An Moxue thought that she already had the equivalent of 600 yuan in her hands, so she didn't need to stay in the hospital. The food and accommodation in the hospital were not good, and the medicine was not as good as her own.
I can go home tomorrow after being discharged from the hospital, so I thought I'd go to the black market to see if I could catch a few wolves or wild boars. I found a deserted corner, went into my spatial dimension, put on the same makeup as last time as the eldest sister, changed my clothes, and headed straight to Er Gouzi's black market.
Upon reaching the door, he knocked seven times, paused, then knocked five more times. A moment later, footsteps approached. Er Gouzi opened the door and saw it was a major client from a few days ago. He quickly said, "Big sister, please come in. What brings you here at this hour?"
An Moxue replied, "Let's go inside and talk."
Once inside, An Moxue said, "Do you want any goods? Wolves and wild boars."
"Yes, how many do you have, big sister?" Er Gouzi asked.
"Four wild boars and six wolves, all whole. The key question is, what's your price?"
"Hey lady, we've known each other for ages. How about this, I'll give you 50 cents a pound for wild boar, and one dollar for wolves, okay?"
"Okay, the wild boar is about a thousand catties, and the wolf is a little over two hundred catties. I want money for both. Let's meet at one o'clock tonight, in the small woods outside the eastern suburbs. Remember to bring a scale."
After finishing her business, An Moxue left. With nothing much to do in the afternoon, she decided to take a leisurely stroll.
Unknowingly, we arrived at a desolate and abandoned place. It was clear that this place used to be a cluster of brick houses, but they must have been destroyed in the war, which is why it has become such a wretched sight.
An Moxue didn't know why she wanted to look around. Looking at this place always made her feel a kind of indescribable sadness, and she didn't know why.
She walked slowly among the ruins, touching one brick and looking at another, as if she could still see the bustling activity and the constant gunfire of the past.
Suddenly, a broken stone caught her attention. She carefully picked it up, and the pattern on it looked very much like her little fox. She carefully took a handkerchief and wiped it again, and the pattern became clearer. It was indeed the pattern of her little fox, only part of it.
She examined the ruins more carefully, spending the entire afternoon there, not letting go of any possibility, but she found nothing more, as if it were all an illusion.
She had no choice but to put the stone into her spatial storage. She found a relatively secluded spot by a broken wall and sat down, not caring whether it was gray or dusty. She wiped her hands with a handkerchief, looked around, took out the parchment scroll from her spatial storage, and stroked the little fox with her hands, again and again.
When she arrived in the North, she finally understood the lines on the parchment scroll; they depicted the contours of mountains, but she still couldn't tell which mountains they were from.
He stared at the parchment scroll in a daze for a while, then put it away. He took an apple from his spatial storage and started eating it.
After finishing the meal, they traced the layout, identifying the living room, bedroom, kitchen, and stables, room by room, place by place.
As darkness fell, until it was completely dark and nothing could be seen, An Moxue took out a metal detector from her spatial storage and began checking each area one by one. There was not a sound at all. It was almost midnight, and she hadn't even finished checking half of the area. She had no choice but to give up and come back to continue checking after the transaction was completed.
When An Moxue arrived at the grove on the eastern outskirts of the city with about twenty minutes to spare, she found a secluded spot, released the wild boar and wolf, and covered them with some weeds. After doing all this, she returned to the edge of the grove and hid herself.
Before one o'clock, the sound of a carriage approaching could be heard, growing closer and closer until it stopped. Then, Er Gouzi's low voice called out, "Big Sister, Big Sister!"
An Moxue emerged from her hiding place and walked up to Er Gouzi. "Come with me."
Then one person guarded the car, while two others followed An Moxue and Er Gouzi.
When they arrived at the area where the wild boars were hiding, they parted the weeds and saw the boars and wolves. They all gasped in shock. Had they been killed in a brawl?
Er Gouzi asked An Moxue, "Big sister, did they kill him in a group fight?"
An Moxue replied expressionlessly, "That's right, I just happened to run into it and got a bargain."
"What great luck!"
"Would you like it?"
"No, no, my life is more important, let's weigh him quickly!"
Several people started moving and lifting, and in a few moments they finished weighing it. The total was 1,007 jin of wild boar and 223 jin of wolf, for a total of 726.5 yuan.
After collecting the money, An Moxue disappeared into the grove in a few leaps, and Er Gouzi and the others loaded the car and left quickly.
During the first transaction, An Moxue's adrenaline was surging. She was terrified of being double-crossed; her life was more important than anything else.
After walking some distance, An Moxue took out her bicycle, hung up a kerosene lamp, and headed towards the abandoned house.
In the dead of night, when all was quiet, An Moxue began her inspection by lighting a kerosene lamp. With light, the inspection was much faster.
By the time dawn broke, everything had been checked. Just when An Moxue thought she had worked for nothing all night, the metal detector reacted.
Fearing there might be loopholes in the inspection during the first half of the night, she remembered this place and quickly went to check it again. After finishing, she put away the detector, found a secluded spot, removed her disguise, and left.
Then I went to a state-run restaurant for breakfast and returned to the hospital.
In the ward, someone saw An Moxue return and greeted her, asking, "An Zhiqing, why didn't you come back last night?"
"I was held up by a case and it got too late to come back. Big sister, you look much better. Are you about to be discharged from the hospital?"
"Yeah, it should be almost done by tomorrow, and you look much better."
"I'm thinking that once the doctor comes to check on me and asks a few questions, I'll probably leave. There are just too many places to spend money here every day."
"That's for sure. We don't earn much money all year round, and one illness can wipe it all out, and it might not even be enough. We ordinary people are most afraid of getting sick."
Another person in the ward said, "Anything but illness, anything but being broke."
The people in the ward nodded in agreement.
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The nurses made their rounds all morning, the doctors examined me, I received an IV drip, and by the time I finished the injections and completed the discharge procedures, it was already noon.
Looking at the discharge slip in my hand, I was surprised that I only spent 3.72 yuan in five days. Thinking about the 5 cents registration fee, and then thinking about how some workers earn less than 20 yuan a month, and how a pair of nylon socks costs 2 yuan.
In this messed-up era, cheap things are really cheap, and expensive things are really expensive. No matter how cheap or expensive, it's hard to buy anything. There's no stock for either price, and you need a ration coupon.
An Moxue carried her things out of the hospital and went straight to the police station.
As soon as she entered the police station, a policeman immediately came over and warmly led An Moxue to the person in charge of her case. An Moxue recognized him and quickly greeted him, "Uncle Wang, I came to tell you that I've been discharged from the hospital. If you need to contact me about the case again, go to the village, especially Instructor Zhang Jing. Tell him that he must tell me before he returns to Beijing, as I have something for him to take back. Also, I want to collect the compensation today."
“Okay, I’ll tell the director and Leader Zhang. Come with me, I’ll take you to the finance department to get it.” With that, he got up and led An Moxue into the room.
As they walked, he said, "You're quite something, girl. You actually managed to get the money. These families didn't want to give it to them at first, but after the military comrades from the province and Leader Zhang came and put pressure on their families, they finally got it."
"Really? Then I have to thank him. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known. Is there any news about Jiang Shi?"
"Got it, they've all gone to stake him out, but the film studio still doesn't have enough evidence."
When they got to the finance department, the person in charge was also amazed. The key was that no one had ever done it this way before. They all thought that catching the criminals would be the end of it, and they had never thought of this aspect.
An Moxue was overjoyed to see the thick wad of money; it would last her a long time.
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