Feng Qingxue was unable to decline and reluctantly accepted it, feeling its substantial heft.
She did not dare to open it on the spot and only discovered on her way home that old lady Xu had given her a small box of gold!
The small and exquisite gold ingots, each about the size of a thumb, were arranged in neat rows, one layer above the other. There were eight pieces per row and three rows each of two layers, all neatly arranged.
Feng Qingxue did once hear old lady Xu mention that she and old man Xu had hidden some gold in the old house, which they couldn’t fetch without the right opportunity. The fact that they had given her a box of gold today, did it imply that the elderly couple had finally got a chance to take out the gold?
There was no other explanation.
She also remembered old lady Xu laughing and cursing at her old friends, who were all sly foxes. They would exchange their unsellable jewelry for grain, while tightly holding onto their gold, hoping to leave themselves with a backup plan.
Besides this box of gold in the cloth bag, there was also a pair of boxwood combs and a small round mirror with a definite Old Republic style.
The portrait on the back of the round mirror seemed to be of a female movie star from the Old Republic era. Dressed in a body-hugging qipao, her figure was delicate, her hair curled and lips red. Her eyebrows were elongated; Feng Qingxue felt she looked familiar but couldn’t remember her name for the moment.
Since the gold couldn’t appear in public, Feng Qingxue put it in her spatial storage, along with the small mirror.
At the same time, she took out the items she’d organized in her spatial storage one by one.
Because the cultural catastrophe had not yet arrived, the clothing had not yet fully assumed the tones of black, blue, and grey. Occasionally, Feng Qingxue saw women dressed in brightly colored clothing, though they were few and far between. Most people still wore black, blue, and grey. Thus, she first took out a piece of bright red cloth from her spatial storage, planning to make a shirt for herself.
Without wearing red for the wedding, it seemed to lack some festivity.
She would have loved to make a red skirt, but according to the information she found in the spatial storage, by the mid-60s, a few years later, qipaos, high heels, skirts, and suits would all be categorized as "bizarre clothes," and labelled as bourgeois.
To avoid future issues, she chose to make a shirt.
A red shirt paired with black trousers would be quite a seen high in this era.
As soon as she arrived home, Feng Qingxue heard from Feng Shuanzhu that there was a letter and package waiting for her.
Who would have sent the package? Everyone was curious. Lu Jiang was at home, being so close by, there was no need for him to send letters or things.
As such, when Feng Qingxue retrieved a letter and two packages, all the people from Quanfu who were helping at her house gathered around, bombarding her with questions: "What is it? Who sent it to you?"
Feng Qingxue first read the letter and felt a little relieved, allowing a small smile to cross her face.
"It was specially sent by Ajiang’s military leader. He said it is a wedding gift for Ajiang and me." While in fact, they had sent it knowing Feng Qingxue’s family circumstances to boost her dowry.
How important was the equipment Feng Qingxue gave to Lu Jiang? Several insiders were fully aware.
Those military men were outspoken and bold, and their gifts were very straightforward.
The commander Ye gifted a military grain ticket worth a hundred catties, Zheng Xuefeng gifted a red towel quilt with double happiness symbols, while Zhao Yong gifted a variety of things. His gifts were likely prepared by his wife, Guo Xiuying. They included a pair of pillowcases embroidered with a scene of mandarin ducks playing in the water and a pair of pillow towels with double happiness symbols, also in red. There was also a purple and red corduroy quilt cover along with a red checkered cotton quilt lining, a black and red checkered coarse woolen double-breasted jacket, a pair of army green polyester-cotton trousers, and finally, two jars of Yasnow Snowflake Cream and two boxes of clam oil.