Chapter 6: The First Pot of Gold
The annual summer vacation began, Xu Xuecheng felt that he was really wearing the right time, pretending to be forced for two days, and getting acquainted with the children for two days, it was time for the summer vacation. Two months of free time, with the memory of half a century ahead of the Chinese people, what can't you do?
Xu Xuecheng got up early in the morning, and the rooster didn't crow, so he staggered up from the bed, and went out quietly.
Turning the corner, I walked to the camphor tree at the entrance of the land temple, and a figure flashed out from behind the tree.
"Xuecheng, here, why are you so slow, I will be carried away by mosquitoes any later!"
It turned out to be Xu Xuede, who also carried a sack on his back, which was one size bigger than Xu Xuecheng's, and he was almost as tall as others.
"I'll go, you're not going to empty your house, are you?"
Xu Xuecheng carried the bag behind him, good guy, it weighs thirty or forty pounds, this is a sun-dried winter mushroom, no wonder there is such a sack.
"My eldest sister went to the mountain to pick up this thing when she had nothing to do, and it couldn't be broken if it was dried and thrown there, and now it's everywhere on the floor, I can't carry it, otherwise it's no problem to give you a few hundred catties!" Xu Xuede said that this thing is not worried at all.
"Hurry up and get on the road, hurry to the county before dawn!"
The two of them carried two sacks of winter mushrooms, chatting all the way out of Xujiawu.
When he arrived at the entrance of the village, Xu Xuecheng put down the sack on his shoulder, threw himself into the stream on the side of the road and poured a few mouthfuls of water, plunged his head into the water, and cooled down beautifully.
The two took off their shirts and swam a few times back and forth in the ditch, at this time the creek is directly bottomed, and the water is directly picked up to drink, which will also see the small fish swimming in the water, and it will not work after two years, after the opening of the brick factory at the entrance of the village, the water is polluted by the wastewater flowing out of the brick factory, and if anyone dares to bathe in the water, the next day the body is guaranteed to have red bumps.
After about half an hour, a tractor drove over with the exhaust fume, and Xu Xuede began to wave his hand from afar: "Uncle, uncle, where is this?"
This is Xu Xuede's cousin, who drove a tractor in Qingshantou Town, today he was pulling some chickens and ducks to the county, and he made an appointment yesterday, and the two of them were waiting on the side of the road.
The tractor approached and stopped slowly, "Come on, I'm going to the farmer's market early today."
After two hours of wandering around the open-top walk-behind tractor, I finally arrived at the county farmers' market.
Xu Xuecheng remembered that this county is a big agricultural county, and the specialties are all agricultural products, and later they were on CCTV, but the farmers' market in the county is far from being as lively as in later generations, with a few stalls scattered and scattered, but it is like a vegetable market in the town in later generations, and it has not formed a scale.
He asked someone to inquire, and went to the aunt in charge to pay two cents of rent, which is the stall money, two cents, plus a few beautiful aunts, the aunt in charge gave them a large piece of space by the door, and had to praise them when the work was done, "Ouch, whose child is this, so sensible, he will definitely be a promising one in the future!"
Xu Xuecheng took the small bench he borrowed from his aunt, cut a nylon bag and spread it on the ground, poured out half a bag of mushrooms! Then he beckoned Xu Xuede to sit down, poured a few mouthfuls of water, took out two large sweet potatoes and began to eat.
The day is slowly brightening, and there are more people coming to the farmers' market, some of them are purchased for small restaurants, and there are also two dealers who take the goods here, and then transport them to the county to walk the streets and alleys to shout and sell, and make a little difference.
Xu Xuecheng turned around left and right, inquired from all sides, and learned that this pork is 6 cents a catty, and the general vegetables are only one or two cents, and he has a number of the price of his winter mushroom in his heart.
"Hey, the fat and fragrant winter mushrooms, the dried mushrooms are three hairs, the water mushrooms are two hairs, and they are sold fresh!"
Xu Xuecheng screamed, the eyes of the entire farmers' market were attracted, and being watched by so many people, Xu Xuede felt embarrassed and lost to his grandmother's house, so he couldn't wait to open the crack in the ground and get in, and pulled Xu Xuecheng's pants
"Why are you so loud, everyone is watching us!"
Xu Xuecheng glanced at him, "Just look at it, there is still something to sell and drink?
Ignore him, keep shouting.
After a while, sure enough, two people came over, one fat and one thin, almost tall, wearing uniforms, with "bald head hotel" printed on their chests, it seems that they were purchased from which restaurant!
"Kid, how do you sell this mushroom?" asked the fat one.
"Dry three mao, two mao with a little water here!" Xu Xuecheng kicked Xu Xuede, this guy is still shaking his head down, and he doesn't know how to entertain people when they come.
"It's too expensive, it's only two cents over there! In this way, you have a dime and a half, and I'll give you 5 catties of dry and 5 catties of wet!"
Xu Xuecheng smiled, "Brother, I've turned around the market here, Dongshu is as good as ours, they all buy three cents and five, and the water ones cost three cents, and you are too good at bargaining!"
"Hey, you kid is quite fine," the fat man was not angry when he was exposed, business is like this, it is the ability to talk about it, and he doesn't steal or rob, and the business is not benevolent.
"Okay, get me ten pounds, half of the dry and half of the wet."
"Howler. ”
Xu Xuecheng kicked Xu Xuede again, and then he slowly took out the old name of the rod from the cloth bag.
"Dry 5 and a half catties, wet 5 and a half catties, this basket is half a catty, a little more to send you, the boss thinks it's good to come next time!"
"We are not bosses, part-time workers, part-time workers," the fat man hurriedly waved his hand, these days, I don't want to call the boss, the word boss, but it is exclusive to those "10,000 households"!
"It's the same, it's the same, you come to me to buy something, send me money, you're my boss, that's right!"
"Your little brother can talk, that's good, I'm not welcome, I'll take it today, and I'll buy it from you next time!"
When did the fat man get such a compliment, he didn't call him a child anymore, he changed his name to a brother, and he didn't forget to tell him to pay attention to safety before leaving.
After the two left, another aunt came over, carrying a basket, picking up the big mushrooms on the stall and smelling them, "It's quite fragrant!
"Haole, Auntie, you are so young, like my mother, and you have walked so far to buy vegetables?" Xu Xuecheng spoke, his hands were not empty, and he picked up a large flower and weighed two catties.
"Hey, you kid is so good at talking, I'm almost 50!" The aunt was praised, smiled, and paid happily.
"Na, if you don't sell it, just collect money and find money on the side!" Xu Xuecheng threw those one-and-a-half-cent gross tickets in the bag and handed them to Xu Xuede.
"Good, good!"
Xu Xuede reacted at this time, his face was a little embarrassed, after all, this cousin, who was four years younger than him, seemed to be much more capable than him.
"So much?"
Xu Xuede originally reacted, looked at the tickets in the bag, and was taken aback, there are several pieces of this scattered handful, right?
"More, this is just the beginning, otherwise what do you think I asked you to do, you can't just get a few cents at home!" Xu Xuecheng glanced at him with disdain.
Although he was a dick in his last life, he still has a five-digit figure in his passbook, okay, and now he is bargaining here for a few cents, alas, it's really boring!