On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, it is the market day of Hejia Market Town, where people carry carts, sell eggs, cabbage, ten spiced noodles, pork, brooms, kites, wattle baskets, firecrackers, lanterns, and couplets...... The variety of New Year's goods, the ups and downs of the clamour, set off the atmosphere of the New Year.

Mingli carried two baskets of vegetables to the market and found an empty place to put down his burden. Men, women, and children rushed to the market one after another. Mingli was doing a small business for the first time, and he was a little worried that he couldn't pull his face, he hesitated to open the sack, and people's eyes straightened when they saw his things. They all came together.

"God, it's winter, you're spinach, this is ...... Celery?"

"Ouch, it's not my own touch, it's just my eyes. ”

"Hey, how do you sell this dish?"

People talked a lot, and they didn't work hard to surround Mingli.

"My ...... My bundle of vegetables is a catty, celery, spinach and nine corners, leeks one by one, one bundle of ......" Mingli was not suitable for a while, and his speech was stumbling.

"What? a bundle of nine corners? Catch up with the price of pork! It's expensive, it's expensive!" someone shook his head and left.

"For the New Year, you can eat fresh vegetables, and it's worth it!" Some people are reluctant to let go when they get it, and the life of the Zhuang family is naturally rich and poor, "Bring me a bundle of leeks and a bundle of celery!"

Mingli hurriedly took out two items from the basket and handed them to the other party: "A total of ...... Two bucks. ”

The man neatly gave Mingli two dollars and left.

People watched the man walk away with the greens like a baby, and then looked at the green celery and leeks, and they couldn't move their legs.

"This dish is good, but it's a bit expensive, can it be cheaper?"

"It's cheaper, why don't I buy some and try it?"

"That's the price! I don't have much stock of this dish, and it's the only one in this big set, and it'll be over in a while. Mingli shook his head firmly, and his sister repeatedly told him that the price of his own vegetables would be uniform.

In the cold winter, the moon comes out to sell celery and spinach, fresh!

Most of the people who rushed to the market were crops, and at a glance they knew that the vegetables had just been harvested and were very tender. More and more people are watching the novelty. People don't negotiate the price, and some people are really reluctant to buy it, just look at it, but if you don't buy it, someone will buy it. Someone took out the money to bring you a bundle of him, and the vegetables sold very quickly.

Seeing that Mingli's two baskets of greens were getting fewer and fewer, a teenage boy suddenly jumped up and grabbed two bundles of celery and ran.

By the time Mingli reacted, the man had already run out a dozen paces away. Mingli jumped to his feet and shouted, "Hey, put it down!

Mingli didn't dare to chase after him, he was afraid that he would run away and the vegetables in the basket would be robbed again. He was so anxious that he jumped to his feet. I saw Mingfang coming back with the kid's neck.

When he was about to walk in front of Mingli, the kid suddenly hit Mingfang headlong, Mingfang was defenseless, and he almost fell, and the kid took the opportunity to run again.

In fact, Mingfang has been here for a while, she and her younger brother went to the grain station, and Wang Erzhu wrapped her vegetables in one go. She sold her cart of vegetables for 152 yuan. She and her brother pushed the empty car to the market, wanting to see how Mingli was selling.

I saw that there were a lot of people around Mingli's vegetable stall, some saw and some bought, Mingli was busy inside, and he didn't come forward for a while. Coincidentally, at this time, a kid rushed up and grabbed the vegetables and ran, telling Mingfang to catch him.

Ming Fang caught up with him in three steps and two steps, grabbed the kid's arm tightly, and pulled him over.

"Say, why are you robbing me of my food?" Ming Fang stared at him coldly, she hated petty theft the most.

The younger brother snatched the two bundles of vegetables from his hand and put them back in Mingli's basket. The boy kept his head down and didn't speak.

"Ming robbery, do you know that you have earned it for nothing? Your behavior is shameful! If you don't speak, I'll send you to the commune!" Ming Fang looked at the boy, dressed in patched clothes and his hair unkempt.

When the boy heard that he was going to be sent to the commune, he looked at Ming Fang in horror and hesitated, "My family has no food to eat, my mother is sick, and I have no money......"

I see.

"Then you can't rob it! You really have a hard time, say it, if it's convenient for everyone, you will help." You can't do that anymore, you know?"

"That's it, that's it!"

"Just grab it when you get started, don't learn it well!"

The onlookers were talking, and the boy hung his head and nodded. Ming Fangxin said that it seems that this kid is still a filial son. She went over and took out a bundle of celery and spinach from the basket, stuffed it into his hand, and took out two dollars from her pocket and handed it to him: "Here, take it, buy your mother something to eat." ”

The boy looked at Mingfang in surprise, and Mingfang smiled at him and motioned for him to take it.

The boy took the greens and the money, and the tears rolled down in big drops, and he cried. He bowed deeply to Mingfang, and then ran away with the food.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Mingli's two baskets of vegetables were sold out. Someone heard that there was a seller of fresh vegetables, so they ran over to look for it, and the reasonable basket had already bottomed out. Those who didn't buy it were annoyed.

As Ming Fang expected, her greenhouse vegetables are selling very well!

Mingfang and the three of them talked and laughed all the way home, and Li Hongbao looked anxiously at the door in her yard. As soon as he saw them coming back, he hurriedly rushed up: "Mingfang, why did you come back?"

"What's the matter, Li Hongbao, have your dishes been sold?" Ming Fang had already seen his empty basket in the yard, and asked him knowingly.

"Oh, I've already sold out, just wait for you to come back, I'll sell it in another basket!" Li Hongbao followed behind Mingfang and walked towards the greenhouse.

All the vegetables harvested yesterday were sold out, and Ming Fang asked his younger brother to take a sickle and quickly cut some.

"How much are you going to pack this time?" Mingfang asked Li Hongbao.

"I want fifty bundles!" Li Hongbao said.

Mingfang smiled: "You have such a big breath." But I suggest you take thirty bundles, and if you don't sell them all in the afternoon, the vegetables will wilt. After selling today, you will come and get the same goods tomorrow. ”

Li Hongbao nodded: "Okay, I'll listen to you, Mingfang, you can do whatever you say." ”

Li Hongbao took out the money from selling vegetables and gave it to Mingfang, and Mingfang took it and took out a dollar to Li Hongbao. Li Hongbao said that he was helping and didn't want money, and Mingfang said that if he didn't want money, she wouldn't ask him to sell the vegetables, so Li Hongbao took the money and happily left with thirty bundles of vegetables.

Zhang Meiyu had already made lunch and told them to wash their hands and eat. Mingfang took out the money he got today, put it on the kang and counted it, and it was clear that the three of them got two hundred and nine yuan for selling vegetables in one trip!

Mingli and his younger brother looked at the amount of money on the kang, and their eyes were straight.

Mingfang felt very beautiful in her heart, thinking to herself, there are at least half of the greens in the greenhouse, according to the modern market situation that the greens are more expensive at the end of the year, she decided that the price of tomorrow's greens should be appropriately increased! Well, even if the leeks are counted, they are still sold for a dime a bundle, and celery and spinach should be sold for a bundle of dollars a bundle.

As for the shepherd's cabbage, pumpkin seedlings, sweet potato seedlings, Ming Fang analyzed, the shepherd's cabbage was originally a wild vegetable, and no one dug it up to eat it in spring, pumpkin seedlings, although the sweet potato seedlings are rich in nutritional value, people in this era have the concept of eating this thing at all, leaving enough for their own food, a bundle of dimes to try to sell and sell, sell it if it can be sold, it doesn't matter if it can't be sold, if you can't eat it, you can scald it with hot water and dry the vegetables to collect, and when you want to eat, take it out to make dumplings and make buns.

Mingfang announced the decision to raise the price of vegetables on the spot.

Mingli and Chang Brother were both surprised: "This is the price increase?"

"Yes! Celery and spinach are a bundle for a dollar, and the price of leeks remains the same, still a dime. Tomorrow, I will sell a little camellia, pumpkin seedlings, sweet potato seedlings, and a bundle of five corners. ”

After lunch, Mingli, Mingfang, Chang Di, Zhang Meiyu and other families went into battle, Fang Yuan also came, and he was busy until dark, harvesting all kinds of greens in the greenhouse.

Ming Fang said that when Fang Yuan left, he asked him to bring two bundles and ask his parents to try them, and Fang Yuan happily agreed.