Her new best friend is really something else.
"Then I... will accept it?"
"Collect, collect, collect; let's go, ...."
Aunt Zhong carefully placed the gifts in the room, and then happily went with Liang Guiying to Longxin Village on the outskirts of the city.
The village is small and looks quite dilapidated from the outside. There are people guarding the entrance, and many bicycles and tricycles are parked under the trees nearby.
As soon as Aunt Zhong got out of the car, she greeted the people waiting at the village entrance: "Uncle Li, good morning!"
Uncle Li responded with a smile, but when he saw that Liang Guiying was an unfamiliar face, his smile vanished, and he gripped the whistle hanging around his neck: "Aunt Zhong, who is this?"
“My old friend Liang Guiying lives in the same place as me. This is her first time visiting. You’ll recognize her after she comes a few more times.”
Once inside the village, Aunt Zhong explained to Liang Guiying, "The black market in Gaowang Village was shut down the next day because someone let a stranger into the village. All the vendors were arrested and detained for five or six days. Uncle Li was just being cautious."
"clear."
Longxin Village is not a large village, but its market is quite big. It is located at the very back of the village, and there is a bamboo forest in front of the market. There are lookouts around the market, and each lookout stares intently at Liang Guiying, a stranger.
Liang Guiying remained expressionless, pretending not to know anything.
There were five or six stalls selling pork, with queues in front of each stall. There were also five or six stalls selling chickens and ducks, slaughtering them while keeping an eye on the situation. Other items that required ration coupons were also available for sale here.
While taking a moment to greet acquaintances, Aunt Zhong introduced to Liang Guiying, "We're late today. This place is packed with people in the morning. At its peak, there were at least twenty pork stalls alone, and all the meat would be sold out before noon."
"Where did those butchers find the live pigs?"
“They must have connections in the nearby villages,” Aunt Zhong said, leading her around. “What did you come here to buy again?”
"Let's buy whatever's available; we came out too late today."
Sure enough, when it was Liang Guiying's turn, there was only a piece of pork rib and about half a pound of pork left. The presentation wasn't very good, but Liang Guiying bought it all and chatted with the owner for a few minutes.
The boss was cautious. Since she was a stranger, he told her things that everyone already knew. Liang Guiying didn't mind. They got to know each other after a while, and that's how relationships develop, isn't it?
Liang Guiying went three times in a row, and eventually became a familiar face to the boss.
The boss was tight-lipped, but Liang Guiying "inadvertently" let slip a lot of unimportant information, such as the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dispute, thus portraying herself as a village woman with little knowledge and brains.
"Boss Zhang, I'm going back to the village tomorrow. I don't know when I'll be able to patronize you again," Liang Guiying said with a smile.
"You've only been here a few days, why are you going back already?"
“I can’t not go back. I have a few pigs at home that are almost ready to be sold. The meat processing plant said they would come to the village to buy them in the next few days, but my family is old, sick, and the young are timid and not good at talking. If I don’t go back, they will definitely try to lower the price.”
My parents' medicine money comes from these pigs. If the price is lowered, even by a single cent, they might not survive.
Liang Guiying looked around and, seeing that no one was paying attention, whispered to Boss Zhang, "If I weren't so timid and afraid of getting caught, I'd really like to slaughter myself and sell the pork. Boss Zhang, do you think it would be possible for me to sell pork here too?"
Hearing the word "pig," Boss Zhang didn't react much, but when he heard Liang Guiying's mutterings, his mind suddenly stirred.
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