After going to Zhao Mansion, the three of them turned towards South Street.
After all, they hadn't been here for more than half a month. Before they could park the car, regular customers who came to try their luck gathered around them.
"Girl, you're finally here, so I can wait."
"That's right, I come here to wait every ten days, but every time I fail, I thought I wouldn't come today, but luckily I didn't get lazy."
In the time it took to talk for a while, tofu was sold for four or five yuan, and dried tofu and other soy products were also sold for a small amount, which shows that the business is booming.
There are no vendors who are not envious of the vendors who set up stalls around them, but envy is envy, but there is no jealousy. This is the only one who has a unique secret recipe for tofu, and there is no competition with the goods they sell, and it has been so good this past ten years.
Once, it attracted many customers, and the business of other stalls also improved.
Therefore, Zhuang Keqing and his entourage, who have been setting up stalls here for many years, can only welcome them, and some even think that they come too few times.
"Girl, business is good today."
The vegetable vendor next door watched the three people closing the stall and saw the little girl's bulging purse filled with copper coins. He smiled and talked to her.
It's really selling well today.
Except for the part delivered to the Zhao family, there was not much left over, but even two full baskets of goods were sold out in less than a quarter of an hour.
"It's been a long time since everyone was so enthusiastic."
Zhuang Keqing was happy in her heart, relaxed on her face, and answered in a brisk voice.
"You don't know. In the past half month, people have always come to ask you when this tofu stall will open. But I don't know. I only let them come and take a look during the holidays."
The hawker has never seen someone who clearly has money in hand but is not in a hurry to make money. If he is left alone, not to rent a shop in the town and sell it, even if he has to carry it hard every day, he will
Also willing.
"Let me tell you, even if you come here every two or three days, the business may not be bad."
Zhuang Keqing smiled and nodded, but said nothing.
She had already made a plan in her mind. As long as she had livestock, she would not need to bother Uncle Zhang all the time. Shen Ling and she could go to town to haul goods.
She just counted and found that she had at least six to seven hundred cash for this cart of goods. Plus the three pieces of money she had prepared, she could go to the livestock market anyway. If you have money, you have the confidence.
However, before that, we have to go to Butcher Zhang and bring him the dried tofu.
The place where they sell goods is not far from the meat stall. When they arrived at the stall, Butcher Zhang had been waiting for a long time.
"Girl, I saw the bustle on the other side of the street just now, and thinking that today is the tenth day of the month, I guessed that you were here."
"Uncle, I promised you last time that I would come on every tenth day, and I will come on every tenth day. I am not lying."
Zhuang Keqing smiled and took out the dried brine from the bottom of the rattan basket and handed it over, "This is newly made. Try it. It's more fragrant than dried white beans."
Butcher Zhang happily accepted it and asked Zhuang Keqing if he wanted anything else. He had saved the meat and bones today, as well as some rare five-flower buds.
"I want both the guts and the big bones. I'll forget about the five lobsters. But do you still have the pig's trotters? Give me two."
The pig's trotters and pig's trotters are also cheap, but the pork belly is more expensive. Farmers can't eat anything meaty all year round, and they are most greedy for this kind of pork belly. It's like her who didn't have any fat in her previous life.
When we got here, even the oil residue was very delicious.
But thinking that he would have to buy livestock later, Zhuang Keqing couldn't bear it.
The girl lives her life carefully. Butcher Zhang nodded inwardly. That's good.
After going to the meat stall, there were a lot of things on the cart. Zhuang Keqing wanted to buy the animals as soon as possible so that Zhang Da would not have to work hard to push the cart anymore, so he asked: "Uncle Zhang, do you know where the animals are sold here?"
"I know, come with me, and we'll pick the one with the best head." Zhang Da saw that the goods were sold faster than the previous times, and he was also happy for Zhuang Keqing. He took the handle of the car and pushed the car forward, flying all the way. Similar.
Songling Town is a small town, but although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs, and there are places to sell animals. However, because the animals are dirty and smelly, they only have a small area circled north of the city gate for trading, and these people are not allowed to do so. Walking around.
Several people came all the way to the north of the city and stopped outside the trading area.
"Aling, you can't go in this car, why don't you help me look over here?"
The weather was getting colder, but before they even arrived at the livestock trading market, they could smell the smell from a distance. Now that they were walking nearby, Zhuang Keqing felt a little dizzy from the smoke.
She always felt that Shen Ling shouldn't have entered a place like this, so she made an excuse to let him stay.
"Um."
Shen Ling nodded. He didn't know how to look at animals. It was useless to go in. It was better to look at the car outside. There were still things on it. It would be wrong to lose them.
Zhang Da led Zhuang Keqing in. Looking along the way, he saw that in addition to those selling donkeys and mules, there were actually villagers nearby bringing piglets and lambs to sell, and the prices were all affordable.
After walking around for a while, Zhuang Keqing picked out a mule. It had black fur all over its body and was shiny. It looked energetic. Although it wasn't the biggest, it was just right for pulling his cart.
Zhang Da put down the mule's hooves and looked at it, then touched the back and ribs, picked up his lips and looked at the teeth. He thought it was good and nodded.
"Boss, how did you sell this mule?" Zhuang Keqing asked.
The mule seller was an old man with a white beard. He raised his drooped eyelids and saw that a little girl was asking. He blew out a smoke ring and replied listlessly: "Three and a half, a penny is a lot."
"Your price is higher than others."
Zhang Da wandered around and found out the prices at other stores. The old man quoted 10% higher than others.
"Three and a half, one penny is a lot."
As if he hadn't heard Zhang Da's speech, the old man repeated it again, this time without even raising his eyelids, which made Zhang Da's honest temper a little annoyed.
"you."
Zhuang Keqing pulled Zhang Da aside and said, "Uncle Zhang, is this mule better than the others?"
Zhang Da nodded hesitantly, "However, this is too expensive. Let's try to negotiate the price again."
Zhuang Keqing shook his head.
The old man who sells mules is a regular seller at first glance. When they visited other stores, they introduced them to everyone they met. This is the only one who is confident and seems to have no worries about selling.
It's a pity that she only has a little more than three guan in her body now, and now it's all empty, and Piggy can't buy it for the time being.
I originally wanted to give Shen Ling a surprise.
"Grandpa, just this mule."
Zhuang Keqing came back and asked for the mule without any further counter-offering.
The old man was smoking native smoke from his mouth, and he was a little surprised to see that she wanted it so happily.
He didn't expect that it would be a girl who made the final decision.
He knocked the pipe against the wooden stake on the side with a few "clicks" and knocked out the ashes. The old man stood up and put the pipe on his belt, untied the mule's reins and handed it to Zhuang Keqing.
"A girl is more cheerful than a man." After saying that, he looked at Zhang Da who was standing aside.
Thanks to Zhang Da's good temper, he didn't react to these strange words.
Zhuang Keqing smiled apologetically at Zhang, took out three guan of money from the prepared cloth bag and handed it over, then opened his wallet and neatly counted 500 yuan in front of others.
"Take it."
After receiving the money and goods, Zhang Da took the mule and she walked behind. The old man threw the copper coins into his bag, sat down again and started smoking local cigarettes.
Shen Ling was looking at cars outside, but he was not bored.
The various expressions of the passers-by were quite interesting. When I saw a child rolling on the ground while asking for candied haws from his mother, the corners of his mouth that had been pursed loosened a little, and the lines on his face softened.
As soon as Zhuang Keqing came out and was about to call Shen Ling, she saw him staring at something nearby without moving. She turned around and saw that he was selling candied haws.
Her heart moved slightly.
Asking Uncle Zhang to hitch the mule onto the cart first, Zhuang Keqing walked over in a few steps, picked one of the boss's gourds on a skewer, handed over the money, and in less than a minute, delivered the candied haws in front of Shen Ling.
"Aling." She called out and touched the other person's lips with the candied haws, "I know you want to try it."
A bunch of candied haws for three pennies can buy a big meat bun with enough filling.
When his lips touched the cool and hard sugar coating, Shen Ling couldn't help but open his mouth and lick it.
Sweet.
"Eat it quickly, don't you want to eat it?" Zhuang Keqing stuffed the candied haws into his hand, as if coaxing a child, "If you like it, we can buy it when we go back."
While Zhang Da was driving the car, he couldn't help but laugh when he saw the girl's behavior. How old is this boy from the Shen family, how could he still like this thing that fools children?
But he didn't know that Shen Ling had never eaten this before.
Obviously he was once a young master from a wealthy family.
