After turning two corners, we arrived at a small courtyard. The courtyard wasn't large, it was ordinary, and completely unremarkable! No one would imagine that the black market's administrators lived in such an ordinary little courtyard.

The young man leading the way reached the door, knocked five times in quick succession, paused for about 30 seconds, then knocked three more times! He stopped knocking then! About a minute later, a voice was heard from inside the courtyard asking:

"Who?"

"Big cousin, Grandpa wants you to come home for dinner."

The young man answered!

There are quite a few tricks to this, Lin Qing thought to herself without showing any emotion.

After he finished speaking, the door opened from the inside.

"Xiao Jiang, I'll take this young man to meet our big brother."

The person who opened the door was a young man who was about 14 or 5 years old.

"Brother Xiangzi, come in! Big Brother is waiting!"

After saying that, he stepped aside to let Xiangzi and Lin Qing, whom he had mentioned, go inside.

Lin Qing walked into the courtyard and immediately saw many burlap sacks piled up in the yard, not knowing what was inside.

Follow Xiangzi into the house! You'll see a man in his forties wearing a Zhongshan suit and with his hair parted in the middle sitting on the sofa!

On the coffee table in front of the sofa were some rice, millet, red dates, and other things, which were the items Lin Qing had been selling on the black market these past two days.

"Young man, what's your name?"

The man in the Zhongshan suit asked.

"You can call me Xiao Gu."

"Alright, Xiao Gu, you can just call me Uncle Wang. I invited you here today because I want to do some business with you. What do you think, Xiao Gu?"

"Uncle Wang, do you want to buy grain from me?"

"Let's not beat around the bush, Xiao Gu, you name your price!"

"Uncle Wang, you've seen the quality of my goods. How much are you prepared to offer?"

"That depends on how much stock you have," Uncle Wang said with a sly smile, looking every bit the cunning old fox.

"I have 3 jin of rice, 2 jin of millet and 1 jin of pork here. Uncle Wang, can you eat all of this?"

"If the quality is the same as the ones on this table, I'll take them all."

"How about this, I'll give you 40 cents for rice, 50 cents for millet, and 1.2 yuan for pork, what do you think?"

Upon hearing Lin Qing's words, Uncle Wang sat up straight!

With these goods, he can seize the market in the south as well. No matter what, he must get this batch of goods.

"Rice is 5 cents, millet is 6 cents, and pork can be the price you want."

"Little Gu! You're not earning enough for your uncle. I have a whole group of people to support!"

After hearing Lin Qing's words, Uncle Wang began to bargain.

"Uncle Wang, you know how good the quality of my stuff is. This is top-notch merchandise, and I don't sell it for much on the black market. The price really can't be lowered; this is my bottom line!"

"Besides, the goods aren't mine. My older brother set the price, and I only offered the lowest price because I saw that you could take them all."

"Moreover, we have a lot of people, and the shipping and labor costs are also quite high."

Hearing Uncle Wang plead poverty, Lin Qing also tried to bargain. "It's just bargaining, isn't it? Anyone can do that."

"Alright, since Xiao Gu said so, Uncle Wang will earn a little less, just to be friends with you."

Uncle Wang said with a shrewd look, "The price that Xiao Gu offered is indeed not high. With this quality, if you add 2 or 3 cents, you can still sell it. If you sell it to big cities, you can earn even more."

Moreover, with such a large quantity of goods, we can completely seize the territory in the south. No matter how you look at it, this deal is a sure win.

"Xiao Gu, when do you think we should make the deal?"

After confirming that the price had been agreed upon, Uncle Wang asked another question.

"Let's do it tomorrow. There's a dilapidated factory outside the city. We'll make the deal there at 9 pm tomorrow. But let me make this clear beforehand: I'll be the only one doing the deal with you tomorrow. The rest of us don't want to be in the public eye. If we find anyone staking out the place, the deal will be canceled."

Lin Qing had already scouted the area; the factory outside the city was located in a relatively open space, so there was no risk of an ambush.

Moreover, my parents are already asleep by 9 p.m., so I can sneak out to make the transaction.

After the transaction is completed tomorrow, I'll head straight to the countryside the day after tomorrow, and nobody will be able to find me.

"Don't worry, Xiao Gu. Uncle Wang is a man of integrity in business. He would never send someone to stake out the place. I wonder if you want money or something else, Xiao Gu?"

Uncle Wang had originally considered this idea, but after listening to Xiao Gu's words, he decided not to take the risk, since this batch of goods was too important.

"I need money and tickets, valid nationwide. Gold and silver jewelry and antiques are also acceptable."

In this era, money and tickets are hard currency, while gold and silver jewelry and antiques are things that can be kept for future appreciation.

"okay, I get it."

Upon hearing Lin Qing's request, Uncle Wang readily agreed.

"Alright, Uncle Wang, I'll be going now. See you tomorrow."

"Okay, see you tomorrow then."

As he spoke, Uncle Wang stood up and saw Lin Qing out with a smile.

"System, can you check if anyone is following us?"

"No host available."

It seems that Uncle Wang is a man of principle.

"..."

"Brother, should we send someone to follow them?"

"No need, it might alert them and ruin the deal. Let's talk about it later..."

Nothing happened that day. The following night, after her parents had fallen asleep, Lin Qing secretly slipped out of the house.

Lin Qing arrived at the abandoned factory outside the city ahead of time to wait.

At 8:50, some noises came from afar. Lin Qing waved his hand, and a corner of the factory was piled with sacks. These sacks were the ones Lin Qing had traded with Uncle Wang when he left yesterday!

At one cent each, Lin Qing bought 5000 in total. She had originally wanted to buy more, but unfortunately Uncle Wang didn't have that many in stock.

Uncle Wang originally intended to give these burlap sacks to Lin Qing, but Lin Qing refused them. There wasn't much money involved, and Lin Qing didn't want to take advantage of him.

Soon, Uncle Wang led his men into the factory.

"Uncle Wang, please inspect the goods. It's getting late. Let's finish the transaction quickly so we can go home sooner."

Seeing Uncle Wang come in, Lin Qing said.

"it is good……"

Uncle Wang waved his hand, and several men walked towards the goods in the corner. After a short while, the men returned and nodded to Uncle Wang.

"Here's 3 yuan. I've exchanged the remaining 9000 yuan for tickets and gold antiques."

Uncle Wang handed the six large boxes he had brought to Lin Qing and said.

Lin Qing opened the boxes; one box was filled with banknotes, and the rest were gold antiques.

"System, please check if the amount of money and tickets matches, and whether there are any counterfeit items."

Lin Qing pretended to carefully check everything, and after confirming that the system said there were no problems, she nodded to Uncle Wang.

Although Lin Qing didn't recognize the antiques, the system could scan them! Besides, even if only one of these antiques was genuine, he wouldn't lose money!

However, to Lin Qing's surprise, none of them were fake, which was truly unexpected!

What Lin Qing didn't know was that antiques were practically worthless in this era, and ordinary people didn't dare to take them! They were afraid of being caught and criticized!

Uncle Wang didn't know Lin Qing and was afraid of offending her, fearing she wouldn't sell him the goods! Besides, he was currently vying for territory with the Southern District! He wasn't confident he could successfully snatch Lin Qing's goods, so he didn't take the risk.

Soon, Uncle Wang and his men loaded the goods onto the truck and drove away. After Uncle Wang left, Lin Qing waved her hand and put the money, gold, and antiques on the ground into her spatial storage.

Back home, Lin Qing couldn't wait to go to her space and count the money and tickets again!

A full 3 yuan—that's considered wealthy in this day and age! Definitely a ten-thousand-yuan household.

Of the remaining five boxes, two contained gold and silver jewelry, one contained jade jewelry such as bracelets, necklaces, and headdresses, and some gemstones and diamonds. Lin Qing took out the jewelry and tried them on one by one, and she couldn't stop smiling at how beautiful they were!

Although Nanxun had prepared a lot of jewelry and gold for himself in the warehouse, who would complain about having too much of that?

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