Siheyuan: I can always stay out of it

Chen Xu remembered that there seemed to be no fruit item on the steel mill's purchase list, so he didn't dare to make a guarantee and needed to go back and ask.

But at this moment, the look in his eyes when he looked at Lao Zhou was a little weird.

"Xiao Chen, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Old Zhou, we have known each other for quite some time. Why do I feel that the things you sell are so weird? I won't say anything about you selling bran in this disaster year, but what the hell are these dried goods and fruits?"

Chen Xu has always wondered how this guy survived in the black market. With this kind of gameplay, it would be hard not to lose all his family fortune.

Lao Zhou hesitated for a moment, but finally told the truth.

"Let me put it this way. Actually, we didn't buy these things. We just couldn't sell them elsewhere, so we wanted to try our luck in Sijiu City. After all, as you know, Sijiu City is at least richer than other places."

Chen Xu understood immediately. After all, this was the capital. Other places would be even more difficult. Things like fruits were indeed expensive, but someone had to buy them. If they couldn't be sold in the capital, let alone other places.

"Actually, the reason why they brought fruits here is because you bought all the dry goods last time. They think we have a good market here and can even sell dry goods, so it makes no sense that we can't sell fruits..."

Chen Xu: ...

He is really speechless now. At least the dry goods can go into the leader's stomach, and it is okay if there is less fruit. At most, he can have a fruit platter when eating in the canteen.

If there are too many, how to distribute them will be a problem. You can't give each leader a sack of fruit.

Usually, they eat in a small canteen and at least they entertain guests. If they distribute fruits openly, the workers will be furious...

Chen Xu didn’t think the factory would purchase much fruit, so Lao Zhou could only hope for the best.

Lao Zhou also felt a little annoyed. He felt as if his leader felt that he was very capable and needed to give him more responsibilities, but he felt that he was not capable of doing the job.

Chen Xu was just saying this casually and didn't expect him to really be able to purchase much fruit. After all, he knew the current situation of the factories of all sizes in Sijiu City. Chen Xu was willing to help him ask out of consideration for their friendship.

After strolling around the black market and buying some eggs, Chen Xu went straight back to the courtyard. There was really no point in going to the black market now. He had no shortage of food, but he couldn't buy what he wanted. It was a complete waste of effort.

During the last year of the famine, which was also the worst, there was no food for sale on the black market. Chen Xu walked around for a long time and only saw some people selling sweet potatoes and yam. The prices were so outrageous that even Chen Xu, a wealthy man, could not afford them.

Have you ever seen sweet potatoes selling for three yuan per pound?

The prices aren't even this high in the 21st century.

Chen Xu felt inexplicably chilled as he shuttled through the dark alleys. He didn't know how many people would starve to death in the last six months. Was this the darkness before dawn?

Chen Xu thought about the strong winds that would start to blow again in the next few years, and felt that there was really not much hope for the future. It would take at least nearly twenty years for China to completely change the current situation.

That’s twenty years, and Chen Xu will be forty years old by then.

He sighed, he was powerless to change anything, personal energy seemed insignificant at the national level, especially for someone like him whose external power was not strong enough, he could only barely protect himself.

Compared to entering and exiting the courtyard through the main gate before, it is much easier for Chen Xu now. He just steps on the wall from the back of the courtyard and jumps over it, entering the backyard.

The whole process was silent, and he even managed to absorb the force of the landing, without anyone noticing.

After practicing martial arts for a year and the constant cleansing of the body by the space, initial results have been achieved. Now he is considered a respectable martial artist. A mere wall naturally cannot stump him.

Tomorrow is Sunday, so Chen Xu deliberately came back early to avoid getting up early in the morning to queue up at the vegetable market. Now many supplies are limited and you can't buy them without queuing.

Therefore, there were quite a few people queuing up in the early morning, and the same was true for Siheyuan. Chen Xu naturally had no intention of queuing up, but that didn't mean he was willing to meet people who were queuing up.

The backyard was quiet, but he heard some noise coming from the middle yard. He checked the time and it was 3:30 in the morning. He thought someone was probably going to the vegetable market, so he didn't think much about it and went straight back home.

Just a few minutes after Chen Xu entered the room, Sha Zhu's door was pushed open. The guy came out yawning, wearing clothes, and staggered towards the central courtyard.

After resting for two days, this guy felt hungry. In addition, he hadn't bought meat for several days in a row. So Sha Zhu couldn't bear it anymore and decided to get up in the middle of the night to queue up and try his luck.

Nowadays, there is a lot of fat and water. Although fish is a meat dish, it really cannot replenish the fat and water.

In Shazhu's current situation, it is completely a dream for him to rely on fish to replenish his body.

This guy now feels that if conditions permit, he can eat a pig.

He took a look at the meat ticket in his hand, which was only worth six taels. He had worked hard to get this amount of ticket from the black market. After hesitating for a moment, Sha Zhu thought about how to buy more meat.

It would be impossible for him to go alone. There is no limit on the purchase of two taels now. No one will sell him meat even if he has six taels of meat coupons. Fortunately, Yu Shui came back yesterday, but even if this girl is included, there is still one person missing.

Sha Zhu stood at the gate of the backyard and the middle courtyard and thought for a long time but couldn't think of a suitable candidate. Then he realized that his relationship with the residents of the courtyard was really bad and he couldn't even find a helper at the critical moment.

Just at this moment, the door of the deaf old lady's house was pushed open.

The old lady came out, looked at Shazhu who was standing there hesitantly, and tapped him on the back with her cane.

"Let's go. If we're any later, we can only buy third-grade meat."

Sha Zhu nodded slightly. He didn't want to call the deaf old lady because she was old and would probably be asleep at this time. But he didn't expect that when he mentioned it yesterday, the deaf old lady would wake up on the exact time.

The deaf old lady was very depressed. Not to mention Shazhu, she also felt that her stomach was seriously lacking in oil and water during this period. The most obvious manifestation was that she seemed to never be full and she felt hungry not long after finishing a meal.

Sha Zhu said yesterday that he wanted to buy meat, and she agreed. She also knew that even with the rain water, Sha Zhu could only buy 4 taels. In order to eat more meat, the deaf old lady tried her best.

These days, few families have an easy life, and this is basically the case for all residents living in the courtyard houses.

However, these have nothing to do with Chen Xu. He is a well-known pauper in the courtyard, so buying meat is naturally not his business.

Quite a few people have already gotten up in the Siheyuan. In addition to those who are queuing up, there are also many who are going to the wild to dig wild vegetables early in the morning. In short, all living beings suffer.

Chen Xu has always been right to act poor. If he were to act out of line at this time, it would easily arouse public anger. The fact that he and Xu Damao would add extra meals from time to time was already considered quite unusual in the Siheyuan courtyard, so naturally he couldn't show it too ostentatiously.

However, Xu Damao was also blamed for the extra meal. After all, everyone in the courtyard knew that he was rich. What's more, he was now the son-in-law of a big capitalist. Even if others were unhappy about eating something good, they couldn't say much.

Chen Xu benefited from Xu Damao's help.

As for Xu Damao being in the hospital now, I don't know how many people are secretly happy. You deserve it for letting me have extra meals...