Era: Start as a buyer

This black market actually only existed in the past two years. Five or five years ago, everyone could still buy and sell normally. At that time, the first set of currency was still in use. The maximum face value could be 50,000 yuan, but the face value was large and it was not easy to spend. Today you can buy an egg for a few thousand yuan, but tomorrow it may cost you 10,000 yuan.

Because of the shortage of supplies, some businessmen took the opportunity to stock up on goods, causing prices to rise. Therefore, after the first version of the currency was discontinued in 1955, additional bill purchase methods were implemented in order to stabilize prices.

Later, when we crack down on merchants who raise prices, they can only sell at the same price as the state-owned market, which leads to a situation. It's not that you can't do business, it's that you can't do it. If you sell too high, you'll be reported. If you sell the same product, you won't be able to get low-priced goods. Some products are directly purchased by the state. Unified purchasing was introduced a few years ago. The unified purchasing is not food, but many civilian supplies.

This black market was born because of this, but it is definitely not a huge profit industry. In the black market where Luo Cheng works, it's pretty good if he can earn a hundred yuan a month, and he can still share it with a few people. It's better than people in the countryside who dig in the fields and don't have enough to eat, but they just have to make ends meet and take risks to feed their families.

Hei Niu went to Luo Cheng to buy a pound of fat meat, which was considered cruel. He couldn't afford it.

Twenty pounds of fat meat was sold within an hour. It's hard to see a big black ten when you come here to buy things. The face value of one dollar is not much, and most of them are a few cents or a dime.

Naturally, they leave immediately after selling things, and so do the people who came to sell things. After all, if something goes wrong, it would be bad luck to be caught. But when he left, he walked around the black market and saw someone selling snakes. He could catch this if he was lucky. There was also a fish seller, but I wasn't interested. Big fish in the future are cheaper than small fish, but it was interesting to see someone selling honey.

A jar of honey costs two yuan, and a jar weighs about two kilograms. This thing is better than white sugar, and white sugar is scarce. It is normal for honey to sell for one yuan a pound. Moreover, if you buy two kilograms of honey, they will also set up a jar. The jar costs at least 20 cents.

On the way back, Luo Cheng also wanted to take the empty sack back with him. It’s not a question of whether it’s valuable or not, it’s just that it’s hard to get, and everything is in short supply. On the way, he was thinking about how to catch a turtle and sell it in the future.

When harvesting rice, many people go to the fields and you can often see turtles. If they find one, they will catch it themselves and eat it. But some people will release the particularly large ones, saying they have spiritual power.

But it will take a few days before the rice is harvested. Now we are producing with mutual assistance, and harvesting is done collectively, but the food from whose land still belongs to whose family. Once the commune is established, the next season will be different.

I quickly thought of a solution. I still had five kilograms of suet meat at home, so it worked this time.

When Luo Cheng returned home, he originally wanted to go find the neighbor's big-haired two-haired boy, but by then their parents had already gone to work in the fields, and the children were playing outside the door catching bugs.

After putting the honey away, he went out and called Da Mao over.

"Uncle Domineering, why are you calling me?"

"Did you see this? You can cook meat with lard residue. Do you want to eat lard residue?"

"think."

"Go and call all the children nearby who are older than me and say what I called you. If you see anyone at home who doesn't come, tell him that I will throw him into the pit. Go quickly."

"Why."

This is a simple matter, Da Mao immediately responded. Now, adults and children in the neighborhood know whose house is whose. There is no place for children to play. When they get older, they will play behind some people regardless of whether they know them or not. As they play, they become familiar with them. As for adults, some women like to drop by and talk about the shortcomings of Zhang's family and Li's family. This is why in this day and age, it is easy for someone to ask where so and so lives.

Seeing that Da Mao was gone, Luo Cheng took charge of Er Mao. A child of five or six years old can do many things. For example, using his firewood to burn firewood, Luo Chenghao can boil lard. As for his third sister, there is a slug and a follower, just following Er Mao.

Boil lard, Luo Chenghui, if there is oil at the bottom, just boil it over high heat. But if you don’t use oil as the bottom, or you don’t want to mix it with vegetable oil, you can put some in the hot pot before it is very hot, which is equivalent to the oil that comes out of the hot pot. If the pot is very hot and you put it in without using base oil, even if it is pure fat meat, it will have to be blackened at first.

It doesn't matter if you live on the far west side, at least there are no neighbors in several directions. You want to live in the center of town. As soon as the lard is boiled, it is guaranteed that many neighbors will suddenly have something to chat with you.

Then we chatted for a while and talked about the oil residue after you boiled the oil. Then it will depend on whether you are thick-skinned or not. Even if you are not thick-skinned, you have to give it to others. If the adults don't give it, if the children make a noise, you have to give it. A few bucks.

The oil residue is very fragrant, but it is still soft when it is freshly fished out. After cooling for a while, it will become fragrant and crispy.

Don't look at Ermao Xiao, he honestly took his third sister to burn firewood by the stove. Uncle Domineering promised him that he would give him some to eat when he was done.

And Da Mao quickly called for seven or eight people, all around ten years old. Maybe he didn't explain clearly, but he called two girls. Children in towns and rural areas can still play for some time when they are around ten years old. If they are older, it is normal for them to go to the fields to help when they are twelve or thirteen years old.

"You all know the 'foot pinch' (soft-shelled turtle), right? You all take off your shoes and go to the fields to look for me. If you don't find it, I will feed you the oil residue when I come back. But if anyone finds it, the little one will be caught directly, and the big one will be caught." If you can't catch it, call me. If you find and catch it, if you see this big bowl, I'll give you a small bowl."

"Big brother, domineering, you keep your word, help you find a 'foot pinch' and give it to the oily residue?"

"You are a boy from Liu Ergen's family, so if you don't want to eat, get out. You two girls, don't go to the fields and dirty your clothes. Come on, one of us will give you some oil residue, and then go back."

After being questioned, Luo Cheng was not in the mood to tell the child whether his promise would count, so he just told him to leave if he didn't believe it. But if this kid really leaves, if you don't help him find turtles, he will immediately encourage the people who stay to beat him up.

Even if Luo Cheng didn't recognize the children, they looked familiar to them. They were all from nearby neighbors. There is no need for the two girls to go. The boys are thick-skinned and their clothes will definitely get muddy when they go to the fields, so they will inevitably be beaten. But no matter how hard he fights, he is still his son, the precious son of rural people.

But as a girl, if you meet someone you don’t like to see at home, what if you come back with dirty clothes and get beaten badly? Youzhi gave three or five to each of them to let them taste it, and planned to let them go back.

"Uncle Domineering, I know how to wash clothes myself and I'm not afraid of getting them dirty. Can I go find them for you too?"

"I'm not afraid of getting my clothes dirty, I can go too."

It's oil residue. Many people only eat meat during the Chinese New Year, but girls may still be the least likely to eat meat. They couldn't resist the temptation at all. They would just make their clothes dirty. They were all in their teens and they could just wash them themselves. If you can find a soft-shelled turtle and half a bowl of oil residue, it will taste better than eating meat.

"Okay, hurry up and step on the fields as you like, but if you tell me that I let you go to other people's fields, I guarantee that you will end up in a manhole."

Everyone nodded immediately and set off to the fields, including Da Mao, who also wanted to get a small bowl of oil residue. Now that the rice is ripe, it doesn't matter if it gets bent. But if it is too messy, it will be difficult for others to harvest.