But before that, she had to go out and at least understand the environment she was in. The best way to get information was through newspapers or books.

It takes an hour and a half to walk from here to the town, and three hours to the county seat. It would be faster to take a ox cart, but not much faster. At most, it would be less tiring.

So she planned to go to the town first, visit the black market and the scrap collection station. She remembered hearing people in the village say that she could get to the town by following the main road at the entrance of the village.

The oxcart runs every three days, and each seat costs 1 cent, carrying people who want to go to town. She has no money, and now is not a day for the oxcart to run, so it seems that she can only walk.

But she has cars, both a car and an electric scooter, so she can just drive there at night. No one is outside at night, and even if one or two people happen to see it, they won't be able to tell what kind of car it is in the dark.

In the early morning, she found a small electric scooter in her space. She had collected quite a few cars of this type. She also wanted to drive a car, but she was short. With her current height, if she sat high enough, she could see the windshield and could not step on the accelerator. If she stepped on the accelerator, she could not see the road.

She knew that although it was spring, it was still very cold at night. However, she found the necessary winter clothes for riding an electric scooter, wrapped herself tightly, and also put a lot of heat packs on her body. Finally, she entered the town safely.

She stopped at the entrance of an alley, retracted the car into the space, and then entered the space at the door of a house with a big gate, taking advantage of the cover of the gate.

Now she has discovered another benefit of the electric scooter: it is quiet, so she can drive it into the city in the middle of the night without disturbing anyone.

The temperature in the space was comfortable. She had a good sleep here first. After waking up naturally, she washed up, had breakfast and started to get ready.

She put on some simple makeup so that no one would recognize her. She didn't plan to do anything big here anyway.

She packed up the things she was going to sell and put them in a big backpack. It was her first time going to the black market. She wanted to see what the black market in this era was like and get familiar with the process of going to the black market.

The main purpose of this trip is to understand where she is now. If she wants to ship a large amount of goods, she still has to go to the city. How much can this small town take?

Carrying an empty backpack, she searched the alleys for the location of the black market. Fortunately, the town was not big, so she actually found it. However, it was not what she had imagined.

This place is more like a private store, where they both buy and sell things. Lin Ximan observed in the dark for a day before she mastered the rules of the transaction. It is not like they sell or buy things here just because they come. They can only do so if they have an acquaintance to introduce them. Otherwise, they would have been investigated long ago.

The next day, she arrived at the gate of the small courtyard where she collected things as usual. She looked around and saw that there was no one there. She put the backpack on the ground and put the things that had been arranged in the space into the backpack. Then she knocked on the gate with a secret signal.

The person who opened the door was a middle-aged woman in her forties. She was surprised to see a teenage boy standing at the door.

The knocking sound is a secret code used by people doing business, but what about the child in front of me?

"Who are you looking for?" the woman asked uncertainly.

"Hello, auntie, look at this..." Lin Ximan lifted a corner of the sack covering the backpack, revealing a large piece of pork.

The woman no longer suspected that she had knocked on the wrong door and said to her with a smile, "It's Zhuzi. Come in quickly. I haven't seen you for half a year. How is your mother these days?"

As he spoke, he carried her and the backpack into the yard, closed the door, and started asking questions.

"Shipment?"

"Well, Uncle Wang in front of the station asked me to come. He said you collect these things here." Lin Ximan answered very quickly. She didn't spend the whole day squatting yesterday in vain.

"What's there?"

"20 kilograms of pork belly, 20 kilograms of rice, 20 kilograms of refined white flour, and 10 kilograms of brown sugar." The backpack was filled to the brim with all these things.

As Lin Ximan spoke, she took out the things in the backpack and put them on the ground, letting the woman take a look at the goods. If she didn't like the goods, there would be no way to make a deal!

The woman looked at the things on the ground, checked each one, touched it, and after confirming that there was no problem, she started to talk about the price.

"Pork belly is 1 yuan per pound, rice is 0.3 yuan per pound, refined white flour is 0.4 yuan per pound, and brown sugar is 1 yuan per pound. I'll give you 44 yuan for all these things. How about that?"

Lin Ximan knew that her things couldn't be sold at a good price here, so she didn't say anything. She came here just to make some money first so that she could have money to buy things at the scrap yard later, so she nodded in agreement.

"You carried it here by yourself? Your family really feels comfortable letting you come here alone. They are really generous." The woman asked while counting the money.

"Auntie, I won't hide it from you. I don't have any family. I just run errands for people. I may come to your place often in the future, haha, to make a living." Lin Ximan talked about human relationships all the time, and you can tell from her that she is a person who is used to doing things.

When the woman heard this, she asked again, "He's running errands for someone? Does he have any more goods? Where are they?"

"Aunt, I can't tell you this. He asked me to run errands because he didn't want others to know who he is and where he is. How can I tell you? Besides, if I tell you, I won't be able to take his business in the future, and I'll starve to death!" Lin Ximan answered the middle-aged woman's question with a grin.

Seeing that the child was shrewd, the women stopped asking questions. They were businessmen and could steal the property, but they would not kill anyone for the money, so they gave the money to Lin Ximan.

Lin Ximan took the money and said to the woman with a smile: "Auntie, leave ten dollars for me to exchange for food coupons and meat coupons."

The woman readily exchanged the ticket for 10 yuan, because many people came to the black market to exchange tickets, which was not uncommon.

"Thank you, auntie. I'll come to you if I have any problems in the future." After saying this, Lin Ximan raised her little hand and turned to leave the yard.