Chapter 324 - 0324: Make Preparations before it Rains 2_1
Firstly, Lu Jiang’s salary and grain tickets were used in the name of the army to support the families of fallen comrades.
The incident involving Song Gang served as a wake-up call for Lu Jiang. After Major Ye informed him, even though Feng Qingxue had never complained in her letters about the trouble Lu Jiang’s actions had caused, the letters Lu Jiang wrote to her were still filled with apologies, expressing his thoughtlessness. He immediately devised the above remedy, directly mailing from the army without leaving his and his wife’s information.
He pitied the families of his comrades, to which Feng Qingxue raised no objections.
Secondly, Feng Qingxue no longer traded food for antiques and jewelry in the black market, instead, she used money.
She paid money for the antiques and jewels that couldn’t be exchanged at the bank, and their owners could use the money to buy food in the black market. After all, the vast majority of food sellers accepted cash, most of whom were old farmers from the countryside.
The only reason those people had to exchange valuables for food was because they had no other means of selling them, right?
Only when trading resources with comrades was it impossible to hide personal information. Fortunately, they mostly did not know each other.
Moved by the honesty of his comrades, taking advantage of the fine weather and good road conditions, Feng Qingxue went into the city alone under the pretext of finding Wu Zheng for a medical check-up. She disguised herself, sent different cereals to them, thought for a while, followed by some fabrics, cotton, brown sugar, and salt. She also sent some modified frostbite medicine and injury medicine.
With the dried meat, there was less demand for food, so there were no losses in terms of food.
Feng Qingxue also stopped offering help at random. As she was heavily pregnant, she went out less frequently and thus encountered fewer unfortunate people. Out of sight, out of mind, she felt no guilt. At the Wanglou Brigade, she put on the image of a large family lacking in food. Often seen sighing, over time, everyone knew their family was having a hard time.
That being said, on the morning of the Little New Year, when Feng Qingxue opened the door, she almost stepped on a person at the doorstep.