Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 119 - 0119: Opening Sources of Income and Reducing Expenditure 3_1

Chapter 119: Chapter 0119: Opening Sources of Income and Reducing Expenditure 3_1

Feng Qingxue was conscious of taking a mental inventory of the resources in the transition space while making plans for the next twenty years.

As a person accustomed to comfort, she detested farming. However, the era she found itself in left her no choice but to toil in the field.

With the arrival of spring, whether she was in Caohu Brigade or married off to Wanglou Brigade, she must work. The work brought work points, and the work points brought food. This way, she could conserve some of the food from the transition space.

Beyond the three difficult years, she would gradually reduce the provision of food for her relatives and friends.

She believed in providing emergency aid, not long-term support. She had no obligation to provide for them.

With this thought in mind, Feng Qingxue continued her inventory work. The most frequently used items from the transition space were food, followed by clothing and cotton, which were also essential in life.

While sorting out the armament equipment, Feng Qingxue stumbled upon around twenty top-grade bulletproof vests.

She had exhausted much effort to possess these bulletproof vests, even leveraging her grandparents and parents’ networks. Bulletproof vests were not something people could easily get access to. Still, to survive the apocalypse, she was prepared enough. The only regret was that she could not get firearms because the country had strict management in this regard.

The bulletproof vests were the most advanced of its time, and they were soft shell, vest-style, and relatively lightweight.

A soldier who hasn’t bled is not a real soldier. Lu Jiang probably needs it, right?

Feng Qingxue spend the entire night ripping off the camouflage outerwear from two bulletproof vests, using the military green fabric Lu Jiang bought for her the other day and imitating the original outerwear style to custom-made new ones that she sent to Lu Jiang.

In Lu Jiang’s letter, she stated that it was foreign-made and a high-tech product.

After posting the items and letter, she turned around to deliver Lunar New Year gifts to several of Lu Jiang’s comrades. There wasn’t much, and they were all different.

Chen Ming had no need for grain, so she sent him a piece of cured meat and a smoked chicken. Xu Aiguo from the coal factory, who was living well enough, received five pounds of wheat flour and a dried wild rabbit. To those with a new mother in the family, she sent twenty eggs, two pounds of millet, and two packs of brown sugar. To those with a large family in desperate need of food, she sent ten pounds of cornflour and thirty catties (approximately 40 pounds) of dried sweet potatoes. These were considered precious gifts in those difficult times.

Gifts fostered good relations and increased social interactions.

People in this era were genuine; no one ever accepted gifts without reciprocation.

Xu Aiguo reciprocated with half a bag of charcoal. Chen Ming donated nearly twenty pounds of corn kernels, while others returned porcelain pots, soap, toothbrushes, and other daily necessities that the city offered but rural areas lacked.

The gifts weren’t extravagant, but they were sincere and practical.

The family with the new mother was extremely grateful and sent her a thermos in a woven bamboo basket.

Over the past two years, food was scarce and basic necessities even scarcer. Thermoses could only be bought with coupons, and even with those, department stores might not have them in stock. Feng Qingxue’s house was in need of a thermos.

She had some in her transition space, but could she take them out? No.

So, after making the rounds, her house actually gained several items.

Because the households to which she gave gifts mostly didn’t know each other, most of them assumed that she had only gifted their own family. Hence, despite distributing many New Year gifts, Feng Qingxue didn’t attract suspicions.

Gifts for the Lunar New Year were a necessity, no simple matter of spending more or spending less.

Fortunately, after a day, with Chen Ming’s introduction, Feng Qingxue met Cheng An, who was in charge of the county grain station. All grain stores sourced their grains from him. Feng Qingxue used thirty pounds of wheat flour to barter with him for one hundred pounds of coarse flour.