"Come with me to the black market?" Gu Ranzhou whispered in Lu Zhenchuan's ear.
Lu Zhenchuan looked at Gu Ranzhou and replied, "Yeah."
"What are you going there for? Shopping?"
"Yes, I am selling things. I have hidden a lot of things. This time I plan to get a bicycle to take back so that it will be more convenient for me to come to the town. The last time I came here was in early July." Gu Ranzhou didn't even need to draft his lies. At that time, he could just find a place and take the things out of the space.
"Come with me, my hiding place is a little far away."
Lu Zhenchuan and Gu Ranzhou did walk quite far. After reaching a corner, Gu Ranzhou signaled Lu Zhenchuan with his eyes to help him keep watch. Lu Zhenchuan understood what he meant and stood aside. After walking another 50 meters, Gu Ranzhou pretended to dig a hole, then took something out of the space, covered it with dirty soil, and buried the hole again.
Gu Ranzhou returned to Lu Zhenchuan, carrying the items he had taken out. Lu Zhenchuan was no fool. "Have you ever seen rice or flour buried?" And it had been almost a month. What kind of food could be stored for that long without getting moldy?
Gu Ranzhou didn't expect to deceive the person in front of him. At most, he could only try to trick someone farther away to see if they would actually appear. Who knew if something unexpected would happen? Regardless of whether it was unnecessary or not, who could be sure that no accidents would happen? It was always good to be cautious.
Although Lu Zhenchuan had some doubts in his mind, he didn't dare to ask too much. He could only swallow everything he knew. When it was confirmed in the future, it would be difficult for him not to know. Both of them knew that he was not qualified to know now.
The two of them secretly came to the black market together, where reselling is now strictly prohibited.
The black market is divided into two parts, one is where most black market traders gather, and the other is where a small number of people are in the dark, with only one or two people looking for traders in the black market.
The things in the black market of the small county town are nothing more than items traded with coins and food coupons. Of course, you can also exchange money for food coupons. Now the harvest season is approaching and food shortages follow. Because it is the end now, but it is not yet time to harvest, most of the food has been eaten up. There are still some rare items, such as milk powder, cloth shoes, etc., but these are scarce goods and are rarely seen.
The scale of the black market is not big, but not too small either. Now is a special period. Gu Ranzhou and Lu Zhenchuan came to the black market mainly for bicycle tickets and to sell the food in their hands.
The two men found a few spots at the entrance of the alley, and after finding them, they put everything they had in their hands.
Gu Ranzhou sat aside waiting for customers. Lu Zhenchuan did not sit down with him, but walked around so that he could pay better attention to the movements around him. In case someone wanted to attack Gu Ranzhou, he could react in time to save them.
In the black market, black-on-black escapades do occur, and it is even more convenient because the police can't do anything about it and have to be wary of urban management officers coming to arrest people.
Gu Ranzhou looked at the people passing by and found several people in ordinary clothes holding a piece of paper in their hands, looking like they were looking for something.
However, there were not many people here, and suddenly those people walked towards Gu Ranzhou's stall.
They looked at the several white cloth bags on Gu Ranzhou's stall.
"Yo~"
"Brother, what's in your bag?"
"food."
"real?"
Gu Ranzhou slowly opened the bag and said, "Why would I lie to you?" Sure enough, white rice appeared in the bag.
Several people's eyes met and they immediately asked, "Brother, how much do you want to sell this food for?"
"50 cents per pound!" said Gu Ranzhou.
"50 cents? You must be kidding, little brother. The market price is only 20 cents per pound, and you are selling it here for 50 cents per pound." The thin man next to him was a little shocked.
Gu Ranzhou casually grabbed a handful of rice and showed it to them: "My rice doesn't require food coupons, and look at the quality of this, isn't it much better than what you bought before?"
It really wasn't that Gu Ranzhou was intentionally trying to rip them off. Gu Ranzhou indeed had the best sales and reputation in his previous life, and the taste of this rice must be many times better than the rice of today.
"That's true, but the price is too expensive." Those people were a little hesitant, but they felt that what Gu Ranzhou said made sense.
"This kind of rice is very fragrant when cooked. You can't eat enough of it. If you don't believe me, buy some and cook it yourself."
Several people were hesitant, but after thinking for a while, they asked again: "Brother, will you come tomorrow?"
Gu Ranzhou scratched his head and said, "Tomorrow? Probably not. My home is a bit far from town, so it's impossible for me to go there all the time. I just came here to do some work."
Lu Zhenchuan walked over.
"What's in the other bags?"
"Oh, it's flour, and some vegetables."
"Flour and vegetables? Little brother, open it and let us see." When several people heard that Gu Ranzhou was talking about vegetables, their eyes lit up. Now it was getting late and there was not enough food at home before the harvest, so they came together to try their luck in the black market.
Gu Ranzhou said, "Are my vegetables juicy?" Lu Zhenchuan helped open the bag.
Gu Ranzhou wasn't so stingy and simply broke them into small sections and distributed them to a few people: "Try it and see how it tastes."
After eating, several people thought the taste was indeed better than what they had bought before. They smiled and said, "Brother, you must admit that the vegetables you have here are indeed much better than what we bought. It's amazing to have vegetables in this season."
The man's words were obviously testing, but Gu Ranzhou didn't go too far and just ignored it and brushed it off.
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