Chapter 30 triggers the plot
Jiang Xinyu bought four pounds of brown sugar, spending two yuan. The mirror cost one yuan and eighty cents each, a wooden frame mirror thirty centimeters wide and fifty centimeters long with painted flowers and birds on it.
Now Jiang Xinyu had bought everything she needed. Wang Ailing didn’t buy anything. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to; she had money, just no coupons.
"Sis, what do you want to buy? I still have cotton coupons and industrial coupons here."
"Xinyu, you have cotton coupons?"
"Yeah, five pounds’ worth."
Wang Ailing didn’t speak anymore. She had heard from their parents that they had prepared the dowry for her brother’s marriage, yet they had no cotton, no fabric. This was a major event in her brother’s life, and they couldn’t even prepare a set of bedding.
"Sis, these are from my family. I can’t use them right now. If you need them, I can lend them to you first."
"We’ll talk when we get back. Do you have anything else to buy? Anywhere else to go?"
"Shall we go eat?"
"No, you should save money for daily life. Don’t think just because you have money now, once it’s spent, where will you earn more?"