"Let's separate and be quiet for a few days!" Liang Qi needed to digest these things and figure out how to get through them so that they could have some buffer period.
"I'll wait for you! But it's New Year's time now, I'm afraid we can't separate." Nie Zheng said softly. He knew that Liang Qi couldn't accept this for the time being, but if they separated like this, who knew what would happen in the future.
He was willing to give them time, but not in the next few days, and even if he did, it wouldn't be for too long, because he wanted to make sure the mother and daughter lived under his wings.
Also, it’s time to let someone else take the seat in the Song family. If one person sits there for too long, he’ll get sick.
"I understand." Liang Qi pursed her lips and waved her hand. What the man said was true, but she also said that she didn't want to say more.
"Then I'll go pick up grandpa. You tell mom." Nie Zheng said and went to pick him up without waiting for Liang Qi to respond.
Liang Qi looked at the man's anxious look. She was not stopping him, but she just wanted to remind him to walk slowly with the old man on the road. Was it necessary to run so fast?
Liang Qi needs to think carefully. After the Chinese New Year, it will be 1961. She will have to start accumulating some things and find a way out.
Nie Zheng took Jiang Weidong with him when he left.
Liang Qi was also cleaning up the house. The old man had come, but his legs and feet were not very convenient, so he had to live here.
"Mom, when Nie Zheng's grandfather comes, we will live with you. How about letting them live here?" Liang Qi looked at the old lady and said.
"Okay, but when will you two get things done? If you stay together like this, people will gossip about you. Mom is afraid that time is running out." Zhang Guishu said worriedly.
She felt that her days were numbered, and she always wished for the best for her children, so that she could die peacefully.
"You will live a long life. As for my matter with Nie Zheng, we can discuss it after Nie Zheng arrives."
After Liang Qi finished speaking, he held the old man's hand and placed one hand on the old man's wrist. There was nothing wrong with the pulse. The old man suddenly said this, so we should pay attention. Some things can only be explained by metaphysics and cannot be seen in general.
Also, she needs her own set of silver needles.
Tomorrow is exactly the 30th, and I need couplets. If you don’t have them, I can buy some red paper and write them myself.
Liang Qi thought about it and went to the town to see if there was anything to buy. He walked through the alleys and knocked on a door.
"Who is it?" the person inside asked in a low voice.
"It's me." Liang Qi looked around and said softly.
The door opened from the inside, "You're here!" Xue Yingying saw that it was Liang Qi and quickly let him in.
I looked around and saw no one was outside.
"Why are you here at this time?" Xue Yingying looked at Liang Qi and said.
The two entered the house and Xue Yingying poured Liang Qi a glass of water.
Speaking of Xue Yingying, I met her when I was buying sesame oil on the black market. Xue Yingying sold grain, eggs, live chickens, and other mountain products.
This was the first time Liang Qi saw someone buying so much sesame oil. Now he became a big customer of Xue Yingying.
He didn't buy anything and followed Liang Qi. Liang Qi thought he was a person with bad intentions.
They blocked her in the alley and questioned her for a while before she finally explained that Xue Yingying followed her because she wanted to sell something to her.
From now on, if you want to buy something, you don’t have to go to the black market, just go directly to Xue Yingying.
"I want a chicken and some red paper to write couplets." Liang Qi said straight to the point.
"Of course there must be one. If not, I will find it for you. You are my big buyer." Xue Yingying said with a smile.
He continued, "You know, we arrested a lot of people in the black market yesterday. The situation has become even stricter over the past few days during the Lunar New Year holiday. We can't sell anything."
Xue Yingying started to criticize Liang Qi.
"Really? I won't go there. You'd better stay at home. The things won't go bad anyway. The prices of these things will definitely go up after the New Year." Liang Qi said slowly while drinking water.
"It's not that I'm worried about not being able to sell them, it's just that I don't have any extra space to store them. My relative used his connections to get a batch of grain and is going to send some to me so I can sell it." Xue Yingying said with some distress.
"Can't it be delivered later?" Liang Qi asked curiously.
"If it's too late, it will be gone. This is mainly to create a time difference. Do you know the West Grain Depot?" Xue Yingying whispered.
"I've heard the name, but I don't know the others."
Liang Qi knew that it was the largest grain base in the country and also the country's last guarantee base. She answered this way because she wanted to know what happened.
"The upper management over there needs to free up some of the grain to store this year's newly harvested grain, and prepare to dispose of the old grain." Xue Yingying raised her eyebrows and looked at Liang Qi.
"Food is so scarce, how can they complain about having too much? And some places don't even have the old ones. Besides, this is the public grain that farmers have handed over to the state. What right do they have to sell it?"
Liang Qi was wondering if there was really so much grain in the granary?
"The Eastern Province has a bumper harvest every year, black soil, a large population and vast land. Naturally, people there won't be interested in that." Xue Yingying explained to Liang Qi.
Who can guarantee that the grain in those granaries is full and not just straw laid on the ground to make up the difference?
When the country needs food, it says it doesn't have enough. So where does the food go? Isn't it just bought up like this?
In that case, she bought some food to store so that she could use it in emergencies.
"How much do you estimate you can get in?"
Liang Qi didn't express his thoughts directly. He first tried to understand the situation and then quietly stockpiled it. If not now, when would he do it?
"It should be around 4,000 kilograms." Xue Yingying pondered.
"How are you going to sell so many?" Liang Qi asked after taking a sip of water.
"I don't know yet. I just have no place to put all the food. There are nearly forty big bags." Xue Yingying scratched her hair in distress.
"Give me three thousand kilograms. What's a reasonable price for you?" Liang Qi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.
"What? You want three thousand kilograms? Really? Then I'll give you my purchase price. You've helped me a lot, otherwise I would have missed this batch of grain. Tomorrow I'll go to the county and tell my relative that it can be delivered." Xue Yingying said happily.
"Thank you very much. I will give you an advance payment of 5% of the total price. Once the goods arrive, I will pay you the remaining 95%. What do you think?" Liang Qi said sincerely.
"Why be so polite? You don't have to pay for now. We don't know each other well. You are my stable big customer. Why would I be afraid that you will run away?" Xue Yingying waved her hand.
"Thank you very much! You said that there is not much food in the country right now, and many people are starving to death. Why is there still so much food at the East Grain Depot?"
Liang Qi was really curious. How many people had starved to death across the country? Why was there still so much food in the East Warehouse?
"According to reliable information, the grain depot is engaged in grain resale, and the actual data reported each time is greater than the reported data, which means that the grain depot always underreports.
This way, when there is a food shortage in some places, they can sell the food at a high price, and their granaries can make a lot of extra money," Xue Yingying said, looking at Liang Qi.
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