Scattered sparsely in the woods were vendors, some standing, some squatting, selling things. Their wares were not displayed openly like in later night markets, but were packed in sacks, baskets, or baskets they carried on their backs.
It looks like he is ready to escape at any time.
"Do you want some rice?" a vendor asked when he saw them about to pass by.
Su Guoyu turned around and peeked into the vendor's sack. "How much is it?"
"40 cents, no ticket!"
"Give me ten pounds!" Su Guoyu saw that the rice was clean and translucent, so he paid for it readily.
The vendor weighed the food neatly and put it into the cloth bag he brought with him.
Wen Guoer had given Su Xing and his friends rice at market price, which was 1.3 yuan. Unexpectedly, it was being sold on the black market for 40 yuan! This shows how scarce food was at that time.
Afterwards, Su Guoyu bought a hen, thirty eggs, and five pounds of pork.
Wen Guoer did not stop her. Although the meat in her space was also organic food carefully selected by the housekeeper, she just felt that it was not as fragrant as it was now!
The two were wandering aimlessly when they noticed that the figures in the woods were all running in one direction. Wen Guoer curiously pulled Su Guoyu along and followed.
"Line up, line up! There are only thirty copies available tonight, while they're sold out! If you can't get one, come back tomorrow." A bearded man was directing from the front.
"This should be your good whitening cream! Now the girls in the city who have the means would like to bring everyone in their family to line up!" Su Guoyu whispered to her.
Wen Guoer stood by and watched. After a while, all thirty bottles were sold out and the bearded man left quickly.
There were more than 20 people in the queue behind who still hadn't bought anything. They complained in a low voice:
"They clearly have the goods, but they're not selling them. They're just keeping everyone on suspense! I don't know what they're trying to achieve."
"They're not going to raise the price again, are they? It's gone from 7 yuan to 10 yuan in less than a month!"
"I heard they also sell it in the west of the city. It's much cheaper there, only five yuan. Do you want to go and have a look?" A woman with her face covered with a scarf walked into the crowd and interrupted.
After hearing this, Wen Guoer couldn't help but look at the woman twice more!
The supply price of whitening cream is 5 yuan. Even if Su Xing and his team don’t make any money, it is impossible for the black market to only make a profit from such a good-selling product!
So what’s the deal with this one that only costs five dollars?
Seeing the woman fanning the flames in the crowd and using sweet words to lead everyone to the West Market, Wen Guoer secretly suspected that this woman was a stooge sent from over there!
I thought about giving Su Xing a warning when I get back to prevent him from being taken advantage of by someone with ulterior motives.
After buying things, the two of them were walking back. As soon as they walked out of the woods, they were stopped by a boy of seven or eight years old:
"Sisters, can I exchange this for your food?"
Wen Guoer turned around and saw a handsome but skinny boy looking at her expectantly.
The boy saw her looking at him and quickly reached out his hand to her.
Wen Guoer looked over and her eyes flashed!
Such a small child actually held a big yellow croaker in his hand! And displayed it in front of her.
Wen Guoer looked around hurriedly, fortunately there was no one around!
She walked up to the boy, pushed his outstretched hand back, and motioned him to put it away.
"Do your family members know if you take this out?"
"There's no one at home. I'm all alone." The boy lowered his head, looking a little sad.
Wen Guoer didn't know how to continue after hearing this. Before she could think of what to say, the boy raised his head again:
"Sister, please return the food to me. I haven't eaten for many days."
He looked at the large yellow croaker in his hand and said sincerely, "Grandma said this thing is very valuable! But I don't know where to exchange it for money. Can you trade it with me for food?"
"Child, take these rice and eggs back and eat them first! Keep these away and don't let anyone see them!"
Su Guoyu heard the conversation between the two from the beginning and had already divided the food and handed it to the boy.
"Thank you! But I can't take your things for free, grandma will be unhappy!"
As the boy said this, he stuffed the big yellow croaker into Wen Guoer's hand, turned around and ran into the darkness with the thing.
Wen Guoer looked at the big yellow croaker in her hand and felt at a loss. That little bit of food was not worth the price of this fish.
This yellow croaker looks like it's from the Republic of China era. One fish weighs ten taels. Based on the Republic of China era's weight of one tael and thirty-one grams, that's 310 grams.
Although no one uses these transactions now, in just one or two years, it will be a considerable amount of money!
She couldn't take advantage of a child like this, especially one with such an unfortunate life story.
"This kid is really straightforward! He gave away such a valuable thing just like that!" Su Guoyu looked at the figure disappearing in the distance with some anger.
"It's too late to catch up now. Let's look for him around here again when we have a chance! From what he said, he should be an orphan. It won't be hard to find him!"
It was almost dawn, so the two of them didn't stay long and rode their bikes back home.
Unexpectedly, before Wen Guoer had time to call Su Xing, Lu Jun came to the compound early in the morning. Everyone in the family was out today, and only she and Aunt Liu were there.
When Wen Guoer heard the guard call out Lu Jun's name, she was a little surprised and asked the guard to let him pass.
"Guo'er! Fortunately, fortunately you are here too! Hurry up, find a way to save Su Xing!"
Lu Jun saw that Wen Guoer was very excited, breathing heavily, and her eyes were full of panic.
"Don't be anxious. Drink some water and take it easy. What happened?" Wen Guoer saw that he was sweating profusely and his lips were dry and peeling, so she poured him a glass of water.
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