Chapter 1619

"Wait a minute, Nina." Seeing Nina ready to open the glass door and go in, I quickly stopped her, pointed to the sign on the door and asked, "what's the matter with this sign?"

Nina looked up at the picture and said, "what else can I have? Isn't it an officer's shop?"

"I know the words on it," I continued, pointing to the sign. "What I want to ask is, what's this shop for?"

"It's very clear on it," she said to me with a smile. "The special store for military officers means that only military officers are qualified to shop in it."

"Well, stop it. Let's go in." Nina opened the glass door, held it with her left hand, and made a gesture of invitation with her right hand. I'm not polite any more. I'm the first to step in.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a long glass counter facing the door. There were a lot of goods in it. Even the salesmen standing behind the counter were more and more beautiful. Just as I was dazzled, I suddenly heard a cold voice next to me saying, "this female citizen, this is an officer's shop. You are not qualified to come in."

I turned around and found a desk on the left side of the door. Behind the desk sat a middle-aged woman in military civilian clothes and a pair of round glasses. She should have been talking to me just now.

Before I could speak, Nina and uranova came in. When the middle-aged woman saw them coming in, she immediately came out from behind her desk, warmly welcomed them, and asked with a smile, "welcome, two female commanders. Please choose what you need."

After the other party said this, seeing that I was still standing in the same place, he immediately put on a face and said seriously, "this female citizen, I have told you that you are not qualified to enter here. Please leave immediately."

Wulannuova heard the middle-aged woman say so, immediately anxious, immediately help me fight against injustice: "what, she is not qualified to enter here?! She is... "

"I came with them." I didn't want to put pressure on others, so I cut off the question behind ulannova in time and winked at them.

Nina has a strong adaptability. When she saw my wink, she politely said to the middle-aged woman, "yes, she came shopping with us."

Seeing Nina say so, it's hard for a middle-aged woman to say anything more. She just looked me up and down and said, "although you are three people, if you want to buy something, you can only enjoy the treatment of two people. Do you understand? "

"I understand, I understand." With that, I took Nina and uranova to the counter to pick out the food they wanted.

"Rita," she asked me in a low voice when she saw that we were a long way away from the middle-aged woman, "why don't you want her to show her identity?"

"Ulannova, we just come to buy things, not to show off our status, so there's no need to tell her the truth." After I simply explained the reason to ulannova, I turned to the food in the counter: "I want to ask, is it stipulated that as long as you are an officer, you can buy all the goods here?"

"No, Rita." Nina shook her head and said, "Lieutenant officers can buy one kilogram of bread, cheese, butter, potatoes and eggs, and two hundred grams of sausage, bacon, biscuits and candy. In addition to doubling the number of officers at the rank of lieutenant, the commodities that can be purchased by officers at the rank of school can also be purchased, such as coffee, various tins and wines. "

I stared at the mountain of bacon piled up in the meat counter, and the kind of sausage that is thicker than human thighs. I couldn't help drooling, and then asked, "what's the standard of general level?"

"All the goods here can be purchased without restriction." Ulannova approached me excitedly and said, "the last time Nina and I came here, we saw a counter full of chocolates of various flavors, which were made in Poland. Unfortunately, only officers of general rank could buy them. You're here today. Make sure you buy some for me. "

When I heard that at my level, I could buy all the goods in the store without limit, I felt a twinge of joy. But a moment later, my expression is dim down, some embarrassed to two people said: "I don't have much money, may not buy many things."

"How much money do you have with you?" Ulannova asked reluctantly.

I opened my satchel and looked at the bills in the mezzanine. These were the funds provided by Khrushchev when I was in Kiev. After a cursory survey, I said apologetically, "only more than 30 rubles." After that, I suddenly realized a more important question and asked, "can ruble be used here?"

"Of course," Nina said with a nod, "ruble is hard currency here."

After learning that the ruble could be used, I felt a little more secure, but I still asked with a guilty heart, "I don't know how much money can buy?"

"Enough, enough, enough." After figuring out the number of rubles I was carrying, uranova also showed a relaxed expression on her face: "the prices here are super cheap. It's estimated that the three of us can't move the things we'll buy later."

When she said this, I thought she was exaggerating, but I soon knew that what she said was true. Ten minutes later, we piled up a huge pile of shopping in the open space of the shop: five kilograms of white flour, five kilograms of barley, five kilograms of white granulated sugar, ten cans of pickled cucumber, ten cans of pickled tomato, two kilograms of bacon and the same weight of sausage.

While the middle-aged woman and Nina were settling their accounts, ulanova ran to the counter inside and asked the salesman for 20 pieces of 100 grams of Polish chocolate. After a short walk with the chocolate in her hand, she stopped, pointed to the wine on the shelf and said to the shop assistant, "Comrade shop assistant, give me another two bottles of Polish wine, the one with the highest degree."

When the salesman heard her saying this, he was embarrassed, but he hesitated for a moment. He took the wine off the shelf and put it on the counter. I picked up one of the bottles and looked at the trademark. I immediately understood why the salesperson had such an expression just now. It turned out that ulanowa bought Polish distilled vodka, which reached 96% alcohol, and could be called the highest purity liquor in the world.

I once heard of this kind of wine in those years. It is said that as long as you take a sip, you will feel that your stomach is heavily hit by someone with a heavy fist. If you are careless, you will be killed. So I asked ulannova quietly: "what do you do with such a high concentration of wine? If you want to know this concentration of liquor, you can pour it directly into the tank and use it as fuel. "

"It's much more useful." "In addition to being disinfected with alcohol, she can also drink vodka with a low alcohol count. It's delicious," ulannova said with some complacency

When the middle-aged woman saw the two bottles of wine we put in front of her, she immediately said with a straight face, "female commander, if you want to buy this kind of wine, you must have the signature of a commander of general level." Then he picked up two bottles of wine and put them on the desk.

After putting the wine away, the middle-aged woman stared at the pile of things we bought on the ground, frowned and said, "comrades, it seems that the things you bought are seriously beyond the permitted scope. Please show me your military ID card so that I can confirm how many things you can buy. "

As soon as Nina finished, she took out her military card from her coat pocket and handed it to her. And after taking out her pocket for a long time, ulannova exclaimed, "Oh, I forgot to bring my certificate."

When the middle-aged woman heard what ulannova said, she immediately said, "female commander, since you forgot your ID, you can only buy one person's weight." Then he called the salesmen behind the counter and asked them to move the things on the ground.

"Wait a minute," I saw two beautiful saleswomen ready to come out from behind the counter. I quickly raised my hand to stop them. Then I took out my military ID card from my satchel and handed it to the middle-aged woman. Politely, I asked, "can I buy so many things with my ID card?"

The middle-aged woman took the certificate in my hand and looked at it casually. She looked up at me with a scornful expression on her face. When she wanted to speak, she was shocked. She felt that the general's Witness came close to her and looked at it carefully. Suddenly her mouth became O-shaped. She couldn't close it for half a day. She was probably shocked by my identity.

She gave me the general's witness with a smile on her face and stammered: "Comrade General, I'm the manager of this store. You are wearing casual clothes. I can't recognize you. Please forgive me..."

I took the military ID card, put it in the bag, waved to her, and said gently, "don't be nervous, lesbian. You are also doing things according to the rules. You are right at all." With that, I looked down at the commodities on the ground, sighed softly, and asked, "can we buy all these things?"

"No problem, Comrade General." The store manager nodded and said, "don't say anything like this. You can buy ten times more."

I said with a smile: "don't say to buy ten times more, I don't know how to get these things home."

"Don't worry, Comrade General." Seeing that I didn't blame myself, the store manager suddenly became energetic again. She took the initiative to say, "our store provides delivery service. I'll send someone to drive these things to your home later."

Ulannova saw that the store manager was soft on me, so she pointed to the two bottles of vodka on the table and asked, "can we take those two bottles together?"

"Yes, yes," the store manager said to ulannova with a smile on his face, "if you want, you can buy two more bottles." After that, she turned her eyes to me and asked politely, "Comrade General, we have just got a batch of apples here today. Would you like to buy some more by the way?"

When they heard that there was a supply of fresh fruit, Nina and ulanova's eyes lit up, and they both turned their eyes on me, waiting for me to make the final decision.

I pointed to the pile of things on the ground and said to them, "I don't know if I have enough money to pay for these food bills."

"Comrade General," the store manager said to me on his own initiative, "what you are buying now is 23 rubles. If you don't have enough money, our delivery workers can go to your home to get it. "

The price quoted by the manager was far lower than my expectation. Seeing that there was still a lot of money left in his hand, he told Nina and ulannova: "if you two need anything else, just choose." Nina shook her head slightly and said to me with a smile, "no, Rita. I've bought everything I need to buy." I looked at the things on the ground again, turned to the manager and asked, "do you have any cooking oil, salt and matches?" After listening to the manager, he quickly nodded: "yes, yes, what else do you want?" I took the note out of my satchel, counted 25 roubles from it, handed it to the manager, and told her, "in addition to what I just said, give us some apples to make up 25 roubles."“ OK, comrade general, I'll arrange it for you right now. " After the manager finished, he walked quickly to the nearest counter and gave a few orders to the salesman standing at the back. The salesman nodded, turned, pushed open a closed door and went in. After a while, the salesgirl came out with two men, carrying sacks on their shoulders and two glass bottles full of cooking oil in their hands. The manager quickly moved a counter and let several people come out from behind. She brought several people to me and explained to me, "Comrade General, here are twenty kilograms of apples, four bottles of edible oil, two bags of salt and twenty boxes of matches."“ Thank you, comrade manager Although the manager was not very friendly to me from the beginning, I was very satisfied with what she had done, so I politely said to her, "please send someone to help us send things back."“ "No problem," the manager said. He went to the table, picked up a notebook and a pen, and politely asked, "where's your address, please?" I turned my head to Nina and ulanova, who were in a happy mood on one side: "tell the manager your addresses, and she will arrange someone to help us send things back." Seeing that the manager directed her men to carry the things piled on the ground one by one to a carriage outside the store, I couldn't help feeling in my heart: the things in this store are definitely better than those in the stores that ordinary people can enter. They can barely be regarded as special goods. I didn't expect that I, as a general, could enjoy such benefits in this place, What a surprise. After loading, I waved goodbye to the store manager, and then walked slowly back with Nina and ulanova in the back of the carriage.