They reported it to the public security bureau, but after a thorough investigation yielded no clues, the matter was eventually dropped.
With no money, no cotton-padded jackets, no rice—not even bowls or chopsticks left in the house—Shen Guo'an had no choice but to borrow a set of old clothes from a neighbor to wear to the factory. He took an advance of three hundred yuan and some ration coupons, requested a day of leave, and went to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative with Liu Hongyan, where they bought a pile of factory-second goods.
There was no other way; purchasing high-quality items required ration coupons, and they simply didn't have enough. They could only buy the flawed items, and even then, only because Liu Hongyan was acquainted with the clerk at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. Otherwise, without connections, they wouldn't have been able to buy even those.
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