As for the peaches and bayberries, it was even simpler. Chen Qi quietly went up the mountain alone, picking them all the way, and then put them into the space.

Not to mention the 50 peach trees in the Chen family, Chen Qi was so happy that he took away all the peaches from his neighbor's house.

Fortunately, no one cares about these fruits now, otherwise it would have caused a rural world war.

Rural people cannot suffer at all. If you pick a few more peaches and bayberries from others, they will fight for you, as if you have taken advantage of them.

A week passed like this, and Chen Qi felt that his space was filled with all kinds of local specialties.

What particularly makes him happy is that this space does have a freshness-preserving function. No matter how you put it in, it will still be the same when you take it out, and it will not deteriorate at all.

Those eels and loaches will not die at all. They are guaranteed to be alive when sold, so that they can be sold at a good price.

After making preparations, Chen Qi was ready to go to the city to sell.

The urban area mentioned here is actually the seat of the Yuezhong regional government and the seat of Huiji County. In an urban area, the government and county governments coexist.

Yuezhong City is a 2,000-year-old ancient city with a population of more than 400,000. Even in 1981, it was still a medium-sized city.

The best jobs, schools, hospitals, and institutions in the entire region are concentrated in the urban area. From the perspective of rural people, there are "workers" and "rich people" everywhere.

Chen Qi has so many local specialties that only urban areas can digest them. After all, Keqiao Town is just a town with limited consumption power.

One morning a week later, Chen Qi was about to set off before dawn.

Chen Shu and Chen Hua also got up after hearing the sound. They looked at Chen Qi eagerly: "Brother, we also want to visit the city."

When the two children grew up, they had only been to the town of Keqiao. They had never been to the "big city" Yuezhong City, and they had longed for it countless times.

Chen Qi touched their heads and said quietly: "Brother, promise, if I make money this time, I will take you to the city to play, how about it?"

"Really? Don't cheat."

It's not that he doesn't want to take it with him, but he really can't because his goods are all stored in the space. When the time comes, he will take them out and sell them like magic, and there is no way to explain them to his younger brothers and sisters.

I'm just young, simple-minded, and don't think too much, but I'm not really stupid.

The silly elder sister didn't know that Chen Qi was going to become a small vendor. The reason Chen Qi gave her was that the school had a summer camp and she needed to go back for a few days.

"Boy, here, here are two dollars."

Chen Qin took out a few dimes from her pocket, one dime, two dimes, and five cents, which were obviously the likes she had worked hard to accumulate over the past few days.

Chen Qi felt panicked in his heart, which strengthened his determination to go to the city to sell local products. Anyway, even if he was caught as a speculator, he didn't care.

The world is big and the happiness of your family is the greatest.

If the Chen family has to rely on the silly eldest sister to carry bricks alone, then he, the eldest son of the family and a 19-year-old boss, can just commit suicide by jumping off a cliff.

In the past, Chen Qi was a bit bookish, but now Chen Qi is not. In order not to go hungry, he will do anything for his family.

At this time, the sky had not stopped yet, and Chen Qi went out with a torch.

He first has to walk for an hour to Xingtang Commune, and then walk for four hours to Keqiao Town. Once there, there are various means of transportation into the city.

Yuezhong City is 25 kilometers away from Keqiao Town. It costs 50 cents to take a boat, 60 cents to take a passing long-distance bus, and the cheapest way is to take a train, which only costs 20 cents.

It's cheap, but there are fewer trains. After all, Keqiao Town is a small station, and there aren't too many trains that stop there.

However, for a student like Chen Qi, the thing he is most afraid of wasting is time. This is also the means of transportation he takes the most every time he goes to school in the city.

It's just that he was unlucky today. The train that arrived turned out to be a "cargo-to-passenger" train, also called a "tank car." It was originally used to carry cargo, but the carriages were not enough to be grouped, so they were used as passenger carriages.

This kind of carriage only has small windows on the top. The inside of the carriage is like a subway, with two rows of vertical wooden seats.

As for the smell inside the carriage, let alone mention it. The smell of sweat, body odor, and even feces and urine can kill people.

If he wasn't suffocated to death, he would have been squeezed to death. Anyway, Chen Qi was squeezed to the edge of the carriage the whole time, with his face pressed against the door and unable to move.

Fortunately, it only takes half an hour to drive from Keqiao to the city.

After getting off the train, Chen Qi took a deep breath and couldn't help but feel better.

"Folks, I, Hu Hansan, am back with peaches~~~~"

Chen Qi left the train station at about three o'clock in the afternoon. He had been studying in the city for the past two years, so he naturally knew where there was a lively vegetable market in Yuezhong City.

He was not willing to spend money to take the bus, so he walked towards Dayunqiao two kilometers away. There was a straw hat vegetable market here, which was the largest vegetable market in the city.

When he arrived at Dayun Bridge, he found that it was already crowded with people, which made Chen Qi very excited.

In 1981, although the entire society was still relatively conservative, and there was still a "speculative crime", it was no longer as strict as it was in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Central Vietnam region has allowed farmers to sell home-grown vegetables, chickens, ducks, etc. on the market, which can be regarded as a small opening.

Note that the prerequisite for you to be able to sell is that you grow the vegetables yourself, raise the chickens yourself, and select the things you sell yourself.

The goods you sell must not be wholesale. If you are a businessman, I'm sorry, all the goods will be confiscated, and you will be locked up in a "study class" for half a year without being released.

If you hire someone to help you sell vegetables, the nature is even worse. Sorry, the hired worker is directly guilty of "speculation" and will be sentenced.

Chen Qi took advantage of the fact that it was still early and went to the market to do market research.

The Cao Mao Nong market is full of state-owned stalls, including butcher shops, braised food shops, fruit and vegetable shops, and grain shops. All kinds of tickets are required for transactions here, and of course the prices are relatively cheap. This is a welfare benefit for the workers.

Outside the market, there are farmers like Chen Qi who come to trade with a load of vegetables, or two ducks, and a basket of eggs.

No tickets are required to sell things here, you just need to pay. However, the prices are more expensive than state-owned grocery stores. The advantage is that transactions are more flexible and unlimited.

After all, the food stamps and meat stamps you get are limited every month, so you can’t just buy as much as you want.

What makes Chen Qi excited is that there is only one "fruit and vegetable store" in the entire market that provides fruits, and there are not many varieties.
Chapter completed!