59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

"Tear down the threshold!"

"Yes, so the motorcycle can be stored in our lobby."

Chen Hao and Fatty Wang were talking to each other, completely forgetting that the car belonged to Zhang Haixing.

"Tear down the door, tear down the door!"

Chen Li, who had eaten and drunk enough, was full of energy, and she kept shouting with a group of children. She kept shouting and shaking with Li Jie in the truck bed.

This group of little ones do make the yard lively, but their noise can be a real headache.

"Don't talk nonsense. If you want to make it easier to get in and out, just use two wooden planks as a cushion." Chen Feng interrupted the group of little guys and said with a smile, "The door threshold is used to store wind and gather water. In ancient times, it could also block dirt and ward off evil spirits. So don't step on the door threshold or sit on it."

"No one cares about this custom now. We won't punish you if you step on it, but we definitely won't allow you to tear it down."

In ancient times, the gate represented the social status of a family, and there were extremely strict regulations in the feudal era, such as plaques, stone lions, and texts on the wall.

Violating the rules may even result in imprisonment.

"Oh, that makes sense. I'll go find the wood board." Fatty Wang ran to find Cai Jiaxing, but the Cai family was not a wood board.

The Chen Family Courtyard is not a formal courtyard house. When it was renovated, the gate was deliberately enlarged to be large enough for a car to enter and exit.

Logically speaking, there should be no threshold.

The Military Control Commission at that time was responsible for renovating and building houses to meet the housing needs of workers, soldiers, and cadres. The task was very heavy, so why would they bother to find large bluestones to use as the threshold at the gate?

He decided to go and see other renovated courtyards when he had time. He wanted to know whether they were arranged by the old man, and the answer would be clear by comparison.

Guo Chunhua came to find Li Jie and went back.

"Xiao Jie, go back and wash your feet."

"No, I still have to go driving with Lily later." Li Jie was very unhappy.

"Yes, second brother has finished, it's our turn now." Chen Li followed.

"Chunhua, sit down and have a glass of water." The old lady poured Guo Chunhua a cup of tea.

After thanking him, Guo Chunhua sat under the grape trellis and said, "I received news that this autumn harvest is another bumper harvest, and grain prices may drop."

"Xiao Feng, if you want to buy food, don't rush now. By September, the price of food there will definitely drop."

What Guo Chunhua was talking about was of course not the government grain. The official price was very affordable, although the people could only buy a fixed amount with grain coupons and receipts.

After the border conflict broke out in August, food prices on the black market skyrocketed several times.

Chen Feng asked curiously: "I didn't go to the black market, Auntie, what is the price there now?"

Guo Chunhua looked around and saw a group of children making a fuss around the motorcycles. She said, "The price of rice has reached six yuan per pound. Those people are simply crazy."

"It's almost 20 times the amount. Sooner or later someone will report them and another group of people will be shot."

Chen Feng smiled.

This is of course much lower than the historical peak. During the peak period of black market prices in history, a food coupon in the old city cost 3 yuan, and a food coupon nationwide cost 4 yuan.

The price of black market rice is more than ten yuan per pound, and the price of pork has skyrocketed to an astonishing dozens of yuan!

Historically, there was no fresh meat available for the residents from July 1960, so canned old meat was put on the market to replace fresh meat. Several tickets could be pooled together to buy a box (tin) of canned meat, which was one of the reasons for the sharp rise in pork prices.

No more meat!

There is no flesh or bones left!

However, due to the bumper summer harvest in the Hebei Plain, there was no large-scale crop failure, and the farms had feed supplies. Pork still maintained a small supply for the time being, and a wave of it was released on the August 1st Army Day.

The prices aren’t that crazy!

Chen Jianjun laughed and said, "These speculators are bound to be in trouble. Even if it's the black market, the prices are so high. If they can earn a few hundred yuan a day, they will be worth ten thousand yuan a month, and they are definitely capitalists."

Zhou Qing couldn't help but look at Chen Feng.

Chen Feng said calmly, "Mom, I don't have that much money. I can only make a thousand yuan a month at best, and I have to give out dozens of yuan and spend a few hundred yuan."

"Even if someone came to search the house, they would never find more than 500 yuan!"

All his money is in the space, so he is not afraid of being checked.

"What is Xiao Feng afraid of? His money is all clean. Everyone knows that he earns it from hunting and selling it to factories. He doesn't sell it at double the price on the black market!"

Guo Chunhua said at the side: "Even if someone is jealous and reports him, he is not afraid of the police investigating."

Chen Jianjun also comforted him, "Yes, we didn't sell it at a high price on the black market. This is a reasonable income. There are many hunters in the city with a reasonable income of 10,000 yuan, and no one deliberately makes trouble."

"As long as it's legal money, earned with your own ability, you don't have to worry about outsiders reporting you."

"What if someone sells it on the black market?" Zhou Qing asked curiously.

Guo Chunhua took a sip of water, sat on a chair and said slowly: "That's terrible. Last year, someone took advantage of the high meat prices on the black market during the Spring Festival and sold a few wild boars and rabbits, earning more than 7,000 yuan."

"Then, before he could even find a job, he was caught and shot."

"Why bother if you have the life to embezzle money but no life to spend it?" The old lady was not gloating like Guo Chunhua. Instead, she felt a little pity for these people.

Essentially, these hunters are also responding to the imbalance between supply and demand. They want to take advantage of the surge in demand for meat during the Spring Festival to sell more meat, buy a few jobs, and become city dwellers.

Who could have thought that the price would be too high, sparking public outrage and becoming a victim of the iron fist.

The old man smiled and commented: "You are still too greedy. If the price wasn't so high, people would spend a few more dollars to buy meat, and no one would die."

Chen Feng nodded: "Yes, they raised the price too high. Ten times the price is already a huge profit, and they are still not satisfied. No wonder everyone is angry."

Now is not the future. The bald man has only been on the run for less than eleven years. Everyone knows how he lost the world.

One important reason is that the four major families swallowed up all the dollars in aid from the United States. Without dollars to maintain the value of the legal currency, the country’s credit collapsed, triggering serious inflation and skyrocketing prices.

In Germany, a loaf of bread cost 500,000 marks, and in China, it was about the same, where a pound of rice cost several million gold yuan.

The bald man’s wife became rich, but he lost his kingdom!

It is precisely because Baldy has lost the support of the people and the world in this way that once the price of meat on the black market is too high, the people in power can no longer turn a blind eye and have to kill him.

Because if they continue to turn a blind eye, the anger of the people will be directed at them.

A dead Taoist friend is not a poor Taoist!

Please go to hell!

"Brother, are these two pieces of wood enough?" Fatty Wang came over with two pieces of wood.

Chen Feng took a look and saw that it was quite thick and would not be broken by the crush, so he nodded.

"can."

"Send two fish."

Fatty Wang put the wooden board in the warehouse and came out and said, "No need, I just gave you four pheasant eggs."