Take Arada back to the past

Chapter 14, the first huge sum of money

The next morning, he woke up before dawn.

Luo Jinping was awakened by his movement, and when he heard the voice, he asked: "It's not yet dawn, what are you doing?"

Yang Xiaole was worried that the time had passed, so she asked, "What time is it, Mr. Luo?"

Hearing his words, Luo Jinping picked up the flashlight beside the bed and turned it on, and looked at a dilapidated stainless steel watch beside the bed.

"04:30!"

Yang Xiaole smiled embarrassedly when she heard the words: "Mr. Luo, I'm sorry to wake you up. I have to go. My father is waiting for me in the town. I will go to my aunt's house later."

When Luo Ping heard that someone was waiting for him, he nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

"Okay, be careful yourself, it's dark outside!"

"It's okay, Teacher Luo, I'm used to it."

Yang Xiaole said with a smile.

It takes more than an hour to walk from home to the township, and I usually leave home before dawn, otherwise I will be late.

This is also because there is no brigade (village-level) primary school, otherwise there is no need to travel so far.

Luo Jinping thinks about it too.

He didn't say anything more: "Okay, pay attention to safety, just change the shorts and put them on the rope outside. I'll wash them again at dawn."

"Hey, good!"

Yang Xiaole agreed, went outside, and changed into the clothes that were almost dry.

He came to the door, said hello and left.

The gates of the school were closed, but that didn't bother him.

The dirt slope on the side is easy to climb.

After leaving the school, he quickly ran towards the streets of the town.

This is a street lined with sales offices.

The shops on both sides are basically dilapidated wooden houses with tile roofs, and the wooden boards can be pulled out one by one as the door of the shop.

At this time, there are breakfast shops on both sides of the street preparing breakfast.

Bursts of fragrance wafted out, making him feel even hungrier.

After all, I ate one sweet potato and one potato yesterday, which was already beyond the usual quota given by my mother.

But he can't afford these things!

Either food stamps or meat stamps.

There are only a few who don't vote.

According to Zhang Laohan, there are a lot of people in Sijiu City, and the population is very dense.

There are also many food service shops over there.

Some can be bought without a ticket, but the price is slightly higher.

I heard that there are still many centuries-old brands, and at this time, you don’t need a ticket for everything you buy.

But the price is several times that of ordinary restaurants, even in Kyoto, ordinary people are reluctant to eat there.

A plate of fried shredded pork in ordinary restaurants costs fifty-five cents a plate, and half a catty of meat is charged.

Big restaurants don’t charge tickets, but they charge two or three yuan a plate.

Half a catty of meat is only 3 cents. Even if the price is basically equivalent to a meat ticket, it is only more than 2 cents.

You can buy four or five copies for 3 yuan.

A plate of fried shredded pork is equivalent to three days' salary of an ordinary worker.

Yang Xiaole endured the scent and came to the vicinity of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Because the two sellers of meat and fish have to get up early, they are next to the two stalls next to the supply and marketing cooperative.

And the real supply and marketing cooperatives haven't opened for work yet!

Now only the butcher and the fish seller are packing up there, and there is a black haired pork on the chopping board for the butcher.

There are several long wooden basins in front of the fish seller.

Looking at the fat-faced meat divider and the fat fish seller.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountain to eat the mountain, if there is no trick between these two people, they would not believe Yang Xiaole if he was killed.

on the current standard of living.

Can you eat so fat without being tricky?

But the other party is in his own position, and there are many ways to take advantage of the loopholes. As long as you can't catch the other party's pigtails, you can't do anything about him.

It's not something he can worry about.

I stood at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative and took a look.

The butcher only took one look at Yang Xiaole, seeing that he was a child, he didn't care. Who would dare to make a mistake here?

Don't want to live anymore?

Is it really a few years ago?
Yang Xiaole took a look and then withdrew.

To be honest, he always felt a little unwilling to exchange fish for money.

It's not that money is useless, but that money can't buy things that require tickets.

But fish is not a rare item now, because it does not require a ticket. Some people who need it at home but can’t catch fish can just come and buy it.

Standing on an empty street.

Yang Xiaole's eyes wandered back and forth between the breakfast shop, the butcher shop, and the fish shop.

Especially early shops.

As for this thing earlier, it is said that the amount of each thing has a standard, but there is a difference between flour and finished products.

The standard for a catty of noodles is ten steamed buns. If eleven buns are made, how many people will be able to discover them?
It's like after buying a fish and killing it, it's impossible to get it right.

Compared with those who sell meat and fish, he is more optimistic about this humble breakfast shop.

But he has no way out!

After thinking for a while, he still came to the door of the breakfast shop silently, watching the other party meet there.

There are two breakfast shops.

This is one of them, making steamed buns, fried dough sticks and the like.

The other is a store that sells dumplings and chaos, and the two also have some things in common.

The reason why I chose this one is because the other party's son is my classmate.

The middle-aged man who was having a face-to-face meeting had an unfiltered cigarette dangling from his mouth.

It doesn't matter whether the soot will fall into the surface at all.

Seeing him coming over and looking up, he smiled and asked:

"Little friend! What do you want? Breakfast isn't ready yet! Only fried dough sticks and pancakes are better."

"Uncle Gao, I want to buy some food stamps and meat stamps!"

Yang Xiaole blinked her big eyes and asked innocently.

When Gao Danian heard this, he was not disturbed at all.

While covering his face, he smiled and said: "Little friend, it's not that you don't know that this is a public store. How can I sell these tickets to you! Besides, even if I have them, I wouldn't dare to sell them to you! This is Reselling."

As for the other party being able to call out his surname, Gao Danian didn't care, after all he was considered a respectable person in the village.

It's just that there is a trace of strangeness in the other party's eyes.

He had already covered it up very well, and the darkness made it even more difficult for people to see his thoughts.

Yang Xiaole didn't pay attention to his words.

He came over and said so openly, even if there was no one around, the other party would not be able to agree.

He knew a truth when he was in the orphanage since he was a child.

Don't feel that you are smarter than others and treat people as fools.

Even for people of this age, you can say that they have little knowledge, but don't say they are stupid!
Moreover, it is impossible to get the other party to agree to it with a word from him.

Simply fantastic.

Nor did he count on it.

What you have to do now is to give the other party an impression and let the other party remember you.

Gao Danian will pay more attention to himself when he sells fish by himself a few times.

As long as there is a transaction, he will have the confidence to open the breakthrough of the entire township street.

Where is the flea market here?

Thinking of this, Yang Xiaole pretended to be disappointed and shook his head, then turned and left.

Looking at the back of him leaving, Gao Danian just glanced at it and didn't care. He met many people like this throughout the year.

If he wanted to take care of everyone, he would have gone to the battlefield to reform through labor long ago.

After Yang Xiaole left, she came to a dark corner and quietly released the fishing net, and at the same time put eight big fish weighing two to three catties inside.

There were still several big fish and the big carp weighing six to seven catties that he hadn't brought out, and he was going to take them back home so he could eat them.

The other thing is to see if Gao Danian will take the bait.

"Clap clap clap!"

As soon as the fish was put into the net, it suddenly jumped and crackled.

More than 20 catties of fish are quite heavy.

Yang Xiaole strenuously carried the fishing net and walked towards the place where the fish was sold. The middle fishing net still touched the ground from time to time.

Walking almost half in drag.

Gao Danian was trying to figure it out, when he heard the movement of the fish and took a look, he was even more surprised when he saw that the little guy was carrying the fishing net just now.

But he didn't say anything, just watched quietly.

It's just that the movement of holding the face in the hand is much slower than before.

When Yang Xiaole passed by the breakfast shop, he smiled at Gao Danian.

Seeing this, the other party smiled and nodded, but still didn't speak.

Knowing that there was no rush, Yang Xiaole smiled and dragged the fish to the place where the fish was sold.

The fish seller was wearing rubber boots and an apron, picking and picking out some dead fish.

This is the only one in the whole township, and it was approved by the above.

The other party looked at him and was surprised, "Oh, little friend, where is your adult! Why didn't you come, and you came alone?"

"Uncle, my father went to the county to visit my aunt, and asked me to bring over the fish caught at home."

Yang Xiaole started talking nonsense.

Hearing his words, the other party walked around the big tub.

"Don't move, give it to me, it's worthless if you drag it to death."

Anyway, collecting the fish is his task, he doesn't care who brings it!

And there is no registration required.

Yang Xiaole didn't bother to move when he heard this, because it was very difficult to get the fishing net to prevent his body from getting dirty.

The other party took the fish and pulled it a few times with his hands under the dim light.

Then he stood up and said with a smile, "That's right, you're quite energetic. Are you sure you want to sell it? If you sell it, I'll weigh you in."

"Sell!"

Receiving the answer, the man nodded.

Lift the fish with one hand and pour it into the bamboo basket, and then put it on the scale that is not dirty.

After fiddled with it a few times, he raised his head and said, "A total of 21 catties and 4 taels."

Yang Xiaole felt the same after hearing the words.

Then nodded: "Okay, it's all sold."

"One cent and three catties, let me do the math!"

男子闭着眼睛，随后说道：“一共2块7毛8分2厘，只能给你整的。2厘没得找。”

Yang Xiaole also calculated it, and it was a penny more than what he asked before, so he nodded: "Okay, give me the money!"

The man heard the words and poured the fish into the long wooden basin, then wiped his hands.

After returning, he took out an iron box, took out 2 yuan and a few ten-dollar bills from it, and handed them to him.

"Count it, don't say it's wrong for a while."

Yang Xiaole took it with a happy face and started counting.

This is the first huge sum of money he took over.

The tuition fee is half of the food and half of the money to the school, and I have never received so much money.

"The number is right. Thank you uncle, I'm going first!"

Yang Xiaole took the money and greeted the other party, then left.

After he left, the man took out a cigarette without a filter and lit it.

It wasn't until Yang Xiaole disappeared at the gate that the man smiled, quietly took out 1 cents from the iron box, and stuffed it into his pocket.

(End of this chapter)