Chapter 65 County Town (Part 3)
Lu Xiaoxiao found a backpack in the space and put a pound of noodles, a pound of flour and a pound of rice in it. These were mainly for others to see as samples. If someone wanted them, she would use the backpack as a cover to get them from the space.
After leaving the space, Lu Xiaoxiao walked towards the black market. The black market here was different from the black market in Beijing. To enter the black market here, one had to pay a fee of fifty cents before one could enter.
Lu Xiaoxiao estimated that these people were most likely underground forces in the county. They had their own channels to know whether anyone was coming to crack down on the black market. If so, they could notify the black market people to leave in advance, so it was reasonable for them to collect some money.
When Lu Xiaoxiao arrived at the black market, she found a place to sit down. She took out the flour from the basket and put it on the ground. After a while, an old lady in good clothes came to her stall and asked, "How much is this flour?"
"Two dollars a pound, no ticket required."
The old lady hesitated after hearing the price, then she squatted down and whispered to Lu Xiaoxiao: "Can I exchange it for something?"
Lu Xiaoxiao was delighted when she heard the old lady's words, but she didn't show it at all.
"What do you want to exchange?" Lu Xiaoxiao asked the old lady.
"A pair of jade bracelets and two jade pendants."
"Okay, but there are too many people here. Let's go under that big tree where no one is and discuss how to trade."
Lu Xiaoxiao came under the big tree and told the old lady that she had flour, noodles and rice. She took out the samples from the basket and showed them to her, asking her what she wanted.
When the old lady saw the things in the basket, her eyes lit up with excitement and she said she wanted all three. Then she reached into her sleeves and took out a pair of bracelets and two jade pendants.
Since the bracelet and jade pendant are both imperial green, the old lady said that these three items were made from a piece of jade. If they were in the past, these things would be priceless, but now they are not as good as a pound of grain, so she asked Lu Xiaoxiao how much grain these things could be exchanged for.
Lu Xiaoxiao didn't know how much food these things should be exchanged for now, but if it were in the future, she would know how much she should exchange for, so she pushed the question back and asked the old lady how much food she wanted to exchange for those things.
The old lady hesitated for a while before she said hesitantly, "I want to exchange for five kilograms of rice, five kilograms of flour, and five kilograms of noodles. If you think it's too much, a little more is fine."
Hearing what the old lady said, Lu Xiaoxiao exclaimed in her heart: It's not much, not much at all, it's almost as cheap as cabbage, like it's free. Although it's immoral to exchange it like this, this is the way the world is. If you break the rules, you will only bring yourself fatal danger.
Lu Xiaoxiao used the backpack as a cover to replace all the samples in the backpack with five-jin ones, and also took out a bottle of peanut oil from the glass jar that weighed one jin each in the space.
She was afraid that the old lady would attract attention if she carried so many things back home, so she gave the backpack directly to the old lady.
When the old lady checked the things in the backpack, she found an extra bottle of oil. When she was about to take the oil out, she was stopped by Lu Xiaoxiao.
"This bottle of oil is a gift for you since you bought so many things from me," Lu Xiaoxiao said to the old lady.
When the old lady heard what Lu Xiaoxiao said, she was so happy that she kept saying thank you.
Seeing the old lady's happy expression, Lu Xiaoxiao thought that although she couldn't do anything too excessive now, it wouldn't be a big deal if she gave her a small bottle of oil.
After Lu Xiaoxiao took the things handed over by the old lady, she left the black market. Then she found a deserted place, entered the space and changed her clothes back to her original ones.
She was so excited after making a big deal today that she was afraid that her emotions would affect her thinking ability and thus her judgment, making it difficult for her to detect when danger was approaching. So she didn't plan to enter the black market again today.
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(End of this chapter)
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