59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang

The street is full of trees, but the trees are still covered with dirt.

Nanluoguxiang is 786 meters long, with 8 alleys in the east and west. There is a supply and marketing cooperative and a street office, but no police station (the nearest is the Jiaodaokou Police Station of the Dongcheng Branch) or a vegetable market.

The vegetable market is on the Guijie side, a state-owned unit, and the vegetables there are always fresh, so much so that the dirt is not cleaned.

After a round, Chen Feng found that the prices of vegetables were particularly "cheap", ranging from a few cents to 30 cents, and some were only 60 or 70 cents per pound, such as tofu.

Soybeans can be pressed for oil, which is a scarce commodity, making tofu a high-priced commodity.

Chinese cabbage is the cheapest, 3 cents per pound, and some poor quality ones (unsalable before, now the three-price nine-grade system has not been implemented for vegetables) are only 2 cents.

I bought three pounds of rapeseed hearts, two pounds of mushrooms and five pounds of tofu.

"Comrade, the sea crabs in Tanggu, Tianjin, are only 50 cents per pound, buy a few pounds to eat back!"

"It's really cheap!" Chen Feng exclaimed.

Low prices are good for urban residents, but very unfriendly to farmers and fishermen in the countryside!

"Yes, these crabs are so cheap, pork is expensive and hard to buy, comrade, give me a few pounds." The salesperson tried his best to promote.

Now people can't buy meat, generally choose to buy fish, and rarely want to buy crabs.

The net weight of fish meat accounts for a large proportion, and the crab meat is small, 50 cents per pound is too painful.

Chen Feng smiled and shook his head and left.

On the way, he met Yi Zhonghai's wife who also came to buy vegetables.

Yi Zhonghai's wife is a very traditional Chinese woman. She silently endures all hardships, takes care of the deaf old lady No. 95, and endures the rumors that she can't have children.

However, relying on Yi Zhonghai's salary as a level 7 fitter, his life is still very good.

She can be regarded as a kind and enthusiastic person.

"Xiaofeng, why are you here? Where are your mother and grandmother?"

Chen Feng carried a basket and said, "My mother went to Red Star to report in the morning. She will work in the logistics department in the future and will be responsible for purchasing. Then she will go to the police station and the street office to handle household registration, so I came to buy vegetables today."

"Oh, this is good news!"

A auntie said enthusiastically, "Congratulations, the whole family has rationed food, and life is getting better and better."

Chen Feng nodded, noticed that her basket was full of vegetables, and asked, "Auntie, Uncle Yi has such a high salary, why are there only vegetables? Buy some fish."

Fish in the vegetable market is not expensive, and you can even see sea fish from Tianjin.

The only downside is that there is no modern preservation technology and ice cubes for transporting seafood nowadays. Most of them are dead and have lost their freshness. The price generally fluctuates at one yuan.

"Xiao Feng, if you want to eat seafood, go to your grandpa's Tianjin."

A middle-aged woman admonished: "Seafood is expensive because it is fresh. If it dies, the taste will change."

"And the price in Tianjin is only half at most. The vegetable market is too expensive."

Hehe, the middlemen make a profit from the price difference!

Chen Feng smiled and nodded.

These days, the middlemen do not make much from the price difference, which fluctuates by 10-20%. Most of them just break even because the bosses are really shameless.

Unlike the later comers in the future, who tamper with various forms and are criticized by thousands of people, they just change people lightly and continue to enjoy high pensions.

Coming out of the vegetable market, I passed by a vendor who made candy figures. I don't know if he is from the state-owned vegetable market or a staff member of a nearby state-owned restaurant.

This is an old master, who may be in his sixties or seventies. A group of children from nearby gathered around him, watching him make ingenious sugar figures with envy and admiration, and exclaiming from time to time.

Their exclamation and gaze were the best compliments for the old man.

His skill in making sugar figures is very advanced, and all the small sugar figures are lifelike, almost comparable to glass products in later generations.

There are not only chickens, ducks, pigs, cows and horses, but also characters from various comic strips.

This is a true master of handicraft art!

"Master, how much is one?"

"One cent each!" The old master looked up and said with a smile.

Chen Feng looked at the dazzling array of sugar figures above, and had the illusion that Guan Gong was fighting against Sun Wukong.

Pointing to a sugar figure holding a sword.

"Is this Liu Bei?"

"Yes, do you want this?" The old master asked happily.

"No, except this, I want all the others." Chen Feng smiled.

The old master and the aunt were stunned for a few seconds.

"Comrade, can your children finish so much?" the old master asked.

Chen Feng smiled and said, "They can finish it. If they can't, just leave it alone."

The sugar man can be stored for several days, especially in the north, where it is opened at the end of October.

After that, the air is dry and the storage time is longer, as long as it is not found by insects.

He plans to put it in his own space.

There were insects in the mud and grass in the space, but most of them became food for pheasants and wild ducks.

Moreover, Chen Feng restricted their flight altitude, and they could not cross more than 10 meters. They could only drool at the rice, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peaches, and oranges above their heads.

"Oh, it's OK if you can finish them. I'll count them."

The master counted three times before saying, "Forty-nine in total, forty-nine cents."

Chen Feng gave fifty cents and said, "No need to look at the wall, Master. If it tastes good, I'll come to you next time."

"Okay, no problem."

Forty-nine sugar figures are not easy to hold with one hand, so Chen Feng directly inserted them into the vegetable basket, which looked like a sugar figure battle in the rapeseed heart.

"Auntie, I'm leaving first."

"Okay, you go back first, I walk slowly, don't wait for me."

Chen Feng walked away quickly with the basket of vegetables. A group of children looked at their beloved sugar figures and wanted to cry when they saw that all of them were sold.

They went home one by one to ask their parents for a penny.

They walked to an empty corner and put most of the sugar figures into the space, leaving only Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Tang Sanzang and the white dragon horse.

Back to the compound, Jia Banggeng was also there.

"Lili, come and choose one."

Chen Li looked around and resolutely chose Zhu Bajie, who looked the ugliest, instead of Sun Wukong, who she liked the most.

"Pig!"

"Why, don't you like monkeys?"

"Zhu Bajie is fat."

Chen Li said without thinking.

Chen Feng looked at Zhu Bajie, and then at the other three.

Well, Zhu Bajie is indeed the biggest.

"Little clever ghost."

Give Zhu Bajie to Chen Li, and take the remaining three to put in the study.

"Brother Xiaofeng, can I trade something for the candy man?" Jia Banggeng asked.

"What do you have?" Chen Feng said, "If you like it, just go find your mother and give you a penny. It's not expensive."

"My mother is reluctant to give me money."

Jia Banggeng complained.

He has a high IQ and knows how to use people at a young age, but it's a pity that his character will be distorted in the future.

"Can you tell me if it's okay?"

Chen Feng glanced at him.

He's a little kid with a big heart!

"Three minutes. If you don't come in three minutes, the transaction will be void."

"Okay!"

Banggeng immediately ran home.

'Is this guy going to take his own? ' Chen Feng thought, stroking his chin.

Every family in the city of Sijiu basically has some antiques. Chinese people have always been frugal. Porcelain from the Qing Dynasty is often passed down from generation to generation. Many bowls used by great-grandfathers may still be used by great-grandchildren.

During the period of public-private partnership, the government bought them at a bargain price of 1-10 yuan, and could collect two trucks a day.

Some Qing Dynasty porcelains of little value were sold abroad, earning hundreds of millions of yuan a year in exchange for precious technology, machinery, lathes, etc.

(Again, private transactions are strictly prohibited. In the past few years, many big antique dealers were suppressed in the "Three Antis" and "Five Antis" campaigns, and the crime was violating the Cultural Relics Law.)