Soon the door opened and a young man in his twenties came out.

“Master Liu, you are here, please come in.”

“Yeah!” Grandpa Liu nodded and walked towards the courtyard.

Of course Li Le hurried to follow.

This courtyard is very large. When Li Le came in, he found that there were many people living here.

Li Le originally thought that these people were just like those in other places, with many families living together, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was not right.

The people that Mr. Liu knows cannot possibly live with others. They must all live in one courtyard house.

Sure enough, Li Le soon discovered that although there were many people living here, there was really only one family.

The person who opened the door for them just now was the second son of the owner of this courtyard house. The owner of this courtyard house had a total of seven sons and three daughters.

They all live here, and because of their identities, they don’t have jobs.

Maybe there were some in the past, but after the class division, some people were unable to go to work.

They couldn’t even go to school, commonly known as the five black categories.

This family belongs to this category. Of course, their identity is that of the old and the young. For a long time to come, they can only live off their past capital.

Although there are no jobs, there is still a quota, and everyone has one.

But after being used to eating big fish and meat, they suddenly had to eat simple meals, or even could not eat meat, which was a little hard for them to accept.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from simplicity to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality. If they have never enjoyed it before, they don’t care.

But they used to have a life of luxury, but suddenly they can’t even afford to eat. How could they accept this?

“Master Liu.” Seeing them come in, an old man in his fifties hurriedly came forward with a fist salute.

“Master Ma.” Master Liu also clasped his fists.

“Please come in.” The master Ma quickly made a gesture of invitation.

After Li Le and Mr. Liu entered the room and sat down, someone brought them tea.

“please.”

“Thank you.” After expressing his gratitude, Mr. Liu picked up the tea and took a sip.

Li Le followed suit.

“Master Liu, I don’t know…”

Master Liu quickly put down his teacup and said, “Master Ma, I’ve brought the man to you. Tell him if he needs anything!”

In fact, Master Liu had his own food, but the amount he had stored was relatively small and he had no intention of selling it, so he called Li Le.

Because he knew better than anyone that Li Le had a lot of food, and Li Le was more interested in antiques.

“What’s your name, little brother?” Master Ma asked Li Le.

“My name is Li Le. You can call me Xiao Li or Xiao Le.”

“Then I’ll call you Xiaole!”

Li Le knew that the reason why he called him Ma Ye like that was that he wanted to get closer to him.

“Okay.” Li Le nodded.

To be honest, it really doesn’t matter, and he has no prejudice against these old people.

Because no matter who they are, there are good and bad people, such as Mr. Liu and Uncle Guan. To Li Le, these two are good people.

“Mr. Liu has already told me about your situation. Just tell me what you need?” Li Le asked Mr. Ma.

When Master Ma heard what Li Le said, he glanced at Master Liu. Seeing Master Liu nod to him, he said, “I need white flour. Of course, meat would be better.”

“White flour is fine, and I only have strong flour here. As for meat, I can give you some, but you know that there is not much meat at this time.”

“I know.”

He knew very well that each person only had 4 taels of meat coupons per month. There were more than 30 people in his family, and they only had more than 10 kilograms of meat coupons per month.

Even if he bought all of them, they would not be enough for one meal. This Mr. Ma had thought about buying them on the black market, but he didn’t dare to go.

If they were just ordinary people, they would go, but their identities meant that they had to be more cautious.

“Just tell me the number!”

“One thousand catties of flour, and two hundred catties of meat.”

In fact, he wanted to ask for more, but he also knew that at this moment, he might not get it if he asked for more.

“Sure, but what can I get?”

“Uh!”

Ma Ye was stunned for a moment. He thought Li Le would be in a difficult situation, but he didn’t expect that it was not the case at all.

The other person agreed without even thinking about it, which made him even more curious about Li Le’s identity.

What time is it now? It’s the era when people have to buy food with coupons.

There are about thirty people in their family, and the monthly flour ration is only about two hundred kilograms.

One thousand kilograms of flour is equivalent to their family’s flour ration for five months, not to mention the meat.

Two hundred kilograms of pork is their family’s annual ration!

“Please wait a moment.” After saying this, Mr. Ma stood up and walked inside.

A few minutes later, the horse master brought a few things over, placed them directly in front of Li Le and said, “How about exchanging these things for the food and meat?”

Although Li Le now has a certain understanding of antiques, he still turned his head and glanced at Master Liu.

After all, there are fakes in this era, and there are quite a few of them. Only after they have passed the approval of Mr. Liu can they be guaranteed for Li Le.

There were four items in total. Master Liu picked them up and looked at them all. He turned to Li Le, nodded, and said, “There’s nothing wrong with the items.”

“Okay, I’ll go get the stuff now, wait for me.”

“Ah! Send it over now?” asked Mr. Ma in surprise.

For others, it is indeed inappropriate to deliver things in broad daylight, but for Li Le, the daytime is the safer.

Because he is a waste collector! He only comes out to collect waste during the day. If he comes out at night, that would be a problem.

Master Liu knew Li Le’s situation! So he said to Master Ma, “He’s fine.”

“Oh! Okay.”

Master Ma was very surprised! Master Liu’s words that he was fine made him even more curious about Li Le.

Li Le left Ma Ye’s house and rode away on his tricycle. About ten minutes later, Li Le found a small forest and rode his tricycle into it.

He wasn’t stupid enough to go for a long ride. It was so cool in the woods! And he didn’t feel tired.

After waiting for about forty minutes, Li Le waved his hand and twenty more bags of flour and two hundred kilograms of pork were added to the tricycle.

This is fresh meat. Li Le originally planned to give some bacon or ham, but that would require him to run back.

Besides, bacon and ham are much more expensive than fresh meat.

After finishing, Li Le took out the canvas from under the cart, covered it directly, and then tied it up with a rope.

To be honest, Li Le has been collecting waste for such a long time, but he has only used this canvas a few times.

Because this is used to prevent some of the collected things from getting wet due to rain. I didn’t expect it to come in handy today.

After tying it up, Li Le pushed the tricycle out of the woods. This was only Li Le. If it were someone else, it would probably be impossible for him to push the tricycle out.

Then Li Le rode towards Ma Ye’s house.

After arriving, Li Le went up and knocked on the door, and the door opened quickly.

He is the second son of Mr. Ma.

After the gate opened, Li Le pushed the tricycle into the yard.

After Li Le went in, Ma Ye’s second son looked around and quickly closed the door. At this time, Liu Ye and Ma Ye also came out of the house, not only the two of them, but also Ma Ye’s family members came out.

Because they all knew that Li Le was delivering food to their family.

“Master Ma, the things are all here. Please have them unload them. Besides, the meat is fresh meat, freshly slaughtered, so it’s best to marinate it.”

Hearing what Li Le said, Master Ma quickly called his sons and said, “Hurry up and unload it, put it in the cellar, and marinate the meat.”

At Master Ma’s command, his sons began to act. When the canvas was opened, Li Le could hear the sound of them swallowing saliva.

Needless to say, this is pork, two hundred kilograms of pork!

More people means more work! In less than five minutes, all the items on the tricycle were unloaded.

“Xiao Le, thank you! Thank you so much.” Master Ma quickly said to Li Le.

“No, I didn’t give it to you for free. You exchanged it for something.”

Although he said so, Master Ma knew that antiques were not valuable at that time.

Meat and grain are the most valuable. With just those four things, he would never be able to get so much in exchange for them from others.

It’s impossible to even exchange it, this is 200 kilograms of pork! And it’s fresh meat, and 1,000 kilograms of Fuqiang flour.

Others may not know, but Master Ma knows very well that this Fuqiang powder is not for him and ordinary people at all.

It’s impossible to buy this thing at the grain station because it doesn’t exist at all.

Ordinary people can only buy 85% standard flour, and forget about buying rich and strong flour.

But something that others thought was impossible to buy, when it came to Li Le, he directly brought in a thousand kilograms.

Not to mention Master Ma, even Master Liu was surprised.

You have to know that although he had stored a lot of grain, there was not much Fuqiang flour, only about one thousand kilograms in total, and the rest was 85 standard flour.

“Come in and have some tea.” Master Ma said hurriedly.

“it is good.”

After sitting down in the house, Master Ma personally poured a cup of tea for Li Le and said, “Xiao Le, if I need you next time, can I find you again?”

“Of course!” Li Le nodded and said, “Just ask Master Liu to tell me when the time comes.”

“Okay okay.”

Li Le and Liu Ye didn’t stay here for long.

Originally, Master Ma wanted to invite them to have dinner, but at this time, staying for dinner would just add burden to others.

People have already exchanged antiques for food, and you are still eating here. It’s really unacceptable.

So Mr. Liu refused directly.

After leaving Master Ma’s house, Li Le did not go back, but went directly to Master Liu’s house.

Li Le did not feel any burden when eating at Mr. Liu’s house, because there were snacks at Mr. Liu’s house!

Besides, if Mr. Liu’s family was short of food, Li Le could not help but help, and for free.

“These four items are all good. They can be considered treasures. Even if they can’t reach the level of treasures, they are almost there.”

After arriving at Mr. Liu’s house, Mr. Liu looked at the things and said.

“Ok!”

“I saw that, too, but I’m not sure.”

Yes, after Master Ma took it out, Li Le knew it was a treasure, but he still let Master Liu take a closer look.

There is no way. Although Li Le is no longer a newbie, he is still far behind Master Liu. They are not even on the same level.

They had lunch at Mr. Liu’s house, but Li Le didn’t eat for free, he even took out a piece of meat.

It weighed about five pounds. It wasn’t because he didn’t want to take more, but because he took this piece of meat out of his schoolbag when he was eating.

Any bigger and it won’t be normal.

It’s true, Mr. Liu’s cooking skills are pretty good, and his braised pork is so authentic.

Li Ledu ate an extra bowl of rice.

After dinner, Li Le did not leave, but chatted with Mr. Liu.

“If this situation still happens, will you still change it?” asked Master Liu.

“Change it! Why not? You know I have plenty of food.”

There was nothing wrong with the food in Li Le’s space, but the food in the cellar could not be kept for long.

Even if he exchanged the food in the space back and forth, it could only last for five or six years at most.

After all, current technology is not up to that level. Although he has used glass for storage, it is only slightly better.

In other words, in the next few years, Li Le will have to sell about 200 tons of grain.

This is not a small amount! Two hundred tons may not seem like much, but in the entire imperial capital, it might be enough for one person.

But don’t forget that he won’t supply the entire imperial capital, but will use it to exchange for antiques and large and small yellow croakers.

This is a lot, you can exchange it for many antiques and large and small yellow croakers.

“Just change it, and I’ll ask for you later. But don’t worry, I won’t find you an unstable one.”

Li Le was very sure about this because he knew Mr. Liu very well.

Besides, at this time, no one is stupid. With such a channel, everyone wants to maintain it.

What is food? It is life.

It was almost four o’clock when Li Le left Mr. Liu’s house, of course, with four antiques.

Originally he wanted to leave one for Mr. Liu, but Mr. Liu didn’t like it at all, which made Li Le helpless.

When he got home, Ma Feng and the others had not returned yet. Li Le knew that they probably wanted to take advantage of the cooler weather and harvest a little longer.

For Li Le, it doesn’t matter whether he accepts it or not.

“Brother Le, are you back?” Zhao Yanran and her sister asked while standing at the door of the main room.

“Yeah!” Li Le nodded and walked into the house.

As for the four antiques that were exchanged, they have now been placed in the space.

“By the way, Brother Le, there’s a letter for you.”

“Letter.” Li Le frowned.

Who would write to him at this time?
Moreover, during this period of time, including this one, Li Le has received three letters.

“Okay! I’ll get it for you.” After saying that, Zhao Yanran went into the inner room and came out with a letter.

Li Le took it and took a look. It was another blank envelope.

Seeing this, Li Le frowned and said, “Could it be Lou Bancheng again?”

“What got accomplished?” Zhao Yanran asked.

“Oh! Nothing. Let me see who wrote it.” Li Le said and opened the letter.

When Li Le saw what was inside, he was surprised, because there were two house deeds and a land deed.

Not only that, there were also two mortgage agreements, dated a year ago, with signatures and fingerprints on them.

The most important thing is that Li Le didn’t recognize any of the names on these two mortgage agreements.

It is consistent with the name on the house deed and land title.

Although he didn’t know him, Li Le was very sure that the house deed and land deed were definitely given to him by Lou Bancheng.

As for why the name on it is not Lou Bancheng, but two unfamiliar names. (End of this chapter)