Chapter 35

Song Wen and Song Wu have been trying hard to make money in the black market these days.

However, a bamboo basket of red date cakes, a bamboo basket of hawthorn cakes, and a pot of braised pork are still a bit too much. The consumption capacity in a small town is limited. If you come to sell every day, sometimes there will be some left.

Today there are still about ten pieces left to sell.

The two brothers prepared to go out and sell it to see if they could find anyone who needed to buy it on the street.

Just as they walked out of the black market, they saw a few people wearing red armbands walking towards them with ferocious looks.

Song Wen quietly squeezed his brother’s hand, and Song Wu understood. The two pretended nothing had happened and continued walking with their heads down.

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw those people with red armbands passing by them.

But before they could finish being happy, a man with a red armband suddenly spoke up.

“Wait a minute, you two.”

The two brothers had to stop.

“What are you two doing? Did you come out of the alley?”

Song Wen suppressed his nervousness and said, “No, we two brothers came to the town to buy things and just happened to pass by here.”

“Then what are you carrying on your backs?” The man with the red armband looked at the bamboo baskets on their backs with an unfriendly tone.

“It’s cakes. I brought them from home for lunch. After all, we country folks don’t want to spend money on food in town.”

As Song Wu spoke, he untied the bamboo basket, opened the cloth cover, took out a few cakes and handed them over.

“These things are all homemade and not worth much. You have worked hard in serving the people, brothers, take some and eat them.”

Seeing that they were quite sensible, the man with the red armband did not question them any further, but still took all the cakes without hesitation.

Song Wu chuckled and asked casually, “Brothers, where are you going?”

“The higher-ups asked us to investigate capitalism.”

Perhaps because he had eaten his food, the red armband rarely spoke to him. After finishing a piece of cake, the red armband wiped his hands on his clothes and said to the two of them, “Don’t ask nonsense.”

As he said that, he went to check several nearby alleys.

The people on the lookout at the black market discovered the situation early on and went in to arrange for the evacuation.

But there are always some people who can’t stand the guilty conscience and run away desperately when they see the people with red armbands coming towards them fiercely.

Seeing this, the people with red armbands quickly chased after him.

It’s strange that the red armbands have changed from being lazy in the past to being strict now.

Song Wu wanted to go over and take a look, but Song Wen pulled him back and said, “Let’s go home directly and tell our family the news.”

When they got home, they immediately told their family members about it.

After listening to their description, Song Baoguo was puzzled: “Why are they suddenly cracking down on buying and selling?”

“That’s right.” Ye Hongmei couldn’t hide her distress on her face, “I can earn more than 30 yuan a day. How come I can’t do it all of a sudden…”

Song Wu sighed heavily, “Will I never be able to do business again?”

He just became passionate about this money-making business.

Song Wen was the most open-minded: “Didn’t my sister always say that this special period of not allowing independent trading will pass?”

“Maybe it’s really what my little sister said. After all, every period of power transition is turbulent. Maybe this is the darkness before dawn?”

After Song Wen finished his analysis, he turned to look at his sister, only to find that she was distracted.

Song Wen touched the soft hair on her head with amusement, “You agree, right, little sister?”

“Huh? What?” Song Ruan came back to her senses.

“I suddenly remembered something. I’ll go out for a while.”

She didn’t have time to talk to her family in detail and went out in a hurry.

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She was going to Yang Bin’s house to see if Yang Bin had returned.

Yang Bin has also been doing business recently. Although she didn’t ask, she knew that he could make so much money, which must be inseparable from the black market.

She was afraid something might happen to him.

“Mo’er, is your brother home?”

Song Ruan happened to see Yang Moer at the door of his house, and quickly grabbed her hand and asked anxiously.

“No, my brother has been coming home late recently. Sister Song, is there something urgent you want to talk to him about?”

Song Ruan’s heart sank, and she shook her head at her: “It’s okay, I’ll go first.”

Song Ruan hurried back home, then rode his bicycle to the town to see if he could find out any news about Yang Bin.

When I came to the town, I found that it was indeed different from before.

The town used to be quite lively, but now even the sound of talking is rare, and many passers-by have solemn expressions.

A turmoil has suddenly made the world of ordinary people less vibrant.

Song Ruan wanted to find Yang Bin, but she didn’t know where to find him. Because she respected everyone’s privacy, she never asked him about these things.

Now I’m at a loss.

There was no other choice, Song Ruan had to look around.

She went to the black market first and found that it was deserted. There was only a messy ground in the alley that had not been cleaned up, but no one was in sight.

Then she went to the room where she met Taohuayan last time, but the door was locked.

After running around for so long, I got nothing.

Song Ruan sighed, and took out a kettle from the space where no one could see. Then he found a place to sit down, drank water, and thought about what to do next.

Before I could figure out what was going on, there was a sudden commotion at the street corner ahead, and many people gathered over.

Song Ruan closed the cup and walked over.

She squeezed into the crowd and looked inside, and found a man lying on the ground, his eyes closed, sweat dripping, his brows tightly knitted, and he was breathing rapidly.

“Please move aside and stop crowding around. He can’t breathe.”

Song Ruan quickly told the people around him that after all, if this kind of fainting is not handled properly, there will be sequelae.

However, after she said this, only a few people moved away, while most of the others stayed around to watch the fun.

Just as Song Ruan was worried, a girl with pigtails stood up and said, “I told you to stop surrounding him. Didn’t you hear me? Can’t you see that he’s almost out of breath?”

After saying that, she swiftly pushed the people around her out.

Song Ruan smiled at her gratefully, then quickly unbuttoned the two buttons on the man’s collar, fanned him with one hand, and held her water bottle with the other hand, bringing it to the man’s mouth for him to drink.

The kettle is filled with Jade Spring Water from the space. Human life is at stake, so Song Ruan is not stingy.

But this man’s awareness of vigilance was surprisingly high. He was clearly gasping for breath, but when he was asked to drink water, he closed his lips tightly.

It was as if she had fed him poison.

Song Ruan’s forehead twitched and she could only try to communicate with him.

She patted him and said, “You are sick. Open your mouth and drink some water first. You will be fine after drinking it.”

Not long after he said this, the man actually slowly loosened his tightly pursed lips and let her pour the water into her mouth.

After the man drank a lot of Yuquan water, his breathing slowly stabilized.

Song Ruan heaved a sigh of relief when she saw the effect, and now she had time to look at him.

For some reason, Song Ruan felt that this man looked familiar from the first moment she saw him.

The man lying on the ground looked okay and should be about the same age as Yang Bin, but Song Ruan was sure that she didn’t know him.

Then why do I feel familiar with it?

When Song Ruan was puzzled, the man suddenly opened his eyes.

After he opened his eyes, Song Ruan froze in place as if struck by lightning when she saw his light-colored pupils.

She remembered who he was.