Chapter 106 Black Market Trading
In other words, after having lunch at He Yuchen's house, Song Baozhen hurried home with the five yuan He Yuchen gave her.

"Mom, I'm going to the county seat to visit my godmother now, and I'll stay one night and come back tomorrow. I can't go empty-handed. Look, what kind of gifts do you want me to bring?"

Sun Lihua frowned. Due to the separation of the family, yesterday she only got three pieces of fish and less than four catties of pork.

Last night, the child insisted on eating it, so he stewed it for a whole day.

In the morning, my daughter took one fish away, and there was one fish left at home.

If it is a gift, it must be a bit monotonous, and it is necessary to cut a piece of meat, but in this way, there will be no fish at home during the Chinese New Year.

Sun Lihua frowned while thinking, the eldest son Song Guoqiang, who was lying on the kang and taking a nap, suddenly lifted the quilt and sat up, angrily shouted at Song Baozhen:

"You took away a big fish this morning and you're not satisfied, are you? Do you want to give away all the fish at home for the Chinese New Year? That's your godfather and godmother. It has nothing to do with me, my younger brother, or my eldest sister. Why can you make all the good things by yourself.”

"It's just a girl's movie. You can dance all day long. Let me tell you, don't even think about taking fish from home again."

"Otherwise, I will designate you not to go to school."

After yelling, instead of looking at Song Baozhen with livid face, he lay back on the kang again and lifted the quilt to cover his head.

Sitting on the kang with shoe soles, Song Baozhen's eldest sister Song Xiaocui's downcast eyes were full of jealousy, and then turned into gloating.

They are also the daughters of their parents, and they have to do everything at home and abroad, but Song Baozhen can only talk sweet words, please and behave well, and does nothing.

Hmph, you deserve to be scolded.

When Song Guoxing heard what his elder brother said, he immediately became unhappy, and ran to Sun Lihua, grabbed her arm and pouted Lao Gao:

"Mom, the fish and pork are so delicious, don't give them away to the second sister, I will help you light the fire every day from now on."

Seeing her youngest son acting like a baby, Sun Lihua immediately touched Song Guoxing's head lovingly and said with a smile, "Mom won't give it away, we will save it for the New Year to eat by ourselves."

"Oh, that's great, thank you Mom." Song Guoxing danced happily in the room.

Song Baozhen felt isolated and helpless, and felt extremely uncomfortable. When her nose was sour, tears gushed out of her eyes as if she didn't want money.

The rosy and fair, delicate and lovely face instantly became pitiful and pitiful, and anyone who saw it would feel pity.

Sun Guoxing immediately stopped jumping and cheering, shrank his head, turned around and ran out to play.

Sun Lihua glared at Song Baozhen angrily: "Why are you crying? You're useless. Did I say I won't take it for you?"

Song Baozhen froze for a moment, then looked at her mother blankly.

Sun Lihua got off the ground, put on her shoes, stood up and said, "Your grandma still has two catties of wild pork, and then I will let your aunt buy a fish. Wait."

After speaking, he turned and went to the next door.

Song Baozhen smiled through tears, happily ran to the kitchen outside to pour water to wash her face, if her eyes were red and swollen, it would be bad to go to the godmother's house.

.........

The black market is near the clothing factory in the suburbs of the West District, where the terrain is complicated and it is easy to walk and hide.

Gao Yueyang glanced at the glutinous rice noodles in the basket in front of him, and the half bag of dried sweet potatoes beside him, and immediately became interested.

Glutinous rice noodles can be bought to make sticky bean buns, and dried sweet potatoes can be eaten as snacks.

"Hello, how did you sell this?"

The seller is an old lady with half-white hair and kind eyebrows. Although the cotton-padded clothes on her body are not new, they are neat and clean, except that there is a small patch on the corner of the cotton-padded clothes.

She shook her head lightly, smiled and said, "I don't sell it, I just change it."

Seeing the doubt in Gao Yueyang's eyes, he patiently explained:

"Girl, old lady, I'll tell you the truth, my family has a large population and few earners, so the commodity grain I receive every month is simply not enough to eat."

"No, at the beginning of the month, I received some glutinous rice noodles and dried sweet potatoes that I saved before, so I thought about going back with some coarse grains."

Gao Yueyang understands that everyone in the city has a fixed amount of commodity grain every month, and those under the age of 14 will be halved.

As the saying goes, half a child eats a poor man, and it is when he grows up that he can eat more than an adult.

During the two months I spent in Deng County, I had a deep understanding. If there was no space, it would be good to be able to eat six percent of each meal.

I remember that Yuanzheng sometimes couldn't even eat half full when he was a child, and he only ate two meals a day.

"Then how many catties of coarse grains do you want to exchange for these, can corn noodles?"

Most of the space is millet, wheat and corn.

The old lady's excited lips trembled, which meant that it was all over:
"Okay, of course, let's talk over there."

After finishing speaking, he lifted the basket and straddled his arms, picked up the bag next to him and walked quickly into the alley behind with his little feet.

Gao Yueyang hurriedly raised his heels. When he came to the black market, he took out a back basket from the space and used it to hold fish and millet for buyers to see. Now it is used as a cover in advance.

The old lady carefully looked at the alleys on both sides, and after confirming that there was no one there, she rubbed her hands nervously and said:

"Hehe, girl, I have the best glutinous rice noodles. It weighs six catties, and the dried sweet potato is ten catties. It is guaranteed to be enough. You only need to give me twenty catties of corn noodles."

I have been here for three consecutive days, and I am willing to pay for it, but no one is willing to change it, and I am about to give up.

Gao Yueyang nodded briskly, and took out an old noodle bag from the back basket and handed it over.

The old lady took the pad immediately, with a satisfied expression on her face. Her hand is the scale, and she can tell if there is a shortage of weight or two on the pad.

Gao Yueyang secretly gave the old lady a thumbs-up in her heart, which was even worse than Zhou Lingling's grandma.

……

After the old lady hurriedly disappeared into the alley with the food on her back, Gao Yueyang put the things in the space and planned to continue shopping to see if he could meet any good things again.

As a result, as soon as he reached the entrance of the alley, he was stopped by a middle-aged man in his 40s with a haggard face and bloodshot eyes.

Gao Yueyang saw the tension, excitement and anxiety in this man's eyes, so he judged that he was not a bad person, so before the other party opened his mouth, he asked straight to the point:
"You want to buy food."

The middle-aged man nodded excitedly: It's just that I don't have any money, so I want to exchange it with you for something valuable. "

Gao Yueyang saw that he was very afraid of being rejected, and he spoke cautiously, guessing that something happened to his family and he ran out of food.

After thinking about it in my heart, valuable things can be jade, antiques and so on.

"Take it out and let me see."

The middle-aged man quickly reached out and took out a silk handkerchief from his cotton coat.

Gao Yueyang took it with his hand, thinking, this person must have been from a wealthy family before, and silk is a scarce resource in this era, and it is very expensive.

Open it and see that it is a delicate, transparent and brightly colored jade bracelet, which is not bad and worth collecting.

"How much food do you plan to exchange?"

Xu Haizhou swallowed nervously, glanced at the basket carried behind Gao Yueyang, and stretched out five fingers: "Five, fifty catties, no, forty catties of grain will do."

(End of this chapter)

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