Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 1336 Love at First Sight 1

Chapter 1336: Chapter 1336 Love at First Sight 1

By the time Guo Ming finished the examination and expressed his satisfaction with Feng Qingxue, the sky had almost darkened.

The Lu Jiang family naturally couldn’t stay in the courtyard for long. Declining Wang Xinsheng’s offer for dinner, they hastily took their children to say goodbye and joined up with Guan Cheng and the others, who had found a nearby guesthouse. They had a simple dinner there to save the trouble of rushing back to the area around the train station.

Since ancient times, the area around the imperial city had been full of powerful and influential people.

As times changed, the nearby black market and the second-hand markets were the easiest places to find good items.

Therefore, after their children, including the soundly asleep daughter and the triplets, were left in the care of the three Guan brothers, the fully equipped couple, Lu Jiang and Qingxue, claimed to be visiting friends and went out again, blending in with the guesthouse staff and the security personnel.

Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue had extensive social connections, a known fact, otherwise, where would the opportunity to visit the big courtyard have come from?

Xibao was even kept by the old leader in the courtyard. Who else’s child would receive such treatment?

Probably no one expected Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue would go to the black market, after all, it was a place of trade explicitly banned by law.

Feng Qingxue didn’t regret this trip at all. Soon after they arrived at the black market, they acquired a Qianlong Era Baoyue Vase from an impoverished Eight Banners descendant, then a Jade Flattened Square from an old woman who cleaned the toilets, followed by a Wooden Ruyi made of the extremely rare ebony wood. The price they paid was just a bit of food.

Returning to the guesthouse late at night, Feng Qingxue couldn’t hide her excitement. The most valuable item was a painting, a unique national treasure-level masterpiece that, in her previous life, had ended up overseas. She never expected that they would come across it today and that it would fall into their hands.

Even though the owner of the painting started the bidding at fifty dollars and fifty kilograms of cornmeal, it was truly worth it!

"Oh no," Feng Qingxue suddenly brought up a past issue, "it’s all reliant on you to support the family now. I’ve done the calculations. Given our standard of living, your salary is practically depleted every month. How will we save money in the future? What if we encounter a buyer who needs money but we don’t have any? Isn’t that like returning empty-handed from a mountain of treasures? Just like with this painting, the asking price was indeed fifty dollars."

Fifty dollars might not be much for her, who came from decades in the future, but the current average salary was only thirty or forty. Thus, fifty dollars was considered an exorbitant price relative to the current standard of living.

She couldn’t continue to be so spendthrift; Qingxue made that decision yet again.

It seemed difficult to achieve since she still wanted to provide better clothes and food for the children, and that "better" was obtained with money.

Lu Jiang was unconcerned, "Things will straighten out when we reach the bridge. You’re worrying too prematurely. Don’t we have Gold? Compared to these cultural relics, Gold is utterly worthless. When the time comes, we’ll just sell the Gold to get money."

"You prodigal son!" Feng Qingxue eyed him askance.

"Alright, alright, get some rest. We’ll take them to eat mutton hot pot tomorrow noon," Lu Jiang remembered the promise he made on the train, which was delayed due to yesterday’s visit to the big courtyard.

Feng Qingxue hummed in agreement, "You rest early too. We’ll go to the second-hand market tomorrow."

She shared a bed with Dundun, Zhuangzhuang, and Fubao while Lu Jiang took Erxiong, who didn’t sleep soundly, away. As a result, when they woke up the next day, Erxiong was fast asleep on his chest, dripping saliva everywhere, soaking a large patch on the front of his undershirt, which made Lu Jiang so angry he almost threw him off the bed, "Lu Erxiong!"

ErXiong slapped him in the face, turned over, rolled down, and continued to sleep with his bottom up, snoring heavily.

He had also managed to roll the blanket off himself.