Su Yuanyuan accompanied the two of them shopping in the building, then went to the supply and sales cooperative.
Zhao Qingxiang saw cotton fabric and shoes here and wanted to buy fabric for his sisters to make clothes.
But the fabric coupons he had were not enough to make clothes for three sisters.
Su Yuanyuan handed over all their fabric coupons to Zhao Qingxiang.
Zhao Yanli, who loves to talk and laugh, quickly got acquainted with the shoe sales clerk. They even accepted shoes here, one yuan and eight cents for a pair of n’s cloth shoes, one yuan and seven cents for won’s.
This made her feel at ease, thinking about making shoes with her sisters when she returned ho, and bringing them next ti she ca to the city.
Zhao Qingxiang bought all the necessary daily items. It was unexpected how much he bought, but it was all daily essentials.
The three of them carried all the items to find Tan Shaoting.
"Big brother, Xiao Li, are you staying overnight or going back now?"
"We’re going back now." Staying outside costs money too.
"Then be careful on your way back."
Tan Shaoting bought them so pancakes from a restaurant.
"Yuanyuan, when will you return?"
"I’ll probably be back in the spring. I might have to go back for a bit; do you have anything you want to tell your family?"
"Yuanyuan, you’re going back?"
"Yes, to take a look. It’s not certain now, but if there’s enough ti, I’ll go back to visit."
Su Yuanyuan looked at Zhao Yanli’s conflicted expression. It was amusing.
Actually, Zhao Yanli had been hosick for a long ti. Although she resented her parents, after a long ti, she cald down and only felt longing.
Zhao Qingxiang took out twenty yuan and handed it to Su Yuanyuan, "Yuanyuan, if you go back, please give this money to my parents. We are not by their side."
Su Yuanyuan accepted it, "Okay, if I go back, I’ll definitely give it to them."
The two watched their siblings leave by car before turning to the train station.
They had no specific purpose, just wanted to sell so of the grain and at they had.
"Yuanyuan, since you want to go back, let’s head in that direction."
"Okay, stay in each city for two days; it would be great if we can sell sothing, but no rush if not."
Their decision ant buying short-distance train tickets, so buying sleeper tickets wasn’t possible.
The first stop was A City; they got off two days later in the afternoon.
Actually, it’s similar everywhere now. They walked around the train station’s vicinity.
Don’t ntion it, but they saw many people secretly doing business on a street nearby.
It seed like rural folks ca to the city to sell grains.
They moved closer, and everyone cautiously watched them, halting their actions.
Su Yuanyuan smiled and asked an older man nearby, "Uncle, I want to buy eggs, do you have any?"
After hearing her, most people continued.
"Little girl, where are eggs now? Even if there were, I’d buy a few even if they were twenty cents each." The man’s wry smile showed the difficulty of living; eggs were truly scarce. Even his daughter-in-law in confinent had none.
"Uncle, what do you have there, corn?"
"Yes, corn."
"How much per jin?"
"Twenty-five cents."
Wow, that’s really not cheap, it’s doubled plus so.
"Uncle, how much do you have? Do you have twenty jins?"
The man shook his head, "Only five jins of corn."
At this ti, two people ca behind Su Yuanyuan and them. "Sir, we’ll offer you twenty-six cents per jin for this corn."
Su Yuanyuan was exasperated; they were poaching her resources.
"I’ll offer twenty-seven."
"I’ll offer twenty-eight."
Su Yuanyuan shrugged, "You win. These corn are yours now."
Tan Shaoting held Su Yuanyuan’s hand, and they continued to walk inside.
They saw sweet potatoes for sale, which were priced at eighteen cents.
The two roughly understood the prices here. They also knew that transactions happened all day here and that soone called Zhang San, who had a lot more grains than others, was influential in the city.
They exchanged a glance, wanting to contact this person.
They found Zhang San, a tall and strong man.
"What business do you have with ?"
"Comrade, we’re wondering if you buy grains, corn, and wheat."
Zhang San thought he misheard, looking at Tan Shaoting, surprised.
"You even have wheat?"
Tan Shaoting nodded, "Yes, and pork."
Zhang San turned in place twice, "I’ll buy, definitely. What’s the price for both of you?"
"Corn is twenty cents, wheat is thirty cents, pork is two yuan per jin."
The grain prices were indeed not high, but the pork price was quite high.
"Comrade, can’t the pork be cheaper?"
Tan Shaoting shook his head, "We have two fat pigs, already slaughtered. Can’t drop the price."
"How much grain is there?"
"Two thousand jin each."
Zhang San turned again, "I’ll take them all."
"Comrade, listen first, we don’t necessarily need cash. You can exchange with Jinyu, but the quality must be the best."
"Really? The private exchange rate is a bit higher than the bank’s. The highest quality banks collect at seven yuan two per tael, privately at seven yuan five."
Tan Shaoting nodded, "Sure."
"Comrade, where should we make the transaction, and when?"
"Tonight at one in the morning, in the alley over there."
Zhang San nodded, "Alright, I’ll be on ti. Do you have more grain?"
Zhang San smiled wryly, "Honestly, I have so Jinyu. It’d be great if I could exchange all for grain."
Tan Shaoting smiled, "Let’s complete this first transaction, we’re not familiar yet. If we see the quality is good, having a few more like this is not a problem."
"Great, I’ll go prepare imdiately. Can you tell how much the two pigs cost?"
Su Yuanyuan used her Divine Sense to weigh the two pigs in the space, totaling four hundred sixteen jins.
"Two pigs weigh four hundred sixteen jins."
"Got it. The two thousand jin corn is four hundred yuan, two thousand jin wheat is six hundred yuan. The pork is eight hundred thirty-two yuan. Altogether, that’s one thousand eight hundred thirty-two yuan, exchanged for two hundred forty-four taels three qian of Jinyu."
"I’ll give you twenty more jins of wheat to make it two hundred forty-five taels."
"Alright, I’ll go prepare now."
They didn’t go to a hotel, but waited in the train station’s waiting hall.
After all, staying in a hotel requires a letter of introduction, which would expose them, so being cautious is better.
"Should we give him so Winter lon?"
"What price to give him? One di?"
Su Yuanyuan nodded, that’s about it. There are four hundred large Winter lons in the space. Better sell them since they take up space and they don’t particularly like them.
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