Chapter 1051: Chapter 1051: Causes and Consequences 1 Chapter 1051: Chapter 1051: Causes and Consequences 1 The two had been busy since morning, first going from the Lu Family to Caohu, then from Caohu to the commune, and now they were making a detour to the Dan Family on their way ho from the commune, truly without stopping for a breather.
Lu Jiang was alright, walking quite comfortably, but he was worried that his wife would be tired, so he helped her rest in a shallow valley.
“Let’s take a break, have so water, and anyway, Dan the Blind has already passed away; it doesn’t matter if we arrive a little earlier or later.”
“That’s true,” Feng Qingxue thought about it for a mont and sat on a rock where Lu Jiang had spread his sweatshirt, taking out a small folding table and so food from her space, “Since nobody is around, let’s have a good al. Let’s start with a waterlon first.”
A big round green waterlon appeared on the folding table, along with a fruit knife.
“Cooking a special al, huh!” Lu Jiang said with a chuckle.
Feng Qingxue nodded as if it were only natural, “Yes, because only you know my secret, I don’t have to go out of my way to find excuses and worry about arousing everyone’s suspicion after taking things out, given the current scarcity of goods, many things simply don’t exist.”
Lu Jiang picked up the fruit knife, felt the large waterlon, and clicked his tongue in admiration, “This waterlon is even bigger than the ones you’ve taken out before!”
“Big waterlons from the northwest, very sweet!” Feng Qingxue explained, “I specifically flew to the northwest to buy them; I got a lot of fruits like lons, grapes, as well as dried fruits like raisins, walnuts, and red dates. Local specialties are generally cheaper, and the year I bought them, the market wasn’t good. The most expensive the waterlons got was one yuan per kilogram, just enough for the farrs to break even; who knows how many made a loss. The cheap ones were a few cents per kilogram, and there were those left piled up at the edge of the field for locals to take away freely. Besides, many cantaloupes also didn’t sell and just rotted in the field; a two-hundred-acre farm charged just a few hundred yuan, they were eager for to pay workers to clear the lons from their fields.”
They had lived together in the army for several years, often sneaking food behind their children’s backs. Lu Jiang had seen large waterlons before, but he didn’t know the origin of these waterlons and had always thought they were stored in the space on their own.
“Rotting in the fields?” Lu Jiang was shocked, “Decades later, have our common folks’ lives reached this level of abundance?”
Feng Qingxue sighed, “When facing a bad market, it’s not just the lon farrs who do this, fruit farrs do the sa; there are even cases of soone dumping eggs off a cliff. I’ve beco so accustod to this, so when I was buying things, I always aid for such situations; it saved money and allowed to buy a lot. When you live in that era, you will understand what wasteful extravagance really ans—it’s beyond your imagination.”
Without having experienced the years of famine, one would not realize the true value of food.
Although Feng Qingxue had goods in her space that wouldn’t run out in dozens of years at this rate, she never dared to waste a bit in her regular life, couldn’t bear to throw away leftover food, and didn’t care about what modern experts said about overnight dishes possibly causing cancer.
Upon hearing this, Lu Jiang was left speechless and wide-eyed.
“Let’s not talk about this anymore; we can’t see this kind of situation now anyway. Go ahead and cut the lon; we can each have half.”
Lu Jiang cut the waterlon into two halves with a knife, looking at the bright red flesh and black seeds, he couldn’t help but revisit the past, “In these tis, common people can’t get their hands on waterlons at all; many city residents have to get a proof from a hospital and use it to buy waterlons and such. Unless it’s a year with a bumper fruit harvest, where city folks can queue up for purchases, always with a limit in quantity. The countryside’s private plots might occasionally grow a few fruit plants, most of which are vegetable lons. Having stored so many waterlons in your space makes feel as if I’m sitting on a gold and silver mountain.”
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