Chapter 12 Mu'er looks pretty good, but her eyes are a little small. ...
After the snow, Yan Xue heard a lot about Grandpa Wang, who even bullied children.
His family lived not far from the Liu family. Sometimes when Grandpa Liu hunted more prey, he would share some with their family, so Liu Daniu's wife asked him for help.
But this person obviously doesn't just eat and do nothing, he will also cheat you at the critical moment, which is quite rare.
Moreover, after hearing what happened, Liu Daniu's wife was angry, but she couldn't really go to the elder's house to argue with him. Unexpectedly, the elder started to argue with her first. As soon as he returned, he cursed Liu Chuncai and Yan Xue for being inhuman and trying to steal his business. It was a true example of what it means to be the wicked first to complain.
When the news reached the ears of the Liu family, Liu Daniu's wife was almost angry to death. Later, when she met the Wang family outside, she never had a good face.
At this moment, the two met on the train. The other party was obviously going to the town to sell things again. Yan Xue kept a smile on her face and remained calm.
Old man Wang also recognized Yan Xue. He snorted coldly and sat down. When he put the backpack at his feet, he almost made a hole in the ground.
As soon as the flight was over, the flight attendant came and said, "There will be a lot of people at the end of the year. You can put your things on the shelves or under the seats." He saw the old man's backpack at a glance.
Old man Wang could only pick up the backpack and put it on the shelf. The flight attendant pointed to the sacks on the ground and said, "Whose are these? Take them too."
It was impossible to put such a heavy thing upstairs, so Yan Xue simply laid the sack down and stuffed it under the seat.
The flight attendant said nothing more, reminding people to be careful with their belongings and left. However, Old Man Wang's eyes fell on the two sacks. "Are these pine nuts?"
Yan Xue just smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't steal your business."
"You have to have that ability." The old man snorted, with a sour face, and said nothing.
There were indeed a lot of people at the end of the year. The train had only gone through two stations when even the aisles were full of people. The chirping of poultry could be heard from time to time in the carriage, making it like a mini market.
When Yan Xue got out of the car, she took a lot of effort to move the two sacks onto the sled and dragged them to the door of the car. Moving them down became another problem.
Seeing this, the flight attendant quickly helped her pick one up.
Yan Xue thanked him and was about to turn around to get the second item when Old Man Wang and a young man had already taken the items down. "Can you hurry up? Everyone's waiting to get off the bus. How are they going to get through if you're blocking their way?"
With a very bad tone, he got off the sled, threw the sack onto the sled, and walked away carrying the basket on his back.
This made the young man feel a little embarrassed. Yan Xue smiled at him and said, "Thank you." After the man left, she dragged the sled to the corner and checked it carefully.
She didn't believe that Old Man Wang would be so kind. Even if he thought she was too slow and wasting time, he might not lend a hand given his style. It was more like him to stand in the car and urge her loudly and curse.
Sure enough, she found the problem. When Old Man Wang and the young man took down the sack, one of the corners was torn.
The cut was about an inch long, neatly cut, as if it had been cut by something. If she hadn't checked and just dragged it along, the pine nuts inside would have definitely spilled out, but since the cut wasn't big and didn't spill quickly, it would have been hard to notice for a while.
Do you think she is really a little girl who knows nothing and can be dealt with however you want?
Yan Xue almost laughed out of anger.
In her previous life, when she was working in the market, she had seen all kinds of inferior tricks. She tied a knot at the torn corner of the sack and went to the purchasing station as usual.
There was a sign in front of the purchasing station, listing what items were being bought and how much they were being sold for. Yan Xue took a look and found that the most valuable items were various furs and medicinal herbs like ginseng, deer antlers, bear gallbladders, and gastrodia elata.
Pine nuts were much cheaper, at 35 cents per pound. But since there were so many of them, she still made a net profit of over 40 yuan after selling two bags.
This is almost as much as Qi Fang's monthly salary, and it's just her share. No wonder Li Shuwu worked so hard to do his side job and eventually harmed Guo Changan.
Yan Xue put the money away, folded the empty sack and tied it to the sled, then turned and went to the supply and marketing cooperative.
This time she decisively bought herself a pair of cotton ula, and then bought the cloth and cotton for making clothes and luggage.
She skipped things like towels, washbasins, and thermoses that could be bought at the forest farm store. After calculating the remaining items, she decided to spend 250 yuan to buy two watches.
She didn't know how to use a sewing machine, the popular "three turns and one ring" thing, and she didn't need a bicycle at the forest farm. The radio had no power during the day. A small table clock was cheap for telling time, only a few dozen yuan, but since she and "Qi Fang" both worked outside, their time at home was limited, so a watch was more practical.
She kept the watch close to her body and put the other things into a sack and tied it to the sled. Then Yan Xue walked towards the small market to see if there was anything she could buy for the wedding banquet.
As soon as she entered, she ran into Old Man Wang, but this time he was selling black fungus instead of frozen mushrooms.
Standing in front of the other stall was a young man, in his early twenties, of medium height, also wearing the oversized blue-gray uniform of a forest farm. He looked good, but his eyes were a little small and puffy, which seriously lowered his appearance and made him look a little silly.
The young man squatted there and studied it for a long time, but couldn't figure out what it was. He actually asked Old Man Wang if he could buy it as a gift for someone else.
It's obvious that this person has been recruited in the forest farm for only a few years and doesn't know anything. The old hands don't even need to come out to buy wood ear mushrooms, but they can find a way to get it themselves.
The old man immediately picked up the scale enthusiastically, "You'd better buy this as a gift. These are the best spring ears. The flesh is thick and tender, and they yield a lot after soaking. Unlike those autumn ears, you won't get much after soaking a handful, and they are not suitable for eating yourself."
Without waiting for the other party to decide whether to buy or not, he weighed half of the scale and said, "Do you think this is enough? One catty and six ounces."
The young man was obviously not good at speaking. He didn't even think of refusing. After struggling for a long time, he could only say, "One pound is fine."
"One pound is not enough? It won't look good if you buy too little as a gift."
Old man Wang didn't listen at all. He took the newspaper and was about to wrap it for him. Just as he was about to pour it out, a small white hand reached out and grabbed a handful from the tilted mouth of the scale.
Following the other person's movements, I saw a familiar petite figure.
Yan Xue picked up the wood ear mushrooms in her hand and asked with a smile, "You said this is spring ear?" Her expression was teasing, as if to say, I think you are quite good at making up stories.
Old Man Wang's heart sank immediately, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was completely unnecessary.
The young man, a forestry worker, didn't even know how to pick fungus. What could a little girl from another place know? Didn't she just find out that the sack was torn and deliberately pick a fight with him?
He was not afraid of this. She had no evidence and could just say that he did it, and he could also say that she was slandering him.
The old man glanced sideways and said, "If this isn't Chun'er, could it be Qiu'er?"
As he spoke, he handed the scale to Yan Xue and asked her to put it back. "If you want to buy it, wait a moment. If you don't want to buy it, forget it. This one has been weighed by others, so just reach out and grab it."
"I'm fine. You can weigh this female comrade first." The young man was in a very good mood and didn't notice the undercurrent between the two at all.
Yan Xue didn't put the fungus back, but looked at it carefully, "Why don't I look like Chun Er?"
"Are you here to cause trouble?" Old Man Wang threw the scale back into the bag.
The old man's loud voice immediately attracted the attention of people nearby. Because he was an old man, his suspicious gazes fell on the two young men.
The young man was obviously not used to such stares, so he lowered his voice to smooth things over, "If you have something to say, talk about it nicely. Let's talk it over nicely."
"Is it because I didn't speak nicely? She's the one looking for trouble!" When someone tried to smooth things over, Old Man Wang's voice became even louder. "What's the matter? Do you think I'm easy to bully?"
"Maybe this lesbian doesn't quite understand..."
The young man tried to explain for Yan Xue, but Yan Xue just smiled. "I was just asking, why are you so anxious? Could it be that I'm right?"
"Stop the fucking fart!" the old man started swearing.
Yan Xue didn't interrupt him, letting him vent his spitting mouthful of saliva before she faded her smile. "Spring fungus is the fungus that grows before the beginning of the dog days. It has large flowers, thick flesh, a gray-black color, and a high rate of expansion when it absorbs water. Unlike summer fungus, which has thin flesh, and autumn fungus, which is small and has a low rate of expansion when it absorbs water. Am I right?"
Old Man Wang didn't expect that she really understood. He was choked for a moment and managed to say, "So what?"
"You should also know that of the three types of wood ear mushrooms, spring wood ear mushrooms are of the best quality. They pick the large ones and leave the small ones, allowing the immature buds to continue growing. Only winter wood ear mushrooms and autumn wood ear mushrooms are picked with both the large and small ones."
Yan Xue may not know other things, but in her previous life, she had to make money and take care of her father, so she had limited time and could only open an online store, selling mountain products such as honey, fungus, and ginseng.
Because she was more familiar with the place, she asked her great aunt to help her find a partner and traveled thousands of miles to this cold outside the Great Wall.
Yan Xue looked at the old man and saw that he had something to say, so she continued, "I'll assume you're too lazy to go again. I'll pick both the big and small ones. Your fungus is a little too dark."
She spread out her palms, and saw several wood ears of different sizes and dark black in color. Judging from what she had just said, they did not look like spring ears.
Not to mention the young man who almost bought it just now, some of the people watching nearby ignored Old Man Wang's ugly face, pretended to buy it, grabbed a handful and took a closer look.
Yan Xue put the fungus in her hand back and said, "The color doesn't look like spring fungus, and the size doesn't look like autumn fungus. Are these the worst quality winter fungus? You're selling winter fungus as spring fungus at a high price. I dare not buy it."
After saying that, he picked up the sled and left without caring about the reactions of the people around him.
She did not have any evidence regarding the sack, but she did not necessarily need to ask for an explanation from the other party. After all, it was the other party who was eager to hand over the pigtail to her.
She didn't call those people to watch, so whether they would be talked about or whether it would affect the business was naturally none of her business.
Yan Xue had sharp eyes and had already seen someone selling wild boar meat not far away, so she quickly quickened her pace and squeezed in.
In terms of fragrance, wild boars are definitely not as good as domestic pigs, especially their lean meat, which has a particularly rough texture.
But this stuff didn't require meat coupons, wasn't limited in quantity, and wasn't expensive. The fat could even be taken back to be pressed for oil. Yan Xue asked and found out it was only 60 cents a pound, so she bought over 20 pounds and put them on the sled.
There was nothing left, so Yan Xue strolled around until the afternoon and then returned to the Sen Railway Station to take the train back.
When she got on the car, she couldn't help but think of the ice skates worn by the little girl who came to look for someone when Dan Qiufang sent her there that day, and she thought of Liu Chuncai too.
Afterwards, she asked "Qi Fang" and heard that the reason why the Liu family's children did not go ice skating was because Liu Chuncai had a second brother who fell into an ice hole and died while skating.
There were many ice holes for fishing on the main branch, and unlike the small holes used for fishing, it was easy to fall in. It was a relief for Shan Qiufang's Daqiang, who was rescued in time, but Liu Chuncai's second brother died within half a day of being rescued. Of course, the Liu family didn't dare let their children go ice skating anymore.
Not just the Liu family, after this incident, every family watched their children more closely than before. Children were not allowed to go skating or sledding near ice holes, or in the spring when the river was about to thaw.
But if you want to skate, you don’t necessarily have to go on the ice...
It would take more than an hour to get back anyway, so Yan Xue took out the notebook where she wrote the shopping list yesterday, put it on her lap and started to mark it out. She hesitated when she didn't notice someone passing by, and finally stopped in the aisle next to her.
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