My Beloved Super Fierce Wife

Chapter 62: 62 Earning Small Money in the Black Market

Chapter 62: 62 Earning Small Money in the Black Market

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After all, having been baptized by various test-prep educations, who isn’t an exam expert?

Lin Tang finished swiftly and then got up to turn in her paper.

Her calm and confident demeanor astonished the others taking the exam with her.

More than twenty young men and women simultaneously turned their gazes to the pretty Comrade.

Then glanced at their own papers, which had only a few carelessly scrawled answers.

They all wanted to curse loudly in quintessential Chinese slang: “Holy shit!!”

Watching Lin Tang’s carefree and unpressured silhouette, their eyes nearly popped out.

Where did this oddity come from?

Did she actually answer all the questions?

Or perhaps… she’d just given up completely?

Their minds were frantically swiping through thoughts.

When they saw Lin Tang leave the room, panic set in.

The proctor, sensing the restlessness among the examinees, spoke up: “… Pay attention to the time and answer the questions quickly.”

The young men and women, eager to secure a stable job, immediately snapped back to their senses and continued answering the questions.

Lin Tang strolled out of the exam room leisurely.

No sooner had she stepped out than she ran into Lin Qingmu, who was anxiously pacing in circles.

His hands clenched, he paced back and forth, his expression a mix of worry and impatience.

He wondered how Tangtang was doing.

What if his sister got nervous?

What about the problems on the exam?

…

“… Big brother.” A pleasing voice reached his ears.

Lin Qingmu stopped in his tracks, his expression momentarily stunned.

“Tangtang, why are you coming out now?”

How much time had passed… half an hour?!

Lin Tang smiled slightly, “I finished answering, just waiting for the notice in the afternoon.

Big brother, didn’t Mom also ask you to buy some things? When are you going?”

Still in a state of shock, Lin Qingmu vaguely heard himself answer:

“Since you finished the exam, I’ll go now, will you come with me?”

Lin Tang replied: “I won’t be coming, I’m going to find Qingqing; it’d be good to learn about a few things.”

Lin Qingmu thought his sister was just going to ask about future work, so he didn’t inquire further.

“Okay, then I’ll go shopping first, and we’ll meet at the Textile Factory gate in an hour, is that okay?”

Lin Tang said: “Sure!”

She watched Lin Qingmu leave.

Lin Tang informed Du Xiaojuan before she too left the Textile Factory.

She planned to go to the black market to exchange some items from the System Space, which currently had no reason to take out, for cash.

Without much money on hand, she felt uneasy.

A few days ago, she heard Qingmu mention that the black market seemed to have moved to an alley not far from the Textile Factory.

It was rare for her to come to the county, so it was a good opportunity to exchange some money.

Lin Tang first found a restroom and put on a gray, patch-covered coat, also smudging her face with dirt, before heading to the black market.

A few minutes later.

An inconspicuous alleyway.

“What do you want?” A short-statured young man, not even twenty, blocked Lin Tang’s way and asked.

He eyed her with caution.

Lin Tang didn’t speak, but lifted the lid of the large basket she was carrying, revealing its contents.

The young man’s eyes brightened, and he immediately stepped aside, allowing her to enter.

Inside was an ordinary-looking, somewhat cramped alley.

There were quite a few people.

Some looked decent, others were ragged…

All were covering their faces.

Lin Tang, too, was covering her face, with only her beautiful, sparkling eyes visible.

The young girl was petite, yet she carried a half-person-tall basket, which made her quite noticeable.

“Comrade, what do you have?” someone asked, approaching her.

The questioner was a man in his thirties.

The man’s clothes were half old but without a single patch.

He wore a watch on his wrist, clearly a wealthy person.

“What do you want?” Lin Tang countered.

“… Do you have flour?” the man asked, not really expecting the young girl before him to have any.

Who doesn’t lack food? Who would sell life-saving food!

He had been coming here almost a week now and was about to give up.

But thinking of his son at home, sick and only wanting a bowl of flour noodles, he had to come.

Adults can make do, but a child only a few years old, sick and with no appetite, just longed for some flour noodles.

He wanted to fulfill his son’s wish.

Lin Tang uncovered the coarse cloth on top of the large basket and said, “I have it.”

The man was startled and immediately widened his eyes.

“Really?!”

He looked down and saw that the bag indeed contained white, shiny flour!

His view of Lin Tang changed in an instant.

Especially after he saw the eggs, rice, coarse grains, and oil in the basket Lin Tang brought, he looked at her as though she were divine.

His dull eyes suddenly lit up like two surprising lamps.

“… Comrade, are you planning to trade all these items? I’ll take them all!” the man said, holding back his excitement, afraid of alarming others.

These were all food items!

It had been years since he’d seen such good flour and oil.

“Are you sure? I have quite a bit, twenty pounds of flour, twenty pounds of rice, forty pounds of coarse grain, two pounds of oil…”

With every word Lin Tang spoke, the man’s heart thumped and his throat visibly swallowed.

“Yes yes yes, I’ll take it all, why don’t you come to my house?” the man suggested.

After speaking, he realized his words might sound inappropriate and quickly corrected himself.

“…It doesn’t have to be my house, wherever you say we’ll make the exchange is fine, I just worry I might not carry enough cash.”

Lin Tang said, “Let’s go with your idea, to your house it is!”

Not the least bit concerned about encountering someone who might try to rip her off.

If anyone should be afraid, it would be others.

If anyone dared to try anything with her, well…

The man was surprised but did not ask further, adding a brief explanation, “My wife is at home, my home is just by the steel mill…”

As they talked, he led Lin Tang towards the steel mill.

Housing was scarce in the city, and the man’s home was assigned by his factory, naturally not very large, just over twenty square meters.

But even that size was quite decent for the time.

The man knocked on the door.

After a moment, a woman came out.

“Back already? I told you there’s no need to go, hurry up and eat, after eating you need to get to work…” the woman’s tone was a mix of blame and tenderness.

Complaining that the man ran off to the black market without even eating.

“… Wife, I found it!” the man whispered in a voice filled with joy.

“What?” the woman was surprised.

“Let’s talk inside, come in first!” The man said, then turned to Lin Tang.

“Comrade, shall we go in? If you’re worried, we can leave the door open.”

Only then did the woman notice a dark-faced young girl following behind her husband.

“Sure, come in, Comrade!”

Lin Tang followed them inside and said, “You can close the door.”

She wasn’t worried about this couple’s intentions. With her martial prowess at her disposal, she had no fears.

She was more concerned about attracting attention and causing trouble.

“Comrade, I heard you have white flour, polished rice, and even eggs and sorghum flour, right? How much?” the man asked, looking at Lin Tang.

“White flour is three dimes per pound, polished rice two and a half dimes, coarse grain one and a half dimes per pound, oil is four dimes per pound, do you want them?”

The man thought it over, his heart quivering with joy.

Three dimes, two and a half dimes…

What kind of miraculous prices were these?!