Chapter 54: The Legend of the Black Merchant
The bright moonlight, light and cold, sprinkled on the earth like flowing notes, dotted the mountain villages at night.
With the soft moonlight, Chen Yang pulled up a large peach from the ground, the size of a leather ball, heavy, like a piece of iron, just now this thing fell down and hit his head hard.
This peach is ripe and covered with a layer of soft fluff, white and red, red and yellow, and when you smell it, it exudes a charming sweet and fruity aroma.
Chen Yang looked up, an old peach tree, two or three people can't hug it, the branches are luxuriant, lush, the canopy is as wide as the canopy, and in the dense layer of peach leaves, hundreds of plump and crystal peaches hang on it, bending the branches.
This old peach tree, after being moistened by natural energy, is a dead tree in spring, exuding a majestic breath of life, and the root system at the bottom is developed, densely packed, forming a large net, which stretches to the outside of the village.
This peach is ripe, the melon is ripe, and if it grows again, it is time to crush the peach branch, which is unlucky, and tomorrow it will all be picked and sold in the city, and a large amount of money will be brought in.
The next day, Chen Yang deliberately got up early in the morning, and when the sky was still bright, he began to get busy.
After setting up the ladder and working for a long time, Chen Yang picked more than thirty or forty peaches, took advantage of no one, put them all into the Xuanhuang Realm, and then brought a snakeskin bag and old sheets, traveled lightly, and got on the first intercity bus to the city.
I said hello to my mother last night, don't be breathy, Mengmeng, Yuanyuan, and Lingling are not fuel-efficient lamps, if you know, you must shout to go together, and when the time comes, you won't be able to do anything.
Tiannan Road, Dongcheng District, Qinyang City, adjacent to several old-fashioned communities, the surrounding residential buildings look old, are no more than six floors of buildings, after the years of wind and frost, most of them are the welfare housing allocated by state-owned enterprises in the first ten years, and the residents are mainly middle-aged and elderly people over 40 years old.
Middle-aged and elderly people have a characteristic, more conservative, do not like to change, follow decades of old habits, go out to buy a cabbage, radish, pork like to buy at the door of the house, no one will go around a big bend to the large farmers' market.
There is a market, Tiannan Road is said to be a road, in fact, it has long become a paradise for small vendors, selling vegetables, selling pork, selling soybean milk fritters early, living to block a wide road tightly, become a lively vegetable market.
It's the weekend, the adults don't go to work, and the children have a holiday, so the market is more lively and prosperous than usual, with pedestrians, vehicles, and the cries of all kinds of vendors coming and going.
This vegetable market looks chaotic and messy, and there are all kinds of things, but in fact, there are many rules, such as the current Chen Yang, who has been squeezed into the corner of the edge.
But it really responds to the old saying, the poor are in the downtown and no one asks, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains.
Things are good, there are selling points, although it is a secluded edge corner, a large group of people, all gathered over, and the place is surrounded by impenetrable water and airtight.
On an old sheet, there are more than a dozen fresh and tender peaches, white and red, ripe at a glance, the most shocking thing is that all of them are the size of leather balls, and they are estimated to weigh several catties.
"My God, this is the peach of heaven, my old man has lived for more than sixty years, and I have never seen such a big one."
"Grandpa, I want to eat big peaches, buy them for me, buy them for me......"
"This peach race watermelon, how to grow it, it won't be genetically modified food, right?"
"Well, maybe it's just that there are no such big peaches these days."
"That's right, there must be a demon when things go wrong, maybe this peach has some hormones."
Chen Yang couldn't sit still, the people of China like to blindly follow the trend, and everyone will stand up and say something before the situation develops for the worse.
"Walk by, don't miss it, the fresh big peaches just picked on the hundred-year-old peach tree, look at this appearance, this weight, it is definitely the king of peaches."
"Women eat to nourish their beauty, men eat to strengthen their bodies, children eat to nourish their brains, and the elderly eat to prolong their lives." Chen Yang, who is usually a little bad at words, went out, blushed, and threw out all the words that could be thought of in his mind.
This is very fun, at a glance, you can know that it is a novice, the old and young masters around look at Chen Yang's embarrassed appearance, and his red face is like a soldering iron in the fire, this is passed on ten, ten is passed on hundred, and they all laugh.
The first time he set up a stall to sell things, he was inexperienced, and he had a big appearance, so ashamed that Chen Yang's face was red, and he really wanted to pull a crack in the ground and get in, and he would never come out.
"Young man, how do you sell these peaches, how much does it cost?" An old man, dressed in dark blue overalls and with a face as black as a piece of charcoal, asked loudly.
"Five hundred...... A ......" Chen Yang's voice was a little trembling.
"What!"
"Five hundred and one, why don't you grab it!"
"It's too expensive, I can't afford it!"
"It's hard to do it, your peaches are made of gold!"
"Young man, be kind."
The people around gasped, no one's money was blown by the wind, a peach was five hundred yuan, and it was impossible to afford to eat it when it came to the big banquet.
Immediately, many people turned around and left, this peach is big, good is good, can't afford to look at it dryly, it's not interesting.
No, according to the cliché modern urban drama bridge, at this time, the people should spend a lot of money, donate generously, take out their wallets, draw tickets, and scramble to buy, this is the direction of the normal plot.
Don't worry, this is first suppressed and then raised, and soon there will be a local tyrant, a big money, with a big gold chain around his neck, ten fingers full of jade rings, leading a big dog, swaggering through the city, tasting a bite of peaches, immediately intoxicated in it, saying a lot of emotional words, and finally buying all the peaches.
"There's a guy who sells peaches over there, it's really black-hearted, a peach costs 500 yuan, it's really Alzheimer's."
"Xiaoguang, remember, don't learn from that big brother, be honest."
"People in these years are becoming more and more impersonal, the world is hot and cold, and people's hearts are not ancient."
In a tight moment, as soon as it passed ten, ten passed on hundred, the legend of the black-hearted merchant spread, and a peach cost 500 yuan, which became synonymous with Chen Yang.
If this reputation is bad, it will be troublesome, and in front of Chen Yang's stall, there are immediately many people, sparse and sparse, and there are few people.
What is this called, not to mention the fact that he didn't make any money, and he had a bad reputation as a black-hearted businessman, which was really unlucky.