Chapter 40: Setting up a stall in the puppet market, opening with great success
Liu Pingyuan took out a pack of crumpled Dadao brand cigarettes from his pocket, took out a cigarette and handed it to Gu Jiajie who was standing beside him with an anxious look.
"Have one. I think your cousin is a man of her own ideas. Don't be anxious and wait."
Gu Jiajie took the cigarette from his hand, and the latter used a match to light the cigarette in his own mouth, and then brought the light to Gu Jiajie's mouth.
The two men stood in front of the bicycle, smoking and waiting for Gu Jin.
It was already early morning, and there were obviously a lot more people in Kui City.
The location of Gu Jiajie and Liu Pingyuan was also good, in a well-placed area on the street.
People passing by could see at a glance that several people had come forward to ask the price of the wild boar meat on the bicycles behind Gu Jiajie and Liu Pingyuan.
It is really rare to sell such a large amount of pork in Kui City, and pork is also a precious commodity in Kui City. Many people have money but no meat coupons and cannot buy pork at all.
Gu Jin didn't come back, and the two of them didn't set up their stall, and they didn't know what price to sell their goods at.
So Gu Jiajie asked those who came to ask to come back later.
Just at this moment, Gu Jin appeared slowly.
She held the flowered bag in her hand and saw at a glance the middle-aged woman standing in front of Gu Jiajie and Liu Pingyuan, who was also wrapped tightly.
"Come back later. We haven't started setting up the stall yet. This pork..."
While Gu Jiajie was talking to the woman in front of him, Liu Pingyuan poked him.
"What's wrong?"
"Your cousin is back."
Gu Jiajie followed his gaze and, sure enough, saw Gu Jin walking towards him quickly, holding a flowered bag.
"Xiao Jin, you're finally here. There are already three or four groups of people asking about pork."
Gu Jin glanced at him and walked up to the middle-aged woman: "Sister, this is wild boar meat, selling for three yuan per pound."
“Why is it so expensive?”
The other person frowned, but his eyes were fixed on the wild boar meat on the bicycle frame.
Gu Jin smiled when he heard this: "Sister, in this Kui City, even domestic pork is sold for two dollars and a half a pound. Our wild boar meat is firm and delicious when stir-fried! Selling it for three dollars is cheap. It takes a lot of effort to kill it, and it can be life-threatening if you're not careful. How can we sell it at a low price?"
The middle-aged woman gritted her teeth and said, "Then give me two kilograms!"
Gu Jin's eyes were filled with smiles: "Okay!"
She turned around and said to Gu Jiajie and Liu Pingyuan: "Brother Jie, you cut the meat for my sister, and Brother Yuan, help me unload the stew."
"OK!"
The two said in unison.
When Gu Jiajie handed two kilograms of wild boar meat to the middle-aged woman and took the six yuan from her, Liu Pingyuan had already unloaded the wooden barrel.
Gu Jin squatted in front of the wooden barrel, scooped out half a bowl of the stew and placed it on top of the barrel lid.
The fragrance instantly attracted the middle-aged woman who was about to leave.
"Hey, what is this? It smells so good."
Gu Jin smiled: "Big sister, this is stewed meat, how about you try a piece?"
The woman was a little embarrassed: "That's so inappropriate."
"It's free, you can try it without worry."
The woman nodded in response, reached into the bowl, picked up a piece of pig intestine and put it into her mouth.
While she was tasting the braised food, two more people came over.
"How much do you sell this wild boar meat?"
Gu Jiajie quoted the price his cousin had mentioned: "Three yuan a pound."
“This is too expensive.”
"Others sell it for 2.5 yuan a pound, but yours is a lot more expensive at 3 yuan."
Gu Jiajie didn't waste any time and turned the wild boar meat over, revealing the black hair on the skin.
(End of this chapter)
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