"Okay, then I'll take it." Mrs. Ji was not polite, "The family is about to run out of food, I want to ask you to borrow some food this time, and I will pay it back." ”

"Borrowed food? My family has no surplus food, Mom, you don't know, now the food in the city is in short supply, and the monthly food supply was sold out at once, and the family is also tightening their belts to live, where is there any surplus food? I'd like to buy some more food! ”

"Then let your sister stay here for two days."

"Mom! I really don't lie to you, now I can only go there to buy food! But you also know the price over there, but it's multiplied several times, how can I afford it? ”

Mrs. Ji stared at Shen Xiangbei, as if to confirm whether he was lying. In fact, everyone also knows that what Shen Xiangbei said should be the truth.

Shen Ruoqing thought for a while and asked, "Fourth brother, what is the price of grain there?" ”

"When I went a few days ago, the rice had risen to two yuan a catty, and now it must have risen again. Coarse grains were also sold for six cents a catty. Mom, I don't lie to you, there really isn't any extra food to lend you at home. ”

Shen Ruoqing knew that he was telling the truth, but he didn't expect that the rice had risen to two yuan a catty, which made Shen Ruoqing a little nervous, and the rice in the system was only sold for a dime a catty, which was twenty times the price difference! There's a head! But where is this black market?

Mrs. Ji thought about it, the grain will be distributed in August, and now there is still more than a month, this will definitely not work without food, I am afraid that I can really only go to the black market to buy a little.

"Then the fourth, you can help buy fifty catties of grain, and then buy some white noodles for your little sister to make up for it." Mrs. Ji launched a stack of money, with a total of 24.67 yuan.

"Mom, this is not enough......" Shen Xiangbei looked embarrassed, where is this money enough to buy 50 catties of grain, let alone buy white noodles?

"I just have so much money, you look at it and buy it." This is clearly to let Shen Xiangbei post a little more.

"Mom, are you taking us as the big culprit?" Su Jieru couldn't help it, and got up: "You said that you usually go to our house every once in a while to fight the autumn breeze, and now you want us to use this money to give you 50 catties of grain, and white noodles, where is this done, our family's small life is not easy, don't forget, I didn't marry into your family, but your family Shen Xiangbei came to my family!" ”

"Jieru, how can you talk to your mother like that?" Shen Xiangbei pulled Su Jieru, these words spread out, do you want their family's reputation to go?

"Am I wrong? Didn't your mother come to the door every once in a while to fight the autumn breeze? Yes, our family's life is a little better than your country brother's, but we can't go to the door like this to fight the autumn breeze, right, our little life can't get by? ”

"Jieru, calm down first, what did I tell you before?" Shen Xiangbei pulled Su Jieru into the back room.

"Mom, aren't we too embarrassed for the fourth brother?" Shen Ruoqing was a little embarrassed, it was not pleasant to be pointed at and scolded by the autumn wind when he came to the door like this.

"Wait, your fourth brother will help."

Sure enough, after Shen Xiangbei came out, Su Jieru was no longer shouting.

"Mom, you also know that these days, it is not easy for everyone, Jieru was trained by the leader at work two days ago, and she is in a bad mood, don't mind."

"Then go buy food, I'll sit here and wait for you." Mrs. Ji didn't care about Su Jieru's words before, if she was thin-skinned, she wouldn't have been able to live a long time ago.

"Fourth brother, can I go with you?"

"That's dangerous, what are you going to do with you, you stay here with my wife."

"The fourth brother has been there, why can't I go? Mom, I want to go and see Long Eyes. ”

"Little sister, that's really nothing to look at. You can just wait for me at home. Shen Xiangbei also persuaded.

"Fourth brother, just let me go, I can still help you carry food, Mom, just let me go, with the fourth brother here, I won't have any problems."

After grinding for a long time, under Shen Ruoqing's repeated assurances, Mrs. Ji was still relieved.

Shen Xiangbei set off with Shen Ruoqing. I turned around and turned into a small alley.

"Little sister, you can't go in again, you just wait for me here, if you come with a red cloth on your arm, you run home quickly." Shen Xiangbei told him not to take her with him this time, no matter what Shen Ruoqing said. However, Shen Ruoqing just wants to find the location of the black market, so if Shen Xiangbei doesn't bring her, he won't take her.

Shen Xiangbei walked to the front of the alley, and the people at the mouth of the alley made a code, and went in.

Shen Ruoqing thought about it, he couldn't just come for nothing, he went far away to change his hairstyle, smeared some ash on his face, and bought a black coat from the system mall for nine yuan and nine cents to wrap his whole person, feeling that it was not safe, and spent a penny to buy a mask. I took a big bamboo basket again, which was also bought in the system mall, for five cents a piece. Go to the black market.

Learning from Shen Xiangbei's code, the man guarding the door stretched out a hand.

"What are you doing in a daze? Aren't you selling something? Pay the assessment fee, two cents. No money? I'll give it when I'm done selling out. ”

It turned out that he had to pay for selling things, so Shen Ruoqing gave two cents and walked in quickly.

Shen Ruoqing observed for a while, most people in the black market set up stalls everywhere, covering everything, and someone came forward to ask before showing things to others.

Shen Ruoqing also put things out in the same way. The bamboo basket was covered with a layer of cloth, and it waited quietly for someone to come to the door to ask.

After a while, someone stepped forward: "Comrade, what are you selling?" ”

"Rice, white noodles, and somen noodles, depending on what you want." Shen Ruoqing deliberately spoke in a thick voice.

"What? Show me. Shen Ruoqing took the cloth away, revealing what was inside.

"Why is this rice so white? This is a rich and strong fan, right? And this somen noodles, it looks good. How is it sold at this price? ”

"Two yuan a pound of rice, two yuan and five pounds of white noodles, and two yuan and five dollars a pound of dried noodles." Shen Ruoqing whispered the price.

"Your price is a bit expensive, I want ten catties of rice, two catties of dried noodles, and one catty of white noodles, you can give me a cheaper."

"It's a total of 27.5 yuan, I'll count you 27 and give you five cents cheaper. As you can see, I have all good goods here, and it's normal for the price to be a little more expensive. ”

In fact, this price is not expensive, because the quality is so good, but it can be cheap five cents is five cents, the people who came were very happy, and quickly paid the money and left, and many people came one after another, selling out all the things in the bamboo basket, Shen Ruoqing also added the goods twice in the middle, and then did not add it, after all, it is just such a bamboo basket, it is not good to sell too many things, and it will be seen by others.

Shen Ruoqing sold a total of 60 catties of rice, 45 catties of white noodles, and 30 catties of dried noodles, and got a total of 306 yuan, excluding costs, and made a total of 291 yuan.

When he was about to leave, he saw his fourth brother coming up to his stall.

Shen Ruoqing panicked for a moment, and then comforted himself that Shen Xiangbei might not be able to recognize himself.

"Comrade, do you have white noodles?"

Shen Ruoqing just wanted to open his mouth and say no, but after thinking about it, he secretly put 5 catties of white noodles into the bamboo basket.