Chapter 14 Traveling across Pigeon City, Li Jiayi arrived home
Of course, it’s understandable, after all, this is a suburb, and buses are also cars!
Even in the city, it is not cheap. There are three price ranges for taking a bus in the city, six cents, nine cents and 12 cents.
Trams are four cents, seven cents and ten cents.
Trolley buses are three-point, six-point and nine-point.
This refers to the price of taking different buses for the same distance. It can be said that trolley buses are the cheapest.
"Master, when will we set off?" Li Jia glanced at the carriage and saw that there were already a lot of people there, so he asked.
"Don't worry, we have to wait a while."
"Okay!"
Half an hour later, the bus finally set off, sitting on the bus This is so uncomfortable!
By the time he returned to the city, it was already past two in the afternoon.
But instead of going home, he went to the pigeon market outside Deshengmen.
In later generations, many novels were written against the Pigeon Market. This is completely wrong. The Pigeon Market was completely semi-official in this era.
The people who come to the Pigeon Market to sell things are basically people from nearby rural areas.
They brought here the things they were reluctant to eat, such as eggs, game from the mountains, chickens, ducks, geese, etc., in exchange for some needed things.
Such as cloth tickets, gas tickets, etc. Of course, there are also people who sell them for money.
The real attack is on the black market, because the things that appear on the black market are either bought and sold, or have unknown origins.
Moreover, speculation was a policy introduced by the state in 1963, and speculation was subdivided into eight articles in total.
1. Private traders wholesale and long-distance trafficking.
2. Open underground factories and shops, make loan sharks, and hire workers for exploitation.
3. Black market brokers, buying and selling short, profiting from the middle, and sharing the stolen goods.
4. Organize speculative groups, collude with internal and external parties, smuggle and bribe, and steal and sell state assets.
5. Hoarding and driving up prices.
6. Speculation and reselling of farm animals.
7. Speculation and reselling of industrial products purchased and distributed by the state and planned distribution.
8. Counterfeiting or reselling tickets, selling gold, silver, and foreign currencies.
Going to Pigeon Market to buy something or something is nothing at all.
Even in the black market, if you just go to buy something, it will be fine even if you catch it. At most, the thing you bought will be confiscated.
Of course, it will be troublesome if you buy gold, silver and foreign currency, because in this era, gold and silver are prohibited from circulation.
But the problem is not big, confiscation and fines.
Buy and sell, just one word difference, have different natures.
There is no way, because not only is it prohibited from circulation, but it cannot be kept privately.
If anyone has gold in his hand, he can take it to a bank to exchange it for two yuan and fifty cents per gram.
This is the standard price, but there are still many people trading gold on the black market.
The price of gold on the black market ranges from two yuan per gram to four yuan per gram.
Someone asked, why don’t you exchange it at the bank for two yuan per gram?
In fact, it is normal, because many people do not want others to know that they have gold, nor do they want others to know that they have money.
Of course, if you are lucky and meet someone who wants to collect gold, the price can be higher, but it will not exceed four yuan per gram.
The easiest way to distinguish between the pigeon market and the black market is that one is during the day and the other is at night, and after twelve o'clock.
The Pigeon Market is not far from Deshengmen, just in a large open space about 500 meters outside Deshengmen.
It’s very lively here! Even busier than the farmers market in the city.
No way, you need a ticket to buy things at the farmer's market, but you don't need one here. You can exchange the unused tickets directly, or you can buy them directly with money.
Li Jiayi slipped in with his schoolbag and water bottle, and no one paid any attention to him.
This is normal. The pigeon market is a free market and there is no one to manage it. It is not like a black market. You have to pay a dime to enter. Although it is not much, it is still expensive. There are many people selling various things, including some selling white noodles.
Needless to say, this person is from the city, so he must have a relatively large family and a relatively difficult family.
I ate fine grains reluctantly, sold them, and then bought coarse grains. Of course, most of them directly exchanged fine grains for coarse grains.
There is an egg seller, and you don’t even need to look at the person to know that he is from the countryside.
Because this is the same as those in Lijiacun who take eggs to sell in Liucun commune.
There are also people selling vegetables.
Selling pheasants and hares.
There were also pork sellers, and Li Jia knew at a glance that it was wild boar meat because the fat meat was thinner.
The fat of domestic pork is much thicker. The five-layered pork is domestic pork. Obviously wild boar cannot meet this standard.
But even so, there are still many people buying it. After all, this thing does not require a ticket!
"How do you sell this meat?" Li Jiayi asked.
The wild boar seller was a middle-aged man. He glanced at Li Jiayi. Although he was just a child, the middle-aged man still said: "Eighty cents per catty without a ticket."
In the city You can buy it with a ticket at the butcher shop, and the price of pork is 65 cents per catty. To be honest, it is not expensive at 80 cents.
Of course, if it is a domestic pig, you can’t buy it for eight cents, at least one yuan per catty.
“Give me two pounds.”
“Okay!”
The middle-aged man cut a piece, weighed it on a scale, added a little more and said, "Just two pounds."
After that, he wrapped it in paper and handed it to Li Jiayi.
After paying one dollar and sixty cents, Li Jia put a handful of meat into his schoolbag and walked directly outside the pigeon market.
He just came to take a look. Now he has finished reading everything he should see, and he also bought two kilograms of meat. Why is he staying here if he doesn't go back?
Deshengmen is not very far from Pinganli, it only takes about half an hour to walk, so he did not take a car.
The main reason is that there is no direct bus there. If you take the bus, not only do you have to change trains, but you also have to take a long detour.
It would take longer than walking back, which was why he didn't take the car.
Back in the courtyard, Shi Zhen was sitting at the door of her house picking up the soles of her shoes.
Seeing Li Jia come in, he said "hum".
Li Jiayi ignored him. If it were normal times, he would have said a few words, but he didn't have the time now.
I didn't meet the uncle this time, which is right. It was working time at this time, so it would be weird if I did.
“Hello, Aunt Sun.”
“Hey, Jia Yi is back?”
“Yes, Aunt Sun.”
“Look at it all You’re tanned, go back and take a rest!”
"Okay, Aunt Sun."
"Hello, Aunt Wu."
"Okay, okay."
"Hello, Mrs. Liu."
"Add A good one!”
In this courtyard, in addition to the three uncles' families, there are also the Shi Zhen family and the Hai Dafu family. Li Jiayi is harmonious with everyone.
There is no way, because those families are really inappropriate!
Li Jiayi is a person who is afraid of trouble, so he prefers to go straight. He doesn't have so much time to scheming with those people.
And these emotions are shown directly on the face and actions.
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(End of this chapter)