1968: At the beginning, the beautiful sister-in-law came to borrow food! Chapter 122

After paying the money, the brothers began to wander around the black market.

Li Yunfeng had bought a lot of things last time, but he still had three hundred and five yuan in cash in his space.

The two AKs and pistols he bought before were exchanged for small gold bars.

“What do you guys want to buy? It’s not as lively here as on the Wusuli River.”

“Just see what you need for your wedding and buy it all.”

“I plan to buy some grain and other things to take back.”

Li Yunfeng originally intended to buy some canned goods, but they were too expensive.

He didn’t know what they were thinking; one catty of canned pork could buy many catties of fresh pork.

What? Is the chef’s skill more expensive, or is the can itself more expensive?

It was understandable if canned fruit was more expensive, after all, it wasn’t available here.

But pork, which was available here, was sold at such a high price that even Li Yunfeng was unwilling to buy it.

He wondered who was selling these canned pork!

The brothers ambled around the black market.

This small black market was indeed not as large as the one on the Wusuli River.

Neither the number of vendors nor the number of buyers was as high.

“Alright, brothers, let’s split up here!”

“An hour should be enough to browse everything.”

“After we’re done browsing, we’ll just wait at the exit.”

“It’ll only be about an hour; everyone can just wait over there.”

Er Lengzi looked at the surrounding stalls; there were only forty or fifty in total.

Even if they took their time, an hour would be enough to see everything.

After all, this place was different from the Wusuli River.

Here, everyone kept their money hidden, calculating prices by stacking codes.

It was mainly because everyone was from the surrounding ten miles and eight villages, and they were all familiar with each other.

They were embarrassed to expose themselves, but on the Wusuli River, there were many people.

There weren’t many problems.

Li Yunfeng also separated from the others and began to stroll among the stalls.

Don’t tell me, don’t tell me, even though there were fewer people here.

There were still many good things.

There were sellers of firearms and ammunition, and even semi-automatic rifles, but unfortunately, these were too expensive.

They were not something ordinary people could afford.

The commune in the city had Type 54 semi-automatic rifles, but the Wanda Mountain Commune did not.

Perhaps they also knew that people here really couldn’t afford them, so they only sold shotguns.

Besides, shotguns were indeed more effective in the mountains than semi-automatic rifles.

Although the shotgun’s firing range was small, its lethality was great. Like the double-barreled shotgun Li Yunfeng bought.

Within fifty meters, whether it was a tiger or a black bear, one shot would turn whatever it hit into a bloody mist.

After wandering around for a long time, Li Yunfeng bought a hundred catties of high-quality rice and fifty catties of strong flour here.

It wasn’t that Li Yunfeng didn’t want to buy more, but there simply wasn’t any more available.

The stalls on the Wusuli River still had more variety and a wider selection of goods!

After thinking for a moment, Li Yunfeng took out fifty catties of pork and fifty catties of donkey meat.

Along with the rice and white flour, he placed everything on the sled.

Then he took out an AK and hung it across his chest.

He had bought this from Anna at the black market.

Two AKs and two submachine pistols. The AK could be exposed.

But the submachine pistol had to be hidden; that thing was a major weapon.

AKs, shotguns, and semi-automatic rifles, these could all be openly displayed for everyone to see.

But pistols, these could be put in a pocket or tucked into the waistband where others couldn’t see them.

The point was to catch people by surprise, to ambush them, to be unethical.

After wandering for a while, Li Yunfeng finally arrived at the exit to wait for his brothers.

As soon as he reached the exit, Er Lengzi and Tie Dan’er were already waiting there.

“Haha, why are you two here so fast? Didn’t you buy anything?”

Li Yunfeng looked at the two of them, who had nothing, and asked curiously.

“Hey, don’t mention it, we came out to look for Zhao Lao Er and Zhao Lao Si, we didn’t bring a sled!”

“A sled? I spent a yuan to buy a sled. If you buy anything, you can put it on my sled.”

Sleds were very cheap at this time; most sleds were made of wood.

Slightly better sleds would have a layer of iron wrapped around the bottom to increase the friction of the sled.

Most ordinary sleds had the two wooden runners planed smooth.

It was just that the labor cost was a bit more expensive; an ordinary sled would only cost a few dimes.

A large sled like Li Yunfeng’s wouldn’t exceed a yuan.

“Forget it, we won’t buy anything. We also need to start looking around during this time.”

“Mao Lüzi is getting married soon, so we also need to get married quickly!”

The two brothers were now starting to get anxious.

Relations with the polar bears had been getting worse recently.

More and more militiamen were patrolling the border.

The Wanda Mountain Commune had even mobilized militiamen from other production teams to patrol the border.

Although the final battle for control wouldn’t break out here, it wasn’t far from here either.

Li Yunfeng estimated that the people from the Red Flag Production Team might also start patrolling soon.

In matters of national right and wrong, they wouldn’t care if you were relatives or not.

When it was time to go, they had to go. It would be very dangerous if everyone went to help the polar bears with poverty alleviation then.

Now that Mao Lüzi had brought back the twins, they were also starting to get anxious.

Isn’t there an old saying that goes well!

A young man sleeping on a cold kang relies entirely on his strong vitality!

But even with strong vitality, no one wanted to sleep on a cold kang!

Who wouldn’t want to hug a soft and fragrant wife to sleep?

“Alright, it’s good to find a wife early.”

“While you’re young, it’ll be easier to take care of children after they’re born.”

“After twenty-five, your energy won’t be as good, and after thirty, it’ll be even worse day by day.”

“If you marry early, you can have more children.”

“If you marry too late, you really won’t be able to handle it when the children make a fuss at night.”

Li Yunfeng’s words were true. In his previous life, Li Yunfeng had a good relationship with several sisters-in-law from next door.

Those sisters-in-law, after having children at thirty, truly got worse day by day!

Their energy truly declined day by day!

“Yes, that’s what we think too!”

“We’ll try to get married before the New Year.”

The two brothers couldn’t help but laugh as they spoke.

“Hey, you guys are back so early?”

After a short wait, Mao Lüzi and the others also walked out of the black market.

Sure enough, these brothers also came back pulling sleds.

These sleds, even if bought now and used for a while, could still be sold for a good price later.

Those who sold sleds in the black market were usually those who bought a lot of things.

They only bought sleds because they couldn’t carry everything back.

Among the surrounding ten miles and eight villages, only the Red Flag Production Team was in the mountains.

The other production teams were at the foot of the mountains or in other locations, with better geographical positions than the Red Flag Production Team!

But there was nothing he could do; Li Yunfeng had been assigned here when he went to the countryside.

It was basically impossible to go anywhere else.