Chapter 907: Chapter 0907: Visiting Relatives and Friends 5 Chapter 907: Chapter 0907: Visiting Relatives and Friends 5 Ti was of the essence, so Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue set off right after their al.
In the afternoon, Lu’s father made the excuse that he had injured his leg and had not gone to work. He stayed at ho with Qingyun to take care of the little grandson and granddaughter, knowing full well how much his daughter-in-law cherished and paid attention to the children. Without an adult present, she wouldn’t have been at ease.
Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue had borrowed the brigade’s mule cart. Along the way, when no one was around, Feng Qingxue took out so coarse grains to feed it.
It was stuff like corn cobs, carrots, and black beans. Well-fed, the mule sped up energetically.
As they just entered the county town, they encountered a large group of students wearing red armbands coming their way. Lu Jiang imdiately pulled the mule aside, letting the group of students escorting four individuals whiz past them.
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In a fleeting glance, seeing such a scene, Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue couldn’t help but frown.
After they had passed by, the couple exchanged glances and sighed. They found the Grain Managent Office, intending to ask if Chen Ming was around, but the new director, Wang Zhou, told them Chen Ming had already been transferred to the city a year and a half ago.
“Since Brother Chen isn’t here, we’ll trouble Director Wang to exchange so grains for us,” Lu Jiang said, handing over the Grain Tickets and money.
Military Grain Tickets were universally useful.
Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue had indeed saved up quite a few Grain Tickets, now taking out only a portion of them.
Exchanging fine grain tickets for coarse grains was quite easy, the opposite was hard.
Wang Zhou was all smiles, busily fulfilling Lu Jiang’s request, weighing out twenty pounds of white flour, fifty pounds of cornal, and a hundred pounds of dried sweet potatoes, packing them into the cloth bags Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue had brought.
“If the two comrades need anything in the future, feel free to co to ,” he said.
Passing by the waste collection station, Feng Qingxue felt an urge.
Lu Jiang saw through her, “Alright, alright, let’s go take a look.”
With Feng Qingxue’s miraculously unique space, it wasn’t just Feng Qingxue, he too couldn’t resist scavenging treasures from the waste collection station.
How pitiful it would be if those cultural relics and calligraphy and paintings piled up after being confiscated were sent to paper mills or steel factories?
Now that Feng Qingxue had taken Wen Ruyu as her master, and was devoted to the study of painting and calligraphy, they should even more strive to rescue the paintings that were about to be destroyed. This would not only aid their own studies but also reduce cultural losses.
“Let’s go in! But what about the mule cart and the goods?” Feng Qingxue pointed at the mule cart and the grains on it, “The mule cart is our brigade’s treasure. Any mishap would be more than we can bear.”
Lu Jiang chuckled, “Let’s ask the comrades at the waste collection station to keep an eye on it for a mont. Besides, you have to believe in the spirit of ‘the road is not for picking up lost items.’
“Can we trust it?” Feng Qingxue was skeptical.
“Of course, we can. There have been many instances where people’s belongings were left outside for a long ti and no one took them. Even items lost along the way, when people went back to look for them, they were either still in the sa place or picked up by soone who waited for the owners to return.”
Feng Qingxue turned her head to reflect for a mont, it seed that elders from her previous life indeed ntioned such things.
They said that even during years of disaster and famine, doors were not closed at night and no one picked up items lost on the road.
Of course, such claims were sowhat exaggerated. There were thieves and rogues in every era, but compared to the social conditions decades later, the ethos of this era was indeed a thousand tis, even ten thousand tis better.
Thus, the couple entrusted the mule cart and the goods to the gatekeeper of the waste collection station.
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