Chapter 233 - 0233: Great Surprise 1_1
Early the next morning, Feng Qingxue rode her bicycle into the city by herself to exchange Grain Tickets with Old Mrs. Cao.
A ten-kilo and a five-kilo flour Grain Tickets were exchanged for a bundle of local Grain Tickets, the smallest of which was a half-kilo and the largest was five-kilo. As she expected, they were exclusive to this city and couldn’t be used outside of it. Since they were not all for refined grain, the summed total was thirty kilos.
Ten kilos of refined grain, twenty kilos of coarse grain.
According to national standards, twenty kilos of coarse grain can be equivalent to five to six kilos of refined grain.
"I’m sorry, comrade. These were the only grain tickets left in our house. Yesterday when we exchanged for national Grain Tickets, the other party insisted on having refined Grain Tickets to be willing to make the exchange." Feng Qingxue didn’t mind, rather it was Old Mrs. Cao who felt embarrassed. Because refined grain was scarce, at the grain shop, one could easily use refined Grain Tickets to buy coarse grain, but it was difficult to use coarse Grain Tickets to buy refined grain.
"It’s okay, whether it’s coarse grain or refined grain, they can both satisfy hunger." Many people, due to their large household sizes, made do with less refined grain and substituted it with coarse grain because it was more filling.
However, Old Mrs.Cao was not someone to have a close relationship with.
After Feng Qingxue got the Grain Tickets, she carefully examined them and found that almost all had a time limit. They must be used before December 31st of the solar calendar, otherwise, they would be invalid.
After completing the exchange, Feng Qingxue chatted with Mrs. Wu in the main room for a while, gifted them with the vegetables she had brought, and left the household compound.