Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 1489 Major Purchases 2

Chapter 1489: Chapter 1489 Major Purchases 2

Christine’s gift was truly generous – a hundred 100-yuan quota coupons, which could buy two thousand kilograms of grain, three hundred kilograms of oil, an equivalent of two thousand shopping coupons worth of various commodities, and five hundred kilograms of non-staple food. The amount was staggering!

Meat, sugar, pastries, eggs, and so on were all part of the non-staple food.

Two days later, Feng Qingxue went shopping at the Friendship Store with her quota coupons and authorization slips.

Recently, the school had organized activities like field training and integrating with factory and farm life, which lasted ten to fifteen days. Carrying bedding and dry food was inevitably hard; those who attended last year complained bitterly behind closed doors. Feng Qingxue, using the excuse that there was no one to look after the children at home and feigning illness, quickly got approval.

Lu Jiang had returned to the military, leaving the burden of the household on Feng Qingxue’s shoulders. The school had to consider this.

Lu Tianzhi and Guan Yu followed behind Feng Qingxue to help carry her purchases, gazing at the dazzling array of goods in the Friendship Store which had them hesitating to even blink – handicraft counters, tobacco and liquor counters, fabric counters, gold jewelry counters, watch counters, imported goods counters, and so on, not to mention refrigerators, washing machines, TVs, radios, bicycles, cosmetics, and more – there was too much to take in at once.

"Auntie, what shall we buy first?" Lu Tianzhi felt as if his eyes weren’t his own anymore.

Before Feng Qingxue could reply, Guan Yu said softly, "Auntie, there are so many foreigners shopping, why is that? No, that’s not right, the Friendship Store is originally for them, of course, they can shop here. I mean, they spend a long time at the imported goods counter. Why don’t they just buy things in their own country?"

Having experience shopping at the Friendship Store, Feng Qingxue glanced at the foreigners and said, "Because it’s cheaper."

"What?" Both Lu Tianzhi and Guan Yu had question marks in their eyes.

Feng Qingxue sighed softly and explained in a low voice, "The prices in our country are low. Some imported products are more expensive in their own countries than here, so quite a few foreign guests, before leaving, not only purchase our country’s unique handicrafts but also don’t forget to buy some imported goods to take back with them, such as French people buying Swiss watches."

Lu Tianzhi and Guan Yu suddenly broadened their knowledge.

Feng Qingxue approached the tobacco and liquor counter and presented her authorization slip, "Two bottles of Fen Liquor, two bottles of Moutai, and the best cigarettes, two cartons."

"Serving the people. Alright!" Seeing the big red seal on the authorization slip, the sales clerk was very efficient.

After purchasing the tobacco and liquor, which were placed in Lu Tianzhi’s carrying basket, Feng Qingxue moved on to the handicraft counter. She scanned the handicrafts on display and couldn’t help but frown, "Unity is strength. Don’t you have the best-quality gift porcelain from Red Official Kiln?"

The clerk shook their head, "Women hold up half the sky. No, no, the gift porcelain is reserved for presenting to foreign dignitaries; we don’t have that here."

Gift porcelain had extremely high standards – to successfully fire a few hundred pieces out of a thousand attempts was not bad, so it was impossible to find them in the Friendship Store. Since many foreigners would buy porcelain to take home, how could the supply keep up?

Feng Qingxue thought it made sense and chose the best set of gift porcelain from the counter.

With the tobacco, liquor, and gift porcelain secured, the next item on the list was silk, silk from the Hangzhou Silk Factory. Buying a whole bolt of silk was not convenient to carry, and cutting it into small pieces didn’t look good, so they decided on an embroidery piece with Hangzhou silk as the foundation.

All these were luxury goods, and the money spent made Guan Yu wince with heartache.

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