Chapter 45 Selling Vegetables Grown in Space
With the protection of his uncle and the dog, Jiang Li went down the mountain with peace of mind.
The mountain village where they live is 5 kilometers away from Baiyun Town, and it takes an hour to walk fast, an hour and a half if you are slow, or even two hours.
Jiang Li was thinking about the child in her heart, and she walked with the wind under her feet.
Although I haven't been to Baiyun Town, I have already figured out the route here after watching TV series before.
Jiang Li first came to the seed station to buy some seeds, which had to be supplied by ticket.
All sorts of tickets are produced by the hair of the brigade, and each person has a very limited number.
However, it was January 1977, and the management of various tickets was not so strict.
Food-related things and fabrics all need tickets, and some small aspects of life have begun to loosen up.
What used to be a ticket purchase is now becoming dispensable.
Jiang Li didn't buy many seeds, but it didn't matter, her space black soil could be planted quickly.
A small amount of seeds can also produce a lot of fruits and vegetables.
After buying seeds, Jiang Li came to the supply and marketing cooperative, she bought a piece of soap, a toothpaste, a toothbrush, a box of matches, a bottle of soy sauce, a bottle of vinegar, some sanitary belts and a few feet of cloth, and also bought a pair of liberation shoes for her younger brother, and after thinking about it, she bought some candy.
Jiang Li went to check out with this pile of things, the new salesman was an unfamiliar face, Jiang Li quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
In the past, the original owner liked to come here to peek at Shen Changan, she didn't have much money and tickets, and every time she came over, she only bought a little something, but she would linger here for a long time.
If Shen Changan appeared here, she would really be embarrassed and eager to dig a hole in the ground.
How much the original owner liked Shen Changan, how afraid she was of seeing Shen Changan.
But after that incident, he should have returned to the provincial capital, and he wouldn't continue to waste time in their small place, right?
There was not much food at home, and Jiang Li wanted to go to the grain station to buy some rice, but there were no food stamps in his pocket.
At this time, the peasants grew their own grain and earned their own labor points, and the production brigade distributed the grain according to the total number of labor points.
After Jiang Li became pregnant, the family's situation was not good, and his father had no intention of doing work in the fields, so he went to work as a coolie in a nearby quarry, just to earn more money to support his daughter and grandson when the time came.
The original owner was pregnant and couldn't do heavy work, and his younger siblings were still studying and didn't have much time to come back to work.
At the end of the year, the family received very little food, and it was a difficult time.
Now their family has no food, and they don't have food stamps in their hands, which means that she can't buy food even if she has money in her hands.
But how can a living person be suffocated by urine? Since it doesn't work on the surface, you can only go to the black market.
Jiang Li came to the black market according to the road in his memory, and the entrance here was very hidden, and ordinary people really couldn't find it.
After coming to the black market, Jiang Li seemed to have opened a new world.
There are so many things that can be sold in this place, and the most important thing is that everything is free of tickets!
There are also some people who are secretly selling all kinds of tickets, these people are food stamp sellers, and their behavior is tantamount to speculation, and the punishment for being caught in this day and age is not small.
Jiang Li did not go to buy their food stamps, but looked at the samples of several families, and finally selected a peasant household.
There is a lot of labor in the peasants' families, and there is also a lot of grain, and some people will sell it if they can't eat it at home.
Of course, these grains can also be sold directly to grain stations, but the purchase price is relatively low, generally one dime and four cents a catty.
Now they are sold on the black market, some people sell it for 1 cent and 6 cents a catty, some people sell it for 1 cent and 7 cents a catty, and some people even sell it for 2 cents a catty.
The most excesses are the second-tier dealers, who directly sell food stamps that are common throughout the country, some of them are sold for two cents and five cents, and some even sell them for three cents.
The situation in the black market is that there are all kinds of prices, and whether you can buy cheap and affordable things depends on whether your eyes are poisonous or not, and whether you are lucky or not.
Jiang Li had good luck today, and after looking for a few houses, he found an old man from a peasant family, and the grain in this old man's house was good and the quantity was large.
According to him, their family has three sons, and each of the three sons has three sons, and their family has a lot of labor, each of them is powerful, and they are all good at work, so their family has a lot of work.
Every year, there is too much food to eat, but there is not enough other food, so the extra food will be taken out and sold.
Because there is too much food at home, the price is more reasonable.
The other party offered 1 cent and 8 cents a pound of rice, and Jiang Li looked at the sample and felt that the quality was not bad.
"I buy 50 catties of rice, do I sell it for 1 cent and 6 cents a catty?"
Jiang Li took a fancy to their family's rice, and he didn't have any nonsense, and directly said the amount he wanted to buy and the reserve price in his heart.
"1 cent and 6 cents a pound is too low, and 1 cent and 7 cents a pound will be sold."
The old man is also a good talker, and other people's houses buy it for three catties and five catties, so naturally they can't lose a penny.
The female doll in front of him buys 50 catties of rice at a time, and he is willing to do less.
"Okay, then give me 50 pounds."
The old man took a burlap bag, walked to the alley to the side, weighed 50 catties of rice for her, and Jiang Li gave 8 yuan and 5 cents, and the deal was done.
Jiang Li bought some glutinous rice and flour, and also bought two catties of meat.
After buying these things, Jiang Li didn't have much money in his pocket.
The things she bought were all necessities, and if she didn't buy them, she would have difficulty eating and dressing later.
Shy, Jiang Li was also a little panicked.
She saw people selling vegetables on the black market, and business was doing well.
She remembered that her space also planted a lot of peppers and side dishes, why don't you sell them here for a while?
Jiang Li thought so in his heart, and soon got into an alley, which was quiet, and there was no one else but her.
She quickly plucked a handful of green onions and garlic from it, dug up a lot of ginger from the mud, and picked a lot of chili peppers.
All the things I bought before were put in the space, and the cloth bag that I originally brought with me was just right for chili peppers.
Jiang Li held a handful of green onions and garlic, and carried two cloth bags to find a corner to set up a stall.
Always be vigilant when selling on the black market, and sometimes you will encounter people patrolling if you are not careful.
If you're lucky, you can escape, and if you're unlucky enough to be caught, that's a big sin of speculation.
When Jiang Li was selling things, he kept looking left and right, always paying attention to the movements around him.
The things grown in the black soil of the space are particularly watery, and these onions and garlic are not ordinary onions and garlic, and the taste itself is particularly strong.
Those gingers also grow fat and tender, even the branches grow very well, the peppers are all bright red, and the red is very beautiful, and it is even more spicy when you pinch it lightly.
As soon as Jiang Li put these things out, they quickly attracted the attention of several people.
Many people in the black market are both sellers and buyers, and those who are familiar with them even barter directly.
Now it's winter, except for the cold-resistant radish and cabbage in the field, which is basically bare, and the side dishes are also very rare, not to mention that they grow so beautifully.
Such tender chives, if you buy some pork and go back and chop a bowl of dumplings, it will definitely be delicious.
"Girl, how do you sell these chives?"
How to sell? Jiang Li didn't know the price of these things, and how could the things grown in her space be compared to the things grown in the dirt?
Jiang Li grabbed a handful of green onions and took them out, and sat directly on the ground and raised the price: "This handful of green onions is five cents." ”