Before the rain stopped as quickly as it had come, sending temperatures plummeting by several degrees. Lu Jingqiu was now layered with thermal underwear under her clothes, as training at the military base intensified.
Recently, Lu Jingqiu had received another assignment from the cooperative to paint a few bird-and-flower pictures.
Her second cousin and Wei Jincheng had returned as well, and just yesterday they delivered sheepskin to the clothing factory to be urgently processed into woolen cotton coats.
Lu Jingqiu couldn't shake the feeling that something was afoot in the army. This year was different; in the past, the thickest clothing they procured for the troops were heavy military coats to be worn over wool trousers.
Worried about her father, who hadn't been home much lately, Lu Jingqiu traded several yards of velvet cloth coupons with Luo Xinyue and went to purchase cotton from Xue Jianian.
She had made cotton pants for her father and Jiang Nanzhou, and even for her uncle.
