Chapter 705 Chapter 710: Good Business
Before Zhou's mother and Luo Haili reached the shop, they saw from afar that Zhou Yumei's New Year goods stall had already been set up outside the shop.
The makeshift stall made up of several long benches and long wooden boards is already filled with colorful New Year's goods.
The colorful candy wrappers are sweet and cheap fruit candies, the red candy wrappers with the double happiness characters are crispy and fragrant candies, peanut sticky candies, colorful chili candies...
Neatly arranged sachima, rice candy, peach cake...
There were several people standing in front of the stall selecting New Year's goods. Zhou Yumei was busy weighing the goods, while Luo Qiaoling stood obediently by the side to help watch the stall to prevent some people with dirty hands from taking advantage of the situation and eating for free.
Luo Qiaoling was wearing a brand new corduroy suit, and her two pigtails were tied with two beautiful bows using a gauze scarf. As the saying goes, "People need clothes, and Buddhas need gold ornaments." After putting on the new clothes and new shoes, the little girl looked much better.
Seeing that the business was too busy to handle, Zhou's mother was very happy and walked forward with a smile on her face, "Qiaoling got up so early!"
"Aunt, you're back!" Luo Qiaoling shouted in surprise. She turned around and saw Luo Haili. She happily went forward and held her hand. "Mom, why didn't you come back earlier? My cousin was so busy yesterday that she couldn't handle it."
After hearing this, Luo Haili looked at Zhou Yumei in surprise, "You started setting up the stall yesterday?"
"I tried it yesterday, and I didn't expect there would be so many people buying New Year's goods." Zhou Yumei neatly put the weighed sachima into a net bag and handed it to the customer. "Including the fruit candy, the total is three dollars and fifty cents."
"Count it, it's exactly three dollars and fifty cents." After handing her the money, the customer picked up the net bag and left.
Zhou's mother put the eggs and vegetables she brought for Zhou Yumei in the shop, and saw Zhou Xiaoxi sleeping soundly with his hands on his head in the small bed next to the counter.
Coming out of the store, she saw a few more people coming to the stall. Zhou Yumei and Luo Haili were too busy to handle it, so she hurried forward to help, "Were you this busy yesterday?"
"There were not many people here at this time yesterday. We didn't get busy until about eight o'clock." Zhou Yumei quickly gave the customer the change. "Qiaoling and I were so busy that we had to buy lunch."
Luo Qiaoling said happily: "Aunt, the beef offal rice noodles we had for lunch yesterday were so delicious!"
"Is there any beef for sale on the street?"
Zhou's mother thought that they had eaten beef the year the cow died. If it was on sale, she would weigh a few pounds of beef belly and take it home to braise it, and also buy some beef offal. The old man and the children have been exhausted in the past two months, so they would like to eat something good to replenish themselves.
"Yes!" Zhou Yumei pointed to the front left, "There's a rice noodle shop on the corner. They sell beef. If you go there now, they should have tripe, beef brains, and beef hooves for sale."
There are three types of beef: beef, buffalo, and yak. Cattle and yak are warm in nature and can replenish qi, having the same function as Astragalus membranaceus. Buffalo is cold in nature and can stabilize the fetus and replenish the blood, but in terms of the taste of the meat, beef and yak meat are better.
"Then I'll go and take a look." Zhou's mother hurried to the corner. At this time, there were more and more people in the market, some carrying baskets on their backs, some carrying loose baskets, and it was impossible to squeeze through.
Suddenly I felt someone moving my trouser pocket. I turned around and saw a young man with curly hair, pretending to be innocent and squeezing forward.
Mother Zhou pressed the wallet at the waist of her pants with her hand, and breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to herself: "Fortunately, I didn't put the money in my pocket, otherwise I would be in trouble."
Squeezing to the corner, a smell of Sichuan pepper and beef blew over with the wind. There was a lot of beef hanging on the wooden rack in front of the shop.
A lean man was busy with a boning knife. The rib bones had just been removed and the pork belly was fat and lean. It looked delicious. He looked down and saw that the bamboo basket under the rack was also filled with beef stomach, tail bones, and big bones.
Zhou's mother suddenly remembered that Yang Chunyan liked to buy bones to make soup, and the taste of ox tail bones and big bones stewed with radish was really delicious, so she simply bought some of them and took them home. "Boss, how much are your beef, ox stomach and tail?"
The middle-aged man looked up at Zhou's mother and said, "Beef is one dollar and three cents, beef belly is two cents per pound, and bone is one cent."
Zhou's mother thought that her own beef only sold for 1.1 yuan per catty, and yellow beef was not expensive at 1.3 yuan. She thought so in her heart but said, "Boss, please give me a discount. I'll buy ten catties of streaky beef, the tripe, the tail, and the big bone."
The boss smiled and said, "Auntie, the price of the beef and tripe we sell is already the cheapest. I can give you less bones, and I'll charge you 8 cents per pound."
"Okay!" Zhou's mother pointed at the pork belly that had just had its ribs removed, "Cut me 15 or 16 pounds here."
The boss didn't expect that an old country lady would be willing to cut more than ten pounds of beef, "Auntie, are you going to have a banquet?"
"If we don't hold a banquet, more than ten kilograms of beef for 10 to 20 people in the family will be gone in one meal." Zhou's mother thought of Zhou Yumei again, "and cut another three or four kilograms for my daughter.
You have to pay enough. My daughter has a sales agency around the corner. If I make an appointment with you and it’s not enough, I’ll find you! "
The boss smiled and said, "Don't worry, Auntie. If you are one ounce short, I will compensate you one pound!"
"That's good." Zhou's mother picked out the ox's tail bone and big bone, and looked at the cow's stomach. The boss had already cut and weighed the beef and put it in her back.
The boss said, "The big one weighs 16 and a half pounds, the small one weighs 4 pounds, the bones weigh 11 pounds, and the tripe... a total of 35 pieces."
Mother Zhou paid the money and carried the backpack back to Zhou Yumei's place. Seeing that the stall was crowded with people, she hurriedly took the backpack inside, put it away, and went out to help.
Zhou Yumei looked back at her and said, "Mom, did you buy the beef?"
Zhou's mother said cheerfully, "I'll buy a few pounds of it for you, and save some bones for you later."
Zhou Yumei nodded and went about weighing out fruit candies for people.
The three of them were so busy that they had no time to rest. Even Zhou Xiaoxi was sent to the Li family by Luo Qiaoling to be taken care of by Aunt Li.
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Over there, Zhou Huaian had already unloaded the goods. While Wang Zhen went in to get the money, he said to Yang Dongmei, "Little sister, take a look at the street to see if there are any nice sweaters, coats, and leather shoes to buy two pairs for your sister. If you like, you can buy them too. We will pay for them."
"No need. Wang Zhen bought me two sets of clothes last time he went to buy goods." Yang Dongmei was very happy to see that he was willing to spend money on her sister. "Brother-in-law, the New Year is coming soon. Why don't you let my sister come to Ning'an and pick out what she likes?"
"I originally wanted her to come to Ning'an, and you sisters could pick them yourselves." Zhou Huaian smiled and spread his hands, "But today, Village Chief Qu is going to send truffles and herbs down, and my mother and cousin are going to the market in town, so she can't leave at all."
Yang Dongmei knew that if someone sent the herbs over, she would be the only one who could do it, so she nodded readily, "Okay! I'll pay you when I'm done buying them!"
Wang Zhen came out with his bag and said with a smile, "Xiaomei, what do you want to report to your brother-in-law?"
"I asked my younger sister to help me buy some things for Chunyan and the elderly at home." Zhou Huaian said, "I think the bracelet you made for Xiaomei last time was very beautiful. Please help me pick out a design and make another one. I also want a necklace!
Also, you can buy some fabric from mom and the old man, and buy some for the three elderly people in my family as well."
"Okay, we'll go buy it for you later." Wang Zhen took the money out of his bag and put it on the table, "I asked about the hydropower station you mentioned last time.
I heard that you will start to set up electric poles and wires after the New Year. I think it’s best to wait until the poles and wires are almost set up, so that we can prepare in time.”
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian felt that it was just like someone handed him a pillow just when he was about to fall asleep. "Okay, I'll do whatever you say."
"Yes!" Wang Zhen waited for him to count the money and put it in his pocket, then followed him out. After they went out, they saw that the street was already full of small stalls. The vendors selling melon seeds shouted at the top of their voices, "Come on! Fragrant and crispy spiced melon seeds, cream melon seeds, peanuts..."
Zhou Huaian looked at the tractor surrounded by vendors and said, "Oh my god, it will take another 10 to 20 minutes to drive out. We must come earlier tomorrow."
Wang Zhen thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow the vendors will come earlier, so you can deliver the goods to the new house when you arrive. Also, I will go back to the provincial capital with my grandfather tomorrow afternoon to celebrate the New Year, and will be back on the second day of the New Year."
"It's time to go back and take a look." Zhou Huaian turned his head and looked at him and smiled, "Come back to my house and play for a few days. I'll take you to dig winter honey."
Wang Zhen glanced at him and said, "You've been tired for two months. Don't you want to take a good rest for two days?"
Zhou Huaian said with a smug look on his face: "There's no need to rest for two days. Just get a good night's sleep and you'll be full of energy again."
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "Okay, when we come back from my mother-in-law's house, we'll go to your house to play."
"Then I'm leaving!" Zhou Huaian started the tractor and slowly squeezed out of the crowd like an ant crawling.
As soon as he arrived at Baicaoping, he met Xu Laosan, who was carrying truffles from Bailing Mountain. "Youngest, your eldest brother said that there are a few herbal medicine sellers from Chuancheng, and they are waiting for you to come over and check out the goods."
"Oh, I'll go over and take a look first." After Zhou Huaian and Zhou Huaijun went into the house and gave him the money, they drove the tractor to Bailing Mountain again.
He did not delay when passing by Baicaopo, and it was already past two in the afternoon when he arrived at Bailing Mountain.
Zhou Jiaming and his brother were playing with some other kids outside. When they saw the tractor coming into the village, they stopped playing and ran into the yard. "Old man, my dad is here."
Zhou Huairong, who was repairing bamboo baskets in the yard, stood up after hearing this and said, "Go to Secretary Yang's house and call Uncle Yin, and by the way, call your mother back to get some food for your father."
"Oh!" Zhou Jiaming ran towards Secretary Yang's house behind the house. He saw Zhao Huifang standing in the yard next to his house buying venison. He yelled at the top of his voice and ran back.
When Zhao Huifang heard him say that Zhou Huaian had arrived, she hurriedly gave him the money and hurried back carrying the venison leg.
The price of red deer in the mountains is almost the same as pork. The youngest child said that this thing is very nutritious, so he bought a leg to take home and eat during the New Year reunion.
When Old Yin and others who were waiting for Zhou Huaian at Secretary Yang's house heard Zhou Jiaming's call, they hurriedly packed up the medicinal materials they brought and walked towards the purchasing point.
(End of this chapter)
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