Chapter 15 Buying Tickets on the Black Market
Then Wang Yuanchao came to a ticket booth and squatted down.
He looked at the tickets displayed by the booth owner and asked in a hoarse voice:
"Comrade, do you have an industrial ticket?"
The stall owner's voice sounded relatively young, and he probably didn't fake his voice.
“Provincial ticket or national ticket?”
"We need some provincial tickets, and some national tickets."
"Provincial tickets are one dollar each, and national tickets are two dollars each."
Wang Yuanchao thought for a moment and asked, "Comrade, I need a lot of tickets. How many can you give me now?"
The ticket seller stared at Wang Yuanchao suspiciously for a long time before saying:
“The provincial ticket can now take out 40, and the national ticket can take out 10.”
Wang Yuanchao knew that the ticket scalpers in the black market had no shortage of tickets. National tickets might still take time for the scalpers to collect, but these guys never lacked provincial tickets. They could get as many tickets as they wanted.
So Wang Yuanchao took out sixty yuan and handed it over, saying, "Comrade, I want all these tickets."
The stall owner took the money, counted it in front of the kerosene lamp, and handed the ticket to Wang Yuanchao.
After Wang Yuanchao put the ticket in his pocket, he continued to ask:
"Comrade, do you have cloth coupons or cotton coupons?"
"There are only provincial tickets for cotton, but no national tickets. There is not much demand for this thing here, and there is not much money to be made. I don't usually collect it."
"How much?"
"A cotton ticket for one catty is 40 cents each, and a ticket for half a catty is 20 cents each."
"I need 40 kilograms of cotton coupons. What about cloth coupons? How much do you want?"
"A cloth ticket of three chi is 40 cents, and a ticket of five chi is 80 cents."
"Comrade, I need 40 kilograms of cotton coupons.
As for cloth coupons, whether provincial or national, I'll take as many as you have."
The stall owner stared at Wang Yuanchao for a while and thought that this man was a big fish. In addition to his generosity when buying industrial tickets just now, the boss did not think much about it. He took out a cloth bag from behind, took out several stacks of tickets and began to count them, and then said: "There are 23 provincial cloth tickets of three-shi chi, 8 national tickets, 16 tickets of five-shi chi, and 6 national tickets.
The national cloth coupons are more expensive, 80 cents for a three-foot cloth ticket, and 1.5 yuan for a five-foot cloth ticket.
Wang Yuanchao did a quick calculation in his mind and said, "Forty kilograms of cotton cost 16 yuan in provincial coupons; three feet of provincial coupons plus national coupons cost 15.6 yuan in total; five feet of provincial coupons plus national coupons cost 21.8 yuan in total. The total amount of cotton and cloth coupons is 53.4 yuan.
Comrade, how about removing a decimal point and making it 53 yuan in total?
"Okay, seeing that you are a straightforward person, let's make friends right then and there."
Wang Yuanchao grumbled, took out 53 yuan and handed it to the boss. He took the bill from the boss, pointed it at the kerosene lamp, put it in his pocket, and asked, "Comrade, do you have any candy or cigarette bills?"
"Yes, do you want the candy ticket?"
"Yes, how many candy tickets are there?"
The stall owner picked up a few more stacks of tickets and lit them against the kerosene lamp.
"There are 56 provincial sugar tickets for 6 taels, 32 for 1 jin, 30 for 3 jin, and only 26 national sugar tickets for 3 jin.
There are 26 half-jin tickets for milk candy, 28 full-jin tickets for milk candy, and 22 national general tickets for full-jin.
A sugar ticket for six taels of sugar was 10 cents each, a sugar ticket for one catty of sugar was 30 cents each, a sugar ticket for three catties was one dollar each, and a sugar ticket used nationwide was one dollar and fifty cents each.
A half-pound piece of milk candy costs 1.5 cents, a full-pound piece costs 30 cents, and a full-pound piece of national general ticket costs 1 yuan."
After hearing the ticket scalper's offer, Wang Yuanchao couldn't help but be shocked. Nowadays, tickets are really more expensive than money.
According to the original owner's memory, if there is a ticket, if you buy it at a supply and marketing cooperative or department store,
White sugar is only 30 cents per pound, brown sugar is only 20 cents per pound, fruit candy is only 30 cents per pound, and White Rabbit milk candy is more expensive, but it is only one dollar and fifty cents per pound.
Wang Yuanchao hesitated for a moment. After all, he didn't like sweets that much. But he was about to go to the countryside.
Sugar is a scarce commodity in the countryside. Wang Yuanchao wanted to use it to socialize and curry favor with people, but was it worth spending so much money on it? Wang Yuanchao had no experience in this area and was undecided for a while. After thinking for a while, Wang Yuanchao remembered that the fastest he could return to the city this time was when he was admitted to university.
This time I have to stay in the countryside for at least eleven years. Anyway, the supplies will not go bad if they are placed in the space. Besides, I am short of everything else now, but not money. Thinking of this, Wang Yuanchao made up his mind and said:
"Comrade, the provincial sugar coupons for six taels are 5.6 yuan, the sugar coupons for one catty are 9.6 yuan, the sugar coupons for three catties are 30 yuan, and the national sugar coupons are 24 yuan.
The milk candy ticket is 3.9 yuan for half a catty, 8.4 yuan for a full catty, and the national ticket is 26 yuan.
The total is 107.5 yuan, is that right?"
Hearing that Wang Yuanchao wanted to take down all the candy tickets in his hand, the stall owner rubbed his hands excitedly and said hurriedly:
"Comrade, that's right, the total is 107.5 yuan, minus the decimal, you just need to give 107 yuan."
Since Wang Yuanchao had made up his mind, he no longer hesitated. He took out a stack of Great Unity tickets, counted out 11 and handed them over. Then he took the tickets handed to him by the ticket scalper and started counting.
After confirming that everything was correct, he took the 3 yuan change and put it in his pocket along with the ticket, saying:
“Provincial food coupons are 50 jin, and national food coupons are 100 jin.
Provincial meat coupons for 10 jin, national meat coupons for 100 jin, do you have any?"
Although Wang Yuanchao has ecological space, he will not lack food and meat in the future.
But this time he would be working in the countryside for eleven years, so he still needed some tickets to get by, such as going to state-owned restaurants, etc. Otherwise, it would not work for Wang Yuanchao to conjure up all his things out of thin air.
After hearing what Wang Yuanchao said, the ticket seller was surprised and took out a few more stacks of tickets from the bag and began to count them. After a while, he said, "There is no problem with the grain tickets and provincial meat tickets. The national meat tickets are only 70 kilograms."
Wang Yuanchao didn't hesitate and asked, "Okay, how much is it in total?"
"The provincial food coupons are worth 50 cents each, and a total of 10 coupons are worth 5 yuan.
The national food coupons for 5 jin are charged one yuan each, there are 20 coupons in total, which is 20 yuan in total.
The meat-saving ticket costs 30 cents per catty, a total of 3 yuan.
The national meat ticket for three catties is 1.5 yuan per ticket, and there are ten tickets in total, which is 15 yuan.
The national meat ticket for one jin costs 50 cents each, and there are 26 tickets in total, which costs you 13 yuan.
There are 28 national meat tickets for half a pound, each ticket costs 25 cents, which means you will get 7 yuan.
All in all it comes to 63 bucks.”
Wang Yuanchao nodded, took out the ticket honestly, put it in his pocket, and then asked, "Do you have soap tickets or toilet soap tickets?"
(End of this chapter)
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