Tang Xiaofu took the scale and weighed each dish and reported the account: "There are ten catties of spinach, one cent per catty, fifteen catties of celery, which is also a dime a catty, eighteen catties of garlic, one dime and five catties per catty, and a total of thirty-two catties of carrots." One dime per catty, sixteen catties of cabbage, one dime and five cents per catty, a total of ten yuan and eight cents, and the old man will give me ten yuan and five cents. ”

Tang Xiaofu didn't expect that these two baskets of vegetables could be exchanged for ten yuan and eight cents! With the memory of the original owner, she knew that ten yuan and eight coins were a lot in the seventies.

The old man smiled kindly: "It's not easy for you two little girls to get these dozens of catties of vegetables to sell in the town, how can I make you suffer?" Then he turned back to the guard and said, "Give her fifteen dollars." ”

The guard put down the vegetable basket in his hand and took out fifteen yuan from his body to give it to Tang Xiaofu.

Tang Xiaofu saw that it was a ten-yuan bill and a five-yuan bill, so he took it, but then took the five-yuan bill and exchanged it with the uncle who sold meat next to him, and took out four two cents to stuff it to the guard, and said to the old man Leng: "I don't give the old man any discounts, and the old man doesn't have to give me more money, so that both parties are fair." ”

Old Man Leng was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud, and said a few words "good".

Leng Chenxu's face eased again, and the cold eyes of the aunt glanced at Tang Xiaofu, this girl always surprised him.

Tang Xiaofu squeezed the ten yuan and eight cents tightly, and her palms were sweating, this was the first money she made in this world, and she was a little excited.

Old Man Leng said kindly to the two Tang Xiaofu sisters: "You follow me to my house, I asked the guards to pour out the two baskets of vegetables, and you take the baskets home, okay?" ”

"Hmm." Tang Xiaofu nodded, bent down and prepared to lift a vegetable basket.

The guard stepped forward, picked up the flat pole lying on the ground, picked up two vegetable baskets, and then said to Tang Xiaofu: "You just carry my empty vegetable basket." ”

Tang Xiaofu did as he said.

The group was about to leave, but the old man stopped again, stared at the meat seller's meat stall, and said, "I have to buy some meat and go back." ”

So he cut three catties of pork belly and five catties of pork ribs at the stall of the meat seller.

The meat seller rarely met such a big customer, and he was so happy that his mouth was crooked, and he hurriedly flattered the pork bones and the pork belly and pork ribs they bought into the empty basket brought by the guard.

Tang Xiaofu carried a basket of meat and led her sister Tang Xiaolan, who was a little nervous, and followed Old Man Leng and his party to Old Man Leng's house in the town.

His house turned out to be the big house in the east of the town that has been hung with a big lock and closed, the original owner and his children passed by here when he was young, and saw a thick layer of green patina on the copper nails on the dark red gate, and they all coaxed that there were ghosts in it and no one lived there, but he didn't expect that the owner of the big mansion did not live here in order to serve the motherland.

Tang Xiaofu looked at the repainted door and the shiny copper nails on the door, and felt a lot of emotion in her heart.

Leng Chenxu stepped forward and patted the door, someone opened the door from the inside, Tang Xiaofu saw two guards standing inside, and the old man Leng kept a low profile and put the two guards who should have been standing outside the gate into the door.

Tang Xiaolan had never seen this formation, she was even more nervous, clinging to Tang Xiaofu's body, and Tang Xiaofu kept whispering to comfort her.

A guard came to report, saying that the mayor was waiting for Old Man Leng in the living room.

Old Man Leng smiled and said goodbye to the two sisters Tang Xiaofu in advance, and followed the guard to the depths of the house.