Chapter 401: Can't Look Straight

He Xuerong also had a holiday, and their family of three could stroll around Xichuan and buy some things.

Rongrong wanted a single Simmon's bed, and this time she wanted to see if they had one in stock. If so, they could just buy it and take it back, but she had to say that Simmon's beds are so expensive now, even a single bed costs two thousand yuan.

This was no exaggeration—it was the absolute truth.

Qiao Qingyu didn't know about the prices of Simmon's beds in her time, but she was shocked to learn that buying just one bed, if you were a worker, would take ten years of labor.

But then again, these days a regular family, an ordinary worker wanting to buy a bicycle, would have to save nearly a year's wages without eating or drinking.

Yet now, the temporary employees at the Agricultural Base could buy a bicycle with just two years of work.

This was already a monumental progress, a milestone of its time, but from Qiao Qingyu's perspective, the gap was still too vast.