The old woman became rich by relying on the supermarket instead of selling her granddaughter

Although He Chuanzong was dark and thin, he was very strong. He pushed the cart with a fast pace and kept it steady. Meng Lan and Tian Shi were both breathless as they followed behind him.

The three of them hurried and arrived at the town gate when it was completely light.

"Chuanzong, let's go in and find a crowded place to sell it."

Meng Lan knew that she had to find a place with a lot of traffic to sell things, so that there would be more customers and more transactions. However, she was originally a country woman and rarely came to the town. The He Chuanzong brothers would come to the town to work during the slack season, so they must be more familiar with this place than she is.

He Chuanzong glanced at his mother, nodded and said, "Mom, I know where there are a lot of people."

Every year during the slack season, he and his second brother would come to the town to find work. He knew almost everything about where there were many people and where there were few people in the town.

After He Chuanzong finished speaking, he pushed the cart towards a road. He wanted to go to where he usually worked. There were many workers there, most of whom did physical labor, which was very exhausting and they were paid daily. Some workers would buy some meat to eat, so he thought he could sell it by going there.

He Chuanzong was thinking while walking quickly in front, and Meng Lan and Tian Shi hurried to catch up with him.

However, the aroma wafting from the large vat on the cart was too strong, and when they passed the entrance of the academy, they were stopped by a group of people dressed as scholars.

"Auntie, what are you selling?" A scholar from the academy came up to Meng Lan and asked, his eyes constantly glancing at the cart that He Chuanzong was pushing while he spoke.

Seeing that some people were interested, Meng Lan immediately started introducing the place He Chuanzong wanted to take them to, without caring that they had not yet reached the place he wanted to take them.

"I made some pork elbows, pig trotters and braised pork at home and brought them to town to see if they would sell well."

After hearing what Meng Lan said, the scholar's eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly asked, "Auntie, how much do you sell these for?"

"A pork elbow costs 15 wen, half a pig's trotter also costs 15 wen, a braised egg costs 3 wen, three pieces of braised pork costs 5 wen, two taels of white rice costs 4 wen, two taels of brown rice costs 1 wen, and three wen of brown rice is enough to fill you up. If you only buy rice, you can get a spoonful of broth for free."

Meng Lan spoke quickly and clearly as she quoted the price. She had memorized the price in her dream last night, fearing that she would forget it when someone asked her today. Now it came in handy.

Meng Lan thought that after she said the price, the scholar in front of her would immediately say: Auntie, give me one.

Unexpectedly, after she finished quoting the price, a group of scholars gathered around them. Meng Lan was stunned. What was going on?

Before Meng Lan could react, the scholar who had just asked Meng Lan looked at her in shock, and it took a long time before he could utter a word.

"Aunt, won't you lose money this way?"

Meng Lan immediately breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that the price was too favorable and scared this group of people.

After putting her heart at ease, Meng Lan began to lie without blushing or panicking. She looked at the scholar with sincerity in her eyes.

"It's profitable, it's profitable. How can you not make money if you start a business? If I earn less, you will spend less. Isn't that a good thing?"

After being used to seeing small vendors saying that they are not making any money or even losing money, when they see someone like Meng Lan admitting that she is making money, everyone can't help but have a better impression of her and feel that she is very down-to-earth.

And look at what they said, she earns less, they spend less. It's so considerate, so thoughtful, thinking about them everywhere, everyone feels warm in their hearts, and their wallets are loosened.

The scholar Hao Ren, who took the lead in questioning Meng Lan, was deeply moved by Meng Lan's sincerity. He immediately took out his purse and spoke loudly to her.

"Aunt, give me one portion first. I want 41 liang of fine rice, a pork elbow and half a pig's trotter, and a braised egg. The total is coins. Here you go."

As Hao Ren spoke, he counted out 41 copper coins from his purse and handed them to Meng Lan. Meng Lan reached out to take them and quickly put them into the purse around her waist.

Then he took out a large bowl from the bamboo basket and put two layers of fine rice in it. It looked like the portion was more than four ounces.

After the rice was ready, Meng Lan took a spoon and scooped out the pork elbow and trotter from the large vat. They were all cut in advance. Meng Lan first scooped out half of the trotter and put it on the rice, then scooped out two full spoons of pork elbow meat before stopping, and finally scooped out a braised egg and two cabbage leaves.

After Hao Ren had packed all the things he wanted, Meng Lan scooped two spoonfuls of the fragrant soup from the jar and poured it over the rice.

This is a big bowl, half of it is meat, it smells so good, I wonder what it tastes like. 41 cents, cheaper than making it yourself!

Hao Ren looked at Meng Lan's free Sheng Fa and felt that she was losing money. He felt bad for her, but she was still so happy. He wondered if this farmer aunt couldn't count.

The other people present were also tempted when they saw the big bowl full of rice. After all, those who could come to the academy to study basically had good family conditions.

People like He Tianci would secretly buy a roast chicken for 50 cents each, so wouldn't it be easy for a group of scholars like them to buy a pork elbow rice for or cents?

Tian also took out the chopsticks and handed them to Hao Ren with great tact.

There were several tables and chairs for people to rest at the entrance of the academy. After Hao Ren took over the bowl and chopsticks, he took the pork elbow rice and sat there to eat. Some of the scholars who were watching also followed him.

Hao Ren looked at the rosy-colored pork elbow in the bowl, picked up a piece with chopsticks and put it into his mouth.

Under the gaze of everyone, Hao Ren looked intoxicated and felt like he was floating.

Delicious, so delicious! He had never eaten anything so delicious since he was a child!

"Brother Hao, how is it?"

A voice came from the crowd. Following this voice, several more voices came one after another asking Hao Ren how it tasted.

“Delicious, so delicious!”

Hao Ren reluctantly swallowed the piece of meat in his mouth, and then praised it generously. After that, Hao Ren never even glanced at them again, and started to eat the meat with big mouthfuls of food.

Hao Ren is as his name suggests, a good man, sincere and never lies, which is recognized by the entire academy.

Seeing Hao Ren say this and eating so happily, the other scholars also swarmed towards Meng Lan's cart, shouting in a hurry, fearing that they would not be able to buy it if they were too late.

"Auntie, I want a pork elbow and two taels of brown rice!"

"Aunt, I want four ounces of brown rice and three pieces of braised pork!"

"Aunt! I want..."

After a while, most of the things Meng Lan and her friends brought were sold out. The main reason was that they ran out of bowls.

The used bowls were placed in another empty bamboo basket, waiting to be taken home to be washed together. Meng Lan didn't expect that the sales would be so good on the first day of the stall, and even if she took out all the bowls at home, it would not be enough. She would have to buy a few more bowls before going back.

The small pot of white rice was all sold out, but there was still some brown rice left. The braised pork was all sold out, the pig's trotters were all sold out, but there were still a few pieces of pork elbow left.

Looking at this group of hungry students, Meng Lan apologized and said that she didn't have enough experience in setting up a stall for the first time, so she didn't prepare much. She would definitely make more next time.

The scholar who didn't get to eat asked Meng Lan relentlessly, "Aunt, when is the next time?"

"Tomorrow, tomorrow! I'll make more and bring it tomorrow!" Meng Lan answered happily. The heavy feeling of the purse around her waist made her heart full, as if something was filling her up bit by bit.

After closing the stall, Meng Lan did not rush back. She asked her eldest brother and his wife to wait, and she took her backpack and found an empty alley, went into the supermarket to buy some goods, and then came out and put the goods on the cart.

She doesn’t want to be the donkey anymore today, so she asks her older son to be the donkey instead.

Then the three of them went to a place selling bowls. Meng Lan picked out a few nice-looking bowls and bought them, and also put them in the car. On the way back, the three of them met a tofu seller.

Meng Lan wanted to eat tofu, but it was not sold in the supermarket system yet, so she stopped the tofu seller.

"Tofu seller, how much do you sell your tofu for?"

Dou Fu, who was selling tofu, stopped happily when he saw someone wanted to buy tofu, and took off the shoulder pole.

"Auntie, tofu is 6 cents per pound, how much do you want?" Dou Fu asked.