Fat Niang makes a fortune in farming

Chapter 99
"Okay! You don't need to carry the basket, you just lead the way!"

Meng Kejun smiled and touched the little girl's head.

"Uncle Zhang! Watch the fish here for me, I'll come as soon as I go!"

The little girl greeted the fishmonger next to her to help her watch her small fish stall, and then immediately ran to the front of Meng Kejun to lead the way.

Meng Kejun followed behind her, looking at her thin and small figure, he suddenly had mixed feelings in his heart.

She couldn't be more familiar with this kind of scene. When she lived in the orphanage, she usually made handicrafts if she wanted to earn pocket money, and then sold them in the market. She remembered the first time she took homemade When the handicrafts were sold in the market, they were as big as this little girl.

Standing in the bustling market, she had never been so scared and lonely at that time. She opened her eyes timidly and looked at everyone who passed by her. She wanted to call out to them, hoping that they would all stop. Hurried footsteps to patronize their own stalls, not to buy even just to look at it.

However, the courage he had gathered with great difficulty, and the words that had finally rolled out of his mouth, disintegrated in an instant after meeting those unfamiliar faces.

Then she could only shut up and watch a figure walk by in front of her.

"Big sister, we're here!"

Just when Meng Kejun was immersed in his memories of the past, the little girl walking in front of her pointed to an old fishing boat on the river beach and said to Meng Kejun.

This is a very small fishing boat. It is parked in the most inconspicuous corner of the shore, and it is almost impossible to find it from a high place.

"Mother! Mother! Come out!"

The little girl yelled loudly into the cabin, and soon, a woman in her 30s came out of the cabin. The coarse clothes she was wearing were covered with patches, and her complexion was not very good.

"Cough-cough-cough-Nie'er, why are you back at this time? Who will show you the fish at this fish stall?"

The woman covered her mouth and coughed twice. Judging by her appearance, she must be ill. Looking at her sallow complexion and thin body, she has been ill for a long time.

"Mom, big sister said she wants to buy osmanthus fish, so I brought her here!"

The little girl named Ni'er immediately turned around and took Meng Kejun's hand, and then led Meng Kejun to the boat along the wooden plank on the bow of the boat on the shoal.

As soon as I got on the boat, I was greeted with a strong fishy smell. It is not surprising that there is a fishy smell on the fishing boat, but the strong smell is also mixed with a thick and strong smell of medicine.

"Big girl! Sit down, sit down!"

The woman didn't expect that Ni'er would bring her customers aboard, so excitedly she patted the board of the boat with her sleeve, and motioned for Meng Kejun to sit down.

Meng Kejun was not in a hurry to sit down, but looked up at the dilapidated fishing boat in front of him.

The canopy on the fishing boat was not only old but also very torn, and the parts that were really torn were covered with a large piece of rag.

The cabin is very small, and the pots and pans are placed in it, and there is almost no place to step down.

A three or four-year-old boy was sleeping on the deck under the canopy. There was a medicine pot under the deck, and there were leftover medicine dregs in the bowl beside it.

"The little girl told me that you have sweet-scented osmanthus fish for sale on this boat. Where do you put your sweet-scented osmanthus fish? Can you show me?"

When Mr. Meng Ke saw the scene on the boat, he couldn't help being a little puzzled, this little girl could not be lying to him.

"Yes! Yes! We have sweet-scented osmanthus fish!"

Hearing what Meng Kejun said, the woman nodded repeatedly, squatted down immediately, and stretched out her hand to open the hidden door on the boat plank.Every fishing boat will have such a secret door. The fish caught from the river will be directly thrown into this secret door. After landing, the fish raised in the secret door will be fished out and sold on the shore.

When the secret door was opened, the woman squatting on the ground suddenly coughed violently, then her body went limp, and she collapsed directly on the board of the boat.

"Mother! Mother! Are you alright!" Nier who was at the side immediately rushed over to help the woman who had collapsed on the ground.

"Sister-in-law, how about I help you see a doctor?"

The scene in front of her made Meng Kejun worried, so she lowered her head and asked.

The woman waved her hands at Ni'er and Meng Kejun again and again, "It's okay, it's okay, I've got an old problem, cough-cough-cough-"

After speaking, the woman got up from the ground, and then opened the hidden door.

As soon as the secret door was opened, Meng Kejun saw a few sweet-scented osmanthus fish swimming leisurely in the water inside.

"I want one that weighs a pound, you get me one!"

The sweet-scented osmanthus fish used for steaming should not be too big. There are only a few people in the family, and the one that weighs one catty is the most suitable.

"Good! Good!"

The woman hurriedly took the net bag on the side, and fished out a sweet-scented osmanthus fish weighing one catty from the secret door.

Then I took the scale and weighed it. It was more than half a catty, which was just right.

"Should I be slaughtered for you? This osmanthus fish is not easy to clean up, and it will pierce your hand if you are not careful. Cough—cough—"

Before the woman finished speaking, she coughed several times in a row. Every time she coughed, her chest would rise and fall violently, and her sallow face would turn red from the cough.

"No! No! I'll take it back and keep it. I'll kill it when it's cooked. It'll be fresher!"

Seeing the woman in front of her coughing like that, Meng Kejun was really worried that she would cough out her lungs if she coughed like this.

Hearing what Meng Kejun said, the woman quickly took two straws from the straw on the bow of the boat, pierced the fish's mouth, tied them and handed them to Meng Kejun.

"How much?" After taking the fish, Meng Kejun opened the money bag.

"Twenty Wen!"

"Ah?" Meng Kejun was startled by the number the woman said.

"No, the sweet-scented osmanthus fish from other shops on the shore sell for 25 Wen per catty. Why is it only [-] Wen per catty?"

"It's the price to sell it on the shore, but my third son and I are both sick and can't get on the shore, so I can only send Nier to sell it on the shore. The little girl's family has never done business. It hasn't opened for two days. I didn't expect to bring customers to the door today. This is my Nier's first business. You have made trouble to come here. Naturally, I want to give you a cheaper fish !"

"Cough-cough-cough-"

After the woman finished speaking, she coughed twice again, but she saw a gratified smile on Nier's face.

The woman's words warmed Meng Kejun's heart. She suddenly envied this little girl named Ni'er. Although her family was poor, she had the love of her own mother, which was beyond the reach of many people.

"Well, here's the money to buy fish!"

Meng Kejun took out twenty Wen from the money bag and handed it to the woman.

The woman smiled and stretched out her hand to catch it, "Big girl, if you want to buy fish in the future, come to me directly here, my boat will not move, and I will give you a better deal! Cough cough—cough cough— "

"Okay! From now on, if I want to buy fish, I will come to you directly!"

(End of this chapter)