"My husband and Jin Yan's husband, Hu Zhong, work in the same unit. These past couple of days, my husband said he saw Jin Yan's husband secretly eating white flour steamed buns. Our two families usually go to collect grain together, but her family hasn't received any fine grain in the past few months.
My husband asked me to see if his family has any way to get fine grains. Sister, I'm not a bad person, I just want to buy some fine grains from you and make some porridge for my six-month-old baby, please!
The woman had been guarding Hu Zhong's house for two days and wanted to try her luck to see if she could meet someone who could sell fine grain to the Hu family.
She didn't dare go to the night market, fearing that if she was caught, both she and her husband would lose their jobs. If that happened, their whole family would starve to death.
Fortunately, she was lucky. After two days, she finally saw someone entering the Hu family, carrying a cloth bag.
That's why she chased after Li Jinfeng so anxiously as soon as she came out, and almost lost her shoes.
Li Jinfeng looked at the woman in front of her. She looked sincere and didn't seem to be lying.
"I didn't make a deal with the family you mentioned just now. She thought it was too expensive. Are you still willing to buy my grain?" Li Jinfeng asked.
"Of course I do!" No matter how expensive it was, she gritted her teeth and bought the fine grains.
Not only for myself, but also for the six-month-old baby.
"Okay!" Li Jinfeng agreed.
The woman took her back to her home.
Her house and Jin Yan's house are indeed close, but hers is further inside the street than Jin Yan's.
After entering her house, Li Jinfeng took out the rice and flour from the cloth bags and showed them to the woman. "I have 15 catties of rice and 10 catties of flour. They're both 2.5 yuan per catty. You can add some coupons, not just grain coupons, anything else will do."
"Two... two dollars and fifty cents a pound? Rice?" The woman's eyes were bigger than copper bells.
Two dollars and a half per pound of fine grain, is that expensive?
This is not expensive at all, her husband said, fine grains cost four or five yuan per pound at the night market, and you may not even be able to get them.
Is Jin Yan crazy at this price? She actually thinks it's too expensive!
Li Jinfeng nodded, "Yes!"
"Okay, I... I'll get the money for you right away, right away..." The woman stuttered and looked nervously at the fine grains that Li Jinfeng had placed on the ground.
"Sister-in-law, don't worry, I won't leave." Li Jinfeng said in a soothing voice.
After taking several deep breaths, the woman went into her room to get the ticket.
After a while, he took out a food coupon book and a stack of money.
"Sister, twenty-five pounds of fine grains, that's sixty-two dollars and fifty cents in total. Count it, not a penny less."
The woman solemnly handed the money to Li Jinfeng, then continued, "Tickets, can I give you five kilograms of coarse grain coupons? Fine grain coupons haven't been available for several months, and I really can't afford them. In addition, I'll give you five feet of cloth coupons and ten yuan worth of industrial coupons. If... if that's still not enough, wait until my husband comes back and I'll ask him to find a solution."
Compared to the girl named Jin Yan, the person in front of him was obviously much more generous.
Li Jinfeng nodded, agreeing to the deal.
"Do you want vegetable oil? Two pounds, three yuan per pound!" said Li Jinfeng.
"Vegetable... vegetable oil? Yes! Yes!" The woman nodded heavily.
Li Jinfeng did not ask this woman for additional food coupons. She felt more comfortable doing business with her than with Jinyan.
As long as you are happy, it doesn’t matter whether you earn more or less.
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