Grandma Ma was very good at making dumplings, and she often made them for Lu Qingyan after Lu Qingyan arrived. After Lu Qingyan arrived home, she put the dumplings she had made into the pot, and by the time the dumplings were cooked, Lu Qingyan had already filled the water vat.
An old man and a young child sit at the dining table, eating dumplings dipped in rice vinegar. In this oppressive era, this is a rare little happiness.
After finishing her meal, Lu Qingyan returned to her room for a nap and checked her current savings.
When she was sent to the countryside, her family gave her fifty yuan, two jin of national grain coupons, one jin of flour coupon, and one coupon for other items such as cloth, meat, and candy. Her family was incredibly stingy with their second daughter, Lu Mian.
Fortunately, Lu Qingyan had used up a lot of grain coupons in the months she had been in Qingfeng, but hardly any other coupons. After the production team distributed grain again, based on her work points, she certainly wouldn't have to worry about the food problem. So, how to make the money in her hands work was the problem that Lu Qingyan was having a headache about.
What can she do with so little money? She definitely can't stay here after the college entrance examination is reinstated, and her family certainly won't be willing to spend money on her anymore. She can't just sit in the classroom and not eat a single meal to cultivate immortality.
Don't be ridiculous, there's no spiritual energy here, people would starve to death.
She didn't know if the villagers in Green Water Village were too peaceful, or if she hadn't looked in the right place. Every time the village organized a trip to the city in the past few months, Lu Qingyan tried to find the black market in some hidden places, but unfortunately, she always came up empty-handed.
Lu Qingyan pondered that perhaps her method was wrong, and she would try a different approach next time.
After counting her money, Lu Qingyan put the items into her personal space. No matter where she was, nothing was safer than her own personal space.
On the other side, Liu Yi was also counting her assets.
Her family really loved her. Before she went to the countryside, they scraped together 1,300 yuan for her, along with some loose receipts.
When the educated youth went to the countryside, their parents had almost exchanged all the national grain coupons circulating in the city. Liu Yi's family used a lot of connections to exchange for a total of more than 40 jin of grain coupons.
Given Liu Yi's appetite, this amount of food could feed her for a year if she ate as much as she wanted.
She hadn't paid much attention to it at first, but after having a meal at the fellow villager's house where she was staying today, Liu Yi immediately realized that the food problem would be her biggest predicament.
Liu Yi was not as lucky as Mu Xin; the family she stayed with was a notoriously poor family in the village.
When she was choosing a place, she only saw that there were many people, but she didn't know that people can be either hardworking or lazy.
The people in this family are definitely not hardworking, and they are particularly gluttonous. They are the kind of people who would rather do less work and eat more food.
When they first arrived, each household had just received their share of grain, so there was no noticeable difference in their food. Lu Qingyan also brought back a lot of game from the mountains to satisfy their cravings, and Liu Yi also benefited from this.
Time passed slowly, and it was harvest time again. This family's grain was almost gone. Liu Yi looked at the rice water on the table, which was almost devoid of rice grains. The water was a greenish-blue color, made from a mixture of unknown wild herbs and vegetables, without any seasoning. It tasted bitter. The black steamed buns, which tasted like sand, made of some unknown material, made Liu Yi feel hopeless about life in the countryside.
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