Chapter 14: Crossing Pigeon City, Li Jia1 Arrives Home

Chapter 14: Crossing Pigeon City, Li Jia1 Arrives Home

Chapter 14: Li Jiayi arrives home after traveling to Pigeon City
Of course, it is understandable. After all, this is a suburb. Also, a bus is also a car!

Even in the city it is not cheap. There are three price levels for taking the bus in the city: 6 cents, 9 cents and 1.2 cents.

The fares for trams are 4 cents, 7 cents and 10 cents.

Trolleybuses are three, six and nine points.

This refers to the price of taking different vehicles for the same distance. It can be said that trolleybus is the cheapest.

"Master, when do we leave?" Li Jiayi took a look at the carriage and saw that it was already quite crowded, so he asked.

"Don't worry, wait a while."

"All right!"

Half an hour later, the bus finally departed. It was so uncomfortable sitting on the bus!

By the time he returned to the city, it was already past two in the afternoon.

However, he did not go home, but went to the pigeon market outside Deshengmen.

In later generations, many novels wrote about cracking down on the Pigeon City, which is completely wrong. In this era, the Pigeon City was completely semi-official in nature.

Most of the people who come to Pigeon Market to sell things are from nearby rural areas.

They brought here the food they were reluctant to give up, such as eggs, game hunted in the mountains, chickens, ducks, geese, etc., and exchanged them for the things they needed.

For example, cloth coupons, oil coupons, etc., of course, some are sold for money.

What we are really targeting is the black market, because the things that appear on the black market are either resold or are of unknown origin.

Moreover, speculation and profiteering is a policy that the country only introduced in 1963, and it has been subdivided into eight categories.

1. Private traders wholesale and transport the goods over long distances.

2. Opening underground factories, shops and warehouses, lending at high interest rates, and employing and exploiting workers.

3. Black market brokers, short selling and buying, making profits through intermediaries, and dividing the spoils on the spot.

4. Organizing speculative groups, colluding with both domestic and foreign forces, engaging in smuggling and bribery, and stealing and selling state property.

5. Hoarding and driving up prices.

6. Speculation in the sale of farm animals.

7. Speculation and reselling of materials purchased or distributed by the state and industrial products allocated under the plan.

8. Counterfeiting or reselling tickets, and selling gold, silver, and foreign currency.

Going to Pigeon Market to buy something is no big deal.

Even in the black market, if you are just there to buy something, it's okay even if you are caught. At most, the things you bought will be confiscated.

Of course, if you buy gold, silver and foreign currency, it will be troublesome because gold and silver are prohibited from circulation in this era.

But it’s not a big problem, just confiscation and fine.

Buying and selling are just one word different in nature.

There is no way, because not only is it prohibited from circulation, it is also not allowed to be privately kept.

If anyone has gold, they can take it to the bank to exchange it for two dollars and fifty cents per gram.

This is the standard price, but many people still trade gold on the black market.

The price of gold on the black market ranges from two yuan per gram to four yuan per gram.

Someone asked, at two yuan per gram, why not go to the bank to exchange it?

In fact, this is very normal, because many people don’t want others to know that they have gold, nor do they want others to know that they are rich.

Of course, if you are lucky and meet someone who wants to collect gold, the price can be higher, but it will not exceed four yuan per gram.

The easiest way to distinguish the pigeon market from the black market is that one is during the day and the other is at night, and both are after midnight.

The Pigeon Market is not far from Deshengmen, it is located on a large open space about 500 meters outside Deshengmen.

It's very lively here! Even more lively than the farmer's market in the city.

There is no other way. You need tickets to buy things at the farmer's market, but you don't need them here. You can exchange the unused tickets directly, or you can buy them directly with money.

Li Jiayi slipped in with his schoolbag and water bottle, and no one paid any attention to him.

This is normal. The pigeon market is a free market, and no one manages it. It is not like a black market. You have to pay 10 cents to enter, which is not much, but it is worth it. There are many people selling things, and they are varied. Some sell white flour.

Needless to say, this person is a city dweller, and his family must be large and financially difficult.

People are reluctant to eat fine grains, so they sell them and then buy coarse grains. Of course, most of the time, they directly exchange fine grains for coarse grains.

There are people selling eggs. You don’t even need to look at them to know they are from the countryside.

Because this is the same as those people from Lijia Village taking eggs to Liucun Commune to sell.

There are also people selling vegetables.

Selling pheasants and rabbits.

There were also people selling pork, and Li Jiayi knew at a glance that it was wild boar meat because the fat was relatively thin.

The fat of domestic pork is much thicker, and the term "three-layer fat" refers to domestic pork. Obviously, wild boars cannot meet this standard.

But even so, there are still many people buying it. After all, this thing doesn’t require a ticket!
"How much is this meat?" Li Jiayi asked.

The middle-aged man who was selling wild boar meat looked at Li Jiayi. Although he was just a child, the middle-aged man still said, "80 cents a pound, no ticket required."

At the butcher shop in the city, pork is 65 cents per pound if you buy it with a ticket. To be honest, it's not expensive at 80 cents.

Of course, if it is a domestic pig, you can’t buy it for 80 cents, it will cost at least one dollar per pound.

"Give me two pounds."

"okay!"

The middle-aged man cut a piece, weighed it on a scale, added a little more and said, "It's exactly two pounds."

After saying that, he wrapped it up in paper and handed it to Li Jiayi.

After paying one dollar and sixty cents, Li Jiayi put the meat into his schoolbag and walked straight out of the Pigeon Market.

He just came to take a look, and now he has seen everything he should see, and he also bought two kilograms of meat. Why is he still staying here if he doesn't go back?
Deshengmen is not very far from Ping'anli, only about half an hour's walk, so he did not take a car.

The main reason is that there is no direct bus to that place. If you take the bus, you not only have to change buses, but also have to take a long detour.

It would take longer than walking back, which was why he didn't take the car.

When they returned to the courtyard, Shi Zhen was sitting at her doorstep sewing shoe soles.

Seeing Li Jiayi come in, he snorted.

Li Jiayi ignored him. If it were any other time, he would have said something insulting, but he didn't have the time for that now.

I didn't run into an old man this time. That's right, it's working hours now, it would be strange if I had run into one.

"Hello, Aunt Sun."

"Hey, Jiayi is back?"

"Yes, Aunt Sun."

"Look at how tanned you are. Go back and take a rest!"

"Okay, Aunt Sun."

"Hello, Aunt Wu."

"Good good."

"Hello, Mrs. Liu."

"Add one is good!"

In this courtyard, in addition to the three uncles' families, there are also Shi Zhen's family and Hai Dafu's family. Li Jiayi is friendly with everyone.

There is no way, because those companies are really rude!

Li Jiayi is a person who is afraid of trouble, so he prefers to be straightforward. He doesn't have that much time to engage in intrigue with those people.

And these emotions are directly expressed on the face and in actions.

　PS: Love is always there, can you give me a monthly ticket? Thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)