Chapter 807

Seeing that Wang An wanted to buy grain without grain coupons, and buy a large amount of grain at that, Ye Qingfeng immediately became worried.

It was very obvious that Ye Qingfeng really wanted to help Wang An with this favor, but without grain coupons to hand in, Ye Qingfeng was also very difficult to handle.

After thinking for a long time, Ye Qingfeng tentatively asked:

"Big brother, I'll get you 1,000 jin of grain first. You make do with it for two days, and I'll think of a way in these two days. After that, I'll let my dad help study it too. Do you think that's okay?"

It must be admitted that Ye Qingfeng still has strength; when grain is so scarce, being able to get 1,000 jin of grain can be said to be a quite awesome existence.

Looking at Ye Qingfeng's embarrassed look, Wang An originally wanted to agree, because 1,000 jin of grain is indeed not a small amount.

But 1,000 jin of grain is indeed not a small amount for normal people, but for the 90-odd helpers at Wang An's house, it would at most last for three days.

And that's even saying it's now, because now Wang An's house has long stopped giving these helpers so many steamed buns.

The reason for this is not just because Wang An's house has become stingy and wants to save grain, but because with meat in every dish, almost everyone's appetite has decreased.

This is a law!

It must be admitted that having oil in the stomach and not having oil in the stomach are definitely two different concepts.

Just like when Wang An first returned from rebirth, Wang An could easily eat fifteen or sixteen of those big meat buns in one meal, but if Wang An were asked to eat fifteen or sixteen big meat buns in one meal now, it would be like a joke.

Although he could force it down if he tried hard, how stupid would someone have to be to want to experience that feeling of being stuffed to death?

So Wang An's house reducing the supply of steamed buns is not a problem at all.

Of course, the number of steamed buns remains the same, but they have shrunk in size, and severely shrunk at that.

But even so, the number of helpers has never decreased, and no helper has ever complained about this.

Because almost everyone who came to help knew that Wang An's house didn't really need so many people to build the house; it was just that Wang An's family was too embarrassed to drive people away.

And although Wang An's family was too embarrassed to drive people away, they never skimped on the food; this point was mainly shown by the fact that although there were indeed fewer steamed buns, the amount of meat slices had increased a lot.

With one thing balancing the other, who would still be embarrassed to lick their face and complain?

Wang An thought for a while and said:

"1,000 jin of grain? 1,000 jin of grain isn't much use; it will be eaten up in 3 days at most. What will happen after three days? We can't gnaw on our thighs, right?"

When Ye Qingfeng heard this, he swallowed his saliva and said:

"You don't know, big brother. Now every place is having a grain shortage. Much of the grain here is being transported away to support other places. Grain here is also very scarce, and we have to check the inventory every day."

Immediately after, Ye Qingfeng said with some embarrassment:

"Big brother, don't worry. I will definitely be able to think of a way in these two days. Even if I can't think of it, my dad will definitely have a way. If it really doesn't work, I'll go exchange some with those children of officials; anyway, I'll be able to gather the grain for you."

When Wang An heard the word "exchange," he immediately thought that he still had nearly 2,000 jin of fine grain coupons, so Wang An said:

"Qingfeng, I have a lot of fine grain coupons. Can your grain station exchange fine grain coupons for coarse grain coupons? I feel that those staff members and cadres must like to eat fine grain, and they must have a lot of coarse grain coupons in their hands that they want to exchange."

This idea of Wang An's is not nonsense, because in this world, no matter when, and no matter how scarce materials are, what one must believe is that there are always rich people. By the same token, even in places where people are already rich, there are definitely poor people.

Just like in Xiangjiang, rich people are everywhere, and every rich person has a private villa or a private manor.

But in the poor areas, even the most basic water and electricity cannot be guaranteed.

Not to mention where they live; a family of several people squeezed into a house of only a few square meters—to put it bluntly, it's hard to even turn around.

In short, no matter when, the gap between rich and poor always exists.

This is a fact.

Besides, Wang An already knew that those coupon scalpers could use fine grain coupons to exchange for coarse grain coupons with them; of course, they could also use coarse grain coupons to exchange for fine grain coupons, but Wang An also knew that the hearts of these guys were really damn black.

Because using fine grain coupons to exchange for coarse grain coupons, 1 jin of fine grain coupons can exchange for 3.5 jin of coarse grain coupons.

But if you use coarse grain coupons to exchange for fine grain coupons, it damn well becomes 4.5 jin of coarse grain coupons to exchange for one jin of fine grain coupons.

That is to say, no matter how you exchange, for normal people, it is a damn huge loss plus a blood loss!!

But even so, the grain coupon business of those scalpers was quite good. Isn't that strange?

Hearing Wang An say this, Ye Qingfeng's eyes lit up, and then he said to Wang An with some expectation and excitement:

"That can definitely be exchanged! Although on the surface it's not allowed, everyone does it privately. Otherwise, just relying on this little fixed salary, we would have starved to death long ago. So, big brother, how many fine grain coupons do you have?"

Maybe feeling his attitude was a bit too eager, Ye Qingfeng immediately explained:

"To tell you the truth, big brother, we all lack fine grain coupons. The 1,000 jin of grain I just said I would get for you is what I usually exchange, hehehehe."

Although it was an explanation, I don't know if it was the distortion of human nature or the loss of morality; when mentioning that these 1,000 jin of grain coupons were exchanged, Ye Qingfeng actually showed a very proud expression!

It was as if him, as a grain station employee, exchanging so many grain coupons was a damn awesome and worthy-of-pride thing.

Fortunately, Wang An didn't care about these things and even looked down on Ye Qingfeng a little.

But it must be known that this "look down" is not that "look down," because if Wang An were in Ye Qingfeng's position, Wang An would have at least 10,000 jin of grain coupons in his hands by now.

And Ye Qingfeng was pleased with himself because of 1,000 jin of grain coupons, which made people not know what to say about him.

Anyway, in local dialect, that is "a useless thing."

As the saying goes, "rely on the mountain to eat from the mountain, rely on the water to eat from the water"; guarding the grain station to eat the dividends of grain coupons doesn't seem to be a problem.

After all, exchanging grain coupons theoretically is neither against the rules nor illegal; it's just making things convenient for everyone while earning some extra money on the side.

Thanks to "Emperor of the Great Empire" for the tip, thank you, thank you, long live the Emperor!

(End of chapter)