She never had any earnings left over each day; she would rush to various sales points and, before they closed, buy those discounted breads and meats. Anything baked that day rarely lasted to be sold the next, so by catching the shops right before closing, she could pick up cheap goods. Ten thousand Rubles was a huge amount of money, after all. In the 1950s and 1960s, the average wage in Su Country's Moscow area for an ordinary worker was only 800–3000 Rubles, and the highest wages went to Stakhanovite miners and steel workers, whose pay sometimes reached 8000 Rubles.
So An Yi making ten thousand in a single day really wasn't a small figure, mainly thanks to the fact that the fruit she sold was fresh enough that people liked it at first glance.
