Five
days have passed.
Sunday again.
Donald was resting at home today. He had planned to spend the whole day with the girl.
The problem was that the girl had a performance today.
The more weekends came, the busier the musical troupe became.
This was also the nature of work.
He was very bored at home alone.
Hence, he went out for a stroll.
After walking for a while, they arrived at Pigeon City.
Pigeon market was actually a form of black market.
There was also a flea market.
There were big and small markets, but they were basically all very small.
Usually, they were in the streets and alleys, and the first time they went, they had to pay a dime.
This didn't go to waste.
Because someone was on sentry duty.
When they encountered a patrol, they only needed to warn them and blow a whistle, and everyone would scatter and flee.
After that, there was no need to pay.
Before Donald entered the market, he took out some mutton from his ring.
They were all one kilogram each.
He had divided them at home.
For the sake of calculation, he would eat one or two pieces every time he fried mutton or made buns.
Now, he realized that it was quite good to sell it for money or exchange it with others.
The prices were a little strange at this time.
If you have a meat ticket, the pork is 80 cents per catty.
The mutton was 70 cents, and so was the beef.
According to modern thinking, beef and mutton were definitely more expensive than pork.
It was mainly because everyone was short of money at this time.
Pork is fat.
There was no beef or mutton.
It was reasonable to say that mutton was actually fat, especially mutton tail oil. It was real oil, just like pork suet oil.
However, the mutton that was usually sold was lean and lean, and there was no oil at all.
Donald found a place to sit down.
Then, he used a piece of charcoal to write a few words on the ground.
Mutton for pork.
Two catties for one catty.
Mutton for beef.
One and a half catties for one catty.
Normal people wouldn't do that.
He wasn't stupid.
Two catties of mutton not only cost two catties of meat, but also 1.40 yuan.
One catty of pork only cost one catty of pork ticket plus 80 cents.
The round trip cost him a pound of meat and 60 cents.
Therefore, many people looked at him as if he was a fool.
Of course, they didn't know that Donald had a super magnifying glass.
His two catties of mutton was actually four taels. Wasn't it worth it to exchange four taels for one catty?
If he calculated according to another ratio, two catties of mutton would be exchanged for one catty of pork. One catty of pork could be magnified by five times to five catties of pork, making a net profit of three catties.
Soon, a middle-aged woman in her forties came to him.
"Is what you wrote on the ground true?”
"Of course it's true. Doing business requires integrity and honesty.”
"Just you wait."
"Please hurry up. I don't have much mutton left.”
This was called hunger marketing.
As expected, the middle-aged woman's footsteps became faster.
Ten minutes later, the middle-aged woman came to Donald's stall again.
"Here are 10 catties of pork. According to what you said, you can exchange it for 20 catties of mutton.”
Donald borrowed a scale from the person next to him.
He weighed it and found that there was no problem with the weight.
Then, he took out 10 pieces of mutton from the big sack beside him. Each piece weighed exactly 20 pounds.
He also checked the scale.
"20 pounds, tall."
The middle-aged woman put all the mutton into a cloth bag.
I left happily.
It was still quite cold in Yanjing during the first month of the lunar calendar. It was good for her and the old man in her family to eat some mutton.
Donald also knew that this middle-aged woman's family was definitely not ordinary.
After all, how could an ordinary person take out 10 catties of pork in one go?
However, he did not ask or inquire.
With this middle-aged woman, the people behind her swarmed forward.
Donald only took out 100 pounds of mutton, and it was all gone in less than half an hour.
He did not get beef.
It was all pork.
After all, everyone was not stupid. It was obvious that pork was worth it.
There was only a difference of ten cents between the price of pork and beef, but there was a difference of half a catty between the two.
After exchanging everything, Donald went to the second black market.
This time, he exchanged pork for beef.
The ratio was 1:1.
Donald had already taken out five kilograms of pork and magnified it with a super magnifying glass.
50 pounds of pork was exchanged for 50 pounds of beef.
The 50 pounds of beef was magnified with a super magnifying glass. It was 250 pounds of beef.
It could be eaten for a very, very long time.
There were many interesting gadgets in the black market.
Some of them were antiques, such as jade pendants, rings, snuff bottles, and porcelain.
He had never seen a painting before.
Those who dared to sell antique calligraphy and paintings on the black market must be very experienced.
Now that it was here, if it came into contact with some rain or snow, it would be useless.
Donald had also changed his glasses, one for short-sightedness and one presbyopic.
He was going to synthesize these two pairs of glasses.
This was a good era for Donald.
As long as it wasn't food, it wasn't expensive.
The price of gold was two yuan per gram.
It was an antique jade pendant from the Qing Dynasty. Although Donald didn't have any knowledge in this area, it was still an antique. Moreover, it looked good to Donald's eyes.
Such a jade pendant was worth five catties of pork.
He didn't know if the jade pendant was cheap or the pork was sky-high.
There were also some comic books from the Republic of China period that were well preserved.
This thing was even cheaper, sold by catty.
A catty of comic books for a catty of pork.
This price was actually a little high.
This was because the suggested retail price behind the comic book was five coins.
Actually, it was just five cents.
However, the price of these things would be hard to say after 40 to 50 years.
Donald didn't buy too much and just bought 10 pounds.
However, it wasn't all comic books.
There were also some handwritten copies.
Dong Haichuan's martial arts detailed explanation, Mizong Fist detailed explanation by Huo Moumou, Wulang Eight Trigrams Stick, 12-way Spring Kick, Slaying Kick, Xingyi Fist explanation, Eight Trigrams Palm detailed explanation, Chen's Taiji Fist, and so on.
Of course, not all of them were handwritten copies. There were also some printed copies.
The publishing party was the Jingwu Gym Association.
Just the martial arts books alone added up to about 30 books.
The reason why Donald bought these inedible books, which even the leather drum found hard, was because he wanted to synthesize them.
30 books would only take a month.
He wanted to see what kind of thing he could synthesize in the end. If it was a martial arts secret manual, he would make a fortune.
When the sky was high, Donald finally left the black market.
He felt that it was about time.
His trip to the black market this time was quite fruitful.
In addition to what he had just said, he had also exchanged for some food stamps. They were all fine grain, which was also the so-called national food stamps.
The only regret was that he didn't get a bicycle ticket.
Buying a bicycle required either a bicycle ticket or an industrial voucher.
If he didn't have these two, he wouldn't be able to buy them even if he had money.
The profits from this trip were also very high.
Because of the super magnifying glass, his earnings could be multiplied by five.
He could be considered to have earned a little money.
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