Chapter 188: Unreceivable Tickets, Foreigners
Chapter 188: Unreceivable Tickets, Foreigners
"I..." The little black fat man didn't know what to say.
"Give me a pitcher of iced watermelon juice."
"Tomorrow morning, leave the kettle when you go back in the evening."
Thinking that Li Jiayi got the watermelon juice from someone else, the little black fat man nodded and said, "Okay, I'll leave the kettle for you tonight."
"By the way, do you want it chilled or frozen?" Li Jiayi asked.
"Is there any difference?" The little black fat man looked at Li Jiayi.
"Of course, if it's chilled, it will probably return to room temperature in about an hour. And now that it's so hot, it might take even less time. But if it's frozen, it will probably take an hour or two. And you can't finish it all at once, so you have to drink it slowly."
"Then I'm going to freeze into ice."
He can earn more than three yuan a day now, and this is just the beginning. He may earn more in the future, so a few cents of watermelon juice is not a burden for him.
"can."
After everyone came over, Li Jiayi drove away on his tricycle.
Ten minutes later, Li Jiayi arrived outside Jianguomen. Yes, he came to Pigeon City.
But he didn't come to sell pork, he wanted to collect some tickets.
This strange tricycle attracted a lot of people's attention.
Li Jiayi hung a written sign on the shed of the tricycle.
Yes, when he came to Pigeon City, he replaced the box with this kind of shed, mainly because it is cooler when running.
The sign stated what he wanted, first national food coupons, then sugar coupons, summer vacation, and finally electric fan coupons.
That's right, his main purpose of coming here this time was to collect a ticket for an electric fan. As for the national food coupons, sugar coupons and so on, they were just incidental. If he had them, he would take them, if not, forget it.
But he also knew that it was difficult to collect a ticket for an electric fan.
In this kind of weather, if anyone has a ticket for an electric fan, they must use it for themselves!
Generally speaking, people who can get tickets for electric fans are not short of money at home, and they will not sell them.
But he still wanted to try his luck, just in case he received it!
He would try to receive it first. If he received it, he would receive it. If not, it didn’t matter. There was no rush anyway.
Until after six in the afternoon, all the food coupons, sugar coupons, and non-staple food coupons had been collected nationwide, but there was not a single electric fan coupon.
Feeling that the time was almost up, Li Jiayi drove his tricycle back to the Houhai grove.
He first went into the space to eat something, took a shower, and applied mosquito repellent ointment before coming out of the space.
Because he knew that it would take some time for the little black fat guy and the others to come over.
Just as he thought, it was not until after seven o'clock that anyone came back after selling their things.
Similarly, Li Jiayi earned more than 500 yuan that day.
And today we sold out all the goods an hour earlier than yesterday.
Yes, it was just after eight when the last person came back.
After putting his schoolbag and water bottle into the box, Li Jiayi hurried home.
These guys learned from the fat black guy that there was frozen watermelon juice, so everyone ordered a pot.
When he was almost home, Li Jiayi drove the tricycle into an empty alley.
Two large wooden basins were put in and several ice cubes were taken out.
Because he knew that if he returned home at this time, his family would definitely not be asleep yet.
There was no way to get the ice out when I got home.
Just as he thought, when he got home, his parents, and his two oldest sisters were sitting in the yard.
Everyone was fanning themselves with a palm-leaf fan.
At this time, it was much hotter inside the house than outside, and there was still a bit of wind outside anyway.
The room was simply stuffy.
"Hey, son, why has your tricycle changed?"
Looking at the car changing from a convertible to a carriage, Li Aimin asked in surprise.
"Dad, it hasn't changed. When we made it, we made several styles. We just changed it. This one is alive and can be taken down."
"That's it!"
"Dad, don't sit there, come and help me move the things."
"Moving things?" Li Aimin asked puzzledly.
"Look what's inside?" Li Jiayi opened the box.
Although he felt sorry, Li Aimin still stood up from his chair and came over to take a look.
When he saw what was in the carriage, he was so surprised that the palm-leaf fan in his hand fell to the ground.
"This... so many ice cubes!"
"Ok!"
Although Li Aimin's voice was not loud, it was loud enough for everyone in the family to hear.
Suddenly, everyone couldn't sit still anymore and ran over quickly. Immediately, a cool breeze blew in their faces.
The ice blocks are very large, with the smallest one weighing at least 50 to 60 kilograms, and the larger ones even weighing 70 to 80 kilograms.
The wooden basin is still in the room, and the water in it has been poured out, so just move the ice cubes in.
Li Aimin can move one piece by himself, and so can Li Jiayi, but the eldest and second sisters can't move it, so it takes two of them to lift one piece.
Fortunately, he locked the gate on the moon gate when he drove the tricycle in.
Otherwise, if others saw it, I don’t know what a sensation it would cause.
Soon all the ice cubes were moved into the house, and there were two more than yesterday.
Yesterday he only put two pieces in a room, and today he took out six pieces.
After Li Jiayi locked the tricycle and entered the house, Li Aimin pointed to two pieces of ice in a basin and said, "Son, I'll help you carry it up." "Dad, no need, put one piece of ice in your room and mom's room, and put the rest in the rooms of the eldest and second sisters."
"Ah! Don't do that!"
"No."
Ye Xin said at this time: "Son, your father and I only need two pieces in our room, so move these to your room!"
"Mom, I really don't need it, and I'm not hot."
"It's not hot, how can it be possible?"
"Okay mom, just leave it alone. I really don't need it."
"All right!"
About two hundred kilograms of ice were placed in a room, and the room immediately became much cooler.
Neither my parents nor my older sisters stayed outside and went straight back to their rooms.
Even without a fan, I can't feel any heat!
In the next few days, Li Jiayi went to all four major pigeon markets and bought quite a few tickets, but unfortunately he still failed to buy any tickets for electric fans.
It seems that we can only target the children from the big courtyards.
However, I can no longer visit any of the compounds I had visited before, including the military compound where Lao Li is.
That morning, after distributing the schoolbags and water bottles, Li Jiayi drove his tricycle to a place east of Wangfujing.
This is not a large compound, it is about five or six hundred meters away from Wangfujing.
The reason I came here is because there are many embassies and many families of embassy staff here.
There is no large courtyard here, only Western-style buildings one by one.
Before coming here, Li Jiayi went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought a lot of glass cups.
In fact, most families don’t use this thing at all because it is easy to break.
And the price is not cheap, it would be painful to break one.
Even families with better financial conditions use enamel pots, and only some petty bourgeois people would use this thing.
After arriving here, Li Jiayi parked the tricycle, took out the glasses and filled them with watermelon juice, peach juice, pear juice and orange juice.
And add some crystal clear ice cubes into both glasses.
These are not ice cubes frozen from spiritual spring water, but from the mineral water in the pool behind.
There are more than a dozen cups placed in a row on the tricycle, which looks very attractive.
Moreover, he was holding a cup and drinking it sip by sip comfortably. Of course, the ice cubes in his cup were made of frozen spiritual spring water.
Juice may be a new thing in China, but it is very common abroad.
Li Jiayi drank and shook the glass, and the ice cubes clinked against the glass.
Soon it attracted a foreigner with blond hair and white skin.
This foreigner is not very old, probably in his twenties, and it is hard to tell where he is from.
"Kid, how much is your juice?" the foreigner asked in fairly fluent Chinese.
"Not for sale."
"Not selling? If not selling, what are you doing here?"
"Change something!"
"What to change?"
The foreigner's words left Li Jiayi at a loss as to how to respond.
Because foreigners don't need tickets! They have special places to buy things.
This is a bit difficult. He can't trade juice for an electric fan! People will probably think he's a fool.
"Let me ask you something! Where do you foreigners buy things?"
Li Jiayi knew about foreign-related stores, such as the Imperial Capital Friendship Store, but the Friendship Store was only established in 1964.
But now it is 1959, and at this time he doesn't know where foreigners buy things.
“In the department store!”
"Department store?" Li Jiayi looked at the foreigner in surprise.
"Yes! Department store."
"That's not right! You foreigners don't need tickets, so how come you go to the department store to buy things?" Li Jiayi asked puzzledly.
"That's what you're asking! There's a counter in the department store that's open to foreigners like us, but you have to use foreign currency to buy things there."
There are no foreign exchange coupons now. Foreign exchange coupons will only be available around the 1980s.
So now foreigners in China all use foreign currency, because they go to specific places to buy things, so settlement is convenient.
However, there is another type of roll at this time, that is, the overseas Chinese remittance roll. The overseas Chinese remittance roll is the remittance from overseas Chinese to their relatives in China.
But this obviously has nothing to do with foreigners, so if foreigners want to buy things they have to use foreign currency.
"Let me ask you one more question! Is that counter only open to foreigners, or can you buy things with foreign currency?"
"Of course you can buy it with foreign currency. Your country needs foreign currency now, a lot of it."
Hearing this foreigner say this, Li Jiayi smiled.
"You want to buy some juice? What flavor do you want?"
"Give me a cup of this. How much is it?" the foreigner asked, pointing at a cup of tangerine juice.
"You drink first, and you can pay after you finish, but I want foreign currency."
Hearing what Li Jiayi said, the foreigner looked at him, then picked up the juice and took a sip.
Then he gave Li Jiayi a thumbs up.
(End of this chapter)