Li Yuqiu didn't hide anything from her sister. She said, "I recently started dating someone. I'll bring him back to you when things are settled."
My younger sister is twenty-two years old this year. She runs around doing business every day and meets a lot of people, so it's not surprising that she has a boyfriend. Li Yuzhu said, "When can you bring him home to meet me, sister?"
Li Yuqiu said, "Okay."
Suddenly, snowflakes began to fall outside the window. Li Yuqiu said, "I'm pretty lucky; it started snowing right after I finished selling my vegetables."
Li Yuzhu said, "What do you know? Vegetable prices will double when it snows during the Spring Festival."
Li Yuzhu said, "Really? I really don't know."
Li Yuqiu was a pampered young lady at home, never cooking or going to the market to buy groceries. How could she know what Li Yuzhu was talking about?
Li Yuzhu and her sister ran into the yard and looked up at the snowflakes dancing in the sky. Each snowflake was like a fluffy snowflake, as if it were a little snow maiden falling from the sky. It looked so beautiful.
The snowflakes landed on the sisters' faces, cool and refreshing. The moment the snow touched their skin, it seemed to melt into a cold tenderness. The sisters' moods at that moment were like snowflakes dancing in the air, the cold snowflakes and their beautiful feelings merging together.
Dongqing returned from outside and saw the two sisters standing in the snow in the rain. He said, "Are you two silly? Aren't you afraid of catching a cold standing in the snow?"
Li Yuqiu laughed and said, "My sister's not stupid, I'm going back."
Watching her younger sister return to the villa, Li Yuzhu smiled and said, "When will she ever grow up?"
Dong Qing said, "She'll only truly grow up when she gets married and starts her own family."
Li Yuzhu said, "I remember when I was little, every time it snowed heavily, just like today, my sister and I would stand in the snow and play, watching the snowflakes fall from the sky. Even when our hair was completely wet, we didn't feel cold. Only when I grew up did I realize how silly I was when I was little."
Back then, I was naive and only thought snowflakes were magical. Today, I feel snow in a completely different way; this snowy scene symbolizes the success of our sisters' careers.
Heavy snowfall can indeed stir up emotions; a good mood can lead to greater joy, while a bad mood can make things even worse.
Therefore, the natural environment is omnipotent; it can adapt to all kinds of people's moods, but it has no ability to change a person's bad mood.
A snowy day can boost the spirits of someone who is in a good mood, while the opposite can make them feel more depressed, and their low mood can fall like snowflakes.
Li Yuzhu said, "I'm very happy today. Don't you think walking in the snow is even more beautiful? Go for a walk with your wife."
Dong Qing nodded and followed his wife into the street.
The couple walked into the comprehensive department store wholesale market. On the 25th of the lunar year, merchants from other places gradually stopped coming here to purchase goods. These days, only locals were coming here to wholesale and retail.
Today is the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. Merchants from other places have all closed their shops and returned to their hometowns for the New Year. Only local merchants are here, guarding the market with only two days left until the end of the year. Even so, business is not as good as usual, and the entire wholesale market has lost its usual liveliness.
The two walked out of the wholesale market. The snow was falling heavier and heavier. The temperature was particularly low today, and the falling snowflakes quickly covered the ground.
Finally, the couple walked through the snow-covered road into the farmers' wholesale market. This place was completely different from the general merchandise wholesale market; it was even more bustling than usual. The heavy snow did not dampen people's enthusiasm for buying New Year's goods.
Business people are shrewd. As soon as it started snowing heavily outside, the price of vegetables in the greenhouses generally went up. Vegetables that cost one yuan per kilogram in the morning went up to two yuan per kilogram.
After looking around the farmers' market, Dong Qing and his wife noticed that all the vegetables had more than doubled in price. Li Yuzhu exclaimed, "Why are vegetable prices rising so fast?"
Dong Qing said, "When it snows, vegetables from other places can't get in, and local vegetables can't be harvested from the fields, so naturally the price will go up."
Li Yuzhu said, "We still have dozens of acres of chives and celery in our greenhouses. Can we sell all the chives during this heavy snow? Otherwise, these vegetables will grow until next year."
Li Yuzhu's father, who is 28 years old, still has a lot of celery and chives grown in greenhouses that he hasn't sold wholesale.
Dong Qing said, "Are you coming with me?"
Dongqing took his wife to check the price of chives under the sales shed. Chives that were one yuan per jin in the morning had grown to two yuan and two jiao per jin, and celery that was 8 mao per jin in the morning had grown to two yuan per jin.
Dongqing took his wife into the broadcasting room and asked the staff to broadcast a message about selling vegetables.
Good afternoon, citizens. There are dozens of acres of chives and celery in the vegetable greenhouses on the left side of the department store wholesale market. Go there and cut as many chives as you want, or pick as many celery stalks as you want. Buy one pound, get one pound free.
Of course, his advertisement offended the vendors selling chives and celery, but doing business is all about competition. He couldn't say anything even if he felt uncomfortable, and it wasn't exactly honorable for them to raise prices arbitrarily during the heavy snow.
The vendors' chives are all brought back from other places, and because it's too cold, they're not particularly fresh. Chives that are cut directly from the greenhouse are fresh, and since it's not far from here, everyone would be willing to go and buy them if they offered a buy-one-get-one-free deal.
Dong Qing had his staff post a notice at the gate advertising the sale of chives and celery, and then he and his wife walked toward the vegetable garden.
There are many greenhouses growing chives and celery here. Most of the vegetables in these greenhouses have been sold out, leaving only three greenhouses with vegetables.
At this time, many people came to buy groceries along with them.
With so many people, two people simply couldn't handle it all. Li Yuzhu called her sister and asked her to come over with their father and scales immediately to help.
Next, I called Chen Hong and asked him and his wife to bring the restaurant's scales over to help.
After finishing the phone call, Li Yuzhu said, "I didn't expect so many people to come. You go to the celery greenhouse, and I'll go to the leek greenhouse. Let the customers pick the celery first. Chen Hong and his wife will come over with the scales to help you in a bit."
After Li Yuzhu finished speaking, Dong Qing turned and walked towards the celery greenhouse, while Li Yuzhu turned and walked into a leek greenhouse.
The chives in the greenhouse are growing very well. If it weren't for this snow, they probably would have grown until next year, and we wouldn't have been able to sell them all before the new year.
Inside the greenhouse, there were plenty of sickles. Li Yuzhu said, "Let me announce the rules for harvesting chives. The chives here are all growing very well; there are no good or bad ones. When you go to harvest, you must harvest them all. If there are any chives you don't want, you can leave them. Weigh the good ones and take them away. Put the bad ones in one place. Don't throw them around; keep them neat."
Li Yuzhu's announcement was not superfluous. People make this mistake: no matter how good something is, someone will pick it up. If you don't leave the inferior chives in the ground or cut them and throw them around, they will be trampled on.
These people are indeed disciplined; they arranged the unexpectedly large pile of chives very neatly.
Soon, help arrived. Su Wei and her husband went to the celery greenhouse to help Dong Qing, while her father and sister took a scale into the leek greenhouse.
The father watched over the vegetable garden to prevent them from cutting the vegetables indiscriminately. Li Yuzhu stood at the entrance of the greenhouse to weigh the vegetables, while Li Yuqiu collected the money.
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