Chapter 12 Distress
"Eat, eat, eat. Do you know that our rations are divided into half and half, coarse grains and fine grains? I also want to eat rice, but the grain store won't give it to me, and I can't have something without it." Zhang Meiyu said irritably. This place belongs to the southeast region, and the main products are rice and sweet potatoes. The fine grain is rice, and the coarse grain is naturally sweet potatoes. Even corn is rarely seen.
"Just buy it on the black market. I heard the black market has everything." Qiao Liang said disapprovingly.
He has a cousin who eats rice every day at home. The rice is bought by his mother on the black market. Their family is not short of money. In addition to the three people who receive loans, there is also Qiao Mo's money. He once overheard his mother and father say that his second uncle left a large sum of money for Qiao Mo, and Qiao Mo also has a pension and rent. These are all theirs. Now their family is considered rich. As long as his mother is willing, they can eat rice every day.
"Going to the black market is speculation and profiteering. If you are caught, you will go to jail. If you have any problems, go buy it yourself." Zhang Meiyun glared at her youngest son: After Qiao Mo went to the countryside, not only did he lose 30 cents in living expenses, but her passbook was also taken away. Now he has to ask them for such a large sum of money. By then, I am afraid that he can't even guarantee his current living standard.
Thinking of this, she glared at Qiao Mo hatefully: What an ungrateful person, he turned his back on me just because I asked him to go to the countryside. I don't know where she got the confidence from.
Qiao Mo ignored them. After eating, he returned to the balcony that was like a steamer, sat on the bed and thought about what else he needed to prepare.
According to the description in the book, the place they were going to was in western Hunan Province, a real mountainous area. It was more than ten kilometers away from the nearest town and there was no transportation. They could only walk. It was more than 40 kilometers away from the county seat and they had to take a bus in the town. It was very difficult to go out. Those educated youth who could not carry anything on their shoulders or hands rarely went out.
"We also need to prepare some cloth and food coupons." Qiao Mo thought that there was very little cloth in the wooden bracelet space, and it did not conform to the characteristics of this era, so she definitely could not use it. However, her clothes and pants needed to be changed, so she had to buy some cloth. She did not have cloth coupons, so she could not buy cloth from the supply and marketing department. As for food coupons, she would always have to eat on the road, and in this era, she could not buy food without food coupons, so she had to prepare some.
It seemed that she had to go to the black market to exchange some tickets for emergency use. She could also buy some defective cloth from the printing and dyeing factory: every batch of cloth printed by the printing and dyeing factory would produce some defective products, and they would give priority to selling them to the employees in the factory. Not only was the price cheap, but no cloth tickets were required.
She heard that the black market opens at four in the morning, so she can only wait until later. She decided to look for Yang Weihua first. He has many friends, and most of them are children of printing and dyeing factories. He may have a way to buy defective cloth.
Zhang Meiyun saw her rushing out and couldn't help asking Qiao Chenglin, "Why is she in such a hurry?"
"How should I know?" Qiao Chenglin said calmly, "What do you think about what I said yesterday?"
"No, the money at home didn't come from the wind, so why should I give it to her?" Zhang Meiyun threw away the rag in her hand and said viciously, "I want to see how cruel she can be."
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