Even if you lose your job, you still have to eat!

Xu Xiangyang sat up with a somersault, ate and drank, and went to the cafeteria.

Thinking that there were still a few days left before the Chinese New Year, he planned to sell things in the city for two days.

Last time I heard about the black market, I didn’t have time to go. Now that I’ve lost my job, I have plenty of time.

The food area in the cafeteria was still full of food, with steam rising from it.

The food here is automatically replenished, which is pretty good. At least you don’t have to cook!

Xu Xiangyang does know how to cook, but he finds it troublesome. Usually, when he is busy with work, he eats in the cafeteria and rarely cooks for himself.

I ordered some meat and vegetables and four ounces of rice.

Ever since he started doing physical work, his appetite has increased dramatically, and his body feels noticeably stronger. He must be building muscle.

Have a good night's sleep.

The next morning, Xu Xiangyang got up, packed up, and went to the port to prepare things.

Nowadays, supplies are in short supply and everything is selling very well.

He checked the container and found some frozen pork, each weighing two pounds.

Pork belly sells the best, so that's all the meat he gets.

He went to find another backpack, put some meat and a few pounds of eggs in it, and covered it with a thick cloth.

Although he didn't prepare much, as long as others didn't know what was inside, it would be the same if he took it out.

When I left the space, the cold wind from outside hit me in the face.

Xu Xiangyang shivered suddenly and tightened his cotton jacket.

Fortunately, he was wearing thermal underwear, otherwise he would have frozen into a popsicle.

Arriving at the black market he had inquired about before, Xu Xiangyang did not sell the things he had on his back immediately, but instead prepared to see what the situation was like.

I don’t know the market price. What if I sell it too cheaply? What if I sell it too expensively and can’t sell it?

After wandering around for a while, Xu Xiangyang got a rough idea of ​​the prices.

Pork is one yuan a pound, no meat coupons needed. Flour is fifty cents a pound, no coupons needed either.

There are also various other things. Anyway, you don’t need a ticket on the black market, and you can get some extra discounts if you give a ticket.

Normally, pork costs 70 cents per pound in grocery stores, but you need a meat ticket. Here, you don't need a ticket, but it's a little more expensive.

This is understandable. After all, the monthly supply of tickets is limited. If there is no profit, who would buy and sell here? What's the point?

Xu Xiangyang saw an old man wandering around for a long time, looking at something with a frown on his face.

He came over, gently touched the old man with his arm, and whispered, "Hey, I have something here. Let's go take a look at it over there."

The old man looked at him and although he didn't hold out much hope, he still followed him.

Seeing that no one around was paying attention to them, Xu Xiangyang put the backpack on the ground and opened the lid.

Inside were a few pieces of frozen pork belly and a few small Red Fuji apples.

He collected the eggs when he was on the road. After all, the temperature was over 20 degrees below zero in winter. If they were left outside for a long time, they would definitely freeze, and the eggs would be wasted if they were frozen.

"Wow, such good meat!" The old man couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw the good-looking meat.

The meat he saw just now had been frozen for a long time and its surface had dried out.

Meat is meat, but it’s definitely not as delicious as this.

Xu Xiangyang knew from the way he was dressed that his family was well-off, and since he had just been disdaining something of poor quality, he must be a wealthy man.

"Hey man, is our meat good?" he said with a smile.

The old man nodded in agreement. With his appearance, he couldn't lie with his eyes open.

He narrowed his eyes and asked, "It's good. How much is it?"

Good things have a price, who doesn't know that?

Xu Xiangyang chuckled and replied quietly, "One dollar and three cents, no ticket needed."

He had looked at other people's pork before. The pork that cost one dollar was of poor quality. It was either dried out or had bloody neck.

Anyway, he couldn't find anything like this, so it didn't matter if the thing was a little expensive.

The old man hesitated for a moment, but finally ordered two pounds. Good meat is hard to find except in grocery stores.

This time I come across it, I have to buy two pounds.

Xu Xiangyang weighed him using the old scale in the cafeteria. He had weighed it before coming, so there was no problem.

The people nearby had already heard the old man say "such good meat", so they all gathered together.

After the old man finished buying, others followed suit. But the price of two kilograms per piece discouraged many people.

After all, this was Xu Xiangyang's first time doing business in this era and he had little experience.

I bought ten kilograms of meat but only received five portions. Someone even told me to cut it up and come back tomorrow to buy more meat.

Xu Xiangyang smiled and nodded in agreement. It was not very strict now, but after the New Year, these businesses would have to be handled with caution.

Returning to the old place and entering the space, he counted today's gains.

Five dollars and fifty cents, with a lot of small change in it.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Combined with my previous salary and the money I earned from selling honey and meat, I have a small savings of more than 20 yuan.

Even though these twenty-odd dollars would not be enough to drink even with a meal of spicy hot pot in later times, now it is enough for a family of five to eat for a month.

Of course, you need a ticket. If you eat black market food, you might not make it to the end of the month before your money is gone.

After collecting the money, Xu Xiangyang took a rest after his meal.

As for other things, he hasn't thought about them yet. Now that he has lost his job, he has to look decent when he returns.

In fact, Xu Xiangyang wanted to lie to Xu Guangtian and his wife and tell them that his job was still there.

But I can't lie to my grandfather. He is the one who introduced the job. If I get fired here, he will definitely get the news.

As for how long it will take, I don’t know, but I will definitely find out, so the idea of ​​lying will definitely not work.

After getting ready, he went straight to bed. He had to go to the black market again tomorrow, otherwise he wouldn't have many excuses to come here often when he got home.

The next morning, Xu Xiangyang got up, had breakfast, and went directly to the black market carrying some meat and frozen fish.

It was just dawn and still very cold outside.

I bought a pound of meat yesterday, and this time he divided it into several pound bags.

It was past noon when Xu Xiangyang returned home with the money.

This time he made two or three trips, so he sold a lot of things.

He also noticed that someone was staring at him, but there were so many people here that no one would do anything.

People these days are not easy to deal with. He carefully avoided people and went to the supply and marketing cooperative.

There were a lot of people inside, so he quickly changed into a cotton jacket and then went out wearing a new hat.

The people who were watching at the door before didn't notice him at all. There are people coming and going here, who would notice that he changed his clothes?

Xu Xiangyang returned to the old place and didn't plan to go there again this time.

He was alone, and if something really happened to him, he would be no match for four people.

To be on the safe side, he decided to go home tomorrow and not stay here any longer.

Going home early can also make the couple feel at ease.