Siheyuan: Traveling through Cai Quanwu, pretending to be Uncle Shazhu

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After dinner, Cai Quanwu rode a tricycle home. Along the way, he was thinking about what to take to the black market at night.

I didn't even have an idea until the tricycle arrived at my door.

He returned to the house, closed the door, and prepared to go to the rental house to see if there was anything he could sell on the black market.

With a thought in his mind, Cai Quanwu came to the rental house.

Thinking about various things.

pork? No, it’s only a few kilograms in total, and you won’t get a few bucks if you sell them all.

Flour and rice are not good either, the price is too low and the quantity is too small.

Oil, you can think about it. Oil is in short supply in this era, and the price is more expensive than pork.

It's just that this is a big pot, so it's not convenient for me to sell it.

Alas, I still don’t know enough about this era and I’m not fully prepared. If I have a vial, pack it in a vial and get it on the black market.

Then I looked at other things and found that they didn't quite fit.

Until I saw the few kilograms of tea leaves I brought back from my hometown, my eyes lit up.

Tea is an export-controlled material in this era. It is difficult to obtain tea if it is not of a certain level.

Even if the level is reached, each person can only get so much per year.

Most people drink high breakage.

Highly broken is an elegant name. To put it simply, it is the sifted tea leaves.

That's it. You can buy it if you want. How can there be so much tea powder.

I have decided to pour tea tonight. I can sell a lot of money for these two kilograms of tea.

In this era, tea was divided into grades. The worst tea could be sold for more than ten yuan per catty, and the good tea could be sold for more than twenty yuan per catty.

I can sell my tea for two yuan or one tael on the black market. Isn't that excessive?

Thinking of this, I was very motivated. I used the oil paper left over from last time to wrap the tea leaves in one or two packages, and wrapped twenty oil paper bags.

Put all the wrapped tea bags into the cloth bag and work together.

Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

Making money by myself is officially on the agenda.

The seniors had plenty of supplies, and they were getting meat and grain one by one. They couldn't compare with each other, so they could only fight in small quantities.

After taking a shower and changing into underwear, I felt refreshed.

After getting dressed and carrying things, a thought came back to my room.

Put the things on the table, take off your clothes and get on the kang to sleep. You have to wait until midnight to go to the black market, so get some sleep first.

I got into the bed, which was soft and comfortable. I felt that the quilts I brought out from the rental house yesterday were not in vain.

In the comfortable bed, Cai Quanwu fell asleep in a daze.

When he woke up again, Cai Quanwu's eyes were darkened. At some point, he rubbed his eyes, got dressed and got up.

Hey, I'll just get the watch back tomorrow.

Cai Quanwu was fully armed, with only one eye exposed. He put the flashlight in his pocket, carried the bag and went out.

This flashlight is the original owner's only electrical appliance in this world, mainly because it is of great use to him, otherwise he would probably not be willing to buy it.

Sometimes it's too late to solicit customers, so give yourself some light when you go home.

Close the door and walk quietly out of the yard.

In the winter in Sijiu City, the night was extremely cold. A cold wind blew through, and the fallen leaves on the ground fluttered in the wind.

Cai Quanwu walked on the quiet street, carefully crossing the streets and alleys, following his memory, and walked towards the black market.

After dodging several waves of patrols, about an hour later, Cai Quanwu came to a remote alley that was rarely visited during the day.

The houses here are in disrepair and are basically in ruins. It is a paradise for wild dogs, wild cats and weasels.

Before reaching the entrance of the alley, I saw two strong men guarding the entrance of the alley from a distance.

When he came to the alley entrance and paid a dime, the strong man asked: "Do you know the rules?"

Cai Quanwu nodded, and the strong man let him in.

Not far away, Cai Quanwu walked in and saw dots of lights on the cleared ruins. They were blown by the wind and turned bright and dark, like fireflies on a summer night.

Not in a hurry to sell something, Cai Quanwu first walked around the black market to broaden his horizons.

After walking around for a while, my dear, they sell everything. Some are selling old hens, some are selling eggs in a basket, and some are selling a small bag of white flour. They are all kinds of things, but they have everything. Still mostly eat.

The most outrageous thing is that Cai Quanwu saw a man selling shabby cotton clothes, and someone actually bought it. Cai Quanwu watched the two people complete the transaction, which was considered an experience.

With a rough idea in mind, Cai Quanwu found a place to squat down, took out a few oil paper bags from the bag, opened one, put it in front of him, turned on the flashlight, shined it on the tea leaves, and waited for the guests to come.

Selling things on the black market, and you can't shout, it's all done secretly, a bit like Jiang Taigong fishing for those who want to take the bait.

Ordinary things are fine, but whether expensive things can be traded depends on God's will.

Just like the tea leaves in front of Cai Quanwu.

After a while, several waves of people passed in front of Cai Quanwu, many of whom glanced at him and hurried past.

Tea is not a necessity. Most people come here to eat, some to be full, and some to eat well.

People who want to eat are definitely not Cai Quanwu’s target customers.

Those who want to eat well are Cai Quanwu's target customers. They are not short of money or good things.

I don’t know how much time has passed, Cai Quanwu was as cold as a dog, and no one came to ask.

Cai Quanwu thought to himself, is this trip tonight going to be in vain?

Damn it, in this day and age, it’s not easy to buy anything. You might freeze yourself.

In fact, Cai Quanwu still didn't understand this era and fell into a misunderstanding. When choosing things, he only focused on value and not on demand.

In this era, rice, flour, grains and oils are in short supply. People don’t have enough to eat, so how can they think about anything else.

If he sells the oil in the rental house, it will probably be robbed in a short time. Oil is in short supply in this era.

Peanuts and soybeans are strategic materials, so there are not too many that can be used for oil extraction.

After a while, no one cared about the tea. At this time, Cai Quanwu couldn't stand the cold anymore and had to pace back and forth to prevent himself from freezing.

Cai Quanwu found that if he continued like this, it was hard to tell whether his things would be sold or not. He would definitely freeze to death.

Cai Quanwu murmured in his heart, if he waits a little longer and goes home without being asked, he can't really freeze himself to death. It would be a joke if a living person suffocated to death.

It was probably God's kindness. At this time, a man wearing a Chinese tunic suit came from a distance and walked and observed.

Cai Quanwu noticed that the man did not stay long in front of the ordinary rice noodle stall, but instead stopped to look at the rare items.

When I came to Cai Quanwu's place and saw the tea leaves in front of Cai Quanwu, the joy on his face flashed away, but this joy was still captured by Cai Quanwu.

It seems that this is the person who was taken advantage of tonight. I hope that my hard work of being frozen like a dog tonight will not be in vain.

The man squatted down and looked at the tea leaves carefully. His eyes became more and more excited as he looked at them. He thought to himself, this tea leaves are so beautiful.

In fact, when Cai Quanwu bought the tea, it was just over a hundred pounds per pound. It was just ordinary tea.

However, the machine-fried tea of ​​later generations has good temperature control, and the color of the tea leaves is indeed beautiful, which is not comparable to manual fried tea.

No one can say clearly which tea leaves are better roasted by hand or by machine. Generally speaking, tea leaves are rarer and more expensive.

Variety, season, yield, age of tea trees and many other things can affect the price. (There are no tea trees in our village. When I was in junior high school, on May Day, the school organized us to go to the tea mountain to pick tea every year. Others picked several kilograms a day, but I picked several taels. I often secretly brought the picked tea back. At home, tea was very cheap and worthless at that time. Now that life has improved, tea has become more expensive. Now the tea we have before the Qingming Festival costs several thousand yuan per catty, and we can’t even afford it.)

After observing carefully for a while, the man stretched out his hand to discuss the price with Cai Quanwu. After stretching for a long time, he found that the other party ignored him.

Looking up, he found Cai Quanwu looking at him with strange eyes. The man knew in his heart that he had encountered Silly Que who didn't understand the rules.

No longer entangled, he asked in a low voice: "How to sell it?"

When Cai Quanwu saw the man extending his hand, he initially thought he was being polite and wanted to shake his hand.

Thinking about it, it seems that in this era there is a habit of negotiating prices with hands.

But I didn't know how to do it, so I ignored him.

No, the other party just spoke obediently.

Cai Quanwu thought, let you pretend to be cool with me. If I don't kill you severely, I will take your last name.

Cai Quanwu vented his dissatisfaction with being frozen like a dog tonight.

"Thirty yuan a pound, three yuan a tael."

"One tael per pack, twenty packs in total, two kilograms in total."

Cai Quanwu opened his mouth and shouted a sky-high price.