In Youyou's opinion, Hongcheng County is actually quite small at this time. It is also one kilometer from east to west, north and south, a boxy county town, surrounded by city walls, and outside the city wall is a moat.

The black market is very hidden, behind the fence of the pickle factory in the northwest corner of the county, and there are basically no people on the road here due to the smell of the pickle factory.

You can only see when you walk in, twenty or thirty people are hanging around here, talking quietly. Grandma led you around and saw some doorways. It turns out that everyone is just negotiating terms here, and the place of trading is not here.

The most private transactions are the "three major items", that is, bicycles, sewing machines, and watches. The rest are varied, and they are all in short supply limited by the state.

There are also a few people who seem to be sitting on the ground, quite familiar with the black market, and when they see fresh faces, they come up to ask, buy and sell, like the later masters, which makes Yoyo's eyes shine.

Yoyo discussed with grandma, and decided to sell a thousand catties of brown sugar at the price of one dollar and one catty, just now I heard that someone traded brown sugar, and the price reached a high price of one piece of five, which was more than double the price in the supply and marketing cooperative.

Although the price of brown sugar in the mall is more than ten yuan a catty, and it costs ten yuan to sell it for one catty, compared to the huge profit of fragrant aconite, this loss is not even drizzle, and a pound of fragrant aconite can be exchanged for a hundred catties of brown sugar.

Grandma and Youyou found a secluded place around the corner of the pickle factory, so that Youyou saw Grandma coming, took out the brown sugar, and then took a pack of samples to someone to negotiate the price.

Seeing the things in my grandmother's hand, several people came around to ask about the situation. Grandma told them that there were people in the supply and marketing cooperative, and they wanted to make a batch of brown sugar.

"How many do you have?"

"A thousand catties, how much do you give?" Grandma said the quantity and asked them the price.

Several people's eyes lit up when they heard this, and they carried their grandmother to the side to discuss. After muttering for a while, he sent a representative to discuss with his grandmother. Several of them wanted this thousand catties of brown sugar, because grandma took brown sugar, which was more resistant to storage than the price of processed maternal sugar, and gave two cents a catty.

Grandma nodded in agreement and led them to Yoyo's hideout. Yoyo saw it and hurriedly took out the candy.

The brown sugar packed in the sack, several people opened the bag and checked it, and each took out the money from their waist bags. Soon he collected 1,200 yuan, all of which were 10 yuan of great unity, and handed it to his grandmother.

Youyou saw that grandma was relatively calm when she counted the money, but her hands trembled a little excitedly when she put the money.

A man in his forties said to his grandmother: "Sister-in-law, if you have something in the future, go to Dongguan to find Luo Guozi, everyone knows me, I will help you contact the buyer, and the price will definitely satisfy you." ”

"Okay, it's not convenient for me to show up often, so I'll count on the big brother in the future. Grandma agreed happily.

"Sister-in-law, you are taking care of your brothers, and I, who am semi-disabled, expect to have something to support my family, and I have been doing business for a long time, relying on good faith and righteousness, and these brothers are also real people and can be trusted. ”

Luo Guozi is also semi-disabled, but he has a righteous face, and his words are also bright and frank.

Yoyo was overjoyed when he heard this, and decided to contact them a few more times in the future to see their conduct and create conditions for future actions.

Luo Guozi's name is Luo Xincai, and he enthusiastically sent the two of them to the central street of the county and went back. Grandma hurriedly handed the money to Yoyo and asked her to receive it in the space. When Yoyo saw that it was past 11 o'clock, he said, "Grandma, let's go have a good meal." ”

"Go, grandma hasn't been to a restaurant for more than ten years. ”

The first hotel in Hongcheng County is a two-story building in the center of the county, opposite the three-story county department store. In the end, it is the best hotel in the county, with more than a dozen square tables in the spacious hall, and a large operation room is also separated inside. However, there are not many people eating, only two or three people, and it is probably not time to eat.

There are more than 10 recipes written on the small blackboard hanging on the wall. If you look at it carefully, it's so cheap. One cent of vegetarian vegetables, two cents of scrambled eggs, three cents of vegetables with meat, mushu meat, shredded pork with Beijing sauce, shredded fish-flavored pork, fried chicken nuggets, five cents of steamed fish, sweet and sour carp, eight cents of braised carp, one piece of braised pork, and one cent of egg soup.

"You recognize a few words, you can see what's going on. Grandma patted the stunned Yoyo on the head.

"Then you can teach me. Yoyo guarded his head and deliberately played tricks.

"Go home to your mother and see your grandmother give you something delicious. ”

Not to mention, grandma has indeed seen the world, and soon ordered three dishes and one soup. Braised pork, shredded pork in Beijing sauce, mushu meat and egg soup, and ten baked cakes, a total of three yuan and a dime and two catties of food stamps, no meat stamps.

The dish was quickly ready, and I tasted it next to each other, and it was really fragrant. I don't say that I don't eat fatty meat, the braised pork is full of oil, and my grandmother looks funny and sad.

"Poor children, they haven't had a good meal since they're five years old. Fortunately, God opened his eyes, and we don't have to suffer poverty anymore. ”

After the two of them finished eating, there was still a lot left, and Grandma asked Youyou to take out a large enamel jar, pour the vegetables into it, wrap the remaining six baked cakes with a clean handkerchief, and said that she would bring them to the patriotic uncle.

Yoyo and Grandma asked for two more servings of braised pork to take home. Grandma asked if she could take it away, but she had to prepare the food by herself, so she asked for five yuan.

handed over the money and took the list, led Yoyo out for a spin, and let Yoyo take out an enamel basin and return to the hotel. It just so happened that the braised pork was ready, and all of it was put into the basin, and it was almost full, and the large portion made Yoyo smack his tongue.

Out of the hotel door, found a secluded place, Yoyo put the basin into the space, and entered the department store with grandma. Although it was time for lunch, there were quite a few customers in the department store.

On the first floor are daily necessities and non-staple foods, and all kinds of goods are displayed in the counter and on the shelves behind them, which are orderly and dazzling, and compared with the messy and crowded stores of the commune supply and marketing cooperatives, it seems to be high-end and atmospheric.

The counter is a glass counter more than half a person high, and the items placed in it can be seen clearly, which also isolates the crowd from the goods, and there are high shelves against the wall behind the counter.

People lie on the counter, lean over the shelves, and point to what they want and call for the waiter to take it. The waiter responds unhurriedly, and his laid-back attitude is out of step with the crowded crowd.

Yoyo squeezed into the grocery counter and looked through the glass. Bags of SH assorted candies, white rabbit toffee, Qingdao sorghum syrup. There are buckets of SH assorted biscuits, and there are several biscuit boxes of different shapes, with beautiful patterns printed on them.

Grandma pushed Yoyo, whose eyes were shining: "How much?"