Chapter 390 The quality of black market food is so poor!
She was indeed worried that it would not be a good idea for Su Niannian to go to the black market alone.
The main reason is that Su Niannian looks too young and too tender.
The black market is a place for private transactions. A fair-skinned girl like Su Niannian is afraid of being cheated when dealing with such a mixed crowd.
Especially since Su Niannian was dressed pretty well, what should she do if she was treated like a fat sheep?
Su Niannian could see that Sister Chen was indeed a warm-hearted person and truly cared about her.
"Then I'll wait for Sister Chen to take me there next time. I'll go somewhere safer today." Su Niannian said with a smile.
There is no need to make Sister Chen worry.
"Okay, then when you have time one day, I'll take you to see it."
"I have a distant cousin who is also involved in the black market. He knows a lot of people. If you want to get any tickets or anything, you can talk to me."
"You can also get industrial tickets, and I'll ask him to give it to you at a lower price." Sister Chen continued.
Su Niannian nodded and said thank you.
Sister Chen really likes this little girl Su Niannian.
After a while, the car stopped at the same station where it had stopped before.
Everyone got off the car.
"Then please be careful. I'll leave first." Sister Chen said to Su Niannian after getting off the car.
Su Niannian nodded and said okay.
"The time to return to the compound is 2:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon. Don't come back late! Otherwise it will be troublesome if you miss the bus." Sister Chen reminded Su Niannian again.
"Okay, thank you, Sister Chen."
"Don't be polite. I'll be leaving first." Sister Chen waved to Su Niannian and left.
Su Niannian planned to go to the black market near Baicaotang mentioned by Sister Chen first.
There are too many things in my space warehouse now. If I want to find someone to take over, it would be better to try my luck in a larger black market.
Moreover, Baicaotang... Wasn’t Zhou Qishan in Baicaotang in Long County before?
It should be a chain of Chinese medicine shops.
Su Niannian walked around the station.
Found a bus to Baicaotang.
By 1976, there were nearly 2,000 buses in operation in Beijing.
The buses at that time were basically white with red stripes on them.
It doesn't seem as beautiful and safe as those in later generations, but the public transportation system has begun to develop.
At this time, there are ninety-six bus routes in Beijing.
Fortunately, the place where Su Niannian was located was also a small transportation hub, and she actually found a bus to Baicaotang.
However, the departure time between trains is a little long.
After the bus arrived, Su Niannian got on and the conductor came over with a ticket folder.
When asked where Su Niannian wanted to get off, Su Niannian told the conductor that she wanted to get off near Baicaotang.
The conductor tore off a five-cent ticket and a one-cent ticket from the ticket holder and told Su Niannian that it would cost six cents.
Su Niannian smiled and gave six cents to the ticket seller.
Six cents for a distance of about five kilometers, Su Niannian thought it was very reasonable.
In the car, people would look at Su Niannian from time to time. After all, Su Niannian was so beautiful.
Especially after Su Niannian became pregnant, her belly had not yet bulged noticeably, but her figure had become more curvy.
Even in Beijing, it is rare to see such a beautiful girl.
When we arrived at the station, the conductor called out the station name.
Su Niannian heard the station where she was going to get off, and saw the sign of Baicaotang after getting off the bus.
Following the location Sister Chen said, I walked around and saw the entrance to the black market.
It was not like what Su Niannian had imagined. There was no big man guarding the door, or someone at the door checking the people entering.
It is similar to the ordinary market entrance in later generations.
Su Niannian can go in directly.
After taking a look around, Su Niannian felt that this place was really not comparable to the black market in Long County.
It seems like they sell all kinds of things in there.
In addition to various meats, there are also rice, flour, grain, oil, and fresh fruits and vegetables.
I also make my own soles and insoles, and hand-make clothes.
The clothes are not very nice, they are all very basic in style and fabric.
The colors are navy blue, gray, black, military green, etc., which are more resistant to dirt.
There are also bed sheets, mattresses, quilts and so on.
But there are no good-looking styles. People of this era are more practical.
And there is no channel to get good-looking fabrics to make them.
There are also clothes hangers made of hard iron wire and clothes racks made of wood or bamboo.
Su Niannian looked around and saw that most of the things for sale were made by themselves.
In that era, the economy was not yet open, so things like enamel basins, enamel pots, brushes, soaps, laundry soaps, etc. could only be bought at supply and marketing cooperatives.
In the black market, apart from agricultural and sideline products, most of the items are basic handmade items.
Su Niannian knew that if she waited another two years, some smuggled goods would flow in from the port city.
You can also build factories privately and produce some things.
By then, there will be more varieties and types of things sold privately.
Su Niannian took another stroll around the black market and felt that it would be better to start with food.
We came to one and saw the largest place selling grain.
Su Niannian went over.
The boss who sold grain had just weighed ten pounds of white flour for the previous customer when he saw a very beautiful girl coming over.
I quickly greeted him with a smile.
"Little girl, are you here to buy food? I have rice, flour, cornmeal, sorghum rice, millet and everything else. The prices are fair, and no tickets are required."
"We also have hanging noodles." The boss who sells grain greeted enthusiastically.
Su Niannian smiled and looked at the grain sold by the boss.
The quality is not very high, and it looks like a lot of them are old rice and old grains.
"Boss, do you have any better food here?" Su Niannian put the rice in her hand back into the bag, looked up and asked the boss.
I just put my hand into the bag and grabbed some rice, and my hand was covered with a lot of white powder.
It looks like this rice is at least two or three years old.
The broken edge and both ends of the rice grains are either white or black, which shows that the quality is really poor.
The boss looked at Su Niannian and thought she must be rich.
After thinking for a while, he took out a smaller bag from a box at the back.
Open it and place it in front of Su Niannian.
"Little girl, what do you think of this? But it's a bit more expensive, it's top-quality refined rice." The boss said to Su Niannian with a smile.
Su Niannian took a look and found that it was indeed better than the ones in the big bag, but still not good enough.
Compared with my own rice, the difference is not even a little bit.
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