Chapter 15: On the Eve of Going to the Countryside (Part 3)
After finishing her work, Lu Xiaoxiao went home. She thought that she would set off with the team to the countryside in three days, so she had to hurry up and make preparations.
She counted the money and tickets in her hand. Excluding the money in the passbook, she now had 2,632.86 yuan, but she didn't have many tickets left. She only had 50 kilograms of grain tickets, 8 kilograms of meat tickets, and 22 industrial tickets. She didn't have any sugar tickets, cloth tickets, or cotton tickets, not to mention those rare bicycle tickets and watch tickets.
Although she has all the things in her space, many of them are not suitable for this era and cannot be used openly. It seems that she should find a way to get some tickets to buy some things before going to the countryside, whether she uses them for her own use or to exchange them with others. After all, you can't buy and sell things now, you can only exchange them.
Lu Xiaoxiao thought that no matter who they were, tickets were tight, and it was impossible for them to exchange them with her. The only place to get tickets was the black market, but she didn't know where the black market was. It seemed that she had to go out and look for it tomorrow. If she could find it, that would be the best. If not, she would have to find another way.
She thought that she might have to do a big job tomorrow, so she had to conserve her energy today.
Lu Xiaoxiao took out a bowl of pork rib soup from the space and ate it with the steamed buns she had made earlier. Then she went into the bathroom of the villa to take a bath. Taking a bath in winter can not only relax the body but also keep it warm.
After taking a bath, Lu Xiaoxiao left the space. She lit the stove, checked the window, and went to bed.
The next day, Lu Xiaoxiao went out before dawn. Before going out, she put on black makeup on her face, wrapped her head with a piece of cloth to reveal a pair of eyes, and wore the oldest and smallest size clothes of the original owner. Now she looked like a poor person who had to come out to earn money for food because her family had fallen into poverty.
Lu Xiaoxiao could still see the road clearly under the moonlight. Why did she go out so early? Even if she had never eaten pork, she had seen pigs run. It was impossible to do such a thing in broad daylight, right? She must have done it secretly under the cover of night.
Lu Xiaoxiao walked on the street and didn't see a single person. Fortunately, she was brave. If she was timid, she would have been scared to tears. Now is not like the future with all the lights and wine and bright lights everywhere.
As she was walking, she suddenly saw a few people carrying things walking in and out of an alley. She thought that must be the black market, so she found a place where no one was, took out 2 kilograms of rice and a basket from the space, and walked into the alley.
She observed that no one inside was communicating with each other. If they wanted to conduct a transaction, both parties would make eye contact and then find an empty corner to do it.
After Lu Xiaoxiao understood the transaction process, she began to look for buyers. When she saw a man in a Zhongshan suit coming over, she walked up to him, pulled the corner of his clothes, and signaled him with her eyes to go to the empty corner over there.
Lu Xiaoxiao came to the corner and showed the rice in the basket and asked, "Uncle, do you want rice?"
The man asked in surprise: "How much more rice do you have? Where are your parents? Why are you here as a child?"
Seeing that he needed to buy rice, Lu Xiaoxiao told him the excuse she had prepared before coming, "My dad is outside watching the things. I'll tell him to bring you as much as you want. But I don't want money, I just want tickets. Any ticket will do. If it weren't for the fact that we were leaving here and it was difficult to take the rice with us, our family wouldn't have exchanged it for tickets."
The man thought about it and realized that neither his own family nor his wife's family were short of money or tickets, but food was difficult to get. Besides, the New Year was coming soon, so giving rice as a gift to the leader was better than giving anything else.
So I asked, "I want 50 kilograms of this kind of rice. Do you have any?"
When Lu Xiaoxiao heard the man's words, her eyes lit up. She thought this was a big customer, so she quickly said, "Yes, we still have refined flour, but not much. Only 20 kilograms. Do you want it?"
The man's eyes lit up when he heard Lu Xiaoxiao's words, and he quickly said yes, yes, yes, but he said he didn't bring so many tickets with him. His home was not far away, and he could pick up the tickets in 10 minutes. After negotiating the price with him, they agreed to make the transaction under the tree at the entrance of the alley.
(End of this chapter)
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