Chapter 210: Making a Presence Felt

Their town was really too small, with limited spending power; there was no place that sold gold jewelry except for the department store in the county, which only had a few simple styles.

This also spared him the trouble of choosing himself, as he could just say how much money to spend and that would be it.

The sentiment impressed the sales clerk Xiao Zhou so much that he exclaimed from the heart, "Comrade Jiang, you really are a good husband who loves his wife."

A gold necklace wasn't actually too expensive; quite a few city folks could buy one if they gritted their teeth, but not many women actually owned one.

For one thing, the money for a gold necklace could buy a bicycle, or enough meat for meals for more than half a year.

Secondly, because of past excesses, people were also reluctant to wear them openly, fearing they'd be labeled as capitalists.