Jiang Lan was glared at by her brother. She closed her mouth and said nothing, half lying down with her eyes closed to rest.
The old man driving the cart looked back at the three people behind him from time to time, and sensing a subtle abnormal atmosphere, he turned his head suspiciously and said nothing.
The journey took half a day and was quiet with only the sound of rolling wheels.
Mu Ruanruan was as calm as ever, thinking about the things she would buy later. Along the way, she saw some familiar plants, which were all medicinal herbs, and she was thinking about finding time to pick them.
In order to make more money and live a better life in this era, Mu Ruanruan has been collecting medicinal herbs and selling them to the system mall whenever she has time.
The mall charged a high price, and before long, she had earned dozens of dollars.
After a while, she will pay back the money she owes Jiang He. By then, his expression should be better.
How about buying him something to please him first? Then negotiate with him about paying in installments.
After all, one hundred yuan is not a small amount of money, enough for an average family's living expenses for most of the year.
She mailed the letter in the county town and then started looking around to see if there was any black market selling meat. There was a lot of meat on the black market, but a lot of it was questionable pork and difficult to identify.
Fortunately, her parents were afraid that she would not know how to live when she grew up, so they taught her these skills since she was a child. Although cooking was not her hobby, picking vegetables was no problem for her.
After walking around for a long time, I finally saw a meat stall in the corner. The meat was good and fresh.
But the boss had a shifty look in his eyes, and when he saw Mu Ruanruan coming, he was so scared that he was about to pack up and leave.
Mu Ruanruan quickly stopped him, but he was so scared that he didn't dare to move.
In order not to scare him, Mu Ruanruan pretended to be cautious, walked closer quickly, and asked in a low voice: "If I buy more, is there any discount?"
The boss was stunned for a moment, not believing that the other party was here to buy meat, but he still subconsciously replied: "How much?"
When Mu Ruanruan came, she checked the system balance, which was seventy-three yuan and fifty-nine cents, so she still had about ten yuan on hand.
Currently, pork costs more than 60 cents with a ticket. If you don’t have a ticket, it depends on your luck, and the most you can get is a little over 1 yuan.
"Will you sell it to me for 60 cents? I'll buy 20 pounds at least." Mu Ruanruan originally wanted to say she wanted all of it, but she was afraid of scaring the other party, so she just weighed the meat on his chopping board and said a similar number.
"How much?" the boss repeated himself, thinking he had misheard. He couldn't believe that someone would buy 20 kilograms of pork.
"Twenty pounds."
"A wedding?" asked the boss.
Nowadays, if it's not a big event, who would be crazy enough to buy so much meat?
"If you don't do anything, just eat it yourself."
The boss looked at her as if she were a monster, then reassured her, "I'm not kidding. You have to buy it once you cut it."
The boss still didn't quite believe it, so Mu Ruanruan repeated it again, took out 12 yuan and asked him to weigh it quickly.
"60 cents is not enough, the lowest is 80 cents." The boss hesitated and didn't know whether he really didn't want to sell it or didn't believe Mu Ruanruan would really buy it.
"80 cents is too expensive." Although Mu Ruanruan didn't know how to bargain, she could see through the other person's thoughts. The shifty look on his face just now showed that buying meat in this area was risky.
She planned to use this to control him: "Brother, apart from me, I guess there are few people who would buy so much. If you don't sell it now, if someone comes later, you will have to carry this meat back home."
The boss's expression did relax a little, but he was still a little hesitant. In the end, he made the deal for 65 cents for 20 kilograms of high-quality meat.
The boss is a nice guy, with precise knife skills, and he didn't cheat on any weight. The pork belly, with alternating fat and lean parts, weighed exactly 20 pounds.
Mu Ruanruan asked the boss to cut it into strips, about one pound per strip, a total of twenty strips, and put them in a large paper bag and tied with a hemp rope.
She took out a large piece of cloth from her canvas bag, wrapped the meat, and carried it away.
Twenty pounds of meat, that’s a big bag.
Everyone buys meat in half a pound or two. They have never seen such a generous customer who buys twenty pounds at a time.
Not only that, she also went to the beef and mutton stalls to buy some more, and then walked out of the meat and vegetable market in a swagger.
I originally wanted to buy some vegetables, but it was not convenient to put them into the space in front of everyone.
The meat was too heavy and she had no time to buy anything else, so she had to find a deserted place to process the meat.
She was also generous with her spending on beef and mutton, buying a lot at one time. When she left, the meat and vegetable market was in an uproar because such a big customer had come.
Everyone started whispering.
"Whose girl is this? She's so generous."
"Judging from their attire, is this the factory director's family?"
"No, this face looks unfamiliar. How come I haven't seen it before?"
Listening to these whispers, Mu Ruanruan was very satisfied. She hoped that this news would grow wings and fly to Shangshui Village just like the adultery incident that night.
"It's not just mine, it's for many families. I just run a few rounds to help and then go home to share it with everyone."
She pretended to find an excuse.
Human hearts are so strange. If you say that this belongs to you alone, they will not believe you and think you are bragging. But if you say that this is not yours, they will say that you are hiding something.
She paid just now without blinking an eye, and used brand new whole bills. Who would believe that the meat didn't belong to her alone?
But there are also some people who are like sour radishes and actually believe it.
"I was saying, who would buy so much meat? Even if you have money, you can't finish it. It will go bad, what a pity."
"That's right. If it's not a festival or a holiday, who would buy so much meat? It would cost dozens of dollars."
"Yeah, yeah, the mutton alone cost dozens of yuan, and the beef and pork also looked like a lot."
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