Chapter 461 - 0461: Learning to Walk 1_1
Between comments from the people in line, it quickly comes to Chen Xueniang’s turn.
She takes out her grain ration book, grain tickets, and money, and steps into the grain shop cleanly and neatly weighing fifteen pounds of cornmeal. As she supports the flour bag with both hands, she lets the shop assistant pour the weighed cornmeal into it. Simultaneously, she turns back to Feng Qingxue who has followed her and says, "I work in a textile factory and eat in the cafeteria every day at noon, so I need to keep some grain tickets on hand."
After making her purchase, she moves off to the side with the bag of flour. As Feng Qingxue hurries forward, she realizes that today they only have cornmeal and dried sweet potatoes, and there are no fine grains at all, with quality being a bit poor.
"What are you buying? How much?" the shop assistant asks impatiently.
Feng Qingxue quickly hands over the ration book and the grain tickets, "Thirty-five pounds of cornmeal."
The grain ticket that Wang Cuilan gave her was for thirty-five pounds of coarse grain, which is the supply standard for this month.
Since there is no sweet potato flour, she decided to buy cornmeal. In the afternoon or tomorrow morning when she goes home, she can bring some from home.
The shop assistant looks at her ration book, immediately smiles, weighs the cornmeal for her and then fills it into the flour bag. "Ah, you’re from Mayor Cheng and Director Wang’s family? I have never seen you before. The cornmeal is ninety-two cents a pound, totaling three dollars and twenty-two cents."
The raw grain is seventy-two cents, and the processing fee is one cent. The final product is ninety-two cents, as they must have taken into account the losses between the raw grain and the final product.