Chapter 29: You’re only twenty-five or twenty-six, how come you’re already an aunt?
"You look kind, but I can't just eat your popsicle for free."
"But I have to say this first. You are not allowed to tell anyone, or I will lose my business!"
Ye Ying smiled and agreed: "Okay, Master, don't worry, I won't sell it here even if I want to!"
She almost believed the old man's lies. There were at least ten stalls selling popsicles in the Friendship Market.
The old man waved at Ye Ying mysteriously, asking her to come closer, and then told her the name of the ice factory, as well as the address and house number.
There were no mobile phones at that time, and Ye Ying did not carry a pen or paper with her, so she could only memorize these three pieces of information in her mind.
After asking for the address of the ice cream factory, she planned to stroll around the Friendship Market to see what was on sale and buy some meat and vegetables to start a small business today.
There was a stall in the front with a loud speaker announcing a clearance sale, which attracted quite a few people and business seemed to be booming.
Ye Ying also planned to go over and join in the fun.
This stall sells bamboo shoots. The tricycle is filled with bamboo shoots, and the price is very affordable.
The stall owner was a handsome young man in his early twenties, with a neat crew cut and wearing a large vest.
His eyes are very bright and his smile is very masculine.
Isn't this much better than the sissy aesthetics of modern society?
Anyway, Ye Ying's aesthetic taste grew up, and for the sake of this boy, she had to buy some bamboo shoots to show her support.
She picked out a few tender bamboo shoots and was about to weigh them for the boy when she saw a large old-fashioned scale on the ground next to her with a note on it that read: "For exclusive use by the Linkeng Village Production Team."
Ye Ying was stunned for a moment, put down a few bamboo shoots, and stood on the large scale.
She is losing weight. The most intuitive way to judge whether she has lost weight is to compare her weight after a period of time.
Since we are just starting out today, let’s use this data as our initial weight.
Seeing this, the young man frowned and asked, "What are you doing?"
"I want to weigh myself." Ye Ying replied.
The young man was stunned, with an incredible look on his face: "Aunt, that is the scale our production team uses to weigh food and livestock."
"No, who are you calling auntie?" Ye Ying was very unhappy with the word auntie.
"I'm only about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, only a few years older than you!"
It seems that being fat really makes you look older!
She is clearly still a young girl at this age, so how come she has become an aunt?
The young man touched his nose awkwardly and quickly changed his tone: "Okay then. Sister, this is the scale our production team uses to weigh food crops and livestock, not for weighing people."
Ye Ying didn't take it seriously: "I don't mind that this is a livestock scale. Come and weigh it for me. I'll buy some more bamboo shoots from you later."
This guy looks so neat and efficient, but he is not decisive at all when doing things!
People in this era are more concerned about human touch, so if she says this, she shouldn't be rejected, right?
"But..." The young man looked at Ye Ying in embarrassment and said, "Sister, considering your weight, I'm afraid my weight is not enough."
Ye Ying took a look and saw only a few 10kg, 20kg and one 50kg weights on the ground.
She didn't give up and added the total kilograms of the weights again, which was 220 kilograms.
"You're fooling me again. I counted the weights and they add up to 220 kilograms."
"220 pounds isn't enough. You look like you weigh more than that," the young man complained.
Ye Ying said firmly: "It's okay, just weigh it."
Seeing that she was determined to weigh it, the young man reluctantly began to put the weights on the large scale.
"206 pounds." The young man looked at the scale and reported a number.
"Nice." After Ye Ying knew her exact weight, she stepped down from the big scale and started picking bamboo shoots.
To express her gratitude, she bought five pounds of bamboo shoots.
When paying the bill, she also asked the young man when he would come next time and how often he would come here.
The young man looked at her warily: "What do you want to do?"
Ye Ying smiled slightly: "Of course I'm looking for you to buy bamboo shoots."
What a joke! She could have just said she was here to use the big scale to weigh herself? People who weigh themselves on the roadside have to pay a few cents.
When the young man heard Ye Ying say that she wanted to buy something, he felt relieved and was even happy that he had gained a regular customer.
"I come here about once every three to five days, but I don't necessarily sell bamboo shoots every time. Our team has everything, so maybe next time it will be something else."
"It's okay." Ye Ying said with a smile, "I will support you no matter what you sell."
The young man shook his head shyly: "Okay, thank you, sister."
Ye Ying bought some bamboo shoots and prepared to buy some meat and vegetables.
Braised pork is her specialty. She used to cook it as a treat for herself on weekends.
Ye Ying strolled around the Friendship Market, found a meat stall, and bought two pounds of meat.
But the boss said that the piece of meat had already been reserved and could not be sold to her.
There can’t be only this one meat stall in the Friendship Market.
But after Ye Ying looked around, she soon discovered that he was the only one selling meat!
At this moment, someone patted her shoulder from behind.
She is a slightly plump mother.
The aunt asked kindly, "Girl, you want to buy some meat, right?"
Ye Ying nodded.
Seeing this, the aunt came over mysteriously and said, "What a coincidence, me too! Come with me."
Ye Ying did not suspect anything and followed the old lady through twists and turns into an alley, arriving at a place called the Military Market.
"They sell everything here, and it's cheap, but sometimes people come up and chase the vendors away."
Ye Ying said "Oh" and suddenly realized, could this be the so-called "black market"?
"Then you go and look around for yourself first. Auntie is gone."
After the kind-hearted lady left, Ye Ying wandered around for a while by herself, saw many things that had become obsolete in the 21st century, and finally bought two kilograms of meat.
She didn’t know if it was good luck or something, but she had just bought meat from the Armed Forces Market, and the next moment someone came and rushed over these vendors.
Ye Ying didn't bring the "Kinkoi Good Luck" card when she went out today. She suddenly wanted to try it out to see if this card was metaphysical or really useful.
Then he went to play the ring again.
However, her luck seemed to be bad this time. She bought ten rings and only got two!
Maybe it really is of some use... I'll keep it with me from now on.
After being surprised, Ye Ying grabbed a human-powered three-wheeled vehicle and returned to the compound.
After returning home, Ji Lianqi had already brought back a complete set of pots, bowls, pans, and utensils and placed them in the shelf.
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