In the black market, although it was still early in the morning, it was already very lively and there were many people.
Yu Xiaoting observed that although there were a lot of people, it was still early after all, and there were still many empty stalls. Yu Xiaoting found an empty stall with a good location, walked over and put down her backpack.
As soon as she put it down and took away the cloth covering the rice, before she decided whether to hawk or wait for the customers who wanted to buy rice to come and see for themselves, Yu Xiaoting saw a somewhat familiar figure walking over.
not good! Yu Xiaoting screamed secretly.
Following Yu Xiaoting's line of sight, she saw that the person walking towards her was a middle-aged man. He was the owner of the fruit stall that Yu Xiaoting watered yesterday.
Yu Xiaoting was afraid of being recognized by the other party. Fortunately, the scarf on Yu Xiaoting's head covered her face only to expose her eyes. In addition, the other party was not familiar with Yu Xiaoting, so she did not recognize Yu Xiaoting.
When he passed by Yu Xiaoting, he just glanced at her briefly and left.
Yu Xiaoting breathed a sigh of relief. She quietly followed the other person's back with her eyes, and saw that the other person was carrying a large basket full of fruits, and he was also carrying two large buckets, both of which were also filled with fruits.
The other party walked to an empty stall with a good location and stopped. He put down the two buckets in his hands, then put down the basket on his back, took out a piece of cloth and spread it on the stall, and then took out the fruit... …
"How do you sell this rice?"
Suddenly a voice came into her ears. Yu Xiaoting hurriedly looked away and followed the sound. Then she noticed that a woman in her thirties had come to her at some point and was looking at the rice in the basket on her back.
"One dollar and twenty cents per catty." Yu Xiaoting replied, and asked Lao Wang to sell melons: "My rice is very good, it is very fragrant when cooked, and it is also very nutritious."
The woman reached into her basket and grabbed a handful of rice, looked at it, put it to her nose and smelled it, then nodded.
"The rice looks good, and it smells fragrant. It's good rice. But it's expensive at one yuan and a pound. How about 80 cents for a cheaper price?" After the woman finished her compliments, she immediately changed the subject and raised the price.
Yu Xiaoting raised her eyebrows slightly, her price was too high!
"No!" Yu Xiaoting shook her head and refused without thinking.
"Sister, I'm sorry, I can't get it cheaper. The lowest price of rice on the black market is one yuan and a pound. My rice is so good. I didn't shout, shouting one yuan three or one yuan five. The rice is still sold at the lowest price here. The cheapest.”
The woman frowned and her eyes flickered, as if she was trying to find something to refute Yu Xiaoting's words, but she couldn't.
She looked at Yu Xiaoting's rice again, with a thoughtful look on her face. After a few dozen seconds, she spoke.
"How many kilograms of rice do you carry on your back?" she asked.
"One hundred catties." Yu Xiaoting replied, thinking that she looked like she was planning to buy it, and she bought a basketful of rice.
"You're not short of money, are you?" The woman squinted at Yu Xiaoting, wanting to see if she was an honest person and if she could tell lies.
But Yu Xiaoting only showed a pair of eyes, and Yu Xiaoting's face could not be seen, only her eyes, which were full of sincerity.
"Don't worry, it's absolutely not the case. My rice definitely weighs a hundred kilograms, and I won't miss even half a tael." Yu Xiaoting quickly assured.
“The last time I was buying rice at this black market, I met a man who was short of a pound. I bought fifty pounds of rice from him, but when I got it back, it was missing a full pound.
One pound is only one dollar and two. It hurts me to death to lose one dollar and two. My husband even scolded me for a long time when he found out. "The woman said with a hateful and angry expression.
"Sister, don't worry, I will never be as unscrupulous and evil-hearted as the rice seller you met last time." Yu Xiaoting quickly promised.
"Knowing people but not their hearts! Anyone who is obedient will tell you..." The woman shook her head.
"Your rice is really good. I can buy it with peace of mind. If you are really not short of weight, don't you dare follow me and go to an acquaintance's store to weigh your rice using the scale in his store."
If it is really one hundred kilograms, no more than one kilogram, I will buy all your one hundred kilograms of rice, and I will calculate it as you said. "The woman looked directly into Yu Xiaoting's eyes and made a request.
Yu Xiaoting didn't expect that she would have such a request. After being stunned for two seconds, she nodded and agreed. "Okay, I'll go with you. What's wrong with that?"
She was not worried at all, not afraid at all. She had weighed the rice before, weighing a full hundred kilograms, no more than a little bit, so she was not afraid of her having to find a scale.
Yu Xiaoting is not afraid that she met the other party in the black market and negotiated a deal with her, so there will be nothing wrong with doing business with her in the black market.
It is impossible for her to have her rice taken away from her on the black market without giving her money, and it is also impossible for her to reveal to others that she is speculating on selling rice on the black market.
She also came to the black market. Although she was buying things and was not guilty of selling things on the black market, she was still guilty. If she dared to expose herself to outsiders, he would poke her out. If he didn't believe her, he wouldn't be afraid.
"Refreshing." The woman raised her lips, praised, and left the black market with Yu Xiaoting.
"Where is your friend's store? Is it far away? What store is it?"
Yu Xiaoting asked after following the woman out of the black market with rice on her back.
"It's not far. After entering the city, walk two streets and you'll find the coal store." The woman replied.
At this time, there were stores specializing in supplying and selling coal. Of course, they were also state-owned and public. To buy, you had to have a ticket, and there were special coal tickets.
Yu Xiaoting was relieved to hear that it was not far away. She was afraid that it would be very far and it would take a long time to walk.
Yu Xiaoting followed the woman for a few minutes before entering the city. After walking two blocks, she saw a coal store.
"That's it!" The woman pointed to the coal store and led Yu Xiaoting towards the coal store.
The store was large and filled with coal, but there was only one middle-aged man.
"Alin." The woman called the man with a smile.
"Why are you here?" The middle-aged man was a little surprised when he saw the woman.
The woman immediately told him about buying rice, and then pointed to Yu Xiaoting who was following behind her.
The middle-aged man looked at Yu Xiaoting and pointed to the large scale on the ground in the corner.
"Put the rice on the scale and weigh it."
Yu Xiaoting immediately walked to the scale and put the backpack on her back on the scale.
The middle-aged man came to the scale and weighed himself. When he started weighing, the woman hurried over to take a look.
When the middle-aged man weighed the scale, Yu Xiaoting carefully observed how he weighed it.
She had only seen this kind of old-fashioned large scale on TV before and didn't know how to weigh it. She thought that now that she saw it in reality, she could learn how to weigh it.
Not difficult! Yu Xiaoting soon discovered that it was not difficult to learn, and she definitely learned it.
"One hundred catties and two catties and two taels." The middle-aged man said and looked at the woman.
"This backpack is very heavy, weighing more than two kilograms." Yu Xiaoting immediately said to the woman.
The woman took out a large cloth bag and pointed at Yu Xiaoting, "Pour the rice into this bag and weigh it to see how much it weighs."
Yu Xiaoting did not refuse, but nodded in agreement. She poured the rice into the bag and weighed it, so that she could find out the actual weight.
After the woman opened her pocket, Yu Xiaoting poured the rice in the basket, which was just enough to hold it.
The woman put the bag full of rice on the scale and asked the man to weigh it again. The man weighed it immediately.
"Just a hundred pounds."
"Nothing less." The woman smiled reassuringly.
"I've said a lot. I'm a true person and I know that the most important thing in doing business is to be trustworthy. I won't be short-changed." Yu Xiaoting said with a smile.
The woman nodded, "I'll give you the money right now."
As she said that, the woman reached into her trouser pocket and took out a large handful of big unity, and counted twelve of them and gave them to Yu Xiaoting.
Yu Xiaoting took the money and clicked it. There were twelve pieces each, a total of one hundred and twenty yuan.
"The money is correct, thank you, eldest sister." Yu Xiaoting smiled at the woman, holding a dozen large unity sheets in her hand, feeling extremely happy.
I earned more than 100 in one go, so happy!
Yu Xiaoting was so happy that she didn't notice that a man with sinister features was passing by the door. His eyes shone when he saw the big ball in her hand, and his eyes flashed with greed and calculation.
Yu Xiaoting threw the basket on her back and was about to leave. She politely said goodbye to the woman and her friend and left the coal store. She returned the same way she had come. She wanted to go to the black market to sell rice again, but she didn't notice a figure at all. Follow her furtively.
Yu Xiaoting looked at the money she still had in her hands and saw that there was no money she had put away. She frowned, thinking that she could earn several times the money in her hand later, and she was even happier. When she was feeling happy, a figure suddenly ran up from behind and stretched out her hand. He snatched the money from her hand.
The opponent's speed was so fast that Yu Xiaoting didn't react for a moment. It took her two seconds to realize that she had been robbed. She immediately chased the person who robbed her money, and at the same time pointed at the person who was running fast in front of her and robbed her money. , shouting...
"Robbery! Someone is robbing money... help me stop him..."
The other person ran very fast, really faster than the Rabbit family's grandfather. She was afraid that she wouldn't be able to catch up with him and get the money back, so she had to ask passers-by for help.
Although there were a few pedestrians on the road, they all happened to be women. Most women were timid, but no one dared to help Yu Xiaoting stop the robber. Yu Xiaoting was a little depressed, thinking that she could only rely on herself.
She speeded up and chased the robber desperately. She used all her strength to finally catch up with the robber and grabbed the hem of his clothes.
"Bad guy, give me my money back."
