At night when mosquito coils were lit and there were no mosquito bites, Liu Chen slept as deeply as a dead pig.

About the time the rooster crowed for the second time, Liu Jiefang got dressed, washed up, and went to pick up manure with a bamboo basket.

Seeing Liu Jiefang leaving, Liu Chen also rubbed his sleepy eyes, stretched, got up, and washed up.

Liu Chen touched his shoulder and found that the swelling had subsided and it was no longer so painful.

Get up, wash up, and go to the county seat.

As the saying goes, a horse will not be fat without night grass, and a man will not be rich without windfall. How bold a person is, how productive the land is.

It has become more open in the past two years, but Liu Chen still needs to pay more attention. As the saying goes, be careful and sail the boat for thousands of years.

The chirping of birds is endless.

Liu Chen carried a bucket and filled it with tortoises and eels. He also took a snakeskin bag and filled it with pheasants and rabbits. He said goodbye to Wang Mudan and Liu Youdi and set off.

When Liu Chen and Wang Mudan went back, he secretly went to find Liu Hu. The things were still in his cellar and he had to take them with him.

After packing everything, we set off.

The sky was not yet clear, and the light was dim, illuminating everything around him.

While walking on the way to the commune, carrying a large bag and a small luggage, Liu Chen kept mumbling, "I have to get a bicycle anyway. It's inconvenient if I don't have a bicycle."

After more than ten miles, I finally arrived at the commune. I was sweating profusely and panting. I took out the braised beef I had brought with me and the leftover scallion pancakes from last night, and started eating.

I asked where to wait for the bus, but there wasn't even a road sign.

I don’t know what kind of vehicles there are to go to the county seat. It doesn’t matter if it’s a carriage or a tractor, as long as it doesn’t allow walking on foot.

"Would you like to go to the county seat?"

I saw a dark-skinned old man in his forties driving a carriage composed of three horses.

"To go to the county seat, I want to take a tractor."

This kid definitely doesn't go to the city often, and he has a tractor. Who can ride on that thing? It costs 50 cents a trip, and who has the money to worry about it?

"If you can't go up, you can't go up."

Now all the people serving you are uncles, who will tolerate your temper? The consumers are all grandchildren.

This middle-aged man is quite polite. There are state-owned hotels, department stores, and supply and marketing cooperatives. If you go in and make a purchase, you are the grandson. If you don’t hit you, you will be polite. How about giving you good service? Some state-owned hotels

There is a sign inside the hotel that says "No Hitting Customers".

"Up, up."

Liu Chen had no choice but to go up if he didn't want to. He walked on two legs, which would have cost him his life.

I got on the bus and paid a dime for the fare, which was not expensive at all.

"This is where to go..."

Liu Chen said with a smile, and quickly handed over the handlebar style cross-river cigarettes with mouthpieces. He scattered a few more cigarettes next to each other.

"Oh, you have a mouth."

"You kid can do it."

Everyone happily took the cigarettes, and Liu Chen took out a windproof lighter.

"Oh, what is this thing? It can make you angry."

"A lighter is a kid's gadget."

Everyone in the car stared at Liu Chen, this guy is amazing, he can still get such a good thing.

Liu Chen took the lighter and turned up the flame. Everyone in the car looked surprised. Liu Chen lit everyone's cigarettes one by one.

Everyone was smoking cigarettes and looking at Liu Chen's lighter. They had a lot of respect and envy for Liu Chen.

Could it be that there is a relative in the family who is a leader, otherwise why would he be able to smoke Dujiang cigarettes with a mouthpiece, and that little devil's lighter, which is not something ordinary people have, at least they cannot be bought in supply and marketing cooperatives.

Liu Chen chatted with everyone along the way and asked about the situation in the county.

Anyway, Liu Chen knew that soon everyone would be able to buy and sell freely.

As the saying goes, the timid will starve to death and the bold will die of starvation.

Maybe even Xiaogang Village has begun to secretly do large-scale work.

An old man who often sells vegetables told him that now the policy is much looser and more open. If you go to the county town to sell the vegetables that are too much to eat at home, others will turn a blind eye.

Liu Chen looked at everyone and saw that everyone picked more vegetables. There were several wheelbarrows on the road with some vegetables on them.

I followed the vegetable seller to the city.

There are also many people selling vegetables, and the people on patrol turn a blind eye. As long as you are not particularly noisy, they will not care about you.

Although it is much more open, you just need to pay more attention and not be too blatant.

Liu Chen walked around a few times and saw a pork stall nearby, and asked about the price.

In this era, pork is considered a good thing, especially the fat meat, which everyone loves and is full of oil and water.

Liu Chen found a hidden place and put down the bucket.

Take out the cigarette, light it, and hold it in your mouth.

"How do you sell this eel?"

"Come and take a look, it's not expensive, only fifty cents. If you have food stamps and meat stamps, you can exchange one pound for one and a half pounds."

Anyway, the price is not very expensive, so you can be honest.

Anyway, the more tickets, the better. These days, you can travel all over the world with tickets, but you can't move without them.

We farmers don’t have tickets. Although we have “work points” and “rations” for “working”, we don’t have “food stamps”. If you have a large family and don’t have enough food, you have to think of a way on your own.

"It's so expensive, four cents, give me five kilograms."

Liu Chen looked at the old woman in front of him. She was opening a business anyway and wanted to do it smoothly.

"Here, here you go, open a business and make no money."

Liu Chen took out the pole he brought from Liu Hu's house to weigh, and the weight was raised high.

"Auntie, look, eight catties is four taels. Forget four taels, round up the number, eight catties is enough."

The old woman saw that Liu Chen was okay with his work, paid the money, and left with the eel on her arm.

Anyway, nowadays when I go shopping I always bring my own basket, bamboo basket or something like that. But now there are no plastic bags.

Seeing the note in his hand, Liu Chen smiled and said, "Hey, it's not bad."

"Young man, this bastard is pretty good. What's the price?"

This tortoise is not rare in the countryside. That’s because they don’t understand the nutritional value of this tortoise, but people in the city still understand.

"Five dollars each."

Liu Chen also sold it randomly. He caught it himself, and he didn't know the specific price.

"It's a bit expensive, young man. Can four dollars be enough?"

Liu Chen doesn't know how to bargain. As long as he doesn't lose money, he will sell if someone buys it.

"Okay, here you go."

Putting the money in his pants pocket, Liu Chen smiled slightly, "Hey, that's good."

People came one after another and saw pheasants, hares, etc., and they were all bought.

Within a few hours, Liu Chen only had one thing left with him, and the bulging pockets of his pants were filled with money.

Liu Chen sells out quickly because you can exchange tickets for tickets if you have them. Or you can just buy them with money if you don’t have any tickets.

I looked at the watch on my wrist and saw it was almost half past ten.

At this time, a man in his thirties, wearing a Chinese tunic suit, walked up to Liu Chen and said softly,

"You have a nice watch, can you show it to me?"

Looking at the man's attire, he felt good about it, so he nodded and took off his watch and handed it to the man to look at.

The man took the watch and looked at it. There was no one selling this kind of watch in this county. There was a calendar on it, so it looked like it was not a local product.

"This was brought back to me by my relatives in Shanghai."

"Young man, can you sell this to me? We can discuss the price, but we don't have a ticket."

Liu Chen brought this watch for about ten yuan, sold one to Zhang Yanjun, and still had nine yuan for himself.

Looking at the man's clothes, he looked like he was a wealthy man, and Liu Chen didn't want the lion to open his mouth.

"220."

Anyway, Liu Chen has been selling things all morning. You need to pay a high price first, and they will slowly counter-offer you.

“It’s a bit expensive, it’s cheaper.”

In fact, the man also knew that what Liu Chen wanted was not cheap, but since tickets were required in department stores, he only had money but no tickets. Nowadays, the world is full of tickets. If you have money but no tickets, it’s all in vain.

"200 yuan."

"Oh, it would be cheaper, 180 yuan."

Liu Chen really didn't like haggling, so the two finally reached an agreement and the deal was completed for 185 yuan.

The man put on his watch, smiled from ear to ear, touched his watch and left.

Looking at the man's retreating back, Liu Chen smiled and took out a watch from his bag and put it on his wrist.

Liu Chen took out the cigarette and saw that there was only one tortoise left in the bucket, and the others were all sold out. He smiled and took out another cigarette, took out the lighter, lit it, and held it in his mouth.

Circles of smoke rings floated in the air and slowly dispersed. The sun came out, and my stomach growled. I won’t sell it anymore, let’s go treat myself first.

Liu Chen threw the cigarette to the ground, stamped it with his feet, stood up, and raised his head.

"It's you."

"It's you."

The two people looked at each other, their eyes facing each other, extremely surprised.

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