Chapter 188 Unreceived Tickets, Gringo
"I..." The little black fat man didn't know what to say.
“Give me a jug of iced watermelon juice.”
“Tomorrow morning, leave the jug when you go back in the evening.”
Thought Li Jiayi had learned from someone else After getting the watermelon juice, the little fat man nodded and said, "Okay, I'll leave the kettle for you tonight."
"By the way, do you want it chilled or frozen?" Li Jiayi asked.
"Is there any difference?" The fat little black man looked at Li Jiayi.
"Of course, if it is iced, it will reach normal temperature in about an hour, and since it is so hot now, it may take even less time. But if it freezes into ice, how can it be kept for an hour or two without any problem? And you still can’t drink it all at once, I can only drink it slowly."
"Then I will freeze it into ice."
He can earn more than three yuan a day now, and this is just the beginning. He may earn more in the future. A few cents of watermelon juice is not a burden to him.
"Okay."
After everyone came over, Li Jiayi drove a tricycle and left here.
Ten minutes later, Li Jiayi arrived outside Jianguomen. Yes, he came to Pigeon Market.
But he is not here to sell pork, but to collect some tickets.
This strange tricycle attracted a lot of people's attention.
Li Jia hung the signs written one by one on the shed of the tricycle.
Yes, when he came to the pigeon market, he replaced the box with this kind of shed, mainly because it was cooler when running.
The things he wanted were written on the sign, firstly national food stamps, then sugar stamps, summer vacation, and finally electric fan stamps.
Yes, the main purpose of his coming here this time is to collect a ticket for an electric fan. As for national food stamps, sugar stamps, etc., they are all incidental.
But he also knows that it is difficult to collect an electric fan ticket.
In this weather, if anyone has an electric fan, he must use it for himself!
Generally, people who can get electric fan tickets will not be short of money at home, let alone sell them.
But he still wanted to try his luck, just in case he received it!
He tried to collect it first, and then he accepted it. It didn’t matter if he couldn’t receive it. He was not in a hurry anyway.
Until about six o'clock in the afternoon, food stamps, sugar stamps, and non-staple food coupons were collected all over the country, but there was not even a photo of the electric fan ticket.
Feeling that time was almost up, Li Jiayi drove his tricycle back to Houhai Grove.
I went into the space to eat something, took a shower, and applied mosquito repellent ointment before coming out of the space.
Because he knew that it would take some time for Little Black Fatty and the others to come over.
It was just as he thought. It wasn’t until after seven o’clock that anyone came back from selling things.
Similarly, Li Jiayi made more than 500 yuan this day.
And the items were sold out an hour earlier than yesterday.
Yes, it was just around 8:00 when the last person came back.
Putting his schoolbag and water bottle into the box, Li Jiayi hurried home.
These guys learned from Fatty Little Hei that there was frozen watermelon juice, and everyone asked for a jug.
When he was almost home, Li Jia drove a tricycle into a deserted alley.
I put two large wooden basins in and took out several ice cubes.
Because he knew that when he returned home at this time, his family would still be awake.
There is no way to take out the ice cubes when I get home.
It was exactly what he thought. When he got home, his father, mother, and eldest and second sisters were sitting in the yard.
Everyone holds a banana fan to fan the wind.
At this time, the room was much hotter than outside, and there was still a bit of wind outside anyway.
The room was simply stuffy.
"Hey, son, why has your tricycle changed?"
Li Aimin asked in surprise as he watched the convertible change from a convertible to a carriage.
"Dad, it hasn't changed. I made several styles when I was doing it. I just changed it a little. This one is alive and can be taken off."
"That's it!"
"Dad, stop sitting there and come over and help move things."
"Moving things?" Li Aimin asked doubtfully.
“Look what’s inside here?” Li Jia opened the box.
Although it was a pity, Li Aimin stood up from his chair and came over to take a look.
When he saw what was in the carriage, he was so surprised that the banana fan in his hand fell to the ground.
"This... so many ice cubes!"
"Hmm!"
Although Li Aimin's voice was not loud, it was enough for everyone in the family to hear.
Suddenly, everyone couldn't sit still and ran over quickly, and a cold breath hit their faces.
The ice cubes are very big. One piece weighs at least fifty or sixty kilograms, and the big one can even weigh seventy or eighty kilograms.
The wooden basin in the house is still there, and the water in it has been poured out. Just move the ice cubes in.
Li Aimin can lift one piece by himself, and Li Jiayi can too, but the eldest sister and the second sister cannot move it, so two people can only lift one piece.
Fortunately, he locked the gate on the moon gate when he drove the tricycle in.
Otherwise, I don’t know how much of a sensation it would cause if others saw it.
Soon the ice cubes were moved into the house, and there were two more than yesterday.
Yesterday he only put two yuan in a room, and today he took out six yuan.
After Li Jia locked the tricycle and entered the house, Li Aimin pointed to two pieces of ice in a basin and said: "Son, I will help you lift it up." "Dad, no need, you and mom will take this ice." Put another piece in the house, and put the rest in the house of the elder sister and the second sister.”
“Ah! You don’t want it!”
"No."
Ye Xin said at this time: "Son, two pieces are enough for your dad and I to keep in the house. Move these to your house!"
"Mom, I really No, and I’m not hot either.”
“It’s not hot, how is that possible?”
“Okay, mom, just leave it alone, I really don’t need it.”
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"Okay!"
Two hundred kilograms of ice cubes were placed in a room, and the room suddenly became much cooler.
Both the parents, the eldest and the second sister, no longer stayed outside and went directly back to the room.
Even if I don’t fan myself, I can’t feel any heat at all!
In the next few days, Li Jia visited all four major pigeon markets and bought a lot of tickets, but unfortunately he still didn't buy any electric fan tickets.
It seems that I can only put my thoughts on those big courtyard boys.
However, we cannot go to the compounds we have visited before, including the military compound where Lao Li is located.
This morning, after handing out schoolbags and water bottles, Li Jiayi drove a tricycle to a place east of Wangfujing.
This is not a courtyard, it is five or six hundred meters away from Wangfujing.
The reason why I came here is because there are many embassies here and there are also many families of embassy personnel.
There are no courtyards here, just Western-style buildings one after another.
Before coming over, Li Jiayi went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought a lot of glasses.
In fact, most families don’t use this thing at all because it is easy to break.
And the price is not cheap. It can be said that breaking one of them makes people feel distressed.
Even families with relatively good family conditions still use enamel jars, and only people with petty bourgeoisie will use them.
After arriving here, Li Jia parked the tricycle, took out the glass, and filled it with watermelon juice, peach juice, pear juice and orange juice.
And add crystal clear ice cubes to both glasses.
These are not the ice cubes frozen by the spiritual spring water, but the mineral water in the pool behind.
On the tricycle compartment, there are a row of more than ten cups, which looks very attractive.
And he was holding a glass, drinking it comfortably. Of course, the ice cubes in his glass were made from Lingquan water.
Juice may be a new thing in China, but it is very common abroad.
Li Jia drank while shaking, and the ice cubes jingled against the glass.
Soon attracted a foreigner with yellow hair and white skin.
This foreigner is not very old, probably in his twenties. As for where he is from, I really can’t tell.
“Kid, how do you sell this juice?” the foreigner asked in fairly fluent Chinese.
"No sale."
"No sale? No sale what are you doing here?"
"Exchange something!"
"Exchange something?"
< br>The foreigner’s words made Li Jiayi not sure how to answer.
Because gringos don’t need tickets! They have a special place to buy things.
This is a bit difficult to deal with. He can't exchange juice for an electric fan! I guess people can think of him as a fool.
“Let me ask you something! Where do you foreigners buy things?”
Li Jiayi knows foreign-related stores, such as the Imperial Capital Friendship Store, but the Friendship Store is sixty It’s only available in four years.
But now it's 1959, and at this time he doesn't know where foreigners buy things.
"In a department store!"
"Department store?" Li Jiayi looked at the foreigner in surprise.
"Yes! The department store."
"That's not right! You foreigners don't need tickets, so how can you go to the department store to buy things?" Li Jiayi asked doubtfully.
“That’s what you’re asking! There is a counter in the department store specifically open to us foreigners, but you have to use foreign currency to buy things there.”
There is no foreign exchange roll now, and foreign exchange rolls will not be available until around the 1980s.
So now gringos in China use foreign currency, because they go to specific places to buy things, so settlement is convenient.
However, there is another kind of paper at this time, which is the overseas remittance paper. The overseas Chinese remittance paper is a kind of paper that overseas Chinese remit to their relatives in China.
But this obviously has nothing to do with gringos, so gringos have to use foreign currency if they want to buy things.
“Let me ask again! Is that counter open only to you foreigners, or can you buy things as long as you use foreign currency?”
"Of course you can buy it with foreign currency. Your country needs foreign currency now, a lot of foreign currency."
Hearing what the foreigner said, Li Jia smiled.
“You want to buy juice? What flavor do you want?”
“Give me a cup of this, how much does it cost?” the foreigner asked, pointing to a cup of juice made from sugared oranges.
“You drink first, and you can give it to me after you drink it, but I want foreign currency.”
Hearing what Li Jiayi said, the foreigner glanced at him and took a sip of the juice.
Then give a thumbs up to Li Jiayi.
(End of this chapter)