
Natasha just smiled and talked slowly: "You will know when it comes to buying a car."
"Huh? What do I know? You don't want to give me a gift, do you?"
"Oh, you will know when the time comes. Since you are willing to help me, you must personally take me to that store tomorrow."
"Okay, I know the store manager Voronov. I think we will handle this matter very smoothly."
Natasha shrugged: "I hope so."
Suddenly, Jill suddenly remembered something.
"Natasha, you should be very good at riding a bicycle, right?"
"Of course. Why are you asking such a childish question?"
"Hey, I'm just curious. You know, bicycles are still very valuable in our country. You...you can ride a bike. Your home in Moscow..."
He still wanted to ask about his past, and Natasha immediately darkened her face and said in a low tone: "You'd better not ask this."
"Ah! I'm sorry, I forgot." Jill laughed for a while and didn't stay any longer.
She should be very angry. Her home in Moscow is gone and she comes to Perm alone with a fortune. How could I be so stupid to touch that thing?
Gil blamed himself for a while, thinking that if Natasha was really angry, he could only give her more help to make up for it.
Tuesday, the appointed day arrived.
Natasha and Jill asked the teacher for a half-day leave and explained the reasons for the leave in detail.
In principle, students must have sufficient reasons for asking for leave. Gil was a little worried at first, but he never thought that his teacher Brodsky was unusually supportive.
Why? Is it because I am the monitor? Or is it because the teacher attaches great importance to Natasha?
Jill thinks it's both.
By the way, after the shooting club held a training session at the citizen range a few days ago, Jill took Natasha back to school by bicycle, which quickly became an interesting topic of conversation among the students.
In just a few days, most students in the tenth grade had spread rumors that the monitor of the sixth grade had fallen in love with the newest transfer student.
The boy is both good in character and academics, has an excellent family background, and is in a pretty good financial situation. The girl is very beautiful, and she is from the capital. Although she did not deliberately explain it, she still inadvertently showed that she has a good background.
The two of them are truly talented and beautiful, and they are truly a match made in heaven.
So, wouldn't it be very reasonable for the two of them to share a bicycle?
The students are eager to have some interesting conversation. Now even the other three girls in dormitory 203 think that the beautiful Natasha will change her surname to Ivanova in a year.
What would they think? While blessing them, they might also be a little jealous. After all, we are all students in the sixth class. Everyone knows about Jill’s family background, and they also understand that whichever girl becomes Jill’s wife in the future will be the same as her future.
Was assigned to work at the post office. It was a pretty good job!
How could Natasha turn a deaf ear to the gossip among the students? She wanted to clarify all these in person. After thinking about it carefully, maybe it would be best for her to shut up.
Seriously, it feels so good to be cared about passionately by others!
Especially for her, a poor girl who had lost her parents, why should she resist that kind of heartfelt concern for her?
No, on the way to the bicycle shop, Natasha had been sitting sideways on the back seat of Jill's old bicycle. For safety, her hands were subconsciously holding Jill's waist.
She has already thought about it. If possible, she can be his sister, at least a friend who is one level higher than her classmates. In order to confirm this relationship, she will find an opportunity to imitate the Eastern ritual and drink a glass of blood dripping water.
of vodka.
Yes, Natasha had sex with Star Fruit in the swamp.
She learned a special "Oriental style of interpersonal relationship", which is to form a blood alliance. Two people who are not related by blood go through a ceremony and make an oath to become brothers and sisters. From now on, they will help each other like real brothers and sisters.
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About thirty minutes after leaving the school gate, the two finally arrived at the bicycle shop they were aiming for.
"Wow! I've seen it. Natasha, look carefully. There are brand-new bicycles in the store." After saying that, Gil started to speed up, for fear that other citizens would snatch it from him.
There are many bicycle shops in the city of Perm, but because it is an expensive means of transportation at any time, those who could buy it before the war had to spend a lot of money.
However, as people's living conditions get better and better, when many workers have money, they first find ways to fill their hungry bellies, and then save some spare money to add some furniture to their own residences in the "Stalin Building". After all, buying some
Pots, pans, benches, tables, these are all private property.
Only in the end will they consider purchasing transportation.
In fact, the Soviet authorities had no restrictions on citizens purchasing private cars, and they had no intention of imposing any restrictions. This is because the Soviet Union had completely different national conditions than those of Germany and the United States!
After the German mustache came to power, he claimed to develop a private car that the German people could afford, and Germany did it. However, with the outbreak of the war, Germany's heavy industry was fully tilted towards the military industry. In 1942, when the war was clouded,
Germans can no longer buy cheap private cars, and even the most basic food they can use to buy Reichsmarks is limited.
The Soviet Union was a different story. If Stalin had not taken advantage of the opportunity to poach the United States during the Great Depression, there would not have been the rise of the Soviet automobile industry in the 1930s.
However, due to the extremely huge threat of war in reality, the cars produced by the Soviet Union were almost all military vehicles.
They learned the first-class car production technology in this era from the United States. As a result, almost all the cars that shuttled around the city were imported from the United States.
Therefore, an ordinary Soviet citizen cannot afford to buy a domestic or imported car with his ten years of savings. Even if he gets a huge sum of money through legal means, he still faces the problem of price but no market when it comes to buying a car.
Dilemma. Private car? No! It is an extremely rare thing. For example, many government agencies in Perm use military trucks as buses. The entire city of Perm is a Soviet-style giant city with a population of more than one million.
There are definitely no more than twenty cars running on our roads every day. Because they are so rare, caring citizens can see it from a distance by memorizing its license plate number and know which agency it came from.
Citizens cannot afford cars, and similarly, they need to spend money and queue up to buy bicycles.
In a marriage between Soviet citizens, if the man can produce a domestic pen or a friendship brand bicycle of excellent quality, he will be favored by many girls.
Therefore, most of the members of the shooting club of Perm Middle School have their own bicycles. There is no doubt that they are a "rich club".
So, it is inevitable that Natasha, the girl sitting in the back seat of Jill, will make gossips about her because of this incident.
It's a pity that some jealous girls gossiped that Nakharkova won the heart of the postmaster's son with her face. They just saw the phenomenon and made subjective assumptions. What is the reality? If we only talk about wealth, the entire Perm
of students are dwarfed by comparison.
Jill didn't feel at all that Natasha would be worried about carrying as many as 300 Chervin Bank notes of the maximum denomination. She wasn't worried about someone trying to rob her?
She was very calm along the way, as if she only had a few kopeck coins in her crossbody bag.
Of course, such a huge sum of money requires at least one hundred bank notes, that is, one hundred five-ruble bills, to buy a bicycle. Such extravagant and irrational consumption was made by a girl from Moscow.
How could Jill show composure?
The two stopped in front of the bicycle shop. Since the store manager Voronov knew Gil's father, he naturally knew Gil. He saw Gil with a girl and knew that the customer with an appointment had arrived.
The store manager wearing overalls greeted the two of them personally with a smile on his face.
"Jill, you're finally here. This girl next to you is the one who wants to buy a bicycle?"
"It's me." Natasha answered gracefully.
The store manager couldn't help but take a good look at this girl. He saw that she was handsome and wearing a school uniform. Is this a girl who wants to spend a huge sum of money to buy a car? Is she really that rich?
Since his old friend Ivanov had already explained the matter, he explained the current bicycle quotation straightforwardly, so as to let the buyers be careful. As a result, Ivanov said perfunctorily: "This is a matter for their young people.
, they use money to buy things, and you just have to sell them according to the regulations."
This made the store manager Voronov secretly daydream. After seeing the girl today, he seemed to understand something.
"Haha, you two, come inside. The bicycles are all displayed here."
Natasha clutched her crossbody bag tightly and followed Jill into the somewhat dark store.
Even though the room is a little dark, some light still shines pleasantly on the polished bicycle frames. Natasha counted a little and found that there are about forty bicycles in total. They are all of the same shape and have the same logo.
, are all friendship cards.
They are just treasures, which are completely attractive to Natasha.
The girl couldn't help but move closer, stroking the smooth frame and soft seat with both hands, she couldn't put it down.
While she was admiring it carefully, Gil was watching from the side, and the store manager Ivanov also took the opportunity to come over.
"This girl, what does she have to do with you?"
"She is my classmate." Jill said.
"Classmate? I think your relationship is unusual. Are you talking about friends? To be honest, it seems that your father is really willing to spend money. You want to buy a bicycle for her? Well, she is indeed very beautiful."
"You... don't talk nonsense." Jill quickly retorted shyly, but in the eyes of the store manager, this performance was a positive attitude.
The store manager shrugged: "Even if your father and I are friends, I don't have the power to adjust prices when it comes to selling goods."
"Yes, I understand."
"All right."
The store manager Voronov snapped his fingers, and a store staff member came with a notebook.
Then, the store manager pulled out a document from the book, obviously he was also prepared.
This document comes from the Commodity Price Committee of Perm. It is said that after research, they ordered the price adjustment of many commodities in the Perm Region, and here is a further price adjustment for bicycles.
"What? The price has increased again?! Six hundred rubles?! That's too exaggerated."
Gil maintained the greatest emotional restraint, even so his body was stiff.
The store manager sighed helplessly: "I'm sorry, this is the fact. I don't know if it was because of the price increase order from my superiors. I thought the bicycle sales would be very hot, but the result is as you can see. We sold all morning
Get four new cars, and you two will be the only ones coming in the afternoon."
Six hundred rubles. Even though workers' wages have increased a lot now, various state-owned stores are either out of stock or the prices have been deliberately raised. Even if the wages are increased, they still have to spend two months of their net income to buy a bicycle.
Jill shook her head: "Even so, I think she will still buy it."
"Sigh, maybe only people like your father have the financial resources to buy it now."
"No! Uncle Voronov, I want to clarify one thing. It was the girl who bought it, and I am only responsible for sending her here."
"She?" The store manager made sure that he heard correctly, and asked with an exaggerated expression: "She... can she afford it?"
"certainly."
At the same time, Natasha couldn't hear the whispers of the two people at all. She concentrated on choosing bicycles. With a woman's pickiness, she must choose the one with the best quality. After a while, she finally selected two bicycles.
He happily pushed them out.
This action immediately attracted the staff to come to help, but her behavior of pushing away the two cars really shocked everyone.
Jill suddenly asked loudly: "Natasha! What are you doing? Do you need two cars?!"
"Of course!" Natasha turned back happily: "There is another one for you."
She was a blonde girl, and her smile was so pleasant. Jill did not take advantage of the girl's gentle look back, but was shocked by her shocking words.
Jill hurriedly stepped forward, her ear almost touching his mouth.
"What did you say?"
"I said, I'll give you one!"
"You..." Jill was at a loss for a moment.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?!" Natasha pulled Gil's clothes off, "Are you scared?"
"It's not...I...you..."
"Eh? Why are you stuttering? Why are you so shy like a girl? Or maybe you don't want me to give you a gift."
Jill, who finally regained consciousness, quickly replied: "A bicycle is a gift? This is too expensive."
"Really? Is there anything more valuable than friendship?"
After saying that, the beautiful girl smiled like Cupid's bow and arrow, and her smile directly made the big boy Gil fall for her.