Chapter 234: Cunning Old Li

Chapter 234: Cunning Old Li

Chapter 234: Cunning Old Li
"You are a capable boy." Lao Li said seriously.

"What kind of ability do I have? I am far inferior to you."

"You can just go to the side! If I had your ability, I would be able to become an ordinary citizen right now."

"Okay, Lao Li, let's stop bragging to each other and think about how to do the statistics!"

"Don't worry, kid! Leave this to me, but what do you want? Still want cigarettes and alcohol?"

"Okay!" Li Jia nodded.

If it was Lao Li or Lao Zhao, he could give up everything, but now it is the entire military compound, so he can't give it up.

"Okay, I'll tell them, and ask them to buy the cigarettes and alcohol. As for the price, it will be calculated according to the current market price."

Li Jiayi spread his hands and said, "I don't care. You can handle it as you wish."

This is actually a good idea. According to the market price, no one will suffer a loss.

Of course, he doesn’t know whether others make money or not, but he, Li Jiayi, will definitely not lose money.

All the food is produced in the space, so it can be said that there is no cost at all. No matter how much or how little you sell, you will make a profit.

Before Aunt Tian and Aunt Zhang finished cooking, someone came over. And it was none other than a few aunts who worked in the service center.

Seeing someone coming, Lao Li ran to the yard and shouted, "Lao Wu, Lao Niu, both of you come over here."

Lao Niu and Lao Wu are Lao Li’s neighbors. They were the ones who helped Li Jiayi when he first exchanged meat with the military compound.

Now Lao Li called them over again. He was still very happy to have someone to help him.

In fact, it was mainly because he was afraid that he wouldn't understand it. With Old Wu, Old Niu, and Old Zhao, he basically didn't have to do anything.

Otherwise, Lao Li is cunning! He is definitely an old fox.

"Lao Li, why did you call us here?" Lao Niu just came over and started yelling in a loud voice.

"You can ask a few female comrades and you'll find out. I'll go get Lao Zhao over here."

Li Jian and Li Kang probably went out to play, otherwise there would be no need for Mr. Li to make this trip.

"Comrade Shufen, tell me what happened?" Old Wu asked one of the aunts.

"It's like this, Old Wu..." The aunt recounted the story.

When they heard that they could get food, both Lao Wu and Lao Niu became excited.

Are you kidding? This is food!
Old Wu immediately ran into the room and saw Li Jiayi sitting on the sofa in front of the coffee table drinking tea.

"Little Li."

"Oh! Old Wu, what can I do for you?"

"Xiao Li, I heard you want to exchange food, is that true?"

Li Jia nodded and said, "It's true."

"Or do you want to exchange it for cigarettes and alcohol?"

"Ok!"

"Okay, I get it. I'll go and do the math right away, but I don't know how to change it."

"Old Wu, I've just agreed with Old Li on this. We'll exchange it at the market price."

"Uh!" Old Wu was stunned for a moment and said, "That Xiao Li! If you exchange it according to the market price, you will suffer a loss."

Exchanging at market price may seem like an equal exchange, but it is actually not fair. In other words, equal value does not mean fairness.

It is so hard to get food now! Even if you have money, there is nowhere to buy it, and the price of food outside changes every day.

"It's okay, Old Wu. I'm not doing business here. It doesn't matter if it's more or less."

"Okay then! I'll register these people first, and when Lao Zhao comes, we'll go register somewhere else."

"can!"

After a while, Lao Li came back with Lao Zhao beside him.

Old Zhao didn't come alone, but his whole family came, including Li Jian and Li Kang.

It seems that these two guys were at Old Zhao's house just now, otherwise they would not have come back together.

"Little plus one."

"Hello, Aunt Feng."

"Okay, okay, go ahead and play! I'll go to the kitchen to help your Auntie Tian."

"Ok."

"Li Jiayi, are you here to deliver meat to our family again?" Li Kang asked as he sat next to Li Jiayi.

Li Kang is about the same age as Li Jiayi, and the two can chat with each other.

It was mainly Li Kang who said this. When Li Jia heard it, he thought that the two of them could agree on this, but it was just what others thought.

"Yes, there is meat to eat in the evening."

"That's great. I haven't eaten meat for a while." Li Kang said after wiping his saliva.

"Look at what you have achieved." Li Jian said with a sneer.

"What's wrong with me? Don't eat meat at night if you have the will."

"you……"

Soon, Lao Li and the other three went out. Li Jiayi knew that they were going to register door to door.

The exact amount needed will depend on the final statistics, but it shouldn’t be too much.

In the past, a bottle of Moutai could be exchanged for several kilograms of pork, but now a bottle of Moutai can’t even exchange for a kilogram of pork.

Not to mention meat, food is also ridiculously expensive now, cornmeal can be sold for 50 cents.

Of course, this is referring to the cornmeal of that era, not the kind that Li Jiayi fed his family.

More people means more work! In less than an hour, the meal was ready, but Lao Li and Lao Zhao had not returned yet.

"Li Jian, go and see how long it will take for your dad and Uncle Zhao to come back!" Aunt Tian said.

"it is good."

Li Jian agreed and took the eldest son of the Zhao family out with him.

Ten minutes later, Lao Li and Lao Zhao came back, and the last dish was ready. Because there were so many people, Lao Li's eight-person table couldn't accommodate so many people, so they had no choice but to eat separately.

The six boys from Old Li and Old Zhao's families were eating at the coffee table.

Li Jiayi originally wanted to go over there, but was pulled over to the eight-immortals table by Aunt Tian.

This made Li Jiayi speechless. He was the only child at the table. He felt a little uncomfortable.

"Come here, Xiao Jiayi, have some meat." Aunt Tian helped Li Jiayi pick up a piece of meat and put it in the bowl.

“Auntie Tian, ​​I can do it myself, you can eat too.”

"it is good."

"Xiao Li! We just counted and found that there are more than 20,000 kilograms of grain and nearly 1,000 kilograms of meat," said Lao Zhao.

At this time, Old Li also looked at Li Jiayi and asked, "Can you get so many?"

"Old Li, if you remove that word 'ma', you will know whether I can get it."

"You can tell whether you can get it just by looking at one word. How can you be so capable?"

Old Li's words made everyone at the table disgusted. Even Aunt Zhang understood what he said, but Old Li didn't.

"Okay, Lao Li, what Xiao Li means is that there is no problem and we can get it." Lao Zhao said.

"It's no problem to get them, but it will take several trips, so starting from tomorrow night, I'll come once a day, and you can call people in the order on the list."

"Okay." Old Zhao nodded.

He also knew that Li Jiayi's tricycle could not carry so many things at once.

More than 20,000 jin, that's more than 10 tons! It's about right to use a truck to pull it.

However, the amount of meat requested this time was not much. There were more than a hundred households, and they only requested less than a thousand kilograms of meat.

In fact, this is very normal. Food is the most important thing now. It’s okay to eat less meat, but not having food is not acceptable.

It was already past seven in the evening when we finished our meal. Because the meal was quite rich and greasy, there was nothing special about the eight-immortals table.

But the situation over at the coffee table was quite messy. The six boys looked like they had not had a full meal, and their mouths were full of grease.

All the juice on the plate was dipped up cleanly with the steamed buns.

If this happened in later generations, it would be good enough not to waste it. It would be absolutely impossible to eat it so cleanly.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Zhao, Auntie Tian, ​​Auntie Feng, it's getting late, I'm going back first."

"Well! Let's go back! Be careful on the road."

"Xiao Jiayi, go back first. Tomorrow I will ask Lao Li to go to the service center to buy all the cigarettes and alcohol. You can come over tomorrow night and take them away."

"Auntie Tian, ​​no need, just keep it for Lao Li!"

"Why keep it? He can just drink Erguotou. He can't tell whether the wine is good or bad anyway."

"Xiaotian, what you said makes me feel like I can't tell good wine from bad wine?"

"Old Li! You really can't tell the difference. Others may not know this, but I do." Old Zhao said jokingly.

But what Lao Zhao said was also true.

In fact, Lao Li’s favorite drink is sweet potato wine, but it’s a pity that it can’t be bought in the capital.

A few years ago, when I went to the countryside, I could buy it from my fellow villagers, and they were all home-brewed.

But given the current situation, you won’t encounter it even if you go to the countryside.

If we can’t even have food to eat, who would want to take out grain to make wine?

Even sweet potato cake is the same, because sweet potato cake needs to be made with sweet potatoes. Where can you find sweet potatoes at this time?

After leaving Old Li's house, Li Jiayi went to the small courtyard near the black market. Today happened to be the day to store grain.

After opening the door and driving the tricycle in, Li Jiayi came into the house.

There was a pile of large yellow croakers on the eight-immortals table in the room, and there was also a note.

The note stated how much supplies were needed this time, and how many yellow croakers were to be placed here.

After counting the big yellow croakers and finding the correct number, he put them away and started taking things out.

This time, the supplies required are quite large, worth two hundred and thirty large yellow croakers.

So there was no room for it in one room, so we had to clear out the west room as well.

After putting his things away, Li Jiayi locked the door and drove his tricycle home.

It was exactly eight o'clock when I got home, but everyone in the family had already gone back to rest.

Silent all night.

The next morning, as soon as Li Jiayi came down from upstairs, his eldest sister handed him a letter.

"Sister, what is this?" Li Jiayi asked after taking the envelope.

"I don't know either. Uncle Liao asked me to give it to you. He said you'll know what's going on when you open it."

"All right!"

Li Jiayi opened the envelope and saw what was written on it.

It turned out that Mr. Wu asked Liao Kai to deliver a message saying that his family was short of food and asked Li Jiayi to send some over.

After reading it, I put the letter away.

"Little brother, who wrote this letter to you?"

"Sister, it's just a friend. He wants me to take some time to visit his home."

"So this is ah!"

It just so happened that I had to go to the military compound to deliver food in the evening, and on my way back I could just turn a corner and deliver it there.

After dinner, the three siblings rode their bicycles to school.

When coming out of the Moon Gate, he didn't see Liao Kai. He was probably still eating. Li Jiayi originally wanted to ask about the current situation of the woolen mill.

He learned from his parents that the woolen mill was doing very poorly.

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(End of this chapter)