"Hold Lang Lang, drag my younger brother, and trample on the tile without touching the ground."

"Hold Lang Lang, drag my younger brother, and trample on the tile without touching the ground."

The children in the market sang a familiar ballad, and after a while, it changed again.

"Thousands of times to sell you idiot, thousands of times to sell you stupid, now sell as much as you can, you want to come with me on credit."

The so-called vegetable market is actually a street that is not very wide, and the direction of the street is east-west, and there are stalls of different sizes on both sides of the street. From west to east there are vegetable stalls, then meat stalls, and in the westernmost part of the market there are hunters and fishermen selling their goods that they have just picked up from the mountains or rivers. The reason why the stalls in the vegetable market are arranged in this way is that the blocks connected to the west end of the market are ordinary neighborhoods with a large number of poor people, while the east end is where the rich merchants of Yuanhe Town are concentrated. It is almost eternal that rich people are more capable of enjoying things that ordinary people can't. There are meat and vegetarian, as well as game and river fresh, although there is such a vegetable market in Yuanhe Town, but such a vegetable market is not bad anywhere, and it is far better than those rural wild markets.

Naturally, the Cheung family came from the east side of the market. She glanced at the hunters squatting on the side to sell prey and the fishermen selling river fresh, these people had only recently come to Yuanhe Town to catch the market, business was good, but most of the goods were not very fresh, Zhang would not spend money in vain to buy gas, and only took a few glances before walking to the next house.

"Madam, the big fat pig that was just slaughtered tonight, how many catties of pork can you weigh back?" A butcher with five big and three thick hands grabbed a piece of pork belly in his hand and brought it to Zhang to let her look at it carefully, proving that he did not lie to her. Zhang gently turned the pork belly with his little fingernails, looked left and right, thought that this meat was really good, and asked the butcher, "How to sell it?" ”

"Fifty wen a pound of pork belly." The butcher stretched out a palm and gestured.

"Fifty Wen!" Zhang didn't believe his ears a little. "Last month, a pound of pork was only thirty yuan, you want to pit me?"

"How can I fool you! Thirty wen last month is the price of ordinary meat, this pork belly is the best meat on the pig, and it will cost forty wen a pound last month. The butcher hurriedly explained to her.

"Then you sell me forty dollars." Zhang said.

"No, no. There was a war going on in the north, and the men in the countrymen's families were all requisitioned by the imperial court, and it was difficult to raise pigs. The butcher stretched out his hand and wanted to take it back, but Zhang held it down with one hand and said, "I'll buy it for forty yuan." ”

"Fifty wen, I bought it."

"Fifty wen, I bought it." A woman's voice came from behind Zhang's back, and she wanted to buy this pork belly for fifty wen a catty. Of course, the butcher was very happy, and there was no good result in grinding and chirping with Zhang's here, so he took advantage of Zhang's distraction and took the pork belly back. Before Zhang could turn around and see who the meat seller was, the butcher took the meat back, and she was so angry and annoyed that she could only stare at the butcher.

"This is the meat I'm buying." Zhang Shi turned around as she said angrily, she wanted to see who this halfway Cheng Biting Jin was. I saw a middle-aged woman in her forties standing behind her, with a blue cloth scarf wrapped around her head, her face was like wax, her skin was rough, and she seemed to be in poor health. The Zhang family recognized this woman, she was the second brother Chen Shouyi's daughter-in-law Xing's mother, Xing Wang's family, no matter how she said it, she could be regarded as an in-law.

"Mother-in-law, I'm going to buy this meat." Zhang looked at Wang and said.

"Don't you want fifty, you don't want me." Wang didn't pay much attention to Zhang, but replied leisurely.

At this time, the butcher had already weighed the two catties, tied the straw rope and said: "A total of two catties and two taels, counting your two catties of money, a total of one tael of silver." ”

"A tael of silver is there." Wang generously took out the silver from his cuffs and put it on the stall, picked up the pork and put it in his vegetable basket.

Zhang listened to the butcher give her two taels of meat, and he was unhappy. "If you don't sell me for forty yuan, why do you give her two taels of meat now." The butcher replied angrily: "You don't want ten pennies yourself, if you want, I may be able to weigh two taels of meat for you." After saying that, he started to work on his own, but Zhang was still angry, so he quarreled with the butcher.

Wang no longer paid attention to Zhang's entanglement with the butcher and continued to buy vegetables by himself.

Greens, radish, peas, pumpkin, tofu. Yuanhe Town is one of the richest towns in the country, with a large population and developed commerce, although there are many mountains and little land, but the supply of agricultural and sideline products has never decreased. Wang wandered to a stall selling pumpkins, looked at the yellow pumpkins and was very appetizing, thinking that it would be good to buy some to cook pumpkin porridge, and asked the old peasant woman who sold melons: "Sister, how do you sell your melons?" ”

"Ten cents a piece, big sister, buy one! It's very cheap, it's almost noon, and it hasn't opened yet...... "The old peasant woman tried her best to sell her pumpkins, presumably today's business was not satisfactory. Wang rummaged through the messy stacks of pumpkins to find the one he liked, but all he found were crooked melons and cracked dates, which were not big, and some of them began to rot because of bumps. When he was about to give up, Wang saw that there was a pumpkin at the bottom, the color was very satisfactory, and it was not damaged and rotten, so he made up his mind to buy it. "Just the bottom one! You help me take it out. ”

"Which one?" The old peasant woman glanced at the location where the Wang family was looking for melons. "Okay, I'll help you get it. A total of ten cents. ”

"This melon, twenty wen, I want it." The familiar scene made Wang stunned for a moment, and just in front of the pork stall just now, she bought the pork belly that Zhang originally wanted to buy.

"Why are you like this, I bought this melon, don't bid randomly." Wang turned to Zhang and said. The old peasant woman also helped: "Yes! This girl has already bought it, so you can change it! I still have a lot of melons here. As he spoke, he hurriedly picked up a self-satisfied pumpkin and showed it to Zhang.

"It's too small. I just want her melon, the color is good, the size is also suitable, we have a lot of family, we have to choose a bigger one. Zhang stared at Wang's face, and responded without looking at the pumpkin chosen by the old peasant woman, just wanting to see the change in Wang's expression.

"You're clearly arguing with me." Wang was angry.

"Each other, each other." Not to be outdone, Zhang is not to be outdone.

The war between the two women is on the verge of breaking out, attracting onlookers from other people in the vegetable market. Since ancient times, the fight between women has been very eye-catching, whether it is a verbal quarrel, or pulling the ear, no matter whether it is a victory or a loss, the onlookers will not come out to persuade themselves, for fear of accidentally hurting themselves. The two of them stared at each other, and the air around them became solemn. Suddenly, Wang's facial expression eased slightly.

"Twenty Wen, if you want it, you can buy it!" After speaking, pick up your vegetable basket and leave.