Dinner was exceptionally quiet.

Sun Chen had already told Erniu about the matter, so she didn't ask anything at the dinner table, but kept putting the vegetables into the poplar flat bowl where she lowered her head to pick up the rice.

When he got up the next morning, Yang Shuping, who had slept well, seemed to have forgotten what happened yesterday and became talking and laughing.

Sun Chen looked uncomfortable, and privately told him that he didn't have to force a smile to make their brothers and sisters feel at ease, which would make them even more worried.

Yang Shuping told Sun Chen that over the years, he had only allowed himself to be sad for one day every year, "If I am sad all day long, your master will be angry if she finds out." And I want to live a long life, along with her and her children's share, and live out well! ”

Well, it's kind of a worry in vain.

Sun Chen saw that he was not reluctant, so he simply stopped caring about him, and as usual, picked up the flat burden and got busy.

In the following days, he didn't meet Han Xinchang again, as if he was deliberately avoiding himself, not only did the two not meet in various villages, but on the agreed day, they didn't even show up when Sun Chen followed him to deliver the goods to the merchant who sent manual work. As soon as Sun Chen inquired, it turned out that he had found someone in advance and asked someone else to help him bring the goods.

Sun Chen himself didn't plan to leave no room for nothing, so he didn't tell others what he did in Liu Ji that day.

Han Xinchang later inquired several times from others, but he didn't find anything. found that these peers still treated themselves the same as before, knowing that Sun Chen should not say anything, the heart he was carrying was slowly put down.

But for Sun Chen, he still doesn't have much good feelings, after all, no one would be so faceless, although what he did was indeed a little inappropriate.

Of course, Sun Chen was also disgusted with him.

That day, Han Xinchang deliberately lowered the price in Liu Ji, and in the end, it was spread, and people kept coming to Sun Chen to bargain, saying that Han Xinchang could sell at a low price that day, and Sun Chen should also give everyone a discount.

Although Sun Chen was annoyed, he also bit a copper plate and didn't fall. However, when everyone finally checked out, he didn't ask for most of the remaining three or five copper plates, which could be regarded as a discount in disguise.

People's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, in the end, there are still people who give up buying New Year's goods including dried fish from him because Sun Chen did not reduce the price, which makes Sun Chen's money shrink by at least 20%.

Sun Chen didn't regret this, not that he was unkind and didn't know how to be flexible, but that he would rather sell less than do something that disrupted the price and destroyed the stability of their small market in the merchant circle.

What they sell is already much cheaper than the shops in the town, and life is not easy, how can he bear to let everyone not even make this little money?!

In the blink of an eye, the days came to the twentieth day of the lunar month, and Sun Chen's career this year can be regarded as officially over.

The first thing he did when he was free was to sleep at home in the dark, and when he woke up, he missed even lunchtime. After eating, he went to the market in the town to visit Da Zhuang, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

The number of people in the market has more than doubled compared to usual, and it is simply crowded. Da Zhuang was busy weighing sweet potatoes for others, and there were several people around him, all waiting to buy sweet potatoes.

Sun Chen stepped forward with a twist, opened the stove door on the side, put on gloves to turn over the sweet potato, and found that it had been baked, so he took it out and put it in a basket covered with a small quilt to keep warm.

After being busy for a while, the people around him gradually left, and Da Zhuang had time to chat with him.

"Ah Chen, didn't you go out to sell goods today? It's really strange~" Da Zhuang was very happy to see his little friend coming, but thinking of his busyness during this time, he couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"Everyone who should buy New Year's goods has already bought and saved, and I can't sell much if I go around, so I just rest early and go after the New Year."

Most people here will prepare New Year's goods in advance, and those who have not bought well before the twentieth day of the lunar month will generally not have money to buy anything. "It's different from you, there are a lot more people shopping these days, business is good, right?"

"Hehe, yes, twice as much as usual!" Da Zhuang laughed when he mentioned this, his business is getting better and better during this time, and he can sell more than 200 catties of sweet potatoes one day! "My mother now has to help me inquire every day, who has sweet potatoes to sell!"

Most of his family's sweet potatoes were originally sold to Sun Chen, and now they are all collected by his mother from neighbors and relatives.

"This job is suitable for her~" Sun Chen smiled, Aunt Zhu has a hearty temperament, but she will not be too careful, and she is the most suitable for dealing with people.

"That is, my mother likes to chat with people the most, and when it comes to parents, there are few who can compare to her!" Da Zhuang looks like he is honored.

"How about it, do you think it's better to hunt or sell roasted sweet potatoes?" Sun Chen asked him.

"Selling roasted sweet potatoes in the market should be more stable!" Da Zhuang gave Sun Chen a piece of roasted sweet potato, and he also took a piece and ate it, "I still like the days of hunting in the mountains, free and easy, and have a sense of achievement." ”

Sun Chen thought so, but he felt that he didn't have the right to choose now, and all his interests and preferences should be based on a stable and prosperous life. Da Zhuang still has a father to rely on, and he can live according to his own heart for a few years, but he doesn't seem to be able to.

"But Xiaoqiu doesn't seem to like me to be a hunter, she said it's too dangerous~" Da Zhuang frowned, "The Li family also asked a matchmaker to come over that day and said that I could try to change my job." ”

"They're worried about your safety, and that's a good thing." Sun Chen patted him on the shoulder, "You also know how worried Aunt Qingyun was when Uncle Tie Li went up the mountain to hunt. ”

Counting that she has been pregnant for three or four months, I am afraid that after a while, I am afraid that I will be even more reluctant to let him go up the mountain, right?

"Yes, I said it at home yesterday, during this time he followed my father to help others do short-term work in the town, and my second aunt also said that it was best for him to follow my father in the future, and no longer go to the mountains to hunt!"

"Ah Chen, do you say that everyone is willing to live a stable life? Even if you are poorly fed and clothed, you don't want to take risks? ”

"Do you make more money by hunting in the mountains than by selling roasted sweet potatoes?"

"That's not true, it seems that I can make more money selling roasted sweet potatoes."

"That's it, you need to take risks to make money, it's just your personal will, or rather, to satisfy your own selfish desires, and put aside the worries of your family." Since no one in Da Zhuang's family was so willing to take the risk, Sun Chen was determined to pull both Da Zhuang and Uncle Tie Li back down the mountain.

"I bet with you, after the New Year, Uncle Tie Li will definitely not go up the mountain again, do you believe it or not? In the past, he had no worries and didn't care so much about his safety, but now that he has a daughter-in-law and a child, he definitely wants to live a stable life. ”