After breakfast, Feng Qingxue helped him organize the letter papers and expressed her admiration. With such a wide network of contacts, it was no wonder that he made such arrangements.

"What's your reason for trading supplies with them?" she suddenly asked.

No matter what happens, there must be a suitable reason, right?

Lu Jiang stretched lazily. "Isn't there a ready-made reason right in front of you? What else do you need to find?"

Feng Qingxue was stunned. "Ready-made?"

How come she didn't see it?

"My wife is pregnant and needs nutrition, but we are short of supplies at home, so I can only ask them for help."

After Lu Jiang finished writing the letter to the last comrade he could contact, he put down his pen, folded the letter paper, turned sideways and touched the back of Feng Qingxue's hand. The smooth and tender touch made him unable to let go, and he couldn't help touching it again and again.

Feng Qingxue glanced at him sideways and slapped his hand away.

"Seeking help and trading are two different things, okay? Ah Jiang, are you still confused from last night? Asking for help means asking them to get us some supplies, but trading means bartering. We agreed to trade with them and use them to explain the source of space supplies, but we can't take advantage of them and try to help them as much as possible. You wrote a letter asking for help, so what reason do we have to send them things? I won't take advantage of this. You said it yourself, no one will have a good life."

"Oh, my wife is so smart!"

After hearing Lu Jiang's praise, Feng Qingxue's slanted eyes widened even more, "Hurry up and tell me!"

"It's actually very simple. I said that our hometown has a good harvest of grain. I can save some military food coupons every month, so I can get some grain to exchange with them for local specialties to supplement your nutrition. To put it bluntly, although everyone covets non-staple food, the most lacking thing is grain. It's most appropriate to use grain to trade with them for specialties."

At the same time, he was afraid that exchanging them for other supplies such as supplementary food would arouse their suspicion.

It's different with food. Those who need fine grains will be given a few kilograms of fine grains, and those who need coarse grains will be given more coarse grains. This will allow them to feed themselves or their families, and Feng Qingxue will also be able to use the space supplies calmly without having to find other excuses.

Lu Jiang was very careful. He knew each of the comrades he contacted, but they did not know each other.

Lu Jiang would not contact anyone they were familiar with, for fear that they would share what they had with each other.

Feng Qingxue thought about it and said with a smile: "That's right, we don't care what they can send us. All we need is an excuse for them to send us something. One or two transactions a month is enough."

"That's right! You take a rest in the house. I'll go cook the mutton."

"I'm fine and not tired, why do I need to rest? I'll go with you."

The mutton has been soaked in well water since last night, and the water has been changed three or four times. Now that the blood is gone, wash it clean and peel off the white layer of mutton fat on it. Chop the rest into large pieces, put them into a large pot with bones and meat, pour in clean water, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, then put in ginger slices, peppercorns, star anise and other ingredients, and simmer over low heat.

Feng Qingxue cut the dried pork fat into small pieces, boiled the oil in a small pot, and finally scooped out the golden and slightly burnt oil residue and scooped the oil into oil tanks, filling two and a half tanks.

Feng Qingyun and Guan Yu, who were playing in the yard, came over when they smelled the aroma, "Aunt, are you cooking before noon?"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"You're such a greedy cat!" Feng Qingxue picked up a few pieces of hot oil residue with chopsticks, dipped them in some sugar and fed them to them, "We'll have mutton for lunch, it's cooking now, don't worry!"

"Got it!" They are so looking forward to lunch!