For several days in a row, Zhang Guoqing was busy during the day handling the backyard vegetable garden and slaughtering wild animals. At night, he took the children out to several nearby production teams to purchase some items.
At this time, even Little Ping'an knew that grain tickets, sugar tickets, and cloth tickets were more valuable than cash. Some households wouldn't be willing to sell a century-old ginseng no matter how much money you offered. But if you mentioned having tickets, they'd absolutely be happy to pull you inside their rooms.
In the village, building materials for houses and such required team approval. The workforce usually came from neighbors, relatives, and friends during the agricultural off-season, with the host family only needing to provide meals. Extra cash didn't really have much use, but tickets were different. Big occasions like a daughter's wedding or a bride entering the family, where face mattered, there was a demand.
