"Black girl? Well, my situation was not very good at that time. Auntie, let me introduce myself. My name is Yun Shu. I am from a nearby village. These are my friends. Of course, they are not the point. Please ignore it. The point is Do you see how much these can be exchanged for?”
Yun Shu placed the basket behind his back on the wooden table. Fortunately, the wooden table was well made and made of solid wood. But even so, the weight of fifty or sixty kilograms was put down, which made the wooden board above it creak.
Zhao Xue was too surprised before, so she blurted out the name "Black Girl". After saying it, she realized that she was a little embarrassed. However, seeing that Yun Shu didn't care and spoke in a funny way, she felt that this little girl became more and more interesting.
In view of the previous 20 kilograms of dried noodles, Zhao Xue had high expectations for what was in the basket that Yun Shu took out.
But she never expected that the little guy in front of her would be so aggressive!
She only opened the lid specially made by Yun Shu on the backpack just a crack, then quickly closed it, and said calmly: "Are they also full of frozen fruits like this?"
The people around him all came with baskets and backpacks, and they were all stuffed with wild goods. Yun Shu didn't seem to be that special, and after hearing what Zhao Xue said, he didn't think much about it.
Just looking at Yun Shu with some curiosity, he whispered about whose "boy" was so handsome!
After hearing this, Yun Shu became more optimistic about the character of the "aunt" in front of him and nodded towards her.
Zhao Xue wanted to take off the backpack and put it on the ground, but she couldn't move it after trying several times. Then she looked at Yun Shu in surprise. She didn't think much about it when she saw that the little girl was very relaxed before. Now it's her own She was really shocked.
How did you do it with these little arms and legs?
Yun Shu took a picture of the case and jumped directly inside. He picked up the hemp rope on the basket with one hand and waved to his brother and friends, "Help look after the stall. I will help aunt carry the fruit over."
Da Zhuang and others responded with smiles, while Zhao Xue, who looked dull, called over a colleague, "Xiao Li, watch carefully!"
There were four people at the cloth-selling stall, and they had already noticed what was going on with Zhao Xue. Although they were a little curious, they didn’t say anything. That Xiao Li was a new member of the "exchange of things" team. The teenage boy also responded cheerfully.
When she and Zhao Xue walked behind the truck and no one was in sight, Yun Shu immediately held the backpack in her hand. "Auntie, there are a total of twenty kilograms of dried meat, thirty kilograms of sausages, and twenty kilograms of white noodles," she said. He also took off his big backpack, "Look, how much can you exchange for white flour for cotton, dried meat and sausages, and seafood?"
Cotton cloth costs 40 cents a foot at the supply and marketing cooperative and can be purchased with a ticket. However, Zhao Xue and the others are bartering for goods, and they are scraps accumulated in the market, so agricultural products or mountain goods priced at 40 cents can be exchanged for one and a half feet. fabric; if you buy it with money, it costs 50 cents per foot, no tickets required.
As for seafood, to be honest, in this day and age, crabs and prawns are really cheap, and not many people buy them here.
Needless to say, people on the beach have enough to eat. They salvage it and transport the big ones to Beijing. They can sell for a pound or a pound, and no one may buy the remaining ten or two cents.
I heard that crabs, fish and shrimp are sent to feed factories to be broken up and fed to chickens, ducks or fertilizer fields.
Inland areas, especially poor areas, honestly don’t recognize this at all.
At that time, transportation was inconvenient. The crabs that were caught in Qingdao cost 10 cents per catty. When they arrived in Changbai Mountain, they had to sell them for 50 cents, and 70 cents could buy a catty of meat. Unless the family was rich and wanted to taste fresh food. , otherwise who would buy these hard guys with shells!
Although Zhao Xue and the others did not care about the transportation cost, as long as they could exchange the items, they would steam and freeze the crabs to buy them in order to keep them fresh and to reduce the space they occupied. Each bag weighed a pound, and a pound weighed about three or four cents. Money can be exchanged for items.
This is what shows that when there are many people, there are fewer people.
The prawns, on the other hand, were replaced by a lot of people. They were not too big, there were ten of them per pound, and they were neatly frozen in the ice cubes. They cost 50 cents per pound.
Mainly because the men selling seafood are very talkative.
"Seventy cents per pound of meat may not be enough for a guest, but look at our shrimps. Whether they are boiled or put into pork dumplings, everyone can try them. It tastes so delicious." Yes, it will definitely make people swallow their tongues!”
However, compared to crabs and prawns, sea fish is the least popular, and seaweed, dried shrimps, and dried shrimps are the fastest to buy.
One reason for this is that seaweed, dried shrimps, dried shrimps and the like are cheap. These "city dwellers" say that they can make a pot of soup with just a little bit, and they can also replenish calcium, which is a good thing;
The second thing is that in the Northeast, there are many rivers and puddles, and there are fish in every ditch. When there is nothing to eat, they go into the water to fish. There is a lack of oil and salt, which hurts everyone.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this sea fish is just a fish and they really don’t want to eat it.
Yun Shu didn't know much about this situation, but Zhao Xue and the others obviously knew a lot about the lives of ordinary rural people. Now they finally understood that bringing seafood would be better than just bringing a truckload of salt!
"My surname is Zhao, please call me Aunt Zhao. I will give you twenty feet of cotton for your white flour. I will also give you a few pieces of other ingredients. As for this meat, to be honest, I will give you all the seafood we bring here, too. I may not be able to exchange this for you."
Three kilograms of fresh meat can be dried into one kilogram of dried meat, and ten kilograms of fresh meat can be used to make two or three kilograms of sausages.
Twenty pounds of dried meat and thirty pounds of sausages, that’s nearly 160 pounds of meat.
Yun Shu sells a pound of wild boar meat to a state-owned restaurant for free and for one and a half bucks. In fact, it is a bit of a loss to make sausages and dried meat.
Seeing how sincere she was, Yun Shu thought for a while and said, "Aunt Zhao, let's do this. If you have wealthy food stamps, I'll give you three yuan a pound for these dried meats, half of which can be exchanged for things and half for money."
Zhao Xue heard this and smiled: "Yunshu, right? Just wait, I'll ask."
It's not that no one has exchanged meat for cloth, but it's rare to be so generous. They originally wanted to see if they could use money to buy some meat from their fellow villagers.
Fresh meat on the black market costs two and a half yuan, but now this dried meat only costs three yuan. How down-to-earth this little girl is!
After a while, Zhao Xue came over with a middle-aged man in his forties, "This is my colleague. His surname is Wang. You can call him Uncle Wang. Lao Wang, please unload four boxes and two boxes of crabs from the car." There are prawns and a hundred pounds of sea fish, and you can also take care of the other miscellaneous things."
Lao Wang, of course, this is from the neighboring province, not next door. He glanced at Yun Shu curiously, and then said to Zhao Xue: "Xiao Zhao, how can this little girl get back so many things?"
Only then did Zhao Xue think of this problem. Yun Shu waved her hand, "Aunt Zhao, Uncle Wang, my uncle drove the donkey cart here, but there were too many people in the gathering and the donkey cart couldn't get in. When the gathering is over, I Just ask my uncle to come find you. My uncle's surname is Tong and he is wearing a black coat."
Zhao Xue took out a bunch of tickets and tickets from his pocket, "Then are these money and tickets for you or for your uncle? A total of one hundred yuan and fifteen kilograms of food stamps."
In her hand was a thick stack of one-yuan and two-yuan bills, both second and third edition.
Food stamps are common across the country and are available in one tael, half a catty or one catty.
Yun Shu took it and said, "Give it to me. My uncle doesn't know how to count and he doesn't know how to speak. He is an honest man. Aunt Zhao, please take care of me!"
Zhao Xue couldn't help but reached out and wiped a handful of Yun Shu's hair, "Why do you have so many melons on your little girl's head!"
