On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the number of tourists returning home reached its peak.
The shallow waters port was crowded with people, and tourists who came to buy meat packed Jiang Hexi's meat stall to the brim.
Li Youtian led Lu Jiu to maintain order here, shouting at the top of his lungs:
"Everyone, take your number and line up one by one. Pork is limited to five jin and beef is limited to five jin each!"
The resounding shout immediately silenced the surrounding whispers.
The silence lasted no more than ten seconds before the commotion returned and echoed throughout the entire port.
Tourists pushed and shoved forward, afraid that if they waited in line until the very end, the beef and local pork they wanted would be sold out, and they would lose a lot of money.
The shallow waters port is an area that is not open to the public.
However, there were too many tourists coming to buy meat, and the village chief couldn't resist everyone's enthusiasm, so he slaughtered two more pigs early in the morning and also gathered the elderly to sell vegetables, thus temporarily setting up a market.
Jiang Hexi's cleaver kept chopping away, she single-handedly shouldered the responsibility of the stall, leading the two officials from the county to methodically cut meat by weight, while her phone kept ringing with the sound of money coming in:
"Received 183 yuan via WeChat payment".
"Received 200 yuan via WeChat."
"Received 360 yuan via WeChat payment."
The more she listened to the voice, the more excited she became. After cutting off five pounds of beef from the front leg, she quickly put it into a plastic bag and handed it out, saying, "Auntie, two hundred and ten yuan."
The woman in front of the stall refused to take the bag and said to her with dissatisfaction, "I don't want the front leg meat. Give me three pounds of beef brisket and two pounds of beef steak."
"No."
Jiang Hexi read quickly, "There's no beef tenderloin, sirloin, loin, or shoulder meat left. Only this best front leg meat is left. If you don't want it, I'll give it to the next one."
The woman had no choice but to take the bag and pay, feeling rather annoyed.
"Received 210 yuan via WeChat payment."
Jiang Hexi perked up at the sound. She grabbed a large piece of hind leg meat, sliced it open with one stroke, and tossed it onto the scale. It weighed a solid five jin (2.5 kg).
"Five pounds of hind leg meat, two hundred and ten yuan."
Lu Jiu squeezed through at this moment, saying, "Boss Yan can't get in. He told you to pack up and go back home as soon as you've sold all the beef."
Jiang Hexi packed the pork leg into a bag and handed it out, saying, "Tell him to wait another twenty minutes."
Lu Jiu: "How many more accounts are you going to send this to?"
Jiang Hexi looked at the beef on the stall and estimated the weight of the several beef legs at a glance. "Sixty numbers. I'm telling everyone else to disperse. I'm packing up now."
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the five guests and all the staff gathered in the front yard, waiting for Director Chen to finish his summary so that everyone could have a long vacation.
Yan Jie arrived late in his van.
As soon as the car door opened, Jiang Hexi stepped out carrying a large bag of things:
"Chu Yang, quickly help me unload everything from the car."
"Okay, sis!"
Chu Yang immediately guessed that this was good stuff to pack up and take back. He opened the trunk and used both hands to lift the bag onto the long table.
Jiang Hexi patted the red plastic bag under his hand and said:
"Fifteen catties of local pork and ten catties of beef, one for each person, as a holiday gift package for everyone."
"The pork includes spare ribs, pork bones, pig's trotters, and pork belly, with some offal mixed in. The beef mainly consists of tenderloin, chuck, brisket, and ribeye, with rump meat being an extra bonus."
Chu Yang exclaimed in surprise, "I heard that the stall was packed with people queuing up to buy meat. Sister, you're amazing that you were able to keep so much good stuff."
Jiang Hexi lowered her head in embarrassment. "It's enough that you know about this. Don't spread it around. Otherwise, the whole internet will know that I stole from someone else."
“Last time I brought back a whole sack of mountain produce, my old man praised me for being so capable.”
Shen Yingyu took his gift bag and said, "If I bring back so much local stuff this time, my family's ancestral graves will be emitting auspicious smoke."
"Wait, there's something else we haven't taken."
Yu Xiangwan stopped Shen Yingyu and, together with Chai Fei, distributed the three large boxes of stew to everyone:
"One serving is braised beef, one serving is braised pork trotters, and one serving is pork stew with vermicelli. They are all freshly cooked dishes from a large pot. I'll pack them up for you to take home."
Director Chen, watching this extremely familiar operation, was consumed by envy and jealousy. He asked the assistant director beside him:
What gifts did you prepare for everyone this Dragon Boat Festival?
"Local honey, triangular rice dumplings, dried shiitake mushrooms, dried bean curd sticks and bamboo fungus, and free-range eggs."
Director Chen gave him a disapproving look: "What did I tell you last time? Have you forgotten everything?"
The assistant director dared not forget his words: "What the five-man chaebol group has, our staff must also have."
"What about local pork and yellow beef?"
"Director, these are local products that tourists might not even be able to buy even if they line up. Do you think we can actually buy them?"
The assistant director, unusually assertive, said, "Besides, the two hundred yuan subsidy you gave me isn't even enough to buy five kilograms of beef. I didn't even dare to think about it."
Director Chen was at a loss for words and couldn't utter a single sentence.
[How did Xi Mei manage the butcher stall? Half of the profits went into her own pocket.]
[Ordinary people skim off the top: pig's blood, intestines, and liver; the five-person chaebol group skims off the top: they steal half a pig!! How can anyone tolerate this? I'm going to complain to the show's producers about Xi-mei!]
[Please, upstairs, wake up! Xi-mei stole the pigs and cows her family bought. It's not a crime; at most, she's just being wasteful.]
[I finally understand. They come to the countryside to rob people. They always arrive empty-handed and leave laden with spoils, making netizens across the country green with envy.]
"Now we will begin a new round of scoring on the farming activities of our guests."
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