Chapter 459: First Steps 1

While the people behind were talking, it was soon Chen Xueniang's turn.

She took out her grain book, grain coupons and money, walked into the grain store, and weighed 15 jin of cornmeal. She held the flour bag with both hands and let the clerk pour the weighed cornmeal into the flour bag. She turned around and said to Feng Qingxue who followed her: "I work in a textile factory and eat in the cafeteria every day at noon, so I have to keep some grain coupons in my hand."

She bought it and stepped aside with the flour bag. Feng Qingxue hurried forward and got close to her. She found that there were only cornmeal and dried sweet potatoes today, no fine grains, and the quality was not very good.

"What are you buying? How much?" The clerk asked impatiently.

Feng Qingxue hurriedly handed over the grain book and grain coupons, "35 jin of cornmeal."

The grain coupons Wang Cuilan gave her were 35 jin of coarse grain coupons, the supply standard for this month.

If there is no sweet potato flour, just buy cornmeal. She will bring some back from home when she goes home in the afternoon or tomorrow morning.

The clerk looked at her grain book and immediately smiled. He weighed the cornmeal for her and put it into the flour bag. "Mayor Cheng and Director Wang's? I haven't seen you before. Cornmeal is 9.2 cents per pound, a total of 3.22 yuan."

Raw grain is 7.2 cents, processing fee is 1 cent, and finished grain is 9.2 cents. The loss between raw grain and finished product should be included.

Feng Qingxue made a small calculation in her mind, handed over the money, took back the grain book, and took the flour bag away.

There were too many people in the grain store, everyone was scrambling, and some people who hadn't lined up wanted to cut in line now, shouting that they had to go to work soon, but the other party refused to let them go. It was noisy. Chen Xueniang and her finally squeezed out of the crowd. They looked at each other's embarrassed appearance and laughed. They both liked each other.

It was dawn, and Feng Qingxue saw Chen Xueniang's appearance more clearly. No wonder Wang Erniu was so afraid of her. She was really beautiful, the kind of beauty that was beautiful to the bones and no longer affected by time.

She looked about 40 years old, but Feng Qingxue knew that her actual age must be more than 40 years old.

Chen Xuenniang pulled up the veil to cover her face, "If you don't mind, I'll talk to you when I have time!"

Feng Qingxue smiled and nodded. She saw Wang Cuilan waving at her, so she quickly turned away from Chen Xuenniang and walked to Wang Cuilan's side.

"Aunt, there are only cornmeal and dried sweet potatoes, so I bought cornmeal. We have plenty of dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato flour at home. I will bring back a sack tomorrow, which will be enough for several months. Sweet potatoes hurt the stomach, so eat less if you can."

"Okay, okay, buy anything." Wang Cuilan showed her the basket in her hand and said proudly: "I'm lucky today. I bought half a pig liver and half a pig head. I don't need tickets. I only used one or two meat tickets to buy a small piece of lean meat for Xibao to make meat porridge. The remaining meat tickets will be used later. I will stew the pig head when I come back in the afternoon. You can take some home tomorrow morning to satisfy the cravings of the elderly and children."

"Aunt, thank you." Feng Qingxue thanked.

"What are you thanking for as a family? Let's go, let's go, let's go, send the things home, and hurry to work. It will be too late if you are late!"

At this time, many government agencies were not managed very strictly. It was okay to be late or leave early once or twice, because many staff members were idle and had nothing to do. They sat in the office drinking tea, chatting and reading newspapers.

Feng Qingxue rushed to the hospital, only to find that everyone was quiet, with Zhou Chengfeng and Chen Yuwan whispering to each other.