MTL - Since 1981 Health School-Chapter 10 1980s vegetable market
Chapter 10 The vegetable market in the 1980s
As for peaches and red bayberries, it was even easier. Chen Qi quietly went up the mountain alone, picked them all the way, and then took them into the space.
Not to mention the 50 peach trees in the Chen family, Chen Qi was so happy with harvesting that he took away all the peaches from the neighbor's house.
Fortunately, no one cares about these fruits now, otherwise it will cause a world war in the countryside.
Rural people can’t suffer at all. If you pick a few more peaches and red bayberries, they will come to you desperately, as if you took advantage of him.
A week passed like this, and Chen Qi felt that his space was already full of various souvenirs.
Especially made him happy, this space really has a fresh-keeping function, anyway, it looks good when you put it in, and it still looks good when you take it out, it won't deteriorate at all.
Those eels and loaches will never die at all, and they are guaranteed to be fresh when they are sold, so that they can be sold at a good price.
After finishing the preparations, Chen Qi was ready to go to the city to sell.
The urban area mentioned here is actually the seat of the government of the Yuezhong region and the seat of Huiji county government. In an urban area, the government office and county office coexist.
Yuezhong City is an ancient city with a history of two thousand years, with a population of more than 400,000. Even in 1981, it was still a medium-sized city.
The best jobs, schools, hospitals, and institutions in the entire region are concentrated in the urban area. From the perspective of rural people, there are "workers" and "rich people" everywhere.
Chen Qi has so many local products, and only the urban area can digest them. After all, Keqiao Town is just a town with limited consumption power.
One morning a week later, Chen Qi was about to set off before dawn.
Chen Shu and Chen Hua also got up after hearing the voice, and looked at Chen Qi eagerly: "Brother, we also want to go to the city to see."
The two children grew up so big, and the farthest they have ever been is Keqiao Town, and they have never been to the "big city" Yuezhong District, and they yearn for it countless times in their hearts.
Chen Qi touched the heads of the two, and said quietly: "Brother, promise, if I make money this time, I will take you to the city to have fun, how about it?"
"Really? Don't play tricks."
It’s not that he doesn’t want to bring it, but he really can’t, because all his goods are stored in the space, and then they will be sold like a magic trick, and there is no way to explain it to his younger brothers and sisters.
People are just young, simple-minded, and don't think too much, but they are not really stupid.
The silly elder sister didn't know that Chen Qi was going to be a small peddler. The reason Chen Qi gave her was that the school had a summer camp and she needed to go back for a few days.
"Second, here, here are two dollars."
Chen Qin took out a few dimes from her pocket, one dime, two dime, and five dime, all of which were obviously earned by her hard work in the past few days.
Chen Qi felt panicked, which also strengthened his determination to go to the city to sell souvenirs. Anyway, even if he was caught as a speculator, he didn't care about it.
The sky is big and the earth is big, family happiness is the greatest.
If the Chen family had to rely on the silly elder sister to carry bricks alone, then the eldest son of the family, a 19-year-old man, could commit suicide by jumping off a cliff.
Chen Qi used to be a little bookish, but now Chen Qi is not. He can do anything for himself and his family.
At this time, before the sky stopped, Chen Qi went out with a torch.
He has to walk for 1 hour to Xingtang Commune, and then 4 hours to Keqiao Town, where there are various means of transportation to enter the city.
Yuezhong City is 25 kilometers away from Keqiao Town. It costs 50 cents to take a boat, 60 cents to take a passing coach, and the cheapest way is to take a train, which only costs 20 cents.
Cheap is cheap, but there are fewer trains. After all, Keqiao Town is a small station, and there are not too many trains that stop.
However, for a student like Chen Qi, time is the last thing he fears wasting, and this is also the means of transportation he takes the most every time he goes to school in the city.
It’s just that he was unlucky today, and it turned out to be a "cargo-to-passenger" train, also called a "stuffy tank car".
This kind of carriage only has small windows on the top, and the interior of the carriage is like a subway, with two rows of wooden seats placed vertically.
As for the smell inside the carriage, not to mention the smell of sweat, body odor, and even the smell of excrement and urine, which can kill people.
If he didn't get smoked to death, he was crushed to death. Anyway, Chen Qi was squeezed to the side of the carriage the whole time, with his face pressed against the door and unable to move.
Fortunately, it only takes half an hour to drive from Keqiao to the city.
After getting off the train, Chen Qi took a deep breath and couldn't help feeling better.
"Folks, I, Hu Hansan, came back with a peach~~~~"
Chen Qi got out of the train station at about three o'clock in the afternoon. He had been studying in the urban area for the past two years, so he knew exactly where there were lively vegetable markets in Yuezhong urban area.
He was not willing to spend money to take the bus, so he walked to the Dayun Bridge two kilometers away. There is a straw hat vegetable market here, which is the largest vegetable market in the city.
When he came to Dayun Bridge, he found that there were already a sea of people, which made Chen Qi very excited.
In 1981, although the whole society was still relatively conservative, it was no longer as strict as it was in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Viet Central region has allowed farmers to sell their own vegetables, chickens and ducks, etc. in the market, which can be regarded as a small opening.
Note, the premise that you can sell is that you grow the vegetables yourself, raise the chickens yourself, and pick the things you sell yourself.
The goods sold must not be wholesaled.
Taking advantage of the early time, Chen Qi went to the vegetable market for a market research.
The Straw Hat Lane Market is full of state-run stalls. There are butcher shops, lo-mei shops, fruit and vegetable shops, and grain shops. Transactions here require various tickets, and of course the prices are relatively cheap. This is the welfare of the workers.
Outside the market, farmers like Chen Qi came to trade with a load of vegetables, or two ducks and a basket of eggs.
There is no need for a ticket to sell things here, just give money, but the price is more expensive than the state-run non-staple food store, the advantage is that the transaction is more flexible, and there is no limit.
After all, you have a limited amount of food stamps and meat stamps every month, and you can’t buy as much as you want.
What excites Chen Qi is that there is only one "fruit and vegetable shop" in the whole market that provides fruits, and there are not many varieties.
As for the outside of the market, there is no one that sells fruit, which convinced Chen Qi that he definitely came to the right place to sell peaches and red bayberries, and there were no competitors.
(end of this chapter)
