70s Xiao Que Xing

Chapter 107 Selling Grain
As soon as Xie Xiaonian heard it, she knew that the old lady was looking for an excuse to lower the price.

However, Xie Xiaonian didn't intend to sell it too expensive, so he said: "Although I haven't processed it, it's also cheap. You often buy things, so you should know the price. The most common flour in the supply and marketing cooperative is 9 cents I need food stamps for one catty. My wheat is so full. If you buy it and grind it, you can produce at least 1 taels of flour per catty. If you grind it coarser, you can get 7 taels of flour. I will take this wheat You pay 9 cents a catty, and you don’t need food stamps, but if you give tickets, I will sell you 5 cents a catty, no limit to the type of tickets.”

Seeing that the old lady's expression was a little loose, Xie Xiaonian went on to say: "As for the rice, I will give you 1 cents a catty, but you must bring a ticket, or any ticket is fine. You know, we don't produce rice here, and the supply and marketing cooperative is the last It costs 1 cents a catty to bring food stamps, and the price of rice in other places is now 5 cents a catty. Corn is cheaper, 5 cents a catty, no food stamps. How about it, my aunt The price should be fair, if I wasn't cowardly, I wouldn't be able to sell such good food cheaply."

The old lady buys food and vegetables every day, and she also knows that what Xie Xiaonian gave is the real price, it can even be said to be the price of cabbage, which is much cheaper than the food she usually buys.

So he stopped bargaining and said directly: "My niece, the price you gave is reasonable, but if the corn is given as a ticket, can it be cheaper?"

There are a total of 8 workers in the old lady's family, so apart from the shortage of food stamps and cloth stamps, the family is still well off.

After all, she was so lucky that she met Xie Xiaonian, who could buy any ticket, so the old lady thought about exchanging the extra or unused tickets at home for food.

As soon as Xie Xiaonian heard what she said, she knew that her family must have a lot of tickets, and what she lacked most now was tickets, so she said straightforwardly: "Yes, if you have tickets, I will give you 1 point 5 One catty, if you have sugar tickets, I will give you 5 catties of rice for free."

At this time, sugar tickets are in short supply even in the cities, and there are even fewer in the countryside. The sugar tickets distributed by the production teams every year are simply not enough.

Xie Xiaonian wanted to exchange some candy tickets to buy some candies for his nephews and nieces. Although the life of the two uncles' families was good, things like candy were not available to the children.

And she also wanted to buy some sugar and make pastries by herself.

The old lady didn't want to take out the candy tickets at home. After all, the family can only have more than half a catty of candy tickets for a month, and her family is not enough.

But when she heard that Xie Xiaonian could give 5 catties of rice, the old lady was immediately moved. After all, the most scarce thing in her family was food, and it didn't matter whether she had sugar or not.

But rice is so precious, and her family has no milk babies or sick people, so they can't use rice, so coarse grains are the best.

So the old lady said: "I don't want rice, can you replace it with corn of the same price?"

"Okay, anyway, what I sell is not for sale, but the price of this corn is calculated at 2 cents per catty, that is, 25 catties of corn. But I don't have so much on my back now, and the rest is with my man. I have to go to my man first and recite the rest." Xie Xiaonian continued.

"I don't have any tickets or money with me now, and I just want to go home to get them, but you won't be able to come here for a while." After such a good thing happened to the old lady, she was still a little worried about Xie Xiaonian's departure , afraid that Xie Xiaonian would never come back.

"Don't worry, I brought food to sell, otherwise I have to carry it back, how tiring!"

"Then you can recite some more, I will ask some of my trustworthy good sisters to come and buy some, and take care of your business." The old lady said happily.

"Okay, but this candy ticket can only be exchanged for 2 catties. My family doesn't have much food, so I can exchange it for 2 catties of candy tickets and buy some candy for my baby's sweet mouth."

Although she was very happy when someone came to buy it, but if they were all exchanged for sugar tickets, then she would not have prepared so much food.

Besides, there are too many candy tickets, and she has no money to buy candy. When the candy tickets expire, she will be sad.

"Don't worry, you just want to exchange more, they may not have it." Seeing that Xie Xiaonian can only exchange 2 catties, the old lady felt that she had taken advantage of it.Although she has to save the 2 catties of sugar tickets for 4 months, it is very cost-effective to exchange for 50 catties of corn.

After the old lady left, Xie Xiaonian pretended to be carrying the food, walked outside for a while and then hurried back to the previous place, in case the old lady arrived first, she would not be able to take out the food.

Looking around, Xie Xiaonian found that it was a blind spot and there was nothing to see, so Xie Xiaonian took the things out with confidence.

However, in addition to the food prepared earlier, Xie Xiaonian also took out two baskets of eggs from the space, about 200 or so.

In addition, about 20 catties of dried mushrooms and fungus were taken out.

Because the fungus is relatively light, it is very gratifying to look at a large bag full of it.

After Xie Xiaonian took out all the things and covered them with rags, and waited for another 5 minutes, the old lady brought a few people around her age with baskets and cloth bags over.

Fortunately, there are almost no people in the yard now, otherwise, the posture of this group of people is enough to make people suspicious.

Originally, the old lady wanted several people to come separately, but she was afraid that the food would be bought up by others, so no one wanted to come later, so they had to come together in the end.

The old lady looked at the mountains of things in front of her, and was very surprised. She didn't expect this woman to be so capable, and she moved so many things so quickly.

So Xie Xiaonian had no choice but to move the non-existent husband out again, saying that his man was nearby and he helped to deliver the things, so it was a reasonable explanation.

After Xie Xiaonian lifted the rags that covered it, everyone discovered that there were still eggs!
So the old lady hurriedly asked: "There are eggs, which is great. Fortunately, I have enough money. How can I sell these eggs?"

Several other people gathered around the egg excitedly, and one of them recognized that it was a wild egg.

In the city, except for women who have just given birth, who can receive extra eggs for pregnant women and babies, the monthly egg coupons they give out are very small, and there are only a few eggs for one person a month, which is not enough to eat at all.

Especially for those with children and the elderly at home, it is not enough. Eggs can be said to be more difficult to buy than food.

After all, there is no food in the countryside now, and a family can't feed a few chickens. There is simply not enough supply. Even if you pay a high price, it is not easy to buy. That's why a few people are so excited when they see eggs.

Because the old lady had already told several people about the price of the grain, no one asked about the price of the grain, and only waited for Xie Xiaonian to talk about the price of the eggs.

Xie Xiaonian opened the two bags containing fungus and mushrooms, and said, "Eggs in the supply and marketing cooperatives cost 4 or 5 cents each. Although my wild eggs are smaller, they are more nutritious than domestic ones, so I will sell them with them." A ticket costs 3 cents, and without a ticket costs 5 cents, or any ticket is fine. Mushrooms cost 2 cents a catty, fungus cost 4 cents a catty, no ticket.”

"The mushroom fungus is too expensive, and the cabbage in winter is only 5 cents a catty." An aunt in blue said.

"Ma'am, what you are talking about is the price of cabbage when it is the cheapest, and how can this cabbage compare with mushroom fungus? It is dried in the sun, and it takes more than ten catties to dry it. You just need to grab a little and soak it. Afterwards, you can fry a large bowl of vegetables, which can’t be compared with cabbage. And now it’s green and yellow, just this little food is saved from the mouths of the family. I sell it cheap enough, you If it’s too expensive, I can’t help it. If it doesn’t work, I’ll take it home and keep it for myself. The price of my stuff is dead. Look, if it works, we’ll weigh it. If it doesn’t work, I’ll carry it back. go back."

The price Xie Xiaonian gave was already cheap enough, it was a half sale, half free, and Xie Xiaonian didn't have time to bargain with them.

These people also know that the price is cheap, but they are used to counting carefully. After the price is cheap, they still want to make it cheaper, wishing that others would give it to them for nothing.

Seeing that it was no longer cheap, a group of people stopped haggling and started buying.

Of course, Xie Xiaonian still sold it to the old lady before. In addition to the 50 catties of corn that she exchanged for sugar tickets, she also bought 10 catties of wheat, 30 eggs and 5 catties each of mushrooms and fungus.

After she finished buying, Xie Xiaonian began to call the others.

Because it was so hard to come across such a cheap thing, everyone bought a lot.

Some of them didn't live with their children, and bought some for their sons and daughters, and finished buying Xie Xiaonian's things in a short while, and some even hated that they brought too little, not too much.

After selling out, Xie Xiaonian put away the things and left quickly, after all, staying in this place for one minute longer is dangerous for one more minute.

Even when the old lady asked her when she would come again, she didn't respond. She probably won't come here again.

Because Xie Xiaonian sold out all the things he had prepared, there was no need to go to the forge anymore.

After leaving, he directly found a hidden place and entered the space.

After Xie Xiaonian drank a glass of water, he started his own business of counting money in the yard.

Xie Xiaonian sold a total of 15 yuan in the morning, plus a lot of tickets, including sugar tickets, food tickets, cloth tickets, industrial tickets, coal tickets, cigarette tickets, vegetable tickets, soap tickets (one piece of soap, one piece of toilet soap), Cotton tickets and more.

There are very few food stamps written on the price of jin, and they are all in units of city tael. On one of the food stamps, Xie Xiaonian didn't see it clearly at the time, but it actually said "Wotou", and many of the tickets were tickets for April. The purchase will be invalidated next month.

However, although the amount of each is small, there are many types, Xie Xiaonian is also satisfied.

What made Xie Xiaonian happiest was that there was also a hot water bottle ticket inside, which was a national ticket with no time limit.

Wu Lihua will definitely not help prepare the things for her own marriage, and she will need help from her uncle's family. Now that she has the ticket for this thermos, uncle doesn't have to worry about finding the ticket. She will say that Xu Zhongjun sent it back , Uncle will definitely believe it.

Xie Xiaonian really realized today that with the purchasing power of this era, she only sold a few hundred catties for about 15 yuan, and I don't know how Xu Zhongjun saved the 20 yuan he sent her.

Thinking of this, Xie Xiaonian was even more moved, and decided to send some wild animals to Xu Zhongjun when she sent the letter later, she is a person who knows how to repay her kindness.

So Xie Xiaonian took out the letter he wrote yesterday, and after adding that he had sent him the prey, he packed 2 pheasants and 2 hares with big leaves from the mountain and cloth bags, and prepared to give them to Xu Zhongjun when he returned to the commune. send it over.

Now she wants to be happy and go to the supply and marketing cooperative for big purchases!
(End of this chapter)