Ever since she was kicked out of the restaurant, Li Jinfeng realized that in this era, you need a ticket to buy everything.
It’s never wrong to carry the ticket with you.
The man led Li Jinfeng into his home.
In Li Jinfeng's opinion, his house was in a pretty good place in the county town. At least it was a single-family house with a yard.
They entered through the back door, and after entering, the man rushed into his house to look for money and tickets.
Li Jinfeng stood at the back door of her house, holding the cloth bag she carried with her.
After a while, the man came out.
He just looked a little disheveled. In his hands he held a food coupon book and an iron box that looked like it had been used to hold biscuits, but there was no marking on it.
"How...how do you sell your flour and noodles?" the man asked excitedly.
"Two dollars...five cents per pound!" Li Jinfeng hesitated for a moment and gave the price.
The flour she sold before was two yuan per catty, but seeing that the man seemed very surprised and paid the money very readily, Li Jinfeng guessed that her price was too low, so this time, she raised the price again and asked for an extra fifty cents per catty.
After Li Jinfeng called out the price, the man was stunned again.
The man's family was not poor, and he was a formal employee of a state-owned factory. Logically, people like them should not buy things from the night market.
But people are iron and food is steel.
When you are hungry, no one cares where the food comes from.
It’s just that the things sold by the little girl in front of me are really too cheap.
That's top quality noodles.
Even people living in the provincial capital may not have access to such good goods.
At the night market, this price might make some people break their heads.
"What's the matter? Do you think it's expensive?" Li Jinfeng asked.
"No, no, I... I think it's great. Give me all of that. It's fourteen pounds, right? Two dollars and fifty cents a pound. I'll give you thirty-five dollars, and then... another twenty dollars worth of industrial coupons."
The state-owned factories issued one industrial coupon for every twenty yuan of wages. Most of the time, they could be used to buy a variety of miscellaneous items, such as towels, blankets, iron pots, aluminum basins, thermoses, and even cigarettes and alcohol.
But this thing is not as important as food.
Even with money and food coupons, you may not be able to buy food, let alone the fine flour in front of you.
Any old piece of cloth will do for the towel, and as for the kettle and other things, their company has provided them, so there is no need to rush.
You may not be able to buy cigarettes and alcohol even if you have coupons, so the most practical thing is to hold on to the food in front of you.
"Okay!" Li Jinfeng agreed.
The man didn't tell him what he could buy with the industrial coupons, but Li Jinfeng guessed that they were the kind of things produced in the factory.
Towels, kettles, soap and the like will always be useful.
The two people exchanged each other's things.
The man lowered his voice and asked again, "My daughter, do you have any flour, noodles, or anything else at home? How much... I want as much as I want!"
The man has several brothers and sisters in his family, most of whom have public office in the city, but there are many children and elderly people in the family.
Even if the country supplies a certain amount of food every year, that amount of food is not enough to eat.
Instead of taking the risk of going to the night market, it’s better to check on the little girl in front of you to see if there is more food.
"Do you need more?" Li Jinfeng asked.
"Yes, yes!" the man nodded heavily.
After saying that, he continued, "Don't worry, we all have tickets. Although they may not be food tickets, we will definitely not let you suffer any loss."
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