Fifteen days passed in a flash.

After half a month of psychological preparation, everyone has accepted the facts that they are about to face.

Shi Meiyun took all the cloth in the house to make clothes for Qiao Qingqing and the children, because she knew it was not easy for Qingqing to take care of three children alone for ten years, and she probably didn't have enough time to make clothes.

Even so, the Lu family was still worried.

They could only keep begging the Tan couple, Yao Xiaoman and Zhou Lanfang for help in private.

The Tan couple had developed feelings for the Lu family, so they listened with tears in their eyes and nodded in agreement.

Yao Xiaoman said, "Grandpa, uncle and aunt, you can rest assured that I will take good care of my godson. As for Sister Qingqing, she is so capable and she usually takes care of us, so if Sister Qingqing needs anything, we will do our best to help her."

Zhou Lanfang nodded.

Shi Meijun couldn't stop wiping away tears when she heard this. Thinking about saying goodbye, thinking about not being able to see Qingqing and the triplets in the future...she was so sad that she couldn't stop crying.

But when Qiao Qingqing came in the evening, Shi Meiyun only showed her positive side to prevent Qingqing from feeling uncomfortable.

Qiao Qingqing didn't say anything, but she knew it in her heart.

But in a situation like this, Qiao Qingqing couldn't think of any words to comfort her and just pretended not to know.

After half a month, Qiao Qingqing went into the city.

Sun Zhong's home.

As soon as Qiao Qingqing arrived, Sun Zhong told her two pieces of news.

"According to your instructions, I bought two old quilts and three old cotton-padded clothes at a price twice the market price. I have also arranged the tickets for you. At 12:30 noon today, someone will be waiting to trade with you in the black market. Go find Xiaoliu and he will show you the way."

Qiao Qingqing took the packed cotton-padded clothes and quilts and thanked him again and again.

"Girl, don't worry, you can leave your things here first, and you can come back from the dark to get them."

Qiao Qingqing shook her head. "Time is running out, Brother Sun, I won't come here to deceive you any more. Please continue to help me keep an eye on the news about the tickets. If there is still cotton, you can continue to buy it. Here is the money. I will come again in three days. If the money is not enough by then, I will give you more."

Seeing this, Sun Zhong offered to help her carry the things downstairs.

In fact, the old cotton-padded clothes and quilts they purchased only weighed about three kilograms of cotton. Qiao Qingqing could easily carry them all by herself, so she declined.

After going downstairs and tying the package on the back seat of the car, Qiao Qingqing rode away on her bicycle.

First he left the city, put the collected cotton clothes and quilts into the space, and then rode his bike to the north of the city.

There were still more than four hours until half past twelve, and this little time could not be wasted. She went to the other two black shops to see if she could get some tickets.

However, if you want the Lu family to take the money to the north for use, you can only get tickets from that place or national tickets.

You can't get out-of-town tickets overseas, and only a very small number of people have national tickets. These people are often employees of important local departments, and they get national tickets as a welfare or reward.

Take Lu Heng for example. Every time he made meritorious service and received a reward, he would receive a national ticket.

Those tickets had previously been taken by Lu Heng on business trips. Lu Heng had spent quite a lot of them, and there weren't many left. Qiao Qingqing wanted to use existing channels to get as many as possible for the Lu family.

In a black market in the north of the city, she met a man who wanted to sell local coal tickets. The other party wanted to exchange them for money. After asking the price, Qiao Qingqing took the coal tickets.

——Although Haibo coal tickets are not useful to people in the north, in this era when tickets are scarcer than money, they still have great value for wealthy Qiao Qingqing.

After all, when some people bring tickets to sell, they sometimes exchange them for other tickets, and they don’t just want money.

After buying the ticket from this man, Qiao Qingqing saw another person selling vegetables, who wanted to exchange money for eggs.

Qiao Qingqing has two bunches of vegetable sprouts at home, both of which were secretly taken away from the Lu family before she left.

She emptied out almost everything in the Lu family's house, including the dishes, pots and pans.

Fortunately, otherwise I would have to use industrial coupons to buy vegetables later.

At that time, she gave one to the Lu family in the cowshed and kept one for herself.

Later, the cowshed caught fire and everyone lived together, so they kept both handfuls of vegetables at home.

Qiao Qingqing had originally thought of giving them all the eggs, but since she ran into someone selling vegetables that day, she didn't hesitate to take the money and eggs and just took them.

After getting five coal tickets and a handful of vegetables, there was nothing worth buying in the black market in the north of the city, so Qiao Qingqing turned and went to the black market in the east of the city.

There are more people here, and the clothes they wear don't have so many patches on them. It looks like they are here to buy things.

So Qiao Qingqing plucked up her courage and took the initiative to strike up a conversation with the person. She first said that she had eggs to test the other person's attitude. If the other person was from the county town, he would most likely want to buy her eggs. At this time, she would take the opportunity to ask the other person if he had any iron pots or dishes at home, or tickets or the like that could be exchanged.

"In addition to chicken eggs, I also have duck eggs, goose eggs and old hens - these chickens are raised for more than a year, and they are very nutritious when stewed in soup. Most people are reluctant to sell them."

Someone was moved by what Qiao Qingqing said and asked her about the price.

Qiao Qingqing lowered her voice and said, "If you bring an iron pot with vegetables, you can exchange it for a chicken for a pot with more than five eggs, and two handfuls of old vegetables or a handful of whole vegetables for twenty eggs. If you bring coupons to exchange, you can get a better discount."

"What if I want goose eggs?"

"Goose eggs are rare, so they are expensive. So a handful of radish can only be exchanged for ten of my goose eggs."

The other party calculated in his mind that if he came to cheat, he could only exchange twenty eggs for eight goose eggs. Wasn't he still making a profit?

"Hey, wait a moment, I'll go get some vegetables from my house. My family just got some two days ago."

This dish was a "prize" given by her unit.

Qiao Qingqing held her and said with a smile: "Hey, sister, if your family doesn't have any tickets, just exchange them for them, especially the national tickets. I'll give you a high price."

"Come on, I'll go look through it."

Watching the other person leave, Qiao Qingqing turned around and stopped another person, repeating the same words.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, the elder sister who had left earlier came back with a handful of whole vegetables and three tickets.

"Here I have two national grain coupons and one extra industrial coupon from my family. Do you want some?"

Qiao Qingqing leaned over to take a look at the face value and immediately made an offer: "Two national food coupons for eight goose eggs or eighteen chicken eggs, and industrial coupons for two chicken eggs."

The other party was quite satisfied with the price, but still wanted to bargain. In the end, Qiao Qingqing had already taken out her eggs and muttered, "Big sister, I am completely sincere and will not let you lose at all. The reason is to ask for some transactions, otherwise it will be troublesome if you are caught."

After hearing this, the elder sister immediately shut her mouth.

Bargaining would inevitably waste time, and now the authorities are cracking down on ticket trading. If she is caught, she will lose her job!

Both parties completed the transaction at the fastest speed.

The eldest sister exchanged the cabbage leaves and the coupons for 18 goose eggs and two chicken eggs, and sold them contentedly.

She was pregnant and had heard that eating goose eggs was good for the brain development of the fetus, so she had been searching for goose eggs. That was why she was willing to exchange the handful of cabbage and the ticket with Qiao Qingqing.

There was also an elderly grandmother who exchanged some old vegetables from her home for ten eggs.

Apart from this, the black group in the east of the city had no other gains.

Seeing that it was almost twelve o'clock, Qiao Qingqing simply left and headed south of the city for the dark.

This is the big head of the world.

On the way, she counted the eggs and chickens in the space so that she would have an idea of ​​what to expect when trading later.

…

In a dark corner in the south of the city, about ten people were standing in groups of three or four.

These people all want to sell their tickets.

But not everyone has national coupons. Most people just use the coupons that are temporarily unavailable at home to exchange for things that the family urgently needs, such as other coupons, items, or money.

When Qiao Qingqing hurried over, she had smeared charcoal on her face, tied her hair up, and wore a hat. She looked like a dark-skinned country man.

If you don't look carefully, you can't tell her original facial features.

Such disguise is also because they are afraid that official personnel will blend in with the crowd of sellers to "fish for law enforcement" in order to catch people who buy and sell tickets.

As long as the other party doesn't remember her face, the chance of her being exposed is low.