Chapter 9: Finding the Free Market, One Big Step to Getting Rich
Li Rong held the bamboo cage as if she hadn't heard anything, and walked around him to go out and wash the remaining crabs. Zhao Qingsong grabbed her hand: "I was wrong, don't be angry."
Li Rong sneered: "Where did you go wrong?"
"I shouldn't tell you stories to scare you," Zhao Qingsong raised the corners of his mouth. The man who admitted his mistake didn't look sincere at all.
But the curvature of the man's raised mouth made him look more naughty, and his handsomeness directly touched Li Rong's heart. Her heart skipped a beat. Li Rong said, "Next time you scare me, I'll starve you to death."
She raised her chin and said, "There are still steamed buns in the pot."
After Zhao Qingsong had eaten, he wanted to go back to the house to catch up on some sleep. When he saw Li Rong brushing crabs by the well, he walked over and said, "What are you doing brushing with this? I haven't seen anyone brushing crabs."
Li Rong glanced at him sideways, Zhao Qingsong touched his nose and stopped talking. He had never coaxed a woman before, so he didn't know how to make her not angry. He just squatted down to help her brush the crabs when he heard Li Rong say leisurely
: "Mom asked you to take out the chicken manure."
"Huh?" Zhao Qingsong was very confused as to why his mother suddenly asked him to scoop out chicken manure.
"Mom said we need to spread some farmyard manure on the vegetable field. Go and get it done quickly."
"okay."
Zhao Qingsong was picking up chicken manure and did not pay attention to the chicken coop on the top. Suddenly something hot and wet hit his hand. He looked as if he had eaten shit. He frowned and said something rough, and his hands froze.
Take it to the well and rinse it with water.
Li Rong saw it and burst into laughter.
When Zhao Qingsong heard her laugh, he suddenly felt that it was not that uncomfortable to have chicken dung on his hands. He took out the chicken dung and put it in the dung basket, and asked Li Rong: "It's done, where can I put it?"
"Put it there first. Don't worry about it." Li Rong said, "Go and do your business."
Zhao Qingsong got himself very clean and took a bucket of well water to wash away the sweat and the smell of chicken manure. He felt refreshed and ready to go back to the house to catch up on some sleep. When Zhao's mother and the others came back from work.
Zhao Qingsong said casually: "Mom, the chicken manure has been prepared for you."
"Huh?" Mother Zhao was confused, "What kind of chicken manure?"
"Didn't you ask me to shovel chicken manure?" Looking at Mother Zhao's expression, Zhao Qingsong immediately realized that Mother Zhao had not asked him to do this. He felt helpless in his heart. This woman Li Rong is really too thoughtful.
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The autumn breeze is cool and the nap is comfortable.
Zhao Qingsong happened to be woken up by Song Xiaoshan from his sleep. When he woke up, his face looked a little fierce. Song Xiaoshan was afraid that he would be angry when he got up, so he said angrily: "Didn't you ask me to come over and build the stove?"
Zhao Qingsong nodded, took some well water and washed his face. As if he remembered something, he asked, "Did you see your sister-in-law when you came here?"
"did not see it."
Zhao Qingsong didn't know where Li Rong had gone. She wasn't at work. Although nothing would happen in the clear day, he thought of her "good friend" and wondered if she had gone to meet someone. Song
Xiao Shan stretched out his hand and waved it in front of him: "Hello, Brother Song?"
Zhao Qingsong glanced at him, then silently took out his tools and started working with Song Xiaoshan.
Song Xiaoshan saw that his face was tense and he didn't dare to be playful, so he just followed the work with his head down.
Li Rong, who was missed by Zhao Qingsong, actually went to the county seat.
She first went to the post office to mail the letter back, and then walked around the supply and marketing cooperative. She didn't dare to come out in the morning. Now she deliberately dressed neatly and looked like a city dweller with money to be ripped off. The "free market" dealers saw her
I must come over and say a few words so that Li Rong's plan can be implemented.
Just after she walked around for a few times, a woman with black ash on her face and a scarf on her face approached Li Rong: "Girl, do you want to buy eggs?"
"Do you want a ticket?" Li Rong looked her over and asked in standard Mandarin.
The woman pursed her lips, looked around, and lowered her voice: "No tickets, but they are more expensive."
Li Rong asked her how much it cost.
Eggs from the supply and marketing cooperative cost five cents each, and you have to add a stamp. The eggs sold by women are priced at double the price, and they cost ten cents each because they don't require stamps.
Li Rong said the price meaningfully: "Madam, why are these eggs so expensive?"
The woman opened the cloth cover to reveal the eggs inside: "Look, they are all big. I am not willing to eat the eggs laid by the old hens at home."
Li Rong was now very sure that this woman was doing something speculative. She thought for a while: "I want some eggs, and I want to buy some other things, but I have used up all my tickets. Madam, do you know where I can buy them without tickets?"
Can I buy something?"
The woman squinted at Li Rong, suspecting that she was a Red Guard. She turned around to leave with the basket, but Li Rong grabbed her and said, "Auntie, I am an educated youth in the commune. One of our comrades is about to have a baby. I want to give it to her."
She buys some brown sugar. Can you help me? This job looks familiar to you. You must know where the "free market" is, right?"
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Oh, aunt, please help me," Li Rong glanced at the woman's basket, "Well, you tell me how to get there, and I'll buy all the eggs in your basket."
The woman compromised: "Then you pay first."
Li Rong took out her cloth bag and counted the eggs. There were fifty-three eggs in total. After Li Rong calculated the account, she also counted out the money. When she was about to hand it to the woman, she paused again: "Hey, aunt, then
Why haven’t you told me yet?”
The woman pulled Li Rong aside, and when she was sure that no one was paying attention to them, she whispered to her: "The 'free market' has dispersed long ago. You have to come back tomorrow. By the afternoon, it will be basically dispersed. Just...
..."
Li Rong was surprised that there was such a thing as a secret code, and she was grateful that this lady was an honest person. If you were a dishonest person, if you hadn't told half of it, you might have been caught.
Li Rong inquired about Hei Rong, stopped staying, and went to buy pork and beef brisket with eggs on her back. The meat salesperson still remembered Li Rong and remembered that she had cut a lot of meat in the past two days. Now she was very sure that she was a big customer, so
, the salesperson asked her if she wanted beef bones, and she didn’t need any money.
Beef bone stew is delicious.
It's just that people in this era don't have much thought to stew these things. Even if the bones are sold cheaply, as long as the money is free and no tickets are paid, no one will spend money to buy them.
Also, if you get along well with the salesperson, you may be able to ask him to leave some for you without even paying for it.
Li Rong is well versed in the ways of the world. When the salesperson told her to give her some beef bones for free, he knew that she was selling favors in order to win over Li Rong, a big customer.
Li Rong liked this kind-faced aunt very much, so she sweetly said thank you to the salesperson and accepted the beef bones. Even if the bridge between the two of them was built, Li Rong would come to this stall more often to buy from this salesperson in the future.
Meat.
When Li Rong returned home with a full load, Zhao Qingsong and Song Xiaoshan were finishing the work on the stove. Li Rong took a look and saw that a new stove had been built in the small woodshed.