Reborn peasant girl: I became rich overnight by traveling to sea

Chapter 33 Selling Sea Urchins

Hearing her mother-in-law's voice, Chang Pingning suddenly noticed that the sea water had risen to just above her calf.

Clearly before, when Chang Pingning was picking scallops here, the sea water had just reached her ankles.

"What are you doing standing still! Ning Yatou, run away!"

Chang Pingning heard her mother-in-law's voice ringing from a distance again, and she came to her senses. The sea was about to rise, and her place was no longer safe.

Therefore, Chang Pingning and other villagers near the sea ran to the shore anxiously.Some people were too anxious and staggered, but quickly regained their balance.

But the wooden barrel that the man filled with seafood was overturned by the sea water. Some of the seafood floated along the seawater, and some of the seafood sank directly to the bottom of the sea.

After the villager regained his balance, he tried to grab the overturned barrel and found the scattered seafood.Seeing the water gradually reaching his belly, he reluctantly returned to the shore.

Because of her mother-in-law's reminder, Chang Pingning quickly ran back to the shore. She saw Aunt Yuhua picking up a few black thorn-like things by the waves.

"Guo Yuhua, give me back the sea urchin in your hand!" shouted the villager who almost fell into the sea water.

"I picked it up from the sea, why should I return it to you!" Aunt Yuhua's attitude was very confident.

Chang Pingning guessed that Aunt Yuhua might have picked up the sea urchin in the barrel that the man knocked over.Sure enough, others thought so too, and someone tried to mediate.

"Yuhua, just return the sea urchin to the fourth child. It's not easy for him every day."

"That's right, Yuhua, you must have made a lot of money buying sea urchins today, right? You might as well give these two back to the fourth child.

"That's right, Yuhua, you have made a lot of money from sea urchins today, you have to leave a way for us all to survive, right?"

Chang Pingning wanted to continue watching. She wanted to know whether Aunt Yuhua gave away the sea urchin in the end.But after a while, he heard the voice of his mother-in-law next to him urging him to go back.

"Come on, your father and Bomer will be back soon." My mother-in-law's tone was anxious, but she could clearly feel her happiness.

Chang Pingning turned around and saw her mother-in-law trying to lower the corners of her mouth. Finally, she gave up controlling her expression and turned away from the group.

On the way home from the beach, Chang Pingning figured out that the villagers who had just forced Guo Yuhua to hand over the sea urchins she picked up were actually doing the same thing to her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.Everyone is jealous that they can make money from sea urchins, so they all want a piece of it.

As for the sea urchin Guo Yuhua picked up, it was no longer important whether it was picked up by the fallen villager before.

Fortunately, she and her mother-in-law temporarily left the sea urchin business.

The next day, it was just dawn.

A little earlier than usual, Chang Pingning and her mother-in-law had already carried two wooden barrels and rushed to the uncle driving the ox cart, so as not to miss today's ox cart again and the two of them had to walk a while.

Beside the bullock cart, the people in Guojia Village were talking excitedly about the money they got from selling sea urchins yesterday, the sea urchins they snatched from Guo Yuhua yesterday evening, and other such "great achievements."

Of course, when everyone saw Guo Yuhua coming, everyone stopped in unison.Just exchanging happy looks with each other.

There were two groups of people on the oxcart. One group was thinking about selling sea urchins, and they were wondering how much money they could make from sea urchins today. The other group was just Chang Pingning, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. They just exchanged glances with each other and almost looked at each other along the way. not talking.

When the bullock cart arrived at the town, the two groups parted ways.

The sea urchin seller went to the vegetable market to sell sea urchins; Chang Pingning and her mother-in-law were still walking in the direction of Cyclamen each carrying a bucket of seafood.

When the errand boy at the restaurant saw that they had come to deliver seafood again, and the scallops were in good quality, he happily paid Madam Guo the price of the scallops.The bucket containing scallops was sold, and the remaining bucket contained some large conches, shrimps and the like.

Yesterday, the errand boy at the restaurant had reminded them that the restaurant did not accept common seafood from vendors, so with another bucket, Ye Xiuying planned to take Chang Pingning to sell it in the streets.

On the way to hawking, Chang Pingning and her mother-in-law saw a familiar figure on the roadside, probably from Guojia Village. The man was carrying a wooden bucket and hawking all the way.

"Sea urchins for sale, fresh and big sea urchins. Three cents a pound!"

Chang Pingning and her mother-in-law's eyes widened when they heard the price. They didn't expect that the price of sea urchins was so low.

But even though the price of sea urchins has dropped so low, no one is opening the door to buy sea urchins.

Chang Pingning asked her mother-in-law in a low voice: "Don't people in the town go to the vegetable market to buy it? Will the price of sea urchins in the vegetable market be lower?"

Unexpectedly, after Chang Pingning and the two shouted a few words, the residents opened the door and asked about the price of their seafood.

Chang Pingning watched her mother-in-law skillfully conduct business with each other, and also told the residents who came to buy seafood how to preserve the uneaten seafood.

Unexpectedly, the woman took the initiative to mention: "Sea urchins were sold very cheaply yesterday. I thought my husband and children would like to eat them, so I bought some more. But I bought too much, and I can't eat it every day. I have some left at home, and the rest Is there any way to preserve sea urchins?"

Ye Xiuying told the residents in the town a few words about how to preserve sea urchins, which made the woman very happy. She bought more conchs that she liked to eat, which was considered a business for her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Next, Chang Pingning noticed that when her mother-in-law sold seafood, she would always tell them how to preserve seafood, or she would take the initiative to tell them how to preserve uneaten sea urchins at home.

Unexpectedly, almost every family keeps a lot of sea urchins.

Everyone is worried about how to store these things or consume the sea urchins at home as quickly as possible.

In this way, the purchase of sea urchin due to its low price has made people less fond of eating sea urchin fried rice than before.

Even Cyclamen's sea urchin fried rice is far less popular than before.

Some people in the town would actively refuse to attend the banquet if they heard that the treat would include sea urchin fried rice.

As time goes by, fewer and fewer people buy sea urchins.The villagers in Guojiacun who go to town every day are not as excited as they were at first.They looked at the barrel in front of them with a sad expression.

Sometimes Chang Pingning would sit next to the barrel and smell the stench coming from inside.She wondered for a moment whether some villagers had brought spoiled sea urchins, mixed them with good ones, and sent them to the town to be sold?
The bullock cart was bumpy, coupled with the strange smell coming from the side, Chang Pingning tried hard to control himself not to think about the source of the smell.

But someone on the bullock cart couldn't bear it anymore and cursed.

"What kind of evil person would sell spoiled sea urchins in the town?"

"Can you still sell sea urchins at a high price just by doing this?"

"That man should be more conscious and get out of the car. Don't tarnish the reputation of our village."

Chang Pingning was secretly happy, but still pretended not to care.Suddenly, she felt someone wanted to open her barrel. She held down the lid of the barrel and looked at Aunt Yuhua's flattering eyes.

"Sister Xiuying, what are you going to the town to sell with the Bommer family every day? Why can't we sell our sea urchins, but can you still sell yours?"

(End of this chapter)