The old man put the basket on his back and followed Bai Mengdie to the long-distance bus station.

Bai Mengdie asked as she walked, "Grandpa, how many catties of plums did you sell?" ”

The old man was speechless when asked, and after a while, he said with a face of shame: "I haven't sold a tael ~ and paid a dollar for the booth." ”

Bai Mengdie comforted him and said, "It's okay, when you wait for a while, grandpa's plums in the city will definitely sell well!" ”

The old man was not as optimistic as Bai Mengdie: "I hope so." ”

The grandfather and grandson arrived at the long-distance bus station, and after only waiting for about seven or eight minutes, a car entered the station.

On a hot day, it was the busy farming season, and there were few rural people going to the provincial capital, so the carriage was very empty, but Bai Mengdie still took the old man to sit in the last row.

Both her grandparents and grandchildren carry goods, and whether they stand at the head of the carriage or in the middle of the carriage, it will affect people's getting on and off the train.

Bai Mengdie is a good girl who pays attention to public morality everywhere she goes, which mainly comes from the orphanage in her previous life, and those volunteer little brothers and sisters taught well.

It is an hour-and-a-half-hour drive from the county seat to the provincial capital, and the grandparents can bag plums and cherries at this time.

There are not many private cars now, so there are no traffic jams on the highway and there are no easy car accidents.

The background of Bai Mengdie's place where she wore the book was Hubei Province, where she was born and raised before she wore the book.

In her time, the speed limit of long-distance passenger buses from the county seat to the provincial capital was very strict, and she had to run for three hours.

If a long-distance passenger car accident casualty is very terrifying, although the speed limit is slow, but the maximum degree of safety of passengers.

The old man took some plastic bags of plums from Bai Mengdie's basket, and before loading them, he asked Bai Mengdie how much a bag was good.

Bai Mengdie said while busy loading cherries: "Plums are not expensive fruits, let's pack them for half a catty." ”

The old man opened his big hand and grabbed a large handful of plums and weighed them on the scale, and he almost half a catty of this handful: "What is the price of that?" I think one dollar and one bag will be done! ”

Last year in the city, a pound of plums was sold for five a piece, and a bag and a half pound were sold for one dollar, which was already very high.

Bai Mengdie wiped a cherry with obvious flaws in the palm of her hand and stuffed it into her mouth: "One piece is too cheap, sell it for five!" ”

The old man paused, turned his head to look at Bai Mengdie: "...... Isn't it too expensive to sell half a catty for a piece of five? This isn't a cherry, it's an ordinary fruit!

We sell it too expensive, people won't buy it, they will definitely go to the vegetable market to buy it.

This year, the plums in the county are sold so cheaply, and the city is only afraid that it is cheaper than in previous years, and the plums in the vegetable market can be sold for a piece of five pounds, which is already good, who will spend a piece of five to buy you half a pound of plums! ”

Bai Mengdie spit out the cherry pit in her mouth and threw it in the trash can not far away: "Grandpa, it depends on where we sell these plums, in the provincial capital, you can buy tea eggs for four cents, or you can buy tea eggs for five cents."

The tea eggs at the school gate are all four cents, but the tea eggs at the entrance of the mall are all five cents! ”

The old man smiled and felt that his big baby was so smart: "I understand, we will also go to the gate of the mall to sell, right?" It's like selling cherries in the county department store just now! ”

"Yes!" Bai Mengdie replied loudly, and suddenly the few passengers in the carriage looked sideways.

The old man tied a bag of plums to the mouth of the bag: "Then how much are you going to sell this cherry?" ”

Bai Mengdie asked rhetorically: "How much did cherries sell for a pound in the city last year?" ”

The old man pretended to be plums with his hands and feet: "Listen to your father, if it is not fresh, it will cost eight yuan a pound!" Fresh cherries like ours are definitely more than that! ”

Bai Mengdie was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time, and pouted and complained: "Grandpa! Since the cherries in the city are so expensive, why do you want me to sell them for three dollars? ”

The old man thinks that his big baby is very cute when he is angry.

He smiled kindly and said, "Can the county be compared with the city?" Three dollars and a pound are too expensive for people in the county! ”

Bai Mengdie's heart was very blocked, she sold ten bags of cherries just now, at least three catties, and made a lot of money!

"Since the cheapest cherries last year could be sold for eight yuan a catty, our family's such a good cherry will be sold for at least fifteen yuan a catty, in order to collect money, two taels a bag, a bag of three yuan."

The old man looked at Bai Mengdie blankly for a while, and then persuaded: "Fluttershy, although the people in the city are rich, you can't slaughter people like that, fifteen yuan a pound is too expensive!"

People in the city have money, but they are not fools, you sell it so expensive, people won't want it, just sell it for ten yuan a catty, or like before, three or two a bag. ”

Bai Mengdie raised her eyebrows: "It's only a few catties of cherries, grandpa, are you still afraid that you won't be able to sell them?" I'll sell it for two or three dollars! Let's talk about it when it can't be sold. ”

The old man thought that if he couldn't sell Bai Mengdie, he would naturally reduce the price, let her touch a nail, so he didn't persuade him anymore.

Bai Mengdie bagged all the cherries, and only packed ninety-six bags, and left about a pound without bagging, which was left for customers to taste.

Such an expensive fruit is not allowed to customers to taste the taste, for fear that people will not buy it.

Bai Mengdie put the bag of cherries at her feet, and went to help the old man pack the plums, and when all the plums were packed, the long-distance bus had not yet arrived.

After the plums were divided into bags, because there was no gap like when they were packed in bulk, the back basket couldn't be put down, so Bai Mengdie put some plums in his basket.

Jiangcheng, the largest and most prosperous Jiangcheng shopping mall, is very close to the long-distance bus station, only three stops away.

got off the long-distance bus, in order to save the few cents of the travel fee, the grandparents and grandchildren walked to the Jiangcheng shopping mall with a basket on their backs and a basket on their backs.

It was already more than eleven o'clock, and the sun was blazing overhead, and the old man looked at Bai Mengdie distressed as he walked, worried that the white and chubby baby would be damaged by the sun.

But Bai Mengdie was not afraid of the sun at all, and walked beside him energetically.

The old man looked at the crowded street and sighed, in the end, it was a bustling city, no matter what day it came, it was so bustling.

Before she walked to Jiangcheng Shopping Mall, a girl holding her boyfriend stopped Bai Mengdie's grandchildren and asked them how to sell their fruits.

Bai Mengdie replied crisply in standard Mandarin: "Cherries cost three yuan a bag, and plums are five dollars a bag." ”

The girl shrewdly asked, "Then how much does your bag of cherries weigh and how much does your bag of plums weigh?" ”

Bai Mengdie told her truthfully: "A bag of cherries is about two taels, only more and no less, and a bag of plums is half a catty." ”

"It's so expensive!" The girl pursed her lips and put the bag of cherries in her hand back into Bai Mengdie's basket.