Chapter 113: 112: Feeling relieved
"I think you're just crying watching the Three Kingdoms, worrying about the ancients for nothing!" Zhou Huaishan said as he handed the wooden barrel to Li Qiuyue, "Push the chicken bus over, I'll go see what Cai Ermei is doing in Ning'an?"
"Okay, follow him and see which one he is looking for."
Zhou Huaishan nodded and chased after them. After walking a few steps, he saw Cai Ermei and Ye Xiaoshuang walking together again.
The two of them walked to Wang Jianjun's fish stall and asked a few questions. Wang Jianjun stood up and looked at the eels in the bucket. After a few words, Cai Ermei pushed her bicycle towards another eel stall.
After a while, the two seemed to have reached an agreement, and the stall owner and Cai Ermei took the bucket off the back seat of the bicycle and started to weigh it.
Zhou Huaishan breathed a sigh of relief after seeing this. If more than 100 kilograms of eels fell into his hands, it would be troublesome.
He stood there and watched for a while. He saw that Cai Ermei had received the money and was still talking to the fishmonger. He thought that since he came to Ning'an, he might just come to see the market and might start buying eels when he returned.
I thought I should go back and pull the eel over and ask Boss Wang about the situation first.
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Yang Chunyan picked up some corns and arranged them, then turned her head to look at the vegetable market and saw Li Qiuyue coming alone.
Li Qiuyue took a few quick steps and came to Yang Chunyan. "We saw Cai Ermei. Who do you think he came with?"
"Ye Xiaoshuang!"
"You saw it too!" Li Qiuyue leaned over and whispered, "A few years ago, someone spread a rumor that Huang Bin was Cai Ermei's son. Look at these two shameless people, they came to Ning'an openly!"
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Yes, if a person has no shame, even ghosts will be afraid of him!"
"That's right!" Li Qiuyue looked at the basket, "Is this all the mushrooms left?"
"I'm saving this for Boss Wang, otherwise it would have been sold out long ago. I sell Alpinia hortensis for 1.2 yuan, and bigfoot mushrooms and chanterelles for 40 cents. How much do you sell them for per pound?"
"The price of the chanterelles is the same as yours, and the purchase price for the chanterelles and the bigfoot mushrooms is 50 cents. He said that if you come the day after tomorrow, he will also send some young corn."
"Yes! The third brother went to see which one that couple was looking for to buy the eel."
The two carried the herbs onto the chicken cart. Zhou Huaishan also came back. Li Qiuyue asked hurriedly, "Who did the couple sell the eels to?"
“It was sold to another company.”
Li Qiuyue and Yang Chunyan breathed a sigh of relief. "Help Chunyan deliver the herbs to Dr. Wang's backyard first, and then deliver the eels to Boss Wang."
"OK!"
The three men lifted the bamboo basket onto the chicken bus and took it to the backyard, where they saw that the herbs were still being weighed.
The person selling herbs was the same middle-aged man as last time. He turned his head to take a look at the bamboo basket and saw that it was filled with common herbs. He looked at the ones in his basket with some pride: Magnolia officinalis, Gastrodia elata, and Ganoderma lucidum.
"Cutting old mugwort and selling it is a waste of time. Not only is it worthless, it also takes up space."
Wang Zhen glanced at him and said, "There is no such thing as valuable or not for herbal medicine. If there are more of them, they are cheap; if there are fewer of them, they are expensive. I think as long as the medicine is useful to the patients, it is good medicine!"
"Hehe, I'm not as conscious as Doctor Wang. I climb mountains and wade through water all day long to look for herbs just to sell them for more money!"
Wang Zhen paused for a moment, did not respond, turned around and looked at Yang Chunyan, "Sister Yang, I'll be here for a while, go sell your things first, I'll call you later."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan and Zhou Huaishan took down the bamboo basket and pushed the chicken cart back to the vegetable stall. "Sister-in-law, I'll take care of the stall. You and Brother San will deliver the eels over."
Li Qiuyue nodded, and the couple pushed the chicken cart towards the vegetable market.
When they arrived at Wang Jianjun's stall, he was busy peeling eels for customers. When he saw the two people coming, he smiled and said, "There are two more. I'll weigh them for you after I'm done peeling them."
"It's okay, just do your thing." Zhou Huaishan and Li Qiuyue carried the eel down and put it behind the fish stall. "Boss Wang, it rained yesterday, so I went up the mountain to pick up some Alpinia hortensis and Oyster mushrooms. I'll bring them here to add to your dish."
Wang Jianjun turned his head and took a look. The mushrooms in the basket weighed at least two or three kilograms. He said embarrassedly, "Brother Zhou, you are too polite. How can you accept such expensive things?"
Wang Jianjun's wife couldn't stop smiling and thought to herself: The Zhou family is really honest people. They are willing to give away chicken mushrooms that cost more than one yuan per pound.
“……” Zhou Huaishan rubbed his hands, not knowing what to say.
Li Qiuyue handed the mushrooms to Wang Jianjun's wife and said, "Sister-in-law, the most abundant thing in the mountains during these days every year is mountain products. There are also some miscellaneous mushrooms that we haven't brought down."
Wang Jianjun’s wife Yu Hongxia took the basket and said, “Little sister, let me tell you, if you find good mushrooms, you should send them to Ning’an to sell. You can get 10 cents or 20 cents per pound. If you don’t have time, bring them here next time and I’ll help you sell them!”
"You are so busy with your business, how can I bother you. We are familiar with Dr. Wang's family, and today we brought some corn mushrooms and set up a stall in front of his clinic."
"It's better to sell mushrooms here. When you come next time, I'll reserve a stall for you."
"We will come tomorrow to give you yellow eels and mushrooms for the guesthouse. Sister-in-law, what kinds of mushrooms are selling well in the city?"
"You should prepare more milk mushrooms, brush mushrooms, dry mushrooms...these are all at good prices."
"Okay, then please help us reserve a stall."
"Yes!" Yu Hongxia nodded readily, "I'll take the mushrooms into the house first and return the basket to you."
Li Qiuyue said hurriedly: "Sister-in-law, the vegetable basket is woven by ourselves. If you don't mind, you can keep it to buy vegetables."
"I don't mind, I don't mind!" Yu Hongxia looked at the brand new basket. "Your baskets are pretty good. Baskets like this sell for two yuan each in the city."
"This was woven by my father-in-law and eldest brother. My family doesn't need to buy things like scoops, dustpans, brush handles, and backpacks. If you need them in the future, let me know and we'll bring them down for you."
"Okay, I won't be polite then."
The two women were chatting animatedly, while Zhou Huaishan and Wang Jianjun had already started weighing the eels. "Brother Zhou, take a look. It's exactly 132 kilograms!"
"That's right!" After Zhou Huaishan looked at it, he added the 15 kilograms sold to Huang and found that he had lost more than one kilogram.
After the two of them paid, Wang Jianjun said to Zhou Huaishan, "A man came to me with dozens of kilograms of yellow field eels and asked me if I would buy them. He also said he could supply them for a long time. I thought I had already made an agreement with your family, so I didn't take his money."
Zhou Huaishan said gratefully: "Thank you, Boss Wang. You have seen our yellow eels, and there is not a single small one."
"That's true. The eels you sell are better than those sent by other stores, but the price is also two cents higher than other stores."
At this time, another business came, Zhou Huaishan and Li Qiuyue said goodbye with a smile, "Boss Wang, we will come again tomorrow."
"Hello!" Wang Jianjun said with a smile, "Remember to bring some mushrooms down to sell. We'll help you save a spot!"
"Thank you very much!" Zhou Huaishan and Li Qiuyue finally felt relieved and no longer worried about the eels that Zhou Huaian collected at home today being thrown into their hands.
Thanks to book friend Irene’s cat for the reward and support!
(End of this chapter)
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