Lian Xiaomin entered the room. It was very spacious with two beds. There was a person lying fully clothed on the bed near the window. The person she had seen last time was Qu Lidong's third brother Limin.
The young man rubbed his eyes and immediately recognized the person who came in. It was Xiao Ma! The God of Wealth has arrived~
He quickly sat up and began to straighten the quilt.
Qu Lidong had already poured tea from the thermos. He asked Xiao Ma to sit at the table over there and poured him a jar of hot tea.
Lian Xiaomin was wearing a mask and didn't drink anything, but just warmed her hands on the enamel pot.
"Xiao Ma, when did you arrive in Nanjing? I knew you would come before the New Year."
"I just arrived this morning. The car is parked outside the city. Yes, I promised last time that I would come if there is any goods before the New Year. I will definitely come."
As usual, she pulled out a piece of paper from her pocket with the types of supplies and prices written on it to see how much the other party wanted.
Qu Lidong and his third brother were very happy. The last batch of goods had been sold out long ago and they made a lot of money. This time they also prepared yellow croakers and were waiting for another batch of goods before the New Year.
"Xiao Ma, I still need 50,000 catties of rice and flour each, and 20,000 catties of soybeans and millet each."
"…Do you have any samples of the leather shoes you wrote about?"
Lian Xiaomin took out two pairs of leather shoes from the backpack on the ground.
This is different from the one given to Ma Hui. It is a single shoe without fleece inside, suitable for wearing in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Qu Lidong's eyes lit up. These leather shoes are so well made!
The men's pair was a pair of size 42 black leather shoes. He handed them to his third brother, and seeing his grinning face, he wanted to put them on himself to show off.
"Brother, these shoes are great, and they're my size, I'll wear them~"
As he said that, he put it on his feet.
Qu Lidong ignored him and continued to pick up another pair of ladies' black leather shoes, size 36, which seemed to be made of sheepskin and were very delicate, unlike the leather shoes sold in the supply and marketing cooperative, which were a bit rough.
Limin put on his shoes, stood up and took a few steps, praising repeatedly.
"Miss Xiao Ma, you are really capable. You can get such good stuff. I would be happy to spend money to buy it. I will buy this pair directly - it will be charged to my brother's account!"
Qu Liming is about 20 years old, with a cheerful personality and always grinning when talking.
Lian Xiaomin agreed casually, then suddenly remembered something and asked casually, "You are the third child, so are there three brothers in your family? It's just the two of you at home."
"Oh, my second brother has a job, he works in a machinery factory, he got married, and the company allocated a house for him to live in... My parents are in the countryside, in Xiaowa Village on the outskirts of the city, and I have two younger sisters, the older one is sixteen, and the younger one is fourteen."
He opened up and said that Hong Nantian was the only son of his aunt's family, five years older than him, and was very helpful to his brothers.
In the past two years, the three brothers Laba have also been doing black market business to make some money.
Qu Lidong is thirty years old this year and has actually been married for a long time. However, his wife went back to Xiaowa Village to give birth to their child, and there is no one to take care of her in the city.
Now it’s just the two brothers here, busy every day. There are risks in doing this black market, so it’s good that their family is not around.
The three of them chatted and finally decided to buy 2,000 pairs of men's leather shoes and 500 pairs of women's leather shoes.
Men's shoes are only available in black, but women's shoes are also available in red, a brown-red color that also looks nice. There are only 250 pairs of each color.
The price is the same as that given to Ma Hui, nine yuan.
Lian Xiaomin took out another bottle of white wine from the basket. These were several containers of wine that she had found by randomly using her mental power to search through the dock in the space last night while dozing off in the back seat of the car.
It’s a glass bottle with no other labels. If I didn’t know that the space has the ability to “erase the labels”, I would have thought it was fake wine imported and exported by a manufacturer in the previous life.
She twisted the bottle gently, opened it, and placed it on the table.
"Try it? Do you want to try this liquor? I can't drink it myself, so I don't understand."
Limin took a teacup, poured half of it, and placed it in front of his brother.
Qu Lidong picked up the cup, took a sip, and smacked his lips twice.
"This is good wine, Xiao Ma. You don't drink, but I tell you, this is first-rate wine! It's over 50 degrees and tastes very good."
When Limin heard this, he took the cup, took a sip himself, and sipped it.
Lian Xiaomin smiled and said, "Then you name a price~"
They are Xiaohong's real relatives and can be considered trustworthy and reliable people. She doesn't care much about the price. After all, there are plenty of freshly found goods.
A standard container can hold 3,000 bottles of wine. The five containers turned over last night probably contained at least 10,000 bottles.
"Now Moutai with a ticket is eight yuan a bottle, which is the most expensive on the market. This wine can be sold for six or seven yuan on the black market without a ticket. I'll give you four and a half yuan a bottle. Is that okay? I want three thousand bottles."
This price is not low. After all, it doesn’t have a trademark and cannot compare with Moutai.
"Okay, let's go with this price."
Lian Xiaomin wrote it down on a piece of paper: 3,000 bottles of liquor, wholesale price 4.5 yuan.
The two brothers continued to stare at her basket. Qu Lidong asked with a smile, "Do you have any other good stuff in this 'treasure bag'?"
Lian Xiaomin took out a few more fruits from the forest. Haha, the fruit forest was harvested by her again.
Last time, I gave a batch of fruits to Dalong in Jianye County. There are still a lot left, and they are all stored in the warehouse.
"There are also oranges, apples, and pears. Try them and tell me the number. The wholesale price is 20 cents per pound."
Limin peeled a big orange, and he and his brother each took half. They put them in their mouths and tasted them. They were so sweet!
The two of them munched on the apples and pears, and gave them a thumbs up, saying they were so delicious!
This fruit is extremely popular during the Chinese New Year and can easily be sold for more than 30 cents.
"I want 8,000 kilograms of each of these three fruits, is that okay?"
"No problem, that's settled. I'll arrange for someone to deliver the goods overnight. Just give me the key to the warehouse."
Xiao Ma is quick to do things, so Qu Lidong asked his brother to go find the key.
"It's still the same three warehouses as last time. I'll trouble you to bring people to deliver the goods."
Lian Xiaomin took the key. She remembered those three places clearly and stood up to say goodbye.
"You guys should go check the goods tomorrow morning after daybreak. I'll come here to settle the bill around 1pm."
After the agreement was reached, Qu Lidong and Qu Liming sent her out together.
The two of them were no longer sleepy, and they pulled themselves together and quickly prepared enough gold bars. They also had to gather the manpower to move the goods tomorrow.
Lian Xiaomin left their house when it was almost noon. It was a rare trip to Nanjing, so she decided to stroll around and have some snacks.
She continued walking forward. She remembered that she had been to Nanjing’s Confucius Temple commercial district once in her previous life.
Of course, in this era, in 1972, there was no such thing as commercial or non-commercial. At most, there were two small state-owned restaurants.
She tried the specialty snack, duck blood vermicelli soup, it was so delicious!
We also tried Nanjing's traditional pastry "Plum Blossom Cake". After finishing it, we ordered a few more servings and took out two aluminum lunch boxes to pack up and take away.
It's a pity that I don't have the local meat ticket, so I can't eat salted duck. I will remember to exchange some tickets with Qu Lidong tomorrow, and buy two ducks to take away and try before leaving~
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