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.
