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Chapter 413 The Alley Basement

At midnight, a middle-aged man in his forties with a dark complexion and rough facial features was followed by a thin young man.

After crossing a street and turning into one of the alleys to take out things, this pair of seemingly father and son came to a dim alley ahead.

Perhaps when he reached his destination, the middle-aged man stopped first, looked at several people standing or squatting in the corner, and walked towards one of them.

Seeing this, the thin young man beside him withdrew his gaze and followed him silently, secretly thinking that this should be the first hurdle to enter the real black market place.

Sure enough, the middle-aged man stepped forward and took out a cigarette for the young man who was hanging around and leaning against the corner of the alley with a cigarette in his mouth.

This should be the so-called Brother Yan.

It is said that this person is responsible for guarding the entrance of this black market alley, and he is here not just to collect tickets, but to entertain "famous" big customers.

On the surface, this alley is full of sellers and buyers with small transactions. To enter the first level of the home court, Brother Yan needs to take the cigarette and lead the way.

The man lit a cigarette and asked three more code words. Seeing that the middle-aged man answered without omission, he looked at the two of them again, but instead of leading the way directly, he pointed to the end of the alley.

The middle-aged man seemed to nod clearly, then reached out and patted the shoulder of the thin boy next to him, then picked up the bag with both hands and took the first step to continue walking in.

Looking further in, the people standing or squatting in the alley were much better this time, and all of them looked nervous, and they didn't say hello to middle-aged men and thin teenagers.

Some just observed, the key point was that the two people looked away from the bags they were carrying, either continuing to silently make deals with others, or covering the black cloth on the back basket.

Apparently, some sellers would remove the black cloth covering the back basket when they saw a customer coming, so that the other party could see clearly what was inside.

Although the thin boy looked left and right and followed the middle-aged man, seeing this scene, he didn't stop at all.

Instead, the middle-aged man in front who seemed to be leading the way stopped in front of one of the stalls where one of them squatted and uncovered the black cloth covering his back basket.

The thin boy stopped when he saw this, and sniffed secretly with his nose. He smelled the sweet scent of pastries, but he didn't squat down either.

Just quietly standing half sideways behind the middle-aged man, squinting at the right side of this small stall and the two small stalls not far from each other.

At the same time, he heard the middle-aged man bargaining quietly with the stall owner.From these words, he also heard the approximate prices at this time and place.

Naturally, this price is not the public price on the market, but the transaction price on the black market here.For example, the owner of this small stall mentioned the price of making pastry materials.

Soon, Xu Shi got the answer, and the middle-aged man happily bought a pack of pastries with money, and then continued to take the lead towards the end of the alley.

Walking and walking, you will reach the depths of this long alley, and turn again and you will walk out of this long alley.Just when the thin and thin boy looked at the middle-aged man in front of him in puzzlement.

In the corner of the long alley stood a tall man who was not much shorter than a middle-aged man. His facial features were hidden in the darkness so he couldn't see the whole picture.

At this time, the other party was puffing out smoke with a cigarette in his hand, and when he saw the middle-aged man walking with the boy, he threw the cigarette between his fingers on the ground and crushed it with his feet.

The middle-aged man put down the bag he was carrying speechlessly, took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over, "Brother, it's almost there, there are still people waiting outside."

"How is Brother Scar recently?"

Who knows if Brother Scar is good or not! "Follow up." The middle-aged man told the boy behind him while picking up the bag, "This is a difficult day."

The skinny young man twitched his mouth speechlessly after listening to the whole process. The secret road is really beyond appearance, but this buddy looks more like he has been in the road than her.

Walking out of the alley this time, led by the tall man who claimed to be the sixth child, he came to a house not far away and entered the gate.

What is unexpected is that this black market, which is said to be large in scale, is not in this house, but in the basement from the back door.

In this way, without the middle-aged man secretly winking or hinting anything, the skinny young man knows that he will not be able to trade a large amount of goods here tonight.

Fortunately, before they came, the two of them had considered various situations that might arise. Plan No. [-] would not work, and there were alternative plans such as No. [-] and No. [-] to choose from.

There were only three people at the door of this basement, one of them was snoring while lying on the bamboo bed, and the other two were also leaning on the recliner and snoring alternately.

If the old six hadn't said that there was a black market below, and the snorers would sit up immediately, no one would have guessed that these three people were actually gatekeepers.

And this basement black market is indeed as the other party said, although the light is not very bright, but after going down the steps, you can see that it is very big inside.

As for whether it was an air-raid shelter from earlier, it is not sure, but there are indeed quite a few stalls, and no matter the buyers or sellers, everyone has a black mask on their faces.

Following the crowd, the two people who were also wearing black masks at the entrance silently followed Lao Liu into a separated room similar to an office.

After taking a seat here, the middle-aged man took the big book handed over by the sixth child and handed it to the boy who spoke standard Mandarin with no local dialect at all.

In other words, the teenager can finally "order food".The boy first opened the handed book, and scanned the names and prices of the items on the list one by one.

Perhaps because of the friendship of "Brother Scar", the prices given for the various items on these lists are not outrageous, and they can even match the other party's sentence that they are innocent.

For example, the price of silver dollars is one yuan and one gram, and the price of gold is ten yuan per gram, which is about the same as the price she charged from the young man in the provincial capital's car repair shop last year.

The problem is that food is more expensive. Fortunately, the purpose of this trip is not food.After a hasty glance at the general content of the list, the boy took a pen handed over.

This time, he still didn't say a word, took the pen and drew a series of small ticks on the open book, and then handed it to the middle-aged man.

Middle-aged men understand.

For a while, he was not in a hurry to bargain with the sixth child next to him, and tried to save it first, so that the boy could make some small moves while he was flipping through the book.

Just relying on these small ticks drawn with a pen, if all of these plans are sold, it can be imagined that the cash in hand must not be enough without an estimate.

Little hands are about to "touch" the bag.

(End of this chapter)