After she left, Shen Weimin's eyes were glued to Hu Lili.
He walked forward a few steps and called out foolishly: "Lili, have you ever thought about me? I..."
"Shen Weimin, shut up." Hu Lili scolded him angrily.
If it wasn't for a bite to eat, she wouldn't want to have anything to do with the Shen family in her life.
Liu Xiaoting looked at Shen Weimin's wretched appearance and couldn't help but laugh at him: "Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself before you dare to set your sights on Lili? You're really a toad wanting to eat swan meat!"
Hu Lili’s rebuke, coupled with Liu Xiaoting’s ridicule, made Shen Weimin’s face flush.
Especially since there were two people of similar age, Li Jianwen and Wang Zhiqiang, next to him.
It made him feel embarrassed in front of his peers.
He pointed at Liu Xiaoting angrily and cursed: "Even if I am a toad, I would not look down on you, a female demon. Don't you think you look like a piece of shit? Even the old bachelors in the countryside would look down on you."
"You...you...you bastard." Liu Xiaoting's eyes turned red with anger.
There is no woman who doesn't care about her appearance, especially when it comes from a man's mouth, which makes Liu Xiaoting feel ashamed and angry.
Among the three educated youth, Hu Lili was the most beautiful, while Zhang Yumei was average.
Only Liu Xiaoting was not good-looking because of her long face and high cheekbones, so she always had a low self-esteem.
Seeing that she was about to cry, Zhang Yumei quickly comforted her in a low voice: "Why do you want to argue with such a person? What kind of ivory can he spit out from his dog's mouth?"
"We are from the city. Has he seen the fun things in the city?"
"He just said the grapes were sour because he couldn't eat them. Don't really fall for his trick."
Zhang Yumei's words gave Liu Xiaoting a way out.
She suppressed the sourness in her nose, and turned her head away with shame and anger: "I won't be fooled by these country bumpkins!"
Shen Weimin said disdainfully: “Oh, you despise me for being a country bumpkin?”
"I tell you, sooner or later you three will marry our country bumpkins and give birth to ten or eight little country bumpkins. When that happens, will you still dare to look down on country people?"
Liu Xiaoting was so angry that she wanted to argue with him, but Zhang Yumei stopped her.
That Shen Weimin is the kind of guy who gets more and more angry the more he's insulted. If you ignore him, he'll be gone in a while.
Sure enough, when Shen Weimin saw that the five educated youth didn't even look at him after he had spoken for a long time, he immediately felt that he was being looked down upon.
Just when he was about to get angry, fortunately at this time Shen Chunshu came out with Old Man Shen.
Old man Shen had a smile on his face, and he looked like a very kind person: "I heard that Hu Zhiqing wants to exchange our mushrooms?"
Hu Lili curled her lips. She felt disgusted when she saw Old Man Shen’s smile.
I was deceived by his face at the beginning, and now when I see him again, I feel extremely uncomfortable.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Li Jianwen had to repeat what Hu Lili had just said.
Old Man Shen: "Of course you can. We have picked out the bad mushrooms, and the ones drying in the yard are all good."
"See how you can exchange them. If you don't think it's too much, I'll give you all of them."
The money owed to Hu Lili was like a mountain pressing on Old Man Shen's head.
Mushrooms are picked from the mountains for free. If they can pay off debts, then of course they should be used to pay off the debts first.
"Then let's just say one cent per pound." Hu Lili said.
They had already discussed the price before coming, and they had to give the Shen family room to bargain, so the offer was very low.
Dried mushrooms are light in weight and cost about 0.10 cents per pound at the supply and marketing cooperative, but not many people buy them.
After all, at this price, you can buy an egg and still have some left over.
In people's minds, eggs are of course more nutritious than mushrooms.
"Why don't you go and rob?" Wang Huilian took two steps out from behind with an angry face.
They worked hard all day wandering around the mountains, and these bastards wanted to buy a pound for a penny?
Wang Zhiqiang bargained with a smile: "Auntie, if you dried it, it would definitely be more expensive, but didn't I just pick it up?"
"It's full of water. Look, most mushrooms still have mud underneath. How heavy!"
Wang Huilian raised her hand angrily and rushed forward to chase several people out: "No, no, we would rather eat it than change it. Isn't this taking advantage of the fire?"
Hu Lili was about to speak when Li Jianwen pulled her back and said to Wang Huilian in a gentle voice, "Since you don't plan to change, we'll leave."
After saying that, he called on the others to go back to the educated youth site.
Although Hu Lili didn't know why Li Jianwen suddenly wanted to leave, she couldn't sabotage him at this time.
Several people turned around and prepared to leave.
"Wait!" Old man Shen suddenly shouted.
"The price can be negotiated, why are you in such a hurry? We all live in the same village, everything can be negotiated!"
Wang Huilian said anxiously, "Dad, these little bastards are here to take advantage of us. We can't sell it to them."
Old Man Shen waved his hand and asked her to be patient.
Then he said to the educated youths, "One cent per pound is definitely not a good price to pay. Please give me a sincere price."
"If we settle Hu Zhiqing's debt as soon as possible, it will save both of us trouble, right?"
Li Jianwen glanced at Hu Lili, who immediately said, "Then it's two cents a pound."
Old Man Shen shook his head, indicating that this price was not acceptable.
Now the mushrooms left at home are all good quality, whole and relatively large.
Wang Zhiqiang saw this and whispered, "Why don't we just forget it? Let's look for it ourselves tomorrow. We'll always find it. Why bother exchanging it for money?"
His family is the worst off, and in his opinion, it is right to save as much as possible.
There’s nothing we can do about other vegetables, but mushrooms grow in the mountains and are free, so just pick them yourself!
But Hu Lili doesn't want to go anymore.
After climbing the mountain all day, her legs felt like they were breaking. She would rather spend money to buy something to eat than go any further.
The little girl picking mushrooms sounds nice, but it's tiring!
Old Man Shen thought that what Wang Zhiqiang said was something they had discussed in advance, so he said unhappily, "I sincerely want to exchange with you, so stop playing tricks on me."
"Let's talk about the final price. If we can exchange it, we'll return it. If we can't, forget it."
The five educated youth looked at each other and the highest price they had agreed upon was 3 cents per pound.
Any higher and they won't be suitable.
Hu Lili pursed her lips and quoted their lowest price: "3 cents per pound. If it works, it's fine. If not, forget it."
After saying that, he took Zhang Yumei's hand and was about to leave.
"Deal." Old Man Shen shouted quickly.
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