Forty-Three Shopping

Ma Hongqi's remarks completely moved the stall owner. He glanced at the listless rabbit on the ground and nodded, "Okay, five yuan is five yuan!"

This rabbit has been in the backstreet for two days. If he doesn't change it today, it will be worthless when the rabbit dies. Xiao Housheng is right, Sanlibao can afford five yuan. And there are very few people who are willing to buy rabbits.

Shen Jiao happily took out five pieces of one dollar from her pocket. She took it carefully and pulled them out one by one, so that no one could see the other money in her bag. .

When the stall owner saw Shen Jiao's appearance, he knew that she was from the city, but a girl from the countryside didn't have that kind of style, and she couldn't carry that much money.

The stall owner grinned and asked earnestly, "Do you want rice? My rice is delicious, and I can eat three bowls of rice without vegetables."

Shen Jiao glanced at his basket. The quality of the rice was not particularly good, with a slight yellow tinge. It was obvious that when the rice was pounded, only the head was pounded, and the husks were not cleaned. However, there are very few farmers who grow rice here in the northwest. It is very rare to have such rice.

"How to change rice?" Shen Jiao asked.

When the stall owner saw the door, he said excitedly, "How about two cents and five hundred pounds?"

Ma Xinghua roared angrily: "Why don't you go grab it? The grain station is full of one cent per pound, but you have doubled it. Jiaojiao, don't buy him, we will go to other people to buy it."

The stall owner smiled smugly: "I'm the only one in the backstreet that can exchange rice. You can't find a single rice in other places."

Ma Xinghua was so angry that her face flushed red, she wanted to refute a few words, but she couldn't think of any words.

Shen Jiao said slowly: "Uncle, you can't find anyone in Sanlibao town to buy your rice!"

The stall owner was choked by her, blinked, and couldn't hold back a word. Ma Xinghua was really relieved, and said to the stall owner, "How is it? We will replace all the rice for 1.51 jin."

When she saw Shen Jiao paying the money just now, she knew that the Shen family's grandfather and grandson were not bad. Thinking about it, they used to be wealthy people. Ma Da, the family must not be too thin, so Ma Xinghua bought all the rice for Shen Jiao.

The stall owner shook his head like a drum: "No, no, I have worked so hard to grow this rice, and I only harvested more than 100 catties of rice on half an acre of land. If I grow sorghum, I will have more than that! A pound of horns can't be less!"

After some haggling between Ma Xinghua and the stall owner, the half-basket of 15 catties of rice was finally sold at 1.8 cents a catty, a total of 2.70 cents, Shen Jiao asked intentionally when paying the money, "Uncle, you are coming back at 15. ?"

She just heard from the stall owner that she received more than 100 catties of rice. Even if it is pounded into rice, it must be 100 catties. The man must still have rice at home.

The stall owner grinned and said, "Of course, I'll bring eggs next time. If I'm lucky, I can catch a pheasant. Remember to come here, little girl!"

"Yeah!" Shen Jiao responded.

Ma Hongqi helped her carry the rice on her back. The stall owner was in a good mood after earning the money. She didn't want the basket, and even gave the basket and rice to Shen Jiao.

Although Shen Jiao still wanted to buy more things, she had already spent enough money just now, so she had to buy ten eggs, twenty catties of cornmeal, ten catties of white noodles, and twenty catties of sorghum noodles, and she had to eat rice every day. It is definitely not possible, you have to get some coarse grains to eat it.

Seeing the surprised expressions of Ma Xinghua's sister and brother, Shen Jiao sighed deliberately, "The things here are really expensive. Grandpa's money has almost been spent for me, so I will have to exchange it for something next time."

Ma Xinghua comforted her and said, "Just relax, you can spend your salary in half a month, and life will get better."

Shen Jiao smiled at her, feeling a little uncomfortable. She didn't want to deceive her friends, but for safety's sake,

Just try to be careful!

What she didn't know was that she still overestimated the purchasing power of the rural people at this time. In her opinion, it was a very low-key business, but in the eyes of local people like Ma Xinghua, they were very local tyrants. You know, the people here Usually no one is willing to buy white noodles to eat, and no one will spend five yuan to buy a rabbit that can't boil oil!

At noon, they went back to the purchasing station together. Ma Xixi had already done things and bought some seasonings such as salt and soy sauce. He thought he brought them for the farm workers. He was a little impatient and shouted at them: " Why did it take so long to buy? The sun is getting westward!"

Shen Jiao hurriedly took out the white buns from the basket and handed them over, "Uncle Xixi eats the buns, Sister Xinghua and the others are all too late to accompany me to buy things, don't blame them."

Ma Xixi looked at a few baskets, surprise flashed in his eyes, and glanced at Shen Jiao, this little girl is quite rich, she bought so many things!

Thinking of this, he accepted the bun rudely, but instead of eating it, he put the bun in the basket, Ma Xinghua snorted coldly, "Brother, do you want to bring the bun to Xiaocao again? See you thinking about our orchid? Orchid is still your own sister, Xiaocao has nothing to do with you!"

Ma Xixi looked embarrassed, glared angrily at Ma Xinghua, took out the bun from the basket, broke it in half, handed half of it to Xiao Lanhua, and put away the remaining half.

Ma Xinghua smugly winked at Ma Hongqi, and said crisply: "Half a bun, big brother, why did you take it back? If Xiaocao's mother asks where the other half is, what would you say, big brother? It is said that our family ate the orchid. Xiaocao's mother can't be rude to you, and she won't let you eat at her house for three months!"

Shen Jiao listened ignorantly and couldn't help but whispered to Ma Hongqi: "Brother Hongqi, who is Xiaocao? Is Uncle Xixi's daughter?"

Ma Xinghua spit, and said disdainfully: "Bah, we don't have this kind of wild mountain and wild grass in our Ma family. Who knows which bastard is a wild species!"

"Enough, the girl's mouth is a little bit more polite, Xiaocao didn't invite you to provoke you!" Ma Xixi reprimanded with a sullen face.

Who knew that this sentence could set Ma Xinghua on fire, the little girl's eyes turned red all of a sudden, she stood up and shouted at Ma Xixi: "Why didn't you provoke me? Just provoke me, old fox. Little vixen, suck your blood and eat your meat every day, big brother, you are a half-headed (idiot), and the money you earn is spent by these two vixen!

Shen Jiao understood now that Ma Xixi, who dared to love, had a crush. She was supposed to be a widow and had a daughter named Xiaocao. Ma Xinghua hated this girl very much, so she would spoil this Ma Xixi if she took the chance.

Ma Xinghua started crying after scolding and choking, "Big brother, you are a ghost, you have never scolded me before, since you were hooked by a fox spirit, you have been scolding me all day long, I will go back and tell grandpa, let grandpa train you! "

Ma Xixi was confused by her cousin, so she softened her tone and said, "Just say a few words and you will lose golden beans. Don't cry, the big girl who is about to get married, don't be ashamed of crying like this!"

"Just cry! Don't worry about it!"

Ma Xinghua wiped her tears with her sleeves, her eyes were red, she probably felt embarrassed, and lowered her head and said nothing!

Ma Xixi didn't feel well when he saw his cousin like this. He picked up half a bun and ate it in three bites. He shouted at Ma Xinghua, "You're always happy now, right?"

Ma Xinghua couldn't help laughing, but soon she stood up again, with an awe-inspiring and inviolable appearance, making Shen Jiao happy.