Chapter 295: The Vegetable Seller (5)

Lao Chi coughed and said: "Our northeast cuisine is one season a year, and the south has three seasons and four seasons a year. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Look at this, as soon as the snow is covered in the winter, and the snow melts next year, this land will come to life, and it will be delicious to grow anything.

In the south, it is a fierce life that is staring at strength, and if the land is boring, it will be fertilized, and no matter how good the land is, it will be good to be able to grow it for you, what do you want?"

Zhang Xingming pinched a dumpling again, wiped his hands, signaled Chi Meinu not to eat it, and said to Lao Chi Tou: "Where has Uncle been? ”

Lao Chi shook his body and said, "That's a lot, I've been running for decades, and I've basically run there." ”

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After listening to Lao Chi's head blowing for a while, Zhang Xingming rented a book of Lu Ding Ji and took it in his hand and went out of the door of the rented bookstore.

I don't feel in the house, I feel a lot more relaxed when I come out to breathe, the house is still stuffy, the air is not circulating, so many people are panting.

In the winter of the Northeast people, the air in the house is not good, and the windows must be sealed with plastic sheets, otherwise the wind will be breathable, and the house will be too cold. The whole winter lasts from October to the end of April and May for the second time, and it is strange that the air can get better when people usually open the door for a meeting.

Looking at the time, there is still more than half an hour before class, and after thinking about what Lao Chitou said just now, he walked down the road to the vegetable market.

After the grain station, a two-story small building stands there, is the hotel of Jian'an Company, called Jubin Pavilion, the previous Zhang Xingming worked here for more than a year.

Zhang Xingming looked up at the sign of the hotel and looked into the room, it was dark, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

Behind the grain station after the restaurant, there is a public toilet, and next to the public toilet is the vegetable market.

At this time, there were not as many people doing business as in later generations, and there were more than a dozen stalls that were sparse and cold, and those who sold things were wrapped in military coats and covered with cotton hats.

Zhang Xingming walked over, there are fish sellers, this thing must be sold in the freeze, and I like winter the most. People here in Liaodong eat more sea fish, and most people are not used to eating river fish.

Selling tofu, bean sprouts, selling **, braised pig's head meat, Nanjing plate duck, goubangzi roast chicken, selling all kinds of pickles.

Go up a few steps, there are vegetables, potatoes, cabbage, this is the autumn cellar storage, at this time to sell a lot more expensive than the autumn, can earn more, but this business is not long, at most can be sold until the end of November, cabbage in the cellar is also rotten, no one dares to save too much.

The stall selling fresh vegetables is the most obvious, a car with a homemade incubator like selling popsicles in summer, covered with a quilt, and a few of the vegetables sold are placed on the quilt.

At this time, I didn't say that I didn't buy it after I bought it, I had to fight, and I couldn't put it back after I took it out and weighed it, and the skin was frozen, and it would rot when I put it back.

"What do you want to buy? The vegetable seller pressed down the scarf with his hand to expose his mouth, and greeted Zhang Xingming with a white breath.

Zhang Xingming looked at it, there are kidney beans (called green beans in the south), garlic sprouts, cucumbers, cowpeas, green peppers, garlic sprouts, leeks and celery, coriander, and eggplant, not the local big-headed eggplant, but the long eggplant in the south.

There are also apples, pears, bananas, and a few other fruits, the bananas look like they have been placed for a long time, they are completely black, and they are frozen and hard.

"How do you sell kidney beans? Oh, you can say the same, so I don't have to ask one by one. ”

"Three pieces of kidney beans, four pieces of garlic sprouts, two pieces of cucumber and cowpeas, three pieces of green peppers, five pieces of garlic sprouts, four pieces of leeks and celery, and seven pieces of coriander. ”

"Five catties of kidney beans, five catties of cucumbers and cowpeas, a few green peppers, five catties of leeks and celery, and one catty of coriander. Zhang Xingming thought about it, he came here anyway, and by the way, he bought some and weighed it the same.

The vegetable seller looked at him carefully and said, "Do you really want to?

Zhang Xingming roughly calculated in his heart, took out the money from his pocket, counted eighty, threw it on the quilt, and said, "Aren't you relieved now?" ”

The owner of the dish looked at the money and asked again: "If you take it, you won't return it, this can't be refunded." ”

Zhang Xingming waved his hand and said, "Collect the money and weigh the food, no one will come to you to return." ”

The boss of the dish was happy, and he sold it for almost a hundred yuan this time, which is a big customer, and he began to weigh the dish quickly.

Zhang Xingming also sold vegetables with his mother for a few years in his last life, and this work is really hard, even more serious than growing vegetables.

I had to get up at four o'clock in the morning and take the liberation truck to the Yidongqiao Fruit Wholesale Market in the city to buy goods.

At that time, the temperature in the Northeast winter was more than 4 o'clock in the morning, and the temperature was basically minus 30 to 40 degrees, which was the coldest time of the day.

Sitting in the open air in the compartment of the liberation car, running 40 kilometers of mountain roads.

It took more than an hour to get to the ground, the car waited outside the market, and the vegetable seller went into the market to buy goods.

The dishes are all box-by-box, or one-by-one, without dismantling or opening the bag, just piled up in the warehouse, celery, coriander, garlic, cowpeas, these are tied into large bundles, and they cannot be opened.

The way Chinese do business is unchanged through the ages, this everyone understands, tie a stone on the bottom of the cabbage, tie a little wet mud in the bundle of vegetables, and mix some frozen rotten under the good vegetables, all depends on the eyesight and experience of the person who loads the goods.

At this time, it was not yet dawn, and the several incandescent lamps lit by Curry were lit, and they couldn't see clearly at all.

With his eyesight, he had to carry it to the truck waiting outside the market, a basket of kidney beans of seventy or eighty catties, a basket of cucumbers of more than 100 catties, and no one helped.

The owner of the truck put a large cotton mat in the body and put it on the outside of the car.

The person who loaded the goods carried the dishes over, he stood on the car to pick it up, stacked it in the car, and when the goods arrived, after they were placed, he wrapped the cotton mat back and covered it tightly, tied it with a rope, and drove back.

The car is loaded with vegetables, and the people who load the goods go to the train station to take the commuter bus back to Nanfen.

The train is faster than the car, the goods arrive home, ready to take the car to the place where the goods are picked up and wait, the car arrives to pull their goods home, and the work of purchasing the goods is half completed.

Then you have to pick and tidy up, take out the wet mud of the stones, pick off the rotten leaves and dead branches of the vegetables, and tidy up the neat yards into the boxes for sale, which is considered ready. Sometimes there are too many rotten vegetables in it, even if it is a loss.

Because the places where everyone puts on the goods are almost the same, sometimes a few vegetables are sold in total, and they sell more expensively, so they have to get this back, and the people will find that the price of a certain dish has increased in the past few days.

In this case, it is impossible to make money, in fact, it is good to be able to return to the original, there are really too few families who can eat vegetables every day during this period, and selling vegetables for a day is only a few tens of hundreds of dollars.

Like Zhang Xingming bought this time, it was more than he usually sold in a day, so it's no wonder that he confirmed it again and again, and he really couldn't believe it.

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The vegetable seller weighed the vegetables, put them in bags, and then put a big bag on the outside, handed it to Zhang Xingming, and said: "Give, a total of ninety-three yuan five, you can give another thirteen yuan, five cents don't want it." ”

Northeast people like to calculate the whole money when selling things, and the pricing is the same, generally the whole piece, at most five cents, easy to settle accounts.

Zhang Xingming took out another thirteen yuan and handed it to him, took the vegetables and walked forward in his hand, and the vendor shouted while collecting the money: "Come again, brother, I am here every day, and I promise to give you enough." ”

Zhang Xingming waved his hand at him.