roccoschili Chapter 11: Selling Gold on the Black Market and Making a Fortune
Chapter 11: Selling Gold on the Black Market and Making a Fortune
Ye Nuan's lips twitched. These words made it sound as if Wu Xingbang was already her son-in-law.
Wu Erya looked at Ye Nuan with a shy expression, but her eyes also held a hint of smugness, as if Ye Nuan had made a foolish decision by not agreeing to date Wu Xingbang.
However, when she glanced to the side and saw the tall man next to Ye Nuan, her eyes lit up again.
This man is so handsome!
So Ye Nuan was attracted to this man's face?
Wu Erya curled her lip, "Worthless!"
Can a man's face be eaten?
These days, having money, tickets, and a job is what really matters!
Thinking about it, Wu Erya's gaze towards Gu Hanchuan changed. He looked alright, but his hands were a bit rough and his skin was quite dark. Could he be a farmer?
Ye Nuan and Gu Hanchuan had no idea what the mother and daughter were imagining. They just wanted to get away from them as soon as possible. Talking to people like that too much would easily catch their stupidity!
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The next morning, Ye Nuan remembered that she had so many small yellow croakers in her space, so she decided to go to the black market to sell one after breakfast. After finishing her meal, she hurriedly went out to the black market.
Ye Nuan disguised herself, but due to limited resources, she could only appear older, and she deliberately pretended to be a little hunchbacked, and also had a southern accent, so that she would not be easily noticed.
Ye Nuan was also just taking precautions.
After all, these small yellow croakers are not from clean sources, and at this time, gold trading is strictly regulated, and there is almost no legal gold trading market in the private sector, so they can only trade on the black market.
Ye Nuan quickly found a small gold trading shop, mustered her courage, and calmly walked in.
Without saying much, Ye Nuan took out a small yellow croaker wrapped in cotton cloth from her bag and handed it to the shopkeeper.
The boss opened the cloth bag and was immediately struck by its bright, golden color.
Roughly weighing it, the small yellow croaker weighed about a pound, and the shopkeeper stared in shock.
Ye Nuan asked familiarly, "Boss, what's the price of gold now? Would you like to weigh it first?"
The gold shop owner took out a small tray, weighed it, and sure enough, it weighed exactly 550g.
The shopkeeper replied, "The current gold price follows the international market, which is about 27 yuan per gram. This gold bar weighs 550g and is 1 yuan. If you want to sell, I'll count the money for you on the spot."
Ye Nuan pondered for a moment, realizing that what the boss said was mostly true. Eager to make a move, she decisively said, "Boss, I agree. Let's make a deal!"
After leaving the jewelry store, Ye Nuan squeezed her small bag full of money and still felt it was unreal.
But Ye Nuan was also cautious. Fearing that the black market boss would double-cross her, she left the gold shop, walked to a secluded corner, and slipped into her spatial dimension.
Seeing that the space was empty, and now that he had money in his hands, he naturally had to buy things to fill his immortal abode.
Ye Nuan first bought some meat, eggs, malted milk powder, pastries, etc., and stored them in the small wooden house in the immortal mansion. She was not sure how long these things could be stored, so she did not dare to buy more. Mainly, she did not dare to take them out to eat or use casually, for fear that her parents would become suspicious again.
Besides that, after Ye Nuan came out, she went to the black market and got fifty catties of wheat flour, fifty catties of rice, and some cornmeal.
Ye Nuan went to the state-run restaurant and bought more than a dozen meat buns, thinking of sharing them with her family when she got home.
When Ye Nuan got home, she tidied up again and found that the meat bun was still very hot to handle.
So, that little wooden cabin can preserve food?
In that instant, Ye Nuan could only think of the refrigerator she had seen in her previous life. She had never used it, but she had heard that things would not spoil if they were put inside.
So the cabin is actually just a large refrigerator?
Thinking of all the bottles and jars in the cabin, Ye Nuan realized she needed to study those ancient books more thoroughly and figure out what medicines or poisons were, which would probably come in handy in the future.
Ye Nuan was home alone at noon, so she ate two big meat buns and made herself a bowl of malted milk powder, and that was enough for her meal.
My family members all have jobs now, so we usually eat at the cafeteria.
The main reason is that the food in the canteen is relatively cheap, and my father and second brother both work in the factory, so they take turns eating lunch with their colleagues, making it impossible for them to come back specifically for lunch.
The food in the canteen was relatively inexpensive; for example, a bowl of clear soup noodles cost only nine cents, noodles with meat topping cost one cent, and stir-fried noodles cost fourteen cents.
Factory workers need to buy meal tickets and vegetable tickets to pay for their meals. Meal tickets cost about 14 cents per kilogram, and vegetable tickets cost 40 cents per day. So it is actually more cost-effective than cooking for yourself.
Wheat flour now costs about 18 cents a pound, and it's all rationed.
However, this varies from person to person. For young men like the eldest and second eldest brothers who have big appetites, eating in the canteen is not cost-effective because they have big appetites. If they eat three meals a day at the factory and eat their fill at every meal, even three kilograms of meal tickets a day would not be enough!
This costs more than cooking for yourself, unless you force yourself to not eat your fill, then it's okay.
But if it were Li Xiu, who works in logistics, it wouldn't be tiring, and she has a small appetite. She wouldn't even use up a pound of meal tickets a day, so it would be more economical.
Workers didn't need to use food coupons to eat in the factory canteen; they only needed to pay. This allowed them to save their rationed food, which they could then use to help their relatives or feed their children. Some would even exchange their food for cash or coupons on the black market.
To put it bluntly, it's about saving money wherever possible.
Everyone's life is the same.
Ye Nuan's family used to have a tough time, after all, they had three children to support, and all of them had to go to school. With just their parents' wages and rations, they could eat their fill, but they couldn't expect to eat anything too fancy.
It's normal to not eat meat even once a month.
Sometimes it was because they couldn't buy meat, and sometimes it was because they traded meat coupons for other things. In short, the family lived frugally and could barely make ends meet until the children graduated from high school.
Ye Feng is doing a bit better. After graduating from high school, he took the factory's recruitment exam. With his excellent performance at school, he got a job in the office and now works in the technical department. His job is relatively easy, but sometimes he has to work overtime and he doesn't know when he will get back.
Ye Nuan's second brother is named Ye Hai. He is currently just a temporary worker at the machinery factory, and no one can say for sure whether he will be promoted to a permanent position.
According to regulations, one of the three children in their family was supposed to be sent to the countryside. However, before Ye Hai graduated, his father, Ye Anjia, used his connections to get him a temporary job, which at least transferred his grain ration. They were hoping that he could become a permanent employee later.
There's no way to find a job for Ye Nuan; it's just too difficult.
So Li Xiucai came up with the idea of getting her married.
In the evening, Ye Nuan cooked a pot of sweet potato and corn porridge, and then, when the others came back, she put the dozen or so meat buns into a basket. They were still piping hot!
Just as she was about to take the steamed buns to the main room, she heard her grandmother's voice. In her haste, Ye Nuan put the whole basket of steamed buns into her spatial storage.
"Second brother, you have to help Xiao Gui! He's your own nephew, you can't just stand by and watch him die!"