Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife-Chapter 1728: End of Secondment 1

All the way here, Sister-in-law Gu’s mouth was dry, and her throat hurt from repeatedly answering questions. ƒrēenovelkiss.com

Dundun, who usually didn’t like talking, thoughtfully handed Sister-in-law Gu the military canteen he was carrying.

He was used to listening to his mother’s words, carrying a canteen when going out to replenish water anytime.

The thirsty Sister-in-law Gu quickly praised him a few times, took a few sips of water, and continued to handle the endless questions from everyone, all about the real and fake members of the Gu Family and whether to continue caring for the Gu Mei and Gu Min sisters.

As Sister-in-law Gu tirelessly repeated her previous answers, Gu Mei and Gu Min’s hearts slowly settled.

Grandma said so before she left, and now Aunt says the same thing. Does it mean they really don’t have to return to their parents and suffer? Gu Mei was a bit older and more sensible. She wasn’t afraid of hardship, she could do laundry and cook. She was just afraid that their mother would pressure them to dedicate their whole lives to the Shen Family men, with no freedom in their future studies, life, and marriage, making them like walking corpses.

Feng Qingxue and the three sisters went their separate ways to buy the things they needed, while Lu Erxiong rushed with his mother and brother towards the meat stall.

Feng Qingxue stumbled, "We don’t have any Meat Tickets this month!"

"You don’t need tickets for buying two taels of meat, and if the three of us buy separately, we can get half a pound!" Lu Erxiong liked to wander around. When Feng Qingxue was working, he would come to the food store with Cheng Baoguo and his wife or Sister-in-law Gu, and he had already figured things out.

For eating, Lu Erxiong specifically asked the three of them to line up separately, with others in between.

The old lady and the young woman in line between them looked very familiar because Feng Qingxue frequently visited the food store, she just couldn’t call out their names and randomly called them Aunt and Younger Sister.

They all heard what Lu Erxiong said, and the old lady teased Erxiong, "Do you want a Meat Ticket from me?"

Lu Erxiong’s eyes lit up, and he immediately turned around, looking up at her, his desire was evident to anyone, his little hand grabbing the old lady’s age-spotted hand, "Grandma, can’t your family finish it?"

In his impression, many people would give their own family’s Meat Tickets and Sugar Tickets to others, most wouldn’t buy it and let it go to waste.

Feng Qingxue also knew this, she just didn’t know how Erxiong was so aware of it.

With a larger family, the Meat Ticket supply was naturally more, but the burden was also heavier. The money for one pound of meat could buy several pounds of grain. Grain was the staple food, not meat, and saving the money for meat to buy grain was the ultimate choice for many families. As a result, Meat Tickets were left over, with some given to relatives and friends in need, and some directly sold on the black market.

The old lady laughed and said, "Yes, my family’s Meat Tickets can’t be used up."

Her son had twelve children, eight biological and four adopted, all were orphans of martyrs, the oldest was seventeen, the youngest six. Including her, her son, and daughter-in-law, there were fifteen in the family. When pork supply was sufficient, each person got a pound and a half per month, and when scarce, one pound. Even if it was one pound each, their family had a supply of fifteen pounds a month, especially since her son’s rank was high, it was more than a pound.

Half-grown boys eat so much that they impoverish their fathers. Their family didn’t dare to eat meat openly. At most, they bought five or six pounds a month, held a feast every ten days or so, and naturally, the Meat Tickets were surplus. They couldn’t sell them privately, usually gifting them to close relatives and friends who needed them.

Lu Erxiong stuck half his body out of the line, looking at Feng Qingxue who was behind them, "Mom!"

"Grandma is just teasing you!" Feng Qingxue wasn’t going to spoil him by actually asking for Meat Tickets from people. Besides, eating meat every day isn’t healthy. The reason she let Erxiong drag them over was to buy a few taels of meat to make minced meat and steamed eggs at home, to prevent Zhuangzhuang from being envious when everyone else ate seafood, especially since Zhuangzhuang’s appetite has always been not very good.

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