Chapter 6 Selling Vegetables

After lunch, the three of them chatted for a while, and Meng Zhen explained her and Du Wei to Chen Xue by the way, after all, they are matchmakers. Du Wei has been very busy, and Meng Zhen is completely disappointed in him. When he was packing up his belongings, when he saw the things he sent, he remembered that since he was going to break up, it was useless to keep these things, so he put all the things he had sent in the past year into the box, wrote a letter to explain his thoughts and decisions clearly, sealed them together, and sent them to Du Wei's home.

The three of them didn't discuss anything about this, anyway, it was already like this, it was useless to talk more, and after chatting a few words, Chen Xue and Zhao Kai went home with the vegetables prepared by Meng Zhen. Sending them away, Meng Zhen used the leftover rice to add some minced meat and cooked some meat porridge for Xiong Xiong. Xiong Xiong walked around this new home a few times, slowly became familiar with the environment, and no longer had the timidity of the beginning. Meng Zhen chilled the cooked porridge to the point that it was not hot, then poured it into a soup plate specially prepared for it, knocked the plate with a spoon, and called its name.

Xiong Xiong didn't know the name yet, but when he smelled the smell of food, he ran to Meng Zhen like a meat ball, twitched his black nose and smelled the smell, and began to lick his tail happily.

Seeing that Xiong Xiong was eating so happily, Meng Zhen also sat relaxed and began to think about selling vegetables tomorrow. Selling vegetables is very simple, she has just entered the manor and walked around, and the vegetables in it are growing better and better, she picked a lot of tomatoes and eggplants, and now she has a lot of them. The strawberries in the black soil next to it have begun to bear fruit, and the baby cabbage can also be picked. If you want to sell it, just pick it up and go to Liujiaji's market, the key is how not to attract people's attention. After all, Chen Xue is right, she has only been here for two days, and the vegetables in the yard are cooked, who are you fooling!?

The vegetables that were originally planted in the yard were moved to the manor by her as experiments, and then it seemed that the yard was a little depressed, and she moved some more from the yellow earth, and now these vegetable seedlings are obviously more than twice as tall as those that grow naturally. Looking at their obvious gap, she suddenly had an idea: she can move the small seedlings into the manor again, and then move the vegetable seedlings in the yellow earth out, so that once in and out, the vegetable seedlings in the yellow earth are close to the mature stage, stronger than the large vegetable seedlings outside, there is still an obvious gap, if you don't look carefully, you shouldn't pay attention to it, at least don't let her tenants see it!

Thinking of doing it, Meng Zhen began to move the vegetable seedlings. The living room was already full, and strolled to the porch. When Meng Zhen was decorating, he sealed the outside porch with glass windows and sliding doors, so that there was a transparent space outside the living room. The sliding door was closed, and it picked at the glass door with its little paws, and without pushing it open, it leaned against the door and lazily basked in the sun. The glass windows are sealed, so you don't feel cold even outside the living room. In the warm sunshine, I was drowsy, and I didn't see the strange actions of my master: first digging vegetable seedlings in the yard, and then suddenly even people and vegetable seedlings disappeared, and after a while, a bunch of larger vegetable seedlings appeared......

After a long time of busy work, Meng Zhen finally saw the first results, Meng Zhen wiped her sweat, looked at the green vegetable seedlings, and thought of an idea, so she turned back to the manor, and took out a few tomatoes that had hung fruit but were not yet ripe and planted outside, so that it was logical for her to take out the mature vegetables, right? !

She opened the well and began to water them, so that they probably wouldn't "suicidal protest". Meng Zhen secretly thought, he was really a little sorry for these vegetable seedlings, but he could only sacrifice them in order to hide people's eyes.

After watering the vegetables, it occurred to her that maybe her tenant was an agricultural novice like her, but Aunt Meng in the backyard was an expert in farming. When she found that the grass was growing in the field, they helped teach her how to hoe the grass. Meng Zhen thought of this, so he went to the kitchen and packed a few tomatoes in a plastic bag, ready to send them to Aunt Meng.

When she came to the backyard, the door was open, and she shouted by the door: "Second aunt, are you at home?" ”

After moving here, she found that the people in the village generally did not lock the door in broad daylight, and after a long time, she began to get used to not locking the door, except when she was not at home.

"It's Meng Zhen, come in"

"Whoa!"

Meng Zhen agreed to come in, and Aunt Meng was putting away the quilt that had been dried, and she hurried over to help the second aunt put the quilt into the living room. The structure of the backyard is similar to her house, help the second aunt put the quilt away, and sit on the sofa chair with her.

"Second aunt, my family has moved, when I installed the house, you came to help when you were free, and I have nothing to thank you, I found that when I watered today, our persimmons were ripe. If it weren't for your help, the vegetables in my yard would probably have died, so I'll pick a few and please try them. ”

Meng Zhen put the bag on the coffee table and said excitedly: "I think the vegetables in my yard are amazing, and now other people's vegetables are still blooming, how can our family be cooked!" ”

Aunt Meng just heard that the persimmons in the front yard were ripe, and she wondered in her heart, when she helped with watering, although the seedlings were bigger than those planted by herself, it was impossible for them to blossom and bear fruit in such a short time? But then I saw the pride on Meng Zhen's face, and I was a little awkward: I had grown vegetables for more than 20 years, and seeing that this city girl who couldn't even use a hoe actually planted much better than her own vegetables, so she said lightly: "There is nothing magical, now that science and technology have progressed, it is snowflakes in winter, and if you take care of it, the tomatoes can also be ripe." I estimated that it was the seeds chosen by the fifth uncle, and he took good care of them later. You haven't seen Uncle Qingwu, he's a good way to farm here. Let's talk about the wheat field under the hillside, because it is relying on the wasteland, no one has been willing to ask for it, and the village has allocated the land to Uncle Qingyu, but Uncle Qingyu is not rare at all to do business in the city. It's not that Uncle Qingwu has cultivated it little by little, so it's not uncommon for the vegetables in your yard to be precocious. ”

Second Aunt Meng didn't know whether to comfort herself or want to suppress Meng Zhen, so she helped her find a reason.

Yes, yes, that's it, Meng Zhen secretly had fun in his heart, but there was a disappointed expression on his face: "Oh, it turns out that the foundation laid by others is good." By the way, second aunt, tomorrow I want to go to Liujiaji to sell the vegetables I picked today, what do you think I should do? ”

"Selling vegetables? Oh, I usually go to the manager of the market to rent a stall, a good location usually rents 50 yuan a day, and every market 80-100 yuan a day; The place is usually 20 yuan a day, and the market is 50 yuan. This location is numbered. If you want to rent, you can rent the 6th to 10th, and these stalls are the best locations. ”

"Oh, I thought the outermost location was the best," Meng Zhen saw the numbered last time, but he didn't know if those were still golden stalls!

"Although No. 1 and No. 2 are on the outside, according to people's habits of buying things, ordinary people will not buy as soon as they enter the market, so they have to shop around. However, the market is too big, and it is impossible to shop all of them, so I usually buy them after looking at three or four. As long as your stuff is good, and you get a good position, it will be sold out in a while! Meng Zhen, do you have a lot of vegetables to sell, how are you going to go? ”

Aunt Meng often goes to her house, but she has never seen her family have a car, so is it difficult to walk?

"yes, I've forgotten about it, I think I'm going to buy a tricycle!"

In fact, according to Meng Zhen's idea, just put the vegetables in the manor, make a "bouncing car" by yourself, and wait until you find a place where no one is in the market to take out the vegetables.

"It's too late for you to buy it now, I have an electric tricycle at home, you use it for a day tomorrow, and sell the vegetables first, and you have to sell the vegetables while they are fresh, or they will wilt after a long time." It's not too late to buy a car in the future, anyway, Liujiaji also has a motor vehicle market, and everything is complete. ”

"Hehe, then I'll thank the second aunt!"

"Thank you, you sent me tomatoes, I'm not polite! Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, we have to help each other! ”

In the evening, two tenants returned, one busy teasing the dog and the other watching TV. Meng Zhen simply made two dishes and beckoned them to eat together. After eating, Liu Jiajia helped feed Xiong Xiong, Feng Xiaoyan went to wash the dishes, and she was busy taking three bamboo baskets back to the bedroom and flashing into the manor to pick vegetables. The second aunt said that if you want to rent a good place, you have to go early. The dishes should also be picked in advance, otherwise it will be too late tomorrow. I picked up three baskets full of them, set the alarm clock, took a shower, put the bearing makeshift nest in the bathroom, and hurried to sleep.

At six o'clock the next day, the alarm clock rang on time, Meng Zhen still hadn't adapted to the new home, plus there was something tomorrow, and he couldn't sleep well all night. Hearing the alarm, she got up and simply freshened up, put on cotton clothes, these two days have been a bit cold, and the temperature in the early morning is very low.

She borrowed the tricycle of her second aunt's family yesterday and put it in the yard. She carried the three bamboo baskets into the body, covered them with cotton sheets, and thought of the bare cement table in the market, so she went to her room and drew a tablecloth that she did not use and put it on the basket.

At this time, Xiong Xiong also woke up, humming and scratching the bathroom door.

She was worried that she would go out and that Xiong Xiong would not be safe at home, so she put it in the manor, and watched it squatting timidly on the edge of the hut and did not dare to move, so she patted its head, "Xiong Xiong is good, don't run around, I sold vegetables today, and I will buy you bones to eat!" ”

Whether it understood it or not, it came out of the manor and pushed the tricycle out of the yard, and before dawn it was daylight, the village was quiet. She put on her hat and was armed with only her eyes exposed, and whistled away on her electric tricycle.

When she arrived at the vegetable market, there were still very few people, so she paid 50 yuan to the management office and rented booth No. 7. When I came to the stall, I saw that someone on the side had already started to tidy up. She laid out the tablecloth and stacked the tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants neatly on the table.

After an hour, it was getting dark, and people began to buy things in the market.

It's not a big set today, so there aren't a lot of people, and Meng Zhen stayed a little bored. I thought it would be a big sale, but I didn't ask anyone. She got up too early and didn't eat, so she took a tomato directly from the stall, rubbed it on a towel, and began to eat.

While she was eating, an old lady looked at her curiously. Seeing that this girl is white and pure, she doesn't look like a person who doesn't pay attention to hygiene, so she doesn't wash it. So he came to her stall and asked, "Girl, how do you sell these tomatoes?"

Meng Zhen saw that the customer finally came, so he put down the tomatoes, "Ten yuan and six!" ”

"Hey, people sell by the pound, how can you press it!"

Meng Zhen smiled a little embarrassedly: "That's the case, Auntie, I won't tell you, today is the first day I came to sell vegetables, and I forgot to prepare to weigh it." However, my tomatoes are quite large, and I have just weighed them in the reassuring name of the management office, and there are more than three taels of one. Three are one catty, so the combination is only five yuan a catty. ”

"Five yuan a pound is too expensive, you see where there are such expensive dishes in the whole vegetable market!"

"Auntie, I grew this dish by myself, I have not used pesticides or chemical fertilizers, and it is pure green and pollution-free. The taste is also good, you see I didn't eat in the morning, I didn't wash it and ate it directly, you can taste it if you don't worry, it's not delicious and don't need money. ”

Meng Zhen picked up the tomatoes he had bitten twice and broke them from the middle, "Look at it!" ”

"Yo, it's really good, okay, I won't taste it anymore, give me twenty dollars." If it's delicious, I'll come again, my family is from Song Village, don't fool me! ”

"Auntie, don't worry, I'm from Zhoujiazhuang. I'll sell vegetables tomorrow, but if it's not delicious, I won't dare to sell it to you! ”

Meng Zhen loaded twelve tomatoes for the old lady and charged twenty yuan, and it was finally opened!