Su Wei stood up and said with a smile, "You're being too polite. You've helped your sister-in-law a lot. It's getting late, let's go back."
Li Yuzhu picked up some chives and celery from the ground and handed them to Chen Hong, saying, "Take these back to eat during the Spring Festival."
Chen Hong accepted the food, said thank you, and walked out of the restaurant with his wife.
Dongqing and his wife escorted the couple to the restaurant entrance. Dongqing said, "The road is too slippery, walk slowly."
Su Wei said thank you and took her husband's arm as they walked home.
After Chen Hong and his wife left, Dong Qing and his wife took the bowls, plates, and spoons from the dining table into the kitchen, then washed and arranged them.
The two fires in the restaurant couldn't be extinguished yet, so the father used coal to seal them off.
My father would sleep at the restaurant every night to watch over the shop.
With such heavy snow outside, they can't go back to the city tonight; they'll have to stay at the mother's house.
Dong Qing and his wife, along with his sister-in-law, walked out of the restaurant and headed towards the villa through the heavy snow.
Back at the villa, the three children were already asleep. Their mother was sitting in the living room watching TV, probably waiting for them to come back, otherwise she would have gone to bed long ago in this cold weather.
The mother asked, "How many vegetables have you sold so far?"
Li Yuzhu said with a smile, "I really didn't expect the snow cabbage to sell out so quickly. In just half a day, we sold two large greenhouses of chives and celery."
The mother was overjoyed to hear this. In her mind, the chives and celery would definitely not sell out before the New Year. She smiled and said, "Really?"
Li Yuqiu said, "Of course, we'll sell all the remaining vegetables from the three greenhouses tomorrow."
The happiest person was Dong Qing. These past few days, the vegetables in several greenhouses had been a real worry for him. After the New Year, the greenhouses would be demolished to build the second phase of the comprehensive wholesale market. Vegetables would be very late after the New Year, and with so many vegetables unsold, how could the greenhouses be demolished?
Unexpectedly, a heavy snowfall solved everything. When one's luck turns around, even a wide road can be found through thickets of thorns.
Mother said, "It's getting late, you should all go upstairs to sleep."
After listening to her mother's words, Li Yuzhu went upstairs with her husband.
They went back to their bedroom, took off their clothes, and went to bed.
The next morning, Dongqing got out of bed and went to the window. He reached out and pulled back the curtains to look outside. It was still snowing heavily, and the snow seemed to have no end in sight.
Li Yuzhu got dressed and got out of bed. Her children always slept with their maternal grandmother at night, and both of them could get a good night's sleep.
The couple went downstairs, and the father returned from the restaurant. Li Yuqiu and her younger brother also came downstairs.
My mother had already prepared breakfast. She said, "Please sit down and eat."
The family sat down to eat breakfast. Just as they finished, Chen Hong called to ask if they had gone to the vegetable shed. Dong Qing said, "You guys go ahead, we'll be there right away."
Dong Qing, Li Yuzhu, and their daughter walked out of the villa together. Li Yufei, the younger brother, said, "I'll go help too."
Li Yuzhu said, "You don't need to. You stay home and study."
As they walked into the vegetable garden, Chen Hong and his wife arrived as well.
By this time, many vegetable vendors had already come to buy wholesale.
Vegetable vendors are all shrewd; regardless of whether their leeks and celery can be sold or not, they still come to buy vegetables wholesale.
In their view, the cooked vegetables in Dongqing's greenhouses could be sold out by the morning. With such heavy snow, vegetables from other places couldn't be brought in, so they could raise prices in the afternoon. That was the reason they dared to come and buy vegetables. They could make money no matter how they sold the chives, which were only 50 cents a pound.
There are two greenhouses left for chives. There is only one greenhouse left for celery. Li Yuzhu wants to keep the two greenhouses of chives and celery to sell herself, which will double her earnings. In this weather, the vegetables from both greenhouses can be sold out by noon no matter how hard she tries.
Li Yuzhu said, "Since you've come, I can't let you go back empty-handed. There's only one shed of chives, and I won't raise the price for you. It's 50 cents a pound, based on yesterday morning's wholesale price."
However, there are plenty of sickles in the greenhouse. You can harvest the chives yourselves. I'm telling you upfront, anyone who doesn't harvest all the chives at once will get one yuan per pound.
Wholesale and retail are different; they are absolutely not allowed to keep the inferior chives.
They led the vendors into the leek greenhouse, where several vendors took sickles and began cutting the leeks.
Li Yuzhu asked her father to watch them weigh the items.
Celery was relatively easy to sell, while Li Yuqiu and Chen Hong were in charge of selling chives, as were Dong Qing and his wife, along with Su Wei.
Just after 8:30, shoppers arrived. Yesterday, the shoppers helped promote Dongqing voluntarily, and today there were even more shoppers.
Just like yesterday, whoever cuts the chives keeps them, and those who don't want them are cut and put together.
The vegetables in both greenhouses were sold out before noon. It was more like they were snatched up. Some people stood there without sickles, not letting others cut their chives. Once they found a sickle, they immediately cut the chives and weighed them.
All three sheds of vegetables were sold out before noon, and the vegetables picked out yesterday and today were also snapped up. Vegetables sell well no matter how cheap they are.
At the farmers' wholesale market, chives and celery were still selling for 2.2 yuan per jin in the morning, but of course, not a single jin was sold. They were waiting for Dongqing; once he sold out of his chives and celery, business would naturally come. They were just sitting and waiting to catch fish.
As soon as the chives and celery from Dongqing were sold out, business started here. However, the chives were not 2.2 yuan per jin, but 2.5 yuan per jin, and the celery was 2.3 yuan per jin. Even so, many people still bought them, just in smaller quantities. Today is the 29th of the lunar year, and people always need to buy some vegetables for the Spring Festival.
Vegetable prices are like this even with heavy snow during the Spring Festival. If you know the merchants are ripping you off, no one will buy your vegetables.
After selling all the vegetables, I kept some celery and chives for myself to eat during the Chinese New Year.
Several people carried the vegetables they had left behind out of the vegetable shed and walked towards the restaurant through the snow.
After lunch, Su Wei and her husband took some chives and celery home.
Today is the 29th of the lunar year. Li Yuzhu and her husband, having not yet bought anything for the New Year, pushed their tricycle and walked with her sister to the farmers' market.
During the Spring Festival, there are a lot of people on the road. The loose snow on the road has been trampled down by people. It is not very difficult to push a tricycle on the road, but it is very slippery and you can easily fall.
Dongqing pushed the tricycle in front, while the two sisters held onto it from behind, making it less likely for them to fall while walking.
They went into the farmers' market and found that, apart from the sharp rise in vegetable prices, meat prices were about the same as yesterday morning, because they had already bought back the pigs, cattle, and sheep before the snowfall, and the sales volume of a city is only so large.
The sales models for meat and vegetables are different. Vegetables are sold by transporting them from other places to their homes. If they can't be transported back from other places, there won't be enough vegetables, and naturally, the price will rise.
Having learned from last year's experience, Li Yuzhu didn't let her mother buy any New Year's goods this year. Li Yuqiu herself can't cook, and she's an idiot when it comes to buying New Year's goods.
Li Yuzhu first helped her younger sister pack all the New Year's goods onto the tricycle, and then packed all the New Year's goods for her own family onto the tricycle as well.
Back at the villa, Li Yuzhu helped her sister carry the New Year's goods she had bought into the villa.
Dongqing packed his family's New Year's goods in the trunk of his car.
It was getting late, so Dongqing added a kettle of hot water to the car, and Li Yuzhu carried her three children into the car.
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