Chapter 411 The Weak on the Bus, the Warrior in the Supermarket
After finally sending the others away, Zhang An was about to drag him to his mother-in-law.
But the old man in charge of purchasing in the canteen suddenly ran out and grabbed Zhang An to prevent him from leaving.
"Xiao Zhang, you are leaving now. You still have so much left in the car. Why don't we discuss it and give us one or two hundred kilograms of peppers and cucumbers in the next two days? The master chef in our kitchen has been worried about not having enough food to cook, and is giving me trouble.”
Of course the uncle didn’t want to buy it himself. He had just bought more than ten kilograms for himself. The batch was purchased for the canteen of the Forestry Bureau.
He didn't expect it at first, but when he went back just now, he saw Zhu Yuliang giving him looks.
Having known each other for so long, he naturally knew what Zhu Yuliang meant. As soon as he went in to put down his purchases, he immediately came out to find Zhang An.
One or two hundred pounds is a lot for an individual family, but for a canteen where so many people eat, it won’t last long.
"I said, uncle, don't embarrass me. The rest are appointed by my mother-in-law. If I don't pull them over, it will be miserable when I get home. In this way, I will Pull them over there. If there are any left, I will pull them over to you, uncle. If there are really none, it will be easy. Uncle, please take the time to go to my house. Not only are there many styles, but you can also have as many as you want. ”
Seeing Uncle La dragging him tightly, Zhang An knew that he might not be able to leave today unless he took care of him.
So I thought about it for a while and came up with a way to get the best of both worlds. Let them just go home and buy the goods, saving myself the trouble.
“But I’m not very familiar with the way to your home?”
“It’s easy, uncle, bring Lao Zhu with you. He is very familiar with where my home is. You can find it with your eyes closed."
Zhang An dragged Zhu Yuliang into the water again. This man thought Zhang An didn't see him when he winked just now.
After all the hard work, this guy was finally settled. Zhang An quickly started the car and ran away quickly.
Then he rushed towards the mother-in-law as if rushing to the market.
After arriving at the door and parking the car, Zhang An quickly entered the office to find his mother-in-law.
It's already one o'clock now, we have to solve this problem in this hour and a half.
But when Zhang An finished looking for Wu Qiuping, everyone was stunned when he came out again.
At this moment, a group of old ladies were surrounding his car, and each of them started to attack the peppers and cucumbers in his car.
"Old people, please give way, I'm going to be busy here."
This group of people can't hit or scold them. They can only speak to them well, even louder, otherwise they will teach them What do you mean by swearing?
"Hey, okay, young man, you are selling these vegetables, right? Take out the bag quickly, we need to buy some too. These early-ripened peppers are a good thing. I need to buy more."
These grannies also listened and immediately made way for Zhang An.
"Grandma, I don't plan to sell these dishes. They have been ordered by others. Look, it's them."
Zhang An doesn't even know if there are enough people in his mother-in-law's unit here. , How dare you agree to sell to these grannies?
I immediately pointed to the people who came out with Wu Qiuping and said to these grannies.
"Young man, you don't like this. Why did you choose someone to do business? They are employees and can buy it, but we can't?"
When the grandmothers heard Zhang An He said he wouldn't sell it to them and immediately agreed.
A few of them looked at the old man with a bad temper and immediately wanted to talk to Zhang An.
However, he was stopped by the grandma who took the lead in speaking, and she started to reason with Zhang An.
"No grandma, this is what I ordered yesterday. I am responsible for delivering it today, not just bringing it here to sell it today."
We can't let them continue talking. As Zhang An becomes far away from the people, he cannot bear this big blame and cannot bear it.
"Even if they ordered it, you can deliver it today, then you can also do it tomorrow. What's wrong with selling some to us old ladies today?"
Anyway, grandma and her The ladies behind me all looked like they would not give up until they could buy something.
"Okay, Xiao An, you have a lot left here, and there aren't many of these old people, so just sell them a pound or two each."
In broad daylight, Wu Qiuping also I didn't want to argue with them, so I spoke to Zhang An.
If the quarrel continues here, if word gets out later, it will turn into them bullying the old man.
Anyway, there are only a few grannies in this group, so they certainly won’t ask for much.
“Grandma, let’s make a deal first, whether it’s green peppers, cucumbers or green melons, it’s only one yuan a pound. Don’t say later that I cheated you.”
Seeing his mother-in-law speak, Zhang An didn't say anything else. He had thought the same thing just now, and he definitely couldn't let them waste time around her.
"What? It's only one yuan per catty. Isn't it only forty cents per catty in the vegetable market? Young man, you have to be conscientious when doing business."
Wu Qiuping relaxed. Let these old ladies feel like they have won the battle.
But when they heard Zhang An talk about the price, they couldn't calm down anymore. They protested to Zhang An at the top of their lungs, as if it cost them their lives.
"The food in the vegetable market is cheap. You guys go to the vegetable market to buy it. The service there is good, so why waste your time here."
Zhang An is not a clay Buddha. I don't have any temper at all, but I won't spoil them.
They delayed us for more than ten minutes. If it weren’t for them making trouble here, there would have been a lot of people at this meeting.
"Young man, you are right. If there was a vegetable market, why would we tell you this?"
This aggressive look is similar to what Zhang An saw on the bus in later generations. The weaklings are really the same as the warriors in the supermarket.
"You also know that there are no vegetable markets for love. The ones in the vegetable market have just sprouted from the mud. If you think they are expensive, just wait. They will be cheaper when they are available in the vegetable market."
Zhang Anxin thought, this is expensive for me. When greenhouses develop in the future, you will be justified in selling a pound of off-season vegetables four or five times the price.
“Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it must have taken a lot of effort for these vegetables to mature so long in advance, and they must be more expensive. Normally they only grow them for a few days, but the ones my grandma grows are just now grown. It's sprouting in the mud."
"Just don't buy it if you think it's expensive. People have put so much effort into growing it, and they must be trying to make money. You're still calling it expensive, so you're not letting people lose money. What are you doing?"
As soon as Zhang An finished speaking, a group of people around him began to speak for him.
These people are all melon-eating people who have just been attracted by the lively scene here.
in the country, no matter where you are, there is no shortage of this type of people.
"Who said we can't afford it, and we can't negotiate the price when we buy something? How did your adults teach you."
They were originally relying on their old age, but they didn't intend to let Zhang An go. .
But now that there are more and more people watching, we definitely can’t continue to act like that.
“Young man, please weigh me a pound.”
"I also want a pound."
"I can weigh half a pound. If you eat too much, it will spoil easily."
These old sisters are indeed the same kind of people, they all weigh one pound. Half a pound.
When the people around heard it, a "cut" sound came from the crowd.
The relationship has been quarreling here for a long time, just because of fifty cents.
Zhang An didn't care about anything else and praised them quickly. Now he just wants to get rid of these troublesome people as soon as possible.
"Young man, you have to weigh yourself for us. If you are too short, I have to lift it up and come to you."
They were booed by the people around them for a while, so they He had no choice but to vent his anger on Zhang An. "If you feel uneasy, just don't buy it."
Zhang An did not continue to reply. He now hopes that these "cancers of society" will leave quickly.
If you continue to give them words, there's no telling how long they'll be able to waste time with you.
Zhang An was also speechless, why did he meet these people.
After sending away these plague gods, Zhang An had time to remove the basket from the car and let everyone carry it.
Originally, he thought that the people here would be the same as those at the Forestry Bureau, with everyone hugging each other and weighing more than ten pounds.
Unexpectedly, each of them only weighed four or five kilograms before being weighed by him.
Fortunately, he was still worried that there wouldn’t be enough left in the car for this group of people.
As a result, after weighing, there are still several hundred kilograms left.
"Brother, are these what you have left? You are still waiting for someone."
Seeing that the people in line were all gone, the person who had been watching next to me came over and asked.
These are the people who just came around to watch the fun and have not left yet.
"No wait, these are all left. If you want it, just hold it for yourself. If you don't want it, I'll take it back."
Zhang An himself didn't expect that there would be so much left. So much, I immediately wanted to take him back to the cafeteria.
But since someone asked about it, I can sell them some.
"Okay, okay, bring me a bigger plastic bag. I've been looking at it for a long time. It was so greedy to see them eating it just now. I thought you were being picked up by someone. I made a reservation, and I was thinking of asking you later if you would come tomorrow."
This elder brother was the one who just helped Zhang An, and Zhang An knew it as soon as he heard the voice.
“Haha, I’m not a vegetable seller, it’s just that this is my mother-in-law’s workplace, and all her colleagues want it, so I just brought a cart here, and I probably won’t come here again.”< br>
"That's a pity. I have to buy more this time, otherwise I won't be able to find you next time."
Took the plastic bag from Zhang An and hugged more than ten kilograms of green peppers If it wasn't enough, he asked for another one, and then stopped after holding a bag of cucumbers and green peppers.
The same goes for others. I heard that Zhang An only came this time, and people who originally only wanted half a bag filled the entire plastic bag.
Originally, Zhang An was thinking that after the eldest brother and his group were reconciled, the rest would go directly back to the canteen of the Forestry Bureau.
Unexpectedly, with the big brother and the others taking the lead, the more people sold, the more people around them sold out, and it was sold out in less than an hour.
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Time flies and it’s the annual Qingming Festival.
When Zhang An woke up early in the morning, he felt a cold wind blowing against his face.
I walked into the yard and found that it was raining lightly outside.
It seems that this year we cannot take the whole family to the mountains to worship our ancestors and have a meal as we did in previous years.
After Zhang An finished washing, people started to come to the house.
Although we are a family, there is no fixed place for Qingming Festival every year.
It’s both at your house this year and at my house next year. It’s not just about finding a place to cook, it’s about this family taking the lead.
Basically, within a family, every family has to come out and become a leader.
This year we happened to arrive at Zhang An's house, so Mr. Zhang came over first early in the morning.
After breakfast, Zhang An followed the elders to the town to buy things for sacrifice.
It rained during the Qingming Festival this year, so it was obviously impossible for the whole family to go to the mountains like in previous years.
In previous years, everyone would go to the mountain, and after the sacrifice was completed, they would open fire there.
The mountain roads are slippery this year, making it inconvenient to bring children, and it is also troublesome to carry various things up the mountain.
You can only go to the mountain to offer sacrifices and repair the ancestral tombs first, and then come back home for dinner.
As the eldest grandson, Zhang An has his share in everything.
I just took a few uncles to the town to buy things. When I came back, Mr. Zhang had already laid out the paper flags.
So I prepared all the sacrificial things and followed the old people non-stop up the mountain to hang paper.
Usually at this time, the men in the family go up the mountain, while the women stay at home to prepare meals.
Children can join in the fun if they want, but they are not allowed if they are too young.
"Tiewa, where did you find the gourd? Why didn't I see it?"
The procession of hanging paper usually proceeds from far to near, so that the last ancestor is hung. It is also convenient to go home.
When we finally arrived at the tombs of Zhang An’s grandparents, Zhang An had just repaired the tombs and put new mud on them.
Looking back, I don’t know where Zhang Tie got three or five gourds, and he was arguing with several other cousins about how to divide them.
This gourd looks like a grasshopper on a vine. It was grown last year and is obviously completely dry.
"Hey, when my uncle and I went to cut bamboo just now, we encountered only one vine on Shanyazi over there, so I pulled it up."
Zhang Tie Pointing to the hilltop in the distance to show Zhang An, it was the place where Zhang Jianguo had just taken them to cut the grave markers.
No wonder Zhang An didn’t see it, the feelings were still on the other side of the mountain.
When Zhang An came to visit the grave before, he always cut green bamboo at the foot of the mountain, so he didn't know that there was a gourd vine growing there.
"Give me this gourd first. When you get back, I will clasp the seeds inside, and then give the gourd to you."
Zhang An had the idea of growing gourds before, but he never found the seeds.
Although the top of the hill behind the house has grown a lot, the group of children in the village often run up there to play at noon.
Every time the gourd was still very green and tender, they would pick it away.
Chang Qing doesn’t have the habit of eating gourds, they only pick them as a toy.
"Brother, are you going to grow gourds at home? Will you grow gourd babies?"
Hearing that Zhang An asked for gourd seeds, Zhang Tie even brought some little ones next to him The child's eyes lit up.
Those who have seen Calabash Baby all have a dream of growing gourds.
Even Zhang Tie, who is in the first grade of junior high school this year, still has illusions about Calabash Baby.
“It’s not certain, in case it can be grown, so give me the gourd, and when I go back, I will take out the seeds from the gourd and plant it to see if it can be grown.”
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Zhang An plans to plant a few plants in the yard and plant the others in the space.
To be honest, based on the urine properties of space, he was really not sure.
(End of this chapter)