Dressed as a peasant girl, full of happiness

Chapter 146 Where are the people?

Wei Yuchen is not the type of person who gets entangled, nor does she care about other people's lives and deaths. Her life creed is to go with the flow.

In one's lifetime, everyone should be responsible for his or her own life, and she has no obligation to control the lives of others.

As the saying goes, if you are rich, you should help the world; if you are poor, you should take care of yourself. Helping others requires conditions. She does not have the conditions now, so naturally she is not qualified to point fingers at other people's lives.

After Yang Dashu took the girl away, Wei Yuchen was busy studying, practicing, and going up the mountain to collect herbs every day. Naturally, he put this matter behind him.

That day, she went to the county hospital to buy medicine for her father. When she passed by an alley, she suddenly remembered the time she went to the black market with Geng Changshuo. She couldn't help but feel curious: What is this black market like? Why doesn't she go there for a look?

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt eager to try it out.

Black market, here she comes, she is going to experience the black market of this era.

Wei Yuchen found an empty place, slipped into the space, and then dressed up nicely.

She found a human skin mask in the space, put on a wig with gray hair, and found a cane. She walked back and forth several times in front of the mirror with a hunched body and the cane. She stopped only when she felt she was walking like an old lady.

She looked in the mirror and laughed secretly: Fortunately the little white bird and the little squirrel went to the spiritual field, otherwise they would have laughed to death if they had seen it!

Wei Yuchen felt that she was ready, so she left the space. At this moment, she looked like an old lady in her sixties with a hunched back.

She walked to the alley she had been to last time, and saw the small courtyard in the alley again. However, this time the gatekeeper was no longer the old man, but a vigorous old lady in her fifties. When the old lady saw Wei Yuchen, who was dressed like an old lady, coming over, she smiled and asked, "Old sister, what are you doing?"

"Hey, sister," Wei Yuchen looked around mysteriously, "To be honest, my daughter-in-law just gave birth to a grandson for me, but she doesn't have enough milk. My grandson is crying with hunger every day. I want to go in and buy an old hen to help my daughter-in-law produce milk."

Wei Yuchen's voice sounded old and helpless!

The gatekeeper looked kind and approachable. Wei Yuchen thought that after he said that, she would let him in. However, the gatekeeper said two words next, which made Wei Yuchen stunned.

The gatekeeper asked her with a smile: "Secret code?"

Wei Yuchen: "..." A secret code is needed. How come she didn't know about this? She didn't know what to do?

"A pagoda suppresses the river monster?"

Wei Yuchen said five words tentatively, and then looked at the gatekeeper eagerly.

The gatekeeper repeated it and shook her head: "A pagoda to suppress a river monster? I've never heard of it. But it sounds very impressive."

"Well, what, Open Sesame?" Wei Yuchen said again tentatively.

The gatekeeper shook her head again.

"The wax was applied because it was cold." Wei Yuchen continued to guess.

… …

Wei Yuchen guessed seven or eight more times, but each one was rejected by the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper laughed as she watched her:

"Old sister, why do you have so many words in your mouth? They sound pretty nice. I see this is your first time here, so why don't I make some concessions for you? You just pay ten cents and leave like this."

As he said that, he extended his hand to Wei Yuchen.

Wei Yuchen was leaning on a cane, his legs and feet intentionally trembling, as if he was trying hard to hold on:

"Big sister, is it really only a dime to get in?"

Wei Yuchen asked in a puzzled manner. But he was laughing in his heart. Last time, Geng Changshuo said that newcomers to the black market could enter by paying 10 cents. This lady not only asked him to pay 10 cents, but also acted as if she was doing him a big favor. She was really cunning.

At this time, the gatekeeper looked at the old lady again and said with a smile: "It's true, old sister, why would I lie to you?"

But my heart was filled with turmoil, and my brows were furrowed, looking like they could pinch a mosquito to death: this old lady, her skin was loose, her hair was gray, but her eyes were bright, like a girl, young and energetic, just, very strange.

Wei Yuchen nodded, as if she was addicted to acting. With shaking hands, she took out a dime and put it in the young man's hand, muttering, "A dime is so expensive. It's enough for me to buy a few eggs."

The gatekeeper twitched her lips and didn't dare to respond. The rule here is two cents. Today she saw that this old lady came for the first time and didn't know the rules. Besides, she was so old and might not come in the future. So she asked for a dime against her conscience.

The gatekeeper made way and Wei Yuchen walked in unsteadily.

Wei Yuchen thought that it was only the beginning of spring and everything was still developing, so there might not be many people selling things on the black market. The most common ones would be eggs and rice and flour.

But when she looked over, she found that there were quite a few things for sale, not only the common potatoes, cabbages, and radishes, but also rare items such as leeks and garlic sprouts.

But these were not what she wanted.

Wei Yuchen trembled as he walked towards a tall man with a scar on his face and asked in a low voice:

"Comrade, do you have any coupons? Food coupons, meat coupons, cloth coupons, soap coupons are all fine."

She had been observing for a long time and saw that the man just now sold a bicycle ticket to a young man.

"Yes, yes."

Ma Yong glanced at Wei Yuchen in disbelief. He was mistaken. He thought it was an old lady who had just entered the black market to sell some family heirlooms, but he didn't expect it to be a big customer who wanted to buy a bicycle!

"Auntie, are you getting married or marrying off a daughter?"

While Ma Yong was looking for bicycle tickets outside, he was trying to test the old lady's attitude, wondering if he could sell her some more tickets, such as "bicycle tickets" or "sewing plane tickets".

"Yes, young man, my eldest grandson is getting engaged, and the girl wants a bicycle. There's nothing we can do about it!" Wei Yuchen said pretentiously.

"Auntie, I still have watch tickets and sewing ticket tickets here. If you want them, I can sell them to you at a low price." Ma Yong was anxious to sell the tickets in his hand and his attitude was very humble.

"Hehe..." Wei Yuchen covered his mouth and laughed, "Young man, I don't need it, but I have a sister whose daughter is getting married. She might need it. I'll ask for you. You must give it to me when the time comes..."

Wei Yuchen rubbed his thumb and index finger together and made a gesture of counting money.

Ma Yong immediately understood that the old lady wanted an agency fee, so he said bluntly: "Auntie, as long as you introduce a big client to me, this will be yours."

Ma Yong also had his own plan. He had collected a lot of tickets recently, and some of the people selling them were not legitimate. So he became more cautious and quickly sold the tickets. Then he went home and stayed quiet for a while to avoid the spotlight.

So when he saw that Wei. Auntie. Yuchen seemed to have a way, he came for a chance to try.

Finally, Wei Yuchen and Ma Yong reached a verbal agreement that if Wei Yuchen introduced a client to him next time, he would provide Wei Yuchen with a 5% agency fee.

Wei Yuchen later exchanged some food coupons, cloth coupons, sugar coupons, bath coupons, wine coupons, menstrual coupons and other coupons from Ma Yong, spending a total of about 100 yuan. "

Wei Yuchen walked around the black market, looked at some of the things sold there, satisfied her curiosity, and stopped shopping there. She turned around and walked towards the exit.

Wei Yuchen left the black market and came to a deserted place. He flashed into the space and prepared to change back into his original clothes. But he heard the voices of several men talking outside:

"What about people?"

"Where did the old lady go?"

"Yeah, how come it disappeared in the blink of an eye?"