In the black market, as soon as Qiao Mu entered, everyone hurriedly flocked to her, scrambling to stuff money and tickets into her hands to buy food.

Although it was like this before, Qiao Mu felt that this time it was much more intense than in the past, and many people seemed to be a little thinner than in the past.

Hurriedly pulled a familiar one and asked:

"Sister Zhang, what's wrong with you?

How do I feel that your face is a lot worse than last week, and you have a dish! ”

"Alas, don't mention it!

The food supply above has shrunk again, and now even the cornmeal is almost gone, and the coarse grains have been replaced with sweet potatoes, not even potatoes, and every time we have to go to the grain station to grab it, we may not be able to grab it, and our family is about to run out of cooking.

If you don't come again, I don't know where to go for the next meal, maybe I'll only have to buy those three or five yuan a pound of rice!

I don't know how much rice you have left, you must sell me more, coarse grains are the same, even potatoes and sweet potatoes are good, soybeans are also good! ”

After this period of time, Zhang Mei is really no longer picky about anything, no matter what it is, as long as she can eat, she wants to buy it, and even wants to buy all the money in the family to buy food, she is really scared by hunger.

"Phew, old Zhang's family, you're not kind, what else do we buy if you buy it?

Grandma, you must give me some food, we still have a child in our family, it doesn't matter if we adults are hungry for one meal or two, but the children in the family can't stand the hunger at all!

Sell me two catties of rice first! ”

"I want it too, I want it too!"

"I want as much coarse grain as I want!"

This time, everyone was obviously more excited than a week ago, and there were two almost no quarrels fighting, which also shows the tightness of the food supply in the county, but this is the case in the county, and the arbor in their village is no better, and now there are almost no rice grains in the porridge they drink in the morning and the porridge they drink at noon, and they are all kinds of wild vegetables.

However, now that the time has entered May, in May, it can barely be regarded as summer, at this time the taste of wild vegetables is quite poor, and the bitter and astringent taste is much heavier than in the past, so the wild vegetable porridge they drink in the morning and at noon, to be precise, should be called wild vegetable soup, which is definitely quite difficult to swallow.

Qiao Mu drank it once and didn't want to drink it again.

"Everyone, be quiet!

I'm afraid I'll send grain over this time, and the price won't rise, so I'll still sell it at the original price, how much do you want? Now hurry up and tell me, I'll pull it later! ”

Because she knew that the food supply in the county town had reached a very tight level, Qiao Mu was also a little worried about her safety, so she planned to stop after the deal was completed, at least after the end of the sixty-first year.

"Oh, ma'am, don't!

If you don't sell it, where will we buy such good food in the future, or you will increase the price, even if the price of your food rises to the black market, we are happy to buy your food! ”

Everyone is not stupid, compared to the various coarse grains and fine grains sold by other people in the black market that are mixed with all kinds of messy things and are not of good quality, the quality of the grain sold by this grandma is not too good, it is better than the best grain sold at the grain station, even if it costs the same money, or even a little more, then they are more willing to buy the grain in the hands of this grandma.

"Yes, Grandma, you can raise the price!"

"We'll buy it if the price goes up!"

"Alas, don't talk about it, I really don't have much food here, and it hasn't rained for more than a month on our side this year, if the situation is not relieved, it is estimated that the harvest here this year will be enough.

Tell me how much food you want, I'll try to get it for you, and if it rains after a while, then maybe I can get another batch of grain, but if it doesn't rain, then even if you have surplus food, people won't want to sell it, and you have to understand this!

That's it, fast count! ”

Qiao Mu was very resolute, and did not relent, because she had to take care of her own safety before doing many things.

Originally, she had already touched the interests of other grain sellers on the black market by selling grain at a low price here, and then, in the current situation where the food supply was already very tight, it would be too eye-catching if she could continue to provide food here.

In short, it's better to be careful.

Those who wanted to buy food around listened to Qiao Mu's words, and only then did they suddenly react, it has not rained for more than a month now, and then think of the continuous reduction of food supply above, how can they not think of the problem of food shortage across the country, so one hurriedly reported a relatively large number.

People who want to exchange all the money at home for all kinds of food, and even buy rice and noodles are much less, and most of them prefer to ask for coarse grains, and they are hundreds of catties.

Qiao Mu also agreed one by one, let them go back to prepare the money first, and then she would transport the grain to the corner of East Street, and then trade there again half an hour later.

After that, everyone naturally dispersed and left, and went back to get money and tickets, and Qiao Mu also hurried to the corner of East Street and alleys, and after seeing that there was no one around, he quietly took out all the thousands of catties of coarse grain and more than 100 catties of fine grain they wanted just now, and piled them up in the corner.

And then there's the deal.

With one hand to pay the money and the other hand to deliver the goods, soon Qiao Mu sold all the grain in his hand, and the people who bought the grain were also very happy to carry the grain back, which can be described as a great joy.

After Qiao Mu put away the more than 1,000 yuan he had just harvested, he also left quickly.

……

Zhang Mei's house

A family of seven sat at the table, looking at the bowl full of sweet potato rice, quite happy.

"Mom, why are you willing to cook so many things for us today, this shouldn't be the last supper, after eating this meal?

Wait, you're not going to get rat poison! ”

Wang Feng looked at the sweet potatoes in his bowl, and couldn't help but be a little frightened, he ate a total of less than ten grains of super gruel yesterday, why was he suddenly so generous today?

I'm a little scared.

She has heard from her colleagues that there is really no food at home, and the old lady sprinkled a handful of rat poison in the last meal, pulling everyone to die together.

"How expensive is rat poison, beauty doesn't kill you!

Lao Wang, let me tell you something, I have spent all the money in the family, and all kinds of tickets in the family have also been spent by me, and they have been exchanged for more than 100 catties of sweet potatoes and more than 10 catties of rice.

I'm happy today, so I'll cook a little more for you, and I'll have to save some tomorrow. ”

Zhang Mei glanced at Wang Feng, and then explained the origin of these sweet potatoes.