Leftover Girl's Neverland

Chapter 13 Selling Vegetables
After lunch, the three of them chatted for a while, and Meng Zhen explained the matter between her and Du Wei to Chen Xue and his wife by the way. After all, they are matchmakers.Du Wei has been very busy, and Meng Zhen is completely disappointed in him.When I was packing up my belongings, I saw the things he gave me, and I remembered that since we were going to break up, it was useless to keep these things, so I put all the things he gave me in the past year into the box, and wrote a letter to myself. He explained his thoughts and decisions clearly, put them together, sealed them, and sent them to Du Wei's home by courier.

The three of them didn't discuss any more about this. Anyway, it was already like this, and it was useless to talk more. After chatting for a while, Chen Xue and Zhao Kai went home with the vegetables Meng Zhen had prepared.After sending them off, Meng Zhen added some minced meat to the leftover rice and cooked some meat porridge for Xiong Xiong.Xiong Xiong wandered around this new home for a few times, gradually getting familiar with the environment, and no longer has the timidity to start.Meng Zhen cooled the cooked porridge to the point where it was not hot, then poured it into the soup plate specially prepared for it, tapped the plate with a spoon, and called its name.

Xiong Xiong didn't know the name yet, but when he smelled the smell of food, he happily ran to Meng Zhen like a meatball, twitched his black nose to smell the smell, and began to wag his tail happily Licking.

Seeing Xiong Xiong eating so happily, Meng Zhen also sat relaxed and began to think about selling vegetables tomorrow.Selling vegetables is very simple. She has just entered the manor and walked around. The vegetables inside are growing better and better. She has picked a lot of tomatoes and eggplants, and now they have grown a lot.The strawberries in the nearby black soil have begun to bear fruit, and the cabbage can also be picked.If you want to sell it, you can just pick it up and go to the market in Liujiaji. The key is not to attract people's attention.After all, what Chen Xue said is right, she has only been here for two days, and the vegetables in the yard are already cooked, who are you kidding! ?
The vegetables originally grown in the yard were moved to the manor by her as an experiment. Later, seeing that there were only a few sparse rows, the yard seemed a little depressed. She moved some of the vegetables from the loess. More than twice as high.Seeing the obvious gap between them, she suddenly had an idea: she can move the small seedlings into the manor, and then move the vegetable seedlings in the yellow soil out, so that once in and out, the vegetable seedlings in the yellow soil are close to the mature stage , stronger than the larger vegetable seedlings outside, there is still an obvious gap, if you don't look carefully, you probably won't notice it, at least don't let her tenants see it!

Wanting to do it, Meng Zhen began to move the vegetable seedlings.Xiong Xiong was already full in the living room, so he strolled to the porch.When Meng Zhen was renovating, he sealed the outside porch with glass windows and sliding doors, so that there was an extra transparent space outside the living room.The sliding door was closed, and it pawed at the glass door with its small paws, but without pushing it open, it leaned against the door and lazily basked in the sun.The glass windows are sealed so it doesn't feel cold even outside the living room.In the warm sunshine, Xiong Xiong was drowsy, so he didn't see his owner's strange actions: first he dug vegetable seedlings in the yard, and then all of a sudden, people added vegetable seedlings, and then appeared again with a pile of larger vegetable seedlings ...

After working hard for a long time, it finally paid off. Meng Zhen wiped off his sweat, looked at the green vegetable seedlings, and thought of another idea, so he went back to the manor and planted a few unripe tomatoes outside, so that her It's a matter of course to take out mature dishes, right? !
She opened the motor well and started watering them. After tossing them like this, they shouldn't "suicide protest".Meng Zhen secretly thought, I am really sorry for these vegetable seedlings, but I can only sacrifice them in order to deceive people.

After watering the vegetables, it occurred to her that maybe her tenant is a noob in agriculture like her, but the second aunt Meng in the backyard is an expert in farming.When she found grass growing in the field, someone helped teach her how to weed it.Thinking of this, Meng Zhen went to the kitchen, packed a few tomatoes in plastic bags, and prepared to send them to Second Aunt Meng.

When she came to the backyard, the door was open, and she called out: "Second Aunt, are you home?"

After moving here, she found that people in the village generally did not lock their doors in broad daylight. After a long time, she also began to get used to not locking their doors, except of course when she was not at home.

"Yes, it's Meng Zhen, come in quickly"

"Ai!"

Meng Zhen agreed to come in, and Second Aunt Meng was putting away the quilt that had been dried, so she hurried over to help Second Aunt put the quilt into the living room together.The structure of the backyard is similar to that of her home, so I helped my second aunt put the quilt away and sat on the sofa chair with her.

"Second Aunt, my house has been moved. When I was building the house, you would help me whenever you had time. I have nothing to thank you for. When I watered the house today, I found that the persimmons in our house were ripe. If it wasn't for your help , the vegetables in my yard are probably dead, so I picked a few, please try something new."

Meng Zhen put the bag on the coffee table, and said excitedly: "I think the vegetables in my yard are amazing. Now that other people's vegetables are still blooming, how come ours are ripe!"

Second Aunt Meng just heard that the persimmons in the front yard were ripe, and she was also wondering. When she helped to water the persimmons, although the seedlings were bigger than the ones planted at home, it was impossible for them to bloom and bear fruit in such a short time?But when I saw the pride on Meng Zhen's face later, I felt a little awkward: I have been growing vegetables for more than 20 years, and seeing that this city girl who can't even use a hoe grows much better vegetables than her own, I feel a little nervous. Said: "It's nothing magical. Now that technology has advanced, even if there are snowflakes in the winter, if you take care of it, the tomatoes will be ripe as well. I reckon that the seeds chosen by Uncle Wu are good, and he took care of them later. Good. You haven’t seen Uncle Qingwu, right? He is a good way of farming here. Let’s talk about the wheat field under the hillside, because no one is willing to take it because it is close to the wasteland. The village distributes the land to Uncle Qingyu, it’s not uncommon for Uncle Qingyu to do business in the city. Uncle Qingwu cultivated it little by little, so it’s not unusual for the vegetables in your yard to ripen early.”

Second Aunt Meng didn't know whether to comfort herself or to suppress Meng Zhen, so she helped her find a reason.

Yes, yes, that's it, Meng Zhen was secretly happy in his heart, but his face was full of disappointment: "Oh, it turned out that they laid a good foundation. By the way, Second Aunt, I want to go to Liujiaji tomorrow. Sell ​​the vegetables you picked today, what do you think you should do?"

"Selling vegetables? Well, usually you rent a booth from the manager of the market. A good place usually rents a stall for 50 yuan a day, and 80-100 yuan a day for every market; a bad place usually only costs 20 yuan a day, and 50 yuan for every market." Yuan. This location is numbered. If you want to rent, you can rent the booths from No. [-] to No. [-]. These booths are the best.”

"Oh, I thought the outermost location was the best," Meng Zhen saw the numbers last time, but he didn't know which ones were the golden booths!
"Although No. [-] and No. [-] are the outermost ones, according to people's shopping habits, most people don't buy things as soon as they enter the market, so they have to shop around. However, the market is too big, and it is impossible to shop all of them. So I usually buy after looking at three or four stores. As long as your product is good and you find a good location, it will be sold out in a while! Meng Zhen, do you have a lot of vegetables to sell? How do you plan to get there?"

Second Aunt Meng often went to her house, but she had never seen her house with a car, could it be possible to go there on foot?
"Yeah, I forgot about it, it looks like I'm going to buy a tricycle!"

In fact, according to Meng Zhen's idea, just put the vegetables in the manor, just make a "bounce car" by yourself, and wait until the market finds an empty place to take out the vegetables.

"It's too late for you to buy now. My family has an electric tricycle. You can use it for a day tomorrow and sell the vegetables first. The vegetables must be picked while they are fresh and sold, or they will wilt after a long time. It will not be too late to buy a car in the future. Anyway, Liujiaji also has a motor vehicle market, and it has everything."

"Hehe, then I will thank Second Aunt!"

"Thank you, you gave me tomatoes, I'm not polite! Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, we have to help each other!"

In the evening, two tenants came back, one was busy playing with the dog, and the other was watching TV.Meng Zhen simply cooked two dishes and invited them to eat together.After the meal, Liu Jiajia helped to feed Xiong Xiong, Feng Xiaoyan went to wash the dishes, and she was busy returning to the bedroom with three bamboo baskets, and flashed into the manor to pick vegetables.The second aunt said that if you want to rent a good place, you have to go early.The vegetables should also be picked in advance, otherwise it will be too late tomorrow.Picked three full baskets, set the alarm clock, took a shower, put the raging temporary nest in the bathroom, and hurried to sleep.

At six o'clock the next day, the alarm clock rang on time, but Meng Zhen still hadn't adapted to the new house, plus he had something to do tomorrow, so he couldn't sleep well all night.When she heard the alarm, she got up, washed up briefly, and put on a cotton coat. The past two days have been a bit cold in spring, and the temperature in the morning is very low.

She borrowed the tricycle from the second aunt's house yesterday and put it in the yard.She moved the three bamboo baskets into the cart and covered them with cotton sheets. Thinking of the bare concrete platform in the market, she went to the room and pulled out an unused tablecloth to put on the baskets.

At this time Xiong Xiong also woke up, scratching the bathroom door humming.

She was worried that it would be unsafe for Xiong Xiong to be at home when she went out, so she put it in the manor, saw it squatting timidly by the hut, not daring to move, so she patted its head, "Be good, Xiong Xiong, don't run around, I sold vegetables today, and bought you bones to eat!"

Regardless of whether it understood or not, it came out of the manor and pushed the tricycle out of the yard. Before dawn, the manor was quiet.She put on a hat, armed with only her eyes exposed, rode an electric tricycle and roared away.

When she arrived at the vegetable market, there were still very few people. She paid 50 yuan to the management office and rented booth No. 7.When I came to the booth, I saw that someone had already started tidying up.She spread the tablecloth, and neatly stacked the tomatoes, peppers and eggplants in the box on the table.

After an hour, the sky was bright, and people began to buy things in the market.

Today is not a big show, so there are not many people, Meng Zhen stayed a little bored.I thought it would be a big hit, but no one asked.She got up too early and didn't eat, so she took a tomato from the stall, rubbed it on the towel, and started to eat.

While she was eating, an old lady looked at her curiously.Seeing that this girl is white and clean, she doesn't look like someone who doesn't pay attention to hygiene, and doesn't wash at all.Then he came to her booth and asked, "Girl, how do you sell your tomatoes?"

Seeing that the customers finally came, Meng Zhen put down the tomatoes, "Ten yuan and six!"

"Hey, everyone sells by the catty, how can you measure it!"

Meng Zhen smiled a little embarrassedly: "It's like this, auntie, to tell you the truth, today is the first day I came to sell vegetables, and I forgot to prepare the scale. However, my tomatoes are quite big, and I was managing them just now. Don’t worry, I’ve weighed it there, and one is more than two or three. Three are one catty, so it’s only five yuan per catty.”

"Five yuan a catty is too expensive. Look where there are such expensive vegetables in the whole vegetable market!"

"Auntie, I grow this vegetable by myself. It is pure green and pollution-free without pesticides or fertilizers. It tastes good too. You see, I didn't eat in the morning, and I ate it without washing it. You You can try it if you don’t worry, it doesn’t cost money if it doesn’t taste good.”

Meng Zhen picked up the tomato he had bitten into twice, and split it from the middle, "Look!"

"Yo, it's really good, okay, I don't want to taste it, give me 20 yuan. If it tastes good, I will come again. My family is from Songcun, so don't fool me!"

"Auntie, don't worry, I'm from Zhoujiazhuang. I'm here to sell vegetables tomorrow. If it's not delicious, I won't dare to sell it to you!"

Meng Zhen swiftly filled the old lady with twelve tomatoes, charged 20 yuan, and finally opened the business!

(End of this chapter)