Jia Lei followed the truck to Natasha's store, the square two blocks away, and then he saw the black crushed head, which was at least a few thousand people.

"Huh, why are there so many people?" asked Jia Lei.

"I don't know, you wait for me to find someone to ask!" Su Renfeng said.

Then he jumped out of the truck and went to the stall that had been set up in the square to ask about Natasha, who had recently been in the hospital to give birth, and who were selling things in the square were her own sister Katyusha and Comrade Ksbull.

"Why did so many people come here today?" asked Su Renfeng.

"It's not because you advertised in advance, as soon as everyone heard that there was meat that could be bought without a quota, all the people came to line up, and Katyusha called me when she saw that there were more and more people outside, and I immediately brought my next platoon of people to maintain order. Company Commander Kesbull said.

"How is the red wine selling?" Jia Lei ran over and asked.

"It's very good, wine never sells in Russia, and the two red wines sell for 50 roubles and 80 roubles respectively! 500 bottles have been sold. Katyusha also came over and said excitedly that she was only 20 years old, which was the most beautiful time for Russian girls.

"In that case, I'll let them unload the chicken and sell it here. Su Renfeng said, and then he asked someone to unload the goods from the carriage.

When boxes of frozen sturdy white chickens were unloaded, everyone's eyes on the scene were green, and then with a bang, the crowd began to scramble forward, Jia Lei looked at the crowd rushing over, as if he saw countless soldiers who were charging!

"Stand back, stand back!" shouted the Russian GIs in charge of maintaining order, but their small voices were completely drowned out by the voices of thousands.

"Smack!" raised his hand and fired two shots into the sky, and the crowd fell silent.

"Let them all line up, and anyone who doesn't line up will be disqualified from purchasing!" Jia Lei took the opportunity to hurriedly say, Huaxia people have countless experiences in robbing.

"Everybody go to the line, and whoever doesn't have one in line is not allowed to buy anything!" shouted Kesbull as he quickly climbed into the front of a truck, and the GIs below all raised their guns.

The Russians immediately and quickly sent 5 long teams, and the speed was so fast that Jia Lei was dumbfounded!

"This is too fast, I'm afraid it's less than ten minutes, right?" Jia Lei asked in surprise.

"You know, the Soviets are only good at two things, one is drinking, and the other is queuing!" Katyusha said with a wry smile.

Since Russia's independence in June 1990, the imaginary shortage of materials in the market has become even more serious. Meat is sold from the supplier stores every day only to a very small number of lucky people.

"How can this be, no one cares about it?" asked Jia Lei.

When Yeltsin was mayor of Moscow, he once disguised himself as an ordinary person and went to a butcher shop with fresh veal to buy meat, but he waited in line for a long time but did not buy meat, and the salesman told him that the beef was sold out.

However, he followed the salesman to the storeroom, and saw through the window that several large pieces of veal, which had been declared sold out, were still hanging. That's Moscow! People in capital cities can't even eat meat, let alone people in small cities like ours. Kesbull said in a mocking tone.

Jia Lei really discovered the true face of the Soviet Union, a country with a gorgeous and tough appearance and neat streets, the Soviet Union, now the largest country in the world, has been rotten and rotten inside, and now it will collapse as long as someone gently pushes it.

"Our country needs a warrior like Yeltsin, who will speak on behalf of our people, who opposes this unfair distribution, and I heard that Yeltsin will go to work in the public transportation system like us......" Katyusha gushed and admired Yeltsin's various deeds on the side, and the eyes of the people and soldiers who heard her account shone with hope.

"We still have business to do, let's talk about these things later!" Jia Lei couldn't stand it and interrupted Katyusha's speech.

Jia Lei looked at these people with pity, these people did not know that Yeltsin, who was pinned on the throne of Russia's first president with high hopes, spent ten years and a shock therapy to completely collapse the Soviet Union, an industrial powerhouse, with heavy debts and vitality.

"Oh, you're right, we have business to do. Katyusha smiled embarrassedly, and then led the people to start selling chicken.

"We've packed all the chickens, and the price is already written on each one, so you just have to buy them at the price on the price tag. Jia Lei said that anyway, when they left the warehouse, they had to keep accounts, so Jia Lei directly asked people to calculate the price and paste it on the bag of the chicken.

"Great, we can save a lot of trouble! How much are you going to buy chicken?" asked Katyusha.

"The price of black market beef is 40 rubles a kilogram, and the chicken meat is 35 roubles a kilogram. Jia Lei said, and then Katyusha announced the price and specifications.

"There are still some people in the store waiting to buy live chickens, so I'll go with you now. Mr. Kesbull said there was a small auction waiting for Mr. Jay.

"Let's go, these chicken kings have been chosen by me with great care, and I will be sorry for myself if I don't sell them for a good price." Jia Lei took a deep breath and said.

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Natasha in the store.

There were about a hundred customers standing in the lobby of the store at this time, and unlike the customers who shopped outside, the people in the store were obviously much brighter and more sophisticated, and these people were probably divided into three groups.

The white-collar class, the middle class with a small fortune, and the rising small merchants in the Soviet Union with a monthly salary of more than 200 rubles.

These people all have one thing in common - they have money, but they don't have much!

The important thing is that these people do not have much background and do not have access to all kinds of in-demand supplies in state-run stores, and the supplies on the black market are also in short supply because of the approaching New Year, because the depreciation of the ruble is too large, and the import of food from other countries is being negotiated.

At this time, it is approaching the New Year, and everyone who can come up with money wants to go to the black market to buy some food that they are usually reluctant to eat to celebrate, and there is a rare shortage of materials on the black market, and the price of leftover food has doubled overnight!

Most of these people are Natasha's contacts, and Jia Lei is just conducting a small-scale auction this time!

"Everyone also knows how short there is in the Soviet Union now, and we finally got fresh live chickens from Huaxia this time, hoping to let everyone have a happy New Year's Day. Jia Lei said in English, after all, he was still fluent in the language, and Kesbull was on the side to help him translate.

"The chickens brought this time are divided into three grades, and the first to appear is the elite grade chicken. Jia Lei said that immediately a Russian soldier came over with a cage of chickens that had reached the final.

"Everyone, please see, how powerful the claws of these chickens are! How sharp their mouths are! And these shiny feathers and bright eyes! At first glance, they are very healthy...... Jia Lei began to brag desperately, and the big rooster in the cage saw that this enemy began to desperately flap his wings and bark and stretch his claws at Jia Lei.

"Oh! this chicken must be very delicious, I haven't eaten fresh chicken in a long time. "A fat man said that at the end of the Soviet Union, the efficiency of the work of the departments was extremely poor, and the meat from the farms was always not fresh when it reached the citizens after a series of procedures.

"This gentleman is right, our chickens must be the best, and we don't sell them very expensive...... A chicken costs only 120 roubles, and each of these chickens is more than three kilograms! Jia Lei said with a generous look, as if he had suffered a big loss.

"Oh my God! More than three kilograms is only 120 roubles, and the price of live chickens on the black market has long exceeded 40 roubles. Someone below said. They often deal with the black market, and they know the price of all kinds of things on the black silk.

"For the convenience of trading, we sell every five chickens as a group, not just individually. Jia Lei said with a smile. More than 300 chickens will probably have to be bought for several days if they are one of them, anyway, the people sitting here are rich people, and it is not a problem to come up with 600 rubles at once.

"Bring me a cage!" said the fat man, who was drooling at the chicken just now, raised his hand first.

Jia Lei asked someone to give him a note, and when the auction was over, he could go to take the note to pay and pick up the goods.

The people below were very enthusiastic, and after a while, the sixty cages of ordinary chickens they brought were sold out.

"The next one is the chicken king we carefully selected!" Jia Lei said with a raised hand. Immediately three small cages were brought up, each containing a chicken individually.

"These chickens are the kings who stand out from tens of thousands of chickens, they are the largest, the heaviest and the most beautiful!" After Jia Lei finished speaking, he took off the only piece of red cloth covered with a chicken cage, and a majestic red rooster in it immediately jumped up and snagged Jia Lei's hand.

"Hey, everyone saw that these were all warriors!" Jia Lei said, shaking his palm, he was bleeding.

"Oh my God, such beautiful feathers, these feathers are dark green, the same as the feathers on the neck of the mallard!" said a woman with a fox fur scarf around the neck, looking at the rooster's long tail feathers, nearly fifteen centimeters more than a feather could be used as a hat decoration.

"This is only our lowest level of chickens, there are more beautiful than him, you chickens also have red, gold, yellow, green feathers can be selected in different colors, but the number of these chickens is limited, the price of this third-class chicken starts at 150 rubles, the second-class chickens all start at 180 rubles! and the price of the three chickens starts at 200 rubles!" Jia Lei said, and the following began to discuss that this price seems to be a bit expensive.

"We have only four third-class chickens per breed, only two second-class chickens per breed, and only one per breed of chicken king!" Jia Lei looked at the crowd below and said slowly, as soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately made a bid.

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"Why is it that the biggest chicken king with 4 kilograms is sold for 280 roubles, the 4.2 kilogram heavyweight chicken king is sold for 300 roubles, and the beauty pageant chicken king with only 3.8 kilograms is sold for 380 roubles!

As soon as the last golden-red hybrid feather beauty pageant chicken king came out, the female customers below raised their hands like crazy, and grabbed more than a dozen rounds in a row to buy this chicken at a price that could buy a pig!

"Women love beauty, and who makes that chicken so pretty?" said Kesbull.

"What's the use of being pretty, don't you go back and eat it! Jia Lei rolled his eyes and said, these women are too irrational.

"Not necessarily! Maybe someone will keep chickens as pets. Kesbull joked.

But if you think about it, it's really possible......