Behind the crowd, there was an aunt with short curly hair holding a bamboo basket and squeezing in.
It was not easy to squeeze in front of Liuye.
"Hey, little girl, do you still have the lotus pods?"
It turned out that this aunt was the same aunt who had rushed home to carry a basket to buy lotus pods.
Her family lived at the end of the alley, and when the neighbors saw the big fish in her hand, they couldn't help but ask questions.
She told her neighbors along the way that there were two young girls riding a tricycle outside the alley, selling fish.
When the neighbors asked about the price, they found that the price was very reasonable, and they immediately hurried to the alley entrance.
As soon as the short curly-haired aunt came home to get a basket, the tricycle was completely surrounded.
Liu Ye and Zhao Jingmei were so busy that they wished they could grow eight hands.
The person who bought the fish told more neighbors when he went home.
This caused more and more people to gather around the tricycle.
It has three floors inside and three floors outside, and it is completely surrounded by water.
When the lady with short curly hair squeezed into the innermost part, the originally bulging lotus pods in the two big sacks were almost bottomed out.
"Auntie, thank you for bringing us guests!"
Liu Ye had long heard from customers that the aunt with short curly hair told them.
Liu Ye took some time out of her busy schedule to thank her short curly haired aunt.
"No thank you, no thank you! Your stuff is really good! I took those two fish back, put them in the basin, and they started swimming alive again."
The short curly haired aunt smiled and praised.
"Oh! Girl, give me all these lotus pods! I want them all."
Seeing that the lotus pods were about to bottom out, the short curly haired aunt wanted to buy all the lotus pods.
"Come on, Auntie, there's not much left, I'll give it all to you!"
There were only four or five willow leaves left, so I simply stuffed them all into the basket of the short curly haired aunt.
"Oh! Thank you so much!"
I got a few white lotus pods, and my aunt with short curly hair smiled from ear to ear.
"I'll go inside and look around again, and then I'll help you shout and invite more customers."
The aunt with short curly hair got the lotus pod, and happily went to the alley next door to invite customers to Liuye on her own initiative.
"Thank you, aunt!"
Liu Yechong smiled brightly at the short curly-haired aunt and immediately got back into the hot business.
Zhao Jingmei and Liu Ye were so busy that they sweated profusely, but they didn't even have the time to wipe it off.
Soon, the lotus roots were sold out.
There was only one bucket of fish left.
The crowded crowd finally dispersed in twos and threes.
Afterwards, more customers came one after another, all brought by the aunt with short curly hair.
After a while, most of the last bucket of fish was sold.
Zhao Jingmei and Liu Ye's pockets were bulging with money.
The two of them finally had time to stop and take a drink of water.
After about five minutes of rest, the beads of sweat on their foreheads finally stopped flowing.
Just when the two were about to leave, the aunt with short curly hair ran over again.
I saw her face glowing red and her smile overflowing.
"Hey, girl, do you still have any fish?"
"Auntie, there's still half a bucket left. Didn't you buy fish? Why do you want to buy more?"
Zhao Jingmei pointed to the small half bucket of fish at the end of the tricycle and answered in a low voice.
"Oh, my son just called and said that my daughter-in-law just gave birth to a big fat grandson. I just thought about buying some more fish and keeping them at home to cook fish soup for my daughter-in-law during her confinement period.
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The fish Zhao Jingmei brought over was very fresh.
It seems that it shouldn't be a problem to keep it for another ten days and a half.
"Congratulations! Auntie!"
When Zhao Jingmei heard this, she immediately congratulated the aunt with short curly hair.
The smile on the aunt's face became brighter and brighter.
"thanks, thanks!"
"Fetch me five more fish!"
The aunt pointed to the big bucket on the tricycle and said loudly.
"Okay, I'll fish it out for you."
Zhao Jingmei caught five fish with quick hands and feet.
He threaded it through the straw again and handed it to the short curly-haired aunt.
After the aunt paid the money, she left happily.
"Cousin, how many fish do we have left?"
Liu Ye stood next to the tricycle and asked Zhao Jingmei who was standing on top.
Zhao Jingmei took a closer look, counted them carefully, and replied in a low voice: "There are less than twenty left."
"We sell really fast. We have just entered the city and they are almost sold out."
Liu Ye exclaimed in surprise.
I originally planned to sell it at the gate of the Fifth Textile Factory, but who knew it would be so popular.
After resting here for a while, I almost sold out everything.
There are only a dozen fish left.
"There is no need to sell our dozen or so fish. Let's take them back to the Fifth Textile Factory and give a share to acquaintances!"
Zhao Jingmei looked at more than a dozen fish, touched her chin, and whispered.
"Okay! Let's go home directly."
Willow Ye agreed immediately.
More than a dozen fish, really nothing to sell.
Might as well give it away as a personal favor.
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When Zhao Jingmei and Liu Ye returned to the Fifth Textile Factory, the first thing they did was to ride the tricycle back to the canteen.
Zhao Dagang happened to be outside the canteen and saw the two sisters from a distance, and immediately ran over.
Helping two people push the tricycle.
"Where are the fish? Just these dozen?"
Zhao Dagang looked at several buckets on the tricycle and found that only the inner bucket contained more than a dozen fish.
"Of course not! At first, these four big barrels were full. We just entered the city and the residents there bought them all."
Zhao Jingmei turned her head and responded cheerfully.
"What? All sold out?"
"Yes! Not only the fish, but also lotus roots and lotus pods have been sold out."
"The lotus roots and lotus pods are gone too? Why didn't you save some in advance? Your mother loves lotus roots and seeds the most."
When Zhao Dagang heard that the lotus roots and lotus pods were gone, he immediately became anxious.
My daughter-in-law is the best at this. Unexpectedly, my daughter sold lotus roots and lotus pods, but nothing was left.
"Uncle, you really can't blame us. There were too many people buying things at that time. Everyone was fighting for it, and it was gone in a while."
Liu Ye shrugged helplessly.
It's not that she and Zhao Jingmei don't want to keep Feng Xiuqin, but that they really can't.
"It's okay, it's okay! I don't blame you..."
Seeing the aggrieved looks on the two men's faces, Zhao Dagang waved his hands quickly.
Who could have imagined that business would be so booming!
He was just surprised.
"Dad, don't worry. I will go to Lujiacun tomorrow to buy goods. I will separate some lotus roots and lotus pods first and keep them for mom."
"By the way, uncle, Meizi and I don't plan to sell these dozen fishes. Let's give them as a gift to someone we know well!"
Naturally, the head of the Zhao family has to do this kind of thing.
As juniors, Zhao Jingmei and Liu Ye didn't know how to give it away.
"When the children grow up and become sensible, they now know how to help the family."
When Zhao Dagang heard this, he was obviously stunned, and then he looked at the two of them with joy.
He never imagined that the two sisters would ask him to give away the fish.