Chapter 48 Going Out for Shopping
"I'm just a primary school student. How would I know why they took to the streets with banners?

As long as I don’t have to go to school, I’m happy.”

After saying that, Xu Damao also looked towards the front yard and shook his head.

"Uncle Yan didn't go, he's reading the newspaper in the office!

Don't you know who Uncle Yan is? When have you ever heard of him participating in those things since you were a child? "

Yes, Yan Bugui is not only stingy, but also very good at seeking profit and avoiding harm.

I have been a teacher for so many years and have gained a lot of benefits, but not a single hair has been hurt.

The ingredients were put into the pot, and while the water was boiling, He Yuzhu started to prepare the chicken offal.
After everything was done, I closed the door and prepared to go out and spend money.

"Yushui, I'm going out to buy food. You stay at home and play with Zhaodi and the others. Don't run out.

I'll bring you something delicious when I come back."

"Yeah, I got it, brother!"

As soon as He Yushui finished speaking, Xu Damao next to him interrupted with shining eyes and asked,
"I was so busy looking at the chickens that I would have forgotten to ask if you hadn't mentioned it.

Zhuzi, how much money do you have? What are you going to buy for sister Yushui later?"

Although the 10-year-old Xu Damao was still very young, his face already had a bit of the vulgar look of the future.
His expression at this moment made He Yuzhu speechless.

"With a few dollars, I could buy some sweet ears, Aiwowo, donkey rolls, etc.
You can’t buy foreign cola!”

When He Yushui heard that her brother was going to buy her candy ears, she clapped her hands with joy and pulled Xu Zhaodi, who was looking envious, to bite her ears.

Although Xu Damao, Liu Guangqi and Yan Jiecheng also like these snacks,

But obviously I am more looking forward to foreign stuff,

But they also know that Coke is a foreign product imported from abroad and is extremely expensive.
A family like them can't afford it.

After He Yuzhu finished speaking, he ignored them and went straight to the grain store near Maoer Hutong.
The reason why he didn't go to other urban areas this time was naturally that he didn't plan to make any big noise.

I walked into the grain store and took a look at the grain prices on the blackboard. As expected, the prices had increased a lot compared to the black market prices two days ago. One stone of wheat had increased from 60 yuan to 80 yuan.
Of course, if the price is calculated in dollars, it is still 15 dollars as before.

I went back and forth 3 or 4 times to buy 250 kilograms of sorghum, corn and sweet potatoes.

When He Yuzhu came to the grain store for the last time, he heard several new customers complaining to the grain store owner about the current situation.
And most of them are related to him,
"Boss Li,

What do you think happened to our city of Peking?
There has been no peace since the gold yuan reform began at the end of August.

On the first day, we lost 1 million gold yuan notes in Shichahai.

Within two days,

Something happened at Chaoyang Gate again.
This caused Lin Wuye from the outer city to bring his men to turn Xizhimen and Chaoyangmen upside down.
In the end, there was nothing but two short tire tracks.

Just like before, the person disappeared out of thin air.

It hadn't been a few days since the autumn harvest, and Mr. Kong and his people started hoarding goods, causing prices to rise all of a sudden.
This forced everyone to secretly go to the black market to exchange money for silver and spend a lot of money to buy food.

The result was good,

The rise in grain prices attracted the gold yuan thieves to come out and cause trouble again.

Not only did they take away 8 to 9 kilograms of grain from those local rich people, they also lost their lives.

Uncle Lin Wu is still wandering around Chaoyangmen, Lu Mi Cang, and Wangfujing with his men.

The situation over there is not settled yet. Now the teachers in the school have also gone to the government office in Peking with banners, asking the officials for an explanation because of the salary issue.

Children pay such expensive tuition fees, but teachers do not do their job properly.
Tell me what happened on this day!"

I listened to him recounting the major things he had done recently, one by one, and said that those people in the Secret Service could do nothing to him.

He Yuzhu couldn't help but feel a little proud.
However, on the surface, he remained calm and listened to their conversation quietly, trying to learn from them the latest developments at Chaoyang Gate.

After all, I often cause trouble in Dongcheng, so it's better to go there less often.

In other words, he usually takes the tram to Fengze Garden to work through West City, otherwise he would have been interrogated several times.

But He Yuzhu failed to achieve his wish in the end.
Because in the eyes of most ordinary people, everything he did was done by the Eighth Master.

Regarding the matter of Lord Ba,
In addition to the strict investigation by the Bureau of Secrets, the common people themselves were also very secretive about it.

Naturally, they didn't dare to say a word.

So Mr. Li, the owner of the grain store, ignored the customer's previous content and instead talked about the teacher holding the banner. At least this only involved money and was not likely to cause any problems.

"If I were a teacher, I would also go to the streets to hold banners.

It was almost the middle of the month and everyone's food was almost gone. They were just waiting to get their salary to buy rice.

The result was good,

The authorities still followed the original regulations and issued gold yuan coupons as salaries to teachers.

Actually, it is not impossible to issue gold yuan coupons, but you are just following the market and going up.
But the above is not right,
It must be issued according to the exchange rate of regular banks.

But they don't think about the fact that the current grain prices are almost three times higher than before.

Can the teachers stop jumping up and down and holding up banners?
With just those few gold yuan notes, if you don't put up the banner, you'll starve to death along with your whole family!"

Seeing that they avoided talking about the previous matter and only talked about the teachers pulling up the banners, He Yuzhu didn't stay any longer because he didn't hear what he wanted to hear.

But he had just gone out with his corn on his shoulder.

Then a mad beggar ran and shouted loudly,
"He hit someone, he hit someone!

Yu Daduzi brought people to beat up the teachers and students again."

Why say again?
Of course it’s because this is not the first time Yu Deshun has done this kind of thing, and everyone has become accustomed to it.

Sure enough, when Boss Li and the others heard that Yu Dadu had beaten someone again, they didn't think it was strange. They just shook their heads with some regret.
"Oh! What a sin!"

After that, everyone stopped talking about the matter and started doing business.

After leaving the grain store with the food on his shoulders, He Yuzhu did not go to the Beiping government office out of curiosity.
He knows,

Usually there are secret service agents watching around this kind of scene.

While trying to find out who is behind the scenes, we can also catch some big fish.
Of course he wouldn't join in the fun now.

He went to a small shop on the street and bought two candy ears that seemed too sweet to him. He Yuzhu then carried the food to a coal shop not far away.

Bought several hundred kilograms of coal,

He still had two or three dollars left for emergency use.

I pushed the cart back to the courtyard with the coal shop clerk.
As soon as I entered the yard, I saw He Yushui waiting eagerly at the door of his house in the front yard.

(End of this chapter)