Chapter 38 Too Expensive
Chen Ling had not been to a big market in nearly twenty years. Chen Ling was really in high spirits and was not in a hurry to buy livestock. He just pushed the cart from the east end to the west end of Changle Township, and from the south end to the north end.
I walked all over the store, buying at the same time.
It wasn't until he could no longer hold the things in his hands that Chen Ling turned into an alley, sat on a stone outside the entrance of the alley, and picked up a handful of sizzling and oily meat skewers.
Beside the feet were several blue-black old turtles, all the size of bowl mouths, tied together with straw ropes.
Soon, after finishing the meat skewers, Chen Ling looked around and saw that no one was around, then picked up the old turtle on the ground and entered the cave.
When they arrived at the cave, they took a look at the female turtles in the pond that had grown to the size of the well cover. Chen Ling untied a string of male turtles from the handle of the straw rope and threw them into the pond.
The female turtle thought that Chen Ling was going to feed her food, so she stretched her huge head out of the water. However, the next second she saw several of the same species, she was stunned with her eyes wide open.
"Hahaha, this is the man I found for you, how do you like it? Are you happy?"
"It's too small, so there's nothing you can do about it. Let's raise him first. He'll be big enough to mate with you. Then he'll fight out a ferocious turtle man who will kill you!"
Chen Ling patted its head and said with a smile.
I thought about fishing for old turtles earlier, but unfortunately there are still a few of them. Last time I was in the Nansha River in the county, I couldn't attract even one with bait mixed with Dongtian Creek water.
Fortunately, we met them at a fair this time, and Chen Ling swept away all the male turtles in the stall, including seven.
There are many female turtles left, but Chen Ling doesn't want them. The big one in the female cave is enough.
It is said that one male will mate three females, and if there are too many males, they will fight. However, what Chen Ling wants is this effect. With the water of the cave sky nourishing the male turtles, they will not die even if they are injured. During the fight, the most ferocious one can be selected to complete the mating.
It can also be regarded as a kind of excellent genetic selection.
After releasing the turtle, he glanced at the fish in the pond next to him.
The environment in the cave is suitable. The fish inside had laid eggs a few days ago. Now there is a layer of small fry floating on it. They dispersed as soon as Chen Ling approached.
"Grow it long, and you can eat it after a while."
Chen Ling picked up a bucket and poured some more stream water into the two ponds, which made the old turtles and the school of fish excited.
Then Chen Ling looked at the row of baskets behind the hut and knitted his brows together.
"There are too many. I can't even eat them, and I almost can't put them away. How about taking advantage of the big market and try selling them?"
Chen Ling came to the market today. In addition to buying livestock, he also wanted to sell some of the vegetables piled up in Dongtian.
The tomatoes, eggplants, beans, cucumbers, and spinach grown in the cave were harvested one after another. Especially the spinach accidentally became old and had rapeseed, making it inedible.
Then the rapeseed fell to the ground and grew into a pile. The back of the hut was almost covered with spinach, like weeds. Chen Ling was so big that one had two heads. In the end, he had to dig up all the spinach by the roots and pile it up in the hut.
It will be eaten and grown now, since there are so many spinach seeds anyway.
Although other vegetables are not as serious as spinach, there are also about ten baskets piled behind the hut.
At first, Chen Ling thought of arranging them or bundling them, but later he simply ignored them when there were too many and just carried two baskets in. When they were cooked, he took them off and threw them into the baskets.
As a result, all the dozen or so baskets in the backyard were taken out, and now it seems that they can no longer be filled.
How could the young couple finish eating so many vegetables? Chen Ling no longer even thought about planting vegetables in the fields.
Although things won't break if they are placed in the cave, it's not a problem as they grow longer. You can't just pile the cave full of vegetables.
It would not be appropriate for a fairy cave to be filled entirely with fruits and vegetables.
Earlier, he was reluctant to part with the things he planted in the cave sky, because the food grown directly in the cave sky tasted much better than the food grown by water from the cave sky stream.
The benefits are greater when people eat it.
He used to be reluctant to sell it even if it was rotten.
But now, the baskets are not enough, so we can only sell some. Otherwise, most of the vegetables will take root again when they touch the ground and grow into new vegetables, and they will become a large area as they grow.
For example, beans, cucumbers, eggplants, and tomatoes will rot if left on the ground for two days, and then new vegetables will grow.
Beans were acceptable, but Chen Ling couldn't understand cucumbers, eggplants, etc. The seeds were obviously not mature and he didn't know how they grew.
Maybe the land inside the cave is so magical.
"First try to see if it can be sold in the countryside. If not, you can try it in the city. Anyway, it is expensive, so people are reluctant to buy more. Even if it is good for the human body, it will not be so obvious in small quantities.
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Although Chen Ling is willing to sell Dongtian's vegetables, he doesn't take everything into consideration. The price is too high, and even if people buy it, they won't buy much.
The benefits to the body were not too obvious, so he took it out with confidence and tried to sell it.
Otherwise, each vegetable in the cave would weigh three to four hundred kilograms.
Although tomatoes, cucumbers, and eggplants grow longer and bear more fruit.
It will not be like spinach, which will grow old every other day, bloom and grow spinach seeds, and then as soon as the rape seeds fall off, another large area will grow...
But if you don't pick it, the branches and vines will hang down to the ground, and they will still touch the ground and take root.
So helpless.
Glancing at the hill-like piles of spinach in the hut, Chen Lingxin said, from now on, these old spinach should be fed to chickens and livestock. If you want to eat them, you can eat them now, and dig up the roots after planting.
Then he carried two baskets filled with cucumbers and tomatoes and left the cave.
I found a wooden stick, stretched it across the back seat of my bicycle, picked up two baskets, and prepared to push the bicycle to the market.
"Young students, we don't want to set up stalls here."
When he arrived at the market, he had just found a conspicuous place to park, when someone came to chase him away.
It was an old man wearing a blue liberation cap. He was tall and hunched. He pointed to the east and said: "Go over there, east and west, and put them on the two main streets, north and south. There should be aisles for cars here."
"Okay, I'm sorry, uncle, I didn't pay attention."
Chen Ling smiled apologetically, pushed his bicycle and walked outside the market, thinking about placing it next to the big archway at the exit so that anyone who came to the market could see it at a glance.
"Young man, please don't leave yet. Why do you still have cucumbers and tomatoes?"
The old man noticed the things in Chen Ling's basket and his eyes widened.
"These are all grown in greenhouses. Otherwise, how would we have these vegetables here now?"
Chen Ling smiled and explained: "What, you always buy some?"
"Vegetables in a greenhouse. I've heard of this greenhouse. The loudspeaker in the village called it several times last year."
The old man walked over and looked at the vegetables in the two baskets carefully: "They are from the greenhouse after all. These cucumbers and tomatoes look good. I can smell the refreshing smell of the cucumbers."
"Is it expensive?"
Chen Ling smiled and held out five fingers.
The old man was stunned: "One dollar and five?"
Chen Ling shook his head: "Five yuan!"
"Hey, good guy, your food is more expensive than meat..."
The old man suddenly lost interest, smacked his lips and said, "Pork at the end of the year is only five yuan, and beef is less than seven yuan. If your tomatoes and cucumbers are so expensive, can you sell them at the market?"
Chen Ling smiled and said nothing, pushing the car out.
This old man may not know that after this year's flood, ordinary cabbage will cost 1 yuan per pound.
Other dishes are even ridiculously expensive. Five yuan is just a test, he hasn't asked for high prices yet.
Chapter completed!