Interstellar Gardener Life

Chapter 10
At this time, the dinner market in the vegetable market has already begun.People came and went, and it gradually became lively.

Jiang Ling bought tofu and picked out a fresh hairtail—not from Outer Harbor, but from the coast of Jinghai City, that is, from the East China Sea; it is also called Siliang sea hemp shrimp.Both of these are not farmed products, they are used to by people in Jinghai City, and Jiang Ling is no exception.

After finishing the meat dishes, Jiang Ling carefully walked across the wet concrete floor in front of the seafood stall to buy vegetables.

Jiang Ling is a young man who doesn't care about the price as much as older people. Although he can bargain when buying vegetables, he doesn't care about it seriously. He belongs to the kind of people who can't and won't care.In fact, Jiang Ling cares more about feeling—for example, vegetables should look juicy and juicy.If something was not good, no matter how cheap it was, Jiang Ling would not buy it.

But this time, Jiang Ling looked at the stalls one by one. In the past, the fresh and juicy vegetables were not pleasing to the eye.

It seems...all covered with a layer of dirty greasy dust.But……

——How can there be ashes? !

Jiang Ling closed her eyes hard, and stared at it hard, where is there any dust!
It just so happened that the stall owner in front of him saw that Jiang Lingcai had bought shrimp and fish, not a single vegetarian dish, and solicited business: "Come on, eggplant, cauliflower, green vegetables, and green peppers are all greenhouse vegetables, and they don't use medicine!"

Jiang Ling was still hesitating, but when she heard the sound, she raised her eyes to look at the stall owner who greeted her, only to see vegetables and eggplants from the corner of her eyes: it was still gray and greasy!So Jiang Ling sighed... No matter what, Jiang Ling has no "feeling" for these vegetables today!

In the end, Jiang Ling found a few "not dirty" stalls from the temporary stalls at the back door of the vegetable market from a few local farmers, and picked some green vegetables, eggplants and shallots.

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After buying these, it was still early, and Jiang Ling still walked home.Along the way, Jiang Ling glanced at the camphor tree beside the sidewalk from time to time.Because Jiang Ling noticed that the branches and leaves of these trees... seemed, seemed, seemed...

——It is also covered with a layer of dust!

When passing by a specialty store selling small Lin'an walnuts, Jiang Ling glanced at them inadvertently, but felt that the situation there was a bit strange: gray and gray.

This made Jiang Ling pause, and then she turned and walked into the shop.

Packets of walnuts stand on a shelf.In each package, most of the small walnuts gave Jiang Ling a good "feel"; but there were more or less "gray spots" in them.There are dozens of small bags and dozens of large bags.Roughly one out of fourteen or fifteen is bad.

Jinghai City is close to the production area, and Jiang Ling also likes small walnuts, and eats some every year.When I was young, the conditions at home were not good, and I only had them during the Chinese New Year; now it is much better, and I can buy some when I think of it.Some are from Hengkang, and some are bought in bulk from a trip to Lin'an.Therefore, Jiang Ling has rich experience with small walnuts.

Judging from Jiang Ling's rich experience, the proportion of bad walnuts in this store is actually not high - certainly not low.

The shopkeeper is a man who looks 36.Originally, he closed his eyes and rested his mind in the recliner behind the counter, and put a cup of green tea in the middle of the shelf in his hand. Seeing that Jiang Ling was looking carefully, but without asking the price, he sat up and took the initiative to solicit business:
"Let's have some? This year's new product just arrived the day before yesterday! This is a fashionable product, 28 yuan a catty - 34 in the supermarket! Hengkang costs 50 yuan."

Jiang Ling didn't speak.If she guessed correctly, most of the small walnuts sold in this store are indeed good ones this year, but there are quite a few bad ones mixed in.I just don't know if it was there when the shopkeeper bought it, or if the shopkeeper mixed it himself.

The shopkeeper said again: "Big bags and small bags are all the same price. The loose ones are the same, you can choose by yourself."

Jiang Ling listened, and smiled slightly: "Scattered?"

The shop owner got up and didn't bother to come out. He pointed across the counter to several cardboard boxes placed against the wall.

Jiang Ling opened the lid of the box, and inside was a large plastic bag tied tightly with a cloth rope - moisture-proof.Jiang Ling untied the bag, looked at the walnuts in the box, and suddenly felt a little bad, so he casually picked up a bad one: "The boss can let me taste one, if it's good, just weigh a few catties .”

The shopkeeper nodded, looked around, pulled the walnut crackers beside the counter, and pushed them to Jiang Ling.

Jiang Ling opened it with forceps and saw that the walnut flesh exposed from the two halves of the walnut shell was dark brown and a little blue.Jiang Ling immediately shook his head: "It's not from this year. Last year's or the year before? It's still moldy."

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "Why, it's burnt. Occasionally there is a bad one, it's nothing unusual." He said very calmly.

Jiang Ling guessed that he was no stranger to this situation.After all, a bad one out of a dozen, open the door to do business, and among the dozens of customers who ask for "taste one", they will always meet by chance.What's more, this store was not opened in the first year.So Jiang Ling didn't say anything, and picked up another broken one.

This time, the shopkeeper was a little anxious: "How could this happen? It's such a coincidence." One side has already come out from behind the counter.

It's a pity he was slow.After walking a few steps, Jiang Ling had already picked up the third broken one.

This one is clamped open again, the owner is completely anxious.I grabbed a handful and put them on the counter: "I don't believe it, how could it be like this?" One by one, "click, click" tongs... everything is good!
Jiang Ling patted his hands clean: "Let's make it cheaper, these dozen are good, but the first three are all bad. After counting, five good ones, one bad one, and one out of six, that's not a lot .Boss, didn’t you say 28 yuan? Divide 28 by six, round up to five, then 23 yuan, weigh me five catties. I can’t ask me to pay for the broken ones here!”

"How can there be so many..." The shopkeeper felt unlucky, muttered annoyedly, and then said, "This product comes in like this, 23 yuan is not enough!"

——There is no silver 300 taels here!

Jiang Ling shrugged, she didn't really want to buy it.The reason for bargaining is mostly for joking and scaring people.After all, it is also a small business, not to mention that all sellers are like this now.More importantly, at least most of the stores in this store are indeed good products this year.

So Jiang Ling had no intention of entangled in this matter, turned around and planned to go back.

Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper stopped Jiang Ling: "Hey, 23 is 23. Oh, I'm at a loss for this price."

Jiang Ling turned around in surprise—couldn't she haggle hard enough?But now that the words have been said, the shopkeeper accepted the price again.Jiang Ling also bought it, anyway, 23 is really a good price.

As for the loss, I'm afraid it didn't reach that point.Because the owner of the store is a local from Lin'an, he gets the goods directly from the fellow villagers without intermediate links.After all, Jiang Ling is from Jinghai City, so he knows a little bit from his accent.

The shopkeeper weighed five catties, and Jiang Lingxin squeezed out a few bad ones.The first broken one, Jiang Ling put it on the counter, and the shopkeeper threw it back; so the next few, Jiang Ling clamped them open one by one for him to see.

The shopkeeper was speechless, and the tip of his nose was sweating.He turned on the vertical electric fan on the side to the highest wind speed, grabbed two more after weighing, and gave Jiang Ling a head: "Okay, okay... okay?"

Jiang Ling smiled: "Okay, I'll choose slowly when I get home." She took out one hundred and one fifty and gave them to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper went back to the counter to change the money, and complained, "I said, your ability to pick things is really amazing!"

Jiang Ling didn't panic, and just found a reason: "I eat this every year; I eat a lot, and I have experience."

The shopkeeper lost his temper: "Then why don't you buy it after you've finished eating? My small walnuts are really good. Even if there are one or two bad ones, it's more cost-effective than the [-] or so a catty in the supermarket!"

This is the truth, if you do the math carefully, you will know.But every catty is only worth one or two yuan.However, because the price is 28, which sounds less than [-], most people will think it is much cheaper.

Jiang Ling was amused, and casually agreed: "Okay."

Just then, two more people came in.They are all women in their 50s and [-]s, carrying vegetable baskets.After entering the door to look at things, he didn't rush to ask the shopkeeper, but instead asked Jiang Ling: "How much did you buy this little walnut for a catty?"

This is to pick up Jiang Ling's negotiated price for nothing.So the shopkeeper quickly wiped the ones opened by Jiang Ling's pliers into the counter, let them fall on the ground, and said angrily: "28!"

Jiang Ling just smiled and didn't say anything.

The shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief, and gave Jiang Ling 40 yuan: "It's a small change."

Jiang Ling couldn't help laughing—she actually got a hush money: five yuan!

This price is estimated to be the lowest in the world!

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Jiang Ling returned home, put down the vegetables in the kitchen, washed the rice, and came out to pick walnuts.

Do you cook...

It's still mother's craft.

After Jiang Ling picked the small walnuts, a small handful of bad ones was taken downstairs and thrown into the trash can in the community; as for the good ones, they were naturally put into jars.Then Jiang Ling drank a glass of water and took a shower.

It was just a diarrhea in the morning, Jiang Ling reckoned it should be healed, so she got hungry and went to the kitchen to find something to eat.As a result, as soon as he entered the kitchen, Jiang Ling saw juicy plums that were so red and purple, they were placed on the top of the refrigerator, lined with a light green fruit plate, which was very conspicuous.

Jiang Ling came out with a fruit plate and went to her room. While pinching a plum, she raised her eyes, but just happened to see the small walnuts she had placed on the tea table—a thought suddenly flashed in Jiang Ling's mind, flying needles Shuttle like, all of a sudden string together some things!
Seven cores in a fruit plate...

Dad's sentence "Eight last night, eight today"...

Stinky belly...

Suddenly improved memory...

"Gray fog" on vegetables and street logs...

The incomparable eyesight for picking small walnuts...

——Sun Wukong, the emotional man, has piercing eyes, and her Jiang Ling has sharp eyes!

Jiang Ling was so embarrassed that he took a bite of the plum in his hand.Bite down hard and deep - with nubs!Jiang Ling was not in the mood to eat either.After thinking about it for a while, he mechanically bit the rest one by one, and it turned out that they all had nuclei.

Just as Jiang Ling was standing in the living room, a key rang at the door, and Jiang Fu'an's voice: "Lingling, we're back!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Jiang Ling felt relieved, put down the plum, and rushed to open the door.Then, regardless of whether Mom and Dad were still changing shoes, they gathered next to the two and reported the situation: "Today I bought five catties of small walnuts, and it was only 23 yuan per catty!"

Hu Haiyan was worried: "So cheap? Could it be that they are all bad, or last year?" For ordinary people, small walnuts are the most expensive snacks.If you buy a bad one, you will naturally feel pain.

Jiang Ling waved his hand: "How can I? I've tasted it. I still can't tell whether it's good or bad? It's a bargain. How about my bargaining skills?"

Hu Haiyan jokingly said, "Hey, when are you willing to bargain?"

Jiang Ling sneered: "Mom! Once in a while, once in a while."

Hu Haiyan was still a little worried, Jiang Fuan had already gone to the coffee table first, pinched a few to see: "It's all good, it smells so good." He repeatedly called his wife to go and taste it.

Hu Haiyan felt relieved when she saw it, and said, "Take two catties for grandma, and we will eat the rest."

Jiang Ling doggedly said: "If it tastes good, I'll buy it again! Make sure everyone is so good!"

(End of this chapter)