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Chapter 120 [120] Shopping for vegetables

It is said that this money is heavy in He Meizhen's heart, she has to reach into her pocket every two steps to feel, although the design of the pocket is not easy to steal if no one puts it in her trousers according to common sense, but she is still worried.

Walking to the crowded food lanes in the vegetable market, she looked up and realized that the vegetable market is very large, with fresh food, poultry, seafood, and cooked food all divided into sections.

It was the time when the vegetable market was the most crowded, and He Meizhen looked up and saw a group of people in Wuyang Wuyang. This scene was really scary for He Meizhen, not that she had never seen so many people before, in the countryside Every year when the Spring Festival comes, there are many people rushing in the town, but now He Meizhen is different, she has "big money" on her body.

Whenever He Meizhen looked up at people, she always felt that the people who bought vegetables beside her were looking at her. That kind of look made her feel that they all knew that she had put 1000 yuan on her body and wanted to steal her money or covet her money. like.

As a result, her right hand did not dare to leave the pocket again.

When He Meizhen usually buys vegetables, she does not only shop around, but all the vegetables she buys have to be picked out by herself. The merchants sprinkle water, and the menus are a little faded. It is absolutely impossible for her to let the boss count. If you go in, if you find out that the boss has rounded up the dishes for her after weighing the dishes, she will have to ask the boss to pay for it before she is willing to leave.

Today, He Meizhen walked around the vegetable market, and they all looked similar. When every vendor passing by asked her what vegetables she wanted to buy, she just smiled and left.

Suddenly coming to such a big vegetable market, she really felt a little stage fright, and finally reached a vegetable shop at the end, she stopped, and had nowhere to go.

"What kind of food do you want?"

This time He Meizhen had no choice. She took a look, and found that there were many dishes on the vegetable shop that she didn't know or had seen before, and she didn't know how to ask if she wanted to eat them.

She thought for a moment, then suddenly raised her left hand and pointed to a few dishes.

"this, this"

She actually asked the boss to take the food by herself, which was an atmosphere she had never had before.

Of course, she is so proud not only because she has money today, but also because it is inconvenient for her right hand to protect the "thousand yuan bill" in her pocket at this time, and her left hand must change when picking vegetables, but there is mainly one reason. Mandarin is not very good, and it was the first time I came to such a big vegetable market to buy vegetables. It was a bit stage fright, and she didn't have the ability and aura to bargain.

Seeing that she was not moving, the boss double-checked: "Do you want this?"

"En!" He Meizhen nodded.

Seeing that the boss took a little more, he would say, "Too much."

The boss is only sensible, and he gave almost the same amount of each dish.

The vegetable vendor weighed the vegetables directly according to her request, finally calculated, and then said in Shanghai dialect: "35.5 yuan".

It is said that He Meizhen worked as a nanny in Shanghai when she was young. Although the time has been very long, so long that Su Qingchun was not born, it is almost 40 years. Although she does not know how to speak Shanghai dialect, but She still hears some words in Shanghai dialect repeatedly while watching TV, especially nanny grocery shopping is a skill, and she can’t say that she can understand some basic numbers completely accurately, but she still understands them roughly.

"35.5 yuan?" He Meizhen asked repeatedly in broken Mandarin.

The vegetable vendor nodded.

"Vegetables are so expensive, no wonder Xiaopei wants to pay me so much!" He Meizhen thought to herself.

Although she felt that the price was a bit high in her heart, today is also special, why didn't she ask the price in advance.

He Meizhen thought that her daughter-in-law would pay for the vegetables anyway, but then she turned around and thought, "Xiaopei and the others earn money through hard work, and it's too expensive. But the boss said it all, so it's impossible not to want it? "

"If I really don't want her, will she chase me and scold me?"

"Forget it, let's buy it even if it's expensive."

After all kinds of ideological struggles and repeated hesitation, she carefully took out a 100 yuan bill from her right pocket and slowly handed it to the vegetable vendor.

Seeing the cash handed out by He Meizhen, the vegetable vendor just looked at it and didn't accept it directly. Then she continued to speak in Shanghai dialect: "I don't have so much change here, can you scan the code?"

This time He Meizhen really didn't understand at all. Seeing that the other party didn't even answer the 100 yuan bill, she guessed that the other party must have doubts about the authenticity of the money. This is her experience in many years of life.

So she explained in poor Mandarin with a Jiangxi accent: "This money is not fake, it was given to me by my daughter-in-law, it is real."

After hearing the accent, the other party quickly said in Mandarin: "I'm not saying the money is fake, I'm asking if you can scan the code with your mobile phone?"

Speaking of this, the vegetable vendor owner pointed to a WeChat QR code sign hanging above and said, "WeChat scan code, that is, mobile phone scan code, WeChat is not acceptable, Alipay is also acceptable."

He Meizhen had never heard of QR code scanning, she looked up at the hanging sign with a dazed expression.

"I said it's real money, not a price, so don't worry." He Meizhen just explained blindly, regardless of what the other party said.

Looking at He Meizhen's appearance, the vegetable vendor owner could tell. She probably didn't know anything about scanning codes on WeChat.

So she reluctantly took the money from He Meizhen's hand, went to the vegetable merchant next door to exchange the money, and gave He Meizhen the change.

He Meizhen finally understood this wave of operations, and said, "That's right, if you don't understand money, you should have asked someone else to look at it.".

After the vegetable vendor gave He Meizhen the change and vegetables, she said, "Forget it, my money is not fake money."

Just as the vegetable vendor wanted to explain, He Meizhen turned around and walked away angrily. She walked away and muttered: "This boss, he doesn't know money, and doesn't know how to do business. Really, he wronged me for using fake money. Xiaopei will give me fake money, it really pissed me off."

While talking, a person came towards her and accidentally rubbed her shoulder lightly. At this moment, she realized that she was holding the food with her right hand. Fearing that the person was a thief just now, she quickly switched hands to carry the food, and her right hand was holding the food. Hastily touched the money in her pocket, but she didn't dare to take it out, for fear of seeing the money, she could only count the money one by one in her heart.

Only after confirming that there is no shortage of money can we dare to move forward.

In this way, she walked carefully through various fresh food, poultry, fish, and seafood stalls with "large sums of money" in her pocket.

It was after ten o'clock in the morning that she was trying her best to protect her money and buy all the food for the day.

There are a lot of dishes for the family of six. I saw her holding large and small bags of vegetables in both hands, but she always kept the vegetables on her right side directly against her trousers.

Following the path Huang Xiaopei said, He Meizhen found the way back to the community clearly, and everything went very smoothly.

(End of this chapter)