Chapter 255 Hu Tiezhu goes to the black market.
Chapter 255 Hu Tiezhu goes to the black market.
As for Hu Tiezhu, he stayed at home for a day.
The next afternoon, he loaded up ten pounds of flour and headed towards the city.
As for getting a letter of introduction, don't joke about it. Everyone in their village has fled famine, and there are only a few people left in the village.
If he hadn't met Lu Yuan, his whole family would have starved to death at home within two days.
He walked for more than three hours and finally entered the city before dark.
It’s not like he hasn’t been to the city before, but as for the black market, the pigeon market and so on, basically people in the countryside don’t know where they are!
He came to the entrance of the black market, which was in front of an alley. The entrance to the alley was blocked by a piece of cloth, and two people were standing at the door.
"Buy or sell?"
"Sell!"
Hu Tiezhu replied, and then the man said to Hu Tiezhu.
"Sell it, put in one cent!"
"Brother, here's the money!"
Hu Tiezhu took out the only few dimes he had on him, counted out one dime and handed it over.
"Looking at you, you must have been here many times. You must know the rules!"
Hu Tiezhu nodded and replied.
"Yeah, I understand, I understand!"
"Well, let's go in!"
When Hu Tiezhu heard this, he lifted the cloth and walked inside.
He touched the flour in his arms. He had no idea what the food was like now.
Plus, he heard the immortal say that he needed old things! So this time he came to exchange for old things.
As for money, don’t even think about it. What’s the use of having money? What can you buy with it?
After a round of searching, Hu Tiezhu came to understand the current price of grain.
It would have been better if he hadn't asked. When he did, he was almost scared to death.
The grains sold now are all coarse grains, and each pound costs at least four or five yuan.
He asked about the price of fine grain flour, and was given a level, which made his heart beat wildly.
Good price, a pound of fine grain, only fourteen yuan, and still no one is buying it!
He didn't know if he could make so much money in a year, as a pound of grain is so expensive now.
Hu Tiezhu swallowed his saliva, found a place to sit down, and then took out the bag of more than ten kilograms of white flour from his arms.
Then he touched his lower back with one hand. There was a pistol he picked up while hunting in the mountains.
Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to sit down and sell things at all.
After all, he has lived for so many years and has experienced a lot of things.
In his opinion, people are in the most dangerous place, especially in this day and age, when he has to take out such good fine grains.
If he didn't have some strong stuff, he wouldn't dare to sit down and sell, he would have run away long ago.
He had just put it down when a middle-aged man came up to him.
"Brother, what is this thing? Can you see it?"
Hu Tiezhu glanced at the middle-aged man, nodded and said.
"This is fine grain. I won't sell it for money. I'll exchange it for old stuff!"
When the middle-aged man heard what Hu Tiezhu said, he nodded and said.
"Okay, let me take a look, okay?"
Hu Tiezhu nodded and touched his lower back with his right hand.
Once he found something wrong with the man, he would shoot him.
Ran Dong squatted down and opened the bag, but as soon as he opened it, he was immediately dumbfounded.
Such good white flour, not to mention in this era, even before famine, you wouldn’t see such good fine grains.
Hu Tiezhu saw the man breathing rapidly and spoke immediately.
"I've looked around. Do you have any old items to exchange? If not, then leave."
After Hu Tiezhu finished speaking, he immediately snatched the bag back and placed it in front of himself.
When Ran Dong saw the bag being snatched back, he became anxious and spoke immediately.
"Brother, can you take a look at these? I'll pay 15 yuan per pound, can you sell me two pounds?"
Hu Tiezhu shook his head and said.
"No money, I only exchange old things!"
At this time, people nearby heard the conversation between Hu Tiezhu and the other man, and immediately swarmed over.
"Brother, I have an old item here. Can you take a look at it? Is it okay?"
When Hu Tiezhu heard this, he placed the bag on his leg and held it tightly with one hand, and looked towards the source of the sound.
I saw a person taking off a jade pendant from his waist and looking at him expectantly.
Hu Tiezhu reached out and touched the jade pendant and found that it was very smooth and delicate, and looked very beautiful.
But he knew that illiterate people couldn't understand it, and didn't know the value of this thing.
So he looked at the man and said.
"Your thing doesn't look very old!"
When Jiang Yunlong heard this, he immediately became anxious and quickly started to explain.
"Brother, you don't understand this! This is passed down from my ancestors. My grandfather gave it to me when I was a child.
He told me that he had this thing since he was a child, and it must be at least a hundred years old.
Please take another look!"
Hu Tiezhu curled his lips. Although he was illiterate, he was not a fool. He did not believe a single word of these words.
"Okay, I don't know what this thing is, but it looks pretty good. I'll trade it with you for a pound of flour.
Do you want to change?"
After Hu Tiezhu finished speaking, he looked at the other person and threatened to return the thing to him as long as he said he didn't want to exchange it.
Anyway, it’s this day and age, and since we don’t eat this stuff, how can it be as important as white flour!
Jiang Yunlong felt a little aggrieved when he heard this, as this jade pendant had been with him for so many years.
Others are now offering to exchange it for a pound of flour, and he feels a little reluctant.
But when I thought about my wife at home, she had just given birth and had no milk yet.
The child cried for a long time because of hunger. If he couldn't exchange it for fine food, he was afraid that his son would be gone.
So he said to Hu Tiezhu.
"Brother, can you give me some more? Two kilograms, okay?"
When Hu Tiezhu heard this, he shook his head and said.
"It's just one pound. If you don't want to change it, take it away!"
As soon as Hu Tiezhu said this, someone immediately spoke up.
"That's it. Do you want to change? If not, I'll take over!"
"Hurry up!"
……
Jiang Yunlong listened to what the people around him said, and he gritted his teeth and said.
"Changed!"
Upon hearing this, Hu Tiezhu immediately put away the jade pendant and then started to ask the person next to him to borrow the scale.
That’s why he sat next to him because he saw that the other person had a scale.
The man didn't waste any time and spoke directly.
"You can borrow it. Two cents!"
After hearing this, Hu Tiezhu thought for a moment, then took out two cents and handed it over.
Then he started to weigh out a pound of flour.
When everyone saw the white flour, their eyes widened.
This white flour is not only white, but also very fine, without any large particles visible.
After weighing the weight, Hu Tiezhu said to Jiang Yunlong.
"Once you've weighed it, what are you going to use to pack it?"
"That's all!"
Jiang Yunlong simply rolled up his clothes and used them to hold the flour.
Hu Tiezhu didn't say anything and just fell down. Jiang Yunlong rolled up his clothes and immediately turned around and left.
Then someone immediately took out the things on his body and shouted.
……
But most people only had some small gadgets, and after Hu Tiezhu took a look, he felt that these things were useless.
He didn't change a single one.
Just then, an old man who was selling things on the street nearby rolled up the things on his stall and came over and said.
"Brother, I have these here. Can I exchange them with you?"
Hu Tiezhu looked at the old man, who was carrying a bag and squeezing towards him.
When the people around saw the old man, they immediately started talking.
"Boss, don't trust him. All of Old Li's stuff is fake. Otherwise, just buy it from a trust store."
"That's right, this old man Li comes here every day, but no one buys his stuff. Why don't you trade with me?
I don’t want too much of this, just give me half a pound.”
After hearing what the people around him said, Hu Tiezhu looked at the old man and became more vigilant!
The old man ignored those people and came to Hu Tiezhu, put the things down, opened it and said.
"Brother, don't listen to their nonsense, these old things of mine were all handed down from my ancestors.
I see your bag of flour is only a little over ten pounds, pick three things and take them away!"
When Hu Tiezhu heard this, he looked at the things on the ground carefully, but he really couldn't understand these things.
Just then a woman came out and said.
"Brother, don't believe this old man Li. His ancestors were all poor. How could this be inherited from ancestors? I have lived next door to him for decades.
I have an old item here, which I got from a landlord. Take a look at it."
The woman said as she took out a rectangular box and handed it over.
When Hu Tiezhu heard the woman's words, he noticed that the old man's expression changed suddenly.
This made him doubt the authenticity of it.
Then he looked at the box and when he opened it, he saw a comb inside.
It looks pretty good, but he still said the same thing, he really doesn’t understand.
So he grabbed the box, looked at the woman and said.
"Sister, how much do you plan to change?"
The woman didn't know what to say, but she thought about the current price of food. Isn't this very expensive?
But it should cost at least a few dozen dollars!
So she said a little hesitantly.
"How about three pounds? Do you think that's okay?"
Hu Tiezhu looked at the comb and thought about the price of flour.
Three pounds costs forty or fifty yuan. Can this thing be so expensive?
But when I think about the fact that this thing was taken from the landlord, it should not be cheap.
Hu Tiezhu stretched out two fingers and said.
"Two pounds, if you want to change it, then change it. If you don't want to change it, forget it!"
"Change, it's my turn to change!"
The woman changed it without saying a word. The thing looked nice, but it was not easy to use for combing hair, so she didn't think too much about it and just changed it.
The old man looked at the flour in the bag and saw that the woman had exchanged two kilograms of it for him.
He was anxious because his wife was lying at home and had not eaten for two days.
He looked around, came up to Hu Tiezhu and spoke softly.
"Brother, I got all these things from the landlord.
How about you take these and take four of them, and I'll exchange them for this bag of flour, what do you think?"
Hu Tiezhu shook his head and said when he heard this.
“No, these things of yours look so new, how can I know whether they are real or fake?
Besides, you think I'm stupid for just four things and you want to exchange so much flour for me? "
As soon as Hu Tiezhu said this, the people around him immediately started talking.
"That's right, Old Li, you should go back and set up your stall!"
Hu Tiezhu waved his hand and said helplessly.
"It's not impossible to exchange them. I want all these things, but I can only give you five kilograms. Do you want to exchange them?"
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