At five o'clock the next morning, Gao Mingcheng got up, washed briefly, and drove the tractor to the place where river sand and cement were sold.

The sound of the tractor starting woke up the small mountain village that had been sleeping all night.

On the treetops on the roadside, early birds flutter their wings one after another, and the movement of the tractor complements each other.

In the summer, it dawned early, Gao Mingcheng's eyes were good, and he drove steadily all the way.

And when he passed by Zhang Chengyuan and Chen Dasong's house, the people of these two families also woke up one after another, and today they were going to get up early in the morning and go to Xiaofushan to pick bayberry.

Gao Mingcheng is generous, in addition to giving wages, he will also give other benefits from time to time, so the two families are very dedicated to doing things.

When Gao Mingcheng came back with a cart of building materials, Chen Dasong and the others had already picked all the bayberry and put it in the shed, not only a basket of bayberry, but also a basket of various vegetables and eggs, all of which were produced by Gao Mingcheng himself.

Gao Mingcheng not only bought cement and river sand on this trip, but also found that there was still a bit of location, so he simply bought seven or eight asbestos tiles and laid them on top and tied them with ropes.

He unloaded all the building materials from the car, and then said to Chen Dasong, who was waiting there: "Everything is almost bought, there are leftovers before the wood, you can choose some suitable ones yourself, doors, windows and beds, and after they are built, let the carpenter measure them." ”

Chen Dasong looked at the materials, patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I will do all this work!" ”

It's not a two- or three-story building, a small bungalow is still simple.

After Gao Mingcheng explained the matter clearly, he did not delay the time, loaded the bayberry and vegetables into the car body, and prepared to go back to the county.

When I passed by the pond at the entrance of the village, I saw that Gao Zhuang was already pushing his bicycle and waiting there.

"Brother Mingcheng! Have you had breakfast? My grandma asked me to bring you a few boiled potatoes and eggs! In the iron frame in front of Gao Zhuang's bicycle, there were a few still warm potatoes and eggs, and after seeing Gao Mingcheng, he handed them to Gao Mingcheng.

Gao Mingcheng ate a bowl of noodles at the place where cement and river sand were sold, but he was not polite at this time, so he parked the car there and ate all the potatoes and eggs in three or two clicks.

While he was eating eggs, Gao Zhuang also carried his bicycle onto the body. That way, when you come back in the afternoon, you can come back on your bike.

"Sit tight, let's go!"

"Hey." Gao Zhuang replied with a smile, he sat on the car body, looking at the scenery that kept retreating, and his mood seemed to be about to fly.

He hasn't seen his wife and children for a month, and he misses it strangely.

Along the way, he couldn't help but ask about the recent situation of He Xiuman and Xiao Yuanyuan.

However, some time ago, most of Gao Mingcheng was running outside, so he really didn't know their recent situation, so he only picked what he knew.

Seeing that Gao Zhuang was still asking, Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but smile and said, "What's the hurry?" In a little while, you will be able to meet them, and they all say that hearing is false, seeing is believing, what do you want to know, wait and ask your wife yourself! ”

Gao Zhuang smiled and stopped asking.

The cool wind of the morning blew on the two young men, and blew their hair back, revealing a shiny and full forehead, but the tall forehead was black and shiny!

After the tractor drove into the county seat, the road suddenly became lively, some people carried their burdens towards the market, some people carried empty bamboo baskets, and some people rode old-fashioned 28-bar bicycles.

Gao Mingcheng's clothing store is located on the side of the street garden, not far from the farmers' market, and the whole street is full of various shops, so every time you go to the market, the traffic here will increase a lot.

It's only past eight o'clock in the morning, but there are already customers in the store picking out clothes.

Normally, you can open at nine o'clock, but when you catch the market, you have to open at half past seven.

Today, there is no need for kindergarten teacher training, so many beauties also sell goods in the store, and as for the two children, they will be handed over to Hu Yinchen and He Xiuman.

But when he walked into the store, Gao Mingcheng found that Luo Li had called her eldest sister Luo Fang to help.

As for the younger sisters, they were allowed to stay at home and read.

When Luo Li got married, Huang Dazhi bought a sewing machine as a dowry, but in the end, the sewing machine was left in her parents' house for Luo Li's eldest sister Luo Fang.

In this way, the family does not need to spend money to hire a tailor to make clothes, and can save a lot of money by buying cloth to make it themselves.

In addition, if the craft is practiced, it can also make clothes for people cheaper.

Luo Li called Luo Fang to help, just to exercise Luo Fang, and Luo Fang can also sew trouser legs, which can help.

The tall man looked at the people in the clothing store with blank eyes, but he didn't see the person he was thinking about.

So he looked at Gao Mingcheng, and Gao Mingcheng was not omniscient, so he asked a lot of beauty.

"There are too many people in the store, and they play upstairs. ”

Gao Mingcheng patted Gao Zhuang's shoulder and motioned for him to go upstairs by himself.

As for him, he moved the bayberry in the car to the door of the store, and as soon as he moved the bayberry out, someone asked about the price.

"This is Dongkui bayberry, a big sweet and sour taste, a pound for a dollar." Gao Mingcheng said.

The person who asked for the price immediately said it was too expensive.

But Gao Mingcheng insisted on this price, now the first-class bananas and apples in the fruit store are priced at five yuan, and Guoguang apples are priced at two yuan, but Guoguang apples bear fruit late, the taste is sour, the fruit is small, the fruit color is not good, and the water becomes less for a long time, and it is not brittle to eat.

Jiangxi does not produce bananas and apples, so the price is quite expensive, but bayberry is locally produced, so the price is mostly around four or five cents.

It's just that Gao Mingcheng thinks that the quality of his bayberry is very good, and it is worth the price of one dollar.

Customers who come to the store to buy clothes can afford dozens of yuan of clothes, so it is not a big problem to pay a dollar to buy high-quality bayberry.

As for customers who are too expensive, they can leave on their own.

Bayberry trees bear fruit late, planted seven or eight years later, can usher in the full fruit period, although the bayberry trees planted by Gao Mingcheng have begun to bear fruit, but the yield of fruit trees is very low, this batch of bayberry is only more than 30 catties, if four or five cents are sold, then Gao Mingcheng is not willing to pick bayberry to sell.

Therefore, he set a price for one dollar, and if he didn't sell it, he would use it to make bayberry wine and drink it.

The customer who asked the price left, Gao Mingcheng also turned back to the store, found a pen and paper, and directly wrote a price list, so that someone in the province could ask the price again.

Gao Zhuang went up to the second floor, and finally saw his wife and children, and the three of them were very happy for a while.

Hu Yinchen was very discerning, and immediately hugged Xiao Xuxu downstairs and left the space for their family of three.

Xiao Xuxu refused to go, during this time, he and Xiao Yuanyuan played very well, the two children are close in age, Xiao Yuanyuan has a good personality, he is willing to take Xiao Xuxu to play, and he is also willing to make him laugh.

However, Xiao Xuxu was still young in the end, and he was coaxed by Hu Yinchen with a rattle, so he diverted his attention.

Gao Mingcheng saw them going downstairs, and immediately took Xiao Xuxu, and the father and son played a game of raising high, making Xiao Xuxu laugh.

Gao Mingcheng said to Hu Yinchen: "I'll take Xiao Xuxu, you go to the market to buy two tube bones, buy five catties of pork belly, and cook braised pork at noon!" ”

Hu Yinchen smiled and agreed, went to the cashier to get the money for the dishes, and walked towards the market.

Gao Mingcheng didn't let her buy vegetables, because he had just taken a basket of vegetables from the village, which was enough for his own family to eat for two or three days.

In the front store, several women were busy selling goods, and in the backyard, Gao Mingcheng teased his youngest son to play, and he was stunned to outline the quiet painting style of the years in the busy.

"Second brother, hurry up and get the scales and bags, someone wants to buy bayberry!" Gao Shufang's voice stopped the exchange of feelings between father and son, and Gao Mingcheng remembered that he had written the price list, but he forgot to take the scale and bag.

So he walked to the front with Xiao Xuxu in one hand and the scale and bag in the other.

The one who was willing to buy the high-priced bayberry was indeed the customer in the store, she saw the attractive color of the bayberry in the bamboo basket, and her mouth was crazy to secrete saliva, because she had just bought a dress, so Gao Shufang generously agreed to let her taste one.

After tasting it, customers expressed their willingness to buy it.

Although a dollar and a pound are expensive, bayberry tastes good!

If bayberry is sour and unpalatable, then no one wants to buy it for a dime or a catty. For example, no one picks the wild bayberry trees in the mountains of Gaojia Village, and the bayberry is allowed to rot in the ground every year.

After the bayberry opened, it seemed that the luck had improved, and then it was sold for several catties.

So Gao Mingcheng brought the small cart and put Xiao Xuxu in the small cart, while he sat next to him and was responsible for selling bayberry.

On the street, people came and went, some people carried rock sugar gourds to sell, Gao Mingcheng shouted people and spent money to buy two strings.

The hawthorn in this rock sugar gourd is locally produced, not as big as the north, the taste is sour and noodles, and it is okay to eat it with the sugar coating outside.

After Gao Mingcheng bought it, he handed Xiao Xuxu a string and asked him to play with it, but Xiao Xuxu stuffed it into his mouth without a teacher, and what he ate was relish, but unfortunately after eating it for a long time, the rock sugar gourd only suffered a skin injury.

After a while, Gao Zhuang's family came down from upstairs.

Gao Zhuang hugged Xiao Yuanyuan and said to Gao Mingcheng: "Brother Mingcheng, I'll go to the market, and grandma asked me to buy some things to go back." ”

"Okay! I have to come back for dinner at noon! Come, little Yuanyuan, eat rock sugar gourd! Gao Mingcheng gave another string of rock sugar gourds to Xiao Yuanyuan.

Gao Zhuang immediately said, "What are you spending this money for?" Brother Mingcheng, otherwise, you can simply make bayberry into rock sugar gourd and sell it! ”

Gao Mingcheng smiled and said, "Do you think anyone can make a good syrup?" But when it's time for noon, you can try it. ”

"Hey, then I'll go shopping first." Gao Zhuang smiled, took his wife and children into the crowd, and became a member of the hustle and bustle.

The shouting, shouting, and bargaining kept ringing in my ears.

Gao Mingcheng sat on the small bench, quietly feeling the slow pace of the era.

In later generations, the rise of e-commerce, the decline of physical stores, and the gradual lack of participation in the market, except for big cities, many small cities lack lively scenes.

Gao Mingcheng was full of emotion in his heart, and Maozi came out of the crowd and walked towards Gao Mingcheng.

"Hey, Brother Mingcheng, show me, how much is this worth?" Maozi took out a few ancient coins from his trouser pocket.

Gao Mingcheng saw the ancient coin in Mao Zi's hand, immediately took it, and said, "I have to see if it's priced." ”

"Look, look." Mao Zi hurriedly said, sitting obediently on the steps, not daring to urge Gao Mingcheng at all.

Since helping his friend Archie sell the shelf bed at home, Maozi has seen the profits in it.

He didn't have a job anyway, he walked the streets every day, and he knew a lot of people, so he moved his mind and simply began to pay attention to old things.

These ancient coins were obtained by him through various means, some of which he spent money to buy with others, and some of which he won by betting with others.

Gao Mingcheng looked carefully at the ancient coins in his hand, there were eight in total, each of which had a sense of heaviness left by time, and one of them was full of green patina.

The ancients minted copper coins, the rust was red, and the patina was green, so looking at the rust, you can distinguish the material of the ancient coins.

Mao Zi looked at Gao Mingcheng seriously, and his heart couldn't help but pound, because he couldn't understand half of the words on the coin, and even if he understood the part, he only knew a rough idea, such as the one with the word Kangxi was from the Kangxi period, and the one with the word Qianlong was from the Qianlong period.

But there is a heavy treasure written on it, Mao Zi wants to break his head, he doesn't know whose year name Qi Xiang is, he also went to ask people, but no one knows which emperor's year name Qi Xiang is.

Therefore, Maozi believed that the coin he received was a fake.

At this time, his heart was pounding, he was afraid that Gao Mingcheng would see the fake, so he brought the fake, just in case Gao Mingcheng didn't recognize it, but bought it directly?

With this glimmer of hope in his arms, Mao Zi waited impatiently for Gao Mingcheng to speak.

Gao Mingcheng looked at them one by one, and finally picked up the auspicious treasure with his thumb and index finger and looked at it carefully.

Seeing this scene, Maozi's heart beat faster.

It was so fast that Gao Mingcheng noticed that his heart rate was abnormal, and he couldn't help but ask in surprise, "What's wrong with you?" Seems nervous? ”

Mao Zi smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm afraid of losing money." ”

Gao Mingcheng understood that Maozi was bought with money, so he said, "How much did you spend on it?" ”

Mao Zi smiled for a moment, and then stretched out four fingers.

"Forty?"

"Hey, hey."

Gao Mingcheng glanced at him, feeling that this hairy man was dishonest, and he must have said that the price was too high.

However, these coins are indeed genuine, especially the auspicious treasure, which is a rare coin.

Because the historical 'Qixiang' era name only existed for one month, and later the Empress Dowager Cixi lowered the curtain to listen to the government, so she changed the era name to 'Tongzhi'.

The so-called antiques, one is old, and the other is rare.

Scarcity determines their price, and the rarer the item, the more expensive it is!

Gao Mingcheng accepted all the eight coins, and then said to Maozi: "These are all coins of the Qing Dynasty, they are very old, and there are many things on the market. There are a few pieces that are not in good condition, and there is a lot of rust. But I won't let you suffer, a total of fifty yuan, sell it or not? ”

"Sell!" Almost as soon as Gao Mingcheng's words fell, Mao Zi couldn't wait to say the selling word.

Of these coins, Mao Zi really spent no more than ten yuan, and one coin was exchanged for a handful of fruit candy from a child's shuttlecock.

There are also a few that were won by bets, and there is no cost at all.

Gao Mingcheng asked him how much he received before, he naturally wouldn't be honest, he stretched out four fingers, hoping that Gao Mingcheng could buy it for forty yuan.

As a result, the high boss is atmospheric!

Boss Gao, he is willing to pay fifty yuan to buy it!

If you still hesitate, once you miss the opportunity, Mao Zi will regret it!

Gao Mingcheng smiled when he saw Mao Zi's anxious look, but he didn't regret anything, but took out fifty yuan and handed it to Mao Zi.

Mao Zi immediately took it, counted it carefully, and when he found that the number was correct, he immediately stuffed it into his trouser pocket.

He looked at Gao Mingcheng with enthusiastic eyes.

"Brother Mingcheng, can I sell these things to you when I receive them in the future?"

"Okay, but it's the real thing, if it's a fake, I don't want it." Gao Mingcheng deliberately clicked, and the provincial Maozi played him as a wronged man.

Mao Zi immediately stated: "I will never dare to lie to you with fake things!" ”

He swore an oath, but he was secretly happy in his heart, among the ancient coins before, there was a fake, Gao Mingcheng didn't recognize it?

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel triumphant.

Gao Mingcheng glanced at him, and always felt that this hair was holding back some bad tricks.

But he doesn't care, the so-called soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, buy and sell antiques, originally by virtue of their own eyesight, you have good eyesight, you can pick up leaks, your eyesight is not good, it is called eyesight.

Earn more and earn less, all by your own ability.

Thinking like this, Gao Mingcheng was also calm.

He even hoped that Maozi could collect more old things, so that he would not have to run around.

He told Maozi about the scope of his receiving, mainly small objects, and it was inconvenient to stack and transport large objects.

"What old plaques, paintings and the like, too!" (End of chapter)