Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 67 Selling Melons
Before the melons were fully cooked, Du Xiaoyu asked Du Xian to pick out some good ones every day, and she first took them to the village to try to sell them.

There are few people who grow cold melons in the village, and there are some rich families, there will always be business. When Du Xian sent her there, he was urged to go back to look at the cotton fields. Anyway, there is the Qin family here, who runs a grocery store and a butcher shop. Du Xiaoyu moved a bench next to each other, and the two chatted.

After eating her melons, Mrs. Qin handed over a bunch of copper coins, "It's so hot, hurry up and quench your thirst."

Du Xiaoyu was also polite, stuffed the money into his pocket, opened the melon skillfully with a knife, and picked a piece for Qin, "It will taste better if it is frozen in well water."

"Go back and get it. There's no well water here." Qin couldn't wait to eat it, and repeatedly praised the sweetness.

There were many people walking up and down the road. Seeing that the melon sac was bright red, and the sweet smell seemed to reach the tip of their noses, they couldn't move forward, and asked one after another, "Why are you selling this melon?"

"They're all from the same village, maybe five renminbi a catty." Du Xiaoyu said, "If you go to the town, they'll sell for six renminbi."

"This melon is delicious. If it's not sweet, I'll pay for it." Qin Shi also helped sell it.

Three of them were sold within a short while.

"Is the guy surnamed Zhu coming to sell meat yet?" Du Xiaoyu looked at the butcher shop next to him. Pang Yong was cutting meat for someone, and there were two people lining up behind him. The business was really good.

"Don't dare to come, it's not a loss of money if you come." Qin's complacent.

Du Xiaoyu glanced at her, "If he doesn't sell it, someone else might come to grab your business in the future." In the past, because the surname Zhu was a relative of the village head, others didn't want to get involved, and the rich didn't bother Yu came to earn this little money, so he has always been in a monopoly situation, but now it is obviously broken.

Mrs. Qin was slightly stunned, "I didn't expect that." Then she pouted, "It's only a hundred catties if you sell it dead. If you want to get three butchers, you don't need to start this business. Don't buy it again." Not a fool."

"That's right, but when others see you, you'll just sell them as a family. Don't you want to be jealous?"

Qin pondered for a while, "Then I have to establish good relations with those big families, so as to save time and trouble." It is necessary to give some gifts, and sell meat to them on weekdays to add some odds and ends, she smiled and stretched out her hand to pinch Du Xiaoyu's face , "Oh, you villain, if only my daughter would be great!"

"Then my parents shouldn't be sad." Du Xiaoyu laughed.

Seeing her falling in love with her more and more, Mrs. Qin asked Pang Yong to pick up two big stick bones and stuff them in, "Go back and make soup, I know you love this."

Du Xiaoyu thanked her, and went home with the cold melons after they were sold.

Mrs. Zhao has long been used to her youngest daughter taking advantage of Mrs. Qin, but Mrs. Qin is willing to put a spot on her head and take it to the kitchen to wash.

After a few days, the cold melons were finally fully ripe, but Du Xiaoyu had sold about a dozen of them before and gave some to others, so there were not many, and a bullock cart could fit them all, and the father and daughter squatted Then I went to the county.

It was late May, and the county was hotter than the village. Passers-by were sweating through their clothes, and the vulgar ones wrapped their necks with towels. When passing by the west side of the street, Du Xiaoyu stopped the ox cart and Get out of the car and go to find Wanjia.

A cold melon weighs about eight catties, and the servant at the door knew her, and when he heard that she was here to deliver a cold melon to Master Wan and Mrs. Wan, he asked someone to help carry it.

Both Du Wenyuan and Du Huanghua live in other people's homes. Although they are not worth much, the meaning is to be conveyed.

Unexpectedly, Master Wan and his wife were not there, so Du Xiaoyu thought that he would go to see Du Huanghua anyway after the melons were sold out, so he went back to the market with Du Xian first.

As a result, as soon as the cold melons were brought down, Qiu Changrong, a melon expert in the village, was also selling melons here.

The two sides glanced at each other, and Qiu Changrong's cries suddenly became louder, "It's delicious cold melon, it's as sweet as honey, and it's cold after eating it!"

"Why is he here?" Du Xian felt a little uncomfortable, "The melons grown by this person are very easy to sell, why don't we sell them?"

"What are you afraid of? Didn't dad also eat it? Doesn't it mean that this melon is not good?" Du Xiaoyu said, while arranging the cold melons in front, he picked a melon and cut it open, and placed it on the cutting board in front.

"It's not bad." Du Xian still didn't have enough confidence.

"That's all right, Dad, let's start selling." Du Xiaoyu said, "Everyone depends on their ability to sell things, no one can control who is not?"

Those crescent-like eyes gave him confidence when he smiled. Du Xian cleared his throat and shouted, "Sell melons, sell melons, sweet melons are delicious..."

Du Xiaoyu put his hand to his mouth like a trumpet and shouted, "Don't miss it when you pass by, the red heart cold melon is not sweet, no money, free tasting, the price is fair!"

The voices of the two were one high and one low, one soft and the other firm, and soon attracted others to look over, and heard that the red heart cold melon was free to taste, so they gathered around, and someone asked, "What is the red heart watermelon?"

"Look at the red one inside. It's not a red heart, but it's called a yellow heart?" Du Xiaoyu laughed.

"Oh, I thought it was a different cold melon." Someone was disappointed.

"It's delicious, you can try it, it's all here anyway, isn't it?" Du Xiaoyu divided the melon into several pieces and handed it over, "You don't have to buy it if it doesn't taste good." She has always been willing to give up this little money, so-called Small profits but quick turnover, mainly there is a strong opponent next to it.

Some people eat it all the time because they are greedy for cheap, and have no intention of buying it at all.

Du Xian was a little impatient, Du Xiaoyu pulled him back, and said loudly, "I see that some uncles and aunts are also fainting from heat, so why don't you let them eat more? Anyway, we sell cold melons to quench everyone's thirst .”

"Hey, how kind-hearted this little girl is." Everyone praised.

There are always kind-hearted people. An aunt immediately bought a cold melon with money, and it was really delicious, which attracted others to start buying it, and cast contemptuous glances at the gluttonous.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Qiu Changrong became a little anxious, and shouted, "The cold melon is sold cheaply, only six Wen a catty! Only six Wen a catty!"

Du Xiaoyu burst out laughing, it turned out that this Qiu Changrong was not only selling for six cents, he really knew how to kill people.

In the end, of course no one bought it, because Du Xiaoyu originally sold it for six cents a catty. From this comparison, everyone felt that Qiu Changrong was too greedy for profit, and how could this father and daughter be so simple.

Unknowingly, he sold twenty or thirty cold melons. Du Xiaoyu was very happy, but suddenly remembered that Qiu Changrong had been silent for a long time, so he looked back, only to see that he was coming back from the market entrance, and he didn't know where to go just now. What are you doing.

"It's quite easy to sell, how much is it?" Du Xian said excitedly, "Your mother will be happy if she finds out."

"It's more than a tael of silver." She shook her purse.

"There are so many!" Du Xian calculated, plus the money Du Xiaoyu earned in the village before, and the remaining thirty or so, there must be more than three taels of silver, which is equivalent to the previous half a year income, he put his arms around his daughter and grinned from ear to ear.

Just at this moment, two big men appeared out of nowhere, rushed to their stall, kicked over the chopping board, "Where did you come from? Who gave permission to sell melons here?"

Du Xiaoyu was stunned there, and didn't turn the corner for a moment. He heard Du Xian who was beside him say, "Is there any misunderstanding between the two strong men? We grew these melons ourselves, and we are selling them in the market today..."

One of them with a scar on his face didn't listen, and interrupted, "Who wants to listen to your nonsense? Let me ask you, have you paid? If you don't pay, you still want to sell things here? How can there be such a reason in the world!"

It turned out that I met the underworld, but I didn't have it when I was selling vegetables before. They are not dealers, so don't they have to pay for it once in a while?Besides, it should be the yamen servant who collects the money, Du Xiaoyu looked up and asked, "Do you have to collect money for selling things here? Did you go to the yamen to pay?"

The other black face immediately darkened, "What did the two fools tell them, don't sell things here if you don't pay the money, get out of here!" A few kicks to the chopping board, a cold melon next to it was trampled to the ground. The people who wanted to buy melons all stayed away, for fear of offending those two people.

Du Xian said in a low voice, "There are only thirty or so melons, the two strong men let us sell them all."

"Fuck you!" Scarface pulled out a knife and stabbed it at the wooden post behind him, "Either take three taels of silver, or get out, where are you talking so much!"

Three taels of silver?Du Xiaoyu thought in his heart that he could only get it by selling all the melons, but how could he give them the hard-earned money!These two are too arrogant, do they have any background?How dare you intimidate others in the market in broad daylight!
"We don't have so much money." Du Xian said hurriedly.

"Whether you have it or not, if you don't have it, go home and get it, I'm waiting for you!" Scarred stared at them fiercely, "Hurry up and get it, what are you looking for?"

Du Xian glanced at Du Xiaoyu, summoned up his courage and said, "You guys, do you still have the law? There is a yamen in front of here, be careful and I will sue you!"

The two of them shrugged their shoulders and laughed wildly as if they had heard a funny joke, acting arrogantly as if no one else was around.

Du Xiaoyu said in a deep voice at this time, "My second brother's master is called Lin Song, he is a tiger-fighting hero, and the county magistrate invited him to drink!" In desperation, she had no choice but to come out under Lin Song's name, I hope that the previous reputation will serve as a deterrent.

The two were really taken aback for a moment, but after Scarface's eyes drifted to the side, he resumed his original attitude and said cursingly, "I don't know about tiger-fighting heroes, I only know that there are many people who beat dogs. I want you to know what beating a dog is!" After speaking, he picked up a stick and smashed their remaining watermelon into pieces, and said, "Go, call your hard-working tiger-fighting master!"

Du Xian tried to stop him, but he was pushed by the black face, and hit a wooden post hard, and immediately sweated from the pain.

"Father, don't go up." Du Xiaoyu hurriedly stepped forward to support Du Xian. Seeing the bright red cold melon juice dripping all over the floor, she was filled with anger, but she couldn't think of an effective way, so she could only watch helplessly. All the melons were destroyed, and then walked away.

(End of this chapter)