Chapter 4 Rush to the Market

I don't know if it's accident or luck, Lin Xi and Hu Xiaohong were chopping firewood on the mountain and actually hit a hare!

The very fat rabbit, weighing about eight or nine pounds, heard the sound of people coming out of the grass nest, panicked and couldn't run away, and was chased and intercepted by two girls, and was caught with a firewood knife and wooden stick.

Hu Xiaohong smiled so much that she couldn't see her teeth, and hugged the hare tightly, this is meat, how long has she not eaten meat?

The two packed up the firewood and carried it down the mountain, and returned to the Zhiqing Point, which was another sensation and excitement.

In the evening, Lin Xi was invited to join the dinner table of the educated youth, everyone's attitude towards her changed a lot because of rabbit meat, Lin Xi didn't care, she felt that she wouldn't stay in this place for too long.

In fact, in this era, there is nothing wrong with cutting into the queue to be an educated youth, a certain situation in the city is more severe than in the countryside, and it is also sad that the ingredients are not from a good background, and they are pulled to study and interrogate at every turn, and the people are always supervised; In addition, if there is not enough food in the countryside, you can find some game to replenish it, and the city can really only be hungry, and the steel and concrete can't be gnawed. Lin Xi is also willing to stay quietly in the countryside for a few years, she understands the direction of history, and after a few years, once this trend passes, she can directly sign up for the university entrance examination and return to the city, but now she is not alone, and her grandparents and grandparents, she must return to Haishi as soon as possible.

Another day passed, and it was time to catch the big set.

Now it is a planned economy, the implementation of unified purchase and marketing of grain and commodities, free trade is prohibited, and bazaars are not allowed, but Guizhou Province is a remote area of Huaxia, a gathering place for ethnic minorities, and there can still be a little local policy, such as this large market, most places in other provinces have been banned, but it is still retained in this mountainous area, but there are also regulations, the big market is not allowed to buy and sell grain and meat, the main sale is some bamboo and rattan weaving utensils or production utensils, you can also sell some local snacks, of course, not as much as when trade was free and prosperous, A small amount is just a sneaky sale, and the cadres can only turn a blind eye and don't see it, after all, the local customs have a long history, and some ordinary people don't listen to the teachings and can't stop it.

The educated youths love to rush to the market, almost every market, they have to go to buy things or not, Lin Xi has been looking forward to it for several days, and he must also go.

She had Xiao Jiujiu in her heart, unwilling to go all the way with others, pretending not to hear Hu Xiaohong's invitation next door, and didn't answer the mouth to be with them to go to the market.

Lin Xi got up as soon as the morning was bright and bright, and turned out a set of military uniforms that the original owner cherished very much - of course, there was no red collar badge, in the sixties and seventies, he revered the soldiers, defended the family and the country bravely and majesticly, and the young people made a set of military uniforms for themselves to wear as long as they had the conditions. Lin Xi also respects the military, but it is fashionable to use green military uniforms, uh, the fashion ladies of the 21st century don't agree with it, but the original owner doesn't have a few clothes at all, this set is the latest and sturdiest, so wear it.

changed the double ponytail into braids, dressed up, and quietly went out with a military-colored satchel.

The small mountain village is quite far from the road, and you have to walk seven or eight miles along a simple machine farming road to get on the road, and the people in the village have to go to the commune to catch the big market, most of them walk on their feet, and only a few people will wait for the production team to put ox carts and horse-drawn carts on the road.

Lin Xi strode along the machine farming road, and when he walked to the village in front, the sky was bright, and he saw a carriage driving out at the entrance of the village over there, Lin Xi went up and asked if he could bring himself, the uncle who drove the car and the five or six aunts and aunts sitting in the car didn't know her, and stared at her one by one to see the freshness, Lin Xi said that he was a young man in the back village, and he was in a hurry to go out, but the carriage in the village was not so early, and everyone showed a clear look, nodded and smiled at her kindly, and gave her a seat.

Aunts and aunts love gossip, and they kept asking Lin Xi along the way, Lin Xi could only be patient, smiling and answering one by one, this attitude won the praise of the aunts and aunts, and some took boiled taro and fried peanuts to sell, and forced them to eat.

Lin Xi knew that the things that people saved from their mouths were sold, mostly for their children to go to school or buy oil and salt, and she couldn't eat them in vain, so she took out the old brand of nougat peanut toffee from her shoulder bag, grabbed a handful of taro and peanut aunts, and sent two grains to each of the other people in the car, saying that this was sugar sent from her hometown, please try it, and for a while, the goodwill value rose sharply, and the uncle who was driving the car heard that she was going to take the shuttle bus to the county seat, and immediately waved his whip to let the carriage speed up.

When he arrived at the commune, the uncle who drove the bus first sent Lin Xi to the place where he was waiting for the shuttle, and then took the villagers to Weiji.

At eight o'clock, Lin Xi took the first shuttle bus back to the county seat, and asked the driver that there was a shuttle bus from the county seat to the commune at two o'clock in the afternoon, and silently calculated in her heart: It takes two and a half hours from here to the county seat, so she can only be active in the county for three hours, and she must catch the bus back at two o'clock, otherwise she will fall into the streets, because she has not opened the certificate, if you don't have the identity certificate issued by the unit, you can't live in the hostel if you don't have the money when you go out.

The shuttle bus was bumpy on the gravel road, there were not many people in the car, Lin Xi looked at the scenery outside the window, it was all the same alpine hills, grassy slopes and trees, simply leaned on the seat and closed his eyes, and his divine sense entered the space to count the inventory.

Finally arrived at the county seat, Lin Xi got off the car and walked into the waiting room, and saw from a distance that there was a window that said "depository", she was moved, turned around and went to the public toilet at the station, and when she came out again, she carried a big travel bag in her hand, walked to the window of the storage office and asked for storage, paid a dime storage fee, got a document, and then took back her bag with this document, Lin Xi put the document away, and left the bus station to walk to the street.

According to what Hu Xiaohong said, Lin Xi walked to the secluded street corner alley, turned around twice, and finally found that there were two people trading around the corner, I don't know what they were doing, they were handing over the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other, Lin Xi walked by, and the two immediately stared at her vigilantly.

Lin Xi waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I also have something." ”

After walking a few meters away, a middle-aged man came behind her, two steps past her, turned his head and asked, "Little girl, what is it?" ”

"Flour, milk powder, and some canned meat."

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up: "Yo, good goods!" Where did it come from? ”

"I don't know! Do business is do business, why ask this? ”

"Okay, I don't ask! That's what, how many? I want them all! ”

"Twenty catties of flour, ten catties of beef jerky and sausages, two catties of milk powder, five canned fruits and five luncheon meats, and ten brightly colored gauze towels."

"The little girl can trust me, come with me?"

Lin Xi wouldn't be so stupid and casually walked with people: "Just on this street, talk while walking." ”

"But I haven't seen anything, how can I negotiate the price?"

Lin Xi took the satchel off his shoulder, opened the lid and handed it to the man, the satchel contained two bells and whistles, a red apple, a sausage and a few beef jerky: "This is a sample, milk powder and flour are afraid of being wasted, and the canned food is too heavy to carry." ”

The middle-aged man looked at it carefully, nodded again and again, he could understand Lin Xi's defensive psychology, and said with a smile: "This is a back street, most of the people who usually pass by are nearby residents, it's very safe, let's talk quietly." ”

So he began to negotiate the price, and the middle-aged man, in order to show his sincerity, took the initiative to tell Lin Xi that he lived not far away, specializing in buying and selling, and there were many relationships in this county.

Lin Xi doesn't understand black market prices, and she is not greedy, as long as she can exchange money tickets now.

The quantity of those things just reported, according to the black market price, if you don't want a ticket, you can exchange it for 190 yuan, the middle-aged man gave the price, his eyes were staring at Lin Xi, how could Lin Xi not see his profiteer nature? Just say give it to the whole number, two hundred, and I'll take you to get the goods immediately.

The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, but pretended to have a painful face, paid Lin Xi twenty yuan first according to the rules, and then the two walked out of the back street one after the other, Lin Xi led the way to the bus station, walked to the bus station, Lin Xi motioned to the middle-aged man to wait outside, she went in and took out the travel bag with the ticket, walked to the corner and pulled the bag out, reached out and tinkered inside for a while, and then closed the zipper, and then walked out of the bus station with the bag in both hands, and handed the bag to him when he saw the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man picked up the bag, took Lin Xi to a secluded place and stopped, looked around, then put down the travel bag, opened it to inspect the items inside, sure enough, he was a veteran, and he didn't need to weigh it, everything was eye-catching, smelling, and the weight could be estimated by checking it in his hand, and the most time-consuming thing was the ten bells and whistles, the middle-aged man wanted to see if there were any loopholes and damages one by one, and then put it into the travel bag, nodded at Lin Xi with satisfaction, and took out the one hundred and eighty yuan that he had already counted and handed it over, also made an appointment with her to go to the back street to find Lao Wu if she had something to do in the future, and she didn't stop after speaking, and left quickly with her travel bag.

Lin Xi also turned back to the bus station, bought a ticket to return to the county seat at two o'clock, and sat in the waiting room waiting for the bus, nibbling on bread, only then did she react: she didn't remember to count the money for the travel bag, and gave someone a travel bag for nothing.