Chapter 20 Entering the County Town Again 4

Feng Qingxue stretched out her hand and asked the old lady to speak first. The old lady did not refuse and said directly: "My daughter, you are a good girl, I will not hide it from you. My family is not doing well. This time I came here with 40 or 50 yuan scraped together. Look how much food I can buy, some fine grains and some coarse grains. The whole family depends on the high price of grain to save their lives."

Feng Qingxue listened and felt very sad.

She respected the people of this era and felt sorry for the people of this era, because her grandparents lived in this era.

"Auntie, I will tell you straight. No matter how much the grain price is in the black market, and I don’t have a scale to weigh how much grain there is, so I will give you all the grain I brought today, and give me all your money."

Feng Qingxue opened the backpack and revealed two bags of grain inside.

Although such a cloth bag does not hold much grain, it is still more than ten pounds, which adds up to more than twenty pounds.

At the current grain price, it is very expensive.

The old lady burst into tears.

Of course, she could see that without a hundred yuan, she couldn't buy so much food in the backpack.

"Thank you, my daughter, thank you..."

The old lady was so grateful that she took out a handkerchief from her bosom and opened it to reveal a stack of money, including ten-yuan denominations of the Great Unity, one-yuan, two-yuan, one-cent, two-cent, and one-cent, "This is forty-eight yuan and fifty-seven cents."

Feng Qingxue took the money and poured the food in her pocket into the container that the old lady brought to hold the food.

The old lady also noticed the eggs and soybean oil in the backpack.

Her lips moved slightly, and in the end, she didn't say a word, bowed to Feng Qingxue, and hurried away with the bamboo basket on her back.

Feng Qingxue was worried about the old woman waiting at the Red Army Bridge. She always felt that she had a temperament very similar to her grandmother, so she packed two or three bags of coarse and fine food and returned to the Red Army Bridge.

The old woman hadn't bought any food yet. When she saw her, she came up to her in two steps and said, "Girl..."

"Let's go."

Feng Qingxue didn't ask her what price she could offer for the food. After the meeting, she turned around and left.

After a while, the old woman followed her with surprise.

The two met in a place where no one noticed. The old woman said happily, "Girl, are you willing to exchange the food for me?"

"What do you want to exchange?" Feng Qingxue asked with a smile.

At this time, she was thinking that if she could save herself, she would help as many people as possible. Money and things were of the lowest order. Who told the old woman in front of her to look so much like her grandmother? Seeing her was like seeing her grandmother.

The old woman reached out and pulled out a small black cloth bag the size of a palm from her sleeve and handed it to Feng Qingxue.

Feng Qingxue took it in her hand and untied the tie of the pocket. Suddenly, a burst of light flashed in front of her eyes. She found that there were actually two gold bracelets inside, one finger wide, with filigree craftsmanship, inlaid with rubies, and the precious light was shining. The two were almost exactly the same.

"Auntie..." Feng Qingxue was surprised.

"Take it, my daughter. I am very grateful that you are willing to let me exchange things for food." The old woman said.

Feng Qingxue hurriedly tightened the tie, "Auntie, this is too expensive."

"No matter how expensive it is, it was a thing of the past. Now it can't be eaten or drunk." The old woman smiled bitterly, and her words matched her expression, very sad, "My daughter, I won't hide it from you. Although the bank buys gold to support national construction, the bank only buys gold. It's a pity to pick out the gems. This is the craftsmanship of old masters in the old days. The most important thing is that I dare not go to the bank."