When he turned around, he saw an old man with a turtle in a basin, and he stopped in his tracks.
Su Ying couldn't pull him away. She turned around and saw the man staring blankly at the turtle in the basin.
Do you know how to make this?
Gu Sinian nodded, "Yes, it is. This is very nourishing. My grandparents suffered a lot during their time in the countryside. The traditional Chinese medicine doctor told me to buy them a turtle to nourish their bodies if I could afford it. I never expected to see it here today."
"Then let's buy it and let Grandpa and Grandma take care of it. After they've been taking care of it for a while, they can start giving it supplements, and then no one will notice anything amiss."
These words were like a wake-up call. He looked up at Su Ying with surprise. Soft-shelled turtles were indeed not a very special thing. You could buy them or catch them yourself.
Nobody cares about a few turtles.
“Then we’ll take them all. When the time is right, I’ll send them back to my grandparents to raise.”
"good."
After negotiating with the old man selling turtles for ten minutes, the two bought more than a dozen turtles from his basin.
Gu Sinian followed Su Ying with the basin in his hand, and soon the two of them appeared empty-handed at another part of the black market.
"Have you bought everything you needed today? Is there anything you forgot?"
Su Ying thought about it carefully, racking her brains to think of everything that was missing from her space recently. It seemed like she had bought everything, and she was afraid of forgetting anything.
"You've always been in charge of the kitchen, so tell me, what's still missing?"
Gu Sinian thought about the things with limited space and suddenly remembered something very important.
The little girl loves eggs. Whether it's steamed eggs, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, poached eggs, or scrambled eggs with chives, she never gets tired of them.
"We still have a few eggs left, but we can't keep up with your love for them. Let's buy more and stock up, so you won't be disappointed when you want some and they're all gone. But we've looked around and there aren't any eggs for sale."
She hadn't noticed it until Gu Sinian brought it up, and now that she thinks about it, she really hadn't seen any eggs.
"Eggs aren't exactly rare, so why aren't there any on the black market? That's really strange."
"It seems so. We've been lingering in the black market for so long and we haven't found any eggs to sell."
An older woman carrying a shopping basket next to her was clearly a regular at the black market. "Eggs have been scarce lately, and I haven't seen any at the black market in a long time," she said.
Su Ying frowned. She had bought a lot of eggs in Shanghai some time ago and stocked them up. She still had a lot of stock in her storage space, so it didn't really matter whether she bought more or not.
Recently, for convenience, Gu Sinian has been keeping a lot of boiled eggs in the kitchen. Whenever she gets hungry at the educated youth settlement, she takes out a boiled egg to fill her stomach.
After all, only boiled eggs have a slightly bland taste.
Other things are hard to cover up the smell.
"Why? Eggs aren't rare, so how come there aren't any eggs at all?"
The older woman pursed her lips. "What else could it be? Everyone's been having a tough time lately. Those who have eggs at home are keeping them to supplement their children's nutrition. There's no extra to sell."
Another old man chimed in, “That’s right. Families with eggs all give them to their children; there’s no extra egg to sell.”
“Now even in remote rural areas, people are not getting enough to eat. Crops from the countryside are no longer available on the black market, and it’s impossible to find eggs.”
Su Ying still had a lot of eggs in her space, so it didn't matter whether she bought any more this time. Gu Sinian bought a lot of red dates, goji berries, and black chicken, as well as a lot of chicken, duck, goose, and fish. He bought all the meat he could get his hands on.
This much stock is enough to feed them for a while.
It doesn't matter whether there are eggs or not.
As long as there's something else to eat, it's fine.
"Let's go. Let's go collect the goods."
"Okay. We won't look for eggs anymore?"
"I'm not looking anymore. There's so much delicious food in the space, I'm not afraid of going hungry."
Gu Sinian smiled and said that made sense. Since the little girl said she wouldn't look for her, then they wouldn't.
The two left the black market hand in hand and walked towards the entrance, where the small vendors they had arranged to meet were already waiting for them.
After inspecting everything and paying the money, once the vendor left, Su Ying ordered Gu Sinian, "Go and check the surroundings. I'll put everything into my spatial storage."
"good."
The two worked together, and soon Su Ying had put all the things she had just bought into her spatial storage.
Gu Sinian, as expected of a former reconnaissance soldier, was meticulous in his work. There were no accidents or being watched by anyone while following him today.
After finishing their business, the two slipped into the space and came out dressed in the same clothes they had worn when they first arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative at noon.
"Let's go. Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy white sugar."
"Huh? You're buying more?"
"If you're going to put on an act, you should go all the way."
Su Ying thought about it and still felt it wasn't appropriate. It was impossible for the two of them to go to the black market and come back empty-handed. That wouldn't make sense, and it would be too deliberate.
"How are we going to explain this later? We went to the black market and didn't buy anything?"
Gu Sinian also felt it was inappropriate. "Most people go to the black market to buy meat. When we get to the supply and marketing cooperative, we can just take out two fish and a plate of rendered pork fat from our space. Those are more in line with our current status."
"Okay. I'll do as you say."
Upon arriving at their destination, Gu Sinian stood behind Su Ying to shield her. Su Ying took out two fish and a large piece of fatty pork from her spatial storage and put them into a bamboo basket.
"Is there enough food?"
"Pretty much. That's all we have left to buy."
Su Ying nodded in agreement. Building a large brick house would cost a lot of money, and they were already short of funds. Being able to buy so much meat was already a big expense.
Later we need to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy white sugar, which will cost a lot of money and coupons.
Luckily, I exchanged a lot of tickets and money with the vendors in the black market earlier, otherwise I wouldn't have had any money or tickets to buy sugar later.
That would be a huge mistake.
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