Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 910 - 0910: Visiting Relatives and Friends 8

Chapter 910: Chapter 0910: Visiting Relatives and Friends 8

After a busy period at the scrap collection station, Lu Jiang felt even more exhausted than after a training session. He hadn’t eaten a grain of rice nor drunk a drop of water all afternoon and was starving, so he bit fiercely into a large piece of chicken.

Only after he had swallowed did he answer his wife’s question.

"Many large households’ canopy beds, wardrobes, and other large pieces of furniture have secret compartments. Generally speaking, these compartments exist in furniture made from precious wood. Our old furniture used to have them; I’ve seen them. When I was a little rascal, I even crawled into one of these compartments to play. It was a big secret compartment inside a wardrobe, and when my mother couldn’t find me, she nearly cried."

Feng Qingxue blinked her big eyes, "One of these days, let’s take a trip to the city and see if we can find any treasure-hiding compartments! The scrap collection stations in the city have more stuff than those in the county because the scrap from the county is first sent to the city and then processed in bulk."

Moreover, throughout history, rich people have always lived in big cities.

Lu Jiang laughed and said, "If we get the chance, let’s go. We’ll rescue as much as we can. That space ability of yours is really useful. It must be heaven’s will for you to use it to save people and objects. It’s such a pity for these cultural relics and paintings to disappear in such a catastrophe."

Towards the end, his laughter turned into a sigh.

Feng Qingxue comforted him, saying, "Amid the raging waves, we are but a floating duckweed, with our only wish being the safety of our family. On the basis of our family’s safety, we try our best to help innocent people and to save as many cultural relics and paintings from calamity as we can. You should think this way: If it weren’t for this space, we wouldn’t be able to save anyone or recover these items at all. The people and artifacts we’ve managed to save are already an unexpected blessing for this era."

"You’re right, we can’t lust for more once we’ve already obtained a good position." It’s enough to know what we have, and contentment brings happiness.

He didn’t want to stir up his wife’s pity for those people and objects, and since he was also powerless to change the situation, he swiftly changed the subject, "Aren’t you curious about what we found in the secret compartments?"

"Curious, of course, but it’s already dark outside. How can we see? Let’s go home, wait until the kid is asleep, and then we can take a closer look inside the house. We’ll see if there are any special marks on those things or if there’s any information left by the owners. If we ever come across the owners of these items in the future, we can return them to them." Feng Qingxue didn’t possess any greedy intent to claim them as her own.

In her view, she had already obtained many ownerless items from the scrap station; there was no need to be overly greedy. Furthermore, some of the antiques she found would eventually be donated to the nation, as national-level cultural relics should not remain in private hands.

When they were still some distance from Wanglou Brigade, Feng Qingxue kept taking out food from her space.

Flour, white rice, brown rice, cornmeal, and so on, amounting to several hundred pounds, but it was only enough to last for a month.

There were already eight or nine people in the household, and it wouldn’t be right to disregard the elderly gentlemen in the cowshed, who all looked thin and pale, clearly showing their poor diet.

It was already good enough to survive, who would dare to allocate too much of their grain?

Just this morning, Wang Zhengguo had said that since it was just the beginning, he dared not distribute too much grain to them. The work points they received for labor were cut in half compared to ordinary people, because officials would occasionally come to inspect, criticize, and collect their self-criticism letters.

As for other supplies, it was not convenient to take them out at the moment because she had no good excuse to deal with the cunning bunch at home.

"This won’t do. Just eating grains and vegetables isn’t enough for nutrition," Feng Qingxue said.