Chapter 534: That Summer
The earrings are in hand, and it's time for the last process, to send the female ghost.
Riding a motorcycle with my second sister-in-law, I walked back dozens of meters away and came to an intersection. Originally, I was looking for a dirt cross road in the middle of nowhere, but it just rained yesterday, and the dirt road was all muddy, and there was no place to do it.
But fortunately, it was almost twelve o'clock in the evening, and there was no one on the road, so I parked the motorcycle on the side of the road, took out the incense candle paper fire from the backpack I brought with me, lit the candle, lit the incense, and took out the paper figure with the female ghost and the earrings from the body, squatted down, drew a circle on the spot in front of the incense, put the paper man in, and the earrings pressed on the paper man.
Then, I looked at the paper figure and said, "Little sister, the earrings have been brought back for you, this time your wish should be right, let's go, reincarnate in the next life, and find a pair of good parents." ”
After saying that, I picked up the earrings and the paper figure at the same time, put a pile of yellow paper in the circle, put the paper figure on top, and lit it with a lighter.
The flames danced, from big to small, and after a while, they were completely ignited, and looking at the burning yellow paper and paper figures, I breathed a long sigh of relief, as if sighing.
After the paper fire was burned, I rubbed my foot on the south side of the circle and made a hole in the circle on the ground, which was for the female ghost to leave with the money.
The mouth was opened, followed by a gust of wind, and the paper ashes in the circle suddenly dispersed, and I didn't have the yin and yang eyes of Qiangshun, but I knew that the female ghost had a wish and left.
Lowering my head, I looked at the earrings in my hand, shiny, presumably pure silver, and said in my heart, you can go with it, and threw it into the paper ashes that were blown away......
Writing here, the experience of the female ghost in the textile factory, even if it is finished, some people say that I should make a summary after the end of each experience, and summarize what kind of truth this experience has taught. I don't think there's any need for that, after every experience, everyone has a summary in their own hearts, whether it is good or bad, good or evil, not in my high-sounding writing, but in your own heart.
As I said earlier, two things happened this year, and the two things were confused by me, if the female ghost happened in the spring, then the next thing should happen in the winter, but what did I do in the summer and autumn of this year?
In my chaotic memories, I remember that I sold watermelons with Qiang Shun in the summer, and sold peaches on a motorcycle in the autumn.
At that time, the watermelon, because I don't understand the market, I haven't done business, we exchanged a cart of watermelon in a melon field more than ten miles south of our village, which is the kind of car pulled by a small four-wheeled tractor, how many catties are there, I forgot, in fact, there are not many, it is estimated that it is thousands of catties, it seems to be more than two cents and one catty, I don't know whether it is two cents six or two cents seven, according to the price at the time, this price is very cheap, why is it cheap, because they are all defective products left by people, Many watermelons are not only not shiny on them, but also muddy, crooked melons and cracked dates, small in size, and the most hateful ones are ripe and can't be stored.
Pulling the watermelons to the gate of the family courtyard of the thermal power plant, the two of us unloaded all the watermelons on the car to the ground and piled them up like a hill on the sidewalk on the side of the road.
There are also some watermelons and fruits sold next to them, our watermelons are small, dirty and cold compared to others, but since they have been set up in this stall, you have to sell them no matter how cold they are.
The two of us learned from the appearance of others, and found a look that was okay, wiped clean and cut it, after cutting, red and sunspots, don't look at the outside is not good, the inside is very watery, the two of them tasted half of it first, and the taste is also very sweet and authentic, but it looks too unpopular on the surface.
The watermelon was piled up there for a long time and no one asked, and when it came to the evening, a watermelon was not sold, not to mention, but also charged five yuan for the "health fee", what we didn't expect was that there was actually a "protection fee", I and Qiang Shun immediately didn't fight together, and said with confidence, we are here!
That is to say, we are locals, and you still want to collect protection money from us, and the protection money will listen to the accents of the two of us, and turn away.
That night, we slept on the side of the road with the watermelon stall, maybe because the other fruit sellers had already gone home at this time, and we had no competitors, or maybe we couldn't see the mud on the watermelon at night, but it opened and sold a dozen of them.
The next day, I went home and got two broken towels, and sat on the side of the road with Qiang Shun, and wiped the mud on the watermelons one by one.
It was sold until the third day, and the unfortunate thing came, the kind of watermelon appeared, what to say, in our dialect here, it is "bran", that is, the watermelon began to deteriorate from the inside, and after cutting, soup appeared in the middle of the watermelon pulp, and if it was put for a few more days, the whole watermelon would become soup.
I'll look at what to do with Qiang Shun, pick it out, pick out the bad ones, and keep the good ones. After all, we don't do this business, and we don't have any experience in picking this, pat and shake, if there is a hollow sound in it, it means that it is broken, and we will quickly throw it aside. In total, after seven or eight days of tossing, we finally finished processing all the watermelons, and finally, the two of us sat down and counted, not only did we not make money, but also lost more than 100 yuan, but we enjoyed eating the watermelon.
After selling the watermelon, the peaches came down, and I discussed with Qiang Shun to sell peaches again. Both of us also boasted to our wives, although we lost money last time we sold watermelons, but we earned experience, and this time we will definitely make money by selling peaches.
Xiao Yan and Zhang Li, looking at us two losers, there was nothing they could do, so they got some money and let the two of us sell peaches.
This time, the two of us were much more cautious, driving our family's motorcycle three-wheeled to the east of our village more than ten miles away to "pick flowers". A few days ago, I went there with my wife and my mother to see the peach blossoms, and the peaches I sold with Qiang Shun were redeemed there, where there are claimed to be 10,000 acres of peach orchards.
However, when we got there, none of the peaches on the tree were sold, and I didn't know what was going on. Later, we walked inside again, and finally found a certain sale, and this one is also very polite, and told us, you go to the tree to pick it, just this piece of peach tree, eat and pick at will, I and Qiang Shun into the peach orchard first picked a few tastes, the taste is not bad, pick up with your hands, enough to pick a tricycle.
I remember that the owner of Taoyuan also told us that it can be sold for six or seven cents a pound in the world, but why is this peach more expensive than watermelon? I guess my memory is confused, I really forgot, so you will just watch it.
This time, it was still a thermal power plant, but the two of us changed places, away from the stalls selling fruits, and crowded together with the stalls selling vegetables, so we set up a small stall with a tricycle and a small scale on the ground. At that time, we also learned to be obedient, put the good and big ones on the face, and picked a few sweet and delicious ones, washed and peeled them for buyers to taste.
This peach is not bad, at least a notch higher than our watermelon, although it is sold in a vegetable stall.
One morning, there were still a lot of people who came to ask, and a lot of them were sold, but Qiang Shun soon found a problem and asked me, "Huang He, have you paid attention, why did you come to buy our peaches, they are all women?" ”
I really didn't pay attention, I said, "We put the fruit stall in the vegetable market, and of course there are more women in the vegetable market to buy vegetables." ”
Qiang Shun said: "No, there are also men who come to sell vegetables, and none of them come to ask our peaches." ”
When Qiang Shun said this, I also realized that looking back at the people who bought peaches before, it seems that there is really no man. I paid attention to it again, indeed, all the peaches to buy are women, and they are all the kind of women who look very good or something, to put it bluntly, they are the kind of women who look very coquettish and watery, they don't bargain much when they come, and they come to the stall and ask me with a smile how to sell peaches, how much is a pound, and after they asked, I asked them to pick in the tricycle by themselves, they almost didn't pick, they all looked at me with a smile and said, you pick it for me.
After I finished picking out the scales for them, they didn't look at the scales, they gave the money and left, and some asked me if I would come tomorrow and come back tomorrow to buy some.
I nodded, but I wondered what was going on, those women were picking and choosing in front of other stalls, and bargaining, why did we become so happy? Could it be that the immortal family is secretly helping us? But this is impossible, the immortal family will not care about our.
Until the evening, the vegetable sellers were gone, and the two of us each bought two baked cakes, nibbled on the baked cakes and guarded the stall, where else to sell them. Why don't we go home at this time, because of the experience summed up when selling watermelons, this season, there are more people at night than during the day, and things at night are better than during the day.
At this time, a black car stopped in front of our stall, and a slender woman in white clothes got out of the car, looking two or three years older than the two of us, and about thirty years old, the woman got out of the car and walked directly towards our stall, after looking at the peaches, her eyes fell on me, I can't remember her appearance now, I remember the thin, melon seed face, unique temperament.
The woman asked me how to sell peaches, and I told her the price, and the woman said, "You weigh me twenty catties." As soon as I heard it, twenty catties, this is a big customer, wow, from the morning to now, I have never sold more than ten catties at one time.
I took out two large bags and asked the woman, did you pick it up or did I pick it up? The woman said, of course you picked it up.
I handed the bag to Qiang Shun, I was going to pick it up together with the two of us, but who knew that the woman saw this, stopped Qiang Shun, and said Qiang Shun, "Don't pick it up, you see how dirty your hands are." ”
I looked at Qiang Shun speechlessly, in fact, my hands were much dirtier than Qiang Shun's hands, and almost all the peaches of the day were picked up by me.
Qiang Shun smashed his mouth, put the bag back on the tricycle, and stood aside with his hands on his chest.
While I was picking peaches here, the woman looked at me and asked, "I don't think you are selling peaches, why haven't I seen you before?" ”
While picking up peaches, I smiled politely and replied to the woman, "I've been working outside in the past, isn't it that I can't find a job to do recently, so I redeemed some peaches to sell." ”
The woman asked me, "What have you done in the past?" ”
I replied, "I can do everything, as long as I am paid, fitters, electricians, welders, bricks and mud movers, everything." ”
The woman suddenly smacked her mouth and said to herself, "It's a pity to be like this......"
When she said this, I didn't care, I just cared about picking peaches, and I didn't think about what she meant. After picking up the peaches, the woman opened the back compartment of the car, and I put two bags of peaches in for her.
Waiting for the woman to close the lid of the carriage, I stood next to her waiting for her to pay for me, the woman took out a hundred, I reached out to take it, suddenly, the woman took the money back, I was stunned, the woman whispered to me, "If I find you a job, will you do it?" ”
(Thanks to "may66" for the 100 yuan red envelope, thank you "He Ru" for the crown, thank you two.) )