Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 6
It was only when Wang Weidong rode for nearly an hour to the farmer's market in the county town that he realized the meaning of the rural brother asking him to put vegetables in baskets. The vegetables in the sacks must have been damaged due to friction for a long time.

Pushing the cart into the farmer's market, the good spots on both sides of the street were already occupied by people, so he could only park his bicycle outside.

Carefully pour the vegetables in the sacks on the ground, spread out the sacks, and pile the vegetables on the sacks according to their types. After doing these things, Wang Weidong looked up and found that he occupied almost the largest space among the dozens of people around him.

The vast majority of people in the market are older people, those old men and women who don't have to work because they are too old in the countryside, like Grandma Wang Weidong.

They got up at four o'clock to pick some vegetables from their gardens and sell them in the market, so the types and quantities of vegetables were less than Wang Weidong's.

Wang Weidong felt very cordial. When he was young, his grandma took him to the countryside to visit relatives and those uncles, grandparents and grandparents sitting on the kang and chatting. Those people always looked at Wang Weidong in patched clothes and playing on the ground with big pancakes. Said: "They really caught up with the good time!"

Squatting next to Wang Weidong was an old lady with three or four catties of red and yellow tomatoes in a small basket.

Suddenly there's a commotion in the farmers' market—the toll collectors arrive.Two men with armbands walked along both sides of the street from stall to stall and began to collect money.

Wang Weidong obviously felt the tension of the old lady beside her, her two thin hands kept groping on her thigh.

"Old lady, five cents!" The middle-aged man in his 40s said to the old lady.

The old lady hurriedly stood up like a child who did something wrong and said embarrassingly: "I, I didn't bring any money, can I pay it after it's sold out?"

"Pay it after it's sold? Will you wait here after it's sold? You've already run away! Hurry up and pay the money!" The middle-aged man said impatiently.He didn't know how many times he would encounter such a thing every day.

The old lady reached into her trouser pocket and fumbled for a long time, took out two steel coins and said in embarrassment: "I really don't have any money, just two cents."

"Really?" The middle-aged man stared suspiciously at the old lady as if he were a class enemy.

"Forget it, two points for two points is better than letting you run away!" The middle-aged man said, taking two cents from the old lady's hand.

Next, the middle-aged man looked at Wang Weidong. Wang Weidong's face was very strange and very young. He was one of the few young people in the farmer's market.

The middle-aged man froze for a moment and said, "Young man, you take up too much space, so pay me ten cents!"

Wang Weidong obediently took out a dime from his pocket and handed it to the middle-aged man, watching the middle-aged man leave.

There are three peaks for selling vegetables in the farmer's market, morning, noon and evening, especially after the cadres and workers get off work at night.The morning is the second peak. Many people go to the market to sell vegetables in the morning and then make breakfast.

Although the location was not good, Wang Weidong quickly sold four or five catties of tomatoes, two catties of water radishes and two bunches of coriander.

But none of the three or four catties of tomatoes from the old lady around her was sold.

Wang Weidong looked down at the tomatoes in the old lady's basket, all of them looked like red and yellow gemstones, without a little green, and they were in good condition, but no one bought them.

A few more people bought vegetables from Wang Weidong and left. Wang Weidong finally thought about the taste. These people who came to buy his vegetables squatted in front of him and picked the vegetables again and again, but the old lady sold too few tomatoes. There is no way to pick.

This is human psychology, only the ones he chooses are good, so although the tomatoes sold by the old lady are all good, because there are too few, no one buys them.

The old lady watched helplessly as others came to buy Wang Weidong's dishes, but no one bought those tomatoes.

"Auntie, sell me your tomatoes, take the money and go home quickly." Wang Weidong said.

The old lady looked at Wang Weidong suspiciously.

Wang Weidong put the tomatoes in the old lady's basket into the tray and picked up the scale to show the old lady.

"Look at it, two and a half catties, twenty-five cents!" Wang Weidong said.He counts on the selling price.

"It's two cents!" The old lady said shyly.

Wang Weidong took out two ten-cent bills and a five-cent steel coin from his pocket and stuffed them into the old lady's hand.

"Thanks, lad!" said the old lady and staggered away with her basket.There are still seven or eight miles from the county town to the village, and the old lady will have to walk for an hour.

Wang Weidong poured the tomatoes from the tray into the tomatoes on his sack.It didn't take long for the old lady's tomatoes to be picked out by the vegetable seller and bought.

In the distance, the young man who rolled and fought with Wang Weidong yesterday stood with another young man and looked at Wang Weidong who was squatting on the ground selling vegetables.

The young man had a round face, smiling, and the sun was shining brightly.

The young man looked at Wang Weidong in the distance with smiling eyes and asked: "Brother Chang, is that the kid? He's quite courageous, dare to break ground on the emperor's head!"

"Bastard, I lost face yesterday! I must get it back!" said the young man who was fighting with Wang Weidong, gnashing his teeth.

"Then why are you hesitating, find a few people to fight together, and hit him with parts everywhere!" said the round-faced young man.

This young man must have been a cute kid since he was a child, with a chubby face, he looked like a good kid who listened to his parents and teachers since he was a child, and always liked to do good things like his uncle.

Just now when he said that he asked some people to beat Wang Weidong up, his tone was as if he was going to help the old lady cross the road.

Of course, he did help the old lady to cross the road, but he touched the old lady's pocket when the old lady was not paying attention.

"I must take care of this kid! But we can't fight unprepared battles. You first find out the bottom of this kid for me to see if he has any background. After I figure it out, I will find someone to attack him!" Brother Chang said.

He took out two yuan and handed it to the round-faced young man, saying: "Tomorrow, you will sell vegetables next to him, make friends with him, buy him a drink at noon, and you must find out the details of this kid."

The round-faced young man took the two yuan and stuffed it into his pocket with a smile and said, "Look, brother Chang, listen to my news tomorrow afternoon!"

Wang Weidong in the distance looked at the leftover vegetables sold on the sack, which was only one-fifth of the original volume, and he suddenly stood up and shouted loudly: "It's cheap, just give me the money and sell it! All the vegetables are round for one yuan! "

This voice is very historic. This is the first time in the history of the farmers' market in Fengshan County that someone jumped off a building to make a big sale!

Ten minutes later, Wang Weidong had already folded the sack and clipped it on the back seat of his bicycle, leaving the farmer's market by bicycle.

The young man who fought with Wang Weidong yesterday touched the bag on his head that was beaten by Wang Weidong yesterday and murmured, "This kid really has a lot of skills!"

(End of this chapter)