"Genlin is getting married, and I'm thinking of going to town to buy some things so I can present them as gifts."
After clearing her throat, Ning Jing spoke to Fu Hongxing.
Generally speaking, giving a pair of pillowcases or a handkerchief as a gift is considered a very good present.
Most other people would only give a small gift, like a dime or two, and wouldn't actually give a gift at all.
Ning Jing planned to buy two enamel basins with the double happiness symbol on them, so that they would be a pair and bring good luck.
Such a gift is considered the best. Generally speaking, the bride will bring things like a washbasin with her dowry.
But if the bride's family's circumstances are really as Guihua's sister-in-law said yesterday, it's unlikely that there will be a dowry.
If it's really not true, people will probably laugh at us.
Fu Hongxing nodded after hearing Ning Jing's words.
“Brother Dazhu and Sister-in-law Guihua have helped our family a lot. Buying something nice for us is a token of your appreciation.”
"Do you have enough tickets? If not, I'll try to borrow some."
Thinking back to the salary I just gave Ning Jing, it seems there aren't many coupons left that can be used to buy things, and the sugar coupons I gave to Sister Guihua yesterday.
"That should be enough. There are a few industrial tickets inside, which is just enough to buy two enamel basins."
If I had a few more, I could buy a thermos for home use.
Ning Jing shook her head and said no, then thought that there were only a few industrial tickets each month, and if she wanted to buy a thermos, she would need about ten tickets, which would take almost a year to collect enough industrial tickets to buy a thermos. She couldn't help but feel a little discouraged.
The weather isn't cold now, so at home we basically boil water and then keep it warm in a pot in the kitchen.
But after a while, it will eventually get cold.
It's okay now that it's hot, but when it gets cold and snows, you can't drink cold water on those special days.
If you have a thermos at home, the water will still be warm even after a night!
Fu Hongxing glanced at Ning Jing's longing expression, then thought for a moment and said, "Didn't you bring some industrial tickets back with you before? Why don't we buy some other gifts for Genlin this time?"
With this paycheck, let's buy a thermos!
Ning Jing hesitated for a moment, then shook her head.
"Those industrial vouchers of yours were issued by the military, and you can use them anywhere."
So I want to save them up first, and then use them when I need something urgent.
You know, wouldn't it be great to have a sewing machine plane ticket?
Making clothes won't take as much time.
Thinking about how I've been making things with needles every day to earn gold coins lately...
If I had a sewing machine, I could probably finish a day's worth of work in an hour.
"You want a sewing machine?"
Fu Hongxing silently wrote it down in her mental notebook, pondering where she could find a way to get the sewing ticket and the thermos.
Actually, the family isn't short of money, after all, there's so much money he brought back this time, plus the money they got back from his uncle's family.
But now, you can't just have money to buy things; you need coupons.
It seems he needs to write a letter to his comrades in the army.
He used to be in the army and knew that many of his comrades would exchange a lot of industrial tickets and some rare tickets with others every month, because these were things that the men didn't need.
Therefore, they would exchange food coupons and money with those who needed them.
Especially for soldiers from rural areas, those from poorer families would take these out to exchange for more food coupons and money to send home.
It's much more practical than something so unrealistic.
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