Chapter 13: Black Market

When asked by Zhao Xiulan, Wu Jinhua was stunned for a moment, and then said, “Nowadays, how can there be any other way to get foodstuffs?

When dividing the provisions, everyone has something to eat, which can help us go through. When the spring comes, we go to the mountains to dig some wild vegetables to live! It can always fill your stomach!

However, since the beginning of last year, the whole country suffered from natural disasters and the foodstuff production has dropped sharply, making life even more difficult for everyone!

The days of our production team are relatively good. The people in the production team are diligent and do a lot of work. The foodstuff harvest is more than that of other production teams. In addition, the team leader also has foresight and adequate food reserves. I heard that in some places, half of the people in the whole village have starved to death!

Not to mention wild vegetables, even the tree barks and roots are good!

Some of them really have nothing to eat, so they go to eat Guanyin soil.1观音土 – Guanyin soil or sweet clay, now called as kaolin – A kind of white clay, which is often used by disaster victims to satisfy their hunger in famine years, and can relieve temporary sleepiness, but if it is taken too much, it will coagulate the colon, which can lead to death. Also known as “Guanyin Powder”. After eating it, they couldn’t draw it out, and in the end, they were suffocated to death. So, nowadays, it’s so hard to get some foodstuff! How can there be other ways to get something to eat!”

Zhao Xiulan listened to Wu Jinhua’s words, she thought about it and remembered that she was caught in the three-year Great Famine era. In the past few years, foodstuffs were scarce across the country and many people died of starvation.

Now, if you go out to get foodstuff and anything to eat, how can you get it?

There was a hint of disappointment in Zhao Xiulan’s eyes, and Wu Jinhua said a few words before continuing to cut the hogweeds.

After Wu Jinhua left, Zhao Xiulan looked through the information in the space.

In this era, it is indeed difficult to obtain foodstuffs, but it is not impossible to go to the black market. There are many people who buy things on the black market. As long as you have money, you can buy foodstuffs, clothes, and other things.

But for ordinary country people, it’s useless, and the foodstuffs in the black market can’t be bought at all!

It’s not because of the limited supply, but the prices are actually very high! A few dimes of foodstuffs would be multiplied several times in the black market!

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Who among the ordinary country people can have so much money in their hands?

Furthermore, the country does not allow anyone to do these things. Otherwise, if you get caught, you will be charged with speculation and profiteering and you will go to jail!

Unless you have to, few people will take the risk of going to the black market.

Zhao Xiulan looked through this information and was overjoyed.

Since there is a black market, then it is easy to handle things now!

There are a lot of supplies in her space, so maybe she can flip a little over, and then exchange them for what she needs!

It seems that she has to find a chance to take a trip to the county seat!

There is no black market in the countryside. It is estimated that you can only find a black market in the county seat, so she has to look for it.

Zhao Xiulan guarded the oxen until noon, and there was only one wowotou given from the production team.

Zhao Xiulan disliked that the wowotou was too nauseous and unpalatable, so she simply threw it into the space.

There are other things to eat in the space, which she can take out and eat!

However, when eating, Zhao Xiulan was very cautious and only dared to eat after confirming that there was no one around. The good food she eats can’t be discovered by others!

Zhao Xiulan took out a carton of pure milk, grabbed a cake with one hand and ate it. After eating it, she also grabbed a grilled sausage, which was fragrant and greasy.

After gobbling it up, her empty stomach was full at this moment, so she felt a lot more comfortable.

These things she eats are rare in this era, especially the grilled sausages. In the era of the Great Famine, it is definitely a very luxurious thing to be able to eat meat.

After eating like a thief, Zhao Xiulan tidied up and continued to herd the oxen.