Chapter 10 The Vegetable Market in the Eighties

As for peaches and bayberry, it's even simpler, Chen Qi quietly went up the mountain alone, picked all the way, and then collected them into the space.

Not to mention the 50 peach trees of the Chen family, Chen Qi was so happy to harvest them and took away all the peaches from his neighbors.

Fortunately, no one cares about these fruits now, otherwise they would have to cause a world war in the countryside.

Rural people, you can't suffer at all, you pick a few more peaches, a few bayberry, people can find you desperately, as if you take advantage of him.

A week passed like this, and Chen Qi felt that his space was already full of various souvenirs.

Especially what makes him happy, this space really has a fresh-keeping function, anyway, what is it like when you put it in, and what is it when you take it out, it will not deteriorate at all.

Those yellow eel loaches will not die at all, and they are guaranteed to be fresh when they are sold, so that they can be sold at a good price.

After making preparations, Chen Qi was ready to go to the city to sell.

The urban area mentioned here is actually the seat of the government of the Central Vietnamese region, and it is also the seat of the county government of Huiji, a city where the government and the county government coexist.

Viet Central is a 2,000-year-old city with a population of more than 400,000, even in 1981, it was a medium-sized city.

The best jobs, schools, hospitals, and institutions in the whole region are concentrated in the urban areas, and from the perspective of the rural people, there are "workers" everywhere and "rich people" everywhere.

Chen Qi has so many local specialties, and only the urban area can digest them, and Keqiao Town is only a town after all, with limited consumption power.

One morning a week later, Chen Qi was about to set off before dawn.

Chen Shu and Chen Hua also got up after hearing the voice, and looked at Chen Qi with their eyes: "Brother, we also want to go to the city to have a look." ”

The two children have grown up so big, and they have only been to Keqiao Town at the farthest, and have never been to the "big city" Yuezhong City, and they have longed for it countless times in their hearts.

Chen Qi touched the heads of the two of them and whispered, "Brother promises, if I make money this time, I will take you to the city to play, how about it?" ”

"Really? Don't cheat. ”

It's not that he doesn't want to bring it, but he really can't bring it, because his goods are all stored in the space, and when the time comes, he will take them out and sell them like a trick, and he can't explain it to his younger brothers and sisters.

People are just young, simple-minded, and don't think too much, but they're not really stupid.

The stupid eldest sister didn't know that Chen Qi was going to be a small trader, and the reason Chen Qi gave her was that the school had a summer camp and she needed to go back for a few days.

"Second brother, give it, it's two dollars."

Chen Qin took out a few cents from her pocket, one dime, two dime, and five dime, obviously all of which she had worked hard to accumulate in the past few days.

Chen Qi felt panicked in his heart, which also strengthened his determination to go to the city to sell local products, anyway, even if he was caught as a speculator, he didn't care.

The world is big, and the happiness of the family is the greatest.

If the Chen family wants to rely on the stupid eldest sister to live by carrying bricks alone, then he, the eldest son in the family, the 19-year-old boss, can go to commit suicide by jumping off the cliff.

In the past, Chen Qi was a little angry, but now Chen Qi doesn't, in order not to be hungry, for the sake of his family, he can do anything.

At this time, the sky had not stopped, and Chen Qi went out with a torch.

He first had to walk for 1 hour to Xingtang Commune, and then walk for 4 hours to Keqiao Town, where there were many means of transportation into the city.

Yuezhong City is 25 kilometers away from Keqiao Town, it costs 5 dimes by boat, 6 dimes by passing long-distance bus, and the cheapest is by train, which is enough for only 2 dimes.

Cheap is cheap, but the number of trains is relatively small, after all, Keqiao Town is a small station, and the number of trains that stop is not too much.

However, for a student like Chen Qi, the last thing he is afraid of wasting is time, which is also the most common means of transportation he takes every time he goes to school in the city.

It's just that he was unlucky today, and it turned out to be a "cargo to passenger" train, also called a "stuffy tank car", which was originally for cargo, and the carriage was not enough to marshall, so it was used as a passenger car.

This kind of carriage only has a small window on the top, and the inside of the carriage is like a subway, with two rows of vertical wooden seats.

As for the smell in the carriage, the smell of sweat, fox, and even feces and urine can almost smoke people to death.

If he hadn't been smoked to death, he would have been squeezed to death, anyway, Chen Qi had been squeezed on the edge of the carriage the whole time, and his face was pressed against the door and he couldn't move.

Fortunately, Keqiao only takes half an hour to drive to the city.

After getting off the train, Chen Qi took a deep breath and couldn't help but feel better.

"Folks, I, Hu Hansan, have come back with peaches~~~~"

Chen Qi left the train station, about three o'clock in the afternoon, he had been studying in the city for the past two years, and he naturally knew exactly where there was a lively vegetable market in Yuezhong City.

He was not willing to spend money to take the bus, so he walked towards Dayun Bridge, two kilometers away, where there is a straw hat vegetable market, which is the largest vegetable market in the city.

When he came to the big cloud bridge, he found that it was already crowded, which made Chen Qi very excited.

In 1981, although the whole society was still relatively conservative, it was no longer as strict as it was in the sixties and seventies.

The Vietnamese and central regions have allowed farmers to sell their home-grown vegetables, chickens and ducks to the market, which can be regarded as a small opening.

Note that the premise that you can sell is that you grow your own vegetables, raise your own chickens, and pick and sell your own things.

The goods that are being sold must not be wholesale.

Chen Qi took advantage of the early time to go to the vegetable market to conduct market research.

The Straw Hat Lane Market is full of state-run stalls, such as butcher shops, lo-mei shops, fruit and vegetable shops, and grain stores, where transactions require all kinds of tickets, and of course the prices are relatively cheap, which is the welfare of the workers.

Outside the market, farmers like Chen Qi came to trade with a load of vegetables, or two ducks and a basket of eggs.

You don't need a ticket to sell things here, you just need to pay for it, but the price is more expensive than the state-run grocery store, and the transaction is more flexible and unlimited.

After all, you have a limited amount of food stamps and meat stamps every month, and you can't buy as much as you want.

What excites Chen Qi is that there is only one "fruit and vegetable store" in the entire market that offers fruit, and there are not many varieties.

As for the outside of the market, none of them sell fruits, which convinced Chen Qi that he had definitely come to the right place to sell peaches and bayberry, and there were no competitors.