"Mom, think about it. These coupons weren't easy to get. You could sell them for a bit of cash, but if you ever need coupons like this again, that money won't be enough to buy them. Besides, it's so hard to get anything useful these days. There are some things money just can't buy. I think coupons are way more important than cash." Yuan Si deliberately omitted the fact that the cotton coupons were about to expire, making her case with an air of great seriousness.
The old lady mulled it over and realized her daughter had a point. When a family had a child getting married, they started collecting things years in advance, and cotton coupons were especially hard to come by. Besides, selling them in a hurry wouldn't fetch a good price. Any family with a wedding coming up would have already planted their own cotton, so they probably wouldn't need much more.
'My daughter's right,' she thought. 'It's better to just buy the cotton and store it.'
