bookrandom Chapter 348 Small Yellow Croaker
Chapter 348 Small Yellow Croaker
(Food coupons)
The next morning, before five o'clock, before daybreak, Lu Cheng got up, dressed, put on a hat, and wrapped a scarf around his neck, covering himself tightly. Then he walked out of the house, jumped over the courtyard wall, and went straight outside.
The gate of the courtyard house had to be locked at night. Lu Cheng was too lazy to ask the old man guarding the front yard for the key to open the door, so he just climbed over the wall.
After walking out of the alley, Lu Cheng ran all the way, crossing the streets and alleys, approaching the suburbs.
More than half an hour later, Lu Cheng arrived at an abandoned factory on the outskirts of the city, found the gatekeeper, paid the entrance fee, and walked in.
This is a black market nearby. Every day, some people from nearby come here to sell their unused household items. There are also some villagers from outside the city who sell their chickens, ducks, geese, or some prey they hunt.
In this era, every village had a militia, equipped with guns, ammunition, and grenades. Some villages near the mountains and forests would have hunters, who would go into the mountains from time to time to hunt pheasants and rabbits. If they were lucky, they could also hunt wild boars and wolves, which they could take home to eat or exchange for money or food on the black market.
There are also some antiques and calligraphy and paintings collected at home that are not convenient to sell outside, so they can only be bought secretly on the black market.
Therefore, different people appear on the black market every day, and the goods sold are also random, all depending on luck.
Of course, the most common items here are grains, vegetables, meat, or bills.
Lu Cheng first took a look around to familiarize himself with the prices, and then bought some food coupons from a ticket seller. The denominations included half a catty, one catty, three catties, etc. The total of all the denominations was more than thirty catties.
In addition to food coupons, Lu Cheng also bought some oil coupons, salt coupons, sugar coupons, etc.
Among these tickets, sugar tickets are rare and expensive. Most people cannot afford white sugar or brown sugar, especially brown sugar, which is scarce.
After buying the ticket, Lu Cheng saw that there were people selling flour and rice here, so he went up to ask about the price.
在正规的粮油店里，大米大概是1毛5到一毛8之间，标准面粉基本上也是1毛8一斤，上好的富强粉要2毛5一斤。
Of course, you need food stamps to buy these in regular grain and oil stores, but you don’t need food stamps to buy them on the black market, so the price will naturally be much higher.
Ordinary rice and standard flour are both 3 cents per pound. When Lu Cheng saw that one of the stalls had to pounds of rice and to pounds of flour, as well as a bag of Fuqiang flour, he knew that the owner of this stall must be no ordinary person.
To be able to get so much high-quality grain, there must be some grain and oil station behind him. Maybe the stall owner is a relative of the stationmaster of a grain station.
Of course, in a transaction, no one cares about the origin of the goods. Money is exchanged for goods.
Just when Lu Cheng was considering whether to buy all these things, he suddenly heard whispers coming from a corner not far away.
"Two small yellow croakers, three hundred and sixty yuan, not a penny less. Why don't you ask around? The price of small yellow croakers is getting higher and higher, and the inspections are getting stricter. We are risking our lives to do business. If you don't want to buy, I'm not willing to sell it to you. Anyway, it won't get lost if you keep it in your hands."
"Come on, no problem. Three hundred and sixty is three hundred and sixty. I won't bargain with you. Can you give me a little more? I'll give you one hundred and eighty yuan."
"It's not that easy to find it again. The price will be different in a few days. I'm just a small business, where can I get so much goods?"
"Okay, please help me ask around. If anyone still has any, I'll take them."
"That's fine. I see you're a straightforward person. I'll go ask around."
Soon, the two separated, and the man who had just spent money to buy two small yellow croakers also hurried outside.
Lu Cheng pretended to have bought the things and followed the man quietly.
After walking out of the black market and walking for a distance, Lu Cheng accelerated and came to the man. He said in a slightly hoarse and low voice: "Friend, can you lend me a hand to chat?"
When the man saw Lu Cheng blocking his way, he thought he was being robbed and was startled: "You...what do you want to do?"
"Don't be nervous. I saw you wanted to buy some yellow croaker. I have some here. Do you want some?"
As Lu Cheng spoke, he took out two small yellow croakers from his arms and flashed them.
When the man saw the small yellow croaker, his face lit up and he said, "Yes, of course I want it."
"It's inconvenient to talk on the road, come with me."
Soon, the two walked to the back of a small earthen slope. Lu Cheng took out two small yellow croakers from his arms and placed them in front of him: "I saw the transaction between you and that person on the black market just now. One hundred and eighty per piece. I also have small yellow croakers from the Republic of China period. They are of standard weight."
"I want to inspect the goods."
"No problem." Lu Cheng directly handed a small yellow croaker to the other party, not fearing that the other party would have any bad intentions.
Lu Cheng even expected that the other party had ill intentions so that he could rob the other party.
However, the other party just took the small yellow croaker, put it in his mouth and took a bite, then looked at it carefully, touched it, and then nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad, it's real, I'll buy it."
During the Republic of China period, people called large and small gold bars "big and small yellow croakers". At that time, 31.25 liang was one catty, and one liang was grams. A small yellow croaker was exactly one liang, and a large yellow croaker was ten liang.
The two small yellow croakers in Lu Cheng's hand are still the small gold bars from the Republic of China in the cross-border backpack in the world of "My Captain, My Regiment".
(Gold Bars of the Republic of China)
Of course, there were also standard gold bars weighing one kilogram and one hundred grams in later generations.
When leaving each world, Lu Cheng would refill the supplies in his cross-border backpack, including gold, silver, jewelry, guns and ammunition, precious medicines, tablet computers, etc.
In the worlds of "There is Wind" and "The Golden Years", the system will use some of the property in the cross-border backpack as original capital to create a family business for Lu Cheng.
In this world, the system directly let Lu Cheng start from scratch, and naturally did not deduct the property in the cross-border backpack.
"Sir, are these the only two small yellow croakers you have?"
"Of course there are more than two. How many do you want?"
"I'll take as many as you can get. But I don't have much money with me today. I can only buy five more small yellow croakers at most. If you still have some, you can come here again tomorrow and we can trade separately."
"No problem, these are five small yellow croakers, keep them."
"Nine hundred yuan, please count."
The two men exchanged money and goods, and after confirming that there were no problems with the money and goods, they agreed on a time to meet tomorrow and left in a hurry.
With these nine hundred yuan, Lu Cheng suddenly had a lot more money on hand and could stock up on goods without any hesitation.
As for the man who just bought the small yellow croaker, Lu Cheng took a look at his dress and walking posture, and judged that he was a martial artist and probably had a pistol hidden in his waist.
Moreover, judging from the other party's tone of voice and some of his behavioral habits, he should be a bodyguard or butler of a wealthy person.
In recent years, because Western countries do not recognize China's currency, China wants to import some goods from abroad, and sometimes trades with hard currency such as gold. Therefore, the price of gold is gradually rising.
Today, the gold price announced by the bank is about four yuan per gram, close to five yuan. The normal price of a small yellow croaker is around one hundred and fifty yuan.
However, since private gold trading is prohibited, the price of gold in the black market is naturally higher.
Moreover, in the past two years, many businessmen have been looking for ways to go to Hong Kong or abroad, and they are eager to exchange the cash on hand into gold, which is convenient to carry and can be used abroad.
For Lu Cheng, spending some gold is nothing, because the money saved is meant to be spent.
Moreover, when you make a lot of money in the future, you can naturally replenish the gold you have used.