Chapter 38 Received a pair of jade bracelets

After Yan Haotian walked away, Xia Juanjuan adjusted her headscarf to cover half of her face and walked outside.

This profit was twenty-seven yuan, not too much, but not too little.

She planned to find a secluded place to get more supplies and sell them to others. No matter how much Yan Haotian bought, she couldn't just do his business. Otherwise, if he didn't come one day, wouldn't she be affected?

Most of the people who come to the black market in town are villagers from the surrounding area, and a small number of them, like Yan Haotian, may have come from the county.

This time, Xia Juanjuan took out twenty eggs, twenty duck eggs, and ten salted duck eggs, and sold them separately.

After a short while, most of the items were sold and another six dollars were deposited into the account. A total of thirty-three dollars were earned for this trip.

Seeing that it was getting late, she decided to go home.

However, just as she walked to a secluded place, an old woman suddenly grabbed her wrist and asked in a trembling voice: "Excuse me, do you have...do you have any medicinal herbs to sell? Ginseng, angelica root will do! And...do you have...do you have any cotton? And cotton cloth..."

Xia Juanjuan was stunned when she saw the man with ragged clothes and gray hair.

Ginseng and other medicinal herbs are hard to buy in herbal medicine stores nowadays and must be purchased on the black market.

Cotton is an economic crop that is collectively grown by the commune. Ordinary people cannot get it. As for cloth, it is now woven uniformly by textile factories. Farmers cannot spin yarn or weave cloth if they do not have cotton.

Therefore, even if it is sold on the black market, the price is at least twice as expensive as that of the regular state-owned supply and marketing cooperatives!

If this old woman had money to buy these on the black market, it would be better for her to go to the supply and marketing cooperative. Doesn't she have cotton and cloth coupons?

Thinking of this, Xia Juanjuan was just about to ask for her cotton and cloth coupons. She had plenty of them in her space anyway. It would be fine if she could make others think she had the coupons. She didn't have to actually have them.

At this moment, the old woman suddenly took out a dirty handkerchief from her body and opened it to show Xia Juanjuan.

"If you have herbs, cotton and cloth, I will exchange them with you..."

Wrapped in the handkerchief was a pair of jade bracelets that were verdant and very watery!

Xia Juanjuan looked at the old woman in astonishment, then quickly pulled her to a secluded place.

She understood why the old woman refused to go to the supply and marketing cooperative.

In this era, these jade bracelets are all very old and can only be circulated on the black market.

If you bring it out into the open and get discovered, you'll be in big trouble!

"Old lady, is this something passed down from your family? It's very dangerous to sell something this valuable on the black market..."

The old woman sighed and said, "Alas! I am already dying, why should I be afraid of danger? There is really no other way! My young lady... no... I mean, my niece is almost dying of illness, we need to save her life..."

Xia Juanjuan felt sorry for the old woman and said, "Stay here and don't leave. I'll think of a solution..."

As he said this, he walked to a deserted place and took out a three-year-old ginseng weighing about 2 taels, 1 tael of angelica root, 2 jin of cotton and 5 feet of cloth from the space. Then he walked back and handed the supplies to the old woman, saying, "Old woman, take these."

The old woman thought she was seeing things, so she rubbed her eyes with her wrinkled hands and looked again. Only then did she believe that what she saw was real!

She couldn't hold back her tears, her knees weakened, and she was about to kneel in front of Xia Juanjuan: "Thank you... Thank you! You are truly a living Bodhisattva... My young lady is saved!"

Xia Juanjuan quickly helped her up and said, "Old lady, such a big gift of yours will shorten my life! Get up quickly!"

The old woman wiped her tears, handed the jade bracelet to Xia Juanjuan, and said, "Is this... enough? If not... I... I have another silver ring..."

Xia Juanjuan said, "Old lady, these things are not worth these two jade bracelets. I'll take one. You should keep the other one well. You can sell it for a lot of money later!"

In that era, in order to survive, many good things were sold at a low price.

Judging from the quality and age of these two jade bracelets, they are probably antiques that are hundreds of years old. The jade is made of top-quality material. After another twenty years, when times have changed, one of them might be enough to buy an entire courtyard house!

She also didn't want to take advantage of others and gain too much.

The old woman said anxiously, "How can that be possible! If you don't accept it, I won't be able to go back and explain to my young lady!"

Xia Juanjuan was afraid that if she continued to pull, someone would see her, so she had to say, "How about this, the remaining one is yours to pawn with me. All the things I gave you are worth about 20 yuan in total. When you have 10 yuan, you can always come to me to redeem it. It won't be pawned forever. How about that?"

After hearing what Xia Juanjuan said, the old woman burst into tears again. She wiped her tears and said, "Alas! I thank you on behalf of my young lady! You really saved my young lady's life, and saved my life!"

Hearing that she no longer concealed the fact that she addressed the person she wanted to save as "Young Lady", Xia Juanjuan guessed in her heart that this old woman was probably the wet nurse or maid of a lady from a wealthy family. Even in her old age, she was still wholeheartedly protecting her own young lady, which was truly rare and precious in this special era.

Xia Qianqian thought about it and felt that accepting a jade bracelet was somewhat of an advantage, so she walked away and took out a pound of flour from the space and gave it to her.

"Old lady, please stop being so polite. I'll give you this flour as well. It's getting late, you'd better go back quickly."

After saying goodbye to the old lady, Xia Juanjuan went to the supply and marketing cooperative, bought soles for cloth boots, and asked about the prices of the coal stove and coal, planning to buy them next time she got the tickets.

Then she went to the butcher's shop and bought half a pound of mutton, which cost her 60 cents, and half a pound of mutton offal, liver, heart, lungs, blood, etc., which cost her 30 cents. Then she set off to go home.

There were dozens or even hundreds of sheep waiting to be slaughtered in the space, and hundreds of kilograms of mutton were stored.

She bought half a pound of mutton, but in fact, it was just a trick to let people know that she bought this thing, so that when she ate it at home, there would be a trace to follow, and people would not suspect that the food was conjured out of thin air.

Otherwise, if someone says that her things came from unknown sources and that she stole them, she would have no way to explain herself!

On the way, she took out another pound of lamb leg meat from the space and put it together with the half pound of lamb meat she bought.

He also took out a large cabbage, a large white radish, shiitake mushrooms, black fungus, some baby spinach, a piece of old tofu, and a dozen large tiger prawns and some clams.

The temperature has dropped a lot today, it is estimated to be below 10 degrees.

This kind of weather is perfect for eating mutton hotpot.