Shixi Village wakes up in the mist in the early morning. The hardworking people go to the fields to work as soon as the sun rises. The rice in the fields is growing well, green and tender.
A blue electric tricycle was traveling at a steady speed on the winding road through the fields. Su Ling and Li Dahai were sitting in the front, and eight baskets of loquats were placed in the back.
Yesterday afternoon, Su Ling picked ten baskets of loquats on the mountain, leaving two baskets at home and taking the rest to Liuxian Town to sell. This morning, he borrowed the electric scooter from Zhang Cuihua's house and rushed to Liuxian Town with Li Dahai.
Of course, he doesn't know how to drive an electric car, but Li Dahai does, so now Li Dahai is controlling the front of the car, and he sits next to him to enjoy the pastoral scenery.
"Brother Su, you are so honored." Li Dahai said with emotion.
"Huh?" Su Ling raised his hand to press down the straw hat on his head, puzzled.
"Sister Cuihua treasures this electric car very much. She usually doesn't lend it to anyone who comes, but she lent it to Brother Su as soon as he asked." Li Dahai stuck out his tongue.
Lidya Su touched his face and said innocently: "Maybe... I'm more handsome?"
"——Yeah, very handsome!" Li Dahai nodded heavily. He's even better looking than the stars on TV!
Su Ling smiled, adjusted his straw hat, and shifted his hips. Even though the old road leading out of the village had been filled and flattened, driving an electric bike on it still made his hips uncomfortable.
The new road is already being planned and constructed. It is more than enough to build a two-lane fourth-level highway from rural areas to towns. The construction of a road more than 1,000 meters long will take about two months. The old road will be demolished and restored to farmland.
Su Ling planned to wait until the road was built and then go to the city to buy a car to facilitate travel.
At 7:30, they arrived at Liuxian Town. Li Dahai walked to the largest vegetable market in the town as if he was familiar with the place and parked his electric car on the side of the road.
"Brother Su, we're here." He jumped out of the car.
Su Ling followed him down and watched as Li Dahai took a piece of plastic sheeting from the car and spread it on the ground. He then picked up a basket with both hands and placed it on the sheeting. Su Ling rolled up the sleeves of his tracksuit and helped him move. Soon, eight baskets were lined up and a hand scale was added, ready for sale.
Speaking of this handle scale, Su Ling found it in the corner of the kitchen. It was his first time using it, and he had no idea how many pounds and ounces the scale on the handle represented. Li Dahai taught him step by step for ten minutes, and he finally learned it.
Now is a good time to buy vegetables. The vegetable market is bustling with people and the outside is also bustling. Street vendors set up stalls along the curb one after another, selling all kinds of vegetables, fruits, fish, shrimps, etc. They are all middle-aged people in their forties and fifties, both men and women, all of them shouting in an experienced manner and greeting every passerby warmly.
In contrast, the two young men, Su Ling and Li Dahai, sandwiched between them, were extremely eye-catching. When Su Ling showed her pretty face under the straw hat, passers-by unconsciously stopped and came over to inquire about the price.
"Young man, how much are your loquats?" asked an old lady.
Su Ling said: "Fifteen yuan per pound."
He didn't know the market price of loquats, so he just casually set a price. Unexpectedly, the aunt not only didn't think it was expensive, but also picked one up to examine it.
“Is it sweet?”
"It's definitely sweet. How about you try one?" Su Ling said generously, "If it's not sweet, I won't charge you."
The aunt's eyes lit up, and she peeled the skin and said, "Then I'll try it!"
"Try it." Su Ling smiled slightly, and the old lady's heart was fluttering.
Oh my god! This little handsome boy looks so cute when he smiles!
The aunt peeled the loquat in a few seconds, stuffed it into her mouth, and made a "hmm" sound, not stopping to eat. "Delicious! Delicious! Give me two pounds!"
"Okay, please wait." Su Ling took out a plastic bag, and gently pinched the loquats with his slender fingers like white jade, putting them into the bag one by one. When it was almost full, he weighed it with a hand scale and said in a pleasant voice, "Two catties and two ounces, that's two catties. Take it, a total of thirty yuan."
The aunt has been buying vegetables for decades, but she has never seen a vendor who looks so pleasing to the eye. Not only does he not have the earthy smell of a country boy, but he also has an indescribable clean temperament.
She happily took the bag and pulled out her phone: "Do you have a WeChat scan card?"
"I came in a hurry and didn't have time to print. You can just scan my phone." Su Ling opened the payment function on WeChat on his phone.
The woman scanned it, entered thirty yuan, and then glanced at the diamond ring on his finger and was surprised. "Oh my god, is this a real diamond or a fake? How could a street vendor afford such a big one?" "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk," she thought. "But the ring is so beautiful, it fits this handsome guy's finger perfectly."
After the aunt paid, Su Ling took back the phone and said politely, "Thank you for your patronage."
The aunt enjoyed high-quality service and left with a smile on her face.
Li Dahai was stunned watching from the side. Brother Su actually made a business so quickly. Was this really his first time setting up a street stall?
Su Ling felt Li Dahai's strange look and asked him puzzledly, "What's wrong?"
"Uh... no, no." Li Dahai waved his hands with a red face.
As soon as one came, more and more people came to buy loquats. Su Ling handled it well, being polite to every customer. Some housewives unconsciously became coquettish and didn't even ask the price, just asking for three or five pounds. Li Dahai helped Su Ling, working non-stop. In about an hour, he sold six baskets of loquats.
The other vendors nearby looked at it with envy and hatred.
Where did this pretty boy come from? He actually attracted so many customers with just his face.
"Tsk, so cool!" muttered the short young man selling radishes nearby.
Su Ling turned a deaf ear to the sounds around him and played the role of a vendor with great interest. Setting up a street stall seemed quite interesting. When the vegetables in the fields were ripe, they would be transported to the town to be sold on the street.
Just as I was thinking happily, someone suddenly shouted: "The urban management is coming——"
All the street vendors quickly packed up their things and started running away.
"Brother Su! Hurry!" Li Dahai picked up the basket, stuffed it into the bucket of the electric car, and started the car nervously. Su Ling was a little dumbfounded. He didn't even have time to collect the money. He hurriedly picked up the other baskets and quickly jumped into the car. Li Dahai turned the car around and retreated with the main force.
"Beep, beep, beep--" The whistle of the urban management was chasing closely behind, and Li Dahai increased the horsepower and drove very fast.
Su Ling held on to the handrail and looked back, only to see that the slow vendors were stopped by the urban management.
"How is it? How is it? Have they caught up?" Li Dahai didn't dare to look back. He rushed forward, rushed into an alley, and slipped in flexibly.
"I think... he didn't catch up." Su Ling said.
Li Dahai let out a long sigh, slowed down, turned a corner, and slowly stopped the electric car.
"That was a close call! If I had run slower, I would have been done for." He nervously wiped the cold sweat from his face.
Su Ling took off his straw hat, fanned himself, and asked in a half-surprised and half-fresh tone, "Is setting up a street stall so exciting?"
As soon as the urban management arrived, all the vendors got wind of the situation and ran away faster than rabbits.
Li Dahai nodded seriously: "If you get caught, your belongings will be confiscated and you will be fined."
Su Ling sighed. The urban management was certainly right, but the vendors were also taking risks to make a living. It wasn't easy for anyone. Patting Li Dahai on the shoulder, he said, "Let's go back to the village."
"But... there are still two baskets." Li Dahai hesitated.
"It's not a big deal." Su Ling said. He was already very satisfied with having earned more than a thousand yuan in just a short while.
"Okay." Li Dahai responded and rode his electric bike out of the alley.
Su Ling put on his straw hat again, sat leisurely in the car, and admired the scenery along the road.
This was a busy street with a bank, a shopping mall, and a hotel. With so much traffic on the road, their electric bike had no choice but to pull over and drive slowly. As they passed a hotel, a passerby stopped them.
"Are you selling loquats? How much is one pound?"
Li Dahai braked quickly and stopped for a moment. "Sell, sell, fifteen yuan a pound."
The man picked up the loquats, looked at them, and said, "They're pretty big and fresh. They're cheaper, ten yuan a pound. I'll take them all."
"Huh?" Li Dahai was surprised. He wanted them all? Two baskets, a full 40 kilograms!
"What? You don't want to sell it?" the man asked.
"Sell it, of course." Su Ling answered, raising his smiling face, "But I don't know how to get it conveniently for you."
A trace of surprise flashed across the man's face. He stared at Su Ling for two or three seconds and blurted out: "Young man, are you interested in becoming a star?"
Su Ling looked at him suspiciously. He was a man in his thirties, with long, greasy hair, a beard, and jeans so washed out that they looked bleached. He didn't look like someone from the entertainment industry at all.
"No, thank you." He declined politely.
The man persisted in persuading her, "Being a star makes a lot more money than selling loquats! Are you really not considering it? My friend runs an entertainment company. I can introduce you to someone and you'll definitely get a contract!"
"Really." Su Ling pushed his straw hat down, covering half of his face. "I'm not short of money, I like my current life very much."
Seeing that he was indifferent, the man had to give up, took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Su Ling: "If you change your mind, you can contact me. My phone number is on it."
"Okay." Su Ling took it and casually put it in his pocket. "Do you want more loquats?"
"Of course. My car is in the parking lot of the Hyatt Hotel. Can you help me take it there?" The man pointed to a nearby hotel.
"Okay." Su Ling nodded and signaled Li Dahai to drive the electric car over.
The man's car was parked near the hotel gate. Unlike his cheap clothes, the car was actually a valuable SUV.
Su Ling took down the basket of loquats and stuffed it into the trunk.
"Give me the basket?" the man asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Do you have a container to hold so many loquats?" Su Ling asked back.
"No." The man took out some cash from his wallet, counted it, and handed it to him: "Five hundred yuan, is that enough?"
"Enough." Su Ling took it and prepared to leave with Li Dahai.
At this moment, a black Maranello drove in and stopped in front of the hotel gate. The man saw it and whistled.
"Wow! Two million Maralilidi, he's a rich man!"
Su Ling looked up involuntarily. When he saw the man coming out of the car, his pupils shrank and he was stunned.
He had a tall figure, handsome angular features, meticulously combed jet-black hair, and a natural aura of indifference. Although half of his body was blocked by the car, Su Ling could still recognize who he was at a glance.
Lin Feng!
How could he appear in Liuxian Town? !
The author has something to say: Overhead Overhead Overhead——
So, the brands and stuff are all made up!
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PS: Red envelopes will continue to drop in this chapter~
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