The county is farther from the city than the brigade is from the commune. The commune is farther from the county. Even if you take a car, it takes more than two hours to get there.
After getting off the bus in the city, Xu Zhixin walked out of the bus station and asked a passerby.
"Auntie, do you know how to get to Xinghua Lane?"
The black market is in Xinghua Lane. She knows where the black market is, thanks to Zhu Yong who likes to know where to go.
She had heard from Zhu Yong before where the black market was in the city. Zhu Yong knew where the black market was because he heard it from an old educated youth.
Several of the old educated youth had gone to the black market in the city to buy things.
"I know. Go straight from here, walk along the road till the end, then turn right. Turn left at the intersection and walk for a few minutes until you see an alley. That's Xinghua Lane." The old lady nodded and replied.
"Thank you, Auntie." After thanking her, Xu Zhixin followed the route the Auntie pointed out.
She walked quickly and found Xinghua Lane after more than ten minutes.
She certainly couldn't just go to the black market in Xinghua Lane to sell things. It was too dangerous. She had to change her clothes.
Xu Zhixin looked around and found a child walking towards her from the west. The child also saw her, smiled at her and said, "Big sister, you are so beautiful."
Xu Zhixin returned the child a gentle smile. After the child walked away and could no longer be seen, she looked around again to make sure that there was no one around before entering the space to change her clothes.
Because she had rich experience in disguise when she went to the black market in her hometown to sell things, Xu Zhixin was able to disguise herself in minutes and transformed into a man in his fifties.
She put three pheasants and two wild ducks in the backpack, and then took a basket and put fifty pheasant eggs and ten wild duck eggs in it.
There were not many wild pigeons, and their meat was particularly delicious, so she didn't plan to buy them and wanted to keep them all and eat them.
It's not easy to come to the city, and you have to change buses, so she naturally wouldn't be satisfied with just selling a few pheasants, wild ducks, and dozens of eggs and duck eggs.
She took out more than twenty pieces of floral cloth and put them in a gray cloth bag.
Based on her previous experience of selling goods on the black market in her hometown, she found that cloth was easy to sell, especially floral cloth. For example, these twenty pieces of floral cloth could be sold for hundreds of yuan.
A few pheasants and wild ducks, plus dozens of chicken and duck eggs, can be sold for dozens of dollars.
The total amount was more than 100 yuan, but it was a rare trip and she was not satisfied with only selling more than 100 yuan. She wanted to earn more.
She plans to sell another watch.
Watches at that time were very expensive. Whoever owned a watch, especially a Shanghai brand watch, was equivalent to owning a top luxury product today, which would make many people envious.
If I could have a foreign watch, it would be even more amazing. It would make those with small eyes and strong jealousy so jealous that they would be unable to sleep.
Although she didn’t have the top domestic watches of the time, such as the Shanghai brand, in her space, there was a watch counter in the supermarket in her space, which contained dozens of watches, all of which were foreign brands, such as Patek Philippe, Omega, Rolex…
At that time, there were some imported watches sold in China, including Rolex, but they were very expensive, with a Rolex costing more than seven or eight hundred yuan.
Shanghai brand watches are a luxury item that many Chinese people cannot afford, and yet they only cost a little over 100 yuan.
Rolex is much more expensive than Shanghai brand watches, several times more expensive. Most people simply cannot afford it. To exaggerate, they dare not even look at it.
When she was in her hometown before, she went to the black market so many times, but she never thought of selling the watch because she thought it was too expensive and no one would buy it.
But Jiang Province is a wealthy place. During the past few days in the brigade, I heard a lot about Jiang Province and learned that there are some rich people here.
This area of Jiangxi Province has been very prosperous since ancient times, so there are many landlords and big capitalists. Some of these people got the news before the founding of the People's Republic of China that the properties of landlords and capitalists would be confiscated, so they sold their properties before they were confiscated, and hid them all with money. Therefore, these people did not become poor after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and became invisible rich people, and these people are undoubtedly the ones who can afford these famous watches.
She thought about taking her Rolex to the black market and trying, maybe if she was lucky she would meet a hidden rich man who would be willing to buy her Rolex. If not, she would not lose anything and could just put the watch back to the watch counter in the supermarket.
After Xu Zhixin picked out a Rolex model that was closer to this era at the watch counter, she put the Rolex in her shirt pocket to make room.
Seeing that there was no one outside and no one saw her suddenly appear out of nowhere, she walked into Xinghua Lane with confidence.
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