Here, most people don't eat taro, so not many people grow it. The taro on the stalls now is generally raised in the fields. It's not that you don't know that taro can be eaten, but most of them don't know how to do it, and it's easy to have allergies on their hands when they clean up. But after boiling and roasting, the taste and yield are not as good as sweet potatoes. Generally, only when the broth is stewed at home, a few pieces will be put on it.

But because of this, the taro that is sold is extraordinarily cheap. Two catties only cost one penny, and it only cost forty yuan, and the taro in the entire market was collected by Qin Zhenghua and Zhao Yuchao. That is, after all, they do not have a penny of foreign debt.

After turning around again, after confirming that the collection was finished, Qin Zhenghua took Zhao Yuechao and found a place to squat at the end of the street.

"Zhenghua, what the hell do you want to do?! So much taro, what are we going to do with it?! Zhao Yuechao became more and more curious.

However, Qin Zhenghua only said: "It's good for you to look at it, and I'll surprise you in a while!" ”

Zhao Yuechao pursed his lips and squatted obediently aside.

Slowly, more and more people came to the market, and the Luo brothers also opened and sold two full, and the transaction price was 16 Wen. This is the time when the two of them are complacent.

At this time, dozens of children came to a nest, and the brothers hurriedly cheered up:

"Let's take a walk and take a look! ——The new pigs in Zhengqi Garden are full, and the students are all one of them! - Everyone has it, do you? ——Good quality and low price, limited quantity, want to buy as soon as possible! ——”

The children were immediately attracted to it, and the relatively brightly dressed child came over and asked the price: "Little brother, how do you sell this puff?!" ”

"It's not expensive, only sixteen wen." Luo Qianxing was about to take another sentence

But a child pulled the corner of his clothes in front of him and whispered, "Let's not buy it from them anymore, it's too expensive." Their hearts are black, and they even earn money from their own villages. As he spoke, a few more children from Zhuangzi were helping out.

So, Luo Qianxing could only watch this group of children walk in front of him, but he was unwilling, so he still shouted out the sentence: "Hey! - If you want to buy more, we can still get it cheaper, fifteen wen!! As long as fifteen!! How about the Fourteenth Article?! Really couldn't be lower!! ”

Eventually, however, the children moved farther and farther away from them. Seeing that Luo Qianxing was still about to shout again, Luo Qianyue intercepted him: "Forget it, don't shout, they won't buy it." It's because we did a bad job yesterday and we can't blame others. Let's wait a little longer......"

Only then did Luo Qianxing know what he had lost yesterday in order to make an extra profit. Suddenly tears were about to fall: "Brother, I'm sorry." ”

Luo Qianyue shook her head and said, "It's okay, it's also to blame me for not watching you yesterday, it's okay to teach you a lesson...... If you suffer a small loss now, you will not suffer a big loss in the future. Daddy said you forgot, right?!

Daddy said, if you only want to do this business, you can naturally use all means. But if you want to do business twice, you have to do a good job of reputation the first time. And a family like us has to regard reputation as important as life. Some families, in order to maintain their reputation, are not bankrupt. But as long as it is kept, it will soon be able to make a comeback. There are also families with unscrupulous descendants, who show off their cleverness again and again, and seem to have made more money for a while, but they have lost the reputation of their ancestors for hundreds of years. From now on, it can only go down, and it is difficult to have a future.

What's more, it's the reputation of your own family?! Even the most short-sighted head of the family should know how to maintain his own family, prestige and voice in his hometown. In this way, if you suffer a loss elsewhere, you can always retreat and recuperate......"

I don't know if Luo Qianyue did it on purpose, the more he said this, the more Luo Qianxing cried.

On the other hand, An Ning happily greeted this large number of customers: "Xiaoshanzi, these are all your friends?!" ”

"Sister An Ning, you see these are my cousins, and these are my cousins."

"Sister Qingxue, I also brought my cousin and cousin."

"They all want to buy a puff, how much do you sell now?!"

……

The children were noisily introduced, and An Ning smiled and said, "Thank you so much!" I brought so much business here, but the price I gave you yesterday must be impossible, and it is not a business. But today we made an appointment with the Luo brothers on the reserve price. You see, why don't you do that?! But as long as it is a guest brought by the children in the Zhuangzi, I will directly give the lowest reserve price, fourteen wen, how about it?! Generally, if someone else buys it, it will cost fifteen or sixteen yuan. ”

"This reserve price must have been set by the Luo family brothers, right?" If there is a child, he said angrily.

An Ning smiled and nodded, no, they set it.

"Humph! I know that they are the most black-hearted, they don't reduce the price, and they don't allow others to lower!! The children expressed their indignation.

Xie Qingxue had the heart to explain, but she didn't know where to start.

"Fourteen is fourteen, I want one."

"I want one too!"

……

"But it's all fourteen, why do we have to come here to buy it?!"

"Even if the price is the same, I'm not happy to buy something in a black store!!"

"Yes, yes, yes!! Get me one too! ”

……

"I seem to have seen this kind of puff before, as long as thirteen ......"

"The one you see doesn't have this pattern of fortune and treasure, right?! This is only available in the Righteous Qi Garden, and nowhere else! It seems that there are not many left, if you don't buy it, you may not be able to buy it in the future! ”

"Okay, okay, then I'll buy three, I want to bring one for my younger brothers and sisters at home."

……

After a while, more than 20 were sold, An Ning has been busy collecting money, Xie Qingxue keeps accounts, and Yining is full. After the wave of people left, the three of them were a little more relaxed.

"An Ning, although I know why they didn't buy Brother Xingyue's puff, I don't quite understand, why do these children still go to the market together even though they are not from the same Zhuangzi?!" Xie Qingxue was a little confused.

An Ning didn't evade this time, but just asked rhetorically: "If you go to the East Market next to my house to buy something during the holidays." Can't you even think of taking me with you?! ”

Xie Qingxue hurriedly explained: "I know, but,"

"But why do they all know each other, right?!" An Ning said with a smile, Xie Qingxue nodded stupidly.

"The people in Yuejiazhuang are basically surnamed Yue. However, the same surname cannot be married, so if there is a girl in the Zhuangzi who reaches the age, he will marry another nearby village, and if a man reaches the age, he will marry another girl in the Zhuangzi. The communicative range of the Zhuang family is so large, and after a long time, it will naturally be related to the surrounding Zhuangzi. Even if most of the children are not familiar with them, the children from a village will have a habit of playing together. This has come and gone, and it has become what it is now. An Ning patiently explained, and there was still a faint sense of accomplishment in his heart that was not humane for outsiders. Tsk, it's hard to say, it's just smug anyway.

And Xie Qingxue is really a very qualified compliment: "Wow! An Ning, you're too powerful, aren't you?! Did you think of it yesterday when you saw Brother Qianxing selling at a high price?! Why are you so smart. ”

An Ning was suddenly a little fluttering, if it weren't for the business again, she would have liked to hear Xie Qingxue praise for a while.

Meng Yunxi's side also started all kinds of busyness at this time, and almost every transaction was the result of a battle of wits and courage.

"Yikes! These two little girls are beautiful! Whose children are you from which village?! A lady with a ten-year-old grandson at home asked with a smile.

Meng Yunxi also replied with a big smile: "Auntie, we are all students of Zhengqi Garden, this is to help the aunt in Zhuangzi look after the stall." Do you see if there's anything you can see?! ”

When the eldest lady heard this, she was disappointed in her heart, who didn't know that the students in the Zhengqi Garden were all young masters and young ladies from Beijing. is either rich or expensive, which is not something that people like her can imagine. But she still straightened her mood and looked at the stall, not to mention, she really wanted to buy it: "This pheasant is sold like this?!" ”

Meng Yunxi immediately smiled and said: "Auntie, twenty-five yuan a catty, I only fought yesterday, and I was still alive in the morning, that is, my aunt didn't feed it, otherwise I have to bother you to kill it now." ”

The lady is not easy to fool: "So expensive?!" I've never eaten such expensive chicken since I've lived so big!! ”

Meng Yunxi immediately looked like he was the same enemy: "Isn't it?!" I also think it's quite expensive, but my aunt said that she can't help it, and now the pork is sold for 20 wen a catty. Isn't that pheasant a little more expensive than pork?! Otherwise, she might as well keep it for her own family, how can I say that this pheasant is not much more nourishing than pork?! His daughter, my sister Xing'er is also growing up, so it's time to eat something good. ”

This is also said on the tip of the old lady's heart, isn't her grandson also when he grows up?! But in the end, I felt a little expensive in my heart, and muttered in my mouth: "But that pork is all meat, this pheasant has dismantled the chicken feathers and bones, and there is nothing left......

"Auntie, look at what you said, the taste of this pheasant soup is boiled out of the bones, what are you going to eat if you remove the bones?!" Chicken feathers are also, the county grocery store collects chicken feathers, this pheasant feathers are more expensive than every family!! Seeing that the eldest lady was still hesitating, Meng Yunxi hurriedly added another fire: "Look, this chicken is a total of one pound and seven taels, and it is forty-two and a half cents, I will give you a cheaper, do an open business, and only charge you forty wen?!" ”

However, business is not so easy to do, and it is not easy to take money out of anyone's pocket. The old lady was still hesitating, so Meng Yunxi said intimately: "Why don't you go to another place to take a look, although pheasants are not common, there seem to be a few chickens in the market, although they are not so nourishing, but they should be cheaper." No, this market has just begun, and maybe someone else will sell pheasants in a while?! ”

"Okay! Forty is forty! It's not that you can't afford it! My grandson should eat such expensive chicken! The old lady was dripping blood in her heart as she took out the money. Just like Meng Yunxi just said, the market has just opened, but those who came to set up stalls have already come. On the contrary, I came to the market to buy things, and there are many more in the back. If you don't buy it now, I'm afraid you won't be able to buy it for a while.

"Howler!" Meng Yunxi poured a basket of good words while collecting money: "With such a good grandmother as you, you are blessed to see your grandchildren!" After eating your chicken, it will definitely be more filial to you in the future! I want to have such a good grandmother, I will wake up laughing when I dream! ”

These words immediately made the old lady's face smile.

As soon as the eldest lady left, Meng Yunxi and Su Jiayao calculated in their hearts that just this pheasant would have a profit of six yuan!!

"Yay!! What a good start!! Let's make money!! Su Jiayao was so happy that she was about to jump!!

After a while, another guest came, and most of them went out to call friends, like the old lady just now, alone, definitely a minority of the few. Meng Yunxi and Su Jiayao were busy again, things were more complicated, and small pieces didn't earn much, but the two of them were still happy and full of vitality.

Aunt Fan in the canteen also took the list to buy in the market at this time, and she worked diligently and carefully to find the freshest ingredients from house to house. She deeply knows that although she can eat some oil and water on the account, if the quality of the ingredients is reduced in order to eat oil and water, it will be a big taboo!

In this way, she looked for stalls from stall to stall, what kind of things she wanted to buy, how much money should be spent, she had a scale in her heart, and she didn't need to compare them with each other. After all, the ingredients for five or six days for thirty people are not a small number, and if it is too slow, it will not be enough time to go back to make lunch. It wasn't until the sun came out that she would buy about the ingredients on the list.

Finally, after a careful inventory, I found out, huh?! There is also a lack of taro!

Although I don't like to eat in other places, in Zhengqi Garden, Mingzhu has always arranged taro instead of potatoes. The children are also very fond of eating, and they have to buy dozens of catties every once in a while, and this thing can be put aside anyway.

Aunt Fan was a little puzzled, it was the first time she encountered that there was not a single taro in the market. So, she inquired, and when the stall owners saw that she bought a lot of things, they naturally knew everything. said yes, there were two children early in the morning, and they paid for all the taro on their stalls!

Aunt Fan is not stupid, and she vaguely knows the reason in her heart.

Sure enough, when she slowly walked to the end of the street, she saw Qin Zhenghua and Zhao Yuechao, two boys, squatting there. In front of them was a sack of taro!