But how could she explain this to them?
"It's for buying New Year's goods."
Was she really going to buy New Year's goods?
Many people were heading to the town to buy things since the brigade had distributed money.
As for her family's work points, they had all been exchanged for grain. There was no way to exchange work points for money.
However, Sister-in-law Zhao's family had received some money, but they were still in famine debt because they needed to spend money at home and had not repaid it yet.
Sister-in-law Zhao wanted to ask about whether there was any cotton left.
But with so many people on the ox cart, Sister-in-law Zhao did not ask.
The cotton was really warm, and there was still a lot left from the cloth, which had been used to patch children's cotton-padded clothes. The smallest scraps were felted into shoe soles and the larger pieces were sewn together to make a garment for the two youngest.