Chapter 221 Return to the Black Market, Lord Long
Li Jiayi is a clean person. No matter how late he comes back, he will take a bath before going to bed.
Not only that, when you get up the next morning, you also have to take a shower. This is the case every day, 365 days a year.
No words for a night.
After dinner the next morning, the third sister and brother were ready to ride their bicycles to school. Li Jiayi bought the second sister's bicycle.
When I was in school, the second sister rode a bicycle alone, and the eldest sister still took Li Jiayi with her.
As soon as I left the Moon Gate of the East Crossing Courtyard, I met Liao Kai riding his bicycle to work.
"Uncle Liao, come home after get off work in the evening."
"Is there something wrong?"
"Yes!" Li Jia nodded and said softly: "It's about food."
When he heard about the food, Liao Kai's eyes lit up and he quickly said: "I know, I'll go there when I get back from get off work in the afternoon."
Now food is even more tight. In Pigeon Market, a pound of white flour or rice can be enough. Sold for one dollar.
Even fine grain stamps can be sold for 80 cents per catty, and cornmeal can be sold for 50 cents per catty.
In the past, stick noodles that cost five cents per pound are now sold for thirty or forty cents. Even cereals that cost two or three minutes per pound are now impossible to buy for less than two cents per pound.
You can also see from here how outrageous the price of food stamps is.
Yes, the most expensive thing is mainly food stamps, because the prices sold at food stations are still the same as before.
The grain station has always recognized tickets but not people. You can buy grain with food stamps. Without food stamps, no matter who you are, you can't buy a grain of rice from the grain station.
"Okay, Uncle Liao, let's go to school first."
"Go! Pay attention to safety on the road."
"I understand."
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"Uncle Liao, goodbye 2"
"Okay, goodbye."
For one day, Li Jiayi's mind was not on studying, mainly because he knew what the teacher taught him.
He happened to be thinking about something again, so he didn't listen to the class seriously. The teacher basically didn't care about him.
What does the teacher care about for a student who can be ranked first in grade during exams even if he sleeps in class?
When he returned home from school in the afternoon, while his two sisters came into the house, Li Jiayi secretly put some grain into the box on the tricycle.
These are the grains he prepared for Liao Kai. It is not a lot, twenty kilograms of white flour, and fifty kilograms of cornmeal.
And it’s all food from the space, because Liao Kai knew very well what food Li Jia’s family ate, so he didn’t cut corners.
With this much food and Liao Kai’s ration, there is no problem in eating it for two months.
It is now November and it gets dark relatively early, so the eldest sister starts cooking when she comes back.
In this case, the food will be ready when parents come back.
"Plus one." Just as his parents arrived home, Liao Kai also came to the house.
"Uncle Liao is here?"
"plus one, where is the food?"
"It's in the carriage, just take it back! But don't let anyone see it. ”
"Don't worry! I won't let anyone see it, and I'm just here to confirm. I'm not going to take it back now."
"That's right, there are more people in the courtyard at this time."
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Neither of the two people talked about money, because there was no need.
Although they did not talk about money, Liao Kai never let Li Jiayi suffer. He knew that Li Jiayi was more interested in antique calligraphy and painting. Every time he had a Sunday break, he would go to Liuli The factory helped Li Jiayi buy some and bring them back.
At about ten o'clock that night, when everyone in the family was already asleep, Li Jia came out of the house as soon as he put on black clothes.
First of all, he called Asheng, put the tricycle into the space, and then went out through the back door.
Some distance away from home, Li Jia released the tricycle, asked Asheng to get on, and drove the tricycle toward the black market.
It has been more than two months since the rationing was reduced. Even those families who had some food stored at home before are probably all empty after these two months.
So Li Jiayi plans to go to the black market to get some good things. Of course, he will not touch antiques again.
Go to the black market to get good things, and don't touch antiques, so there is only gold. Yes, he is going to exchange some gold for it.
This thing is hard currency! And it won’t depreciate in value no matter how long it takes.
At the intersection of Ghost Street, Li Jiayi was stopped by someone and asked: "Buy or sell?"
"Buy or sell."
"One dime.”
Everyone has to pay when they come to sell things on the black market, but the amount they pay is not much, only a dime.
But don’t underestimate this dime. There are many people who come to the black market to sell things every night.
And these people selling things, there must be more than 2,000 people coming and going in one night.
Two thousand people, one cent per person is two hundred yuan!
Although the black market employs many people, the people behind the scenes can earn at least one hundred yuan a day.
One hundred a day, three thousand a month, more than thirty thousand a year.
And this is just the admission fee. Don’t forget, this is a black market. How could the people behind the scenes not have their own stalls? There are probably a lot of them.
This is the bulk of the income.
After handing over the dime, Li Jiayi rode a tricycle and walked inside.
Yes, just riding, the engine sound was too loud, so Li Jiayi turned off the engine when he was still some distance away from the ghost street.
Turn off the engine, then you can only ride. Fortunately, he hasn't taken out the things yet.
Find an open space, park the tricycle, Li Jia took out a horse lantern, lit it, and hung it in front. In the black market, every stall has a lantern, but the lights are dimmed.
Of course he is no exception. Although it is very dark, he can still see clearly.
Then he took out another sign that read: Pork for big and small yellow croaker, white flour for big and small yellow croaker.
After doing this, he just sat there and didn't care, waiting for people to come to the door.
You have to know that these two things are the most in demand right now, so you don’t have to worry about no one coming.
In less than a minute, someone came over, saw the writing on the board, and asked: "How do you exchange this pork for white flour?"
"One small yellow croaker can be exchanged for ninety A pound of white flour can also be exchanged for twenty-five pounds of pork.”
“What if I exchange both?”
"Fifty pounds of white flour, eleven pounds of pork."
"Okay, I'll change." After saying that, he took out a small yellow croaker and handed it over.
As soon as Li Jia took it and looked at it, he saw that it was indeed a small yellow croaker, so he put it away, then took out fifty kilograms of white flour and eleven kilograms of pork and handed it over.
"Thank you." The man took the white noodles and pork and walked out of the black market.
It seems that I am afraid of being robbed. In fact, this kind of thing has happened before. After all, this is a black market.
It may not happen in the black market, but there is no guarantee that it will happen outside the black market.
"I will change like him." A person next to him came over and said.
“Okay.”
Li Jiayi doesn’t refuse anyone who comes! He only wants big and small yellow croakers.
Until about two o'clock in the night, Li Jiayi changed a total of more than 70 small yellow croakers.
Not a single large yellow croaker was exchanged, which is actually normal. Even if someone wanted to exchange, they couldn't bring back so much food!
It is even troublesome to replace a small yellow croaker with white flour, weighing ninety kilograms! It's okay if the distance is short, but if it's farther, there's no way to get it back.
Feeling that it was almost done, Li Jiayi put away the wooden planks, then put out the lantern and prepared to leave.
At this time, a person came from the side and said to him: "This little brother, wait a moment."
Although Li Jiayi covered his face, he could still tell the difference from his height and voice. Out of his age.
"What's the matter?"
"Our Mr. Long wants to see you."
"Meet me? I don't know your Mr. Long."
"You will be here soon. Just got to know each other, please."
"Okay!"
Li Jia left Asheng to look at the tricycle and followed the middle-aged man to a house in the back.
The reason why he dared to go was because there were four big gray dogs in the space. When it was absolutely necessary, he would release the four big gray dogs.
If that's the case, they will be silenced. After all, if four big dogs are released out of thin air, there must be something wrong!
Soon the two people came to the house. The middle-aged man knocked on the door, and soon the door opened.
“Little brother please.”
"Please."
This is a courtyard with one entrance, three main rooms and two side rooms in the east and west.
The living room of the main house was now brightly lit, and there were five or six people there, including a middle-aged man sitting in the middle.
This should be the Lord Long among the middle-aged people!
Originally, Li Jiayi thought that the man named Long Ye would have a sinister face, but he didn't expect that he looked like a scholar.
"Little brother, please have a seat." As soon as Li Jia entered the room, Mr. Long, who was sitting in the middle, said.
"I wonder why Mr. Long called me here?" Li Jia asked straight to the point.
“I called the little brother over because I want to make a deal with him.”
“Deal?”
“Yes, I don’t know what the little brother has in his hands. Is there a lot of meat and grain?”
"A bit!" Li Jia nodded and said.
I heard Li Jiayi say it was a bit, but Mr. Long didn’t think it was really a bit.
"Little brother, I want you to sell both the meat and the flour. What do you think?"
"Oh! What price are you going to offer?"
If someone sells for you, it doesn’t matter if you make less money. After all, you don’t have to show your face anymore.
And it also transfers the risk. After all, this is a black market, not a pigeon market. It is illegal here.
"It will be based on the price you are trading at today, but there is a certain limit. You will not be able to trade here in the future."
"Are you sure?"
"Of course!"
Li Jiayi looked at Master Long in confusion. According to the price he traded today, how much money would Master Long make?
But he soon understood what was going on. If he was not allowed to trade, it was because he wanted to create a monopoly.
As long as the quantity is large, Master Long will definitely make a lot of money, probably more profitable than any other business he is doing now.
At this time, money is worthless, and neither are large or small yellow croakers. The most valuable things are grain and meat.
“Are you planning to keep taking pork and white noodles from me at this price?” Li Jiayi asked.
“Of course not, the price can follow the market price. You and I both know that given the current situation, the prices of pork and white flour will get higher and higher.”
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(End of this chapter)