Chapter 51: Buying Oranges

"Sold cheaply, sold cheaply. 2 pieces for 10 yuan, 5 pieces for 20 yuan. ”

"It's on sale, it's on sale, it's clearance, it's the last day."

field town.

The makeshift market was crowded with people inside and outside, and the roar of loudspeakers was everywhere.

A wide variety of agricultural products are available.

Chickens, ducks, and rabbits are jolting around in their underground cages, unaware that they are about to become a delicacy on the human table.

The small truck is full of lettuce, the supermarket costs more than 3 yuan a catty, and here is a big bundle of 10 yuan.

There are also vendors who buy a large basket and a large basket one by one.

"You're too small, I can't get rid of it!"

The vendor grabbed the oranges in the grandmother's back basket with his hands. It's really small, and no one in the city will buy it.

"I have an urgent matter at home, so I'll sell it to you cheaper, this is pollution-free, no fertilizer, you won't lose money if you take it."

The old woman persuaded the back of the dealer leaving.

The grandmother was in her 70s, with silver-white hair, a slumped back, a patched jacket, and faded cotton shoes with loess on both sides. She was begging the traffickers to buy her oranges.

......

"Grandma, how much is a pound?"

Li Xiang looked at about 40 catties, the color is very red, the oranges should be able to last for a long time this season, and my parents also like to eat them.

The old woman's eyes when she said that there was an emergency at home, and her intuition told Li Xiang that she definitely didn't look like a liar.

She took pity.

"2 yuan and 1 catty."

When the grandmother saw someone asking for a price, she enthusiastically grabbed an orange and peeled it and handed it to Li Xiang, so that Li Xiang could taste it.

"Well, that's sweet... How did you get here? ”

Li Xiang wrapped oranges in his mouth and praised his grandmother's oranges.

"I carried it myself! Little girl, how much do you buy? ”

The old woman pulled out a few used plastic pockets from her trouser pocket.

"I want it all." Li Xiang said with certainty.

The old grandmother grabbed the edge of the back basket with both hands, and Li wanted to reach out to help, but the old grandmother had already mentioned the orange on the fair scale.

"42 pounds."

"What's the urgent matter at your house?" Li Xiang counted the money to the grandmother, and asked curiously by the way.

"My old man is lying in the health center, and I have to take care of him." The old grandmother's eyes suddenly darkened with joy, and as she spoke, she divided it into plastic bags, a total of 7 bags.

"What about your children?"

Li Xiang naturally thinks that at the age of an old grandmother, she must have a full house of children and grandchildren.

"No....."

Li Xiang looked at the old grandmother's face full of vicissitudes, and her compassion made her unbearable to ask any more.

She couldn't help but think of the "mysterious couple".

.......

Early in the morning, Li Xiang arrived at the vegetable market in the town.

She wants to take advantage of her vacation to buy some stews to replenish her mother's body.

I haven't bought the body tonic yet, but I bought 7 bags of oranges.

But what about oranges now?

Grandma should have arrived at the health center by now.

She stood there and came to her senses.

How to transport back a colleague's bicycle that I borrowed by myself has become a problem.

........

"Isn't this Assistant Li? You're coming to the market too! Zhou Gao saw Li Xiang from a distance, and came over to greet him with a smile, and a young girl dressed in a bewitching dress next to him held his hand.

"Hmm."

"Buy so many oranges, and still be so small? Ha... Ha... Hah..."Zhou Gao was teasing her.

"Hmm." Li Xiang didn't want to deal with him at all, and looked forward to him leaving early.

"Are you alone? What about Mr. Chen? Zhou held his head high, his eyes looking around exaggeratedly.

"Oh, this is my girlfriend." Zhou Gao's ostentatious tone pointed at the young girl, and the girl grinned.

"......" Li Xiang could see that Zhou Gao was "a weasel giving a New Year's greeting to a chicken", showing off his girlfriend in front of her, she was silent, her eyes looking ahead.

"Let's go, I'll buy you something to eat." Zhou Gao said to the girl next to him with flying eyebrows.

"Okay, okay..."

The two finally disappeared in front of Li Xiang's eyes.

......

Li Xiang bought a woven bag and rope and tied the orange to the bicycle.