The black market shop is filled with the simple and honest atmosphere of that era. In later times, it would be no more than the size of a small supermarket.
But in this day and age, this is truly a good place to be.
Because there is everything from cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, meat, eggs and milk, and there is no purchase limit. As long as it is available here, you can buy as much as you want. If it is not enough, you can pay a deposit to make a reservation!
But that's the average salary nowadays.
They are all around thirty or forty yuan.
At most, I have to support a family of several people with a salary of thirty yuan, so it is impossible for me to come here.
To come to the black market, you have to be a specific group who can afford to pay high prices and are willing to spend money!
When Su Lujun and Chen Aihong came over, they saw a middle-aged fat uncle carrying a large piece of fat meat. The fat meat looked like it weighed about five pounds, quite a big piece!
Su Lujun came in with Chen Aihong when she saw this. She asked the clerk, "Xiao Tong, do you still have the big piece of fat meat that they just took away?"
Now that her mother-in-law knows that she has been here, she doesn't have to pretend to be a big shot.
The clerk, Xiao Tong, was a young man in his early teens. He also knew Su Lujun and said, "We don't have any big fat meat. They were reserved yesterday. If you want it, you can reserve it and come get it tomorrow."
"Hey, reserve three kilograms for me." Su Lujun said as she stopped Chen Aihong from paying and she paid for it herself.
In that era, fat meat was considered first-rate meat. If you had a ticket to buy it outside, it would cost about $1.40 per pound, but on the black market, it would cost three dollars per pound.
Yes, that’s right, it’s almost doubled.
Three pounds of fat meat only costs nine yuan.
"The deposit is four dollars and fifty cents, and you can pay the remaining half tomorrow when you come to pick up the goods." Xiao Tong swiftly took out a box and wrote on it: Four dollars and fifty cents for a deposit and three pounds of fat meat.
After receiving the money, he made two copies and tore off one copy for Su Lujun as a receipt.
Su Lujun took a look and put it away after finding nothing wrong. She asked, "Do you have any more flower oil?"
"Yes, two dollars and fifty cents a pound. How much do you want, sister?"
"Give me two pounds." Su Lujun took two oil bottles from the basket and gave them to him.
"Here!" The waiter Xiao Tong came in one bottle at a time, weighed the bottles deftly, and then poured the oil into them using a special funnel for pouring oil.
㥫This kind of thing happens more often, so after pouring it out, I collect it and put it on the scale, just the right amount, not more, not less.
"You guys are almost like the butchers in the market. No matter how many times you cut, there won't be any difference." Su Lujun said with a smile.
The young man Xiao Tong chuckled, "That's right, since we're going to do this, shouldn't we be serious about it?"
"Are there any eggs left?"
"Yes, how much do you want?"
"Give me four pounds of eggs." Su Lujun screwed the two oil bottles and put them in her mother-in-law's basket, and handed him the basket she brought.
The eggs at home were consumed very quickly, because Zhou Changdong alone consumed two eggs every day. She would mix them with rice soup to feed him, and she also had to eat them herself.
Of course, I used five eggs to make fried eggs last night.
So last time, my mother-in-law Chen Aihong bought several pounds of eggs, only half of them were left.
Since it's a rare day here, I might as well buy some to take home and eat slowly, so I don't have to make an extra trip next time.
Xiao Tong took the basket, weighed it, and checked with them to see if it was correct.
After determining the weight of the basket, go inside to load the eggs.
Four pounds of eggs were quickly weighed, and he went outside to weigh them again in front of them.
The scales here are fair and won't be short of anything.
Because the prices are doubled.
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