Liu Xiaojun thought about it and realized that all the food at home was gone, so he should exchange some food first.
If you really have no food, you can exchange it for food coupons. Food coupons can not only be used to buy snacks, but also to buy food in restaurants. You can buy some steamed buns and dumplings, and you can even eat meat!
However, the meat that people ate with food coupons was not fresh meat, but meat buns.
These days, there are only three ways to eat meat.
The first type is meat tickets, but meat tickets themselves are rare, and even if you have a meat ticket, you may not be able to buy meat. Supplies are limited these days, and you don’t know the meat sales time at the meat processing plant, so even if you go there, the meat will be sold out.
The second type is like Liu Xiaojun, hunting and fishing.
The third type is food stamps. In those days, you needed food stamps to eat in a restaurant. You could use food stamps to exchange for meat buns in the restaurant, and eating meat buns was like eating meat.
So Liu Xiaojun spoke to the crowd.
"The first choice is white flour, grain coupons, or if you have other coupons, you can tell me and I'll see if I need them."
"Okay, old man, I don't have anything else, but I do have a lot of food coupons. Catfish are a little more expensive than silver carp. I'll give you fifty cents for these three or five catties. I'll trade you two five-catty food coupons. You won't lose out."
Five kilograms of food coupons?
Liu Xiaojun's eyes immediately lit up: "That would be great."
These are two five-jin food coupons, which means you can buy ten jin of food. Ten jin of food is enough to feed your family of three for seven days.
So Liu Xiaojun agreed immediately.
The old man gave the food coupons to Liu Xiaojun, happily put the fish in his hand into the fish basket, and walked away carrying his fish basket.
Seeing the first catfish being caught, the people behind suddenly became anxious.
Everyone wanted the silver carp but was worried that they wouldn't be able to get it, so the crowd started to get agitated and tried to squeeze closer to Liu Xiaojun. Someone even accidentally stretched out his leg and almost kicked Liu Xiaojun into the water.
Seeing this, Liu Xiaojun yelled, "Don't push, get in line! Those who don't get in line won't get their tickets changed!"
When they heard that Liu Xiaojun would not change the fish, the group of people immediately became obedient and lined up immediately.
After a few minutes, there was movement on the water again.
With a "whoosh!", a catfish was thrown to the ground again.
The second guy walked off with the catfish, and the crowd started to get excited.
"Swoosh!" Then came the catfish.
......
Until the last one, they were all catfish, which made the onlookers numb.
During the process, I knew just by the feel of the fishing rod that a big fish weighing over ten pounds had taken the bait, but my hook was made of a sewing needle and it was too easy to come off, so I didn't catch it.
Liu Xiaojun felt quite regretful. This was a big fish weighing ten kilograms. It was such a loss!
If you come across someone selling fish hooks in the pigeon market later, you must buy a good one!
In one afternoon, I caught seven or eight catfish weighing three or four pounds. It really touched the catfish nest!
this???
The number one fishing god in Beijing?
However, no one cared. Since they had gotten the fish, they all happily exchanged their gifts for the fish and went home.
Liu Xiaojun looked at his backpack and nodded.
We had a good harvest today: five pounds of flour, a small pot of oil, and even a few Class B cigarette coupons.
The man who exchanged the cigarette tickets was afraid that Liu Xiaojun would refuse, so he stuffed the cigarette tickets into his hands and ran away with the fish, leaving Liu Xiaojun in a state of amusement and confusion.
No one in my family smokes, but it’s not completely useless. What if it comes in handy someday?
After finally seeing that group of people off, Liu Xiaojun felt relieved.
He put the chicken liver on the hook and went fishing.
only.
The fish I caught this time will be taken to the Pigeon Market to exchange for money. I also have to exchange the money today to buy some pagoda candy for Tangtang to kill insects.
I don’t know what happened, maybe all the catfish in the pond were caught out. Liu Xiaojun sat there for several hours before he caught three catfish weighing three or four pounds.
According to the price in Pigeon Market, a catfish weighing three or four pounds costs about 50 cents, or one dollar and fifty cents.
The price of pagoda candies is ten for ten cents, so it is affordable no matter what.
After Liu Xiaojun finished fishing, he pulled a few straw ropes, strung the fish he caught on the string, and then went directly to Pigeon City.
It was getting dark when Liu Xiaojun finally entered the Pigeon Market.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw the hunter who sold wild boar meat last time was there. However, this time he was not selling wild boar meat, but bamboo rats instead.
There were several bamboo rats in the bamboo basket at the hunter's feet.
The bamboo rat is an animal with strong reproductive capacity and good litter-bearing ability. Its thick fur can be used to make clothes.
If you buy it, you can kill it and eat the meat, and you can use the skin to make a scarf for Tangtang. If you don't kill it, you can raise it and let it give birth and reproduce.
Liu Xiaojun was somewhat tempted.
Liu Xiaojun sighed, he was lucky enough to have eaten it once. This thing is fat but not greasy, delicious and tasty, and it is good for the body.
Unfortunately, after 2024, this thing will become a protected animal and its consumption is prohibited.
After standing there for a long time and seeing no one come forward to ask about the hunter's bamboo rat, the hunter looked a little anxious.
Liu Xiaojun casually asked, "How much is this bamboo rat?"
After a while, no one even asked. Seeing Liu Xiaojun asking, the hunter said directly: "I came across this thing by pure luck. The skin is thick and difficult to handle. I won't frame it for you. It's 50 cents a pair. Take it if you want."
Liu Xiaojun picked up one and weighed it with his hand. It was quite heavy, about three or four pounds.
Two of them weigh about six pounds, and you can eat meat at less than ten cents per pound. It is really a good deal.
However, Liu Xiaojun only had the thirty cents he won from the bet with the third uncle, and he wanted to buy a pair of bamboo rats for fifty cents, but he didn't have enough money.
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