Chapter 9

There was absolutely no way around it. Things that were useless or temporarily unused in hand were idle, and things that were wanted or needed were idle in others' hands!

Isn't this damn uncomfortable? Who wouldn't be uncomfortable?

People have to live!

People have to have various needs to live. Now that materials are so scarce and the management is too strict, the result is that the crime rate is rising in a straight line!

When Wang An arrived at the market, it was almost 10 o'clock. He tied up the mule and started shouting without unloading the roe deer.

"Live roe deer, live roe deer! Is there anyone who wants a live roe deer!"

Although there were many people in the whole market, no one was shouting to sell things. They were all communicating and trading in normal voices. Wang An's shout directly attracted the eyes of most people.

"How much is roe deer meat a jin?" a woman asked. In this era, everyone is short of meat, no matter what meat it is.

When passing by other stalls just now, Wang An roughly understood that wild boar meat and black bear meat were basically 3 mao to 3 mao 5 a jin, pheasants over four jin were 2 yuan each, about 3 jin were 1.5 yuan each, "silly half-chicken" was 5 mao each, and hare was 4 mao a jin. There were also people selling "Feilong" (hazel grouse), one weighing at most half a jin could be worth 5 yuan! Good things are valuable at any time!

Wang An didn't have a scale. He borrowed the scale from the old man selling tobacco leaves next to him and weighed a few pieces of roe deer meat. They were basically all about two jin and one or two liang!

"Three mao a jin, a piece of meat is two jin and one or two liang, count it as six mao!" Wang An said quickly.

After saying that, he continued to shout: "Live roe deer, roe deer meat, pheasants are all for sale, I'll sell them for money!"

The woman looked for a long time and picked a big piece, handing Wang An 6 mao. Wang An shouted loudly: "Big sister, take the meat, the meat is good, the quantity is sufficient, and it's cheap! Everyone buy quickly! I'll be done when I sell out!"

Wang An shouted without stopping, and the owners of other stalls looked at him and laughed, as if watching a joke!

Wang An didn't care how they looked at him, let them look however they want!

At this time, a young man wearing glasses came, wearing black leather shoes, wool gloves, a Zhongshan suit, a military green coat outside, a military green cotton hat on his head, and a gray long scarf around his neck. He seemed to work in some unit, riding a Phoenix big 28, feeling quite stylish! And quite rich!

"Hmm, there's a market for live roe deer!" Wang An thought secretly.

"Old fellow, how much is this live roe deer?" he said, pointing to the roe deer on the cart.

Roughly calculating in his heart, asking for a little more definitely wouldn't be a problem! It's not like he couldn't bargain!

"I'll sell it for 30 yuan, cheap. This thing is hard to hit dead and not expensive, but it's really hard to catch alive!" He put on a face as if you had picked up a big bargain.

He didn't expect this young man not to bargain at all, directly taking out 3 "big unity" (10-yuan notes) and handing them to Wang An.

Wang An was stunned, the old man selling tobacco leaves was stunned, the owners of the stalls next to him and the onlookers were all stunned!

In this era, ordinary government employees and formal logging camp workers earned a salary of 37.5 yuan per month, and temporary workers were 17.5 yuan, so 30 yuan was quite a lot for ordinary people!

Roe deer meat is 3 mao a jin, and a 60-plus jin roe deer can produce 30 jin of meat, which is very impressive! Plus the roe deer skin, which isn't worth much, maybe 1 yuan, and the roe deer whip can be worth two or three yuan. A roe deer all together is at most 13 yuan!!

It actually sold for 30 yuan! Damn!

Wang An was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted. There are many people in any era who are not short of money!

Taking the three "big unity" notes handed over and stuffing them into his pocket, Wang An immediately smiled: "Should I send it to your house, or kill it now and divide it for you to take?"

"Just help me tie it to the back seat!" This young man also seemed very happy!

"Alright," Wang An said casually.

Then, behind the stall, he didn't know whose pile of branches it was, he pulled out three tree sticks about four fingers thick, left a length of about 1 meter, broke them directly, and threw the unwanted ones back into the branch pile!

Holding the three sticks, he tied them horizontally on the back seat of the bicycle with thin hemp rope, and then put the roe deer on it! After simple binding, the transaction of 3 "big unity" notes was done!

The young man didn't even look back, rode his bicycle, and left.

Actually, he could have put the roe deer on the back seat of the bicycle without sticks. Wang An was just worried that the roe deer would die, after all, he sold it to him for 30 yuan!

"Pheasants, pheasants, only 1 left, selling for two yuan." Hearing this, and seeing the pheasant that hadn't been sold until now, the old man selling tobacco leaves next to him shook his head.

He shouted for a long time, the roe deer meat still had 9 yuan left unsold, and the pheasant hadn't been sold either! The consumption ability of ordinary people in this era was really average.

An hour later, an old lady spent one yuan and nine mao, dawdling, and bought the pheasant from Wang An. When he came, there were 13 yuan of meat in total, and 7 yuan were still unsold! Looking at the sack on the cart, there was still a pile of things to do!

Gritting his teeth, Wang An shouted: "5 mao, 5 mao for 2 jin 2 liang of meat, buy it quickly! I'm going home after selling, 5 mao!"

This shout wasn't in vain. Many people who were watching before took out their money one after another, and sold four more pieces. Then the last three pieces were left unattended!

"Go to hell! Not selling anymore!" Wang An's thought directly turned into action. He didn't have anything to pack, untied the reins, and intended to leave, but suddenly thought of something.

Turning back, he asked the old man selling tobacco leaves: "Old man, I just heard that your tobacco leaves are 2 cents a jin?"

"Yeah, these are roasted tobacco leaves, better to smoke than others. Come, man, smoke one and taste it!" Saying that, he handed Wang An a torn piece of cigarette paper.

Wang An didn't understand this stuff at all. His own father smoked the tobacco leaves he planted himself! Wang An now smoked cigarettes, and having one box was enough for half a month!

Wang An said: "Old man, look at my roe deer meat, isn't it quite good? How about we exchange some?"

The old man was obviously very moved. It's not easy to eat some meat in this era!

"How much is your meat and 6 mao?" the old man asked.

"What 6 mao, didn't you see I was selling for 5 mao!"

"That works." Saying that, the old man readily weighed 25 jin of tobacco leaves!

Wang An handed the largest piece of the three pieces of meat to the old man, took the old man's tobacco leaves. Good guy, 25 jin of tobacco leaves was really a lot, quite a big bundle!

Wang An looked left and right, took the sack that held the pheasants, rolled the tobacco leaves, and threw them on the cart.

Every day, the big money hasn't arrived yet, and it's been tripped up by these small amounts of money!

Calculating the account just now, he got 37.5 in total and a big bundle of tobacco leaves, and 2 pieces of meat left! This income was on par with the monthly salary of those formal employees! Although the live roe deer was a bit opportunistic, he happened to run into someone who wanted it! But saying anything else is useless, anyway, the money is in hand! Besides, he only hunted for 2 days! This harvest, satisfied!!

The things of those three animals belong to windfall, not labor income.

Driving the cart straight to the supply and marketing cooperative, not long after leaving the market, Wang An was still calculating the things he was going to sell! At the moment he looked up, he was directly stunned!!

Wang An saw a person! Saw the woman who made him dream about her in his past and present life—Mu Xueqing!

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