1968: At the beginning, the beautiful sister-in-law came to borrow food! Chapter 040

“Not here?”

Dragging two pigs, he arrived at the agreed-upon trading location.

However, Li Yunfeng didn’t see the procurement guys.

He figured they probably only came on the 1st, 10th, and 20th of each month.

Now, there were far fewer stalls here.

With no other option, Li Yunfeng pulled the pork to a stall and sold it little by little.

Unfortunately, he didn’t have a knife or a scale.

He could only sell it by feel.

But it wasn’t a big problem; he still had a lot of pork.

He had sold two, plus the boar, so now he had eight left.

In another month, they would refresh again.

“Comrade, how much is the pork?”

Li Yunfeng had just found a spot to sit down when someone came to ask for the price.

“One yuan per jin, if you buy the whole pig, four hundred yuan and you can take it!”

Li Yunfeng cheerfully introduced the price of the pork.

It was almost New Year’s, just over a month away.

In the village, every household would start making dumplings. He didn’t know about other places.

But Hongqi Production Team was starting to make dumplings.

They would find a few good friends to make a lot of dumplings, then freeze them outside.

That way, when they didn’t feel like cooking, they could just boil dumplings directly.

Along with sticky bean buns and other things, they would make quite a lot.

“Four hundred for a whole one?”

Hearing Li Yunfeng say that a whole pig was only four hundred yuan, and these two pigs clearly weighed over five hundred jin each.

The person in front of him didn’t even think, directly giving Li Yunfeng a “wait a moment” gesture.

He turned and walked outside, returning in less than two minutes.

“Comrade, do you want small gold bars?”

“If you do, I can exchange small gold bars for your pork!”

“The market price for small gold bars is twenty yuan per gram right now.”

“I won’t take advantage of you!”

“Two small gold bars are normally one thousand two hundred and fifty yuan.”

“So, you give me another four hundred, and I’ll take your two pigs.”

“And you, you take my two small gold bars.”

The person who had just come to ask about the pork price walked over, took out two small gold bars, and let Li Yunfeng examine them.

“Alright!”

He took the small gold bars and examined them, finding that they were indeed real gold.

Li Yunfeng very readily took out four hundred yuan from his space and handed it to the person.

“This sled is a gift for you.”

After speaking, Li Yunfeng took the small gold bars and left the stall.

He turned and walked towards other stalls.

This trip, Li Yunfeng’s gains were truly considerable.

Not only did his cash reach five thousand yuan, but he also gained two small gold bars.

No matter where, small gold bars were hard currency!

Wandering around, Li Yunfeng soon bought another sled.

He turned and walked towards the forest.

Before long, Li Yunfeng came back, pulling two more pigs.

There were still four pigs left in his space; he had to hurry and sell this meat.

If he didn’t sell it soon, it would rot and spoil, making it hard to sell.

It had already been two days; tomorrow, it would probably be inedible!

“Hey? Comrade, how much is your pig?”

“Do you have any more?”

“I’m a procurement officer from the city’s timber factory.”

“If you have any, I’ll take them all.”

Li Yunfeng had only walked a few steps when someone else came up to him.

“Whole pig four hundred, there are four left. If you want them, it’s cash on delivery!”

At this time, there was very little meat in the city, especially in places like timber factories, which involved heavy physical labor.

They lacked meat even more. This place wasn’t like a big city with military farms.

“Okay!”

“Comrade, let’s do cash on delivery!”

After the two agreed on a location, Li Yunfeng pulled the sled and left.

He walked towards the agreed-upon spot.

Upon arriving, he directly took out the rest of the pork from his space.

The refresh was coming up in a month, and Li Yunfeng could procure once more before the New Year.

He wasn’t in a hurry to keep pork for himself; he still had chickens, ducks, and geese to eat!

If that wasn’t satisfying enough, he even had donkey meat in his space.

However, donkey meat… Thinking of this, Li Yunfeng took out another nine hundred and fifty kilograms of donkey meat from his space and placed it on top of the pork.

Before long, the procurement officer from earlier walked over.

“Comrade, I’m truly sorry!”

“I don’t have enough money here. I wonder if you accept small gold bars.”

“Six pigs, two thousand four hundred yuan. I’ll give you four small gold bars.”

“The extra one hundred is a deposit for you. Next time you have pork, sell it to me again!”

The procurement officer said to Li Yunfeng with a smiling face.

In those days, those who could become procurement officers were not ordinary people.

They were either children from big families who could procure a batch of unplanned goods through connections.

Or they were children of former landlords who bought their procurement jobs.

They didn’t even care about making money; they just wanted the status of a worker.

This procurement officer could actually take out so many small gold bars at once.

He must have been a child of a landlord, using the convenience of his job.

He would convert the small gold bars from his family into money and tickets.

This way, it was not only safer but also allowed his family to live a good life.

“No problem, but comrade, I also have one thousand nine hundred jin of donkey meat.”

“I wonder if you’ll take it. If you do, I’ll sell it to you for seven mao per jin!”

Donkey meat was not easy to sell at this time.

People in those days bought fatty meat because they lacked oil in their stomachs.

If there was no fatty meat, they would buy pork belly. Donkey meat, however, had very little fat.

So, at this time, like beef, it wasn’t very popular, unless one really wanted to eat meat and there was no pork available.

“I’ll buy it! I’ll give you two more small gold bars, and we’ll be even!”

Saying this, the procurement officer took out two more small gold bars from his pocket and handed them to Li Yunfeng.

The two looked at each other for a moment, then both burst into laughter.

Afterward, Li Yunfeng carefully retreated into the nearby forest.

He disappeared directly, entering his space.

He didn’t even want the sled he had just bought.

With such a large profit, why would he need a sled!

Six small gold bars, when he returned to Sijiucheng, he could directly exchange them for a large quadrangle courtyard with three courtyards.

If he had twenty small gold bars, he could exchange them for a quadrangle courtyard with five courtyards, plus left and right side courtyards.

Looking at his money, five thousand yuan plus eight small gold bars.

His savings were about to break ten thousand. However, he still needed to wander around later to see if anyone was selling small gold bars and spend the money as quickly as possible.

After all, most of the people here were farmers, and their wealth was limited.

So Li Yunfeng put all the money into his space.

Something bad would definitely happen later, so this money had to be spent.

He would put it in other people’s hands, letting the money circulate, and then he would sell some good things to these wealthy people!