Chapter 790 - 0790: Reap What You Sow5_1
For ordinary people, owning a domestic watch was a great achievement. Among them, the Shanghai brand was the most renowned, costing seventy to eighty yuan apiece. Only seamen and military personnel, who had high salaries and low expenses, would purchase imported watches under permissible conditions. Yet no one possessed seven watches like Chen Ju!
Seven watches!
Five imported and two domestic. The former were purchased with money, no coupons needed, while the latter required both money and coupons.
Upon seeing the watches that Hu Zehong had fished out, Qi Gang was shocked, "Chen Ju, where did you get all these watches?"
He had never opened Chen Ju’s suitcase, nor did he know that besides the Rolex women’s watch he had bought for her when they got married, Chen Ju had six other watches, almost all of which were brand new.
"I bought them myself, with your salary!" Chen Ju retorted loudly.
Her voice was loud, but everyone present could sense her lack of confidence.
Buying watches with Qi Gang’s salary wasn’t strange. When Qi Gang married Chen Ju, he was already earning over two hundred yuan each month, and with the twenty-five percent allowance increasing now to thirty, the total sum exceeded 300, which in a year added up to three to four thousand yuan; indeed enough for Chen Ju to buy several imported watches.
However, the senior officers present knew one thing: Qi Gang had been sending living expenses to his ex-wife every month since the founding of the nation.
In the beginning, Qi Gang only gave thirty yuan to his first wife. But six or seven years ago, didn’t Chen Ju replace his revolutionary partner Li He? Therefore, Qi Gang has been paying monthly expenses to two ex-wives for the past six or seven years. Thirty yuan each, plus an extra twenty yuan for nutrition, means a hundred yuan is deducted from his salary each month.