assistirfilmes Chapter 104: 104: Weighing and Collecting Vegetables
Chapter 104: 104: Weighing and Collecting Vegetables
Chapter 104: Chapter 104: Weighing and Collecting Vegetables
“Daughter, are you thirsty? Do you want some water?” Mrs. Xu carried a steaming cup of water to Xu Ying.
Xu Ying felt a bit thirsty indeed and took the cup, but her hand froze mid-air, thinking she still needed to tally the scarves.
“Mom, I’m not thirsty, let’s collect the vegetables first!” Xu Ying said, and then glanced at Xu Jing: “Let’s start.”
As soon as Xu Jing shouted “start,” the aunty in the front of the line placed her two largest cabbages on the scale.
“Two cabbages, eight pounds.” These had been stripped of their outer leaves, leaving only the untouched cabbage leaves.
Xu shouted, and Xu Jing hastily noted it down: eight pounds of cabbage, twenty cents.
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“Green vegetables, fifteen pounds.”
Xu Jing wrote quickly, noting fifteen pounds of greens at two cents per pound, totaling thirty cents.
“One big yellow fish, three pounds.”
The big yellow fish was forty cents a pound, so three pounds came to one yuan and twenty cents.
Xu Jing calculated the price speedily, coming to a total of one yuan and seventy cents.
“Aunty Zhang from the Zhang Family, that’s one yuan and seventy cents.”
Aunty Zhang from the Zhang Family pocketed the money with a smile so wide she couldn’t close her mouth— one yuan and seventy in a day meant over fifty in a month.
That was even more than what a regular worker made.
The villagers, hearing how much Aunty Zhang had made, congratulated her.
Next was the second family, Sun Dcao’s family. They didn’t have many vegetables, but they had plenty of mushrooms and earned five yuan, making her the happiest.
Seeing Mrs. Xu, she seemed much more agreeable and began to flatter, “Sister-in-law, if you ask me, you’re the talented one, raising such great children.
They’re good-looking and capable, especially your daughter; she’s even more amazing than an immortal.”
Mrs. Xu was overjoyed, but she tried to downplay it, “Sun Dcao, do you know what you’re saying? Don’t spout nonsense. We can’t indulge in feudal superstition. My daughter is smart—that doesn’t make her an immortal.”
Sun Dcao also became somewhat flustered and hurriedly explained, “I meant Xu Ying is smart, smarter than immortals, not that she is one. Isn’t she amazing?
Xu Ying nodded, thinking that he found it inconvenient to carry the goods during the day. “Sure, come after seven o’clock tonight then. I’ll be out this afternoon and won’t be around.”
Huo Chen seemed somewhat displeased at this and left quietly after giving a muffled acknowledgment.
Xu Ying didn’t understand why he suddenly seemed angry. Watching him leave, she turned around and added the money to her previous earnings, having now once again accumulated over 200 yuan.
The salary would be paid the day after tomorrow, bringing her total just over 300 yuan.
There were still plenty of resources in her space if she could sell them all, they would be worth several thousand yuan at least.
As she watched Huo Chen walk away, Xu Ying changed her disguise, putting on clothes similar to what old ladies would wear and wrapped herself up tightly before heading out.
Relying solely on Huo Chen wasn’t enough; she had to venture out herself to test the waters.
Otherwise, if she depended on Huo Chen and didn’t dare to sell to him frequently, the source of her goods would surely arouse his suspicion.
Xu Ying had never been to the black market, so she could only try her luck in some secluded corners.
The black market vendors certainly wouldn’t dare to operate openly on the streets; that would be asking to get caught.
Carrying a large basket, she wandered about. On her journey, she encountered several people, but she couldn’t tell which of them wouldn’t report her.
What if she walked right into a trap set by those involved in the business?
“Old lady, do you have goods to sell?” a familiar voice called out, and Xu Ying turned around to find it was Wu Qingsong.
Xu Ying was delighted; this guy often followed Huo Chen, so he must also be involved in the business.
Altering her voice to sound weathered, she hunched over and spoke slowly, “Young man, my family’s child is sick and needs expensive medicine.
We had no choice, if you want it, I’ll sell it to you.”
Wu Qingsong glanced at her basket, which looked too small to hold much, and suddenly regretted stopping her.
But seeing the sadness in the old lady’s eyes, he couldn’t bear it. “What do you have?”
“I have five chickens, each one plump. Also, two hundred half-kilograms of flour, two hundred half-kilograms of rice, twenty ducks, and one hundred half-kilograms of pork,” Xu Ying said, coughing a few times, looking like she was on her last legs.
Wu Qingsong’s eyes widened at the mention of so much. He thought he should go back and discuss it with his brother.
There was just too much.