There wasn't anything good going on in the stalls in the big pigsty. Most of the items were grain, oil, fish, pork, white-cut chicken, white-cut duck, live chickens, live ducks, fruit, cloth, shoes, and insoles.

Su Jinyan walked around and bought two bunches of black grapes. After walking a few steps, he suddenly saw a man in his thirties with two buckets and three deep wooden basins in front of him.

When I saw what was in the wooden basin, I was instantly excited.

One wooden basin contained seven or eight palm-sized prawns, one basin contained clams, razor clams, oysters, mussels and other shellfish, and another basin contained two large hairy crabs weighing half a pound.

This is really rare.

I didn't expect that I could see live seafood in Beijing, a place without a seaside. It is really rare in this day and age.

"Hello, big brother, how much are your shrimps and crabs?"

The man looked up at Su Jinyan, his dark face showing neither enthusiasm nor indifference. "These are all freshly shipped here. They are big and fresh. I sell them by the piece. Shrimp is one dollar each, and crabs are ten dollars each."

Su Jinyan, who was used to 40 to 50 yuan per pound of prawns, did some calculations when he heard the price. He calculated based on the material prices of that era and the prices of things in later generations. He found that prawns cost twelve or thirteen yuan per pound, which is equivalent to more than one hundred yuan per pound in later generations. Crabs cost twenty yuan per pound, which is equivalent to more than two hundred yuan.

My heart ached instantly. It’s too expensive.

But on second thought, this thing is rare in this day and age, especially in places without seas and rivers, you can't buy it even if you want to eat it.

Scarcity makes things valuable, and the most direct way to achieve this is in price.

The space was full of frozen animals, and there was nothing raised in the river water. She thought of putting some in the space for breeding. Moreover, she wanted to be able to eat or sell them openly in the future, so there must be such a line.

Then, Su Jinyan looked at the three large wooden barrels and saw that one barrel was filled with large prawns, one barrel was filled with large crabs, and the other barrel was filled with a hodgepodge of seashells.

"Brother, I've already bought all these, can you give me a discount?"

The man glanced at her, then looked at her belly and nodded calmly, "It costs a lot to ship them here from other places. I can save a few cents on shrimps and 50 cents on crabs. These scallops are 6 yuan per pound. What do you think?"

If they can't be sold today, too many of them will die. Once dead, they are worthless. If they can be sold at once, the man will be happy.

Not very good, damn expensive!

But who made her greedy?

Su Jinyan nodded, "The price is acceptable. You can see that I'm pregnant now. Can you help me deliver the goods? Of course, if you deliver the goods to me this time, I will need it again next time."

"Is it far?"

"Not too far, near Peking University's Yanyuan Street. It's only a five-minute walk after getting off the tram."

The man nodded, "Okay, let's count first."

There was half a bucket of prawns, a total of sixty-nine, twenty-one crabs, and twenty-nine pounds of various scallops drained of water.

After calculating the price, Su Jinyan hesitated for a moment.

"It's expensive—"

The man looked up at her, pursed his lips and said, "Just give me four hundred and twenty-five."

Thinking about her tight wallet, she felt like crying but had no tears. Feeling very distressed, she still took out four hundred and twenty-five yuan from her bag and handed it to the man.

"Okay, thank you, big brother. Please wait for me at the door. I have something else to do, so I'll go shopping for a while."

Thinking about the dozens of chickens and geese that have been bred in the space recently, should I slaughter them and exchange them for money?

Of course!

Thinking about having another source of money, Su Jinyan became generous.

Afterwards, she saw army green cloth, white and black fine cotton cloth, white, yellow, light blue and army green Dacron cloth. All of them did not require tickets and were only one dollar and one foot. She picked out six feet each of white, yellow, light blue and army green, and also bought a few large buttons and small white buttons of nice styles, intending to try her hand at it when she got home.

When Su Jinyan walked around and reached the entrance, Xia Paizi was already waiting. "Big sister, are you done shopping? Here, these are your four sewing tickets, one radio ticket, and these ten industrial coupons are from our boss."

"Big sister, the refrigerator you mentioned——"

Su Jinyan retracted his expression of worrying about money and glanced at him arrogantly, "How much did your boss say to charge?"

"Big sister, can I see the goods first?"

"Can I still lie to you? Don't worry, the stuff is shipped from Shanghai, and it's much better than what's in the department store here. The stuff is at home, and my husband doesn't agree to sell it, so it's inconvenient for me to see the stuff. If you want it, I'll find someone to bring it over in the next two days."

Xia Paizi pondered for a moment, stretched out his hand to gesture, and said: "Well, you find someone to pull it over, and we will give you three thousand and two!"

Su Jinyan glared at him and frowned, "Brother, are you trying to trick a little girl? What? Do you think I've never seen the world? How hard is it to make a refrigerator? Three thousand and two? Do you believe that I can sell it to my neighbors for four thousand?"

"If I wasn't afraid that others would think I was rich, I would have sold it to someone I know."

Xia Paizi smiled stiffly, thinking about what he just heard, he thought, no matter how much money you have, it won't be enough for you to spend, "Then sister, wait a minute."

With that, he ran out the door.

Su Jinyan looked at the seafood seller waiting at the door and said with a smile, "Brother, wait a moment."

The man nodded imperceptibly, thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "The leader of this black market is a decent person. The price difference is not much. Just give the things to you, and don't worry about anyone coming to your door."

Su Jinyan raised his eyebrows in surprise and thought about it for a moment, then Xia Paizi came back.

"Big sister, our boss is willing to add three hundred, any more is really not possible."