Because vegetables can't be kept for long, Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu quickly picked the fully ripe tomatoes and cucumbers from the vegetable garden. These tomatoes were all round and plump, bright red and round, and looked very delicious. After picking them, Lu Qingjiu planned to take Uncle Chen's car to town tomorrow to sell the vegetables and also take Zhu Miaomiao home.
Zhu Miaomiao's four-day holiday is over, and it's time to go back to the city to work. Although she is reluctant to leave, she can't give up her job. After all, she can't give up everything like Lu Qingjiu and return to this remote mountain village.
It was Lu Qingjiu's first time selling vegetables and he had no experience, so he brought Yin Xun along and left Bai Yuehu alone to look after the house.
Yin Xun hadn't been in a good mood these past few days, seemingly frightened on the mountain. Lu Qingjiu had even jokingly suggested hiring a fortune-teller to perform a ritual for Yin Xun, but Yin Xun waved his hand, saying that a fortune-teller with hair was no longer the same fortune-teller she once was...
Lu Qingjiu: "...What does this have to do with her hair?"
"Once you have hair, you have worldly thoughts, so the magic will definitely not be as effective as before." Yin Xun said.
Lu Qingjiu looked at Yin Xun suspiciously: "Really?"
"That's fake." Yin Xun said sadly, "To be honest, I went to see her yesterday, and her family said she'd remarried and wouldn't work in this line of work anymore."
Lu Qingjiu: “…”
"So it's all the fault of the well behind your house." Yin Xun felt very aggrieved.
Lu Qingjiu didn't know what to say. He reached out and patted Yin Xun on the head, then stuffed a cucumber into his mouth. Yin Xun wanted to say something else, but the cucumber in his mouth seemed to taste good, so he shut up and chewed the cucumber obediently.
When they arrived in town, Lu Qingjiu first sent Zhu Miaomiao to the train station.
Zhu Miaomiao was reluctant to leave Lu Qingjiu. She held his hand and cried for a long time before reluctantly getting on the train. Yin Xun pretended to be a plastic stool next to him. After Zhu Miaomiao left, he whispered, "Qingjiu, is this girl interested in you?"
Lu Qingjiu glanced at him and said nothing.
"If this doesn't interest you, why would I come all the way here to see you?" Yin Xun said.
Lu Qingjiu said, "Look, don't I sometimes come all the way to see you?"
Yin Xun said shamelessly: "Oh, then you might be interested in me too."
Lu Qingjiu looked at Yin Xun with pity: "Don't think too much, I just regard myself as an irresponsible father who occasionally comes back to visit the left-behind children in my home."
Yin Xun: “…”
After sending Zhu Miaomiao away, Lu Qingjiu took her left-behind children to the vegetable market.
The morning market had already passed and there were fewer people buying vegetables. The two found a stall on the roadside, covered it with oil paper, placed their own vegetables on it and prepared to start selling.
Yin Xun had just gone to ask the price of tomatoes at the stall next door, and when he came back, he asked Lu Qingjiu to sell them for three yuan per catty. Lu Qingjiu was a little surprised when he heard it: "Three yuan per catty? Is anyone going to buy it at such a high price?"
Yin Xun said, "I've tasted your tomatoes. They're delicious and can be eaten as fruit. Although three yuan a pound is a bit expensive, there are always people who buy them."
Lu Qingjiu asked, “How much is one pound next door?”
Yin Xun: "One dollar and fifty cents."
Lu Qingjiu: “…” He always felt a little uncertain.
However, Yin Xun was obviously much more experienced than Lu Qingjiu. He opened a tomato and placed it next to him. After a while, an old lady came to ask the price. When she heard three yuan a pound, she smacked her lips and said, "These tomatoes are grown from gold. Three yuan a pound?"
"Try it first." Yin Xun handed over a piece.
The old lady tasted a piece and seemed to think it tasted quite good. She tried to bargain with Yin Xun for a lower price, but Yin Xun insisted on the three yuan per pound and refused to budge. "Auntie, it's not that I don't want to give you a discount, but this is the price we get when we come in. These are grown by farmers for their own consumption. They only sell some when they have a lot. You can taste this tomato too. It tastes different from the others. It's pesticide-free and very safe and healthy."
Lu Qingjiu was a bit surprised to see Yin Xun so eloquent for the first time, but he didn't say anything and just stood there as a background figure until the old lady finally bought two kilograms under Yin Xun's persuasion. With this start, business gradually picked up.
Some people turned around and left when they heard the price was three yuan per catty, but most people who tasted the tomatoes would buy some. Soon, the several sacks of tomatoes they brought were almost sold out. Lu Qingjiu did not expect that they would be so popular. They brought two hundred kilograms of tomatoes and made a total profit of six hundred yuan after selling them.
Lu Qingjiu originally wanted to give Yin Xun some money, but Yin Xun refused, saying that he ate and drank at Lu Qingjiu's house every day and had not yet paid Lu Qingjiu, so it would be better to buy more meat with the money.
Lu Qingjiu thought it made sense, so when he returned home, he went to the butcher shop next door and bought a piece of pork and a few pounds of beef, and brought them all home.
Of course, Lu Qingjiu did not forget to give a red envelope to Uncle Chen who sent them to the town. In fact, he was thinking about whether to buy a small truck for himself, but there were not many things that needed to be transported at the moment, so this was just an idea.
After returning home with the meat, Lu Qingjiu saw Bai Yuehu sitting in the yard with his head raised, as if looking at something in the sky. When he heard that he had returned, he said, "Are you back?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "I'm back and bought you a lot of meat."
Bai Yuehu asked, "Do you want a mount?"
Lu Qingjiu was stunned when he heard this: "What do you mean? Mount? Car?"
Bai Yuehu blinked and agreed with Lu Qingjiu: “Yes, car.”
Lu Qingjiu said, "I was just discussing with Yin Xun whether to buy a small truck, but it seems that we don't go to town very often. Is it necessary?"
Bai Yuehu said, "I..." He said the word "I" and paused for a moment, as if looking for a more appropriate way to say it. "My friend gave me a... car. I don't like it. You can use it."
A car? Lu Qingjiu thought Bai Yuehu's statement was a bit strange, but he didn't pay much attention to it. He asked, "What car?"
Bai Yuehu said, "I don't know. What kind of car do you want? Show me a picture."
Lu Qingjiu frowned, walked to Bai Yuehu, and asked in a low voice: "Is that really a car? It's not something strange?"
Bai Yuehu's black eyes looked at Lu Qingjiu very innocently: "No way."
Lu Qingjiu: “…” Why did you add the word “bar”?
Bai Yuehu asked, "Do you want it?"
Lu Qingjiu said very cautiously: "Let me take a look first."
Bai Yuehu sighed slightly: "Okay."
Dinner consisted of sweet and sour spare ribs and beef with chili peppers. Lu Qingjiu had always loved sweet and sour spare ribs and often made them at home, making them a specialty. This time, he had a perfect match, with just the right amount of sweetness and saltiness. The spare ribs were tender and not too dry, and each bite was filled with juicy juices. The beef with chili peppers was also very tender. The chili peppers were freshly picked from the fields, so they were incredibly fresh and spicy, making them a perfect match for the tender beef.
After dinner, Bai Yuehu washed the dishes but unexpectedly did not go to bed. Instead, he ran to the computer at home and surfed the Internet for a while.
He seldom used these electronic products, neither watched TV nor had a mobile phone, so Lu Qingjiu was a little curious about what he was doing.
Yin Xun made a bet with Lu Qingjiu, saying that Bai Yuehu must have gone to watch a pornographic movie.
Lu Qingjiu said, “What nonsense are you talking about…” Bai Yuehu is a fox. If he wants to watch porn, he has to open the animal world.
Yin Xun said, "How about we wait until he leaves and then check his browsing history?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "This is not good, this is someone's privacy."
Yin Xun said, "Oh, just satisfy my curiosity. Look at him, he's always acting like an immortal. It's his first time using a computer, aren't you curious about what an immortal can do with it?"
To be honest, Lu Qingjiu was also quite curious, so at Yin Xun's instigation, the two of them did something bad. They opened the browser and took a look at what Bai Yuehu had just read.
But I was disappointed when I saw it. It was full of browsing records of some car forums. There was neither pornographic films nor animal world.
"Why is he looking at cars?" Yin Xun scratched his head curiously. "Is he planning to buy a car?"
Lu Qingjiu fell silent. He thought of Bai Yuehu and his mount... oh no, it was the car. Considering the browsing history in front of him, he had a bad premonition.
"What's wrong with you, Qingjiu?" Yin Xun noticed Lu Qingjiu's unusual expression.
Lu Qingjiu shook his head, indicating that he was fine.
Afterward, Yin Xun went home. Lu Qingjiu turned off his computer and climbed into his bed. He turned on his phone and saw Zhu Miaomiao showing off her beautiful hair on WeChat Moments. Most of the comments below were asking where she had the hair transplants done and why the results were so good. Thinking of the well in his backyard, Lu Qingjiu smiled helplessly. He had never imagined that a female ghost, originally associated with a curse, could actually have such an effect...
As he watched, Lu Qingjiu fell asleep. He thought the matter was over until one morning a few days later, when he was awakened from his bed by a shrill scream.
The author has something to say: Bai Yuehu fell into deep thought as he looked at the animal world.
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