The next morning, Feng Qingxue rode her bicycle into the city alone and exchanged food coupons with Lao Cao's wife.

He exchanged a flour coupon with a face value of ten jin and another with a face value of five jin for a stack of local grain coupons, the smallest of which was half a jin and the largest was five jin. As he had expected, they were for use only in this city and could not be used outside the city because they were not all fine grain coupons, so the total number was thirty jin.

Ten pounds of fine grains and twenty pounds of coarse grains.

According to national standards, twenty kilograms of coarse grains can be equivalent to five to six kilograms of fine grains.

"I'm sorry, comrade, these are the only food coupons we have left. Yesterday, when I tried to exchange them for national food coupons, the other party insisted on having fine grain coupons." Feng Qingxue didn't despise it, but Mrs. Cao was very embarrassed. Because fine grains were scarce, it was easy to exchange fine grain coupons for coarse grains at the grain store, but it was very difficult to exchange coarse grain coupons for fine grains.

"It's okay. Both coarse grains and fine grains can fill your stomach." Many people have a large family and there is not enough fine grains, so they exchange fine grains for coarse grains to fill their stomachs.

However, you can't make close friends with people like Lao Cao's wife.

Because Feng Qingxue looked at the food coupons carefully after getting them and found that these food coupons basically had time limits and had to be used before December 31st of the Gregorian calendar, otherwise they would become invalid.

After the exchange was completed, Feng Qingxue went to the main room to talk to Mrs. Wu for a few words, handed over the vegetables she had brought, and left the slum.

She picked fresh vegetables when she got up early in the morning and gave the rest to Uncle Xu and Aunt Xu.

Before visiting the patient, she promised the two elders that she would send some vegetables, and Aunt Xu was looking forward to it. However, when she returned home, she received a telegram from Ouyang Zijin, saying that Lu Jiang's injury had delayed him for two or three months, and he was busy getting married when he returned. It was only in the last month that he had the opportunity. Every time he went to the city, he would bring some fresh vegetables to the two elders and Doctor Wu's family.

Aunt Xu couldn't help but say, "You're married now, and you have a big family to take care of. Unless we're in trouble, don't give us gifts casually like you did before."

"Auntie, I know my limits." Feng Qingxue said with a smile.

The Lu family has a large population and a lot of fragmented private plots, but because they are too fragmented, scattered in front of and behind the house and along the river, they cannot secretly grow coarse grains such as sweet potatoes and corn like ordinary people do while everyone turns a blind eye, so they can only grow vegetables. The harvest is a lot, but they can't eat it all.

Feng Qingxue picked the leftover vegetables and made them into dried and pickled vegetables.

Gourd strips, dried eggplants, dried beans, dried red peppers, etc., the vegetables that are usually distributed to Uncle Xu, Aunt Xu, and Mr. and Mrs. Wu Zheng are the kinds that cannot be made into dried vegetables and pickled vegetables. For example, older beans and eggplants, etc., taste good when picked and fried, and they are easy to absorb the flavor with oil and salt, but they are not a good choice for making dried vegetables.

"Just know it yourself." Feng Qingxue treated her sincerely, so Aunt Xu naturally didn't want to take advantage of her.

Feng Qingxue pursed her lips and smiled.

If Uncle Xu and Aunt Xu had not been sensible and rarely asked for her help except when they were in urgent need of food, she would not have always treated them as her own elders.

Aunt Xu took out a handkerchief from her bosom, opened it to reveal a roll of money and bills, flipped through it for a while and took out three bills and handed them to Feng Qingxue, "Your uncle and I didn't finish the food you sent before, so I secretly exchanged it with someone for a few toilet paper bills and a sanitary belt bill. I don't need them now that I'm old, so you can use them!"