Chapter 113 Get the coal out
Chapter 113 Get the coal out
To be honest, if there wasn't so much coal in the space, the middle-aged man would have taken the coal ticket no matter what.
Someone asked, if that’s the case, why not buy it and then sell it later.
He wouldn't do such a thing, so let's leave it to someone in need!
He earns enough money now and doesn't need these little things at all. If the food coupons were not so important, he wouldn't even want to accept them.
"Hey, it's you, little comrade! Are you collecting tickets?"
"Aren't you the uncle who bought the meat just now?"
Although Li Jiayi had his face covered, he was easily recognized as he was with three dogs and had his face covered.
"Yes, it's me."
Glancing at the bulge on his waist, Li Jiayi smiled and said, "Uncle, are you here to sell tickets after buying meat?"
As for the bulge in his waist, it was of course the meat he had just bought.
"Yes, if you sell some useless tickets, you can buy something else."
"Oh! What tickets are available? Let me see if there is one I need?" Li Jiayi asked.
"Food coupons, sugar coupons, and non-staple food coupons."
"Uh! Uncle, every household needs these, right? How could you not need them?"
"The family needs children. As for the food coupons, they are all fine food coupons. There is no difference between coarse grains and fine grains at home."
"Uh! Okay!" After saying that, he looked at him and asked, "Uncle, are the food coupons in your hand national food coupons or local food coupons?"
"It's local. I exchanged it from the grain station using the ration on my grain book."
"Uh!"
The ration on the grain book can be exchanged for grain coupons. At this time, the grain book is still the main thing to use, and grain coupons are only a supplement.
However, this will only last until next year. Starting from August or September next year, grain coupons will no longer be used to purchase grain.
The street office will issue food coupons per person every month to prevent people from collecting more or making false claims or exploiting loopholes in the food coupons.
For example, if an elderly person in someone’s family dies, they don’t report it and still use the grain book to buy grain.
However, this problem was eliminated by having the street office distribute food coupons directly to people's homes, so it was easy to see how many people there were.
Of course, this lasted only three years, or even less than three years, before the change to purchasing grain with grain coupons was made.
The main reason was that it was a waste of manpower and material resources. It was considered a special treatment for a special period! After the three-year difficult period, things immediately changed back.
Originally, Li Jiayi didn't plan to buy local food coupons, but after thinking about it, he decided to take them. After all, there were not many of them, and he could also exchange them for meal tickets in the school cafeteria.
"Okay uncle, give me all your tickets! I want them all."
He originally wanted sugar coupons and non-staple food coupons, which was equivalent to collecting more than ten kilograms of unwanted local grain coupons.
"Ah! Do you really want it?" The middle-aged man looked at him and asked.
"Yes, I do, and I want them all."
The middle-aged man glanced at Li Jiayi, but thinking that Li Jiayi was not short of money and that he would just sell some meat and take his tickets, he stopped worrying about it.
"Here you go."
Li Jiayi took it and took a look. There were 17 jin of local grain coupons, 1 jin of sugar coupons, and 1.5 jin of non-staple food coupons.
After doing the math, Li Jiayi said, "Uncle, I'll give you five dollars and fifty cents for these tickets. What do you think?"
"Ah! So many?"
"Not much, sugar coupons are one dollar per pound, food coupons are 20 cents, that's 3.4 yuan, and I'll give you 90 cents for 1.5 pounds of non-staple food coupons." "Okay, okay."
"Ok!"
Li Jiayi took out five dollars and fifty cents and handed it over. He didn't take any advantage. After all, the prices of these things were transparent in the Pigeon Market.
After the middle-aged man left, Li Jiayi took the three dogs out for a walk and came back with a lot of meat.
Li Jiayi did not go back at noon. He had a delicious meal in the space and continued in the afternoon.
He had a great harvest that day, earning nearly a thousand dollars from selling meat alone.
There are some benefits to bringing three dogs out. Not to mention that it dispels some people's bad ideas, the main thing is that you can sell more meat!
And we collected a lot of coupons today. Although we didn’t receive many food coupons nationwide, we did receive quite a few sugar coupons and non-staple food coupons.
Not to mention the food coupons, there are more than 30 kilograms of candy coupons alone. If you buy all the White Rabbit milk candies and put them in the space, they will last you for a long time.
As for the food coupons, there are also quite a few of them. Although not as many as the sugar coupons, there are still more than 20 kilograms. I can go to Fuhuazhai to buy some Beijing Eight Pieces later.
Although he doesn't like this thing very much, it is still a good gift. It is high-end and classy.
In Li Jiayi's eyes, it is just worth this much. To him, it is not as real as a bag of peach cakes.
Not to mention the high price, the main thing is just so-so. The reason why it is expensive is mainly because of its fame and packaging.
It was almost time, so Li Jiayi rushed to the city. Of course, before that he took Asheng and the others away.
I quickly returned to the city and took the trolleybus home.
Because I came back a little early, it was not yet five o'clock when I got home.
He looked at the door and it didn't seem to be open, which made him very strange. By this time, his parents should have been back!
Li Jiayi patted his forehead and seemed to remember that his parents had said before that after they came back from grandma's house, they would use the remaining cloth coupons to buy some cloth and keep them at home so they could use them whenever they wanted.
Needless to say, my parents didn't go home and went straight to buy fabric.
But his elder sister and second sister hadn't come back yet, which made him speechless. When they left, they said they weren't going to eat outside! It was already this late and they hadn't come back yet.
This is even better, as he was just thinking about how to get some of the coal out.
First, I built a simple shed in the space to block the snow, and then placed it on the south side of the sauna.
The location is just right, from the sauna room to the eaves in front, so when burning the sauna room, you can just burn it directly in the shed.
Looking at this simple shed, Li Jiayi was speechless! But there was nothing he could do. If it was built too well, it would easily arouse suspicion.
After all, the time was too short, so after putting the shed away, he started to take out the coal. He didn't take much, just about two or three tons!
Two or three tons may sound like a lot, but when placed on the ground there really isn't much. There's nothing we can do about it, the coal is quite heavy!
At 1.55 tons per cubic meter, these three tons of coal are less than two cubic meters, which seems like a lot.
For Li Jiayi, a little is enough, because he can secretly take some out and put them on without anyone noticing.
After finishing all this, Li Jiayi fed Asheng and the others so that they wouldn't eat too much and make their mother sad.
After finishing all this, Li Jiayi returned to the house and drank a bottle of spiritual spring water from an enamel jar to relax himself.
Then we just waited, waiting for our parents to come back, and for our older sisters to come back.
Li Jiayi had a really miserable life. He was just a ten-year-old kid, but he worried about his family every day.
Around 5:20, the eldest and second sisters returned home first. They probably knew they came back late, and they felt a little embarrassed.
(End of this chapter)