Chapter 109 - 0109: Returning to the Black Market1_1
When Feng Qingxue received the package from Lu Jiang, it was already the last month of winter, and everywhere was covered in snow and ice.
It wasn’t that it was snowing every day, rather that the snow didn’t melt due to the persistent cold weather.
The weather at this time was nowhere near as mild as the weather experienced decades later after global warming took effect, with icy cold conditions once winter arrived.
Unless there was something very necessary such as delivering food to the Lu family, Feng Qingxue basically stayed at home with her younger sister, heating themselves by the fire, reading, or making clothes and shoes. Only when Feng Shuanzhu notified her that Lu Jiang had sent a letter and some items, and that she needed to take an ID letter he’d written to the post office to retrieve them, did she make a trip out.
Lu Jiang had sent a hundred and twenty dollars, twenty of which were for his father, and a hundred for her. In addition to sugar tickets, oil tickets, meat tickets, egg tickets and various other ration tickets, there was also ten kilograms worth of grain tickets.
He was quite generous, also sending two smoked wild boar legs, wild boar meat, and smoked wild rabbits, not weighing any less than what she had sent him.
She wondered how he managed to get hold of all these game meats!
The mountains definitely would not have wild pigs and rabbits waiting around to be hunted every day. If he and his comrades hunted as a group, the game couldn’t possibly be consumed by him alone.
Even for soldiers, grain rations were limited. The fact that he sent her ten kilograms meant that Lu Jiang himself had to eat ten kilograms less.
Feng Qingxue felt quietly thankful that she had sent him so many supplies to befriend his comrades. With this in mind, she quickly wrote back to Lu Jiang, telling him not to send so much money and ration tickets in the future, nor to send any game meats. She told him to keep them for his own use, and that there was no need for him to worry about home. She then sent him some foodstuff and cured meats, along with dried chickens and ducks for the New Year presents.
If Lu Jiang wanted to climb up the ranks in the military, he would need to establish good interpersonal relationships. These items were more useful than money.