Chapter 25: Meat at the restaurant, pigeon market sales

Chapter 25: Meat at the restaurant, pigeon market sales

Chapter 25: Meat at the restaurant, pigeon market sales

However, if you want to get supplies, you first need money. Where can you get supplies without money?

That night, the family happily had a sumptuous dinner and then went to bed.

Silent all night.

After breakfast the next morning, Li Jiayi went out with his schoolbag and water bottle.

The pig was just slaughtered yesterday and was sold today, but he was not planning to sell pork, but wild boar meat.

As I said, he is too young. It would be much more convenient if he were a few years older.

And he is not tall, not even as tall as his second sister Li Jialin. It seems that no matter in this era or in the future, girls grow faster than boys when they are young.

Another thing is that people of this era are not tall, which is actually normal. How can they grow taller if they don’t have enough food to eat or warm clothes to wear every day?

Among adults of this generation, the average height of males is only 1.65 meters, while the average height of females is only 1.508 meters, less than 1.51 meters.

Li Jiayi is already ten years old, and he is only 1.25 meters tall. If he were in later generations, children aged five or six would probably be taller than he is now.

To put it bluntly, his nutrition is still not enough, but he is not worried now, and he will not lack nutrition in the future.

As long as his nutrition is adequate, even if he can't reach the height of his previous life, it won't be too far behind.

At least 1.75 meters should be no problem!
He is only ten years old now! Even if he can only grow to eighteen, there are still eight years left, so growing another fifty centimeters shouldn't be too difficult!

Half an hour later, Li Jiayi arrived at the outskirts of the Pigeon Market outside Deshengmen.

Still using the old method, first hide in the woods nearby, and soon he appeared with a big basket.

He cut all the meat in the basket into pieces of one jin, two jin and five jin.

There is no other way, because he doesn't have a scale! So he can only do this, but you can rest assured that the weight is definitely enough.

"Don't miss it if you pass by! Wild boar meat is 80 cents a pound."

Although they are all wild boar meat, Li Jiayi’s wild boar meat is different from others.

Even though it is not as fat as domestic pigs, the taste is definitely as good as that of domestic pigs. After all, he has castrated these wild boars.

"Little brother, give me two pounds." A young man in his twenties squatted down and said.

Li Jiayi pointed and said, "The one in the middle is two pounds."

The young man picked it up and weighed it, then said, "The weight should be fine. I'll take it."

After taking the 1.60 yuan from the young man, Li Jiayi took out another 1.2-jin pound from the basket.

"Young comrade, how much is this meat?" At this time a middle-aged woman came over and asked.

"Aunt, this is wild boar meat. It's 80 cents per pound. How much do you want?"

"Is this wild boar meat? Why doesn't it look like it?" said the middle-aged woman.

"Aunt, it's definitely wild boar meat. Can I sell domestic pork as wild boar meat?"

"Well, that's true."

A pound of pork costs one yuan, and there is no demand for it. In other words, even if you want to spend one yuan to buy a pound, you may not be able to buy it.

"Let's take this one!" The middle-aged woman looked at the three pieces of meat and pointed to the largest one.

"Aunt, this piece is five pounds, four pieces in total."

"for you."

The middle-aged woman handed over a five-dollar bill, and Li Jiayi quickly took it and changed a dollar.

“No matter whether you are from the south or the north, from Dashilan or Liulichang, don’t miss it if you pass by.”

"Wild boar meat is 80 cents a pound. You can't lose money by paying 80 cents. You can't be cheated."

"Young comrade, your story is quite catchy." A middle-aged man squatted down and said.

"Hey, are you selling something? Not shabby."

The middle-aged man nodded in agreement and said, "That's right, give me two pounds."

"Okay, this is two pounds, Chenghui, one dollar and sixty cents." "Here you go."

I took the two dollars from the other person and got 40 cents back.

It’s a pity that we can’t sell too much wild boar meat in one place.

After selling for a while, about thirty or forty kilograms, Li Jiayi started to move to another place.

At around eleven o'clock, Li Jiayi left the pigeon market, having sold pigeons for almost three hundred yuan that morning.

This is already a lot, mainly because it takes time to move back and forth between places, otherwise he would have sold more.

But it would not work if he did not change places. He only had a big basket and he was so young, how much could he carry at one time?

After leaving the pigeon market, find a deserted place to put away the big basket and walk straight into the city.

He did not go home, but planned to find a place to eat something and go to the pigeon market outside Jianguomen in the afternoon.

You can't always sell things in one pigeon market. There are four pigeon markets in the capital anyway! You can go to any one of them.

Li Jiayi found a small state-owned restaurant and went in.

When I walked up to the counter, a waiter and cashier was standing inside the counter.

"What to eat?"

"Auntie, can you ask the chef to come out for a moment?"

The waitress looked to be around 26 or 27 years old, so it was not wrong for Li Jiayi to call her aunt.

This era is very different from later generations. In later generations, even if you call an old woman in her seventies or eighties "big sister", she will be happy.

But in this era, if you dare to shout like this, you wonder if people will pay attention to you.

What is needed in this era is stability and maturity. The older you call the other person, the happier they will be.

It is said that a man without a beard on his lips cannot do things with confidence.

Of course, if you don’t know how to call it, you can just call it comrade, which is a general term.

"What do you want the chef for?" the waiter asked.

"Please call for me! I need something."

Li Jiayi arrived early and there was no one in the restaurant, otherwise he would not have made this request.

"Okay, wait a minute."

After the waiter finished speaking, he called to the kitchen: "Master Liu, someone is looking for you."

"Come on, who's looking for me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a middle-aged man in his forties came out from the kitchen.

"Master Liu, this young comrade is looking for you." The waiter said to Li Jiayi with a nod.

Master Liu looked at Li Jiayi in confusion and asked, "What do you want from me?"

"Master Liu, I don't have a meat ticket, but I have a pound of meat. Can you help me cook a dish? You only need to use half, and the rest will be your reward."

"What! Comrade, you are not joking, are you?" Master Liu looked at Li Jiayi and asked.

This is meat! Each person only gets 4 taels per month. Just helping to cook a dish, they only get half a pound.

Li Jiayi took out an oil-paper bag from his schoolbag and handed it over, saying, "Here, take a look."

The one-pound piece of meat that Li Jiayi took out was not wild boar meat, but real domestic pork.

"Master Liu, please help me cook some vegetables. I also want a few steamed buns. I'll give you the food coupons you need and I'll pay you the rest."

Master Liu quickly opened the oil paper package, and when he saw the meat inside, his eyes lit up immediately.

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

　　
　
(End of this chapter)