mchenry-crisis.org Chapter 64 Pay money, and you'll get a hind leg?
Chapter 64 Pay money, and you'll get a hind leg?
In Lin Wan's memory, there was a guy who liked black stockings who often complained that animal protection in the future world was too strict and that he had never eaten wild game in his more than 20 years of life!
In the future, secretly hunting wild animals will be a criminal offense.
It is said that a college student was sentenced to ten years in prison for climbing a tree to steal birds' nests!
With such severe penalties, it's no wonder that no one dares to sell wild animals anymore.
However, it's just that they dare not do it openly. Whether they sell it secretly in private is a matter of opinion.
Looking at the wild boar raging wildly in the cage, Lin Wan thought to herself, "If I buy it and keep it until 2025, he'll definitely love it!"
Thinking of this, I involuntarily stopped in my tracks.
After all, she always felt indebted to Chen Huai'an.
To be more precise, it was Chen Huai'an who bought her clothes and shoes with his own money, and she always remembered it and wanted to find an opportunity to repay him.
I didn't know how to repay them before, but now that I have the opportunity, I can't miss it.
With her high salary, buying wild boar meat would be an easy task.
However, what is easy for her is very difficult for ordinary people.
Although this place is known as the most prosperous metropolis in the Far East and a paradise for the rich, it is not necessarily a paradise for the poor.
Shanghai currently has a total population of about 500 million. Due to hyperinflation, the influx of refugees, and economic collapse, homelessness and begging have increased dramatically.
The SH Relief Committee stated that the number of refugees in the shelters has reached over 10,000!
This only includes the refugees we've taken in; there are many more that haven't been counted.
At the beginning of the year, the newspaper Shen Bao published a report that described how beggars would huddle in the corners of alleyways at night, and some would even lie down and sleep on the sidewalk.
A rough calculation suggests that there are over 100,000 beggars!
So many people can't find work and have no choice but to beg on the streets to survive.
In this environment, capitalists will find various pretexts to deduct wages in order to exploit workers.
A female worker in a textile factory was supposed to earn 9 silver dollars, but in reality, after various deductions, she would receive much less.
Even if the female workers were dissatisfied, they could only swallow their anger and resentment.
Anyway, there are plenty of beggars on the street who need work, and if they don't do it, there are plenty of people who are willing to.
To have food to eat and to survive, we have no choice but to grit our teeth and persevere!
Therefore, ordinary families rarely get to eat meat even once a month.
If I really crave meat, I'll only eat it once a month at most, buying some scraps or leftover bone-in meat.
It was a treat, you could say.
There were dozens of people watching the spectacle on the street, but not a single one of them was willing to spend money to buy anything.
It's not that they don't want to buy it, but they're staring longingly at the wild boar meat right in front of them, yet they don't have the money to buy it!
The burly man selling wild boar meat and another woman could only keep shouting, hoping to attract more onlookers.
Only when there are more people will there be more buyers.
Otherwise, if you kill a wild boar but can't sell it, you'll have to throw it away once the meat rots.
They wanted to wait until there were more people before slaughtering the pig, bleeding it, and selling the meat to prove it was freshly killed.
Unfortunately, out of the twenty-odd people gathered there, only two or three expressed interest in buying.
Moreover, because everyone was short of money, the largest amount each person could buy was only one pound of pork.
The wild boar, weighing over 200 pounds, could only be sold for three to five pounds of meat, which is why the strong man was hesitant to start cooking.
Lin Wan walked through the crowd and glanced at the irritable wild boar.
He asked, "I'll buy them all, how much?"
The burly man's eyes lit up when he heard that someone wanted to buy all the wild boars.
There weren't many buyers just now, but now they've all sold out at once. My emotions are as volatile as when I get on a bus.
He said in a muffled voice, "If you want them all, 10...9 silver dollars will do."
He had barely finished speaking when he immediately added, "We don't accept gold yuan notes!"
With severe inflation, the value of the gold yuan plummeted.
The more you collect today, the more you will lose tomorrow.
Only silver dollars and gold can retain their value!
In fact, the Kuomintang reactionaries also knew that the credibility of the gold yuan had collapsed, so they initially banned the circulation of silver dollars in the market.
It was only because no one was buying it that the silver dollar was tacitly allowed to circulate again.
Lin Wan found the price acceptable, and the burly man even offered a discount to sell it quickly.
He took a silver dollar out of his bag and handed it over, saying, "This is a deposit. You can pay the balance after the meat is slaughtered and delivered to my house."
Nine silver dollars is a lot of money; very few people would carry that much cash with them.
The burly man took the silver dollar, a smile spreading across his rugged face.
He called to the women nearby and they began to slaughter the pig and bleed it together.
The two men worked swiftly and skillfully, killing the wild boar and then cleanly and efficiently skinning it.
After rinsing the drain, wrap it in lotus leaves and set it aside.
Lin Wan stood three meters away, watching calmly.
He showed no discomfort whatsoever at the bloody scene of the pig slaughter, not even flinching.
She's not the weak type of girl; she's a genuine underground party member who has personally killed spies and seen blood on her hands!
His long-term underground work had forged his resilient character.
If you're afraid of slaughtering pigs and blood, you're not qualified to work on the covert front.
As the wild boar was slaughtered, the crowd dispersed.
I originally wanted to buy half a pound or two ounces to take home for a treat, but I could only leave helplessly.
Someone else has already offered 9 silver dollars to buy this wild boar, so it's impossible for it to be sold to others anymore.
Just as the wild boar was split in two and loaded onto a wheelbarrow to be pushed away.
Several thugs dressed in black vests and trousers, exuding a roguish air, walked over.
The bald man leading the group shouted, "Don't you know the rules when doing business here?"
If you want to do business on the street, there are some fees that you have to pay.
Back when this area was the French Concession, the police station would hire gang members to collect money from merchants in order to make money.
Although the concessions have been abolished, some unspoken rules remain unchanged, and gang members still exist.
The burly man often sold meat and was very familiar with the rules of the street.
He hurriedly took out a few banknotes and handed them over with a forced smile.
Otherwise, if you offend these gang members, you can forget about having a good life in the future.
The bald man took the banknotes, a satisfied smile spreading across his face.
He glanced down at the freshly slaughtered pork, then looked up and said, "Cut off another hind leg."
Not satisfied with just receiving the money, they clearly wanted to extort more money.
"Uh..." The burly man paused, a troubled look on his face.
She said cautiously, "But... this customer has already bought all the meat."
"Guests?" The bald man's lips curled up, his face showing a disdainful sneer.
On this street, if he sets his sights on something, he'll snatch it even if someone else has already bought it!
Following the direction of the finger, my eyes lit up!
The guest mentioned turned out to be a woman!
She's a very beautiful young woman!