Chapter 41 Silver Dollar Black Market
Fearing that the White Widow was illiterate, He Yuzhu even asked Yan Bugui to write down the White Widow's name in advance when he asked him for help this morning.

Now all we have to do is wait for her to put her fingerprints on it.

But all this is completely different in the eyes of the White Widow.

Seeing He Yuzhu's confident look on his face, she felt so aggrieved that her teeth were about to break.

After the fingerprint was pressed, she was nothing in front of He Yuzhu and his sister except being the wife of He Daqing. The brother and sister had neither responsibility nor obligation to her.

But she, who prided herself on being smart, had no other options.

We can only place our hopes on He Daqing.

But He Daqing also wanted to take the opportunity to suppress the arrogance of the White Widow, so he just helped her read the contents of the agreement and had no intention of interfering at all.

After seeing He Daqing's attitude, White Widow wanted to leave in disgrace.
But money can make a hero fail. If she really had any other way, she would not have compromised earlier.

Seeing the White Widow grit her teeth and press her handprint, He Yuzhu was overjoyed.

I put away the agreement and said no more.

While eating, I watched He Daqing and Widow Bai discuss getting their marriage certificate.

Two people, a widower and a widow,
According to the customary rules and considering the current economic situation, we are only going to get a marriage certificate and not have a wedding.

They agreed to get the marriage certificate and move in two days, and after dinner the two families went their separate ways.

On the way back to the courtyard, He Daqing asked curiously,

"Zhu Zi, when did you write those agreements? How come I have no idea?"

Seeing He Daqing's curious expression, He Yuzhu laughed smugly.
"I asked Uncle Yan to help write this this morning.

It must be that Uncle Yi and his team went to work early, otherwise I would have to ask everyone to put their fingerprints on the document before I could come to see her.

Why, you feel sad now, why didn't you say anything just now! "

"How is that possible? If you had done this when I first saw you a while ago, I would definitely not have agreed.
But the situation is different now, she is begging us.

But you've offended her badly this time, and she's got a knot in her heart, so we're bound to have quarrels in the future."

"Tsk! The agreement has been signed.

As long as I don't take the initiative to provoke her, the neighbors won't be able to find fault with me. If she makes trouble for me, then we'll see who is more powerful. "

"As long as you don't take the initiative to find trouble,

I will take care of the rest.”

Back at the courtyard, the deaf old lady, Aunt Yi, Jia Zhang and other women in the courtyard were all asking He Daqing about the person he met today.

I learned that we were going to get married in two days and the White Widow was going to move in.

They all congratulated He Daqing.

He Yuzhu took advantage of the fact that he had nothing to do and asked He Yushui to find Xu Zhaodi, then left the courtyard and headed for Chaoyangmen again.

He didn't come to buy food this time.
As hyperinflation continues,
In order to prevent the common people from being at a disadvantage in transactions, all markets in Peking temporarily reverted to bartering except for gold and silver.
There was even an open silver dollar trading market in Wangfujing, Qianmen, Chaoyangmen and other places.
Black market gold and silver exchange is rampant.

He Yuzhu came this time just to exchange the gold yuan for some silver dollars.

At this time, Chaoyang Gate was crowded with people from all walks of life. Mixed in the bustling crowd, He Yuzhu was young but not conspicuous at all.

It was his first time at the black market, so he didn't rush to exchange for dollars, but observed quietly.

Soon, he figured out the exchange rate between black market dollars and gold yuan coupons from the bargaining between passers-by and silver dollar dealers.

Although the official exchange rate remained at 1:2 as specified at the beginning of the gold yuan reform,

But the exchange rate on the black market has long been broken.
Reached an astonishing 1:5,

It was hard for ordinary people who came to exchange money for the first time to accept it.

"Boss, you are too wicked.

The bank only gives us 1 yuan for every dollar we exchange, but you charge 2 yuan to exchange for 5 yuan.
In the blink of an eye, we ordinary people have suffered such a huge loss.
This is too outrageous! "

The foreign currency dealer was already used to the doubts of passers-by. He sneered and said,

"Love is not changeable,
Don't you think that it has only been a few days since the autumn harvest, and the price of a stone of wheat in the grain store has increased from 30 gold yuan coupons at the beginning to 60 now, which is twice as much as before.
The price of the ocean will naturally rise with the tide.

What's more, the circulation of oceans is not allowed now.
We risk our lives to do this kind of business just to make a profit from the difference in interest, so the price is naturally higher.

If you don't hurry up and change now, there are plenty of people who can.
In a couple of days, when the gold yuan notes become even more worthless, if you come to me again, I might be able to exchange 1 dollar for 6 or 7 gold yuan notes.

You can think clearly. "

The passerby hesitated for a while, but thinking about the fact that the price of food was changing every day, he finally reluctantly exchanged the gold yuan in his hand for silver dollars.

……

I looked at the quotes of several silver dollar dealers and found that they all said the same thing.

Even if he used his toes to think, He Yuzhu would not believe a word they said.

to be honest,
These silver dollar dealers are actually the white gloves of various government offices.

They took advantage of the huge gap between official regulations and the black market to continuously squeeze the hard-earned money of the people.

Not only did they easily complete the exchange task assigned by the Executive Yuan,

It also filled the huge deficit left by the 500 million gold yuan coupons he paid to Wang Mazi some time ago.
Even made a fortune.

After watching for a while, He Yuzhu also started to take action.
There were many silver dollar dealers in the Chaoyang Gate area. He exchanged some with each dealer and soon exchanged 5000 gold yuan for 1000 ocean dollars.

Just when He Yuzhu was about to go buy some clothes and disguise himself for another attack,
Suddenly I heard that someone at Lu Mi Cang opened a warehouse to sell grain.
Then, all the common people who had just gathered around the silver dollar dealer ran over.

Seeing everyone rushing south, He Yuzhu thought there might be a chance.
So I followed to see what was going on.
After walking through several alleys and following the crowd to the crowded Lu Mi Cang, I saw that the doors of several granaries were opened.
A few local rich men stood in front of the door and talked to everyone.
However, due to the distance and the noisy environment, He Yuzhu did not hear clearly.

It was only after word of mouth from the onlookers that he finally understood what was going on.

These gentry came to the city to resell grain in the name of doing charity and helping the hungry people.

It's just that ordinary people don't really believe it.
"Humph!

The cat cries over the rat in false sympathy. If it was really a good deed, why would it have been stored in the granary when the new grain came down?

Now that food prices have tripled, I came out to do charity work.”

"Who says it's not?

But what can you do to him? Even though he is a rich country tycoon, he is not someone that we ordinary people can afford to offend."

……

He Yuzhu did not take the complaints of passers-by to heart. For him, as long as he could buy food,
Anyway, he has nothing else but a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)