Chapter 19 p3
Ji Yang’s gaze swept over the row of stalls at the entrance of the shopping mall. This was her target for today. She walked over quickly. These stalls were all just a bedsheet spread out, with a few things on them.
There was everything, except for the scarce food and survival equipment in the current environment.
Sweeping her gaze over them one by one, sure enough, there was a stall selling jade.
Ji Yang casually went over and picked up a pretty good jade bracelet to look at.
Xixi immediately squatted down beside her, its gaze constantly sweeping over the surroundings, its expression vigilant.
The stall owner, who was huddled in a ball, immediately opened his eyes slightly and said in a muffled voice, “Girl, you have good taste. My wife spent more than two hundred thousand on this thing back then! Now, you can take it away for just ten jin of grain!”
A stall owner next to him’s eye twitched, and he looked at this person speechlessly.
So expensive, can it be sold?!
Ji Yang was also amused. Is he taking advantage of her being a young girl and asking for an exorbitant price?
She wasn’t stupid.
It had been half a year since the disaster. The government was busy collecting supplies and building bases, so they couldn’t manage that much. It was enough to barely keep people from starving. But robbers, thieves, and people collecting protection fees were rampant. It was good enough to be able to keep half of their grain.
At this point, it went without saying how much ten jin of grain could be exchanged for.
Gold, silver, and jade had all plummeted in value. No one wanted them for even a jin of grain, unless it was the family of a big shot who had preserved a lot of supplies in advance. But such big shots wouldn’t be interested in jade of this quality.
Ji Yang had suffered in her previous life, so even though she had plenty of supplies in this life, she didn’t plan on being a fat sheep. She didn’t say anything immediately, but looked at the stall again.
With so many jade bracelets, they definitely weren’t bought by his family before the disaster. Ji Yang touched them one by one and found nine that made her thumb ring react more strongly.
The stall owner’s eyes went straight. He took out his hands from his sleeves in anticipation and looked at her eagerly.
Ji Yang said directly, “So many, ten jin of potatoes, want it or not?”
The stall owner: …
His smile immediately disappeared, and he muttered in disappointment, “These would have been worth millions before!”
Ji Yang put them down directly. “Forget it then.”
The stall owner immediately changed his tune. “Okay, okay! Ten jin it is!!!”
Ji Yang took the jade bracelets, and with her other hand, she took out potatoes one by one from her hiking backpack. The stall owner also hurried to borrow a scale from someone. With the sense of touch she had trained in her previous life, the potatoes she took out were exactly ten jin, with a little extra. But it wasn’t good to cut them, so she pretended not to see the stall owner secretly pressing down on the scale a little.
The transaction was complete. While organizing her backpack, Ji Yang threw the jade into her space.
It was still useless.
Ji Yang didn’t give up and continued to the next jade stall.
Her hiking backpack could hold about fifty jin of potatoes, so she also purchased according to the amount of fifty jin. There were quite a few people selling jade, and many people were looking at jade, but at least as far as Ji Yang had seen, no one was really willing to buy.
Unfortunately, of the ones currently for sale, few were of a quality that she was interested in.
After spending another twenty-plus jin of potatoes, Ji Yang finally met a “daoye.” Seeing that she liked this, the person immediately said tentatively, “Sister, I have a lot more. How much can you take?”
Ji Yang smiled. “I want good quality. As much as you have, I’ll try my best to take it all.”
The man seemed to be sizing her up, and then he looked at the hiking backpack and held up a palm. “Let’s go by the market price. It will cost at least five hundred jin of grain.”
Ji Yang was overjoyed, but she kept her expression neutral. “Can frozen fruit be a little cheaper?”
The other person’s eyes also lit up, and his attitude immediately became several times more enthusiastic. He handed over a stool. “Sister, sit down. Tell me, what kind of fruit do you have?”
“Durian, strawberry, blueberry, banana…” Ji Yang counted a few, and in the other person’s increasingly expectant eyes, she reminded him, “The quantity is not too much, but I can get two hundred jin.”
The man hesitated. “That’s too much of a difference. How about three hundred jin?”
Ji Yang looked troubled. “Fruit is not easy to get now. Three hundred jin is not possible, two hundred jin at most.”
After some haggling, the deal was finally settled at two hundred jin of fruit plus fifty jin of Chinese cabbage.
Although it was nearly sixty percent less than expected, if this fruit was taken to the rich area, the things it could be exchanged for would definitely be more than five hundred jin of grain. Of course, not everyone had this kind of connection, so most people preferred grain that could fill their stomachs.
Coincidentally, his boss had a connection.
Both parties were very straightforward, and the transaction was quickly confirmed. The transaction location was still here.
The other party said cheerfully, “My stall is here. If you have any good things in the future, bring them over. I will also continue to collect jade. You should still want it in the future, right?”
Ji Yang smiled and nodded. “Yes.”
Rich people had many quirks. She wasn’t worried about being noticed.
Sure enough, the man didn’t care at all. After confirming that the transaction could be made, he immediately said, “Sister, my name is Luo Laosan. If I’m not here when you come, just ask anyone here, and you’ll be able to find me. But don’t go off with anyone alone. There are many bad people here.”
He didn’t want to wait and wait for his big customer not to come!
Ji Yang nodded and thanked him for his kindness. She got up and continued to look at other stalls. The last few stalls did not have the quality of jade she wanted. She sighed in her heart and was about to turn around and leave when Xixi suddenly let out a low growl.
She immediately looked around warily and saw a middle-aged man coming over with an apologetic smile. Sensing that she and the dog were both on guard, he stopped. “Don’t misunderstand, I have no ill intentions. I just wanted to ask if you want my jade bracelets. They were all very expensive before, some even costing over a million. Do you want them, girl? I guarantee the quantity is enough!”
With that, he showed a jade pendant in his hand. The color was excellent, crystal clear, and it looked like an expensive item at a glance.
Ji Yang looked at him quietly.
The man chuckled and directly handed over the jade pendant. “Here, take a look. But the things are valuable, so it’s not good for me to bring them all over. Sister, if you want them, I can take you to see? As long as you can afford the price, you can take away the things that were worth tens of millions before the snow disaster!”
Ji Yang was not polite and took the jade pendant. “Okay.”
The man immediately let go and eagerly pointed the way. “This way, this way—”
Ji Yang glanced at him and followed.
The man’s smile became even more enthusiastic. He inconspicuously glanced at the half-grown dog that had quieted down again and said with envy, “Such a big dog, it must eat a lot every day, right?”
“It’s okay, the dog eats dog food,” Ji Yang said casually, watching him lead her into an alley, a dark glint flashing in her eyes.
And at the entrance of the shopping mall, Luo Laosan had just happily recorded today’s big transaction and was calculating his commission. Suddenly, he looked up and saw the customer from just now following a man into an alley. He was immediately dumbfounded.
Hey, hey, hey!
Didn’t he say not to go off with strangers?!
There are government officials guarding here. Once you go far, you’ll have nothing left!
Thinking of his commission, Luo Laosan gritted his teeth, called someone to watch his stall for him, and scrambled to get people.
“Boss, boss! Someone is doing something shady on your turf! Help!”
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