My village can't be like this

Chapter 411 The weak on the bus, the warrior in the supermarket
After finally sending the others away, Zhang An prepared to go to his mother-in-law.

But the old man in charge of purchasing in the canteen suddenly ran out and grabbed Zhang An to prevent him from leaving.

"Xiao Zhang, you are leaving now. You still have so much left in the car. Why don't we discuss it and give us one or two hundred kilograms of your peppers and cucumbers? The master chef of our kitchen in the past two days I’ve been worrying about not having enough food to cook, so I’m getting into trouble.”

Of course, the uncle didn't buy this for himself. He had just bought more than ten kilograms for himself and kept it. This batch was purchased for the canteen of the Forestry Bureau.

He didn't expect it, but when he went back just now, he saw Zhu Yuliang giving him looks.

Having known each other for such a long time, he naturally knew what Zhu Yuliang meant. As soon as he went in to put down his purchases, he immediately came out to find Zhang An.

One or two hundred pounds is a lot for a family, but for a canteen where so many people eat, it won't last long.

"I said uncle, please don't embarrass me. The rest were ordered by my mother-in-law. If I don't pull them over, it will be miserable when I get home. In this way, I will pull them over there later. If there are any leftovers, I will bring them to you, uncle. If there are really none, it will be easy to handle. Uncle, you can take the time to go to my house. Not only are there many styles, but you can also have as many as you want."

Seeing Uncle La dragging him tightly, Zhang An knew that he might not be able to leave today if he didn't deal with this person.

So I thought about it for a while and came up with a way to get the best of both worlds. I simply let them go home to buy the goods to save myself the trouble.

"But I'm not familiar with the way to your house?"

"It's easy. Uncle, please bring Lao Zhu with you. He knows my home very well and can find it with his eyes closed."

Zhang An dragged Zhu Yuliang into the water again. This man thought Zhang An didn't see him wink just now.

After all, this guy was finally dealt with. Zhang An quickly started the car and ran away quickly.

Then he rushed towards his mother-in-law as if rushing to the market.

When he arrived at the door, he parked the car and Zhang An quickly entered the office to find his mother-in-law.

It's already one o'clock now, and we have to solve this problem in this hour and a half.

But when Zhang An finished looking for Wu Qiuping, everyone was stunned when he came out again.

At this moment, a group of old ladies gathered around his car, and each one of them started to attack the peppers and cucumbers on his car.

"Old people, please give way, I'm going to be busy here."

This group of people cannot hit or scold you. You can only speak to them in a polite manner, even louder, otherwise they will teach you what it means to scold them.

"Hey, okay, young man, you are selling these vegetables, right? Take out the bag quickly, we also need to buy some. These early-ripened peppers are a good thing. I need to buy more."

These grandmothers also listened and immediately made way for Zhang An.

"Grandma, I don't plan to sell these dishes. They have been ordered by others. Look, it's them."

Zhang An didn't even know if there were enough people in his mother-in-law's workplace, so how could he dare to agree to sell to these grannies?

Immediately, he pointed at the people who came out with Wu Qiuping and said to these grannies.

"Young man, you don't like this. Why did you choose someone to do business? They are employees and can buy it, but we can't?"

As soon as the grandmothers heard that Zhang An said he would not sell it to them, they immediately agreed.

A few of them looked at the old man with a bad temper and immediately wanted to talk to Zhang An.

However, he was stopped by the grandma who took the lead in speaking, and she started to reason with Zhang An.

"It's not grandma. This is what I ordered yesterday. I am responsible for delivering it today. I didn't just bring it here to sell it today."

But they can't let them continue talking, otherwise it will turn Zhang An away from the people. He can't bear this big blame, and he can't bear it.

"Even if they ordered it, you can deliver it today, then you can also do it tomorrow. What's wrong with selling some to us old ladies today?"

Anyway, no matter what, grandma and the ladies behind her always looked like they would not give up until they could buy something.

"Okay Xiao An, you have a lot left here, and there aren't many old people here. You can just sell them a pound or two each."

In broad daylight, Wu Qiuping didn't want to argue with them, so she spoke to Zhang An.

If they continue to quarrel here, if word spreads, they will become bullying the elderly.

Anyway, there are only a few grannies in this group, so they certainly won’t ask for much.

"Grandma, let's make an agreement first. Whether it's green peppers, cucumbers or green melons, it's only one yuan a pound. Don't say later that I'm cheating you."

Seeing his mother-in-law speak, Zhang An didn't say anything else. He had thought the same thing just now, and he definitely couldn't let them waste time around her.

"What? It's only one yuan per catty. Isn't it only [-] cents per catty in the vegetable market? Young man, you have to be conscientious when doing business."

Wu Qiuping relaxed, letting these old ladies feel like they had won the battle.

But when they heard Zhang An talk about the price, they couldn't keep calm anymore. They protested to Zhang An at the top of their lungs, as if it cost them their lives.

"The food at the vegetable market is cheap. You guys go to the vegetable market to buy it. The service there is good, so why waste your time here."

Zhang An is not a clay Bodhisattva. He has no temper at all, so he will not spoil them.

They had delayed us for more than ten minutes. If it weren't for them making trouble here, a lot of people would have been weighed.

"Young man, what you said is true. If there was a vegetable market, why would we be telling you this?"

This aggressive look is exactly the same as the weaklings on the bus and the warriors in the supermarket that Zhang An saw in his later life.

"You also know that there are no sentiments in the vegetable market. The ones in the vegetable market have just sprouted from the mud. If you think they are expensive, just wait. They will be cheaper when they are available in the vegetable market."

Zhang Anxin thought, this is expensive for me. When greenhouses develop in the future, you will be justified in selling a pound of off-season vegetables four or five times the price.

"Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it must have taken a lot of effort for these vegetables to mature so long in advance, and they must be more expensive. Normally, they only grow for a few days, but the ones my grandma planted are just sprouting from the mud."

"Just don't buy it if you think it's expensive. People have put so much effort into growing it. They must be trying to make money. You are still calling it expensive. Why don't you make people lose money?"

As soon as Zhang An finished speaking, a group of people around him began to speak for him.

These people are all people who have just been attracted by the lively scene here.

No matter where you are in the country, there is no shortage of this type of people.

"Who said we can't afford it, so we can't negotiate the price? How did your adults teach you?"

They had no intention of letting Zhang An go.

But now that there are more and more people watching, we definitely can’t continue to act like crazy.

"Young man, please weigh me a pound."

"I want a pound too."

"I only weigh half a catty. If you weigh too much, it will spoil easily."

These old sisters are indeed the same kind of people, all weighing one and a half pounds.

When the people around heard it, a "cut" sound came from the crowd.

The relationship has been quarreling here for a long time, just because of fifty cents.

Zhang An didn't care about anything else and praised them quickly. Now he just wanted to get rid of these troublesome people as soon as possible.

"Young man, you have to weigh yourself for us. If it's too short, I'll have to pick it up and find you."

They were booed by the people around them for a while, so they had no choice but to vent their grievances on Zhang An. "If you feel uneasy, just don't buy it."

Zhang An did not continue to reply. He now hopes that these "cancers of society" will leave quickly.

If you continue to give them words, there's no telling how long they'll be able to waste time with you.

Zhang An was also speechless, why did he meet these people?

After sending away these plague gods, Zhang An had time to move the basket from the car and let everyone carry it.

Originally, he thought that the people here would be the same as those at the Forestry Bureau, with everyone hugging each other and weighing more than ten pounds.

Unexpectedly, each of them only weighed four or five kilograms before being weighed by him.

Fortunately, he was worried that there wouldn't be enough left in the car for this group of people.

As a result, after weighing it now, there are still several hundred kilograms left.

"Brother, are these what you have left? You are still waiting for someone."

When I saw that all the people in line were gone, the person who had been watching came over and asked.

These are the people who just came around to watch the fun and haven’t left yet.

"No wait, these are all left. If you want them, just hold them for yourself. If you don't, I'll pull them back."

Zhang An himself didn't expect that there would be so much left, so he immediately wanted to take him back to the cafeteria.

But since someone asked about it, I could sell them some.

"Okay, okay, bring me a bigger plastic bag. I've been looking here for a long time. They just took it and ate it. They were so greedy. I thought you had ordered these. What else did you want?" I’ll ask you later if you can come tomorrow.”

This elder brother was the one who just helped Zhang An speak, and Zhang An recognized it as soon as he heard the voice.

"Haha, I'm not a vegetable seller. It's just that this is my mother-in-law's workplace, and all her colleagues want it, so I just brought a cart here. I probably won't come here again."

"That's a pity. I have to buy more this time, otherwise I won't be able to find you next time."

He took the plastic bag from Zhang An and hugged more than ten kilograms of green peppers. When that wasn't enough, he asked for another one and then stopped after hugging another bag of cucumbers and green peppers.

The same goes for everyone else. I heard that Zhang An was only here this time, and those who originally only wanted half a bag filled the entire plastic bag.

Originally, Zhang An was thinking that after the eldest brother and his group were satisfied, the rest would go directly back to the forestry bureau canteen.

Unexpectedly, with the big brother and the others taking the lead, the more people sold, the more people around them sold out, and it was sold out in less than an hour.

. . . .

Time flies and it’s the annual Qingming Festival.

When Zhang An woke up early in the morning, he felt a cold wind blowing against his face.

When I walked to the yard, I found that it was raining lightly outside.

It seems that this year we cannot take the whole family to the mountains to worship our ancestors and have a meal as we did in previous years.

After Zhang An finished washing, people began to come to the house.

Although we are a family, there is no fixed place for Qingming Festival every year.

It will be at your house this year and at my house next year. It is not just about finding a place to cook, but this family will take the lead.

Basically, within a family, every family has to come out and become a leader.

This year we happened to arrive at Zhang An's house, so Mr. Zhang came over first early in the morning.

After breakfast, Zhang An followed the elders to the town to buy things for sacrifice.

It rained during the Qingming Festival this year, so it was obviously impossible to drag the entire family to the mountains like in previous years.

In previous years, everyone would go to the mountain, and after the sacrifice was completed, they would open fire there.

The mountain roads are slippery this year, making it inconvenient to bring children, and it is also troublesome to carry various things up the mountain.

We can only go to the mountain to offer sacrifices and repair ancestral tombs first, and then come back home to have dinner.

As the eldest grandson, Zhang An has his share in everything.

I just took a few uncles to the town to buy things. When I came back, Mr. Zhang had already laid out the paper flags.

So I prepared all the things for sacrifice and followed the old people non-stop up the mountain to hang paper.

Usually at this time, the men in the family go up the mountain, while the women stay at home to prepare meals.

Children can join in the fun if they want, but they are not allowed if they are too young.

"Tiewa, where did you find the gourd? Why didn't I see it?"

The procession of hanging paper is usually from far to near, so that it is convenient for the ancestors to go home after hanging the last one.

When we finally arrived at the tombs of Zhang An’s grandparents, Zhang An had just repaired the tombs and put new mud on them.

Looking back, Zhang Tie got three or five gourds from somewhere and was arguing with several other cousins ​​about how to divide them.

This gourd looks like a grasshopper on a vine. It was grown last year and is obviously dry.

"Hey, when my uncle and I were cutting bamboo just now, we encountered only one vine on the Shanyazi over there, so I pulled it up."

Zhang Tie pointed to the hilltop in the distance to Zhang An, where Zhang Jianguo had just taken them to cut down the grave markers.

No wonder Zhang An didn't see it, the feelings were still there on the other side of the mountain.

In the past, when Zhang An came to visit the grave, he had cut green bamboo at the foot of the mountain, so he didn't know that there was a gourd vine growing there.

"Give me this gourd first. When you get back, I will pop the seeds inside, and then give the gourd to you."

Zhang An had the idea of ​​growing gourds before, but he never found the gourd seeds.

Although the top of the hill behind the house has grown a lot, the group of children in the village often run up there to play at noon.

Every time the gourds were still very green and tender, they were picked away.

Changqing didn't have the habit of eating gourds, so they picked them just for fun.

"Brother, are you going to grow gourds at home? Will you be able to grow gourd babies?"

Hearing Zhang An asked for gourd seeds, Zhang Tielian and the kids next to him lit up.

After watching Calabash Baby, they all have a dream of growing gourds.

Even Zhang Tie, who is in the first grade of junior high school this year, still has illusions about Calabash Baby.

"It's not certain, in case it can be planted, so give me the gourd, and when I go back, I will take out the seeds from the gourd and plant it to see if it can be planted."

Zhang An plans to plant a few plants in the yard and plant the others in the space.

To be honest, based on the urine properties of the space, he was really not sure.

(End of this chapter)