Chapter 136: Chapter 136

Once everything was set, she checked the time and saw it was almost lunchtime. She pushed out her bicycle, preparing to go home, when Zhang Yuan’s knocking interrupted her thoughts. He wanted to enter the supermarket.

She had no choice but to put the bicycle back, lock the gate, and return to the main room, entering the space.

"Xiao Xue, why are you back so soon this time?" Zhang Yuan asked in surprise, seeing Bai Ruxue standing at the cashier.

"Because I was in town, just happened to be home!" Bai Ruxue replied.

"That’s great! Come here! I’ve got some good news for you!" Zhang Yuan said with a cheerful smile as he walked over.

"What good news? You’re so happy!" Bai Ruxue couldn’t help but smile along.

"A friend of mine has a lot of small yellow fish and is looking to exchange them for something else. But gold isn’t worth much now, and he doesn’t dare to bring so much gold to the bank. The most important thing is that goods are hard to obtain! So I thought of you liking gold! Do you want to use goods to exchange for his gold?" Zhang Yuan shared his idea with Bai Ruxue.

As soon as Bai Ruxue heard it, she lit up. Gold! It’s gold! How could she pass that up?

"Exchange! Whatever your friend needs, if we have it here, take it to exchange!"

"Alright! I’ll discuss it with him later!" Zhang Yuan knew she would have this reaction, laughing as he touched her hair.

"By the way, I’m doing some black market trading with Uncle Wang now. The grains, meat, tobacco, alcohol, sugar, tea, and seasonal fruits and vegetables here are taken out for Uncle Wang every week. If your friend needs these, then perhaps..."

"I know. But aren’t you only taking bulk white liquor and that kind of cigarettes? You can exchange them for branded liquor and cigarettes!" Zhang Yuan had noticed this too. Every time he came in, those were the items out of stock, while the cabinet full of branded liquors remained untouched. It was something he discovered when selecting liquor for his grandpa.

"No, there’s stuff on them that can’t be taken out. I’m afraid something might go wrong!" Bai Ruxue shook her head.

She had thought about it, but those branded wines, red wines, and foreign wines couldn’t be taken out because there was stuff on the bottles that didn’t belong to this era.

A voice suddenly interrupted, a voice that didn’t belong to either Zhang Yuan or Bai Ruxue.

"Assistant? You’re finally awake! I thought you’d never wake up again!" Bai Ruxue recognized the voice as that of her self-proclaimed assistant, and she spoke happily.

"What are you saying! How could I never wake up!" the assistant boasted, "Not only am I awake now, but my abilities have also increased!"

"Really? That’s great! Although I don’t know what you can do, it’s nice to have you alive!" Bai Ruxue teased with a chuckle.

"Don’t underestimate me! I can help you solve the predicament you’re currently facing!" the assistant said proudly.

"What predicament? We don’t have a predicament!" Bai Ruxue replied.

"What were you just talking about! Those branded liquors have reasons they can’t be taken out! There’s stuff on them that doesn’t belong to this era! And I can make that stuff disappear!" the assistant said with an arrogant tone.

"I can also make it disappear, but it’s just too troublesome and time-consuming!" Bai Ruxue said, unconvinced.

"Watch closely!" the assistant didn’t want to argue further, directly silencing Bai Ruxue.

Before long, all the labels on the bottles in the cabinet disappeared without a trace, leaving only the bare bottles and the various liquors inside.

"Holy... is that even possible?" Bai Ruxue exclaimed in astonishment at the sight.

She had thought the assistant’s method would be like hers, removing them one by one, but unexpectedly it vanished them all in an instant.

"This is great! Now all these fine liquors can be traded! Zhang Yuan, ask your friend if I can exchange these liquors for gold? If it’s possible, I’ll trade the weekly updated branded liquors!" Bai Ruxue’s excitement sped up her words.

"Okay! I’ll talk to him tomorrow! We’ll only trade branded liquor!" Zhang Yuan understood Bai Ruxue’s intention, taking out too much variety would arouse suspicion.

"Yes, yes, yes! Fantastic!" Excitedly, Bai Ruxue hugged Zhang Yuan, who froze in place from the embrace.

He was already nineteen years old, but this was his first time being in a relationship. Usually, they only held hands at most. Although he appeared flirtatious, he actually didn’t know much.

Bai Ruxue realized she lost her composure, quickly coughed to cover the embarrassment, and then turned to rummage through a drawer in the counter. Follow current novels on nοvelfire.net

Not knowing what she was looking for, she just dared not look at Zhang Yuan.

"I’ll head out first! Grandpa and Grandma might be looking for me!" Zhang Yuan said after snapping back and seeing the awkward little girl, he offered to leave first.

"Okay!" Bai Ruxue quickly agreed and then lifted her head to watch him leave.

Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.

"Phew... Why didn’t I pay attention to my image? That was close..." Fanning her flushed cheeks with her hand.

"Tsk, such a coward! He’s sooner or later going to be yours, what’s wrong with hugging him?" the assistant’s voice rang out.

"You shut up! Get back to work! I want you to make the writing on the cigarettes disappear too! Not the writing on the boxes, I mean the writing on the filters!" Bai Ruxue yelled quickly.

Having that embarrassing moment witnessed by this guy, who even teased her, she had to find something for it to do.

"Merciless master!" the assistant complained once but resigned to work.

After calming down for a moment, Bai Ruxue came out from behind the counter, got some snacks for her younger siblings, took a can of milk powder, and had the assistant erase the writing on it before taking it out.

Now with the assistant’s ability, it was incredibly convenient—no longer worried about her siblings noticing anything suspicious.

She could take out milk powder and such freely, at worst just saying it didn’t come from the town’s supply and sales cooperative.

Enhancing her family’s nutrition has always been Bai Ruxue’s unwavering goal.

When she rode her bicycle back to the village, Wang Jianjun stopped her at the entrance.

"Xiao Xue! All the jobs at the chicken farm are completed! You can move in now!"

Now Wang Jianjun definitely didn’t underestimate Bai Ruxue at all.

This girl, in just seven or eight days, already managed to buy so many eggs. Putting aside whether they can hatch, just the eggs themselves, he hadn’t been able to get hold of that many!

"Got it, Captain. We’ll move in tomorrow and won’t occupy the brigade headquarters any longer!" Bai Ruxue said cheerfully, then wrapped up by giving him a box of cigarettes, on which, of course, there were no words.

"Captain, you’ve worked hard, waking up early and staying up late for the chicken farm these days! This box of cigarettes is for you!" Bai Ruxue handed over the cigarettes to Wang Jianjun.

It wasn’t the most expensive type, even cheaper than the Yunyan she usually sold; it was Honghe.

However, in that era, it could still be considered a good cigarette.

"That won’t do! I can’t accept it! I can’t!" Wang Jianjun, although really wanting to accept it, had a smoking addiction but rarely had the opportunity to smoke a few times, and that taste lingered long in his memory.

But as the captain of the brigade, it was his job to lead in building the chicken farm! How could he accept someone’s cigarettes?

Bai Ruxue parked her bicycle properly and walked forward to thrust the cigarettes into Wang Jianjun’s hand.

"Take it, Captain, it’s not just for you! Everyone involved in building the chicken farm gets a box of cigarettes!"