jdhmnovel Chapter 140 Buying Cabbage
Chapter 140 Buying Cabbage
The next day, Gu Qingqing told Luo Meihua the good news, "I have thought of another way. If the pig intestines sell well, then sell them. If they don't sell well, you can just come back and you don't have to stay in the town."
"Okay, sister-in-law, I understand. Dahua, let's go." Luo Meihua agreed, pulled the cart and left with Dahua.
Wu Fang and Yang Xing'er also followed and took their things to Jiangping Town.
At the same time, Wen Wuyan gave half a dollar to Niu Yuzhu and Niu Dajun who came to work, and asked them to pull Dajun's cart to buy a large water tank.
Seeing that people were coming to work one after another, Gu Qingqing went to find Wu Shan first.
"Qingqing, is there something wrong?" Wu Shan was now more familiar with their family. After all, the four of them were working for them.
I used to call her "the one from the third room", but now that I'm familiar with her, I call her Qingqing.
Gu Qingqing said cheerfully, "Uncle Wu, I have something to ask you. Do you have any extra cabbages that you want to buy?"
"What? Is there still not enough food in your house?" Wu Shan asked subconsciously.
Gu Qingqing happily shook her head and said, "Uncle Wu, our food can still be eaten for a few more days. I want to make some more pickled vegetables and go to town to see if they can sell well."
"Huh? You can also make sauerkraut?" Wu Shan was surprised.
Gu Qingqing grinned and shook her head again, "Not really."
Wu Shangang was about to say: What don’t you know how to do?
Then Gu Qingqing suddenly said, "I want to try it."
Wu Shan was amused by her heavy breathing and the way she spoke, and then said, "Sell. If you really want it, you can go to my house tomorrow. I can't sell many, at most 200. I won't ask you for a high price. Yesterday, someone in the village took them to the town to sell for 7 cents a pound. I'll sell them to you without you having to go to the town. I'll charge you 6.5 cents a pound."
"Then I'm getting a great deal, thank you, Uncle Wu." Gu Qingqing said without thinking in reverse: I'll give you 7 cents.
One cabbage weighs about three or four pounds, and two hundred cabbages weigh six or seven hundred pounds. The price difference here is only more than thirty cents.
Just like Wu Shan said, if they go to the town to sell, they will need to spare one person. Now the strong men of the Wu family are helping her build the house, and they get the same thirty cents a day.
So it should be even.
But this time, Gu Qingqing openly said that she was taking advantage of him and was also flattering him verbally.
Sure enough, when Wu Shan heard her say that, he also laughed and said, "Hey, if you are from the same village, you can take advantage of it. Just go and get it when you need it."
"Okay, I'll go tell Uncle Wu sometime. I'm leaving, you take care of your own thing." After Gu Qingqing finished speaking to Wu Shan, she turned around and went to find Niu Zhanghe.
She also told him that she wanted to buy some cabbage. As Wen Wuyan said, he couldn't sell the cabbage to her and had to send it to his in-laws later.
"It's okay, uncle. There are still many vegetables in the village. I'll go ask around. You just go about your business." Gu Qingqing also said goodbye to Niu Zhanghe.
Finally, they found Mrs. Geng, who was working as a handyman, and explained their purpose.
"Qingqing, do you want to buy cabbage? My child's father should be going to the fields to harvest them now. Why don't you just go to the fields and pick the big ones?" Mrs. Geng said happily when she heard that she wanted to sell cabbage.
"Oh, is your family harvesting today? I can't leave in the morning, and I have to cook for everyone later." Gu Qingqing looked at the sky, then at the people who were working.
"Also, how do you plan to sell the cabbages, sister-in-law?" Gu Qingqing asked again.
Geng Chunhua rarely looked worried, so she smiled and said, "Just leave it to me. I don't know what the market price is in town now."
Gu Qingqing then went on to tell the price she had just agreed upon with the village chief.
Geng Chunhua is straightforward. "What else can I say? Just follow the price the village chief said. So, if you don't have time in the morning, ask your child to run errands. Go and tell my child's father that you won't accept them in the morning. You can choose them yourself in the afternoon when you are free."
"Okay, I'll let Erhua and Li Xin go to that piece of land." Gu Qingqing said as she raised her hand and waved to Li Xin who was not far away.
After a while, Li Xin took Erhua and ran towards the back of the village.
After Niu Yuzhu and Niu Dajun pulled the jar back, Gu Qingqing asked them to help put it where she liked.
In the afternoon, she originally wanted to call a few people from home to help pack the cabbages, but Geng Chunhua joked, "Qingqing, you don't need to call anyone, I'll go with you. I agreed with Old Yang at noon that I won't be counted as working in the afternoon. With me alone here, it doesn't matter whether they come or not. Let them work at your house."
After Geng Chunhua finished speaking, she pulled the car in the yard and headed towards the path.
When Erhua heard that they were going to chop cabbage, she also wanted to go, but Dahua stopped her with a look.
"Sister."
"You can't do much work if you go, so I'll go."
"And me." Li Xin said from the side.
The new house is about to be built with beams installed, and he can no longer help there.
So, this time he knew they were going to buy cabbage, and he could help carry the cabbage.
Gu Qingqing was also happy to bring them along, as these half-grown children were still very capable.
In this way, the group of four headed towards the vegetable field.
Gu Qingqing was very happy when she saw the firm yellow-hearted cabbages.
She didn't know whether the sauerkraut was easy to sell, but thinking that her family would need vegetables to eat during the winter, she simply picked three hundred heads first.
At first they weighed them, but later they found it was too slow, so Geng Chunhua shouted to Gu Qingqing, "Qingqing, I'll just give it to you by the tree, and we won't weigh them anymore. Each one is three and a half pounds, and you can pick the big ones in the field."
"Sister-in-law, some of them weigh more than three and a half pounds, and some are almost four pounds."
"Oh, how can I calculate it so clearly? If I take it to the town to sell it, it will be a hassle to go back and forth, and it will be almost the same if I sell it and then be picked and chosen."
Gu Qingqing took advantage of the small bargain. The cabbages she liked were all solid. There were cabbages all over the ground so she had to pick one first. It would be inappropriate to charge 6.5 cents.
Gu Qingqing thought for a while and said, "Sister-in-law, let's do this. All the cabbages will be sold at 3.5 kilograms as you said, and I can pick whatever I want from the field. As for the price, we can't use the previous price. We have to use 7 cents per kilogram, otherwise I won't be able to buy this vegetable."
Geng Chunhua was delighted by the frank words. "Oh, Qingqing, you are quick and straightforward. I like you. Okay, I'll do as you say. I'll chop down the tree you point to."
Just like that, Gu Qingqing pointed and Geng Chunhua chopped.
Only her husband, children, Li Xin and Dahua were left to move into the car.
After a while, Gu Qingqing looked at the people behind who were too late, and said to Geng Chunhua, "Sister-in-law, you can help move it, I will cut it."
Geng Chunhua seems to be strong herself and thinks everyone else is stronger than her.
Gu Qingqing said she would cut the cabbages herself, so she gave them to her and she carried the cut cabbages from the field into the cart.
It took three truckloads of cargo in the afternoon to get all the vegetables home.
Geng Chunhua was a rough but careful person. She picked up all the six bunches of cabbage that had fallen on the ground and put them in the car, saying with a smile, "Let's go back and feed the chickens."
Three hundred cabbages, one thousand and fifty catties, seven hundred and thirty-five cents.
After Geng Chunhua left with the copper coins, smiling, Gu Qingqing finally understood why Wen Chenshi was so angry with her.
At the same time, she found Old Yang and asked him to make up for Geng Chunhua's half-day work in the afternoon.
After thinking about it, he realized that since Geng’s cabbage had been sold, he might as well go and bring back some from the village chief’s house before it got dark.