Chapter XXIV: Navy Vouchers
Originally, Mo Yan didn't have much hope for this food street, after all, the canteen of the naval base did not leave a very good impression on him, and the ingredients eaten by the admiral of the navy can be said to have almost been used to the top, but the taste is just like that, it can only be said that it is not unpleasant. But sure enough, it is a master in the people, and this first food stall after entering the food street has taught Mo Yan a good lesson.
For food, Mo Yan has always been very restrained, and the food street is so long, you can't eat enough at the door. Just like the boss said, the food court is still growing!
After eating two boxes of takoyaki, Mo Yan held the teacup and drank tea to clean up the residual taste in his mouth, while admiring where Quincy was eating takoyaki.
In terms of eating, Mo Yan is actually quite envious of Quincy, he can eat as much as he wants, and he can't hold it up no matter how he eats.
The boss who sells takoyaki should also know his identity and Quincy's, after all, he is wearing such a bright admiral suit, and he is accompanied by a beautiful girl with a strange hair color like Quincy, and it is not that he has not seen much inland from the ship's mother.
The boss didn't continue to hand the newly made takoyaki to Mo Yan after Mo Yan finished eating the "Flower Good Full Moon", and all the subsequent flavors of "Flower Good Full Moon" were placed in front of Quincy.
Quincy ate a box before Mo Yan came, and after he came, the two ate a box of ordinary together, and then ate "Flower and Full Moon" together When Mo Yan picked up the teacup, Quincy had already eaten three boxes of eighteen takoyaki.
Although the takoyaki meatballs are not big, after two boxes of twelve belly, Mo Yan also feels that he is almost half full.
As for Quincy, after eating three boxes of seafood-flavored takoyaki with sauce, the boss successively served her eight takoyaki with different flavors and characteristics, the same one box of each, six in each box.
Eleven boxes of sixty-six takoyaki were wiped out by Quincy in less than half an hour, and in the end, she even licked the sauce at the bottom of the box a few times.
After eating it all, Quincy found that the smiling boss was no longer handing her the box full of takoyaki, and then continued to look at Mo Yan pitifully.
"This house has almost eaten it, and if you eat it, it's all repetitive flavors, and the food street is still growing!"
Mo Yan took a tissue from the counter and wiped Quincy's mouth, then asked the boss under her reluctant eyes:
"Boss, how much?"
"There are a total of thirteen boxes, of which ten boxes are spent on the full moon, ordinary one yuan per box, five yuan per box for the full moon, and fifty-three yuan for the benefit." While cleaning up the residue after making takoyaki just now, the boss quoted the price to Mo Yan.
Is it fifty-three dollars...... It's really not cheap, no wonder this boss was a little hesitant when he wanted to take out wasabi at first. If it weren't for the fact that he was wearing a commander's uniform, I'm afraid he wouldn't recommend "Spend a Good Moon" to him at all!
Mo Yan remembered that on the morning when he first crossed here, the so-called imported cigarettes from Canada that Aisha sold to him were only two yuan a box, and the fruit-flavored candy that was relatively rare for civilians was only seven yuan a catty.
Thinking about Mo Yan, he reached into his pocket and felt out the living allowance he received after becoming a naval admiral, only to find that these allowances were not federal dollars at all, but a special currency called naval vouchers.
This stuff isn't just for the internal circulation of the Navy, is it? I knew that I had borrowed a little federal currency from Garion just now, but now I was embarrassed, and I didn't know if this boss would accept this so-called Navy voucher.
Mo Yan scratched his head, took out a navy coupon with a face value of one hundred yuan, waved it at the boss, and said:
"I'm sorry, I forgot to bring federal coins, I only have Navy vouchers on me, I don't know if you can accept it, boss?"
"Navy vouchers?" The boss immediately stopped what he was doing, looked at the coupon in Mo Yan's hand, and his breathing suddenly became much shorter.
"yes, I forgot to exchange the coupon for federal currency when I came out, and now I only have this coupon on me, can I use it?"
Mo Yan smiled a little embarrassedly, this boss's expression seemed a little wrong, could it be that the coupon could only circulate within the navy as he thought?
"When...... Absolutely! The exchange rate of the Navy voucher against the federal currency is 1:9, so you only need to give me a six-dollar voucher, the denomination of this voucher in your hand is a bit large, I can't find it here. ”
The boss raised his hand and wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and the expression on his face became a little eager.
1:9...... has such a high exchange rate? No wonder Tianlong said that the admiral's welfare is good, this is just my living allowance for one month, right?
Mo Yan still remembers that when he received these allowances, he roughly counted them, and all of them added up to about 8,000 points, which is more than 70,000 federal dollars according to one to nine!
This is not more than 70,000 yuan in the inflationary era before Mo Yan crossed over, here a box of parallel imported cigarettes is only two yuan, a box of octopus roast carefully cooked by this boss is only one yuan, and the full moon with fresh wasabi is only five yuan!
Mo Yan once had a general understanding of the price of fresh wasabi in his world, and the fresh wasabi grown under the spring of 500 grams could be sold for 900 yuan in the place of origin, and it was still in short supply.
The boss just made these ten boxes of flowers and the full moon at least used about half a catty of wasabi, and selling a box for five yuan is not a slaughter.
After taking back the coupon with a denomination of 100 yuan in his hand, Mo Yan took out a stack of coupons from his pocket and flipped through them, and found that even the coupon with the lowest denomination was 20 yuan, and there was no more scattered one at all.
took out this twenty yuan voucher and handed it to the boss, before Mo Yan could speak, Quincy on the side suddenly rushed to say:
"If you don't have change, let the boss continue to make me a full moon! I eat all the rest of the money, so I don't have to bother the boss to find money. Okay, Commander! ”
These words directly stunned the boss, because he was afraid of trouble with money, so he ate all the remaining shares! Can it still be like this?
"Don't make a fuss!" Mo Yan glanced at Quincy, continued to hand the money to the boss, and said:
"If you really don't have change to find, boss, sell me some wasabi, anyway, you sell it to the restaurant, and sell it to me. We have a lot of fresh marine fish coming there recently, and I want to buy some wasabi to make sashimi seasoning, is that okay? ”
"Of course, my wasabi is the best product planted directly in the spring ditch, and it is much better than those cultivated in the fields with spring water, and it is best used to eat sashimi! I sold it to the restaurant for 83 yuan a catty, and if you use the voucher, I will count you as 9 yuan a catty. ”
"Six yuan for octopus roast, and the remaining fourteen yuan, I'll give you nine hundred grams of fresh wasabi, what do you think, guest?"
The boss smiled and took the twenty yuan voucher in Mo Yan's hand, and then bent down and took out a small bamboo basket that was beautifully woven, and without weighing it, he handed it directly to Mo Yan.
Mo Yan took it and weighed it a little, but found that the wasabi in the box must be more than nine hundred grams, or even more than one kilogram.
However, Mo Yan didn't say anything, but smiled at the boss, and then handed the bamboo basket to Quincy for her to carry, and the two left the stall and walked into the food court.
After Mo Yan left, the boss immediately took out the coupon he had just gotten, looked at the thin piece of paper with excitement, and muttered:
"I didn't expect that I would actually get the voucher one day, and sure enough, entertaining a naval admiral is much more cost-effective than entertaining a hundred ordinary people."
The boss didn't explain to Mo Yan that although the official exchange rate between the Navy voucher and the federal currency is one to nine, this exchange rate is just a decoration, and basically no one will stupidly take the coupon to the federal bank to exchange it for federal currency.
In the black market, the lowest exchange ratio between vouchers and federal currency is 1:20, which is more than twice the official exchange rate.
The reason for this phenomenon is mainly because the Federation has been constantly maintaining and increasing the welfare of the Admiral, and many of the top luxury goods and special materials that cannot be bought in the market or even that many people have never even heard of are not only rarely circulated in the market, but even if there are a small number of circulation businesses, they can only be bought through vouchers.
For example, the can of coffee from the southern mountains of Gamedea that was ground into powder in Mo Yan's dormitory had never appeared on the market. From the time it was discovered until now, it has only circulated within the naval "admiral".