60s Splendid Life

The street lights at the intersection shone into the alley, dispelling the darkness inside.

There were a few people standing or sitting in the alley, some with a small basket in front of them, and some with nothing in their hands, their goods might have been stored elsewhere.

When Lu Jin walked into this alley, several pairs of eyes fell on him.

Probably seeing that he was a new face, most of the gazes that fell on him were with vigilance and scrutiny, and he looked away after his gaze swept away.

Someone saw him coming in and came up to him to sell things to him. He shook his head and pointed to the wooden barrel he was carrying, which meant that he was also here to sell things, and a few people walked away disappointed.

This alley is the black market that he inquired about from Sister Zhang today.Since the above banned trading, some people still took risks and turned to the black market to do business in order to make money.However, you must be very vigilant and careful when doing business in the black market, because there are often people from above to patrol around here. Once you are caught, not only your things will be confiscated, but you will also be arrested and paraded in the streets. In serious cases, you will be imprisoned in a labor reform Going to reform through labor is equivalent to going to prison for reform in later generations.

Hearing about this place from Sister Zhang today, Lu Jin has always wanted to come and have a look. Maybe he will come here often in the future.But when he first came in, he didn't specifically talk to anyone. When others asked him, he just shook his head and refused. He went in and found a place to squat down and observe the people around him.

Soon he found that there were men, women, old people and children here. Most of them looked older than him, and there were a few who looked younger than him. They looked like ordinary people and wanted nothing to do. Not sure they are hawkers.

It seems that no matter what era it is in, as long as there are profitable things, there will be people doing them. It seems that these people must come to this black market to make money.

And his family also has a few younger brothers and sisters to support, and he has to raise money to treat the children in the family. Otherwise, Lu Jin didn't want to take the risk today and came to this place, because it would be very troublesome if he was caught.But if he wants to go back to the countryside to farm, let alone supporting his younger brothers and sisters, it will be a problem to fill his own stomach, let alone save money for his younger brother's medical treatment. It was one of his ways to make money.

Sister Zhang also told him that the alleys here extend in all directions. If you find something wrong, just follow other vendors... He is familiar with this. It's just a relive of my life as a hawker.

If it weren't for the soul of an adult in his body, or as a 13-year-old boy, he wouldn't dare to walk into this place alone.There are all kinds of people here, all kinds of people, colleagues are not necessarily good people, it is very likely that if you are not careful, you will be cheated by your colleagues if you don’t make money. Since he came in, there have been several waves of colleagues coming to him After inquiring about the news, he didn't know these people well, and he had no idea of ​​getting to know them for the time being.

Of course, there are ways to deal with these people Lu Jin, just ignore them.

On the first day he came here, he didn't even think about doing business, mainly because he was familiar with the place and the black market, so he didn't come to the door for business, and he wasn't impatient at all.

After waiting for a while, no business came to the door, and he was worried that the children who were still sleeping in the guest house would wake up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet or something, so he was ready to go back.But just as he was about to leave, a man in a Chinese tunic suit and holding a briefcase came in hastily. The man asked a few peddlers and they all shook their heads.

When the man came to his side, he probably saw that he was young, so he glanced at him and walked over.

Lu Jin's ears are good, but he still heard the man ask a man not far away, "Is there any milk powder?"

The man also shook his head, saying that there was no milk powder, and that there were others, and asked the man if he wanted it.

"No need, I want milk powder." The child in the family was crying with hunger, and the man just wanted to buy milk powder for the child to eat.

It's just that milk powder is hard to sell at this time, and basically you can't buy milk powder outside, so you can only go to the black market to try your luck to see if you can buy it.However, even the milk powder on the black market is a scarce item. Generally, hawkers don’t have any stock in their hands, and even if they have stock, they quickly resell it.

Lu Jin himself has two big boxes of milk powder in his hands, all of which were given by his father, who will be an event brand business for a while.In addition, there are several children in their family, and he is not willing to sell the little milk powder he saved, thinking about saving it for his own children.It's just that when he saw the man walking past him with a dejected expression on his face when he couldn't buy milk powder, he still quietly followed after his heart moved.When the other party looked back at him, he lowered his voice and asked, "How about brown sugar and red dates?"

"Do you have brown sugar?!" The man looked at him with disbelief, pulled him to the corner in the next second, and asked him again, "Do you really have brown sugar?"

"Yes, I can sell you some if you want."

Lu Jin also looked around, and by taking something out of the barrel, he touched a jar of brown sugar out of the space, opened the lid and let the man smell it, "You smell it, right? This is the original flavor. Ginger-flavored ones are boiled with ginger in the sugar, which can be brewed or boiled for drinking.”

He didn't have much brown sugar in his space, and if he didn't see the anxious look on this man's face, he wouldn't be willing to sell it.

Because compared to selling raw materials directly, it is definitely not as good as making other foods from brown sugar dates and selling them to make more money.It's just that when he saw that this man couldn't buy milk powder and went back to feed his children, his kindness overflowed for a while, so he was impulsive.

"Yes, it smells like this, yours is brown sugar!" The man leaned over and smelled it, with a smile on his face.If you can’t buy milk powder, buy some brown sugar and go home to boil water for your wife to drink. Maybe the wife can have milk to feed the child after drinking the brown sugar water. bottle, are the two flavors the same price?"

This is his handmade brown sugar, which is not cheap at first, but such a small bottle will cost more than 30 bottles in the live broadcast room.Comparing the prices in this era, Lu Jin quoted a price, "Both are the same price, two yuan for a bottle, and one ticket."

"Can it be cheaper?" The man frowned, seeing that such a small bottle didn't even weigh a catty, and two yuan a bottle seemed a bit expensive.

"No, if you don't want it, forget it." Lu Jin screwed back the bottle cap, and he didn't plan to sell it if the price was lower than expected. Besides, he hated selling it for less than two yuan.

"Okay, okay, two yuan is two yuan." The brown sugar outside is not easy to buy. When he thought of his wife and children waiting at home, the man gritted his teeth and compromised, and asked, "How much do you have, give it to me." Ten bottles, five bottles of the same flavor."

"...There are not as many as ten bottles. If you want, I will give you two bottles." He didn't have much brown sugar in his hand, and Lu Jin didn't plan to sell them all at once, and he wanted to save some brown sugar for dessert.

The man was a little disappointed when he heard that there were not so many juveniles, and then remembered that he had said that there were red dates, and asked, "Didn't you say that there are still dates? How much is a catty, and give me two catties."

"There are not many dates, only one catty, and two yuan per catty is also a ticket." The dates here are not expensive, and the good dates are only a few cents per catty.But his is a jujube from a certain Xinjiang, one is the size of the palm of your hand, it is a very good date.

After he took out a red date and showed it to the other party, the other party stopped talking and looked at him with a bit of surprise, obviously he didn't expect him to come up with such a good thing.

The man nodded quickly and said, "Yes, what ticket do you want?"

"Industrial tickets, cloth tickets, cotton tickets, anything." He is short of everything now, and he will not refuse anyone who comes.

The two traded in the corner. The man gave him the money and the ticket cover from the briefcase he was holding, and took out a black bag to put the purchases in and left.

Seeing the man leave in a hurry, Lu Jin also planned to leave after making a deal.

Just when he was about to leave, a tall and thin man approached him and asked him what good goods he had.Lu Jin glanced at the other party, seeing that the other party didn't look like a good person, so he left in a hurry without saying a word.

"Monkey, did that kid tell you anything just now?"

"You won't ask yourself?"

The man who was called a monkey yelled back, and ignored Fat San who asked him just now, and found a place to squat down.

There are no fewer than ten monkeys who have appeared in this alley before and after, but Liu Zhun is the only monkey who can get along in this alley until now.He has been drilling in this alley for almost three years, and he has seen all kinds of new faces and old faces. Many people were arrested after a few visits, and never appeared here again. Those who have been in the alley for more than three years can be counted on two palms, and they are all old acquaintances.

The fat man who asked him just now is one of their old acquaintances here. He was already in this alley before he came. They didn't know his name, and everyone called him Fat Three.No one in this alley uses his real name, they all use nicknames for each other, just like he calls himself a monkey, and no one else knows his name.

But that fat man's hands are dark, Liu Zhun doesn't want to mix with that fat man, although he is not a good person, but he is not as unprincipled as the fat man, he disdains to be with such a person.

As soon as that kid came in just now, the old people in their alley had noticed him. Several people went up to talk to him but failed to make a conversation. Of course, Fat San had also been there, but they were all rejected, so Liu Zhun kept talking to him. He was silently observing, until he saw that the kid was about to leave after finishing his work, he went up to talk to him, but the kid who was not surprised ignored him and left.

He is a boy with character!

But Liu Zhun is sure that if that kid came to this alley once, he will come a second time. He is waiting for that kid to come!