Chapter 24 Mahogany Box

   "Bai Xue looked at a pile of bills, took out two of the twenty ten-yuan bills, and handed them to Wang Chengdao

   "Uncle, this is a 10% profit for you! After you settle accounts, you can keep the 10% profit first and then give it to me! Save trouble!" After finishing speaking, he put away the other bills and put them in his pockets casually.

  Wang Cheng couldn't help but be convinced when he saw such a little girl. The little girl didn't react at all when she saw so many bills, she just put them in her pocket casually, and gave her the money she promised to give to herself. With such an extraordinary bearing, she will definitely be able to do great things in the future.

   "Okay! When will you come over next time?" Wang Cheng took the money and put it in his pocket and asked.

   "The next time I have to see when the things from my side will come! By the way, uncle, if you don't have a money ticket, you can exchange it for small yellow croaker and large yellow croaker! Just exchange it at the bank's price!" Bai Xue raised her mouth.

  Now the price of Gold Bank is 7 yuan per gram, and a small yellow croaker is 33 grams, which is 231 yuan. Two cigarettes can almost be exchanged for a small yellow croaker, so worth it.

   "Is it really okay? That's really great." Wang Cheng was very happy when he heard that.

  He has an acquaintance who has a lot of yellow croakers in his hand, but he dare not sell them in the bank, but who buys gold in private now? The era when food was more expensive than gold.

   Now it's all right, he can ask him to exchange gold for some supplies.

   "Uncle, if you have bicycle tickets, sewing tickets, etc., I can exchange some supplies for you!" Bai Xue added!

  She urgently needs a bicycle now, and now that she has some money, she wants to buy a bicycle to ride. Walking back and forth is too tiring.

   "Okay! Uncle has written it down." Wang Cheng nodded.

   Seeing that it was time for dinner, Bai Xue didn't stay any longer. Although she had five catties of food stamps in her hand, she didn't plan to eat at the restaurant, there was nothing delicious! Why don't you go back and make your own food!

  So she said goodbye to Wang Cheng and walked out.

  Did not go home immediately, and went to the scrap yard. She wanted to find some textbooks for her younger siblings from the scrap yard.

  The two younger sisters are in the first grade of middle school, and the two younger brothers can only start from the third grade, so they first found textbooks for them to learn by themselves.

  Pingyang Town is not very big, and you can find the waste collection station if you look for it. After Baixue added warm pants, a sweater, and snow boots, it was not so cold, so she searched patiently for a while and found it.

  Go in, and there is an old man sitting inside guarding it.

   "Master, I'm going to find some books and go back to paste the wall!" Bai Xue didn't dare to say that she was looking for textbooks, so she knew something about this era.

   "Go in and find it yourself!" The uncle didn't look up, looked at something, and let the person in with a casual response.

  Bai Xue walked in, and there were tables, chairs, benches, wardrobes and kang cabinets, those with missing legs, and those that were smashed.

  Bai Xue didn't look at those furniture. Anyway, there is no place to put them now. The house is so small that the nine people can hardly live in it. Why buy furniture.

  She went to pick out two sets of textbooks for the third grade of elementary school, and two sets of textbooks for the first grade of junior high school, and she was about to leave.

  While passing by the dilapidated home, she saw a small mahogany box and fell in love with it at first glance. She simply walked over and picked it up. The small box was only 20 centimeters long, but it looked quite deep.

  Bai Xue opened it and saw that it wasn't as deep as it looked from the outside. She reached in and pushed gently at the bottom of the box, and there were hidden compartments in the box, which made her like it even more.

  In the dark cell, there was no antique jewelry of big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker as imagined, nothing at all, Bai Xue picked up the textbook, put it on the box and hugged it out together.

   "Master, do the math, how much is the total?"

   "It's fine to throw a dollar!" The uncle only looked up and went to work on his own.

   Fortunately, there was some change in Baixue's space that was refunded when she was discharged from the hospital. She took out one yuan and put it on the counter, and walked out with her things in her arms.

  In this very cold day, she was holding so many things in her hands, but she didn't hold them. What if so many things popped up suddenly when she returned to the village, what if someone saw it?

  She thought about it and went to the supply and marketing cooperative. It would be okay to buy a sack to pack it in.

  When I arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, the big sister was still knitting at the cloth counter, and there were no buyers in the supply and marketing cooperative.

  She walked in, and several salesmen looked up at the same time, seeing that it was a little girl, they all lowered their heads and went to do their own things.

   "Sister, I want to buy a sack!" Bai Xue lifted up the book she was carrying, and said to the big sister who sold the cloth.

   "One dime! No tickets, how many do you want?" Without stopping, he said something.

   "Then I want ten!" Bai Xue took out one hand from under the mahogany box, took out another dollar and put it on the counter and said. It’s not easy to come across someone who doesn’t need a ticket. She will use it in many places in the future, so she might as well buy more!

  If it wasn't for fear of others suspecting that she was doing something bad, she would have wanted to buy more.

  The eldest sister who sells cloth was stunned when she heard that Bai Xue wanted to buy ten sacks, then raised her head and looked at her.

   "Country people make these sacks by themselves, and you don't look like city people in your clothes. Why do you buy so many? Can't you make them yourself?" He spoke frankly.

   "Yes!" Bai Xue only replied yes. Although people in this era are generally not full enough to eat, people who eat commercial food in the city have better cloth tickets than the people in the country, so there will be a little difference in clothing.

   "Wait! I'll take it for you!" The eldest sister was about to get up to get something.

   "Sister, do you want this?" Bai Xue whispered, using a book as a cover to take out a smoked chicken from the supermarket.

   "Well, I can't carry ten sacks! Come in with me and get them!" The cloth seller said loudly as if nothing had happened.

  Bai Xue knew that she was afraid of being seen and said that she was speculative, so she hurriedly followed into the warehouse.

   "Little girl, are you smoked? I can smell it!" After entering the warehouse and closing the door, the elder sister couldn't wait to ask.

   "Yes!" Bai Xue replied.

   "Sell it to me! I want it!" Because just now Bai Xue asked if you want it? So the lady selling cloth said directly that I want it.

   "Five yuan! Plus cloth tickets!" Bai Xue didn't say how much cloth tickets to add, fearing that she might scare people if she didn't know the scale well.

   "Okay! I'll give you another three-foot cloth ticket!" The cloth seller said cheerfully.

  It’s been a long time since her family has eaten meat. It’s almost the Chinese New Year, and there are a few taels of meat tickets in hand and they can’t get meat.

   "Sister, do you have any cloth that you don't need a ticket? If you have, can you give me some? I can also get you meat!" Bai Xue made wild guesses when she saw the situation, and began to seduce her.

   "What kind of cloth do you want?" the cloth seller asked.

   "Cotton cloth! I mainly make cloth bags for food!" Bai Xue told the truth.

   "Is the defective cotton cloth okay? I still have a little here for others! If it's okay, I'll let it go to you first!" Taking advantage of others, the cloth seller is not stingy.

   "Okay! Thank you, big sister! I'll get you the smoked chicken right away!" Bai Xue was happy. Although she had a cloth ticket in her hand, wouldn't it be delicious to buy it without a ticket?

   "Good!" The elder sister looked at Bai Xue with surprise in her eyes.

   "Here you are!" Bai Xue took out the smoked chicken, but the saleswoman didn't even see it, she was holding so many things in her hands.

  The cloth seller took the smoked chicken handed over by Bai Xue, took it under her nose and smelled it vigorously, and then carefully put it away, "This is five yuan, and there are three feet of cloth tickets. I'll get you the cloth!"

  (end of this chapter)

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