Looking at Wang Qiang fleeing in panic, Hu Xiaoman calmly took out a wet wipe and wiped his hands.
You little bastard, you still want to take advantage?
Don’t you see who I am?
She glanced at the time and saw it was time for dinner, so she walked towards the cafeteria with her lunch box.
There are a lot of people on the road, and everyone is in a hurry, so the important thing is to eat quickly.
Hu Xiaoman ordered a serving of cabbage and tofu and took a large cornmeal pancake.
This meal is the most common, and everyone eats this dish.
Tofu is not common nowadays, so everyone ordered two dishes to take home.
Hu Xiaoman packed a large box of vegetables. Thinking that the Hu family had been nice to her recently, she decided to take some with her.
She ate a little and put the rest in the space.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it’s easy for things to go bad if you put them in your pocket, which would be a real waste.
Back in the workshop, Li Jinmei saw her coming back and said sarcastically, "Hu Xiaoman, I really didn't realize that."
After saying that, he rolled his eyes sarcastically and sneered.
This made Hu Xiaoman very uncomfortable. He frowned and said in a cold tone, "Is this the poop you ate at noon? You can't speak anymore?"
"You!" Li Jinmei stood up and glared at her. "What are you so proud of?"
Because the two people spoke quietly and the workers in the workshop went to rest, no one noticed them.
Hu Xiaoman looked nonchalant. "Am I complacent? Or was it because you were too harsh? I'm telling you, I was being tolerant of you before. If you keep saying nonsense or being sarcastic in the future, I'll beat you up!"
After saying that, she glared at the person in front of her with a clear threat.
Li Jinmei had never seen her like this before and was stunned for a moment.
Only after the people left did she react, and then she felt a little embarrassed and angry.
Hu Xiaoman was indeed easy to bully in the past, but now he has become like this, not forgiving at all.
"Hmph, you're such a slut, and you still have the nerve to show off!" She gritted her teeth and started to think in her mind.
Hu Xiaoman had no time to think about her. After get off work, he went home with his lunch box.
The people I met on the road looked even more listless than before.
The weather has been getting hotter recently, so the grain store only opened once at the beginning of the month and has never opened since.
Hu Xiaoman vaguely guessed that there was probably no food left and it would be impossible to buy any even if the door was open.
She sighed and hoped that the Hu family could prepare some food, otherwise everyone would go hungry.
She has been eating a fat-reducing diet these days, for fear that gaining weight would arouse suspicion.
Hu Xiaoman: I feel so tired.
Guarding a space full of delicious food but not being able to eat it, this is probably the most painful thing in the world, right?
When Hu Xiaoman returned home, he was surprised to see the door locked.
Because Zhang Chunxia usually pastes paper boxes at home, she doesn't lock the door easily.
It's already half past five, how come no one is at home?
She went back into the house and sat down, looking at her clothes, which she had worn for two days.
The original owner had no clothes, only two sets, one of which had a lot of patches.
I've been making do with it these past two days.
After checking the time, Hu Xiaoman didn't wait any longer, thinking that they probably had something to do and didn't go home.
She carried a bag with the thirteen dollars she had received last month and the ten dollars in savings of the original owner.
I don’t know what I can buy with twenty-three dollars?
There's no need to go to the supply and marketing cooperative. They won't sell clothes to you without cloth coupons.
Moreover, ready-made clothes also require clothing tickets, and there is no such thing.
When she arrived at the black market where Du Fang had traded before, she had changed her clothes.
The clothes were black, so no one noticed.
Her head was wrapped in a dark blue scarf, leaving only two big eyes visible.
Nowadays, the control is not strict, so everyone can still trade.
But it was necessary for Hu Xiaoman to do this for safety.
Others are also very well protected. After all, human hearts are unpredictable. What if you meet a bad person?
There are many people like her who are powerless.
Hu Xiaoman looked at his arms and nodded, he was indeed powerless.
Wang Qiang: No one believes it!
The black market here is not big, and most of the items sold are daily necessities and some miscellaneous items.
As far as food was concerned, she saw nothing.
It is not easy to get a deal that you can eat now.
Everyone was just watching the fun, and few people were buying things.
Hu Xiaoman guessed that these people might be waiting for someone to come and sell food, and no one even looked at other things.
She walked up to a man who had a wooden box hanging around his neck.
It’s a bit like the cigarette vendors in the Republic of China.
But now it is not filled with cigarettes, but various tickets.
"Comrade, how do you sell these cloth coupons?" she asked in a low voice.
The person opposite was also wearing a mask and looked very thin, only a little over 1.6 meters tall.
The person opposite also whispered back, "The cloth coupon with the lowest price is three feet, which can be exchanged for one kilogram of rice."
Hu Xiaoman was stunned. Exchange for food?
There is indeed a bigger market for food now, and what she lacks the least is food.
There are several thousand 50-kilogram bags of Daohuaxiang rice in the space, which were prepared for sale through live broadcast.
A pound of rice with the fragrance of rice flowers costs more than six yuan in later generations. Of course, this is the wholesale price, and it is not pure rice fragrance.
Rice with the fragrance of rice flowers is a special product and cannot be bought at all, but the places where this rice is grown can also grow rice of similar quality.
It is the fragrance of rice flowers now.
The rice sold online or in the market is not real. But the rice produced in the region where Daohuaxiang is produced is indeed much tastier than that produced in other places.
(The above is just general knowledge. Don't believe the rice you see online. Some of the rice from Wuchang, Heilongjiang and Yanji, Jilin is delicious, but they are definitely not specially supplied.)
Seeing Hu Xiaoman didn't say anything, the man knew that it was too much, so he continued, "How about this, five pounds of cornmeal will do!"
This was his lowest bottom line, and he was asked to bring all the cloth coupons and garment coupons in the house.
If he hadn't had no food to eat, he wouldn't have exchanged it.
Hu Xiaoman thought about it and felt that it was okay. After all, buying cloth not only required cloth coupons, but also money.
"Well, I want all your cloth coupons, fifteen feet in total. I'll give you five pounds of rice, but you have to give me a garment coupon."
The price is not expensive, and the most important thing is that the clothing ticket is worth a kilogram of rice.
This is a disguised form of bargaining, so it’s not expensive.
The man opposite was stunned. He didn't expect that he could actually exchange it for rice.
He has a one-month-old baby at home, otherwise he would switch to coarse grains, but the child needs to drink rice soup, so he wants to switch to fine grains.
"Okay." He agreed immediately.
Hu Xiaoman didn't want to do the transaction in this place, so he said a few words to him, and the two of them went out to a deserted place.
Seeing the fine rice in the bag, the man looked up stupidly at Hu Xiaoman's leaving back.
It's actually refined rice. These five kilograms can be exchanged for fifty kilograms of coarse grains...
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