After waiting until the last trip was completed, Ye Congwen Shi Shiran followed the porters and walked towards the market. The scorching sun was setting in the west, and the autumn wind was already slightly cool. It was probably around three o'clock in the afternoon.
In the past, people going to the market had already returned home one after another. But today is different from the past. Crowds of people continue to gather at the market like a flowing stream. The people running with big and small bags in their hands must be repeat customers. There must be some high-quality and low-priced goods in front of them waiting for them to snap up.
I could hear the enthusiastic shouting of Pigeon Sprout in the distance, and it seemed that I was surrounded by people several times. This was not the focus of Ye Congwen's attention. He quickly glanced around and saw no familiar figure or heard a familiar voice. His heart skipped a beat. He was acting in a full set. If the protagonist didn't enter the scene, his play wouldn't be all in vain. Acted?
"Give way, here comes the fresh pioneer beef——"
Five dark-skinned men filed in, and the onlookers on both sides gave way. The loads of beef as red as blood seemed to still have residual warmth. As the swaying basket seemed to be alive, the large pieces of fresh meat swayed up and down, making the People's appetite increases.
The wooden bean sprouts were cleaning the huge chopping board enthusiastically. It was two to three meters long and more than one meter wide. The front had clear lines and was shiny. It was sawed from a pine tree and was durable and would not rot for a hundred years. At this moment, it has been rubbed with oil by pigeon sprouts.
"Little girl, how have you considered what I said? This price is very high. I can't find anyone else in Qingshan Town!"
A man with strong limbs was extremely anxious beside him, and there were faint signs of breaking out.
"Meat is for sale. I don't care how much I earn. Anyway, my mission is to sell it. How much does it cost per pound?"
Mudouya smiled happily and said:
"Then it depends on the sincerity of our fellow villagers!"
He pinched his throat, signaled everyone to mute with both hands, and shouted loudly:
“Buy five pounds and get 20% off!
Buy ten pounds and get 30% off!
Buy twenty pounds and get 40% off!
50% off on all purchases over 50 pounds! "
Before the words could even be spoken, there was a loud bang, as if a cauldron was exploding, and everyone started discussing in a hurry, fearing that they would be left behind. There was also a weak voice asking:
"What if I only buy one or two pounds?"
"One or two kilograms? The price increases by two cents per kilogram, and you have to queue up at the back!"
Mudouya replied nonchalantly, while leading the five people to arrange the meat neatly. After counting the quantity, he glanced at Ye Congwen walking slowly and slowly in small steps. He thought in his heart that Brother Congwen could calm down. .
When the strong-limbed man saw Ye Congwen walking slowly, he rushed towards him anxiously, as if he were meeting the savior, the immortal Bodhisattva, and kept complaining from afar:
"Brother Xiaowen, I finally look forward to having you here! This little girl is so ignorant!"
"Hey - Boss Chen, what brought you here? It's a hot day in the sky. If you don't enjoy the cool air at home, why are you joining in the fun in my shop?"
Ye Congwen saw that the number one animal trainer in Qingshan Town had taken the bait, and thinking that there were two colleagues who were not dealing with this person who had not yet shown up, he greeted him with a haha, looking around and talking to him, never getting to the point.
"This little girl is about to piss me off! Whose girl is she? She's so ungrateful!"
"Oh, my distant cousin, why did she offend you? I asked her to come over and apologize." Ye Congwen replied with a serious face.
"If you don't talk about her, don't talk about her."
Seeing the little girl putting buckets of beef on the butchering table, her heart was swinging back and forth like fifteen buckets, and she complained quite depressedly:
"What's going on in your Tieta Village recently? Such a good pioneer cow is actually killed and sold for meat. It makes my heart bleed! Where is the pioneer cow that promised me?"
"Isn't it on the butcher's table?"
Ye Congwen's eyes revealed the charm of looking at a blind man. The man surnamed Chen immediately became furious:
"Live alive! I want to live!"
You are still mentioning meat to me, don’t you know that I am the best animal trainer in Qingshan Town? Have you never seen an animal lover since you were a child? If it weren’t for the fact that the strong man from Iron Tower Village couldn’t be beaten, do you believe I would have closed your shop?
"My brother Wen, I have been waiting for this day for eight months. Do you know how difficult it would be for us animal trainers to live without the Pioneer Wild Bull?
It's fine now. I finally arrived when I was hoping for the stars and the moon, but you brought me a boatload of beef. Aren't you asking for my life? "
"Hey! Don't you think I don't want to? Who doesn't want to earn money?"
Ye Congwen sighed and said with regret:
"I had already caught it alive, but who knew that my cousin was so naughty and ran over to touch the red hair on the cow? You also know that the pioneer cattle have bright-colored hair.
I accidentally opened the cable, and the cow ran away without saying a word. It chased the little girl and trampled on it, almost killing someone. No, if Brother Lang hits it with an axe, it will become a headless cow corpse. I was even scolded for this.
But things have happened, and there is nothing we can do about it. Human lives are at stake! "
Ye Congwen made up half-truths and half-falsities, so others couldn't help but believe it. After hearing this, Chen the arrogant man looked at Mudou Ya with sharper eyes, like a sharp sword or a dagger, gleaming with cold light and cold and vicious.
"That makes sense, but you can't eat it if you accidentally kill it?"
The man shouted in agony, looked at the bright red beef, and gritted his teeth and said:
“If a sacred object like this, created in heaven, dies unexpectedly, we should hold a grand burial ceremony, kneel three times and kowtow nine times, offer flowers at all times, and burn paper in memory every year.
How can you not be so unruly as to just peel off the skin and sell the beef? This is just pioneering cattle! Do you think you are a scalper on the bad street? "
Ye Congwen saw that the more he talked, the more excited he became, as if someone had killed his father and taken away his wife and children. Ye Congwen tried hard to calm down his equally excited heart, and asked pretending to be puzzled:
"Is there any secret here?"
"It makes sense!"
I was about to popularize the theory of karma and retribution to Ye Congwen when I saw the little girl starting to sell beef! The knife rose and fell in his hand, as if the knife was cutting himself.
"Please tell your cousin to stop this cruel behavior. I'm going to faint."
"Little bean sprouts, they will be sold later!"
As soon as Ye Congwen finished speaking, the crowd booed and even Mudouya frowned and asked, "What the hell are you doing again?"
"You've seen it too. The crowd is furious. Let's make a long story short. I'll give you three minutes!"
"This is the ancestral secret of our animal trainers. You must know that every industry has the habit of supporting our ancestors. Our food, clothing, housing and transportation are all obtained by domesticating the wild cattle. How can we just watch our ancestors be robbed?" Where’s the food?”
"So the Pioneer Mangniu is considered the bread and butter of your profession?"
"You can say that, but what's even more terrible is: if the entire town's residents ate the meat of the sacred cow and were discovered by the ancestors and punished, from now on, we in Qingshan Town may no longer be able to tame the pioneer cattle. "
"No way, is it so mysterious?"
Ye Congwen was dubious. Although he had been prepared, he never expected that there were so many details involved. He thought they were just a group of cattle lovers. Seeing this situation, I have to change my plan to sell at a discount. Well, I have to pay more!
“I would rather believe that something exists than something that doesn’t exist.”
Chen, the reckless man, saw that Ye Congwen was a little hesitant, so he quickly grabbed the other two animal trainers and acted as lobbyists together.
The other two strong men, one fat and the other thin, looked attentive. Although they were not good at words, the words "me too" were clearly engraved on their solemn faces. Among them, the fat one even had his buttons crooked. He must have rushed over as soon as he got up. His sleepy eyes showed his sincerity.
"We can't gamble with the future of our children and grandchildren. What if it works out? Brother Xiaowen, you have to sell me this face today no matter what. How do you say that our animal trainers have still had a good relationship with Iron Tower Village after so many years? You senior Ye Wudi and my father often have dinner together."
"Brother Congwen, what are you doing? It will get dark if you don't start selling!"
Mudouya yelled impatiently, her little face gradually darkened and she had the urge to get angry at any time!
"Do you want to sell it or not? If you don't want to sell it, we'll leave!"
The onlookers threatened one after another, and some even rushed forward to lift the meat and throw money.
Seeing that the situation was critical, the three animal trainers no longer chatted with Ye Congwen. They quickly ran to the butcher table and surrounded the Pioneer Mango beef tightly, shouting loudly:
"No selling, no selling, we take care of everything."
Ye Congwen felt happy when he saw the results were beginning to show, but it was not time to close the net yet, and he still needed bean sprouts to add fuel to the fire.
"Who are you, why should I sell it to you three gangsters for no reason?"
"Your cousin Ye Congwen promised!"
"Yes, yes! We bought them all at double the price!"
To be rich means to be heroic, to speak loudly, and to be true to one's words.
"Brother Congwen, what are you doing? You secretly sold everything to them. What should I do? These folks have been waiting in line for a long time. Should I drive them away?"
Mudouya paused, gritted his teeth and said arrogantly:
"Even if Invincible Grandpa comes today, I won't obey him. We people in Iron Tower Village always mean what we say, and we will never go back on what we have said!"
He stuck out his tongue at the three of them and said angrily: "I won't sell it to you, I'll make you mad!"
The three of them looked at each other in frustration and helplessness. They had no choice but to save the country and looked at Ye Congwen with a sad face.
Ye Congwen calculated with his fingers that an ordinary scalper would be worth fifteen cents per catty, double the price would be thirty, and three thousand catties would be nine gold coins. He took out a sling of copper coins to appease the crowd. It was perfect! The stupid idea of planning a 50% off sale for fear of not being able to sell at noon is gone. He cleared his throat and said seriously:
"Since this thing is so important to you, I can't bear to do things that harm others and not benefit myself. Besides, our ancestors have a long history.
Let's do this. I'll give you the price of ordinary yellow beef, which is fifteen cents per catty. I'll give it to you at double the price, which is thirty cents. The beef was rounded off and the whole amount was three thousand pounds, a total of nine gold coins. If you agree, just nod, and we'll pay and deliver the goods. "
The pig bean sprouts blinked, didn't they sell for eight cents per catty? Why did they suddenly rise to thirty cents? More than two thousand kilograms of beef is rubbed into three thousand kilograms. Is this the legendary rounding method?
Nine gold coins, not far from ten. In this case, you don’t have to be angry with Ye Rulang when you go back? With a quick glance, he quietly put the lid on the basket containing the cow's head.
The three strong men looked at each other. Each of them had three gold coins, which was acceptable if they were divided evenly.
"Have you brought any money? Come out with a handful of money to calm everyone's anger!"
Ye Congwen winked at several people. The black man Chen unhappily took out a bunch of copper coins and looked at Ye Congwen in confusion.
Ye Congwen walked up to everyone with the sling of copper coins and apologized loudly:
"My sister delayed everyone's time today, and I am here to apologize to everyone."
While pointing at the three animal trainers, he pleaded for them:
"The three masters also know that it is immoral to take away someone's love. To express their apology, they specially took out a sling of copper coins to comfort everyone. Let's do this. Everyone will line up in order and give everyone three cents to buy wine! Everyone, please don't follow Ai Niu. People are generally well-informed, okay?"
