Chapter 30: After getting the milk ticket, I headed home
Chapter 30: After getting the milk ticket, I headed home
After draining the blood of a wild boar and throwing it into the static space, Li Jiayi thought about it and went to the Pigeon Market again, but not to the one outside Jianguomen, but to the Pigeon Market on the other side of Deshengmen.
He planned to collect some more sugar coupons, the more the better.
He just remembered that the White Rabbit milk candies he bought were not three yuan and a half per pound, but four yuan and a half.
Don't forget that a pound of sugar ticket costs one yuan! Add them together and it's not four yuan and a half per pound.
He didn't plan to sell wild boar meat today because he already had enough money. He came here just to collect tickets.
"Auntie, do you have sugar coupons?" Li Jiayi asked when he saw a middle-aged woman just finished talking to someone.
"I don't have sugar coupons, but I have food coupons and egg coupons. Do you want them?"
"I don't want the egg coupons, but I want the national food coupons."
"Do you want national food coupons? I have ten kilograms here." The middle-aged woman said happily.
Unless traveling far, no one would ask for national food coupons, because in the imperial capital, there was no difference between national food coupons and local food coupons.
Except for eating at restaurants, national food coupons are more useful than local food coupons if you go to a grain station to buy food.
How could people who came to Pigeon City to buy food coupons possibly eat in restaurants? Basically, their rations were not enough, so they went to the grain station to buy food.
"Then give it to me!" Li Jiayi took out two yuan and fifty cents and handed it over.
Yes, national food coupons are five cents more expensive per pound than local food coupons.
The middle-aged woman took the money, counted it, and said, "This is ten kilograms of national food coupons. Please count it."
"Ok."
Li Jiayi took it and counted it, finding it was exactly ten kilograms, so he put it away.
There was no bargaining because the price of the food coupons was transparent. Whether you came to the pigeon market or the black market, the price was the same.
After the middle-aged woman left, Li Jiayi continued to grope around.
"Uncle, do you have any sugar coupons, national food coupons, or tobacco and alcohol coupons?"
"No." The middle-aged man shook his head.
Cigarette coupons have only been out for a short time, so I guess many people don’t have them.
As for wine tickets, ordinary people can’t use them because few people are willing to spend so much money to buy good wine.
Because ordinary people buy loose liquor, or Niulanshan Erguotou. I don’t know if it’s because Niulanshan Erguotou is a local liquor, or because it’s cheaper and doesn’t require a ticket at all.
I guess it’s because it’s cheap! You know, Chrysanthemum White and Lotus White are also local wines! They also require tickets.
It is very likely that, like those cheap cigarettes, in the imperial capital, cigarettes that cost more than 40 cents require Class A cigarette tickets, while cigarettes that cost more than 10 cents and less than 40 cents require Class B cigarette tickets.
As for those that cost less than ten cents, no tickets are required. For example, sunflower cigarettes, which cost nine cents a pack, are also called ten cents.
Economy cigarettes cost seven cents a pack, Fu cigarettes cost six and a half cents, and the cheapest is Qianjin cigarettes, which cost only two cents a pack.
But even so, not many people are willing to smoke.
Not to mention others, his father Li Aimin only drew a sunflower. You have to know that no tickets were needed in the past!
Is nine cents too little? If you are from a poor family, this may be the daily expenses of one person.
The harvest in the morning was not very big. A total of three and a half kilograms of sugar coupons were received, and more than twenty kilograms of national grain coupons were collected.
Mainly because he arrived too late.
At around eleven o'clock, Li Jiayi came out of the Pigeon City, but he did not go home.
I had a quick bite at a small restaurant, then found a deserted place to enter the space and take a nap inside.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Li Jiayi woke up, quickly washed his face and came out of the space.
When he arrived at the Pigeon Market, there were already quite a few people there. He looked around and started looking for people who wanted to sell their tickets.
"Auntie, what tickets do you have?" Li Jiayi walked up to a middle-aged woman and asked.
"What tickets do you want?"
"Do you have bicycle tickets?" "Uh!" The middle-aged woman shook her head and said, "No bicycle tickets."
"So what tickets do you have?"
"30 jin of local grain coupons, 20 jin of national grain coupons, 2 jin of sugar coupons, 3 jin of meat coupons, 1 jin of milk coupons, and some daily necessities coupons."
Li Jiayi scratched his head and said, "You really have a lot of votes."
Not only are there a lot of them, they are also very rare, especially the milk tickets. You have to know that this thing is not something that ordinary people can get.
With one pound of milk ticket, you can go to the milk station and buy one pound of fresh milk, which is absolutely pure milk, without anything added.
And you don’t have to pay, because fresh milk is supplied to special groups of people. You can just show your ticket and get it.
"Aunt, can you give me the national food coupons, sugar coupons, and milk coupons? I'll tell you how much they are."
"Give me eight dollars!"
"can."
The prices of national grain coupons and sugar coupons will basically not change, but he really doesn't know the price of this milk coupon.
Because this was the first time he encountered it today.
The middle-aged woman calculated one dollar for him, but she didn't know whether he made a profit or a loss.
It shouldn't be a loss! After all, you don't have to pay when you pump milk, it's equivalent to buying a pound of pure fresh milk for one dollar.
After the middle-aged woman left, Li Jiayi collected the tickets.
Soon he came to an old lady and asked, "Grandma, what tickets do you have?"
The old lady didn't waste any time and handed it to Li Jiayi and said, "Take a look and see if there's anything you want?"
Li Jiayi took a quick look and said, "Grandma, I want the half-pound sugar ticket you have here, please see..."
"Okay, here you go."
He took the ticket, took out fifty cents, handed it over and said, "Here's fifty cents. Please keep it."
"Yeah!" The old lady nodded.
It was almost five o'clock, when the woolen mill was about to get off work, and Li Jiayi hurried out of the Pigeon Market.
After nearly three hours, the harvest was pretty good, but they were all national grain coupons and sugar coupons, and I never came across any milk coupons.
After returning to the city, he first went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought two cans of White Rabbit milk candy.
He didn't go to the milk station because the station only supplies milk in the morning and it would be useless to go at this time.
On the way back, I found an empty alley and threw the wild boar, from which I had bled, on the ground at the entrance of the alley.
Then Li Jiayi stood by the road waiting.
After about four or five minutes, a man riding a scooter came over, who was later called Banerye.
"Here." Li Jiayi shouted hurriedly.
Woboer came over on a cart and asked, "Where are you going, man?"
"How much does it cost to get to Ping'anli, Xinjiekou?"
Wobo looked at him and said, "You are just a kid, so just give me 20 cents!"
"I'll give you fifty cents, but you have to help me."
"Give me a hand? Do you want to pull something?"
"Yes, a wild boar weighs only a little over 100 pounds. If you help me move it onto the cart and then unload it into the yard, I'll give you fifty cents."
Hearing about the wild boar, the man swallowed his saliva and nodded, saying, "Okay."
"Come on, help me install it." After saying that, Li Jiayi stood aside.
(End of this chapter)