Chapter 293: Daughter's Wedding 1
"Silly! Who said I don't miss you?"
Feng Qingxue read each of the eight letters three, four, or even five times, holding them tightly against her chest, talking to herself and laughing until tears came out of her eyes. It was hard to imagine Lu Jiang writing a letter in a serious manner.
"Correct it quickly. Okay, I'll correct it right away." After putting down the letter, Feng Qingxue immediately unfolded the letter paper and wrote like flowing water.
Finish writing and seal it.
At lunch, Feng Qingxue said to her two nephews, "Tianjun, Acheng, come with me into the city tomorrow."
Lu Tianjun and Guan Cheng didn't ask why, they just nodded, "I understand, Aunt."
Father Lu asked one more question, "What's the matter? If it's nothing serious, just ask the two boys to run errands and you rest at home." Her belly was getting bigger day by day, and it was freezing and snowy, so Father Lu didn't feel comfortable letting her go out.
Feng Qingxue shook her head. "Ah Jiang said in the letter that he had surgery ahead of schedule, scheduled for early December, in a few days. His comrades sent him a lot of nutritional supplements, so I sent him some. But by the time he gets them, I'm afraid he's already had the surgery, so it's just the right time to replenish them. Ah Jiang sent his salary, and I have to go get it back. Many of Ah Jiang's comrades died, and their families are living a very difficult life. Ah Jiang left me their home addresses, so I sent them some money and food coupons. In addition, a comrade of Ah Jiang in the northwest named Huo Beiting didn't send anything, but he sent a lot of military supply tickets, food coupons, and material tickets. I want to use the food coupons to exchange for some food here and then send it back to him. The conditions over there are difficult, and so many food coupons have not been used because there must be not enough food for them to collect locally."
For example, Huo Beiting had 40 kilograms of food coupons every month, but the local conditions made it impossible to sell him 40 kilograms of food, or the Corps canteen could only supply him 30 kilograms of food every month, so 10 kilograms of food coupons were left over.
It is well known that the climate in the Northwest region is harsh.
Regions are divided according to local economic levels and living conditions, also known as wage zones. The country is divided into eleven categories. Category one has the best conditions but the lowest wages. For each higher category, wages increase by 3%. The worst conditions are in Qinghai, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other areas, which are category eleven regions with the highest wages, but are remote, harsh conditions and extremely scarce supplies.
The capital is a Category 6 region, Shanghai is a Category 8 region, and my hometown is also a Category 6 region.
Huo Beiting is in the eleventh category of areas, and the thing he lacks most is definitely food.
The food that Feng Qingxue had first sent to the northwest was for Huo Beiting. I don’t know if he has received it now.
So Feng Qingxue used the military supply tickets he sent her in exchange for supplies. She sent all the food to him, and sent part of the other supplies back to him and part to Lu Jiang. She only kept eight kilograms of cotton quilts for herself to make a quilt for Wang Jiao as a dowry.
As they only had this one daughter, Wang Zhengguo and Miao Fengqin had been saving up a dowry for her very early on. Before liberation, they lived in the Lu family, where their living conditions were actually very good. There was enough cloth and cotton padding at home to make clothes and quilts for Wang Jiao. The two quilts had a silk surface and a satin surface respectively, and were colorful and very eye-catching.
Wang Jiao was wearing a Shanghai brand watch, a red sweater she had knitted herself, black pants she had made herself, and Lan Tang leather shoes. Over the sweater she was wearing not a coat but a red cotton-padded jacket, without a coat.
A red satin cotton jacket with a stand-up collar, slanted lapels, and gold thread flowers on a red background.
(End of this chapter)