Chapter 4 Transactions
I have been busy for a long time today and only ate two steamed buns. I am already hungry.
But it's not dark yet, and if someone comes in to look for me, it's hard to explain what I'm eating, so I take out a meat bun to make me hungry first, and then eat it when it gets dark.
I was tired after walking for a day, so I closed the door, lay on the bed and fell asleep soon after.
When I opened my eyes again, it was already past 11 o'clock in the evening. Of course, I woke up hungry.
He sat up, took out the fried chicken and Coke from the space and started eating.
Um.
How cool.
After finishing it, I felt it wasn't quite enough, so I added a can of rice pudding porridge and ate some barbecue skewers.
After sorting out the trash, I had no choice but to lie down again.
Not long after I woke up, I didn't feel very asleep either.
There were no entertainment facilities in the 1960s, and there was no electricity. We had just lit candles when we ate.
Since I can't sleep anyway, I might as well go into the space to sort out the supplies to be sold tomorrow.
Brown sugar and white sugar are weighed one pound each, and 50 portions are wrapped in yellow paper.
There are still 10 boxes of unbranded noodles, which do not need to be sorted out for the time being.
The flour and rice were also unpacked and packed in cloth bags of 5 kilograms each, and 30 bags were packed.
It can’t all be refined grains, there should be more people buying coarse grains.
Ye Qian packed a lot of whole grains, corn flour, sweet potato flour, and sorghum flour, each bag weighed 5 kilograms, and she filled 30 bags each.
Let’s take these first. If you take too much out, this small county may not be able to eat it.
Prepare yourself for a good night's sleep.
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Wake up the next day.
Ye Qian decided not to repeat yesterday's mistake and must have breakfast in the morning. After all, she had to do physical work today.
I drank a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
not enough.
Ate an egg.
Um.
Not enough.
Another 2 red bean paste buns.
Only then did I feel a little full. My body hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and there was no oil or water in my stomach.
After checking the time, it was already past 9 o'clock, so I put my small backpack on my back, locked the door, and turned around to leave.
When she was about to arrive at the county seat, Ye Qian found a corner and put the supplies she prepared yesterday into a small backpack.
He also deliberately disguised himself.
He put on a wig, makeup, and an old dress belonging to the original owner's mother.
The journey to the county town took more than an hour. Fortunately, I was not stupid enough to fill my backpack before going out.
With yesterday’s experience, I’m not so scared today.
When Ye Qian arrived in the county town, she didn't go anywhere else but went directly to the black market.
This black market is pretty easy to find, it's in the alley behind the scrap station.
After entering, I found a place to sit down. According to my previous experience of reading novels, as long as I sit here and expose the food, I won't be afraid of being asked.
Then he opened a piece of cloth on the backpack, and a corner of the dried noodles inside was exposed. The eyes of the passing uncle lit up, "My dear, do you sell this food?" he thought to himself, and sure enough, someone asked.
"Uncle, what do you want?" When the uncle heard this, he said, "I'll take whatever you have."
"I have 6 tubes of noodles, 20 kilograms of white noodles, and 20 kilograms of rice. Are you sure you want them all?" After Ye Qian finished speaking, the uncle immediately showed surprise. These are fine grains. "I want them all."
After the transaction was completed, the aunt who had just been watching from the side immediately came over and asked, "My dear, are there any more?"
Ye Qian looked at her and after hearing this, "Mom, if you want, can you come in the afternoon, right here?"
The aunt listened and agreed with a smile.
I have a lot of space, but this small backpack can't hold much. It's unreasonable to sell so much food and then take it out immediately.
I also want to go to other places. Since I'm not in a hurry to leave, I can just go there again.
After leaving the black market, Ye Qian walked into the Gongqiao Club, went to the candy counter, and asked the salesperson, "Want some noodles?"
The salesperson's face suddenly became nervous, and she stretched out her hand and grabbed me, "Sister, do you have any noodles?"
Ye Qian was startled by her tugging, and opened the cloth on the small backpack, "Take a look."
The saleswoman looked at it and said, "It's still fine grain. How much does it cost?"
"One yuan and a pound, and a five-liang food stamp." Ye Qian paid according to the black market price.
Seeing that the eldest sister hesitated, Ye Qian was not in a hurry. Materials are in short supply now, so it would be nice to have them. So what if they are expensive? You can bargain or whatever. If you don't want them, there are a lot of people who want them.
The eldest sister also knew that it would be difficult to want it again after missing it, so she gritted her teeth and said, "Give me twenty kilograms."
The dried noodles come in a 5-pound bucket, and I took out 4 buckets directly.
Ye Qian said, "I still have 8 barrels of noodles, look." The eldest sister immediately understood what she meant and whispered, "Just wait, I'll call someone over."
When I turned around, I saw the eldest sister calling over the cloth seller and the salesperson selling daily necessities, and each person took 4 buckets of noodles.
After the eldest sister paid the money, she said, "Sister, come to me next time if you have something else."
Ye Qian agreed, but she was still quite scared by such blatant speculation.
This county is so small. If someone wants to arrest me, I am afraid that I will be caught before I can hide in time.
So you still have to be careful.
It was so ordinary, one shot and another place, and I also went to the black market on the way to trade with the aunt I had made an appointment with in advance.
In one afternoon, I sold a lot and exchanged a lot of food stamps. If you don't have food stamps, you can use other tickets to replace them.
Four boxes of dried noodles were sold, not much white flour and rice, only a few bags, and dozens of kilograms of whole grains.
But this is understandable. There is nothing to eat. Who can eat such fine grains? 5 pounds of white flour can be exchanged for dozens of pounds of coarse grains.
Ye Qian took the money and put it directly into the space. There is no safer place than space.
Ye Qian thought that she was too conspicuous after running around so much in the afternoon, so she quickly found a corner, went to the space, took off her makeup, and changed her clothes.
When I came out again, I saw three people, two men and one woman, looking around at the entrance of the alley.
I suddenly felt a little nervous, maybe they were here to catch me.
As soon as I walked out, I heard the woman next to me say, "It's right here. Just when I went inside, that woman was very speculative. She was carrying a small backpack full of fine grains."
After saying that, the woman glanced at me. She happened to pass by the woman. Ye Qian's eyes tightened and she looked back.
All right.
My small backpack is still in the space and I forgot to take it out.
The two men kept their eyes on the alley, and one of them asked, "Is what she said true?"
The other man said, "Let's go in and take a look. Waiting like this is not an option." Then he said to the woman, "You wait here, let's go in and take a look."
There was no one in the alley, but there were two families living here. There were elderly people living in both households.
After going in and checking, I didn't find any woman carrying a backpack.
When I came out again, the woman who reported the report was gone.
"Are we being lied to?"
Chapter completed!