60s: I have a store

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Half a day later, Zhou Yimin and his crew returned to the fishing port. Today's harvest was very good, with more than 1,000 kilograms of fish.

Everyone had a great time. To be more precise, Zhou Yimin himself had a great time, and the others were just there to accompany him.

Seeing that there was nothing serious going on at the rice cooker factory, Zhou Yimin prepared to go home. However, before he left, he planned to secretly go to the fishing port and get more seafood to put in his backpack for the store.

There is no shortage of seafood in Tianjin, but food is also in short supply, even more serious than in Beijing.

After all, it is the capital, and the food in the whole country will be focused on the capital first. Therefore, although people in the city are not full, there are relatively few people starving to death.

One night, Zhou Yimin quietly came to the fishing port and took out a bag of grain.

Food is hard currency and is much more useful than money.

"Buy fish? Or sell fish?" Someone approached Zhou Yimin and handed him a cigarette.

Zhou Yimin covered himself tightly, waved his hands, and said in a low voice: "No, I'm here to get some good stuff."

Coming to the fishing port to purchase goods means, of course, buying fish. Moreover, the word "purchase goods" is used, which means that the quantity they want is not just a little bit.

The man's eyes lit up after hearing this: "What goods do you want? How much do you want? My uncle is the director of the fishing port. He can get any goods."

As for the other party's hiding his true identity, he was not surprised. He had seen this kind of thing many times. He was too lazy to find out who the other party was.

"We want shrimp, crab, and fish. As long as the goods are good, any amount is fine."

Wow! You are so arrogant!

"We have the goods, but do you have enough money and notes?" The man looked at Zhou Yimin.

Zhou Yimin pointed to the sack next to him and said, "I have this."

The man was curious, so he opened it and saw that it was filled with wheat, with a wheat aroma.

He took a deep breath and said, "Wheat is good and can be traded, but it's only 100 kilograms at most, so it can't be exchanged for much."

"Who told you I only have this one bag?"

Ok?
The man was surprised and delighted, and introduced himself solemnly: "My name is Wang An, what's your name, brother? I wonder how much wheat I have, but don't worry, I can get you any seafood you want."

As long as there is food, everything is fine.

"Chen Fuhua, I can take out five or six thousand kilograms."

Zhou Yimin was too lazy to acquire the business bit by bit, so it would be best if he could negotiate the deal all in one go.

"Brother, wait for me a moment, I'm going to find my uncle." Wang An was overjoyed.

Such a large transaction is not something he can decide.

"Help yourself, I'll just wander around here."

Wang An quickly went to find his uncle. There was no shortage of seafood at the fishing port, but seafood could not be used as a staple food! Eating seafood as a meal? It was okay to eat it for one or two meals, but it was not okay to eat it every day.

Although this is a formal fishing port, there is also a market at night, similar to a pigeon market, and the management of the fishing port turns a blind eye to it.

Fishermen also need to eat and have supplies to exchange, so they cannot be killed all together.

As long as the fishermen can complete their fishing tasks, they are allowed to exchange some things privately.

Zhou Yimin came to a woman’s “stall”.

There were several baskets on the stall, filled with crabs, shrimps as big as three fingers, living groupers, and even a piece of good-looking fish maw.

As we all know, fish maw is a dried product of fish bladder, which is rich in gelatin, hence the name fish maw, also known as fish maw and fish maw. Fish maw is as famous as bird's nest and shark's fin, and is one of the "eight delicacies", known as the "marine ginseng".

This thing is very expensive in later generations.

"Sister, how much do you sell this for?"

"No, I want to exchange it for some food," said the woman.

It was just an exchange, even if she was caught, it wouldn't be a big deal, it wouldn't be considered speculation. But if she sold it for money, it would be a big deal if she was caught. Besides, she really didn't want money, she wanted food.

The family had been out of food for three days. Food was in short supply and even with money and coupons, it was not always possible to buy it. So, she simply exchanged for food.

"I have wheat. How much do you want to exchange for this?" Zhou Yimin could also see that this lady was waiting for food to save her life.

The woman was overjoyed and asked cautiously, "Is twenty pounds okay?"

Zhou Yimin nodded: "Do you have bags?"

"Yes." The woman quickly took out a cloth bag and looked at the sack that Zhou Yimin brought, wondering if it was all wheat.
My goodness!
Unfortunately, she didn't bring much seafood this time. She still had three pieces of isinglass at home!

Zhou Yimin opened the sack and filled his eldest sister's cloth bag. There was no need to weigh it, as even a fool could tell that it was more than twenty kilograms.

"Thank you! Big brother, thank you so much."

"You're welcome. Go back! How about giving me this basket?" Zhou Yimin pointed to the basket filled with seafood.

"No problem! Here you go."

How much is the basket worth? She carried the bag of wheat she had exchanged for and walked away nervously. Wheat is a fine grain, and if it is exchanged for coarse grains, it can be exchanged for a lot, enough for their family to eat for a while.

She sighed: I met a noble person when I went out today.

This also attracted people from several stalls nearby. Seeing someone exchanging wheat for seafood, they couldn't help but come over to sell their products.

"Comrade, my crab is good, very fat."

“My shrimps are big.”

Zhou Yimin took a look and it was indeed quite big. If it were in Qingdao in the future, it would definitely not be possible to buy it with 38 yuan. It would have to be at least double the price, right?

Soon, Zhou Yimin's bag of wheat was emptied and replaced with a large pile of various seafood.

At this time, Wang An came with two people.

"Brother, why are you exchanging here? Come on, follow me to the cold storage to check out the goods. I will definitely satisfy you."

Zhou Yimin didn't bother to be polite with Wang An and asked him to help move the seafood he had exchanged over.

Wang An naturally had no objection and immediately arranged for someone to do it.

Zhou Yimin followed him to the cold storage, and there were indeed a lot of good things inside. Lobsters weighing several kilograms, crabs as big as plates, abalones as big as palms, and sea cucumbers as thick as wrists...

Some people in later generations concluded that the longer the growth cycle, the lower the temperature, and the greater the temperature difference, the more delicious and nutritious it is.

"Can you arrange a vehicle to transport it out?" Zhou Yimin asked.

"Yes, yes, food..."

"You can bring back the wheat as well."

Wang An said cheerfully: "That's no problem!"

So, the two sides happily concluded the deal. Wang An brought back several thousand kilograms of wheat, and his uncle praised him generously. In their opinion, this deal was a big win.

Food is so precious nowadays! It is not comparable to those cheap seafood.

Zhou Yimin also felt that he had gotten a great deal.

The next day, he said goodbye to the factory director and other leaders. The factory director's people naturally tried their best to keep him, promising him a cadre position, housing and other favorable conditions.

Zhou Yimin said that he still had grandparents to support in his hometown, which made the factory director and others lose their temper. They were just fulfilling their filial duties, so you can't stop them, right?
Besides, Zhou Yimin also said that if there are any technical difficulties in the future, we can communicate with each other and the relationship will not be cut off.

In the end, the factory gave Zhou Yimin a lot of local specialties and reluctantly sent him back.

Everyone seemed to dislike this plot, so it ended hastily.

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(End of this chapter)