Ordinary people's rice bowl

Chapter 145
Dongfang Yubai has not yet appeared, Mu Zhen followed her mother to go to see the barn, before going out, Mu Zhen called Mu Bao twice, but Mu Bao didn't appreciate it, just "hummed", and then turned his head to sleep Go, as if she would never wake up, Mu Zhen could only shake her head and said, "You just wait at home to cook the pot for a week!"

After the couple went out, Mu Yan also got up early and cooked at home alone.

With the experience of the previous two times, Xiuhua naturally changed the way and place of the trap, and no longer had to go down into the waistless cold water to fish, but stood by the stream and pulled it with the hook bound on the bamboo pole. The upper edge of the barrier can be dragged from the water to the shore.As Xiuhua's experience is getting richer, today it is not like two days ago that she brought a bucket, but Mu Zhen pushed the bicycle and brought a bag of fertilizer. Xiuhua skillfully poured out all the buckets. , the fertilizer bag was so heavy that Mu Zhen couldn't lift it, it was estimated to weigh seventy to eighty catties, and the types of fish were also increased, such as mullet and grass carp, which made Mu Zhen feel that her living expenses at school had been settled.

When the two returned home, Mu Yan had already prepared breakfast, Mu Bao was still soundly asleep, Mu Zhen lay next to Mu Bao's ear, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up, get up, lazy cat, go cook! "

Mu Bao rubbed his eyes, stared at Mu Zhen and asked, "Do you want me to catch fish?"

"Are you lost in sleep, are you dreaming of catching fish? We all came back from the field. If you lose the bet, you should cook the pot!" Mu Zhen said seriously.

"Don't lie to me, you haven't gone yet, how can you punish me for burning the pot?" Mu Bao pretended.

"Does your bet with Mu Yan still count?" Mu Zhen asked intentionally knowing that Mu Bao would not carry out the agreement.

"Forget it, it's just that you didn't call me twice when you went out, you deliberately joined forces to play tricks on me!" Mu Bao blinked and said.

"It's purely a rogue, you can ask my mother, I call you a few times, but you just don't get up, now you complain about me and don't say anything, and you still use strong words, it's really lawless!" Mu Zhen said.

"I'm still lawless, what can you do?" Mu Bao responded in a very strong tone with his neck bent.

Mu Zhen saw that Mu Bao didn't admit it, so she lifted Mu Bao's quilt and scratched his ribs randomly with her hands. Mu Bao couldn't help Mu Zhen's frolicking, and he couldn't help shouting at Xiuhua who was busy dividing fish in the courtyard. Said: "Mother, come and save me, see your son bullying others, do you still care?"

"Come on, I can't even control you, who else can I control?" Xiuhua deliberately expressed her helplessness.

The two brothers laughed more freely.

After a while, Xiuhua was heard shouting from the yard: "Mu Zhen, come here quickly, you push it with a bicycle, let's go to the town to sell fish, and then all the money in exchange will be used for your living expenses!"

While Mu Zhen agreed, she pointed to Mu Bao who was lying on the bed and said, "Just wait, if I come back from selling fish and you haven't woken up yet, I'll never end with you when I come back."

"I'll wait for you, let's see what you can do!" Mu Bao still insisted.

"If you have the ability, don't get up when I come back from town!" Mu Zhen added after turning around.

Mu Bao raised his head, made a grimace at Mu Zhen who was walking out of the house and said in a low voice, "Xiao Mian, if you dare to fight with me, just wait and wait, I'm afraid you won't make it!" After finishing speaking, he still wrapped the quilt tightly, and fell asleep.

Mu Zhen, who followed her mother to Binhu Town, is no stranger to the environment here, but she has never been to this fish market so early, and she has never appeared on this street as a seller. Everything is full of freshness immediately, facing the sun, looking at the antique archway at the street entrance, the bright red background of the archway is a bit dazzling under the sunlight, the fresh fish morning market on both sides of the street is lined up on both sides, and there are merchants with stores behind them, There are tin basins of various shapes to hold water in front of them, and there are different types of freshwater fish in them. The most attractive thing is the businessman who loves to yell: "Let's take a walk and have a look, today's freshwater fish just came out of the lake. All the fish are fresh, and you don’t need money if you’re not fresh!”

Mu Zhen followed Xiuhua, found a corner under the archway and stopped. Xiuhua took out a fertilizer bag from the pocket she was carrying, spread it flat on the ground, and dragged it from the bicycle Mu Zhen was pushing. Part of the fish was poured onto the fertilizer bag, and the fish was still fresh and lively. The favorite fish jumped out of the fertilizer bag. The house was put back on the fertilizer bag.

Just as Mu Zhen put it away, a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses walked over and pointed at the fish in front of Mu Zhen and asked, "How much is this fish per catty?"

"I don't know what the price is, that's it, give me a price!" Xiuhua responded, and then took out a hook scale from the cloth pocket she brought.

"Sell all the fish together?" The middle-aged man asked again.

"Hmm!" Xiuhua's brief response aroused the interest of the middle-aged man.

"That's two cents a catty!" The middle-aged man said and held out two fingers.

"You are so good at shopping. Yesterday I had all this kind of crucian carp and sold it for [-] cents a catty. This one is even better than yesterday's, and there is also mullet. The price is a bit unfair!" Xiu Hua said while talking. The mouth of the chemical fertilizer bag of Kaisheng fish is for middle-aged people to look at.

"Then tell me, I'll listen!" The middle-aged man said without looking carefully.

"Well, if you want them all, then add another five cents per catty, and I'll give you everything!" Xiuhua responded bluntly.

"Deal!" The middle-aged man was very forthright, and immediately agreed to Xiuhua's proposal.

After Xiuhua finished speaking, she shook the four corners of the fertilizer bag on the ground upwards, hooked the scale hook, weighed it, and shouted, "22 catties!"

Then he put down the fertilizer bag on the ground, and hooked another fertilizer bag that hadn't been poured: "43 catties!"

"A total of 65 catties, a total of 16 yuan and a quarter!" Mu Zhen, who stood watching from the side, opened her mouth and reported.

"It's really faster than an abacus!" The middle-aged man praised Mu Zhen, and at the same time he took out a small notebook, wrote down the quantity and price, took out the money and handed it to Xiuhua, who gave her two ten-yuan bills She asked Xiuhua to find some money for herself, but Xiuhua forgot to bring any money when she went out, so she could only beg the middle-aged man, "Look, brother, can you give me the right money, I don't have any change!"

"Okay!" After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he took out another one-yuan change, quickly found sixteen pieces, and then took out another five-cent note and handed it to Xiuhua.

Xiuhua took it and counted it, and was about to put it in her pocket, but the middle-aged man said: "I checked it wrong just now, I will check it again!"

Xiuhua believed it to be true, and handed all sixteen one-yuan banknotes to the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man smiled and counted them quickly, and handed them to Xiuhua, saying: "Exactly, I remembered it wrong!" The fertilizer bag containing the fish was poured into his own pocket.When Xiuhua took the money, the middle-aged man didn't say a word, just picked up the fish, got into the crowd, and quickly disappeared without a trace.

Feeling a bit strange, Xiuhua took out the money she ordered just now, and counted again, but there were still fourteen. Xiuhua wondered: "It was sixteen just now, why is it now fourteen?"

Xiuhua fumbled into the trouser pocket where she had put the money just now. There was indeed nothing in the pocket, and then she turned around and looked at the ground around her, but she did not find any missing money. Hurry up, the mistake can only be made by the person counting the money for the second time. This is what people often talk about, borrowing some money and stealing two one-yuan bills. Xiuhua hurriedly chased in the direction where the middle-aged man disappeared. After chasing to the head of the market, there was no sign of the middle-aged man, and he returned to the original place disappointedly, looked at Mu Zhen who was in doubt, and said, "Let's go home!"

Mu Zhen nodded, pushed her bicycle out of the fresh fish market and started on her way home.

(End of this chapter)