After the first person bought the flowers and left, an old lady with neat and tidy clothes and meticulously combed hair came soon, picked out five pairs of large white jasmine flowers and gave 25 cents. Jiang Yue also gave her a pair of small ones. The old lady left happily.
Jiang Yue originally planned to sell in this market for a while, and then move to another place when there were fewer people. However, she couldn't leave at all. In less than two hours, all the more than 100 pairs of white jasmine flowers she brought were sold out.
"Sister Jiang Yue, are they sold out already?" Tang Xiaomei had been watching people coming to buy flowers. She was shocked at first, and then she was still shocked. When she saw the empty basket, she found it unbelievable.
"Brother, am I dreaming?" Tang Xiaomei looked at her backpack again. It was empty. All the lotus flowers she was carrying had been sold. Her pocket was bulging with the one dollar and eighty cents she earned from selling the flowers.
"The tree in our house blooms thousands of white jasmine flowers every year. Why didn't we think of picking them and selling them?" Tang Xiaomei touched the money in her pocket. She felt so regretful when she thought about how much money she had lost over the years.
"Let's not talk about the past. You'll know it in the future and just need to put it into practice!" Jiang Yue smiled and picked up the basket, "Let's go buy some vegetables to take back!"
Tang Ziyang had been standing next to Jiang Yue and Tang Xiaomei. When the two of them were selling flowers, he looked at them. The girls had bright smiles, and he could see that many people were attracted to her.
Jiang Yue asked Tang Ziyang to wait outside while she took Tang Xiaomei to the butcher shop.
She hadn't eaten meat for many days, and she was very craving for it these past two days, and she wanted to get some meat to eat.
But the Tang family was an ordinary family. They only had a certain amount of meat coupons each month. The whole family had to eat frugally and also had to take care of their growing children. Jiang Yue naturally would not snatch the meat from the Tang family, so she had to find a way on her own.
When Jiang Yue left, he had money and coupons with him, but the food coupons were national food coupons that could be used anywhere, but the meat coupons were not valid, as they could not be used elsewhere.
"Little sister, wait for me here!" Jiang Yue observed for a while, looked at a wealthy lady who had just come out of the butcher shop, and walked straight over to her.
After a while, Tang Xiaomei saw Jiang Yue and the aunt exchange something, and the aunt left happily. Then Jiang Yue raised three fingers to her. She heard Jiang Yue say that this was an OK gesture, meaning that the matter was settled, so she hurried over nervously.
"Sister Jiang Yue, what are you doing?"
"Look!" Jiang Yue proudly shook the meat ticket in his hand.
"Wow! Meat coupons, where did you get them from?" Tang Xiaomei's eyes lit up.
"Don't worry about it! Let's go buy some meat and make delicious food for lunch today!" Jiang Yue had inquired in advance that three kilograms of food coupons could be exchanged for one kilogram of eggs. One kilogram of eggs cost about one yuan, which was about the same price as meat. So Jiang Yue discussed it with the aunt and exchanged ten kilograms of national food coupons for three kilograms of meat coupons. The aunt readily agreed.
In fact, Jiang Yue had originally planned to buy meat tickets at a high price on the black market, but she didn't expect to meet an easy-going middle-aged woman today and exchanged three kilograms of meat tickets at one time.
Jiang Yue used up all three pounds of meat coupons and bought one pound of pork belly and two pounds of hind leg meat. The pork seller saw that Jiang Yue bought a lot, so he asked her if she wanted some pork ribs. There were still three or four pounds of pork ribs left, so he sold them to her without a coupon.
Jiang Yue certainly wouldn't refuse such a good thing.
So Tang Ziyang just walked around the flower and tree selling place outside the vegetable market and came back, and saw that Jiang Yue and Tang Xiaomei's baskets were full and the other backpacks were sinking.
"What did you buy?" Tang Ziyang walked over, took Jiang Yue's vegetable basket in one hand and Tang Xiaomei's backpack in the other. He found that they were really heavy when he picked them up.
"Second brother, let's go home! There will be delicious food today!" Tang Xiaomei was very excited and walked in front with her head held high.
Tang Ziyang looked at Jiang Yue and saw that she also had a smile on her face and bright eyes. He couldn't help but wonder what the two of them had been doing. He was about to lift the towel on the basket to take a look when he was stopped by Tang Xiaomei.
"Brother, let's go home and watch it later!"
When passing by the department store, Jiang Yue went in for a look. Just like in Jiang Province, the ready-made clothes sold here were old-fashioned in style and quite expensive.
Jiang Yue rolled her eyes and wondered whether she should open a clothing store in Zhejiang Province?
But this thought only flashed through his mind before being suppressed by Jiang Yue.
Forget it. She couldn't live here for long. After a while, when she felt better, she would continue to go south. It was too hasty to open a store in such a short time, and there was no manpower for her to use.
It was almost ten o'clock when he got home. Gong Yasheng kept walking back and forth at the door, looking up from time to time, until he saw three people walking towards him in the distance, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"You guys weren't caught by the joint defense team, were you? Are you okay?" The duck-voiced man was so worried that his second brother and the others would be caught and locked up in a small dark room.
"No, Third Brother, don't make a fuss. There are many people setting up stalls on the street to do business!" Tang Xiaomei was also very nervous. Although she was not very old, she knew some social realities from what she had seen and heard.
After following Jiang Yue into the city today, Tang Xiaomei discovered that the outside world seemed to have changed quietly.
Tang Ziyang also has the same feeling, but he is a man of few words and doesn't know how to express himself. He only supports Jiang Yue with actions.
Tang Jingjing was making clothes in the back, and Bao Qiang was playing with Bao Xiaojuan. When they heard the noise, the mother and her two children came out.
"Sister Jingjing, here! Count it!" As soon as Jiang Yue saw Tang Jingjing, he stuffed the purse into her hand.
Because the sales price was three and a half cents, Jiang Yue prepared a cloth purse and put all the cents she earned into it.
"Sister, I have these too!" Tang Xiaomei also took out all the money from her pocket and stuffed it into Tang Jingjing's hand.
Tang Jingjing opened the bag and was immediately shocked. "Why is there so much money?"
"The money from selling flowers!" Tang Xiaomei's face was full of smiles.
The duck voice was also shocked, "You really sold the flowers? Did anyone really buy them?"
"They are all sold out. Do you think anyone will buy them?" Tang Xiaomei curled her lips.
Tang Jingjing poured all the money in the cloth bag onto the table. Gong Yasheng and Tang Xiaomei went to help count the money, while Jiang Yue carried the vegetable basket and backpack to the kitchen.
"Let me carry it!" Tang Ziyang quickly took it from Jiang Yue.
When they arrived at the kitchen, as soon as Jiang Yue took off the vegetables covering the basket, Tang Ziyang's eyes suddenly fixed, "Bone marrow?"
Tang Ziyang was already shocked when he saw the pork shank. Then he saw Jiang Yue taking out two large pieces of meat from the basket. Tang Ziyang could no longer maintain the expression on his face.
"How did you buy so much meat? Where did you get the meat coupons?"
"It was exchanged for food coupons!" Jiang Yue's eyes lit up when he saw the meat.
"Tang Ziyang, I'm going to make braised pork today. Let me tell you, the braised pork I make is super delicious!" Jiang Yue didn't notice the way Tang Ziyang looked at her. At this moment, all she had eyes for was the meat.
Wow! After being a vegetarian for so many days, I can finally eat meat!
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