Living like a salted fish in the end times

Chapter 124 The Skyrocketing Gold Price

After leaving the seafood stall, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came to a vegetable stall.

The price of vegetables is not much cheaper than seafood, plus some vegetable tickets were issued during the Chinese New Year, and there are some leftover mushrooms at home, so I finally held back and didn't make a move.

After walking around, the two suddenly found a canned food stall. Compared with Easterners, Westerners are obviously more accepting of canned food.

"Boss, how do you sell the canned food?"

"Five thousand for canned fruit, three thousand for canned pork, two thousand for canned beef, and two thousand for luncheon meat."

"Why is pork more expensive than beef?"

Kate was suddenly curious.

It is understandable that canned fruit is expensive. After all, fruit is not easy to preserve, and the rarest is the most expensive.

However, the East is a traditional pig-raising area. It stands to reason that there should be more canned pork than canned beef, and there should be no upside-down phenomenon.

"Pork has more fat than beef. Isn't there a lack of oil now? Pork is more popular."

The vendor patiently explained.

"That's right, then give us three cans of beef and two cans of fruit. We bought five cans at once. Can the price be lower?"

These cans were bought for old Angle.

Westerners are more used to canned beef.

"Okay, I will erase the change for you, seventeen thousand."

The vendor said happily.

"Is it thousand? Canned beef is too small, maybe even grams are useless."

"Canned food is in short supply, is too little, and my purchase price is more than ."

Kate picked up two cans of luncheon meat: "Then add two more cans of luncheon meat, how about for each?"

The vendor bowed his head to think for a while, and finally nodded: "You are customers from afar, and is , and I sold it to you."

"thank you boss!"

Kate breathed a sigh of relief.

Prices are soaring these years, and I heard that there will be a heating bill in the second half of the year, so it would be good to save a little.

Finally, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law turned to a stall selling tobacco and alcohol. The vendor was a beautiful woman in her thirties, with heavy makeup and very decent attire.

"What do you two want to buy?"

"How do you sell cigarettes and alcohol?"

Tobacco and alcohol were also bought for Old Angel.

The woman smiled and pointed to a small label on the wine box: "The price is posted on it, you can see for yourself."

Kate quickly scanned it carefully, and couldn't help but say, "It's too expensive, can it be cheaper?"

"Sorry, I don't bargain here."

Seeing that the boss was determined, Mrs. Angle immediately pulled her daughter-in-law aside and discussed in a low voice. The two of them were running out of cash.

"Mom, why don't I go home?"

"No need, there is not much money left at home." Mrs. Angel shook her head, and then took out a bag of jewelry from her underwear pocket: "Just use this to pay the bill, and you can ask the boss if you will accept it."

"Mom...it's not you..."

"Needless to say, these jewels are neither edible nor drinkable, and it's useless to keep them. It's better to exchange them for something more practical."

"I also have jewelry there, use mine?"

"Use mine first, and then use yours if it's not enough."

Mrs. Angle waved her hand.

Kate nodded, took the jewelry from her mother-in-law, then turned to look at the vendor:
"Boss, we don't have enough money on us, can we exchange jewelry with you for cigarettes and alcohol?"

Upon hearing this, the woman immediately pointed to a small counter at the entrance of the gate, and introduced, "I don't know much about jewelry. The counter over there specializes in recycling jewelry. You can go and have a look."

"Okay, we'll be right back."

Kate nodded.

Immediately afterwards, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came to the counter very quickly. The counter attendant was very enthusiastic and immediately poured two cups of hot tea for the two guests.

"Do you accept jewelry here?"

"Received."

"what price?"

"General gold and silver jewelry is recycled according to the material price, and famous watches and bags are appraised by professionals on the spot."

Kate immediately spread the jewelry in her hand carefully on the counter, and the waiter immediately invited the appraiser over.

The appraiser was young and looked to be in his 20s. After some courtesies, the other party picked up the jewelry and began to appraise it piece by piece.

After 10 minutes, the appraiser said:

"Except for this diamond ring, everything else should be fine..."

"What happened to the diamond ring?"

Kate hurriedly asked.

Mrs. Angle on the side was also very nervous.

"You two don't need to be nervous. This diamond ring is real, but our company doesn't accept diamond rings. Let me make it clear to you in advance."

"Why not accept it?"

Kate frowned.

"Because diamonds are worthless, they cannot be sold at a high price."

The appraiser hurriedly explained.

"How is it possible? This diamond is a full two carats, and it's not a broken diamond."

"Ms. Kate, I'm not fooling you. Diamonds really can't be sold at a high price. Everyone only recognizes precious metals now. Whether it's famous watch jadeite or antique calligraphy and paintings, the general depreciation is very severe, especially this diamond. It has fallen to a stall price."

Kate had no choice but to take back the diamond ring: "Okay then, we won't sell the diamond ring, and you can calculate the price for us."

"Before evaluating the price, we need to test the purity of the precious metal."

"How to detect?"

"It's melted, and it's tested again with a machine."

Kate immediately kept an eye on it: "What is the price of gold and silver now?"

"Silver hasn't risen much. It costs 12 yuan a gram, but gold has risen sharply. The current market price is 850 yuan per gram. We will recycle it at a uniform price of 800 yuan."

"Okay, you burn it!"

Kate breathed a sigh of relief.

The price was a bit beyond her expectation.

"Okay, wait a moment, you two, it will be ready soon." After the appraiser finished speaking, he immediately took out the spray gun.

In less than ten minutes, the appraisal results came out. Since most of these jewelry are well-known big brands of the Federation, the emphasis is on the design style, not pure gold.

In the end, after some conversion, 95 grams of gold was only sold for more than 13 yuan.

Mrs. Angle was very happy and satisfied with the price: "Just this price!"

Speaking of which, she also experienced that era. In the year of catastrophe, it is already rare for gold to be sold at such a high price.

Back then, a gold ring couldn't even be exchanged for an egg.

"Okay, do you two have WeChat accounts?"

"Excuse me, can I transfer the money via bank transfer?"

Kate looked troubled.

There is no way. Although the federal market has been integrated long ago, in some key areas, the major regions still engage in some local protectionism.

Coupled with the skyrocketing price of water and electricity, mobile phone bills, only the old Anger and the little Anger in the family have set up new phone numbers.

Other people's mobile phones are decorations.

The waiter took the words: "No problem, there is a bank nearby, we can go there to transfer money."

ps: Ask for recommended tickets and monthly tickets!

(End of this chapter)