Chapter 1049 Causes and Consequences 1

The two have been busy since morning until now, first from Lu's house to Caohu, then from Caohu to the commune, and now on the way from the commune to home, they have turned to Shan's house. They are simply running non-stop.

Lu Jiang was fine, he walked very easily, but he was worried that his wife was tired, so he helped her rest in the valley.

"Take a break and drink some water. Blind Shan has already passed away. It doesn't matter if we pass away a little earlier or later."

"That's right." Feng Qingxue thought for a moment, sat on the stone where Lu Jiang had spread his sweatshirt, and took out a small folding table and some food from the space. "While no one is here, let's have a good meal. Let's open a watermelon first."

A big round green-skinned watermelon appeared on the folding table, along with a fruit knife.

"Special treatment!" Lu Jiang said with a smile.

Feng Qingxue nodded as a matter of course, "Yes, because you are the only one who knows my secret, so I don't have to think of excuses and worry about arousing suspicion after taking out the things. After all, there is a shortage of supplies at the moment, and many things don't exist."

Lu Jiang picked up the fruit knife, touched the big watermelon, and exclaimed, "This watermelon is bigger than any you've ever taken out before!"

"Big watermelons from the northwest, very sweet!" Feng Qingxue explained, "I flew to the northwest specifically to buy them. I bought a lot of fruits like melons and grapes, as well as dried fruits like raisins, walnuts, and red dates. Specialties from the place of origin are generally cheaper. The market was not good the year I bought them. The most expensive watermelon was one dollar per kilogram. The melon farmers just broke even, and I don't know how many lost money. The cheapest ones were a few cents per kilogram, and some couldn't be sold so they were piled up on the ground and taken away by the locals. In addition, many Hami melons couldn't be sold and could only rot in the fields. They only charged me a few hundred dollars for two hundred acres of land, and they wished I would spend money to hire workers to help them clean up the melons in the fields."

They lived together in the army for several years and often ate secretly without the children's knowledge. It was not that Lu Jiang had never seen a big watermelon before, but he did not know where the watermelon came from and always thought it was a reserve of the space itself.

"Rotting in the ground?" Lu Jiang was shocked. "After several decades, have the lives of ordinary people reached this level?"

Feng Qingxue sighed, "When the market is bad, it's not just melon farmers who do this, fruit farmers do the same. Some even dump eggs down the cliff for this reason. I'm used to it, so I always buy things like this at the time, saving money and getting a lot. When you live through that era, you'll know what extravagance and waste are, it's beyond your imagination."

If you have never experienced famine, you will not know how valuable food is.

Although Feng Qingxue had a space full of supplies that could not be eaten up in decades at the current rate, she usually did not dare to waste even a single bit and was reluctant to throw away leftovers. She did not care at all about what future experts said about overnight meals causing cancer.

After hearing this, Lu Jiang stared in silence.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. Anyway, we won't see this happening anymore. Just open the melon and we'll each have half."

Lu Jiang cut the watermelon in half with a knife. Looking at the bright red flesh and black seeds, he couldn't help but repeat the old saying, "In this world, ordinary people can't eat watermelon at all. Many citizens who want to eat melons and fruits need to get a certificate from the hospital. With the certificate, they can buy watermelons and the like. Unless there is a bumper harvest of melons and fruits in a certain year, citizens can line up to buy them, but the number is limited. Occasionally, a few melons are planted in the private plots in the countryside, mostly cucumbers. You have so many watermelons stored in your space, which makes me feel like I have a mountain of gold and silver."

(End of this chapter)