The Villain In the Novel Reborn As His Own Daughter

Chapter 474: Spring famine, lack of food (2)

 But where are the wild vegetables so easy to dig now?

 As soon as the newly sprouted buds are discovered, people swarm up and dig them up. You may not be able to dig up even half a basket of wild vegetables after a busy day.

Zeng Tian looked at Shu Yue with a sad face.

“My mother regrets it so much now. She went to grab wild vegetables by herself yesterday. After digging for a long time, she couldn’t even get enough for a meal. It’s not like we used to dig a basket in the middle of the morning and couldn’t finish it for several days.”

 This means that he regretted not asking Zeng Tian to dig wild vegetables with them before.

Shuyue looked at the sky. How could she have imagined that today would happen before.

 There was also a time when she regretted it even more!

There are still wild vegetables to dig now, but if the drought continues day by day, the wild vegetables may not grow anymore, and then you won’t be able to dig any more.

Little Fatty touched a piece of dried fruit and gave it to Zeng Tian, ​​smiling to himself, "Guess how much money I made?"

 Xiao Pangdun had previously stored dried wild vegetables, mushrooms, dried fungus, and dried fungus at Yi Yijin's place. This time it was the spring famine, and his family didn't have enough food to eat. Even the factory director's family didn't have any leftover food.

Little Fatty took 200 to 300 kilograms of dried wild vegetables, mushrooms, dried chestnuts and the like. Except for some dried fruits that he kept for himself, he took the rest home and sold them directly to him.

 Shu Yue was also convinced by the money that the little fat man earned from his milk.

 Shu Yue is really curious about how much he can sell it for.

 Little Pangdun made a gesture.

Shu Yue was puzzled, “Six yuan?”

Three hundred kilograms of dried vegetables, chestnuts, etc., two cents a kilogram?

  Rice is only one cent and twenty-one pounds, and two cents for dried wild vegetables is considered reasonable.

 Actually, Shu Yue had another answer in mind, but she couldn't believe it.

　　However, the truth is often the one that people can’t believe. The little fat man said a little bit, “Sixty.”

Shuyue's eyes widened in surprise. One pound and two cents was more expensive than rice.

Little Fatty's mysterious expression was a bit unbelievable, "You don't know, right? National food stamps on the black market can be sold for four yuan per kilogram."

 Take a one-pound national food stamp to a grain store, and with some money you can buy a pound of grain.

 This means that it would cost more than four yuan to buy a pound of grain.

Shuyue's eyes widened. She knew that the price of food on the black market was high during the famine, but she didn't expect it to be so scary. A pound of rice was more than 4 yuan, and a pound of wild vegetables and dried chestnuts sold by Little Fatty was only 2 cents. This was really not a lot.

After complaining to her friends in the morning, Shuyue came home from school and was wondering whether she should go to the black market to make a fortune. She even stocked up on a cave's worth of mountain goods in the valley!

 Shu Yue's little calculations were going loudly in her heart. There was a fish pulling her away, and Shu Yue felt very relieved that she didn't have to look at the road at all.

However-

 “You don’t want to steal my food, do you?”

 Yi Yijin suddenly spoke up.

Shu Yue came back to her senses and was stunned for a moment when she heard Yi Yijin's words before realizing what he meant.

Years ago, Yi Yijin wanted to buy grain. They sold him 300 kilograms of wheat, corn, white flour, cornmeal, millet and so on.

At that time, it was sold at the market price, which was two or three cents per pound. This was because Yi Yijin did not have food stamps, so the price was slightly higher.

 Now it can be sold for three or four yuan on the black market.

Forget it, just sell it, but...

Yi Yijin left a hundred catties of wheat and a hundred catties of corn kernels at their house a few years ago, saying that they would grind the flour for him after the family had finished eating.

Thinking of this, Shu Yue felt distressed and her face turned dark.

 “If you don’t speak, no one will think you are dumb.”

 However, Shu Yue is still a person with a bottom line after all. Yi Yijin had paid for the two hundred kilograms of grain before, and it was only temporarily stored at their home.

Shu Yue did not go back on her word, she just said, "Forget about the food, the prices of wild eggs and meat will start to increase next month."

 Her heart was bleeding as she said these words.

 (End of this chapter)