Chapter 7 The vegetable market takes action
"Uncle Deng, I have decided on this matter. My dad's leg is broken and he will no longer be able to drive a truck. You can help me for a while, but you can't help me for a lifetime. I have to learn to be independent in order to take good care of my dad."
For our family, I have been thinking about this matter for two days. I am not impulsive. I also want to work hard for my family. The burden cannot fall only on my father. That would be too hard."
Deng Zhike was silenced by Xiang Wan's words. He looked at his wife wiping away tears and felt even worse. However, he really couldn't think of any other reason to convince Xiang Wan, and what she said was very reasonable.
Xiao Wan is indeed what Pei Rong said, she is much more sensible than before. She has grown up overnight since Xiang Xiong's car accident, which makes the couple feel happy and distressed at the same time.
The price of growth is too high for Xiaowan!
Deng Zhike suddenly felt that he didn't understand the little girl in front of him whom he had grown up with. He thought about it and finally nodded.
"Uncle agrees that you go out and work hard for your family, but you must also promise uncle that if you have any difficulties, you can come to me and your Aunt Peirong. You can't suffer alone."
"Yes, Xiaowan, your Uncle Deng is right. Your uncle and I are still young and have no children. We have no pressure. We are very happy to be able to help you. You must not be polite to us."
Xiang Wan smiled and nodded: "Thank you, uncle and aunt. I'll work hard first. When I really can't hold on anymore, I will definitely ask you for help. But I don't want my dad to know about this. You all know my dad's character. He knows.
I'm afraid it will affect his treatment, so I have to ask my uncle and aunt to keep it secret for me."
"Okay, we'll keep it a secret for you and don't tell anyone."
With the support of Deng Zhike and his wife, Xiang Wan can then free up his hands and feet to do something big.
After sending the couple away, they sorted and put away the things sent by the neighbors, and Xiang Wan prepared to go back to the room to exchange for some more supplies so that they could be sold later. If there is a large demand, he would also consider renting a yard to store things in the future.
Back in the room, Xiang Wan lay on the bed and opened the platform. He first exchanged 500 kilograms of pork and 500 kilograms of rice, then put the exchanged items into his backpack. Then Xiang Wan spent another point to exchange for a box of bread and a box of milk.
, briefly solved the problem of dinner, and then went to the hospital to check on his father's condition. Knowing that nothing else happened during the treatment, Xiang Wan breathed a sigh of relief, and then returned home to prepare for a rest.
Xiang Wan got up early the next day. For safety reasons, Xiang Wan exchanged clothes and trousers worn by middle-aged women from the platform, and exchanged simple cosmetics for only one point.
Xiang Wan chose a light yellow foundation, darkened her fair complexion, and made her eyebrows messy and rough. She used dark eye shadow to deepen her eye sockets to create dark circles and a sense of vicissitude. Then she added freckles on her face.
By wearing a headscarf like this, Xiang Wan can guarantee that even her aunt, who hates her so much, won't be able to recognize her.
After putting on the clothes, they covered the skin of her arms and legs. Fortunately, Xiang Wan was now about 1.6 meters tall. When she walked out, others would just think that she was a typical rural woman.
He picked up the backpack at home and went out in a big way, meeting one or two acquaintances along the way without attracting any attention.
On the way, Xiang Wan took advantage of the deserted area to secretly move five kilograms of pork and five kilograms of rice into a basket on his back, and then walked towards the vegetable market.
Although it is no longer necessary to use tickets to purchase items in previous years, most things no longer require tickets after the opening. Only rare items still need to be purchased with tickets, which is also to control the industrial chain.
Bei City is the capital of the entire country. Currently, only TV fans require tickets. Xiang Wan heard that in other smaller places, tickets are still needed to buy meat.
When Xiang Wan went to the vegetable market, there weren't many good seats. Guessing that these people would come before dawn, he had to sit down in a corner that looked relatively good and took off one of the cloths covering the basket.
He put it in front of him, then took a one-pound pork and a one-pound bag of rice and placed them on top of the cloth.
Fortunately, the rice exchanged on the platform is packaged in coarse white cloth. If it were replaced by plastic bags, Xiang Wan would have to find a way to find cloth bags.
After putting away his things, Xiang Wan silently watched the sales of people around him, and got a rough idea of the basic prices.
For example, the rice and pork I sell are 14 cents per pound, while the better ones are 17 cents, pork is 90 cents per pound, vegetables are mostly 1 cent per pound, and eggs are the same price as pork.
Xiang Wan thought about it, lowered his head to open the panel when no one was around, and spent one point to redeem a hundred kilograms of eggs into his backpack. Then he put his hand into the backpack, and used his large top to cover it, and moved the eggs in the backpack ten kilograms.
Take out the jin, then take out two eggs and place them in the middle of the rice and pork, and then cover them with extra cloth to cover them.
"Sister, how do you sell this pork?"
Finally, someone came to visit. Xiang Wan perked up and said in a low voice: "One pound and nine cents."
Seeing that the prices were the same, the middle-aged woman swung the pork left and right, focused her eyes on the basket beside Xiang Wan, and asked with a smile: "Sister, how much pork do you have left?"
"How much do you want to buy?"
"Are there three catties? If so, I'll buy three catties."
Xiang Wan nodded and took out two more pieces of pork from the basket on his back. The middle-aged woman borrowed the scale from the stall next to her. Seeing that the weight was sufficient, she happily took two pieces of seven cents and handed them to Xiang Wan.
With his first income, Xiang Wan was so happy that he took out another piece of pork from his backpack and placed it on the stall.
More and more people came to the vegetable market, and everything in Xiang Wan's stall was sold out. During this period, Xiang Wan took another ten pounds of pork, ten pounds of rice, and ten pounds of eggs out of his backpack.
After selling these, Xiang Wan did not take any more from the back, for fear of attracting the attention of the stalls next to him if he took too much; and twenty pounds of pork, twenty pounds of rice, and twenty pounds of eggs totaled thirty-nine yuan and forty cents. For Xiang Wan,
It's a good start.
I plan to come to Xiang Wan early tomorrow and choose a good location. If I sell out as soon as possible, I can go to the vegetable market in the east to sell again. This will increase my income. I can still make money just by selling dozens of kilograms.
too slow!
Xiang Wan was walking home with a basket on his back. He was stopped by a young man as soon as he left the vegetable market.
Xiang Wan looked at the smiling man in front of him. He was wearing the most popular shoulder-padded suit and bell-bottom pants. He looked to be in his mid-twenties. Such dressing was a problem in Xiang Wan's eyes.
May I ask if you are not hot?
You definitely couldn't ask this question. Xiang Wan saw that the man in front of him didn't look like a good person. He smiled with a cunning look on his face. After glaring at him, he turned around and was about to leave, only to be stopped again.
"Is something wrong?"
Chapter completed!