Chapter 237
After walking out of the post office, Li Wen threw the money into the space. In the next few months, Li Wen could move around freely.
Of course, it is impossible for Li Wen to roam around at will in a province as big as New Zealand. Isn’t that just blindness?
Li Wen planned to go south along Yizhou, passing through Guoleng Autonomous Prefecture, Hotan area, Aksu area, and finally take a bus home from Urumqi.
After leaving the city, Li Wen put the electric tricycle out directly. He planned to ride the tricycle to explore all over Yizhou first.
The area of Illinois is very large, with tens of millions of acres of grassland for grazing. It is not practical for Li Wen to go around in a circle, so he plans to walk along the roadside and collect.
After riding a tricycle along the road for twenty minutes, Li Wen came to a Uighur tribe and saw several ethnic minority compatriots setting up stalls selling fruit at the intersection.
In June, you can already eat a lot of fruits in New Province. When the driver left today, the cotton spinning factory also sent dozens of kilograms of plums, cantaloupe and other fruits.
Li Wen walked to a stall set up by two children and asked with a smile: "Kids, how do you sell this cantaloupe?"
The two little boys were obviously selling things for the first time, and they were a little overwhelmed when they saw the customers. In the end, the shorter boy was the first to speak.
"These melons are all about the same size. My grandma said each one costs at least 20 cents."
"You only have these dozen cantaloupes, don't you have more?" Li Wen picked up a melon, patted it, and asked with a smile.
Li Wen is going to get a batch of cantaloupe and plant it in the small world, so that he can achieve the freedom of cantaloupe in the future.
There were only a dozen or so in front of these two children, which was completely insufficient.
"We still have a lot of tribes! We can't carry them, so we can only bring these over." The little boy whispered.
"Krimujiang, it seems that you are going to make a fortune today! Comrade Xia, I also have some big white apricots here, do you want them?" A Uighur man setting up a stall next to him came over with a smile.
"You can, but you don't need much. White apricots will go bad easily if they don't last for a few days." Li Wen looked at the mountain-like pile of large white apricots at the stall beside him and said with a smile.
"Okay! You can get as many as you want." The man was very happy to hear that Li Wen bought his own apricots.
"How do you sell apricots?"
"A dime a jar." The man took out a large tea jar and shook it at Li Wen.
Looking at the size of the tea jar, it can hold at least one kilogram. Li Wen nodded with satisfaction, "Fill this small sack. Li Wen threw a twenty kilogram sack over."
After taking the sack, the Uyghur man was pleasantly surprised. It was a once-in-a-thousand-year wait. Today he met a fat sheep!
It took 16 jars to fill the bag, and the stall in front of the Uyghur man was instantly reduced by more than one-third.
"Here are two dollars. No need to change. Give me two more cantaloupes for the remaining 40 cents!" Li Wen took out two one-yuan bills from his pocket and handed them over.
"I want it!" The man quickly picked up two cantaloupes from the stall and put them into Li Wen's tricycle.
The two little boys became anxious when they saw that Li Wen came to their stall first and then ended up selling things at someone else's stall.
"Xia people! Do you still buy our melons?" The two little boys looked at Li Wen eagerly.
"Buy it! I want all these melons, take them all to my carriage!" Li Wen nodded and said with a smile.
"real!"
The two little boys were full of surprise, fearing that Li Wen would regret not taking them, so they each took two melons and ran to Li Wen's carriage.
"This is your melon money. Do you still have it at home? I need to fill up the car." Li Wen handed over the money and asked with a smile.
"Krimujiang, hurry up and take this big customer from Xia to your home. If it's late, I will drag the customer to my home." The stall owner on the side urged with a smile.
"I know, Uncle Ahqi." The younger boy said with a happy face.
"Comrade Uyghur, your name is very special. Is your family doing business?" Li Wen asked the man beside him with a smile.
"Yes, I, Atta, am a grassland salesman, and my name means money." The man waved his hand and said with a smile.
"That's it! Then you won't inherit your father's profession as a peddler now?" Li Wen asked doubtfully. He knew that many special professions of ethnic minorities have been passed down for a long time.
"I, Aka, am now a salesman, and my profession is a herdsman." The Uyghur man explained with a smile.
When Li Wen heard that, it turned out that ethnic minorities were different from Han people. Generally, the eldest son went out and the younger son inherited the family business and stayed at home to support the elderly.
Apparently this Aheqi was the youngest son in the family and inherited the family business. His elder brother inherited his father's profession and became a wandering salesman.
Aheqi was very enthusiastic and knew that Li Wen was going to trade with their tribe.
He stopped setting up a stall and followed Li Wen in the donkey cart towards the tribe.
The two little boys did not take Li Wen's tricycle, but ran towards home. On the grass, the car might as well have been running faster!
"Ana, there is a Xia man who wants to buy a cart of our melons. This is the money we just sold." The little boy ran home panting and brought the news to his mother.
"My God, my Kerimujiang has grown up and is a son." The little boy's mother, a woman in her thirties, took the money and hugged her son.
"Krimujiang, go to the melon field and call you Atta. I need to prepare." The woman patted the little boy on the shoulder and instructed.
"Haldi, ask your Ana to bring the melons from your house too!" the woman said to her son's playmate.
"Yeah!" The boy who said relatively few words ran home.
On the way, Li Wen learned from Aheqi that this Uighur tribe belongs to the Xiaoyuzi branch and is a settled semi-agrarian tribe.
Tribes are now also called villages. Women usually plant fruits and melons near the tribe, while men graze in pastures farther away.
Ten minutes later, the two arrived at the tribe. Li Wen knew from observing the yurt that the tribe was very small, with only about thirty households.
When they came to a yurt, Ahaqi shouted something in Uyghur language that Li Wen couldn't understand.
After a while, a Uyghur woman came out and greeted Li Wen with a smile in Uyghur. Li Wen couldn't understand Uyghur, so Ahaqi helped translate.
This Uyghur woman has fair skin, dark eyebrows, big eyes, and long black hair. She is a typical Uyghur beauty.
However, they did not let Li Wen in. Aheqi said on the side that they could not invite men in when the men in the family were not around.
Because it was summer in June and the weather outside was very good, the Uyghur women entertained Li Wen outside.
As soon as they sat down, the Uyghur woman brought two cups of hot tea on a tray and placed them in front of them.
However, the tea leaves were all foam and of poor quality. Li Wen also understood that tea leaves were precious these days.
While Li Wen was drinking tea, various dairy products, raisins, dried apricots, beef jerky, and naan were served.
Li Wen smiled. This was the same as the Xia people's peanuts, melon seeds, and sugar, but theirs was more high-end.
While drinking tea, Aheqi said that the children of this family had gone to call someone, and the woman asked Li Wen to sit for a while and wait for his man.
Chapter completed!