Out of the village, the two girls walked in front, and Shi Lei followed them with a burden, listening to their chatter.

Yuanyuan kept looking at Bai Mengdie's new dress, and her eyes were full of envy, saying that her dress was so good-looking.

Bai Mengdie said arrogantly: "This is what my mother made for me!" ”

Yuan Yuan was taken aback: "You called your aunt Mom." ”

Bai Mengdie squinted at her: "My mother is so good to me, of course I have to call her mother!" ”

Shi Lei listened to it in the back, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help flying.

On the way, I met the old man who was going home for breakfast.

The old man told Shi Lei to take good care of Bai Mengdie on the road.

Bai Aiguo took out two yuan from his pocket and gave it to Shi Lei: "Your mother told me last night that today is Children's Day, and these two yuan will buy some snacks for your brother and sister." ”

Bai Mengdie hasn't done anything yet, Shi Lei's face has already turned red: "Dad! I'm 20 years old, what else is Children's Day? My sister is doing well alone. ”

"Why can't you pass at the age of twenty? You and Fluttershy will always be children in my eyes. Bai Aiguo stuffed the two dollars to Shi Lei.

Tian Chunfang gently told his brother and sister to be careful outside, endure everything, don't quarrel with others, and let the three children go.

Yuanyuan sighed all the way, saying that Bai Mengdie's parents are so good.

His brother and sister are so old, and her parents also gave them money for Children's Day!

Her parents didn't think of giving her a dollar for Children's Day.

Bai Mengdie smiled and didn't speak, she wouldn't talk much about other people's family affairs.

The three of them came to the town and waited for a short time before a coach came into the station.

Fortunately, there are not many people who take the coach to the city at this point, so the driver and conductor do not charge extra for their goods.

In order not to affect the people who got on the bus behind, Bai Mengdie sat in the back row of seats on the long-distance bus.

Yuan Yuan took out six hard-boiled eggs from his pocket, two for each person.

The two Bai Mengdie brothers and sisters both refused, saying that they had breakfast at home and went out.

Yuan Yuan touched each other with an egg, broke the egg, and forced one into his brother and sister's hand.

"It's as if I didn't have breakfast in the morning and went out, my mother said, you two are willing to take me to the city to sell flowers, and there is nothing to thank you, so I specially boiled these six eggs, let us have two each, meaning."

When Bai Mengdie heard her say this, she didn't be polite to her: "We really can't eat it now."

Keep the four uncracked ones for us for lunch, and if we don't get back at noon, we'll eat eggs and the pies we brought with us. ”

"Ahh Yuan Yuan said frustratedly, "I knew you were going to keep the eggs for lunch, so I wouldn't break these two, but now it's okay, I don't have lunch at noon." ”

Shi Lei said: "You give me these two broken ones, the eggs are cooked, even if they are broken and put for a long time, they will not be bad." ”

Yuan Yuan gave him all the broken eggs and the good eggs.

Shi Lei bent down and put the eggs and pies together.

The three of them discussed on the way, and when they got to the city, where to sell gardenias and vegetables.

Shi Lei means that the three people should not be separated.

Bai Mengdie was embarrassed, if the three of them were not separated, they could only go to the vegetable market to sell.

Shi Lei's load of vegetables will definitely be sold out quickly if she sends it to the vegetable market, but she and Yuanyuan may not be able to sell so many gardenias......

Bai Mengdie thought for a while and said, "Then let's go to the vegetable market together, and when my brother finishes selling the vegetables, if I haven't sold out of the round gardenias, we will go to the gate of the Jiangcheng shopping mall to sell them." ”

Shi Lei and Yuan Yuan both agreed.

Yuanyuan is so big, he has only been to the county seat at the farthest, and has not been to the provincial capital, this is the first time to go to Jiangcheng, and he was very excited along the way, looking out of the window in a novel way, chattering and talking to Bai Mengdie.

Bai Mengdie didn't sleep well last night, didn't want to chat with her, said a few perfunctory words, and fell asleep with her head tilted.

Yuan Yuan wanted to talk to Shi Lei, he made a silent gesture, and Yuan Yuan had to shut up.

Two hours later, the three of them stood on the bustling Liberation Avenue.

Bai Mengdie lived in Jiangcheng in the real society in later generations, so he was very familiar with the route of Jiangcheng, and took them to the nearest largest bazaar in Jiangcheng shopping mall.

The city is different from the countryside, today is Children's Day, the shops are full of balloons, the streets are crowded with people, a lively scene of the festival.

And I'm afraid that more than half of the people in the countryside don't remember that today is Children's Day, let alone celebrate the holiday.

Yuanyuan marveled at the prosperity of the metropolis while keeping an eye on her surroundings, and until now she had not seen any gardenias sold.

She worriedly pulled Bai Mengdie's white chubby arm and said, "No one sells gardenias at all, isn't there anyone who wants it!" ”

She regrets dying now, she shouldn't have followed the trend to buy gardenias, if she can't sell them, she will have to lose dozens of yuan, that's all her private money!

Bai Mengdie slapped off her paws: "Don't you see that I'm carrying a basket and a basket on my back, don't pull me, it's hard for me to walk!" ”

Then he said: "Doing business is inherently risky, and there is no way to do it if no one wants it." ”

Yuanyuan regretted her words even more, and followed her unhappily.

Bai Mengdie calculated in her heart, today is Saturday, and it is Children's Day, and she doesn't know if the city management and market administrators will go to work.

If they had a holiday today, they would have been able to sell gardenias and greens without any scruples.

But even if the chengguan and the market administrator don't have a holiday, it doesn't matter, put the stalls down first, and then say, the chengguan will come to catch them up, just go.

Now the bazaar is very formal, and there are many small stalls in a big shed, and many small owners who sell vegetables rent stalls to operate in the market.

However, there are also some illegal small vendors outside the market who sell agricultural products such as fruits, vegetables, poultry, eggs and so on.

When I arrived at the bazaar, Yuanyuan finally saw one or two old ladies selling gardenias, and at first glance they were gardenias on their gardenia trees, because there were not many gardenias in everyone's basket.

In a few minutes of looking around, the two old ladies had all sold out of gardenias.

Yuanyuan finally put his mind at ease, it seems that gardenias are really selling well in the city.

Bai Mengdie came from later generations and knew that the gardenia economy was formed after 2005, when many people planted gardenias in the suburbs of Jiangcheng and sold them in large areas.

In this era, the gardenia economy was far from forming a climate, and it was just that some old ladies made a small fuss and sold their gardenias on the street.

Bai Mengdie thought to herself that she could seize this opportunity and buy gardenias every week to sell them in the city and make a few small bucks.

After the two old ladies finished selling the gardenias, when they were leaving, they saw the white dream butterfly and the gardenia in the round back basket, and came to ask why they had so many gardenias and where they got them.

Bai Mengdie was anxious to set up a stall, and didn't want to say more, so she perfunctorily told them that these gardenias were planted by their family.

But the two old ladies didn't believe it at all, and they had to inquire, Bai Mengdie ignored them, and they left angrily.

Bai Mengdie took Yuan Yuan and Shi Lei to set up a stall at the end of the stall spontaneously formed by illegal vendors outside the vegetable market, and someone immediately came to ask them how to sell gardenias.

Bai Mengdie hurriedly pulled Yuanyuan and motioned her not to speak.

When she planned to come to the city to sell gardenias yesterday, she forgot that today was Children's Day, so she didn't take into account the holiday economy.

Now, of course, this factor has to be taken into account, and it is impossible to sell it for three cents.

She said, "Five cents a handful, and a handful has five." ”

Several women who wanted to buy gardenias muttered: "It's so expensive, it usually sells for three cents, but today it sells for five cents." ”

Bai Mengdie beat her shoulder, which was a little sore because of the back basket, and said with a smile: "It's not expensive, our flowers were just picked this morning, you can see how fresh they are, you can soak them at home for at least three or five days."

Now soda is sold for five cents a bottle, and buying a handful of flowers for five cents is only equivalent to drinking a bottle of soda. ”

The aunts and aunts all turned their heads and asked Yuanyuan: "How do you sell this gardenia?" ”

Yuanyuan is not a fool, Bai Mengdie pulled her just now, and now that the price has been temporarily increased to five cents, she will definitely not sell it at the original price.

Yuan Yuan smiled sweetly and said, "I'm the same as her, and I'm also five cents a handful." ”

The middle-aged women rolled their eyes in unison: "You guys actually have a monopoly, and the price is the same!" ”

Bai Mengdie explained with a smile: "Aunts and aunts, we don't want to sell expensive, but we have raised the price today."

Usually go to buy other people's gardenias, people sell them to us for three cents, a handful of gardenias sell for three cents, we can also earn more than a dime.

But this morning, when we went to buy it, people had to sell a gardenia for six cents anyway, and you let us sell it for three cents, we couldn't afford to sell it, and we had to pay for the road and lunch, and we couldn't even earn ten yuan a day. ”

The middle-aged women saw that they couldn't afford it, so they had to buy it.

One of you, two of me, more and more people are buying, and the white dream butterfly and the round gardenia stalls are surrounded by water.

Originally, Jiangcheng people liked gardenias very much, and gardenias were still very cheap even if they were sold for five cents.

Just like Bai Mengdie said, who can't take out the money for a handful of cabbage or a bottle of soda?

And customers have a herd mentality, and when they see others buying, they will have itchy hands, so the business of Bai Mengdie and round gardenia will be so good.

Everyone was selling happily, and suddenly someone shouted: "The chengguan is here!" ”

Bai Mengdie said to Yuan Yuan and Shi Lei: "Quickly pack up your things and come with me!" ”

The two girls carried the basket on their shoulders, and Shi Lei picked up the burden and followed behind them.

Bai Mengdie trotted with them for a distance and dodged into a large community.

In Jiangcheng in 1998, there were not many high-end real estate, most of them were unit welfare houses or ordinary residences, and there was no property management, so they collected tatters and sold snacks on bicycles...... All kinds of idle people come and go casually.

Bai Mengdie and the three of them hid in the community, no one cared, no one asked, the three of them looked at each other and laughed, the scene just now was really exciting!

Shi Lei told Bai Mengdie that when they ran away just now, he deliberately turned his head and saw an old lady who was selling gardenias just now walking with the chengguan, and he suspected that it was the old lady who called the chengguan.

Yuan Yuan said disdainfully: "Why are the people in the city so bad!" I just didn't pay attention to them, and actually called the city management to chase us! ”

Bai Mengdie didn't speak, whoever told them to set up stalls in violation of regulations, of course people could use the chengguan to retaliate against them!

Besides, that old lady is not their relative, why should she be good to them!

The children found a place to sit down in the neighborhood and counted how much they had just sold.

In less than an hour just now, Bai Mengdie and Yuanyuan both sold a lot of gardenias.

Yuan Yuan counted the money spent on selling gardenias just now, and sold them for more than twenty-three yuan in total.

She was so excited that her face flushed, and she asked Bai Mengdie, "How much did you sell it for?" ”

Bai Mengdie put the counted money into the pocket of her skirt: "I sold it for more than fifty yuan." ”

"You've sold it for so much money!" Yuan Yuan was a little shocked, "I only sold for more than 20 yuan, I thought I sold a lot, and I was about to die of joy, but I didn't expect you to sell more than me." ”

Bai Mengdie pressed the pocket where the money was placed: "Although I sell more than you, I earn less than you."

Almost all of my gardenias are purchased from other people's homes, and more than 100 of your gardenias are your own, and when they are sold out, they will definitely make more profits than me, so I should envy you. ”

Yuan Yuan grinned: "Oh too." ”

Shi Lei unscrewed the lid of the large glass bottle of cold boiled water brought from home and handed it to Bai Mengdie.

Bai Mengdie drank two sips and returned it to him, asking, "Brother, how much did you sell your vegetables?" ”

Shi Lei took the glass bottle and drank two sips of water, and said embarrassedly: "My dishes are not as good as your flowers, and they only sell for a dozen yuan." ”

Bai Mengdie glanced at his burden, cucumbers, beans, bamboo leafy vegetables and eggplants were sold a lot, bitter gourds, leeks, loofahs, amaranth, lentils, sword beans and a lot.

The big winter melon was not cared for, it was still a whole, and not a single piece was sold.

Bai Mengdie said: "There are many vegetables sold in the bazaar, and there are only two of us who sell gardenias, and it is normal for you to sell your vegetables to us." ”

Yuan Yuan stretched out his hand to Shi Lei with a big grin: "Give me two sips of water, I'm so thirsty." ”

Bai Mengdie glanced at her.

She and Shi Lei are brother and sister, and it doesn't matter if the two of them share a bottle of water to drink.

Yuanyuan, an outsider, also wants to share water with them, and she feels a little awkward.

It's not that she dislikes Yuanyuan, but she understands Shi Lei's health condition, but she doesn't know Yuanyuan's health condition, who knows if she has any infectious diseases such as hepatitis?

Shi Lei hesitated, but still handed the bottle of water to Yuanyuan.

Just when Yuanyuan stretched out his hand to take it, Bai Mengdie saw a small shop not far away, and said, "Don't drink water, I invite you to drink soda." ”

Bai Mengdie went to the small store to buy three bottles of soda, and in those days, after drinking the soda, she had to return the bottles to the small store.

Bai Mengdie pointed in Shi Lei's direction with her finger and said to the proprietress: "We'll drink there, and I'll send the bottle over when I'm done." ”

The proprietress glanced at Shi Lei and Yuanyuan and agreed.