In fact, buying and selling ginseng is considered a herbal medicine transaction, not speculation.
There are people who specialize in this, but it is obvious that official channels are not as profitable as private channels. If you want to get good things, you still have to do it privately.
The buyer thinks so, and the seller thinks so too, so both parties are very cautious in the transaction, just like thieves.
In addition to ginseng, the two men also brought some other things, including rice, flour, rice cakes, and a few pounds of pork fat, but they were not for sale.
Wan Qingliu: "It's still early, go see your grandma and uncle."
Wan Qingliu is only in his fifties this year, and the old lady Liu is just seventy years old. The old man was not very lucky and passed away more than ten years ago.
Before liberation, women got married and had children early, and before they were twenty, they had children running around the house.
Even now there are still some people with serious feudal ideas, who want their daughters to get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen.
Hua Wanli also got married at the age of 17. Although she was not yet of marriageable age, everyone had the same idea: to find someone to live with when they reached that age. Many families had been married for many years but did not even get a marriage certificate.
Therefore, the old lady was not very old when she gave birth to Wan Qingliu, so even when Wan Qingliu's granddaughter was married, the old lady was still very energetic.
However, the old lady had little affection for her daughter, but the old man liked his daughter very much when he was alive.
So since the old man passed away, Wan Qingliu didn't have very close contact with her mother's family except for sending gifts during the holidays.
Although she didn't like her daughter that much, the old lady still loved her grandson very much, especially Hua Qingping.
After all, Hua Qingping used to live with his uncle and was closer to his grandmother.
Seeing her sister-in-law coming to visit, Wan's eldest sister-in-law was a little surprised, because she would not come to visit unless there was something important on weekdays.
Then she glanced at the two pounds of pork fat in Hua Xuguo's hand, and a smile immediately appeared on her face, and her attitude became much more enthusiastic.
"Hey, just come if you want to. Why are you carrying things?"
Wan Qingliu smiled, then put everything on the ground and said:
"It's a rare occasion for me to come to the commune, so I brought you some things. How is mother doing recently?"
The eldest sister-in-law took Wan Qingliu's hand and said:
"Come in and sit down. Mom misses you too."
"No, there's a lot going on at home. I'm leaving now."
Wan Qingliu shook his head and refused, then turned and left.
Hua Xuguo doesn't like his grandmother's house very much. Hua Qingping was born late and has never experienced it.
He had seen it with his own eyes. When his mother brought the three siblings to visit relatives, his grandmother not only favored his aunt but also favored boys over girls, causing his sister Xiang Hong to almost die at his grandmother's house.
Looking at the faces of their family at that time, even though his grandmother was nice to him, he still felt a genuine disgust towards the people in her family from the bottom of his heart.
It was from that time on that his mother had little contact with her parents' family.
After the fifth child was born, the two families started to visit each other more often. This time, perhaps on a whim, they wanted to send something as a gift.
But maybe because she saw the annoying aunt, his mother didn't even want to go in. She just put down her things and turned around and left.
As he walked, Hua Xuguo recalled the past events in a disjointed manner. Suddenly, he saw Hua Ziqiang wandering around the street with rags covering his body and his face covered in paint.
Wan Qingliu also saw it, was stunned for a moment, and then laughed out loud.
"Erniu, aren't you afraid of being caught dressed like this?"
This was not the time when people were free to wear whatever they wanted like in later generations. Although there were no restrictions on the color of clothes, people had to wear proper clothes and were not allowed to wear strange clothes.
Hua Ziqiang's funny outfit might be mistaken for strange clothing if he were to meet someone who was more serious about it and arrest him.
Hua Ziqiang was very depressed. He set out with two rabbits and full of confidence, but when he arrived at the commune he was caught off guard.
He has never been to the black market and doesn't know where it is!
He heard from other people in the village that the black market was usually in an inconspicuous alley, but he walked through all the alleys in the commune and didn't see a place that looked like a black market.
He was originally quite confident, thinking that it would be impossible to find it on the black market.
When he finally arrived, he still couldn't find it!
No one could ask, after all, he couldn't just catch someone and ask where the black market was, right?
Not only does he expose himself, but he also cannot admit that he has been to the black market!
My aunt had never been to the commune black market and didn't know its address, but my uncle-in-law had no worries about food and clothing, so he would never go to the black market.
So he just came here in a daze and wandered around the street for a long time.
After hearing what happened, Wan Qingliu smiled and told Hua Ziqiang:
"If the black market was so easy to find, wouldn't it have been shut down long ago? You didn't even ask for the address when you came here, and you wouldn't even know you were sold by someone when you come back."
Since they were somewhat related, and it wasn't easy for these children, Wan Qingliu took Hua Ziqiang directly to the entrance of the black market.
Hua Ziqiang followed Wan Qingliu and Hua Xuguo through a narrow alley, stepped on the stone slabs on the ground to the middle of the alley, then went through the alley in the middle, and then turned right. There was no road ahead.
I walked to the end and found that there was an alley that went across the end, but it was blocked by the houses on the side, making it look like there was no road here.
There were two men sitting at the entrance of the alley. When they saw someone coming, one of them stood up.
“Buy or sell?”
With the idea of sending the Buddha to the west, Wan Qingliu paid the head fee for Hua Ziqiang and took him into the black market.
Hua Ziqiang sold the rabbits for three yuan each. If he sold them too cheaply, it would be a waste of his efforts today.
The two rabbits were quickly taken away by someone. Wan Qingliu glanced at the intersection and said:
"Come on, let's get out from somewhere else!"
The three of them turned around and around again, and returned to the street, where they saw the supply and marketing cooperative.
Seeing that the street was a bit noisy, Wan Qingliu took the two of them directly into the supply and marketing cooperative.
The three of them entered the supply and marketing cooperative when they heard someone shouting outside:
"Stop! Don't run!"
The hurried footsteps passed by the door of the supply and marketing cooperative and ran away.
Hua Ziqiang then understood why he had to take another route out. It turned out that someone had come to the black market to arrest people.
When the salesperson saw someone coming in, he raised his eyelids and urged:
"What do you want? Hurry up, I'm about to get off work!"
Wan Qingliu said calmly: "Three candies."
I paid three cents and bought three candies without a ticket, but the salesperson rolled his eyes in return.
"You're so old and still come here to buy this to eat."
Wan Qingliu laughed and didn't care. He took Hua Xuguo and Hua Ziqiang out of the supply and marketing cooperative.
Hua Ziqiang witnessed the whole process and couldn't help but admire Wan Qingliu.
Then he took out two cents and said embarrassedly:
"You just gave me your two cents. Now I'm giving it back to you."
The black market is indeed dangerous. He is still too young and needs to learn more from Grandma Wan in the future.
Wan Qingliu did not refuse and accepted the money.
This time even Hua Xuguo began to get curious. How did his mother know at a glance that someone was coming to arrest someone?
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