Chapter 15: Grocery shopping
There is a hemp rope for tying donkeys there, which are all made by the countrymen themselves, and they are very strong.
At this time, plastic bags were not popular, and the women who bought vegetables came with vegetable baskets, which was very environmentally friendly, which made Lin Yue worry a lot.
If you sell vegetables, you must prepare to weigh, there is no electronic scale, every household uses an old-fashioned scale, that is, a few fingers to carry up the wooden stalks, engraved with a scale, the other end of the heavy scales, there are hooks on the wooden poles, there are several ropes hanging iron plates, as long as you put things on the iron plate, and then keep pulling the scales, and wait for the wooden rod to balance, and then look at the scale.
She can use this thing, but her little arms and legs can be one pound or two pounds, and she can't weigh it if it's heavy, or it's been a long time.
This also has to use change, these days grandpa uncle Xu Uncle Xu also gave a few gross tickets, and then scavenge the five cents and one cent thrown in the corner of the house, which is almost enough to make change.
Everything is ready, but there is still a lack of people, so you can't sneak to the town by yourself and sell things in that Zhangluo by yourself, right?
It's almost the New Year, and the kidnappers are also going to celebrate the New Year, what if they are abducted, but it's not suitable to follow anyone, and they suddenly have so many rare things, who can not doubt it?
Grandpa must not be able to find it, the old man can't stand it like this every day, who do you want to take her over?
By the way, let's just go to the uncle, the uncle is the only carpenter in the village, and when the machine qì era did not generally invade the countryside, the carpenter was very popular.
Who in the family has built a new house, married a daughter-in-law to make furniture, made a coffin for someone, etc., etc., in short, the uncle is rich, and because of business needs, he often runs to the town.
No, just turned to the gate of his house, he was hugged high, at this time the uncle was still very young, and his stature was medium, but later because the eldest brother and the second brother were promising, the heart was wide and fat, and finally he had diabetes, although he did not block eating and drinking, and injected insulin every day, but because of complications, his eyes were almost blind.
From now on, you have to supervise the uncle well.
"Tuan Tuan, why are you here? Your aunt said fried vegetable dumplings at noon tonight, don't go."
"Then uncle, where are you going," Lin Yue's cold little hand covered his cheek.
"Someone in the town booked a high and low cabinet, and I went out to deliver it to someone."
This is really sleepy and someone sent a pillow, this just thought about going to town, this uncle is going to go, it's too coincidental, right?
"Then I'm going too!" Lin Yue is coquettish.
"This can't be done, it's cold, what are you doing with it, wait for the uncle to come back and buy you some snacks from the town to eat, you stay home and wait"
How can that work! Lin Yue flatly refused.
In the end, the 'fierce' confrontation between the big and the small ended in her uncle's defeat.
Because he went out secretly, there were only two of them, Yuan Si's cousin went to report at home, and her uncle wrapped a scarf from the house and circled it a few times, leaving only a pair of watery eyes exposed.
The donkey was brought from the eldest uncle's mother's house, and the car was set, and the three men carried the high and low cabinets to the car together, and tied them firmly with ropes.
Finally arrived in the town, Lin Yue saw the stall selling steamed buns, and had an idea, saying that she was going to eat steamed buns, and her uncle was embarrassed, she couldn't leave a little baby here, what could she do if something happened.
Or Lin Yue found an excuse and told the uncle that he knew this old man, and Lin Xuancheng also took her to eat steamed buns, which temporarily won the trust of others.
In the end, in desperation, he gave her five cents and asked Lin Yue to wait for him at the stall after eating the buns.
Lin Yue nodded obediently, and the expression on her face couldn't be more sincere.
When the others disappeared, Lin Yue immediately walked in the direction of the market with short legs, and when he arrived at the destination, he hid in a place where no one was there and dodged into the space.
When she came out, she had already brought out the cart and vegetables, because she had already made preparations, and the vegetables were neatly stacked in the basket, the bottom of the basket, cough cough, and fresh soil.
However, with several baskets of things and a cart, there was really nothing she could do.
Why do you want to do something?
The vegetable market is only vaguely large at the moment, and the flow of people is relatively large, but there are not many vendors, and they are all self-produced and sold, and only a few people will buy vegetables from other places.
Just as she was drooping her head, a rough voice came.
"Girl, why are you here alone!"
Oops! Could it be that you ran into an acquaintance?
I raised my head apprehensively, looked carefully, searched in my mind, and still hadn't seen it.
"What about your parents? Why are you here alone? ”
Lin Yue raised his head and said softly: "Uncle, my parents just arrived here with a cart of vegetables, and then the two of them had a bad stomach and went to find a toilet, let me guard here."
The man is burly, bearded, not too cold in winter, with a hat in his hand, and a hot steam on his head.
"Then I'll help you push it over, and I'll leave when your parents come, how can you have such a reassuring parent!"
"No, no, just push me over the cart"
"That's not going to work!"
Lin Yue helped him hold the hat, and the cart full of six baskets was pushed out like this! It's like a popeye who eats spinach.
Fortunately, if you walk more than ten meters in this corner, you can see the dawn when you turn a corner.
As soon as the car stopped, before I could return the hat, someone stepped forward to inquire about the price of the food.
Originally, in the big winter, there are only a few dishes for each meal, so that adults and children don't like to eat them, but there is no way, God is here like this, what can you do, can you grow summer vegetables in the winter?
It's going to be over!
It's not that there is no money, but because of the textile mill and steel mill in the town, there is more or less spare money in this pocket.
There are also many retired cadres, who just come here with baskets when they have nothing to do, and when they see beans, eggplants, and cucumbers, their eyes are straight!
"Is this a cucumber? Do you still look so watery in winter? A middle-aged woman in a tweed coat was surprised.
"It's not a cucumber! And tomatoes! In the past, I also heard that some people sold vegetables from the south to sell them in our north, but I didn't touch them, and I didn't think about it, there are also out-of-season dishes in our town! ”
"How much is a pound? Weigh me one by one, no! Two pounds," someone started to pay for.
Lin Yue pulled the bearded clothes and handed him a handful of scales pitifully.
Lin Tao scratched his head in annoyance, looked at the more and more people around, sighed, and reluctantly took it and said.
"How much is it?" The bearded man asked.
"It's all five cents!"
"But ......"
The price of this eggplant beans is obviously a little more expensive, and in this winter, this rare vegetable is a pound of food, how can it be sold at a price!
This little girl doesn't know anything, and she will be deceived again.
But there is no chance, this person has heard that it costs five cents a pound, and he is really a little enthusiastic. rushed to stuff the vegetable basket, afraid that they would regret it, and stuffed money into her hand one by one.
The vegetables in six baskets are reduced at a rate visible to the naked eye......