Chapter 44 44. Dafang Hardware Store
This vegetable market by the river has a history of ten or twenty years.
Most of the time, the vegetable sellers and stalls here are relatively fixed.
Occasionally, there may be farmers carrying burdens to sell some fruits grown in the countryside, but this only depends on the season and does not last long.
But only Song Tan, a new vegetable seller, was weird, too weird.
First of all, there are not many young girls selling vegetables here.
Secondly, this young girl is beautiful and has an equally beautiful silly younger brother, who is easy to sell out and attracts attention.
Finally, the vegetables are still so expensive!
At first, the vegetable vendors sneered:
Don’t think that having multiple silly brothers can attract customers!
This vegetable market is full of middle-aged and elderly aunts who are good at picking and calculating. They want to spend every penny in half. Beautiful and pitiful, attractive in other places. Here, aunties won’t spend a dime more!
But looking at it, this silly kid's movements have changed from being slow and silly at the beginning, to now he is getting more and more deft, and his counting is even smoother——
Good guy!
You are using this to train your younger brother.
Then there is the price of vegetables.
Twenty yuan a pound of wild vegetables?
The vendor sneered, thinking you were just selling something fresh!
But later on, as the weather got warmer and vegetable prices became lower and lower, she still sold them for 20 yuan per catty? !
The vegetable seller sneered: Are you just asking for help?
Later, even the milkvetch from the fertile fields was sold, and it still cost 20 yuan a pound, and so many people robbed it...
The vegetable sellers are all numb.
How should I put it? Is it possible that he has been selling vegetables for ten or twenty years and has not grasped the trend of this vegetable market?
I have been holding back this for a long time, and finally asked the question today.
Unexpectedly, the aunt who was asked was also full of melancholy: "Who says it's not? This dish is so expensive, and I feel like a knife when I spend money every day."
Then you still buy so many? !
The vegetable seller stared at the handfuls of fresh and clear milkvetch in the other's basket, looking puzzled.
Unexpectedly, Auntie’s attitude suddenly became high-spirited again:
"You don't understand. Eating more vegetables is good for your health. Our family eats a few more kilograms of these vegetables every day. We can go to the toilet smoothly, have good health, and sleep well at night... The acne on my daughter's face has gone away a lot! This It’s money well spent.”
“Not to mention this dish, it’s so delicious. Cold, stir-fried and hot pot, there’s nothing that’s not delicious! I’m scratching my head if I can’t finish the whole meal.”
Onlookers:…
Just... what kind of vegetables are you buying here? Is it melatonin, Jingxin oral liquid, or intestinal laxative melatonin?
Otherwise, we need to add a poppy?
This is too exaggerated.
Unexpectedly, when Auntie saw that they didn't believe it, she became stubborn: "You guys, don't believe it either! How can we not know whether this food is good to eat or not after we have been shopping for vegetables for decades?"
"Look at this girl selling vegetables. How often does she not rely on robbery, and everyone is not a fool? If you really don't believe it, you will know how good it is after spending twenty yuan on it."
Auntie rushed away with a basket of vegetables. She saw the tomatoes being sold by two vendors again, so she took a step forward:
“How do you sell this?”
The vegetable seller hesitated for a moment: "Eight yuan."
Auntie's brows immediately rose: "Okay! I've been shopping here for decades, and you still dare to trick me. The tomatoes I bought yesterday were obviously four yuan!"
After saying that, he stood up directly, turned around and left.
The vendor was on the verge of tears: "Don't I think she has to pay a hundred yuan to buy other people's wild vegetables every day..."
I thought he was a arrogant and wealthy master, so I liked this expensive one!
They were concerned about their own grievances. When they turned around, they found that the beautiful girl and her silly brother were already preparing to close the stall.
The vegetable vendor next door took a quick step:
“Well, are there any vegetables? Give me a pound too!”
Song Tan was stunned, and then directed his younger brother: "Qiaoqiao, go to the car and get a bundle." He smiled and said, "Uncle, I'm sorry to bother you at the vegetable stall next to you these days - all the vegetables are sold out today, but I’m going to give some to my relatives, so I’ll take out a pound.”
The vegetable seller's face looked better now. He waved his hands and smiled: "The market doesn't belong to me, and what we sell is different. So what's the impact? You have to pay for this dish, but you don't need to pay for it." I don’t want…”
Before he finished speaking, Qiao Qiao puffed up his chest and displayed all the QR codes on his sweatshirt.
Vegetarian:…
He looked at the smiling little girl again, had no choice but to scan the QR code to pay, and turned his head in frustration while holding the vegetables.
Song Tan took out five yuan and said, "Hey, go buy your Peppa Pig stickers!"
…
Qiao Qiao had stickers on her cheeks and clothes. She happily followed Song Tan carrying a basket, reading new things along the way:
“Sister, their building is so tall!”
“What is this for sale?”
“There are flowers!”
“Where is uncle?”
Song Tan looked at his carefree expression and said with a soft expression: "It's coming soon. Did you see that store with a blue sign in front of you? Can Qiao Qiao read it?"
Qiaoqiao looked at her hand and began to count her fingers with difficulty: "Big, big... um, five, gold... um..."
He turned his head and looked at Song Tan with his clear eyes: "I've finished reading."
Song Tan sighed—Qiao Qiao in this state can understand, count, recognize money, and occasionally tell the time. He is obedient, sensible, and easy to coax, and he never cries randomly.
But speaking in a systematic way, he is really like a kindergarten child. He cannot recognize all the words, travel is a problem, and there is no way for him to go to school alone in the city...
Looking back, we have to think of other ways.
But the thought suddenly turned around in her mind, and a smile appeared on her face: "Qiaoqiao is so awesome! That's Dafang Hardware Store! Our uncle's name is Song Dafang, remember?"
Uncle Song took his wife to work on a construction site in the city twenty years ago. Later, he met some people and saved some money. So I bought a store in the construction market, and relied on this store to save a lot of money for my family.
This work lasted twenty years.
Although the market has not been very good in the past two years, his children have grown up and are not under so much pressure, so his life is more comfortable than in previous years.
Song Tan thought about the past and vaguely remembered that her eldest aunt loved gold. When she returned to her hometown a few years ago, she had gold jewelry everywhere she was exposed.
Because of this, everyone in the village spread the news that the uncle had become rich, until one day the eldest aunt took everyone to a jewelry shop.
“Bring me a few fifty-cent coins, give me some wages, and you can make a bracelet! It’s like gold, bright yellow, and strong!”
Song Tan didn’t know until he grew up that destroying the RMB is breaking the law...
But at this moment, these past events flashed through her memory like a revolving door, which reminded her of her previous feelings.
Qiaoqiao nodded obediently: "Remember, uncle's name is the hardware store!"
Song Tan: Pfft!
"Just call me uncle, don't call me nonsense."
Everyone is shouting to add more (secretly happy)...here’s the one added (biubiubiu!)
It’s gone, it’s really gone. Just this once.
There will be no more updates tomorrow.
No more updates will be added in the future.
(End of this chapter)