Chapter 103 Coal Rationing, Li Jia1 Goes to the Coal Mine

Chapter 103 Coal Rationing, Li Jia1 Goes to the Coal Mine

Chapter 103 Coal Rationing, Li Jiayi Goes to the Coal Mine

Don’t old people always say that as long as your lower body is not cold, you won’t feel cold.

His two older sisters' use is similar to his, except that his parents use a little more.

As for his grandparents and his uncle's family, Li Jiayi did not cook for them.

Because it is not necessary. People in rural areas don’t go out in winter, so it is not needed at all. Even if they go out, the most they do is to fetch water and cook.

It's so comfortable to stay in the house and keep the kang warm.

After staying in the tailor shop for a while, Li Jiayi left and took the bus to Mentougou.

Yes, Li Jiayi was going to Mentougou to buy some coal. Although his family had coal coupons, they were too few.

In the imperial capital, each household only has 100 kilograms of coal coupons per month in winter. If you don’t use it for heating, it’s enough for cooking.

But how can we not keep warm in winter? One hundred kilograms of coal, even if it is made into honeycomb coal, only costs one hundred and fifty yuan, which is an average of five yuan a day, which is not enough at all.

Many people save coal in the summer and use it in the winter, but it is still not enough.

After all, the summer ration is not that much. One hundred kilograms is the supply in winter, and there are only forty-five kilograms per month in summer.

There is no way. The city is not like the countryside where you can get firewood everywhere. In the city, many people have to buy firewood.

There are many people in the rural areas who would chop firewood in the mountains and sell it in the city.

Li Jiayi had no shortage of firewood. Not to mention that there was plenty of it on the mountain in his space, he also got a lot of it on the mountain when he was in the countryside.

Part of it is placed in the yard of my grandmother's house for my grandparents to burn in the winter, and part of it is kept in the space and can be taken out at any time.

There is no shortage of firewood, but there is a shortage of coal! After all, firewood cannot burn for as long as coal.

It’s easy during the day, as you can add some firewood at any time, but at night when everyone is asleep, who will add firewood?

So coal is still needed, and a lot of it, after all, he has prepared three large stoves for his home.

These three large stoves are prepared for heating at night. They are placed directly in the bedrooms and equipped with chimneys, so safety is absolutely guaranteed.

Because the furnace is sealed very tightly, Li Jiayi had it specially made by a blacksmith shop.

Then we did some sealing treatments in the space, so you can use it with complete confidence.

Of course, he also prepared one for himself. Whether he would use it or not was not yet clear, but he had to have it.

Although the place Li Jiayi was going to seemed not far from Lijia Village, it was much faster than going to Lijia Village.

After all, to go to Lijia Village, you have to go to Changping County first, then take a bus to Liu Village, and then take a ox cart from Liu Village to Lijia Village.

It can be said that it has gone around in a big circle. Even if we don’t count the route from Shangliu Village to Lijia Village, the circle is still very big.

To the coal mine in Mentougou, there is a direct bus, which saves a lot of time.

At eleven o'clock, Li Jiayi arrived at the place. Seeing that it was dark everywhere, Li Jiayi was speechless.

It is indeed a coal-producing area! I guess the dust on the road can be directly made into coal balls by adding water.

There is no dust on the road! It is coal dust.

The place where Li Jiayi came was considered a mining den because there were many coal mines here.

Adding up all the big and small ones, there are at least a dozen, if not dozens.

Li Jiayi first found a relatively secluded place and then released Asheng, Acai and Aquan.

I feel much safer with the three of them around.

Of course, he didn't have to go to the coal mine, he just had to go to the coal yard.

A coal mine is a place where coal is mined, and a coal yard is a place where coal is stored, waiting for others to come and take it away.

Li Jiayi brought Asheng and the other three to a smaller coal yard. There was no other way, if he went to a big coal yard, people would probably ignore him.

Asheng and the other two were still very scary, as you can see from the miners walking towards them. They all stayed far away and didn't dare to get close to them. In fact, it was mainly because they were too big and a bit scary.

After arriving at the small coal yard, Li Jiayi stopped a worker who was covered in black and asked, "Hello! Is your manager here?"

The dark-skinned worker showed his white teeth, pointed to a few houses in the distance and said, "The manager is in that house over there, go look for him!"

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome."

To be honest, it is not easy to work in a coal mine or in a coal yard. It is dark all day long, and I guess even if you meet someone you know, they may not recognize you.

Soon Li Jiayi came to the houses, took a look, and saw a sign that said Manager's Office.

"Knock knock knock!" Li Jiayi went up and knocked on the door.

"Come in."

When he pushed the door open and saw the person inside, Li Jiayi almost laughed out loud.

Fortunately, he was good at holding back his laughter.

He originally thought that since he was a manager, he would be clean and tidy! After all, he was sitting in an office.

But when I saw the guy in the office, he was not much better than the worker, and was also dark.

This is Li Jiayi's misunderstanding. In places like coal mines and coal yards, no matter who you are, you can't keep them clean.

Unless you come here and never go out and lock yourself in the house, as long as you go out, it won't take long for you to become like this.

Even if it was him, if he stayed here for two or three hours, he would probably not be much better than this guy.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Excuse me, are you the manager?"

"Yes." The manager nodded.

"I'm here to see you." Li Jiayi said quickly.

"Looking for me, I don't know you! What do you want from me?"

"I want to buy some coal from you."

Hearing what Li Jiayi said, the manager smiled, then shook his head and said, "I'm afraid you've got the wrong person. We don't sell coal here."

"Not selling?" Li Jiayi looked at the manager in surprise and asked, "When I came in just now, I saw a truck pulling coal out! How could they not sell it?"

"You're right, but we only recognize receipts here, not money. If you have a receipt, you can get as much as you want. If you don't have a receipt, you can't even take a pound of coal with you."

"Ah! I need an approval to buy coal!" Li Jiayi scratched his head.

In fact, he should have thought that if it could be bought with money, then there would be no rationing in the city.

To be honest, Li Jiayi was a little disappointed, but he rolled his eyes and looked at the manager and said, "I won't buy it, but if I want to exchange it with pork, I wonder if you can do it?"

Hearing what Li Jiayi said, the manager stood up and asked, "Do you have pork?"

"Yes." Li Jia nodded.

"how many?"

"If there's any extra, it's easy to change a few cars of coal."

The price of coal is not expensive, only more than 30 yuan per ton. Even the best anthracite is only 45 yuan per ton.

But even so, the manager was still surprised to hear that Li Jiayi had pork that could be exchanged for several carts of coal.

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