Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 344 - 0344: Grain Prices Drop Significantly 2_1

Chapter 344: Chapter 0344: Grain Prices Drop Significantly 2_1

The usefulness of grain tickets is undeniable, but they are not given to rural farmers; only urban residents have them, to be used for purchasing grains.

Many farmers either bring their dry food into the city or exchange their grain for grain tickets at the Grain Bureau beforehand, and then use the tickets to buy meals in the city. The process is quite troublesome, which is why they all want grain tickets.

The development of Wanglou Brigade is getting better and better, and items like grain tickets and cloth tickets are certainly in high demand.

Having managed the Wanglou Brigade for so many years, Wang Zhenguo doesn’t want to see the local people getting frustrated due to all types of ration coupons.

"That’s great, Uncle, I can’t wait! I’ll find the tickets right now." Feng Qingxue is overjoyed, she took out all the grain tickets she had on hand, counted them, there were both whole and partial sets, amounting to a total of 235 jin of grain tickets.

jin of flour tickets, and 105 jin of coarse grain tickets.

As it wasn’t a state-sanctioned transaction, after Wang Zhenguo had received the tickets and the cash, he had his son open the granary that night, and quietly delivered 150 jin of new wheat and 130 jin of corn kernels to Feng Qingxue’s house.

The grain tickets were for finished grains and he was giving raw grains, so the amount would naturally be slightly more than the face value of the grain tickets.

Feng Qingxue asked Lu Tianjun and Guan Cheng to send a portion to Lu Jiang’s comrades.

The two children made a few rounds in the black market and brought back a few pieces of jewelry and a porcelain bottle, presenting them to Feng Qingxue like treasures, "Auntie, do we still have money? Please give us more."

Feng Qingxue looked at the white jade bracelet, jadeite bead strings, jadeite bracelet, and the revolving vase in front of her, "Where did all these come from?"

Guan Cheng proudly said, "We bought them! Auntie, the white jade bracelet was two yuan, the jadeite weigh eighteen taels for 1.8 yuan, and the revolving vase and jadeite bracelet were only five yuan in total. I didn’t spend the money Granny Xu gave me before and I used it to buy these items. Auntie, if we have money, we should buy such things, we won’t regret it in the future."

Feng Qingxue immediately took out the unused money from when she rescued Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu and gave it to them. There was still one hundred and seventy or eighty yuan left, she carefully admonished, "Be careful when you go in and out of the black market, don’t get caught by the officers who inspect private transactions."

If she wasn’t tied down at home due to her children, she would have already made a few rounds in the black market by now.

"Auntie, don’t worry. We only buy used goods, not food. Even if we get caught, it won’t matter because we are not dealing with supplies privately." Guan Cheng and Lu Tianjun took half each and put the money in their pockets.

Lu Tianjun nodded in agreement on the side.

Feng Qingxue, however, was a bit confused, "People selling used goods don’t ask for food in exchange now?"

Guan Cheng looked at her and laughed, "I knew it! I told Tianjun, our family has plenty of food and we are often helped out by uncle’s comrades, Auntie must have gone to the black market, just as I predicted. Now in the black market, sellers of used goods want money instead of food, grain prices have fallen, refined grains are only seventy or eighty cents per jin, coarse grains are thirty to fifty cents, so naturally it’s more profitable to sell for cash."

"It must be because of this year’s bumper harvest, the grain shortage has eased, and the supply of commercial grains is not as tight as before, so grain prices in the black market have plummeted. In the past few years, I’ve heard from classmates, it wasn’t just the high-priced grains, even the grain tickets could be sold for five yuan per jin."

Upon hearing this, Feng Qingxue was elated, because this situation meant that the three years of hardship had passed!

In the future, money can be used to buy things in and out of the black market, after all, their family is not short of money, and the grains should be kept for their own family to eat. Even though the famine has ended, there still are material shortages nationally, and grain remains extremely important in many places.