Chapter 243 More than One Million
Dried white potato noodles are rich in starch and will keep you away from hunger, but they are not really delicious. At least they are far worse than red-flesh sweet potatoes.
This woman probably wanted to buy red-flesh sweet potatoes to improve her taste, not to fill her stomach.
"That's it! Okay then! I'll look elsewhere."
There are also sweet potatoes sold in Pigeon Market, but the quantity is very small, some weigh a few kilograms, and some weigh dozens of kilograms.
But the price is not cheap. A pound of sweet potatoes is four or five cents more expensive than here.
“Come on, everyone, come and take a look. Although these white potatoes are not as sweet as red-flesh sweet potatoes, they have more starch and are more resistant to hunger.”
“Come on, I want fifty pounds.”< br>
“I also want fifty catties.”
“Give me a hundred catties.”
"Uh!" Li Jia was stunned for a moment. This was the first time since he sold sweet potatoes that he saw someone buying a hundred catties.
I turned around and looked over, and I immediately understood what was going on.
Although this man looks very thin, he is very tall. If he were not of this age, he should look very strong.
"Okay, your one hundred catties." Li Jiayi took out a large mesh bag containing one hundred catties from the space and handed it over.
One bag is much easier to carry than two bags, and it can even be carried.
Fuxingmen is in the west of the city, and there are more ordinary families living there. Of course, even in poor places, there are still wealthy families, such as the woman who wanted to buy red sweet potatoes just now.
Of course, most of them are ordinary people, so selling sweet potatoes here is faster than at Deshengmen or Jianguomen.
Because everyone here basically buys it.
Let’s put it this way, Li Jiayi sells sweet potatoes at the Pigeon Market outside Deshengmen. Almost 50% of the people who come to the Pigeon Market will buy his sweet potatoes.
Go to the Pigeon Market outside Jianguomen. Sixty-five percent of the people who come to the Pigeon Market will buy something.
And here, at least 90% of the people buy his sweet potatoes. From this, we can also see where the people are rich.
Of course, the west of the city is not the poorest place. The poorest people should be the south of the city, that is, the people who go to Yongdingmen Pigeon Market.
After selling sweet potatoes here for a day, Li Jiayi didn’t know how much he sold.
But those who bought sweet potatoes will be able to alleviate the food shortage for at least the next month.
However, he also knew that there were only a few people who came to the pigeon market. He could only say that he was lucky to encounter them, and there was nothing he could do if he didn't.
And he will only sell here for one day, and will go to Yongding Gate tomorrow.
Time flies by, and it’s the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in a blink of an eye. Ye Xin gets up early in the morning to cook Laba porridge.
This day is also the time to pickle Laba garlic, so both the eldest sister and the second sister got up early to pickle garlic.
Only Li Jiayi didn’t need to do anything, and even said he could do whatever he wanted.
After eating Laba porridge, Li Aimin and Ye Xin had to go to work.
The fireplace in the room has been lit, and Li Jiaqi and Li Jialin are reading in the room.
As for Li Jiayi, of course he drove the sled out of the yard.
Today he is going to Wu Ye's house. Now many people exchange food and meat from him through Wu Ye.
About ten minutes later, Li Jiayi arrived.
"Come in." Hearing the knock on the door, Mr. Wu opened the door and said immediately when he saw it was him.
"Yeah!"
Li Jiayi drove the sled into the yard.
"Xiao Li, take a look, this is what they want, when can you get it?"
Li Jiayi took it and looked at it and said: "Master Wu, these I can send things over at any time, but you are not safe here.”
“What’s wrong?”
"Master Wu, think about it! With so many people coming in and out every day, it won't be a big deal in a short time, but over time it will definitely attract others' attention."
Hearing what Li Jiayi said, Wu The master thought for a while and nodded and said: "You are right."
"So Mr. Wu, don't worry about these things now. I plan to rent a relatively secluded courtyard. I'll put the things in, and then you can find a way to get them at night."
Master Wu nodded and said, "That's a good idea."
As for how they can get so much food. There is no need to worry about transporting it back. People like them all have big businesses, so it is very easy to transport some food home without anyone noticing.
"By the way, you said you want to rent a small courtyard that is relatively secluded. Leave this to me!"
"Uh! Master Wu, do you have such a courtyard?"
Master Wu smiled. He smiled and said, "I don't have it, but someone does! Give me a day and I'll find a place."
"Okay, then I'll go back first, and I'll come back tomorrow morning."
“Okay.”
Li Jiayi left the place after not staying at Master Wu's house for long, and then wandered aimlessly on the street.
Anyway, he has a sled and doesn’t need to walk on his own.
Unknowingly, Li Jiayi came to the front door.
Now that he got here, Li Jiayi stopped and walked into a trust store.
This trust store in Qianmen is the main store of the entire Imperial Capital Trust Store. Not only is the place large, but there are also a lot of special things inside.
Now that I'm here, I have to go in and take a look no matter what! See if there is anything you want.
This trust store is divided into the first and second floors, with the area of each floor not less than 800 square meters.
In later generations, such a large area may not be a big deal, but in this era, it is definitely considered very large.
You must know that this is an old house! It has at least a few hundred years of history, and I don’t know what it was used for before. After entering, there is a dazzling array of products. The first floor is for large items, such as furniture, bicycles, sewing machines, etc.
Of course, all of them are second-hand, either collected by trust stores, or consigned here by others.
Except for the old furniture, he was not interested in anything else on the first floor.
And these old furniture are too big to be transported, so he doesn't consider them for the time being.
But once Mr. Wu has found a yard and a place to put these things, he can consider it.
So he didn’t stop on the first floor and went directly to the second floor.
The second floor is full of small items, with various antiques accounting for the majority, as well as watches, radios, and some household items.
Trust store! You can sell anything you can use, including old clothes and shoes.
Of course, the premise is that it can still be worn.
Li Jiayi first went to the watch area and took a look. There were really a lot of good things. There were so many good things that it would be too eye-catching to buy them all at once.
"Hello! Take out this, this, and this for me to take a look at." Li Jia picked out a few Patek Philippe watches and said to the salesperson.
"Okay."
Soon three watches were placed in front of Li Jiayi.
Picked up a piece and looked at it carefully. Except for some traces of use, it was quite perfect.
Then I put it down and picked up another piece to look at it. There was still nothing wrong with it.
“The watches you have here are quite good!”
"Of course, the ones with problems will not be placed here. There is a counter inside, and there are all defective watches there."
"So that's it!"
Li Jia I thought these watches had been restored, but it seems not.
Just think about it! These watches, if not original, have essentially lost their value.
So the trust store will not be stupid enough to replace parts or even assemble several identical broken watches into one.
"I want these three yuan, how much is it?"
The salesperson took the abacus over and calculated it and said: "The total is seven hundred and two."
"Seven hundred and two! Then Take out these pieces and let me see them," Li Jiayi said, pointing to three pieces of Patek Philippe and two pieces of Vacheron Constantin.
“Okay.”
I checked the five watches carefully, and there was nothing wrong with them.
"I want them all, let's do the math!"
"Okay."
There was another burst of crackling, the salesperson looked up at Li Jiayi and said: "A total of two thousand one hundred and sixty-six ."
"Well! Let's make a ticket!"
Issuing tickets is more troublesome. Not all watches are issued together, but one ticket is issued for one watch.
This wastes a lot of time.
Fortunately, there were only eight watches in total. Ten minutes later, the tickets were issued, and Li Jiayi took the tickets and paid the money.
As for where the money comes from, of course it is his ever-changing schoolbag.
After paying the money and stamping it here, Li Jiayi took it back to get the watch.
Putting the watch into his schoolbag, Li Jiayi came to the antique again.
There are so many antiques here, and the prices are not cheap. Similarly, the value of these antiques is also very high.
Li Jiayi selected four pieces of porcelain worth between 500 and 600. These pieces of porcelain are also the most valuable here.
Since we can’t buy them all at once, of course we have to buy the expensive ones. No, it cost more than two thousand.
After such a long period of operation, Li Jiayi still has a lot of money in his hands, and there is still more than one million in cash in the space.
The reason why there are so many is because he spends too much and often goes to trust stores or antique trust stores.
Otherwise, Li Jiayi’s current money in this space would definitely be no less than three million.
Although he was trading large and small yellow croakers with Mr. Long and Mr. Wu in the black market, when he went to the pigeon market to sell pork and sweet potatoes, it was all in cash!
In addition, he also received cash from selling peanuts, melon seeds and beef jerky.
In fact, that’s not all. In addition, he sent wild boars to the woolen mill and eggs to the bakery, and all he received were cash.
So Li Jiayi is definitely considered a rich man now.
But he is also really ruthless in spending money! Seeing that this one million is quite a lot, just like today, it cost more than four thousand in one go. This one million is enough for him to spend a long time.
So he is short of money now.
Let's put it this way, as long as he is willing to visit all the trust stores in the imperial capital, he will probably have no money in his hands.
The most urgent thing is to make more money. In that case, he will be able to buy a large number of antiques from the antique trust store in the next period of time.
Because the coming days will be even more difficult, some families are in urgent need of money, so they will take antiques to trust stores or antique trust stores to exchange for money.
Also, trust stores and antique trust stores may look similar, but they are actually different.
A trust store, just like a supply and marketing cooperative, is a trust house under the Commerce Bureau.
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