Li Gang was stunned when he heard this, then he burst into laughter, "Okay, one hundred is one hundred, brother will make you his friend..."
Chu Tian smiled and thought that even if he sold it for a hundred, he would still lose money... Alas...
Li Gang also paid a high price for the remaining white flour, rice, noodles, and rapeseed oil, which was no lower than the prices he had sold them at before. Especially when he saw the large piece of fat and lean pork belly, Li Gang paid a price higher than the black market price to buy it.
Chu Tian collected the money and put on his backpack. After a moment's thought, he asked, "Brother Li Gang, are you buying chickens? Are they slaughtered?"
Li Gang immediately responded, "Yes, of course! As long as it's meat and fine grains, we'll take them..."
He paused and looked at Chu Tian in disbelief, "Brother Chu, do you mean you still have a chicken in your hand?"
Chu Tian thought about the two hundred yuan he had just earned and felt that it was too little. He smiled and said, "I have a batch of slaughtered chickens. If you want them, I can send them to you later, okay?"
Li Gang slapped his thigh excitedly, "Oh, you brought me a pillow while I was dozing off. I'm just short of meat. I was just thinking that these few kilograms of meat are not enough..."
Chu Tian didn't ask why there was a shortage of meat, but instead asked, "Do you have a sack? Can you lend me one? I can't fit it all in my backpack..."
The boy who had been quiet stood up and said, "Yes, I'll get it for you."
Chu Tian took the sack and said to Li Gang, "Wait for me for a while, I'll be back soon..."
After sending Chu Tian away, the young master saw Li Gang staring at Chu Tian's back. After thinking for a moment, he asked, "Brother Gang, do you want someone to follow you?"
Li Gang closed the door, turned around with a smile, touched the boy's head, and said earnestly, "Xiao Fei, even though we are in the black market, we can't be black-hearted!"
"That kind of black-on-black behavior is absolutely unacceptable, do you understand?"
Xu Fei just said it casually, and when he heard Li Gang say that, his face instantly turned red, "Brother Gang, yes, I'm sorry..."
Li Gang patted the boy's thin shoulder and warned, "Xiao Fei, your brother is a hero, you can't discredit him."
Xu Fei's eyes turned red when he heard this, "Brother Gang, I understand."
Li Gang walked forward with satisfaction, saying as he walked, "School will start next year, you still have to go to school."
Xu Fei opened his mouth to refuse, but when he thought of his elder brother's last words before he died, he couldn't say it.
Li Gang knew what he was thinking without even looking back at him. "Xiao Fei, don't worry about the money. You know what your brother Gangzi is doing. He can still afford to support you. Don't worry."
After a while, Xu Fei let out a "hmm" sound like a cat's meow.
Chu Tian walked out of the yard for a distance and found that no one was following him, so he found a secluded corner, quickly took out ten chickens from the space and stuffed them into a sack, and then took out some millet, soybeans, peanuts and other things and put them into the backpack. Thinking of the first time he met Li Gang and how he looked at Li Gang as he gave him a cigarette, he thought about it and took out three more cigarettes from the cigarette box he opened last time and put them in his pocket.
Li Gang was very happy to see the ten chickens Chu Tian brought, but when he saw the soybeans, millet and peanuts, he was more than happy, he was stunned, "This, this thing is not easy to make..."
Li Gang wasn't lying. Soybeans, millet, and peanuts were considered nutritious foods in this era, but they were harder to find than meat and refined grains. Usually, only hospitalized patients would need a doctor's invoice to buy them. However, nine times out of ten, they couldn't buy them. Why? It was simply because supplies were so scarce in this era.
Chu Tian, "I don't have much, these are all I have for now. I thought you might like them, so I brought them all at once."
Chu Tian didn't dare to sell too much of such a scarce item at one time, even if Li Gang didn't ask him where the items came from.
Li Gang immediately responded, "I'll take whatever you have in the future. Sometimes I'll go to other regiments, so don't worry if I'm not there. Just send the items to Xiaofei, and he'll give you the highest price."
Just now after Chu Tian left, he told Xu Fei that whenever Chu Tian came to sell something in the future, he would buy it from him at the highest purchase price.
Chu Tian nodded slightly, "Well, then, how do you think I'd like to pay you the price?"
Li Gang weighed one of the chickens and thought for a moment before saying, "Normally, on the black market, unslaughtered chickens are around RMB 30 or 40 per kilogram, while slaughtered chickens are around RMB 80 or 90 per kilogram. But that's normal."
"It's winter now and the New Year is coming soon, so the price has gone up a lot. Unslaughtered fish are 2.20 yuan per kilogram, and slaughtered ones are 2.80 yuan per kilogram. I estimate yours weighs nearly a kilogram. How about this, I'll charge you five kilograms for each."
"Ten pieces make fifty kilograms, and at two dollars and eighty cents a kilogram, that's..."
While he was counting, Xu Fei beside him interrupted, "One hundred and four."
Li Gang nodded immediately upon hearing this. "Yes, one hundred and forty yuan. Add these peanuts, millet, and soybeans, and I'll give you six and a half yuan per kilogram. You have twelve kilograms, so that's seventy-eight yuan."
"Seventy-eight plus one hundred and four equals..."
Xu Fei, "Two hundred and eighteen."
Upon hearing this, Li Gang immediately started to take out money, counted out two hundred and eighteen and handed it to Chu Tian.
Chu Tian glanced at Xu Fei and praised him, "Brother Li Gang, you must be a good student..."
Li Gang patted Xu Fei's shoulder and grinned, "My little brother has been a good student since he was young. He's only fifteen now and will be a sophomore in high school next year."
After a pause, he said with great regret, "It's a pity that there is no university now, otherwise I would definitely be able to pass the college entrance examination and come back."
Chu Tian was surprised to see Xu Fei studying so well? A fifteen-year-old sophomore? Not bad...
Listening to Li Gang's regretful words, he smiled and looked at Xu Fei and comforted him, "Study hard and don't abandon your books. I believe that the university will be restored sooner or later."
He paused and continued, "Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. As long as you are prepared, the opportunity will come even if it comes late."
Upon hearing this, Xu Fei nodded blankly and said "hmm". He didn't expect that the man with pockmarks on his face would say exactly the same words as his elder brother. Thinking of his elder brother, the corners of his eyes instantly turned red again.
Chu Tian took the money and handed the three cigarettes to Li Gang. Ignoring his refusal, he quickly turned around, took a few quick steps, waved goodbye and left.
He walked out of the yard, found a quiet place, slipped into the space to wash off the pockmarks on his face, sorted out the more than 400 yuan he earned today, took out 30 yuan, and prepared the gifts he would take home to his mother-in-law's house tomorrow, then he put on the backpack and slipped out of the space.
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