Gu Yuehuai was not discouraged, regained her strength, and began to search for the next target, how could she sell the peppers in the basket before she could go home, otherwise wouldn't her trip to the black market be in vain?

The daily supply of vegetables at the state-run vegetable store is limited, and city dwellers have to queue up early in the morning to get a bite of fresh food.

Her chili pepper is produced in Sumeru space, and the quality is needless to say, but the price of vegetables is really worthless this year, and the state-owned vegetable store only sells two and a half pounds of chili peppers, and the chili peppers in her basket are only five catties.

Therefore, even if she sells more expensive, she only earns a few cents by selling five cents more, one cent.

However, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are also meat, and the background of the times is placed here, and she is not too little.

The sales of chili peppers are much smoother than she thought, these years the people only say that they are full, not to say that they eat well, and the chili peppers are bought home and made into chili sauce casually, wrapped in a layer of steamed buns, and a lunch is solved.

Her peppers are of high quality and look good, and they sold out in a basket for two cents.

Gu Yuehuai didn't leave in a hurry, knowing that there was no food at home, and bought five catties of cornmeal on the black market, which cost a dime a catty, and when he was about to leave, he met a chicken seller, all of whom were killed, roosters were six cents a pound, and hens were six cents and seven pounds.

She thought of Gu Zhifeng's sweaty appearance and Gu Tinghuai's injured hand, pursed her lips and bought half an old hen, ready to go home to stew soup for the two of them, half an old hen is two catties and two taels, no tickets, and spent a piece of four cents and seven.

Gu Yuehuai put the chicken in the basket, and just as she was about to leave, she was stopped by the uncle who sold the chicken.

He seemed a little nervous, looked left and right for a while, and finally took off his hat and scratched the back of his head, and said in a low voice with a vague expression: "Nier, do you want a chicken baby?" ”

Hearing this, Gu Yuehuai's eyes lit up: "Do you have it?" ”

In those years, it was time to "cut the tail of capitalism", and it was forbidden to engage in household sideline business, and the vegetables grown in the fields kept by the members in front of and behind the houses could not be taken to the town to be sold, and if they were caught, they were "taking the capitalist road".

Sometimes the production brigade would organize soldiers and civilians to guard the road crossing to the commune town early, and once the vegetables were intercepted, the members would have to do a review, and even the vegetables would be confiscated.

Gu Yuehuai also watched for a while when she came in the afternoon, she was lucky today, there was no militia guarding the crossing.

Raising chickens also belongs to the family sideline, it is prohibited, only the brigade in the village has a chicken coop, raising more than a dozen chickens, the eggs harvested every day will be saved, and regularly distributed to the members of the club to make physical objects, according to the head calculation, each person can be divided into about three to four per year.

However, if grain is hard currency, then eggs are hot sellers.

Eggs are the New Year's holidays, interpersonal exchanges of high-end goods, can also be used with the members of the barter, an egg can be exchanged for half a catty of salt, you can imagine how precious eggs are, in short, no one will refuse eggs this year.

She knew that the Sumeru space could raise livestock and poultry, but unfortunately there was no way to get it.

The hens of the brigade are impossible to give her even if they hold the nest and give birth to chickens, and originally thought that after two years, the country will vigorously call for pigs and chickens, ducks and geese to raise chickens and geese.

The uncle who sold chickens nodded and said in a low voice: "There are more than a dozen chicks in the nest at home, and I don't dare to bring them to the black market, for fear that the movement will be too big, so I will hide at home at this time, do you want to?" If you want to go back and catch two? ”

Gu Yuehuai bowed: "Yes!" Uncle, how do you sell your chicken baby? ”

The uncle smiled bitterly and waved his hand: "The chicken baby can be worth a few dollars, one and a half cents." ”

Gu Yuehuai quickly calculated the account in her mind and said, "In this way, uncle, I want your little chicken baby, can you give it cheaper?" It's not much, is it a penny cheaper? ”

Hearing this, the uncle was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "Success!" Yes! After being happy, there was hesitation: "Do you really want it?" If you get caught...... You can't say you bought it from me. ”

Gu Yuehuai smiled: "Uncle, don't worry." ”

At this point, the uncle didn't say much, and happily closed the stall and led Gu Yuehuai home.

His home is in the town's Baijia Hutong, and this piece is built with tube buildings.

The tube building is several floors high, each floor has a long corridor connecting more than a dozen small single rooms, the room area is not large, more than ten square meters, every household has to be crowded with seven or eight or even a dozen people.

Every household has set up a stove at the door, the house is full of fragrance when stir-frying, the food is spread on the bright side, today his family eats bacon, tomorrow my family eats eggs, the topic of "what to eat" has also become a daily conversation among the residents of the tube building.

Moreover, the water room and toilet of the tube building are all shared, and the urinals are crowded every morning when they get up early and pour the urinal.

Gu Yuehuai understood, no wonder this uncle was in a hurry to shoot the chicks, the tube building was narrow and crowded, and the neighbors didn't look up and look down, it was troublesome enough to raise a few big chickens, let alone a dozen chicks waiting to be fed.

The uncle lives on the first floor, and when he took out the key to open the door, a smoky smell came to his nose.

Gu Yuehuai followed in, and there was only one elderly lady picking vegetables at home.

The uncle closed the door and said happily to the lady who picked the vegetables: "Mother, the chicken baby has been sold." ”

The eldest lady was also happy, wiped her hand on her clothes, and turned to look at Gu Yuehuai: "Nier, do you buy a chicken baby?" ”

Gu Yuehuai bowed: "Yes, auntie take out the chicken, I'll take a look." ”

As she spoke, she looked at the bottom of the bed, and when she entered the door, she heard a dense chirping sound coming from under the bed, and the chickens were hidden under the bed, and they were about to suffocate.

"Eh!" The eldest lady hurriedly bent down to go under the bed, and after a while, she dragged out a cardboard box in embarrassment, Gu Yuehuai looked down, there were more than a dozen yellow and fluffy chicks in it, you are next to me, I am next to you, snuggling together to keep warm.

The bottom of the box was sprinkled with crushed dried buds, and the chicks became louder and louder as soon as they were disturbed.

"Ouch, little ancestors, don't call anymore!" The uncle was a little anxious, and lowered his voice and said.

He said a little bitterly: "The chickens I sold were all live chickens brought by the man when my daughter got married, and there were more than 20 eggs at that time. ”

After that, he couldn't help urging again: "Nier, if you want it, take it away quickly!" ”

Gu Yuehuai laughed lightly and handed over the remaining two pieces of Ermaosi in his pocket.

A chick is a dime and four, and now there are sixteen in the box, which is this number, and it is all the money on her, but sooner or later, the chickens will grow up, and it will be cost-effective to exchange them for the members of the brigade or to collect eggs.

Gu Yuehuai took the cardboard box, didn't say much greetings, turned around and wanted to leave the tube building.

The uncle looked at her and suddenly shouted, "Nier, wait. ”

Gu Yuehuai was puzzled, looked back at him, but saw the uncle take out a bag of things from the cabinet and hand it to her: "You can run with it, you can't be told to run in vain, kill the chicken and the leftover chicken offal, give it to you." ”

Gu Yuehuai was stunned for a moment, then her eyebrows and eyes curled, and she thanked her with a smile.

She left Baijia Hutong with the box, stopped for a moment when she went around a deserted corner, and when she came out again, she was still holding the cardboard box in her arms, but there was no more chick crows in it.