Chapter 54: Salty and sweet mooncakes
Wang Xin waited until he was about to walk to the free market, and then took out a large cardboard box from the shopping cart.
A large piece of film paper was placed in the large cardboard box, and about fifty catties of moon cakes were densely placed in the paper, all of which were the kind with the outer packaging removed.
As for the deterioration, what doesn't exist is the kind that is mass-produced by the factory, and it doesn't grow hair even if it expires for three years, not to mention that this is still an expiring product.
If it was his body in the abandoned house before, carrying fifty pounds of things, it might be a bit difficult, but now don't look at the way he is only ten years old, because he has been doing manual work since he was a child, and the strength at hand is not small.
Lifting fifty pounds of things, although it can't be said to be easy, moving with one hand, but it's definitely not tiring.
What's more, when he took out the cardboard box, it was not far from the free market, but it was only a minute or two away.
When I got inside, I had a sense of prosperity that I had never seen before, and I even felt like I was back in the future farmers' market in a trance.
Because there were so many people, more than he had ever seen before.
Compared with festivals such as the National Day and the founding of the army, which have not been too many teenagers in total, the Mid-Autumn Festival, which has gone back to the present and has experienced thousands of years, is obviously more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Everyone also attaches more importance to this festival, second only to the importance of the Spring Festival and New Year's Day.
Therefore, it is understandable that there are many people who come to buy things.
Wang Xin didn't take a few steps with the box in his arms, but he was surrounded by people who came to buy things on the side, and they asked him curiously what he was.
On the free market side, there have always been more people buying and fewer people selling, and this situation is naturally more serious during such a festive season.
Don't look at the dense crowds here, most of them come to buy things, and the ones who sell things are not much different from the past, there are still so many people.
"Moon cakes, I sell moon cakes here, can you give me a little way, let me find a place to sit down first, it's quite heavy to hold." ”
Wang Xin saw that he was being blocked, so he hurriedly shouted out loudly, beckoning the people on the side to give way a little.
But I didn't know that this greeting made everyone even more excited.
Eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a habitual custom, but because of the relative lack of materials in recent years, private business has been banned, everyone really wants to buy moon cakes and has nowhere to buy them.
There are only two places where you can buy mooncakes, one is the supply and marketing cooperative, where there are occasional high-priced mooncakes for sale, and the other is in the department store, where there will also be during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
But the price is too expensive, and there are really not many mooncakes for a dollar, and they are also limited in supply, and no acquaintances can grab them at all.
Therefore, as soon as everyone heard that his box was filled with moon cakes, they could still let him in, of course, they quickly surrounded him outside.
Then he asked.
"What kind of stuffing do you have for this mooncake?"
"How much mooncakes sell!"
"Oh, don't go in, just sell it outside, let's buy it and go home!"
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Because a group of people blocked the door, an uncle on the side of the door hurriedly pulled Wang Xin and asked him to sit next to him and sell it first.
Of course, he has his own selfish motives, so it's more convenient to sit next to him and sell him to buy, isn't it?
waited until he sat down, and then Wang Xin began to speak: "Let's be quiet a little, the normal moon cakes on my side are sold for five cents a piece, and the meat-filled moon cakes are a little more expensive, and they cost one dollar."
The five-cent moon cakes are probably lotus paste filling and five-kernel filling, and the meat filling moon cakes have pure meat filling and salted egg yolk meat filling. ”
After speaking, he looked at the people around him again, and hurriedly added: "Each person is limited to four, and if you buy too much, people will not be able to buy it." ”
As soon as Wang Xin finished speaking, he opened the carton in front of him, revealing dense moon cakes, each piece is not big, but it is not small, about the size of a baby's palm, which basically belongs to the normal size of moon cakes here, and the size sold by supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores is not much different.
"Meat and salted egg yolk?"
"What is that, can you eat it? Are the mooncakes still salty?"
"I don't know, but since there's meat in it, it should be normal to sell it a little more expensive, I haven't eaten meat for a long time.
By the way, young man, do you want a ticket for this meat mooncake or something!"
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"No tickets, no tickets. ”
As soon as I heard that I didn't want a ticket, it didn't matter if it was salty or sweet, hurry up and grab it.
I still don't believe that there is no one to eat in the house with meat in it.
The process was quite smooth, although there were some people who wanted to buy more, but Wang Xin strongly refused, and the people behind him were urging, so it didn't cause any chaos.
After a while, the fifty catties of moon cakes bottomed out, and fortunately, Wang Xin covered the cardboard on the other side of the moon cakes when the moon cakes were sold to the half-center, so he secretly put ten catties of moon cakes in it three times.
After selling out, there were still two or three mooncakes left that were not in good condition, and they were simply given to the uncle who gave him a place on the side.
Then I happily folded the cardboard box and went out.
Don't think that the industrial mass-produced moon cakes sold by Wang Xin here are unpalatable, at this time, the moon cakes sold in the market here are also mass-produced by the moon cake factory.
Although Wang Xin's moon cakes should have slightly more additives than those in the factory here, the materials he uses are also sufficient, and they must be more than those used in the moon cake factory here.
This is also verified by Wang Xin himself.
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At six o'clock
Li Xi yawned and entered the factory, today he went to the free market at three o'clock in the morning and came back from a lot of things, got up so early, and now it is six o'clock, naturally he is sleepy.
But everyone is fine!
Of course, the so-called entry into the factory on their side does not mean that they have to go to work, except for those on duty on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is no need to go to work.
However, at this time, many workers lived directly in the dormitory of the factory, and sometimes the whole family lived in that small dormitory.
Therefore, there is no problem in returning to the factory after shopping.
I kept going back to my own house, a house of about ten square meters, and then I stopped yawning and said with a smile: "Mom, I bought moon cakes and came back!"
It's your favorite meat-filled mooncake and salted egg yolk mooncake!"
Li Xi's mother married from other places, and her eating habits are a little different from here.
Most people here are used to sweetness, but Wang Xi likes salty, and he has to put sauce and vinegar when he eats tofu brain.
At this time, I was still a little surprised to hear her son say that he bought her a mooncake with meat filling and a salted egg yolk filling mooncake.