"Well, I like collecting these little things. It's so fun to get a stamp wrong. I want to take it back and let other people have a look. This stamp is eight cents, and I'll give you ten cents. Is that okay with you?" Chu Yue spoke softly with a smile on her face, looking at the other person with her bright eyes.
The young man looked like he had just entered society, immature and green. When Chu Yue looked at him like that, his heartbeat suddenly started to get erratic.
What does it matter if it’s a penny or not? Since Chu Yue found it interesting, I still sold it to her for 80%.
When Chu Yue walked away with the stamps, the young man was still touching his head at the door of the post office. He suddenly realized, "Oh no! I forgot to ask the name."
Chu Yue felt so happy holding the misprinted stamp.
You have to know that decades later, the more misprinted the stamps are, the more valuable they are. Sometimes a small stamp can be worth a house.
She wanted to keep this stamp and give it to Lu Yuanbao later.
Chu Yue put the stamp into her personal space and went to her next destination - a Chinese medicine store to sell ginseng.
The clerk in the drugstore greeted Chu Yue, "Comrade, you want to buy medicine? Do you have a prescription?"
Chu Yue shook her head. "I'm not here to get medicine, I'm here to sell herbal medicine."
"Come on, come on, this is a medicine store, we are open for business, not a place to sell things."
The Chinese medicine store has regular herbalists who cooperate with it. For example, Chu Yue didn't know anyone there and asked to come to the store to sell her medicine. The store clerk would simply ignore her and wave her away, telling her to leave. This was done because she was a young girl.
If it was a middle-aged man who was making trouble, he would have been kicked out directly.
Chu Yue was not scared by the clerk's bad attitude. She took a look inside the drugstore and saw a middle-aged man wearing glasses on one side. He was about fifty years old, tall and thin, and he was obviously the owner of the drugstore.
She walked over, took out the ginseng in the box and handed it over.
"Boss, this is a good thing, you really don't want to take a look?"
The middle-aged shopkeeper slowly raised his eyes, and when he saw Chu Yue's fresh face, he frowned subconsciously, thinking that she was some overconfident girl. However, when his eyes fell on the ginseng that Chu Yue took out, his eyes suddenly lit up.
The middle-aged shopkeeper put down the herbs in his hand and walked over to observe them closely.
Chu Yue broke off a thin piece of wild ginseng from its lush roots and handed it to the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, try it. It's pure wild."
When the shopkeeper saw Chu Yue's actions, he knew that this was an knowledgeable person. Even if he didn't know about medicinal materials, he knew the rules of doing business.
He will know whether it is good or not after tasting it.
The shopkeeper put the ginseng root into his mouth, took a few bites, and his eyes glowed darkly.
He pushed up his glasses that had slipped down his nose and said to Chu Yue, "Miss, what's your price?"
Chu Yue spread out her palm to cover her left hand, placed her left hand on the palm of her right hand, stretched out two fingers, and calmly quoted the price.
There is a black market in every era, whether it was in the 1970s or in modern society. Chu Yue has done a lot of business relying on the inventory in the Lingbao Space, so she knows some industry skills.
When doing business like this that brings you windfall, remember not to make it public.
The shopkeeper looked at Chu Yue's skillful movements and raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Two hundred yuan is the market price for ginseng of this quality.
"make a deal."
The shopkeeper readily agreed, and when he handed the money to Chu Yue, he folded it and hid it in his sleeve, then put it in Chu Yue's palm while covering it.
The clerk at the drug store nearby widened his eyes, but he couldn't figure out how much money was paid in the transaction between Chu Yue and the shopkeeper.
After seeing Chu Yue got the money, a satisfied smile appeared on his face, and he said to the shopkeeper.
"Boss, you are a straightforward person. I will come to you next time if I have something good."
The shopkeeper no longer looked down on Chu Yue as he did at the beginning. He smiled and nodded, "Remember our Pei Family Pharmacy. Feel free to come find me."
Here, after Chu Yue walked out of the pharmacy, she found a secluded place, took out her money and counted it. It was exactly two hundred yuan, and it was brand new money.
Adding the three hundred yuan she brought from the Chu family, she now has five hundred yuan!
Chu Yue patted her pockets, feeling satisfied.
In order to make big money, she also had to make small money. She carried a lot of pine nuts and yams down with her, and would sell them at the market in the afternoon, earning more than ten or twenty yuan.
On the other side, after the shopkeeper took the ginseng, he carefully packed it in a box covered with red velvet cloth, sewed each ginseng root with a thin thread, and then turned to the accounting office behind the drugstore.
"Look, Miss—our pharmacy received something good today."
In the accounting office, there was a young woman with fashionable clothes and curly hair. She was counting the accounts with her head down. She slowly raised her eyes, revealing a pair of charming and sharp phoenix eyes.
The woman was holding a child of four or five years old in her arms. Only half of the child's pale face was exposed. He snuggled in the woman's arms and made soft coughing sounds, cough, cough, as if he had a cold.
…
Chu Yue left the pharmacy near noon, which was almost the time she and Pei Hanchuan had agreed on.
She hurried towards the state-owned hotel.
Because it was close to the New Year, there were inevitably a lot of people on the road, and a boy of about seventeen or eighteen bumped shoulders with Chu Yue.
Chu Yue stopped immediately and looked at the boy's back with a frown.
It wasn’t that Chu Yue was hurt, but it was - the thief!
That man is a thief!
Chu Yue is a meticulous and careful person. When she finds something useful, she puts it directly into her personal space and never puts it in her pocket.
The moment the boy's shoulder bumped into hers, he touched her pocket at a very fast speed, which Chu Yue could clearly feel.
This thief is not very old, but his technique is quite skilled and you can tell at first glance that he is a veteran.
If he couldn't succeed with Chu Yue, he must have succeeded with someone else.
Right at this moment.
"My wallet! My wallet is gone—Ouch, my wallet is gone—"
On the side of the road, a silver-haired old lady suddenly shouted.
The old lady was about seventy years old. She was not dressed luxuriously, but you could tell that her clothes were made of good fabrics. Her hair was especially meticulously combed. She was dressed neatly and had a wealthy face. She was completely different from the average pale and skinny old lady.
No wonder the thief targeted her.
The old lady staggered over and tried to chase the thief.
Chu Yue immediately grabbed the other person, put down the bamboo basket on her back, and said quickly, "Grandma, wait here for me, I'm going to catch the thief!"
Before he finished speaking, Chu Yue's figure had already flown out like an arrow.
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