Jiang Shiyue: “…”
The corners of her mouth twitched, and she patted the bag she was carrying. "I just want to sell my old clothes."
The driver clearly didn't believe it. He'd been driving this car for almost two years, and Jiang Shiyue would come out every month, always buying new clothes. But this time, she was actually selling clothes? He just couldn't believe it!
Jiang Shiyue was unable to defend herself, so she took the bag off her shoulder and untied it to show the driver.
The driver finally believed it when he saw that it was really her clothes, but he still shook his head and said, "Sister-in-law, it's illegal to go to the black market."
If you get caught, Chen Ying will be implicated.
He didn't dare say the latter sentence for fear of angering Jiang Shiyue.
Jiang Shiyue had no choice but to lie and said that she sold her clothes to get money for Yangyang's medical treatment.
The driver was surprised and touched. He hesitated for a moment before pointing the way to Jiang Shiyue. "Sister-in-law, I heard about this when I went to the restroom. I've never been there, so I don't know if the address is correct."
Jiang Shiyue thanked the driver and was about to leave when he stopped her. He pointed at the large bag she was carrying and said, "Sister-in-law, I heard that transactions on the black market are always concluded after the money is exchanged. You can leave the clothes in the car and I'll watch over them for you. You can bring someone to pick them up when you've reached an agreement."
Jiang Shiyue thought it was a good idea and thanked the driver again, but she didn't leave all her clothes behind. It wasn't too hot at the moment, so she put on a skirt and a single set of clothes and pants before leaving with Yangyang.
After asking for the address, Jiang Shiyue was not in a hurry to go to the black market. She wanted to get a rough idea of the prices at that time first.
Yangyang is obviously very resistant to being in crowded places.
Jiang Shiyue tried to divert his attention, "Yangyang, how about we have a competition? From now until we go home, let's count how many gay men and lesbians we meet, and see who can count the most accurately?!
Everyone counts, young or old. If you count correctly, I'll give you a reward!"
Yangyang hesitated for a moment, but still raised his head and looked around, but his whole body was tense and he was obviously repulsed.
Jiang Shiyue bent down at the same time and looked Yangyang in the eye. "Yangyang, believe me, this world is actually very beautiful, and dealing with people is not that scary. I'll accompany you, let's try it together, okay?"
Yangyang still didn't say anything, but he held Jiang Shiyue's hand a little harder, and his tense shoulders relaxed a little.
Jiang Shiyue touched Yangyang's head as a reward, looked around, and decided to go to the shop on the right first.
On the right are smaller state-owned stores, such as cloth shops.
Cotton cloth is only 40 cents a foot.
The best fabric in the store is only one dollar a foot.
To make an ordinary set of clothes, consisting of a separate top and pants, women need about five or six feet of cloth, while men need about seven or eight feet.
The pork in the pork shop is divided into three grades: third-grade meat is 68 cents, second-grade meat is 78 cents, and first-grade meat is 98 cents.
At the supply and marketing cooperative, salt cost 1.5 yuan per pound, matches were 2 cents a box, 100 pounds of rice was 15 yuan, and soy sauce, vinegar, and other condiments were all 8 cents per pound.
Jiang Shiyue was amazed. In her previous life, no one would pick up even a dime if she dropped it on the ground, let alone a penny.
The nursery rhyme about finding a penny and giving it to the policeman has been changed to finding a dollar.
Vegetables cost ten yuan per pound, and pork costs as much as twenty or thirty yuan per pound.
Walk from the right to the left. On the left is the department store and the supply and marketing mall.
As for the Friendship Store, you can't just enter it if you want to. You need qualifications to just look without buying anything, and you need a ticket to enter.
The department store was also very different from the department stores of a few decades later. There was no decoration style or aesthetics of furnishings, just plain white walls and simple shelves.
Today's sales clerks are in an enviable job with a stable job, and they have no service attitude at all.
Jiang Shiyue looked at the counters with curiosity. She had only seen many of the things in period dramas.
A tin kettle with a red bottom and white flowers, an enamel spittoon, a vanishing cream with a beautiful woman's face painted on it, and so on.
Department stores have cloth cabinets and wardrobe sets, and both cloth and clothes are more expensive than in small shops.
The cheapest cloth here costs only 60 cents, and clothes are much more expensive than outside.
Jiang Shiyue saw some similar clothes in the wooden boxes, and guessed that the original owner must have bought a lot of clothes here.
A 12-inch black-and-white TV costs 400 yuan, and you need a TV ticket. Bicycles also require a ticket, about 150 to 170 yuan.
Jiang Shiyue sighed when she saw this. Not to mention money, she didn't even have a ticket.
Jiang Shiyue, who once had assets in the low nine figures, now feels the pressure of not knowing how to pay off the huge debt of 160 yuan.
When passing by the restaurant, Jiang Shiyue couldn't help but take a few more glances. It had been more than a day since his rebirth, and he had only eaten that one piece of steamed bread.
Yangyang beside him had his stomach rumbling too. He had spilled his meal again this morning.
Jiang Shiyue hesitated for a moment, then took Yangyang's hand and walked towards the black market. "Wait until I get some money, and then we'll go eat."
**
The driver pointed the right way.
The black market has a vague feeling of being hidden in the city.
From the outside, it looks like an ordinary house, a self-built two-story building with a large yard.
There was no one at the door, but there were "beggars" nearby who were always watching and would sound the alarm if they saw a green truck without honking its horn.
Jiang Shiyue was a stranger and was questioned repeatedly by the gatekeeper. Fortunately, she answered all the questions alertly and flawlessly, and finally she was allowed in after paying the 20-cent ticket.
The two cents were given to her by Chen Shanhe as part of the fifty cents required to register for the college entrance examination.
There were many people in the yard, all of them like underground workers meeting, three or two gathered together whispering, with vigilant faces, looking around, as if they were ready to run away at any time.
Jiang Shiyue held Yangyang's hand and stood at the gate of the courtyard, observing secretly. To be more precise, Jiang Shiyue was observing while Yangyang was counting people.
A middle-aged man who looked very shrewd came up to Jiang Shiyue. Yangyang instantly tensed up all over, and the hand that was held by Jiang Shiyue began to tremble.
Jiang Shiyue protected Yangyang behind him, took a step back, and said with a smile: "Sorry, my child is timid, don't get too close. If you have something to say, just say it directly."
The middle-aged man looked around furtively and suddenly opened his clothes.
Encountered an exhibitionist?
Jiang Shiyue took a deep breath and closed his eyes, hesitating whether to run first or shout for help first.
"Why are you closing your eyes?" the middle-aged man said anxiously, "Take a look. Just tell me if you want to or not."
Jiang Shiyue opened one eye a little and saw that inside the middle-aged man's open coat were piles of colorful bills held by densely packed small clips.
Food coupons, oil coupons, cloth coupons, meat coupons, etc. were sorted and hung on the lining of clothes.
No wonder he was wearing a long coat in such hot weather, she thought she had run into a pervert. Unexpectedly, he was a ticket scalper.
"How do you sell these tickets?" Jiang Shiyue asked.
The middle-aged man put his clothes back on, looked around, and asked quietly, "Which one do you want?"
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