Chapter 025: Roll the Eggs
Hong Yan was sitting on the shuttle bus from the county seat to Luoping at this time, immersed in the activities of yesterday and this morning. In these days, it was really difficult to buy and sell things, and many items in the store were supplied with tickets, and cloth tickets were required to buy cloth, meat tickets, and oil tickets. Well, I don't buy it, I always have to eat when I'm hungry. Okay, are there any food stamps? No, we will not accept you. Don't you just want to think of bean curd fritters! Hong Yan was so angry that he took out a big tomato and gnawed it on the street, and said hatefully: "It's not that I haven't eaten it!" ”
Hong Yan was busy all morning, and finally sold out the prepared vegetables and watermelons. The small body is so tired that I can't straighten my waist. There is no vegetable basket project, and the land is basically used to grow food, and vegetables are available to people from the city, but they are definitely very few. However, the emperor also had three poor relatives, and the residents of the county naturally had close or close ties with their rural relatives. It was not uncommon for relatives to send some local products from the countryside.
It is not common to send it every day. Therefore, Hong Yan put dozens of baskets of fresh tomatoes, peppers, bitter gourds and other vegetables, and more than 100 watermelons immediately became the object of competition. He didn't dare to ask for a high price, only twice as expensive as those vegetables from Laibaba. In this era, the bargaining is all cut by penny. The housewife, who was calculating, readily agreed to Hong Yan's unilateral pricing.
Pink tomatoes, bright red peppers, tender cucumbers with thorns on the top flowers, and tender white uneven bitter gourds, whoever sees them is tempted. Fortunately, Hong Yan got up early to see a good terrain, and everyone can choose to put it in a basket, but they can't fish in troubled waters, and they will slip away without paying. Fortunately, there was no robbery of bullying children, otherwise it would be really difficult to tidy up.
After the initial hectic turmoil, order quickly improved. Tomatoes are the most sought-after, and almost everyone has to pick a few. What's the choice? It's about the same size, it's about the same color. Boiled soup and scrambled eggs are all good tastes. The red fresh horn pepper is a good raw material for making bean paste, and the three baskets were divided between five people, and the baskets were also moved by them.
The number of watermelons is the largest, about 20 catties each, Hongyan is 2 yuan, and before 9 o'clock in the morning, all the vegetables are sold out. Well, there is not a single bamboo basket left that took a day and a half to weave, and all of them are filled with vegetables and melons by customers. Hong Yan was also tired.
From afar, I heard an old grandmother teaching her grandson: "You are all teenagers, and you are disobedient and stubborn." It's not easy to write homework during the summer vacation, and I know that I'm playing with a group of two-day sticks all day long. Look at the vegetable seller just now, is it as big as you? How many vegetables are sold, one person weighs, counts, and looks for money, Dorisso. You can catch up with him halfway to Amitabha. ”
"Mother-in-law, do you want me to drive him? He's a poor boy in the countryside who sells vegetables, a hillbilly, a mud-legged man, dressed like a little flower......"
"Your grandfather and your mother-in-law used to be mud legs, don't underestimate the world, don't bully young people to wear them." Grandma hates that iron does not make steel.
Hong Yan shook his head when he heard it, a teenager understands the difference between urban and rural areas, and naturally has a sense of superiority among people in the city. Yes, I am still barefoot, wearing shabby, and the clothes that were very clean yesterday have been soaked just now, and I have rubbed a lot of mud. Because of wiping sweat, my face is spent, and I really call it a flower!
I ran to the Qijiang River, took a bath in the shallow water, and changed into clean old clothes. Then I went along the street into the department store, and there were very few ready-to-wear clothes, and I didn't want a cloth ticket, but I couldn't wear it out if I bought it. First buy two sets of underwear for my mother and Rongrong, especially the little girl's skirt. It is said that underwear is actually pants and vests. I didn't know that the salesman didn't sell it, and said, "Children, call your mother and old man." Your words don't count! ”
"Auntie, which of the things in your store says can't be sold to children? Which rule says you can't sell anything to children? You sell and I buy, pay for the goods, buy on the spot, don't complicate things! Hong Yan rolled his eyes and said, "These department stores, and they don't need tickets, why bother?" ”
The salesman immediately fell, yes, no one said that you can't sell things to children, and there is no rule that you can't sell things to children. Take money to buy things, sell things to get money, that's the truth. Can...... I always feel that something is wrong, what is wrong? I can't think of a reason. Of course, if the "General Principles of Civil Law" has been studied, a 7-year-old child has no capacity for civil conduct, and it is okay to buy a lollipop, but it is difficult to buy a large or high-value one.
"This little little baby, with a small mouth, can really say it. So what do you want to buy? The salesman couldn't refute Hong Yan, so he had to agree.
As a result, a small spectacle in the department store department appeared. A child pointed out what to ask for in front, and the salesperson at the counter followed suit. Cotton sweaters, cotton panties, small flower skirts, and plastic sandals that belong to luxury goods were bought, and boys temporarily bought small pants and small vests. Household items such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, towels, and thermoses, as well as stationery items such as notebooks, pencils, pens, and ink. Although there are many varieties, the actual area is not too large, and it was packed into a packaging carton after checkout, which cost a total of 102.86 yuan. After I went back, my parents were afraid that they would be very distressed.
Out of the department store sales department, and then into the non-staple food sales department, this time he didn't spend a lot of money, bought a pound of fruit candy, a jade, a big front door, two economic cigarettes and two pounds of brown sugar. A box of 8 cents is the cheapest. As for this cigarette, few people can afford to smoke it, and they generally roll leaf cigarettes. Brown sugar is mainly used to boil ginger syrup for my mother. In the end, it was decided to buy two bottles of Luzhou Laojiao. Originally, these things were for non-staple food coupons, but Hong Yan didn't have them, so it cost another price, so it would cost more than 20 yuan more.
It was already past noon, and I couldn't go home in the afternoon. The play hasn't been done yet. The Seed Department of the Agricultural Bureau, the door is full of birds. Autumn is the harvest season, not the peak season for sowing seeds and buying seeds. After Hong Yan entered, no one cared about him. Two salesmen, one male and one female. The woman seemed to be reading something, and the man was holding an enamel tea jar.
He had to see for himself. "Indica No. 2" rice seed instructions, isn't this a kind of indica rice that will be widely promoted in the future? "Uncle, your rice seeds are dwarf! Why is there no promotion? Hong Yan asked the male salesman drinking tea in surprise.
It was the turn of the male salesman to be surprised, a child also knows tall stalks and short stalks? What else do you say about promotion?
"What did you say, kid?"
"I mean, since you have dwarf rice, lodging resistance, high yield, and easy harvesting, why haven't you promoted it in the whole county?"
Isn't this all the advantages of dwarf rice? Children are not blind. The salesman admitted that he had lost his eyes, and he quickly wiped his sweat and said, "This problem is more complicated. Rice seeds cost money, promotion also needs technology, and more importantly, it needs the support of the leaders! "Isn't it too profound to talk about such a question to a child?
"That's the truth. Uncle, I'll buy some seeds, 10 catties of rice seeds, 5 catties of wheat, 3 catties of glutinous rice seeds, 1 catty of watermelon seeds, 1 pack of tomatoes, 1 pack of peppers, 1 pack of eggplant seeds, 1 bag of cucumbers, 1 pack of long cowpeas......" Hong Yan nodded, and then reported the number.
"So much, have you done the Lord?" The male salesman didn't move, and asked uncertainly.
"I'll count it for you." Hong Yan said directly.
The male salesman took out the rice seeds and weighed them one by one. The saleswoman who was reading a book got up and walked over and took out the small seed bags one by one. It cost a total of 52.3 yuan. Although the total price in the end is not much, there are indeed many types. Hong Yan's attitude of paying made the two salesmen sigh secretly, at a young age, he made a sharp move, as if he had seen the world.
I bought a few things from the store, and when I turned around, my hands were empty again. The last stop is to go to the fruit tree breeding base of the Forestry Bureau. Shuangfeng Township in the south of the city, you have to walk on your feet. It's not far, but it's almost 5 o'clock by the time we get there. The person in charge of the base was about to get off work, so Hong Yan said that he wanted to buy some fruit tree seedlings, and he agreed without saying anything.
Hong Yan didn't ask for too much money due to his limited funds, and bought a total of ten Jufeng grapes, ten navel oranges, and ten red oranges. They are all three-year-old seedlings, and they can bloom and bear fruit in the second year of transplanting. The person in charge took the money and told the workers to dig it, and then left work. The person in charge walked to the way and remembered, how to transplant fruit trees this season? How do you transport a small child away? Agreed, and the excavation has been carried out, and the mistake will continue. After the workers dug it, they helped transport it to the shade of the trees on the side of the road outside the base. Hong Yan thanked him and found an opportunity to throw it into the fairy garden.
In the evening, 30 fruit trees were transplanted on the edge of the weir pond. He also cleared all the clods from the original plants so that they would not bring undue weeds and pests.
Hong Yan thought about yesterday's trip, he was really busy. Fortunately, his small body is not the same as before. Otherwise, I would have been tired just walking. Yesterday's harvest was still good, and it took more than a hundred, and the bag ...... There are still more than 70 yuan in the fairy garden. This money is also a lot of wealth for Hong Yan's family.
"Grandma, you're here!" When Hong Yan saw his grandmother, he ran towards her, hugged her waist, and rubbed against her. Of course, it is cute and good, but it is not true feelings. In the past and present lives, my grandmother doted on Hong Yan very much. After being admitted to university, his sons' filial piety pension money was spent on his schooling. It's just that before Hongyan graduated from university, his grandmother passed away, and it was difficult to repay him.
Grandma touched her grandson's head and patted him on the back, wanting to say something. Xiao Zheng and Rongrong ran over when they heard the voice, jumping and making trouble, pulling and asking for something to eat. Hong Yan couldn't, so he had to comfort the two little people before they could speak. took out the fruit candy, one person gave a piece, not enough, and another person had a piece, both hands had it, and then it quieted down. He took out another pack of jade cigarettes, the best one for his grandmother. My grandmother smoked cigarettes, and she smoked paper cigarettes. Seeing his grandmother's doubts, Hong Yan said, "Grandma, I bought this cigarette." The money came from a legitimate source, and you still don't believe in your grandson who grew up? ”
When Hong Jianguo and Li Yun went home from work, lunch was almost ready. To their delight, their son is back. Hong Yan, grandmother, and ancestor are busy in the kitchen. Hong Yan told jokes with his grandmother, talking about the high-rise buildings, electric lights, telephones, and few luxury goods in the store department in the county.
"With my son in charge of cooking, I have a head start for lunch." Hong Jianguo muttered to himself.
Sure enough, the lunch was quite hearty. Two tables full of large plates of back pot meat, braised eel segments, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, mung bean stew, stewed winter melon, cold bitter gourd, garlic and rape. Grandpa's family shouted, and the two tables of eight immortals were put together. Shuchuan dwellings are not detached families in the north, and although the father and son are separated, they will still share good wine and delicious food.
Hong Jianguo filled the wine bowl with words, invited the first people to enjoy it, and then beckoned everyone to the table. The children who couldn't wait immediately climbed on the stool, and the aunt and sister-in-law stood behind Xiao Zheng and Rongrong to support them.
Grandma rolled a boiled egg around on the table, and muttered: "Roll the egg, everything will go well in the coming year!" Peel off the eggshell and hand it to Hong Yandao: "This is the little birthday star's, eat it, and your life will be smooth!" ”
"Thank you, Grandma!" There is no politeness to this birthday honor.
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