Chapter 19 Raspberries are sold at the bazaar
"That's the kind of auntie, isn't there just a market in Xingshui Town tomorrow? Ning Ning said that she wanted to buy a few bags of vegetable seeds and come back, so I thought about taking her to the market tomorrow to have a look, and by the way, buy some things that the family needs, what do you think? At the dinner table, Gu Huaian said calmly.
Yang Huiyun's eyes turned to Gu Changning, Gu Changning stiffened, and immediately looked at A-Niang flatteringly.
"Okay, then you have to take care of your sister, don't let her get lost." Yang Huiyun pondered for a moment, but still sighed and said, "I don't need anything at home, so I don't need you to buy anything." ”
In the past month, she has seen that Gu Changning has been staying at home, and she has not seen her walk around the village after the first month of filial piety, let alone go to play with her little sisters, Yang Huiyun thought that her daughter may not have recovered from this incident, and now it is rare for her to have the idea of going to the market, and she doesn't want to detain her.
"Auntie rest assured! I'll keep an eye on my brother! When Gu Changning heard this, he couldn't wait for Gu Huai'an to answer, and took over excitedly.
"You're the one to be watched." Yang Huiyun glanced at her angrily.
She knew that Gu Huai'an would not take the initiative to take Gu Changning to the market, after all, it was too chaotic there, and she felt uneasy without an adult by her side, and now it seemed that Gu Changning should have rubbed Gu Huai'an and asked him to take her.
Gu Changning stuck out his tongue, smiled, and ate obediently.
It's good that A-Niang agrees, she can sharpen her fists to earn her first silver!
The next day (five to seven o'clock in the morning), the horizontal line was covered with a touch of fish belly white, the sun rose from the mountains in the east, Gu Changning got up with a yawn, and began to groom himself with sleepy eyes.
She was too excited last night, she fell asleep at 23 o'clock -01 o'clock, and she will sleep for three hours, and she is still a little confused, but she has something very important to do today, even if she climbs with her eyes closed, she has to get up.
Yang Huiyun knew that the two children were going to the town, and she got up early to cook morning food and Chinese food for them.
According to Gu Huai'an, the school will only open after the hour, he can take his sister to the market first, and then take his sister to the school after the time, until the end of school in the afternoon, and the brother and sister will come back together, which means that the Chinese food of the two is used in the school, so it naturally has to be prepared in advance.
Originally, Yang Huiyun wanted to take Gu Changning to go by herself, and they would come back directly after watching the bazaar, but this idea was opposed by the two children.
Because she was pregnant and there were many people in the market, Gu Changning was afraid that something would happen to her, so they resolutely opposed it.
Seeing that their attitude was so tough, Yang Huiyun had no choice, so she could only let them be cautious, and then watched them go out.
"How much did A-Niang give you?" The brother and sister were walking on the road, and Gu Changning turned his head and asked his brother.
Before going out, Yang Huiyun gave each of them some copper plates, Gu Changning is Shiwen, she was curious about how many her brother had.
She was wearing Gu Huai'an's old clothes at the moment, and her hair was all combed up and tied on the top of her head, all dressed as she said before, but her face was not wiped with soot, and she looked like a little boy with delicate facial features.
"Well, there are twenty wen." Gu Huai'an counted the copper coins in his purse and said.
Gu Changning nodded, indicating that he understood.
This money was given to them, and A-Niang probably wouldn't ask for it back, she was only eight years old, and she didn't need anything to spend money, at most she was to buy snacks, and ten wen was enough.
And the elder brother will have 20 wen, probably because Ah Niang thinks that he is studying in the school, if he goes out to play with his classmates, he will be laughed at by them if his hands are too tight, and he is worried that his son will not be able to get over the face, so he gave him 20 wen in case of emergency.
Gu Changning and Gu Huai'an walked for about a quarter of an hour, and then gradually saw a few figures on the road, all of them were from other villages, either carrying bamboo baskets or carrying things on their hands and shoulders, and they were also going to the market in Xingshui Town when they saw it.
The reason why I didn't see the villagers of Xinghua Village on the road was because they came out early.
The child's feet are weak and he walks slowly, so Gu Huai'an planned to go out half an hour in advance, so that the market in Xingshui Town has just opened, and the time is just right.
Originally, Xingshui Town, which Gu Huai'an could walk to in half an hour, took another quarter of an hour to arrive after adding Gu Changning, and when they arrived, there were already vendors setting up stalls in Xingshui Town.
Gu Huai'an has studied in Xingshui Town for a few years, and he also knows a little about setting up stalls.
It's just that the price of the stalls with good locations is also high, 20 wen for a stall, 10 wen for the next one, and five wen for the worst ones in the corners.
Gu Huai'an thought about it, looked at his sister around curiously, and decided to rent Shiwen's stall.
"Let's rent ten wen, right?"
"Shiwen?" Gu Changning had never set up a stall before, so he didn't know that it was so expensive, so he was startled when he heard this, "Is this already the cheapest stall?" ”
"No, Shiwen is the rent for a medium position, and the stall with the worst position is Wuwen, but basically no one will pass by there."
In this way, Gu Changning was very entangled, she only picked ten catties of raspberries this time, the price was ten cents a catty, and there was not much money to calculate it, and the booth fee had to remove one catty of money, which really made her feel distressed.
"Then let's rent ten cents!" Gu Changning thought about it later, and felt that he still had to rent a medium stall, after all, the location of Wuwen's stall was too biased, and there were not many people who were willing to spend money to buy a fresh taste, and then put it in such a remote place, wouldn't it be even more unpopular?
Gu Huai'an nodded, and led her to the place where the stall was rented to pay the money.
However, they still went late, the ten-yuan booth had been rented, and only twenty and five-dollar were left, Gu Changning and Gu Huai'an glanced at each other, and rented the five-wen booth without hesitation.
After paying the money and receiving the sign, the two went to their stall and found that it was really out of the way, as long as they went a few meters to the side, they could get out of the road of the market.
Out of the market is the famous rich area, where there are restaurants, jewelry, fat powder, cloth and other shops, a wide variety of goods, there are a lot of people, it doesn't look like a side avoidance.
It's just that the people who come here are all from big families, even if they see Gu Changning's stall, they won't come to them to buy it, which will make them feel very down.
Gu Changning figured this out, sighed silently, extinguished his heart to attract guests to the side, and sat quietly in front of his stall, waiting for someone to take the initiative to ask.
There are actually a lot of people who ask, but there is no one who is willing to buy it.
"Auntie, you've eaten two of them, if you really like it, why don't you buy a pound and go home and try it?" Gu Changning blocked the mouth of the bamboo basket with one hand and said with a smile on his face, "Raspberries are ten pounds and ten cents." ”
The raspberry was so sweet that she agreed to let them try it in order to reassure the customer about buying it.
However, these people all left after trying one, and they didn't look at it, Gu Changning knew as soon as he saw it, these people just wanted to take advantage of it and try one for free, and they didn't plan to buy it at all.
is depressed, this aunt is full of disgust, and she came to pick and choose.
Gu Changning saw that this seemed to have the intention of buying, so he endured his temper and let her choose.
As a result, this aunt first picked a big one to eat, and then picked a bigger one, and when she was about to pick the third one, Gu Changning couldn't sit still, she directly covered the mouth of the bamboo basket and spoke unceremoniously to this aunt.
"What? Such broken raspberries cost ten pennies a pound? Why don't you grab it! Seeing that she didn't have a chance to eat the third, and hearing her words, she couldn't help jumping to her feet, and said in her mouth, "Such a rotten raspberry is so expensive, sour and unpalatable, it actually costs ten pennies a pound, why is the heart so black at such a young age!" ”
Gu Changning listened to her ruining her reputation, and scared away a few other guests who wanted to come to have a look, anger flashed in his eyes, and he immediately replied unceremoniously, "Sour and unpalatable?" I see that you have eaten two aunts, and you want to take the third one, you look greedy, and I think you like it very much, auntie, it turns out that my raspberry is so unpalatable? ”
"What nonsense! Who is greedy, you lowly thing, see if I don't tear it up......" The aunt couldn't get off the stage because of what she said, and she was about to reach out and hit someone, and suddenly there was a scolding sound in the distance.
"What are you doing, what are you doing! What a noise! ”
Gu Changning turned his face sideways and saw that it was a few officials with knives patrolling the streets, and they happened to patrol here.