Chapter 85 You Don’t Understand the Power of Tuberculosis
Chapter 85 You Don’t Understand the Power of Chatterboxes
Saccharin, actually what later generations called cyclamate, was rampant in that era and could be bought in basically any supply and marketing cooperative.
What's more, this thing doesn't require a ticket, and it can even be sold by the pill, so you can buy several pills for one cent.
Many children like to find a bottle, fill it with tap water, and then put two grains of saccharin in it, and the whole bottle of water becomes sweet.
This thing is not a good thing. Eating too much will affect your development, height, and even cause cancer. This is no joke.
"Go away. Is it because I added saccharin that you can't tell it?"
Although saccharin is sweet, it is also easy to tell that it tastes bitter. Even people who have never tasted saccharin can easily tell the difference.
Because the sweetness of saccharin is not so pure, it makes people feel weird.
"No, I just think it's too sweet. I've had watermelon juice before, and it's definitely not this sweet. Did you add sugar?"
"Go and have fun, how much is a pound of sugar? I put sugar in watermelon juice, am I sick?"
The little black fat man scratched his head and said, "Yes, white sugar is so expensive, and you need sugar coupons."
Qian Guotie also had some, and quite a bit of it, but he didn't have any candy coupons. He almost got punished when he asked his father for them before.
Li Jiayi patted the little black fat man on the shoulder and said, "The reason why my watermelon juice is so sweet is because the watermelon is sweet."
"Is that so?" The little black fat man scratched his head and asked, "Li Jiayi, where did you buy this watermelon juice? I'll go buy some later."
"They don't sell it retail. Look at my kettle. It costs fifty cents."
The water bottle that Li Jiayi carried was a Type 56 military water bottle, made of aluminum and weighing 0.4 kilograms.
It can hold two liters of water, and the same goes for watermelon juice.
Fifty cents for two liters is equivalent to ten cents for 400 milliliters, and a bottle of 300 milliliters of Arctic Ocean soda costs another ten cents!
This pure watermelon juice can't be worse than soda, so the price he set is not expensive.
"The price is not expensive." The little black fat man nodded.
He also has a kettle, so of course he knows how much it can hold.
In this era, children in families with slightly better conditions all have a kettle.
It is so that the children have water to drink when they go to school, except for Li Jiayi, who always carries a water bottle with him.
"It's not expensive. A bottle of Arctic Ocean costs only 1 cent! This kettle can hold about seven bottles of Arctic Ocean."
Li Jiayi was trying to instill in the little black fat boy the concept that good food should be inexpensive.
This concept is best explained by comparison. Other things don't work, but the Arctic Ocean does.
After all, people who can afford to buy Arctic Ocean drink usually have fairly good family conditions and are also his customer base.
"Li Jiayi, could you bring me a pot tomorrow?" the little black fat man asked embarrassedly.
"Sure! What's wrong with that? I happen to want to buy one too." Li Jiayi said indifferently.
"Thank you. I'll give you the kettle after school tonight."
"can."
With the help of the talkative and active little fat guy to promote it, half of the school will know about it in a few days.
Originally he wanted to sell them by the jar, at ten cents for an enamel jar, but that was too troublesome, and he wouldn't be able to sell many.
It is better to use a kettle. Although it will sell for less money, you can sell one kettle at a time! Just think of it as wholesale.
The morning passed quickly and the school bell rang. Hearing the bell, Li Jiayi breathed a sigh of relief.
To be honest, it's really uncomfortable to sit in the classroom for a whole morning.
It's not that he didn't think about not coming to class, but it was simply not feasible. Not to mention his parents, even the school didn't agree. "Li Jiayi, we have to go and exchange meal tickets for meals in the school cafeteria," said the little black fat boy.
"Well! Let's go and exchange the tickets first."
"it is good."
Ticket exchange is right in the cafeteria, which is quite convenient.
Soon the two of them arrived at the cafeteria, and it seemed that there were many people who had the same needs as them.
They arrived early enough, but they didn't expect that someone would arrive earlier than them.
However, the exchange of meal tickets in the cafeteria was very fast, and it was their turn in less than three minutes.
"Teacher, I want to exchange ten kilograms of fine grain meal tickets, twenty kilograms of coarse grain meal tickets, two kilograms of meat and vegetables, and ten kilograms of green vegetable tickets." The little black fat man took out the tickets and handed them to the staff member in charge of exchanging tickets.
"for you."
In fact, when Guo Detie spoke, the staff member had already prepared the quantity he mentioned.
No wonder the ticket exchange went so fast. If people in later generations were as fast, they wouldn’t have to wait in line for so long.
Of course, after taking the tickets, the staff member counted them quickly and put them in the drawer if there were no problems.
"Hello, teacher. I want to exchange 50 kilograms of fine grain tickets and 30 kilograms of green vegetable tickets."
To exchange fifty kilograms of fine grain coupons for meal coupons, one had to pay an additional ten yuan. To exchange thirty kilograms of vegetable coupons for vegetable coupons, one had to pay an additional one yuan and fifty cents.
This price is definitely higher than the price at the grain station or vegetable market. This is normal. They have to make it well for you!
In fact, it is not only this, but also that one pound of grain can definitely make more than one pound of rice.
So eating in school is not as cost-effective as it seems, but there is no way around it, except for factories, it is like this in all schools.
Needless to say, this is Li Jiayi.
The staff member in charge of ticket exchange looked at him in surprise, not because he did not exchange for meat and vegetable tickets, but because he exchanged too many fine grain meal tickets.
You know, the ration is not that high! Each person only gets 30% of fine grains, including rice.
Li Jiayi exchanged for fifty kilograms of fine grains at once. Even a family of ten could not afford so much.
However, the staff member soon figured it out. He must have exchanged the coarse grain coupons for the fine grain coupons from others.
Of course, it is also possible that they were fine grain coupons exchanged from the pigeon market. You know, many people are reluctant to eat fine grains and take them to the pigeon market to exchange for coarse grains.
Even if you can't exchange it for coarse grains, you can exchange it for coarse grain coupons.
"Li Jiayi, why do you have so many fine grain coupons?" After exchanging the tickets and leaving the crowd, the little black fat man couldn't wait to ask.
You have to know that even if his family gave him most of the fine grain coupons, it would only be ten kilograms.
Although this is only for this month, it can be seen from here how scarce the fine grain coupons are.
"I exchanged it in Pigeon City. Also, this isn't just mine. My sister also owns half of it."
"Your sister?"
"Yeah!" Li Jia nodded and said, "My sister is in the second grade of junior high school now. She will probably be here soon."
"Okay! Should we go get some food first or wait for your sister?" asked the little black fat man.
"Wait a moment! It's still early anyway."
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