Chapter 1489 Major Purchases 2
Christine’s gift was truly generous – a hundred 100-yuan quota coupons, which could buy two thousand kilograms of grain, three hundred kilograms of oil, an equivalent of two thousand shopping coupons worth of various commodities, and five hundred kilograms of non-staple food. The amount was staggering!
Meat, sugar, pastries, eggs, and so on were all part of the non-staple food.
Two days later, Feng Qingxue went shopping at the Friendship Store with her quota coupons and authorization slips.
Recently, the school had organized activities like field training and integrating with factory and farm life, which lasted ten to fifteen days. Carrying bedding and dry food was inevitably hard; those who attended last year complained bitterly behind closed doors. Feng Qingxue, using the excuse that there was no one to look after the children at home and feigning illness, quickly got approval.
Lu Jiang had returned to the military, leaving the burden of the household on Feng Qingxue’s shoulders. The school had to consider this.
Lu Tianzhi and Guan Yu followed behind Feng Qingxue to help carry her purchases, gazing at the dazzling array of goods in the Friendship Store which had them hesitating to even blink – handicraft counters, tobacco and liquor counters, fabric counters, gold jewelry counters, watch counters, imported goods counters, and so on, not to mention refrigerators, washing machines, TVs, radios, bicycles, cosmetics, and more – there was too much to take in at once.
"Auntie, what shall we buy first?" Lu Tianzhi felt as if his eyes weren’t his own anymore.
Before Feng Qingxue could reply, Guan Yu said softly, "Auntie, there are so many foreigners shopping, why is that? No, that’s not right, the Friendship Store is originally for them, of course, they can shop here. I mean, they spend a long time at the imported goods counter. Why don’t they just buy things in their own country?"
Having experience shopping at the Friendship Store, Feng Qingxue glanced at the foreigners and said, "Because it’s cheaper."