dream village

The matter of punishing Zhang Nan and his wife was not worth mentioning, and Zhang Tao didn't take it seriously at all.This is what every righteous youth should do.What he is thinking about now is to get rid of this load of peppers as soon as possible, sell them at a good price, and then go to buy a load of rice to pick home.

Although they came earlier, the market place was already crowded with people and very lively.It took a lot of effort for them to squeeze through the crowd to the vegetable selling area of ​​the market, sweating profusely.

"Selling hot peppers! Downward hot peppers!" They put down their burdens, and the tiger and the monkey opened their mouths and shouted.

Zhang Tao and Gao Zi are scholars, and their skins are relatively thin, so it is a bit embarrassing to do business in public.

As expected, the hot peppers were well-deserved of their reputation, and soon many people gathered around.They are also busy selling peppers.

"Young man, this is the chili pepper!" A kind-looking aunt squatted down and turned the chili peppers while asking pleasantly.

"Yes! It's downhill." Zhang Tao replied enthusiastically.

"This is far and away the best chili in your village. It is hot, big and red. You must choose this kind of chili for wine-soaked chili." The aunt said full of praise.

"That's right! It's not like those chili peppers from other places. Either it's as hot as chili pepper, or it's not good-looking, and it doesn't have any spicy taste, just like eating radish and cabbage." Another younger woman also nagged. .

"Young man, how much is it?" The aunt picked up a plastic bag and put peppers in it.

"One piece and five!" Zhang Tao replied.This is the price he negotiated with other brothers on the road.

"One yuan and five? Don't you sell one yuan and three at Motian Coal Mine?" A middle-aged man with a square head and a big face carrying a bamboo basket also squeezed in front of Zhang Tao's basket and asked.As soon as his words came out of his mouth, there was a sense of provoking a teacher.

The movement of his squatting down was rather rough, and he squeezed the aunt who was packing the peppers so that she staggered. Fortunately, Zhang Tao, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed, helped the aunt not to fall.

"That's right! We've traveled such a long distance to earn [-] cents for our feet!" Zhang Tao replied politely, not caring about the middle-aged man's rudeness.

"The price of peppers in the market is one yuan and three. Yours is so expensive. Isn't this driving up prices?"

"You are a real person. Now it is a market economy, where buying and selling are free and fair. If you think it's expensive, don't buy anything." The aunt said angrily.

Zhang Tao glanced at the middle-aged man and explained calmly: "You get what you pay for, master, my peppers are better than others, and they must be a few cents more expensive."

The middle-aged man glared at the aunt, and continued to criticize, "I don't think there is anything good about this pepper! I don't know if there is water in it! In this hot day, there will be a chemical reaction in the pepper filled with water. I heard that if you eat it will kill."

His words made many customers who packed the peppers stop. They looked at the peppers in the basket worriedly, and then looked at Zhang Tao suspiciously, as if they were trying to decide whether Zhang Tao was such a bad businessman.

The middle-aged people made things so difficult repeatedly, which aroused Zhang Tao's suspicion long ago.Looking left and right, this person doesn't look like a person rushing to the market to buy vegetables, but looks like he is here to find trouble.

He took a closer look and found the clue. This middle-aged man was actually wearing a black long-sleeved shirt on this hot day, and the sleeves were bulging, as if he was hiding something.

What does he want to do?Why do you want to do this?With this kind of doubt, Zhang Tao glanced around again, and seemed to see Zhang Nan's proud and resentful face flashing past in the crowd.

He immediately thought that this middle-aged man was probably sent by Zhang Nan.It seemed that this guy was still brooding and dissatisfied with the incident of slapping him in front of his door just now, and he didn't dare to confront him openly, so he played this dirty trick.

He couldn't guess what this dirty trick was, but it must have a lot to do with this middle-aged man and this sleeve.

This bastard Zhang Nan dares to provoke me, I will definitely teach him a lesson later.However, this matter can be slowed down, let's find out the bad luck of this middle-aged man first.

Zhang Tao suddenly grabbed the middle-aged man's wrist and snapped it upwards.

"Ouch! Ouch!" The middle-aged man yelled in pain, "What are you doing? You sell water-filled peppers, and you still want to beat people?"

His voice was a little exaggerated, and he didn't look at Zhang Tao, but looked around, as if he was looking for someone who would uphold justice for him.

"Who sells water-filled peppers?" As soon as the middle-aged man shouted, a dozen men wearing red armbands surrounded him.These law enforcement officers came really fast.

Zhang Tao noticed that Zhang Nan's face appeared again, and it was right behind these people wearing red armbands.

"Zhang Nan, wait for revenge!" Zhang Tao cursed fiercely in his heart.

"Ma Suo, this man sells water-infused peppers!" The middle-aged man shouted happily as if seeing a savior.

Ma Junfang, the director of the Basho Industrial and Commercial Office, is a fat man with short stature and a fat face. He glanced at the middle-aged man and nodded secretly, as if to convey something.

"The industrial and commercial office is enforcing the law, and everyone dispersed. This pepper has been filled with water, so you can't buy it." Ma Junfang yelled aggressively with his hands crossed.

Then he commanded his subordinates arrogantly and domineeringly, "You, you take these pepper sellers back to the office, and bring them back for questioning."

These law enforcement officers are really capable. Based on the middle-aged man's few words, it can be concluded that this is a water-injected pepper.Not to mention Zhang Tao and others, even the other folks in the market felt extremely weird.

However, some smart folks soon realized that these people were not here to enforce the law, but to find trouble.It seems that these young men have committed crimes against the people from the Industrial and Commercial Office.

"Who sells water-infused peppers?" Hu Zi stepped forward, staring at Ma Suo with his bull's eyes and asked.

"Empty white teeth, why do you say that we sell water-filled peppers?" Gao Zi pushed away the law enforcement officers who were coming to pick him up.

"Yes! You law enforcement officers have to produce evidence!" Many villagers also chimed in.

"It's against you! Is it up to you to make irresponsible remarks about law enforcement by the Industrial and Commercial Office?"

Ma Junfang glanced around majestically, and then shouted angrily, "Evidence! Without evidence, do we dare to enforce the law for no reason?"

"That Liu Dong, go and bring the evidence for everyone to see!"

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When Wang Yaqing arrived at the market, she stood not far away watching Zhang Tao sell peppers.She was thinking all over the place that there would be such a sunny boy with an extraordinary temperament in such a corner.Is he a farmer?It doesn't look like it.

"If I had known each other in the past, I would be considered his parent officer anyway." A strange idea that she couldn't figure out came to her mind, so she tried to find a reason to convince herself.

"Yaqing, let's go back! It's a mess here, what's there to see?" Li Ming, who was standing next to Yaqing, waved his hands, wrinkled his nose, and said disgustedly, "This smell of sweat, it smells so bad!"

"Who asked you to follow me?" Yaqing replied unceremoniously.

However, with this follower following her, it was not easy for her to strike up a conversation with Zhang Tao, so she went to the township government.

After arriving at the office, she sat restlessly for a while, and the figure of the young man selling peppers kept lingering in her mind.

A hidden longing had been quietly encouraging her to get acquainted with the young man. "Go and see! There's not even a single person to talk to in this ghostly place." She felt that the reason was sufficient, so she left Li Ming and slipped out.

When she arrived at the market, she happened to see the scene of a team led by the Industrial and Commercial Horse Institute to enforce the law against counterfeiting.Her fiery heart suddenly became cold. Unexpectedly, this young man is a person who sells fake goods and cheats customers with his golden appearance and rotten clothes!

She was about to walk back disheartened, when Zhang Tao started to move, her eyes lit up, and she stopped to watch again.