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Most government agencies and factories will have a day off on New Year's Day, and there will be additional supplies during festivals. Although New Year's Day has passed for several days, the city is still very lively.

There were long queues at the entrances of every store, grain, oil store, and grocery store. Even in the state-owned restaurant that sold breakfast, the orthopedic department was packed with people, shoulder to shoulder and head to head. Many customers who didn't have a seat were waiting at the door until the people inside had finished eating before going in. There were also many people who queued up to buy and take the food away to eat at home.

The economy has developed a little better in the past two years. There is no longer the scene of starving people everywhere as it was more than a decade ago. Some residents have begun to prepare New Year's goods in advance. Feng Qingxue saw many people sneaking around in secret corners and conducting private transactions along the way, and there were people watching. Most of them were country people who came to the city to sell things. Farmers and farm women carrying bamboo baskets, looking around, dodging, and exchanging chicken, duck, goose eggs, coarse and fine grains for tickets or money in the city.

Although the Lu family lived a prosperous life, the shortage of supplies among the people had not changed much.

Feng Qingxue did not come to Wucheng very often. She peeked into the grocery store and found that there was no one at the meat counter. There was not even a bone left on the chopping board. The counters selling chickens, ducks, fish and eggs were also empty.

At the beginning of each month, invoices are issued and wages are paid, which is basically the time for each family to improve their meals.

Tightening the backpack filled with a few supplies, Feng Qingxue stroked the mask, hat and scarf on her face and walked through the streets in a dignified manner, preparing to go to the bookstore. Unexpectedly, a country man with rough hands and feet, about 40 years old and carrying a sack walked past her and whispered, "Comrade, do you want some fresh pheasants or rabbits? They are fat, and each weighs at least three or four pounds."

Feng Qingxue smiled slowly when she heard it.

She had no intention of selling or buying anything. She just wanted to take a walk and then take supplies from the space to take home. However, the food decades later cannot be compared with the food now. The latter is truly pure and natural and pollution-free. The meat tastes like meat, the eggs taste like eggs, and the game has the same delicious taste.

Now that she had come across it, Feng Qingxue was naturally happy to get it.

"How much?" Feng Qingxue lowered her voice but did not stop.

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up, and he immediately followed behind and whispered, "One yuan per pound. I hunted it from the grassland with great difficulty, and walked dozens of miles to get here. I can't sell it as pure meat. If you have cloth coupons, industrial coupons, sugar coupons, etc., I will ask for 80 cents per pound. If you have brown sugar and cloth directly, I will exchange one pound of brown sugar, one pound of sugar cubes, or one foot of cloth for one pound of game."

From the tone of his voice, I knew this was not the first time he had done this.

Feng Qingxue asked casually, "How much game did you bring?"

"Four pheasants and five wild rabbits, a total of 42.8 jin. If you want all of them, I can deduct the remainder and make it 40 jin." The reason why the middle-aged man talked to Feng Qingxue was because her dress and temperament were different from ordinary people. She usually wouldn't let herself go back empty-handed. City people rely on a little supply and are more greedy for meat than the country people who go into the mountains and grasslands.

Feng Qingxue was keeping an eye on all directions and listening carefully. She smiled and said, "I won't let you suffer any loss. Three pounds of brown sugar, twelve feet of khaki cloth, seven feet of work cloth, and twenty industrial coupons, plus fifteen yuan."

(End of this chapter)