Chapter 234 Cunning Lao Li
"You are a capable boy." Lao Li said seriously.
"What kind of ability do I have! I'm far behind you."
"You can go and pull it aside! I want to have your ability, now let me become a Ordinary people can do it.”
“Okay, Lao Li, let’s not talk about each other here. You should think about how to make statistics!”
"Don't worry, kid! Leave this to me, but what do you want, kid? Or tobacco and alcohol?"
"Okay!" Li Jia nodded.
If it were Lao Li or Lao Zhao, he could ask for nothing, but now it's the entire military compound, so he can't ask for anything.
"Okay, I will tell them and ask them to buy cigarettes and alcohol. As for the price, it will be calculated according to the current market price."
Li Jia spread his hands and said: "I don't care. , it’s up to you.”
In fact, this is very good. According to the market price, no one will suffer.
Of course, he doesn’t know whether others are making money, but he, Li Jiayi, will definitely not lose money.
Food is produced in space. It can be said that there is no cost at all. No matter how much you sell or how little you sell, you will make a profit.
Before Aunt Tian and Ma Zhang had finished cooking, someone came over, and it was none other than a few aunts working in the service club.
Seeing someone coming, Lao Li ran to the yard and shouted: "Lao Wu, Lao Niu, you two come over."
Lao Niu and Lao Wu were the neighbors of Lao Li's family. It was they who helped Li Jiayi trade meat with the military compound for the first time.
Now that Lao Li has called them over again, Lao Li is still very happy that someone is helping him.
Actually, the main reason is that he is afraid that he won't understand it. With Lao Wu, Lao Niu, and Lao Zhao, he basically doesn't have to do anything.
How about saying that this guy Lao Li is cunning! An absolute old fox.
"Lao Li, why did you call us here?" Lao Niu just came over and started shouting in a loud voice.
"Just ask some lesbians and I'll call Lao Zhao over."
Li Jian and Li Kang probably went out to play, otherwise Lao Li wouldn't have made this trip at all.
"Comrade Shufen, tell me what's going on?" Old Wu asked one of the aunts.
"That's it, Old Wu..." The aunt told the story again.
When I heard that I could get food, whether it was Lao Wu or Lao Niu, I immediately became energetic.
Just kidding, this is food!
Old Wu immediately ran into the house and saw Li Jiayi sitting on the sofa in front of the coffee table drinking tea.
"Xiao Li."
"Oh! Old Wu, what can you do?"
"Xiao Li, I heard that you want to exchange food, is it true? ?”
Li Jia nodded and said: "It's true."
"Should I exchange it for tobacco and alcohol?"
"Yes!"
"Okay, I understand. , I’m going to do the statistics, I just don’t know how to exchange it.”
“Old Wu, I just agreed with Old Li, we will exchange it according to the market price.”
"Uh!" Old Wu was stunned for a moment and said, "That Xiao Li! If you exchange it according to the market price, you will suffer a loss."
Exchanging it at the market price may seem like an exchange of equal value, but in fact it is not. Unfair, that is, equality does not mean fairness.
How difficult it is to get food now! Even if you have money, there is nowhere to buy it, and the price of food outside is one per day.
"It's okay, Old Wu, I'm not doing business, it doesn't matter if you have more or less."
"Okay! I'll register these people first and wait for Old Zhao to come , let’s register elsewhere.”
"Okay!"
After a while, Lao Li came back, followed by Lao Zhao.
And Lao Zhao did not come alone, but his whole family came here, including Li Jian and Li Kang.
It seems that these two boys were at Lao Zhao's house just now, otherwise they would not be able to come back together.
"Little plus one."
"Hello Aunt Feng."
"Okay, okay, let's play! I'll help you in the kitchen, Aunt Tian."
"Okay."
"Li Jiayi "Are you here to deliver meat to our house again?" Li Kang asked as he sat next to Li Jiayi.
Li Kang is about the same age as Li Jiayi, and the two of them can chat together.
Mainly because Li Kang said it, when Li Jia heard it, it was only what others thought that this could be said together.
"Yes, there is meat to eat tonight."
"That's great, I haven't eaten meat for a while." Li Kang wiped his saliva and said.
"Look at your potential." Li Jian curled his lips and said.
"What's wrong with me? If you are worthy, don't eat meat at night."
"You..."
Lao Li and the four of them soon went out. Li Jiayi knew that they were registering door to door.
The specific number needed depends on the final statistics. It should not be too much.
In the past, a bottle of Moutai wine could be exchanged for several kilograms of pork, but now a bottle of Moutai wine cannot even be exchanged for one kilogram of pork.
Not to mention meat, food is also ridiculously expensive now, and cornmeal can be sold for fifty cents.
Of course, this is still talking about the cornmeal of this era, not the kind Li Jiayi gave to his family.
It’s easy to work with so many people! In less than an hour, the meal was ready, but Lao Li and Lao Zhao had not returned yet.
"Li Jian, go and see how long it will take for your dad and your Uncle Zhao to come back!" Aunt Tian said.
"Okay."
Li Jian agreed and took the eldest son of the Zhao family out with him.
Ten minutes later, Lao Li and Lao Zhao came back, just as the last dish was ready. Because there were so many people, Lao Li’s Eight Immortals table simply couldn’t seat so many people, so we had no choice but to eat separately.
Lao Li and the six boys from Lao Zhao's family were eating at the coffee table.
Li Jiayi originally wanted to go there, but was dragged to the Eight Immortals Table by Aunt Tian.
This left Li Jiayi speechless. He was the only child at this table! A little uncomfortable.
"Come on, little Jiayi, and have a piece of meat." Aunt Tian helped Li Jiayi pick up a piece of meat and put it in the bowl.
"Aunt Tian, I can do it myself, and you can eat too."
"Okay."
"Xiao Li! We just counted the food. There are more than 20,000 kilograms, and the meat is nearly a thousand kilograms," said Lao Zhao.
At this time, Lao Li also looked at Li Jiayi and asked: "Can you get them with so many?"
"Old Li, if you remove the word "?", you will know whether I can get it."
"You can know whether I can get it by removing just one word. How can you be so good?"
Lao Li's words disgusted everyone at the table. Even Zhang Ma understood it, but Lao Li didn't understand.
"Okay, Lao Li, Xiao Li means there is no problem, we can get it." Lao Zhao said.
"It's no problem to get it, but it takes several trips, so starting from tomorrow night, I will come here once a day, and you can call people over in the order on the list."
"Okay." Lao Zhao nodded.
He also knew that Li Jiayi’s tricycle could not pull so much at once.
More than 20,000 kilograms, that’s more than ten tons! Pulling it with a truck is just fine.
However, the amount of meat requested this time was not much. More than a hundred households requested less than a thousand kilograms of meat.
In fact, it’s normal. Food is the most important thing now. It’s okay to eat less meat, but it’s not okay to have no food.
By the time we finished eating, it was already past seven in the evening. Because the food was rich and the food was heavy, there was not much at the Eight Immortals Table.
But the coffee table was in a mess. The six boys looked like they hadn't had enough to eat, and their mouths were full of oil.
The vegetable juices on the plate are all dipping with steamed buns.
It would be nice not to waste it in future generations. It is absolutely impossible to eat it so cleanly.
“Lao Li, Lao Zhao, Aunt Tian, Aunt Feng, it’s getting late, so I’ll go back first.”
"Well! Go back! Pay attention to safety on the road."
"Xiao Jiayi, you go back first. Tomorrow I will ask Lao Li to go to the service agency to buy all the cigarettes and alcohol. You come over tomorrow night and get them again. Let’s go.”
“Aunt Tian, no, it’s better. Leave it to Lao Li!”
“Whatever you want to keep! He can just drink Erguotou. He can’t drink it without drinking.”
“Xiaotian, that’s what you said. , why can’t I drink good wine?”
"Old Li! You really can't drink it. If others don't know this, how can I not know it." Lao Zhao said jokingly.
But what Lao Zhao said is also true.
In fact, Lao Li’s favorite drink is sweet potato roast, but it’s a pity that it can’t be bought here in the imperial capital.
When I went to the countryside a few years ago, I could still buy it from fellow villagers, all of which were home-brewed.
But the current situation cannot be encountered even if you go to the countryside.
If there is no food to eat, who will use the grain to make wine?
Even if it is sweet potato roast, it is the same, because sweet potato is needed to make sweet potato roast. At this time, where can I find sweet potatoes?
After leaving Lao Li's house, Li Jiayi went to the small courtyard over the black market. Today happened to be the day to put food.
Open the door, drive the tricycle in, and Li Jiayi comes to the house.
There is a pile of large yellow croakers on the Eight Immortals table in the room, and there is also a note.
The note stated how much supplies were needed this time, as well as how many large yellow croakers were placed here.
I counted the large yellow croakers and found that the number was correct, so I collected them and started taking things out.
This time I want more supplies, worth two hundred and thirty large yellow croakers.
So we couldn’t fit it into one room at all, so we had to clear out the West Room as well.
After putting away the things, Li Jia locked the door and drove the tricycle home.
It was just eight o'clock when we got home, but everyone in the family had already gone back to the house to rest.
No words for a night.
The next morning, as soon as Li Jiayi came down from upstairs, the eldest sister handed him a letter.
"Sister, what is this?" Li Jiayi asked after taking the envelope.
“I don’t know either. Uncle Liao asked me to give it to you. He said you’ll know what’s going on when you open it.”
"Okay!"
Li Jia opened the envelope and saw what was written on it.
It turned out that Mr. Wu asked Liao Kai to send a message that his family was short of food and asked Li Jiayi to send some.
After reading it, I put the letter away.
“Brother, who wrote you a letter?”
"Sister, I'm just a friend. He wants me to take time to visit his home."
"So that's it!"
I just have to go to the military compound to deliver food in the evening. Come back When you arrive, you can just turn a corner and send him there.
After dinner, the three siblings rode their bicycles to school.
When he came out of the Moon Gate, he didn't see Liao Kai. He was probably still eating. Originally, Li Jiayi wanted to ask about the current situation of the woolen mill.
He learned from his parents that the woolen mill was having a very difficult time now.
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(End of this chapter)