151. Purchase
The Liu family was very welcoming, and Lin Zichen spent a pleasant night at their house.
Early the next morning, Lin Zichen opened his eyes amid the loud rooster crow.
"Xiao Chen, are you awake too? Am I being too noisy? Woke you up? Liu Xiaoyu asked softly.
Lin Zichen shook her head, her biological clock happened to be at this point, and she would naturally wake up when it came.
"Sister Xiaoyu, why are you getting up so early?"
"Oh, my dad has to deliver food to the restaurant every day, so I have to get up so early to help pick vegetables in the vegetable field." Liu Xiaoyu explained while getting dressed.
"I'm with you." Since you wake up, let's help do some work, as a thank you to the Liu family.
Liu Xiaoyu was frightened when she heard this: "No, no, my grandma doesn't know how to scold me when she knows it, you better sleep and I'll call you again when I have breakfast." ”
Lin Zichen had already gotten up and dressed: "No, I usually wake up at this point, and if I can't sleep anymore, it's better to help you do some work, and besides, I'll take your father's tricycle back to the city later." ”
Liu Xiaoyu suddenly realized: "Yes, do you still want to go to the market to sell fruits today?" ”
Liu Xiaoyu had already tasted the apples that Lin Zichen brought back, they were very delicious, if she didn't know that Lin Zichen was going to make money from these apples, she would have been cheeky enough to ask for one.
Lin Zichen saw Liu Xiaoyu's action of secretly swallowing saliva, and smiled: "I won't sell if there are not many apples left, I want to go to the stationery wholesale market today, and I want to buy some stationery to go back." ”
Liu Xiaoyu nodded and led Lin Zichen out of the room to wash.
In the kitchen, Grandma Liu was preparing to make breakfast, and saw Lin Zichen hurriedly greeting with a smile: "Xiao Chen woke up?" Why don't you sleep a little longer? Are you not used to sleeping in our bed? ”
Grandma Liu's nervous greeting made Lin Zichen very moved, and he hurriedly explained: "No, the bed is very comfortable." I woke up after I had enough sleep. ”
"That's good, that's good!" Grandma Liu nodded with satisfaction and said to her granddaughter, "Xiaoyu, take Xiao Chen to wash by the well, and then go to the vegetable garden to help your parents." ”
"Got it, Grandma." Liu Xiaoyu took a new set of toothbrushes and towels and took Lin Zichen to the edge of the well.
The genius was shining, and the well water was a little cold. Liu Xiaoyu turned around and went to the kitchen to fill some hot water.
When Liu Xiaoyu returned to the edge of the well with a scoop of hot water. Lin Zichen had already finished washing.
"Why are you so fast? Isn't well water cold? Liu Xiaoyu asked Lin Zichen in surprise.
Lin Zichen shook his head: "It's not very cold, and washing cold water on your face is good for your skin." ”
"Really? Then I'll also wash my face with cold water. "What girl doesn't like to be beautiful, and Liu Xiaoyu is naturally no exception.
Lin Zichen hurriedly stopped: "Eh." You better wash it with warm water first, this cold water face is not for everyone to wash, I have been like this since I was a child, you are used to washing hot water and suddenly washing cold water is likely to make the skin on your face even worse. Step by step is the truth. ”
Liu Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Okay." Listen to you. ”
After washing his face with warm water and applying cream back to the house, Liu Xiaoyu took Lin Zichen to his vegetable garden.
Looking at the vegetable plot, which was only a few square meters larger than ordinary people's vegetable gardens, Lin Zichen asked strangely: "Aren't there some vegetable farmers around here?" Why don't you see many vegetable patches? ”
Liu Xiaoyu sighed and explained: "Have you seen that large piece of land in front of you?" Before, those fields were all vegetable growers. It's just that after the Chinese New Year, an investor said that he wanted to build a house here, so he rented all the land here, and gave the vegetable farmers a certain rent every month, and my family also rented some land. However, my grandmother said that our ancestors have been farming for generations, and we must keep a piece of land for our own use, so my family's vegetable plot has become the scale it is now. ”
Lin Zichen nodded clearly. As the city continues to grow, there will be more and more high-rise buildings, and less and less land.
When the two came to the vegetable field, Liu Afu and Liu Xiaoyu's mother had already picked two baskets of fresh vegetables.
Liu Afu saw Lin Zichen following Liu Xiaoyu, and couldn't help glaring at his daughter: "Xiaoyu, why did you bring Xiaochen to the vegetable field?" ”
When Liu Xiaoyu heard this, she felt very aggrieved.
Lin Zichen hurriedly explained: "Uncle Liu, I want to follow and take a look at it myself, it's not about Sister Xiaoyu." ”
Liu Xiaoyu looked at Lin Zichen gratefully, it's still good for Xiao Chen! It's like her father, who will only scold her.
Liu Afu didn't say anything when he heard Lin Zichen say that he wanted to come and see.
Liu Xiaoyu rolled up his sleeves and skillfully began to pick vegetables, and Lin Zichen knew how to pick vegetables after watching for a while.
"Uncle Liu, how many dishes can your family deliver to the restaurant in a day? I don't see that there are many vegetable farmers in this annex, where can I buy vegetables in the hotels in the city? Lin Zichen asked while working.
Liu Afu sighed and said: "The vegetable farmers in this neighborhood don't grow vegetables anymore, so they rent out the land and wait for the rent to be collected." The restaurants in the urban area have to go further to the mountains to buy vegetables, even the vendors in the vegetable market. Originally, our family's vegetables could not be sold, but fortunately, the current restaurant owner is good, seeing that our family's vegetables are good, and have not sprayed pesticides, they signed a long-term cooperation agreement with us, so that we can send them four baskets of vegetables every day, but this dish is not enough for them, they still need to buy it from other places. ”
Lin Zichen nodded and didn't ask anything more, but he was a little happy in his heart, it seems that there is a great hope that the things he handed over to his uncle before will be completed.
Looking at the neat dishes in the basket, Lin Zichen finally understood why the hotel was willing to sign a long-term agreement with the Liu family.
The vegetables of the Liu family are really good, and the green and green are particularly watery. But because there was no pesticide spraying, the vegetable leaves were more or less gnawed by insects, and Liu Afu and his wife took off the vegetable leaves with insect eyes one by one, which also cost a lot of labor.
Thinking of the insect infestation in his vegetable garden, Lin Zichen couldn't help but ask: "Uncle Liu, how do you prevent insects in your house?" ”
"It's all about using lime to prevent insects, and when I see which piece of land is more pest-infestation, I go to buy some stones and sprinkle it, but the effect is not very good, and it's good to burn the vegetables to death if you sprinkle too much." Thinking of the hardships of growing vegetables, Liu Afu couldn't help but sigh.
"Uncle Liu, have you tried using chili water to get rid of insect pests?" Lin Zichen remembered that there were one or two pepper trees planted in the courtyard of the Liu family.
"Chilli water? I really haven't tried it. ”
"Isn't there a chili pepper in Uncle Liu's yard! Give it a try. First chop the pepper and put it in the pot to boil water, let it cool naturally after boiling, and then use it to water the vegetables after dilution. Lin Zichen told Liu Afu about the method of chili water.
"Ah Fu, why don't we try it!" Liu Xiaoyu's mother said excitedly.
"Okay, I'll leave that to you. If only it did. It's time for our family to thank Xiao Chen again. Liu Afu replied with a smile.
Lin Zichen said modestly: "Uncle Liu is polite, I just use my mouth, and I don't do anything else." ”
"Hehehe. Xiao Chen is too modest. Liu Afu smiled and praised.
Several people were busy for more than half an hour. Finally, all four baskets of vegetables were ready.
Liu Afu didn't eat breakfast in a hurry to deliver the food, and Lin Zichen also had important things to do, so he followed Liu Afu and left Liu's house together.
When the time to deliver the food was almost up, Liu Afu put down Lin Zichen on the roadside near the market.
"Xiao Chen, go a little further through this road and there is the market. You alone beware. Liu Afu said worriedly.
"Got it, thank you, Uncle Liu. You'd better hurry up and deliver the food, or you won't be able to catch up. ”
Lin Zichen watched Liu Afu's tricycle go away, turned around and walked towards the market.
The apples that were not sold out yesterday were left to Liu Xiaoyu, and at first Grandma Liu said that she was unwilling to accept anything. Lin Zichen said that she couldn't lift so many apples by herself, and she couldn't finish eating them, so she had to throw them away.
Grandma Liu felt distressed when she heard that she had taken it and threw it away, so she had to accept it. just gave Lin Zichen more than a dozen yuan.
Lin Zichen knew that if he didn't accept the money, she wouldn't have to leave, so he accepted the dozen yuan.
Lin Zichen came to the market. The morning market has begun, and the flow of people is very lively.
Lin Zichen found a corner that no one could notice, took a few baskets of vegetables and fruits out of the space, and moved back and forth several times before he sat down in yesterday's position.
As soon as Lin Zichen sat down, a guest came to the door.
"Little girl, you're finally here, I'll be waiting for you here for a while."
Lin Zichen looked up and saw that he was the first guest to buy his own oranges yesterday: "Auntie, are you here to buy oranges?" ”
The woman smiled and said, "I want to buy not only your oranges, but also some vegetables." Yesterday, a colleague of mine also bought vegetables from you, saying that your food is very delicious, and I came to buy it early this morning. ”
I didn't expect that there would be repeat customers in one afternoon yesterday, Lin Zichen was a little surprised, and picked out vegetables and oranges for the woman in three or five clicks: "Auntie, you are still my first guest today, I will give you a discount, the vegetables and oranges add up to a total of fifteen yuan and eight cents, I will charge you fifteen yuan." ”
"Okay, your kind aunt has it, come and take it, this is fifteen yuan." The woman happily carried her things and left.
After a while, there were some repeat customers, and Lin Zichen happily gave discounts. Many women heard that Lin Zichen would not come after selling today's fruits and vegetables, so they bought some more.
At ten o'clock in the morning, except for the apples that were still unsold, the other baskets of vegetables and fruits were sold.
"Husband, husband, it's the little girl in front."
At noon, there was a sudden noise in the noisy market. I saw a fashionably dressed woman pulling a man in his thirties and hurriedly running towards Lin Zichen.
"Little girl, do you still have your apple?" The fashionable woman asked anxiously, for fear that Lin Zichen's apples would run out.
Lin Zichen looked at the two people who suddenly rushed over strangely, and recognized the fashionable woman, "You are the sister who bought apples yesterday." ”
"Yes, yes, I still want to buy apples, do you still have apples? I'm going to do it all. ”
The nervous appearance of the fashionable woman made Lin Zichen even more curious: "Yes, yes, but I don't know why you have so many apples." ”
The people who came to buy groceries around looked at this side with the same curiosity. (To be continued) R580