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Chapter 15 Please accept the vegetable basket

Zhou Lingling made up an excuse to send Zhou Yun and the Chen Jiakang brothers away again, and walked into a roadside store.

"Thank you, thank you, Shopkeeper Zhao, you saved my family's lives!"

"Alright, alright, hurry back and buy medicine for the child. You can redeem the jade pendant later when you have money!"

"Yes, yes, I'll go right away. When the child is well, I'll bring him here to kowtow to the shopkeeper..."

Zhou Lingling stood at the door and watched the shopkeeper personally see off a middle-aged man who was full of gratitude.

The boy who was cleaning the table saw her and asked, "Hey, little sister, what are you doing in the pawnshop?"

The shopkeeper turned around and saw a little girl who was not even as tall as his shoulders:

"Little girl, are you here alone?"

Zhou Lingling nodded: "Well, I'll change things."

Shopkeeper Zhao smiled and said, "Little girl, you need an adult to pawn things. Where are your parents?"

Zhou Lingling calmly began to talk nonsense: "My grandparents are both dead."

Shopkeeper Zhao was about to turn around and go back to the counter when he stopped.

He looked at the little girl's patched, washed-out clothes, and immediately imagined a pitiful little girl who had depended on her grandparents for her entire life. Both her grandparents were dead...

So pathetic!

It's so miserable!

Shopkeeper Zhao's already overflowing sympathy surged again.

"Little girl, what do you want to be?"

Zhou Lingling immediately took out a large gold bracelet...

After a while,

Zhou Lingling walked out of the pawnshop with a bulging purse in her pocket.

Shopkeeper Zhao was very worried and chased after her, whispering, "Little girl, there's a bank not far ahead. You must keep it safe."

Zhou Lingling grinned widely, "Thank you, shopkeeper. I'll be careful."

She put the silver into the space, who could steal it?

However, it is really rare for a pawnshop owner to be so conscientious.

She decided to come again in the future.

I just wonder if Shopkeeper Zhao still has a bad memory. Can Old Man and Old Lady Zhou die again?

According to the market price, one tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver, and one tael of silver is equal to one thousand copper coins, but gold is more valuable than silver, and silver is more valuable than copper, so usually one tael of gold can be exchanged for more silver than ten taels, and one tael of silver can often be exchanged for more than one thousand copper coins.

The shopkeeper was very conscientious. She exchanged a 50-gram gold bracelet for eleven taels of silver.

What Zhou Lingling didn't know was that because Manager Zhao was too conscientious, his pawnshop had collapsed three times.

The store went bankrupt because it was reluctant to sell all the pawned items, always thinking that people would come to redeem them, so it had no money to accept new pawned items, and finally it simply closed down.

When some people came to redeem the things he had collected before and gave him some extra interest, the shop was reopened.

It opens and then falls, then falls and then opens again.

The Zhao family's pawnshop is quite famous in Yunlai Town.

*

This season is rich in cucumbers, loofahs, gourds, beans and other vegetables, but there are not many green leafy vegetables.

Zhou Lingling walked to an old man's basket, which was filled with tender and juicy green vegetables.

"Uncle, is this how you sell your vegetables?"

The old man squatting behind the basket was fanning himself with his straw hat to cool off. When he looked up, he saw a little girl standing at his eye level.

Although the little girl didn't look like she was buying groceries, the old man still replied:

"Two pounds for one penny. They're all grown in our own fields and were just picked this morning."

Zhou Lingling nodded.

It is said that the prices before the 1980s were very touching. She went straight back to ancient times, and the prices were even more touching.

"How many kilograms are in these two baskets? I want both. Uncle, please help me carry them to the open space over there. I'll have my family come and pick them up."

The old man stopped what he was doing.

He smiled and shook his head: "Little girl, don't make fun of the old man."

"how could be?"

Zhou Lingling took out ten copper coins that Shopkeeper Zhao had specially prepared for her. "Uncle, this is the deposit. You estimate how many kilograms this is. Help me carry it over and I'll pay the rest directly."

The old man looked at the handful of money that was patted into his hand, was stunned for a moment, and then quickly got up from the ground.

"Let's go! Girl, where is your home? I'll take you there directly!"

Zhou Lingling looked at the old man whose smooth movements were totally inconsistent with his age, and the corners of her mouth twitched.

Okay, okay, you are “money-shy”, right?

"Just send it to the back of the alley over there. My brother is reading in the study in front. He'll have to wait a while. We can pick it up and take it back ourselves."

Zhou Lingling pointed to the study room that her eldest brother had entered. Next to it was an alley with no roads. She had just looked and saw that not many people passed by.

"By the way, old man, give me both baskets later and I'll pay you."

The old man carried his load and said as he walked, "No, no, these are all baskets I made myself. They are not worth much. I'll give them to you, girl."

When they reached the alley behind the study, the old man put down his burden and rubbed his hands:

"Well... little girl, my wife weighed it when I left home this morning. We have over 60 kilograms of vegetables here, and we just sold a few kilograms, so..."

Zhou Lingling understood and immediately took out a handful of copper coins, counted out twenty-one and gave them to the old man.

The old man was very excited when he got the money, but he still took out a penny and returned it to Zhou Lingling.

"I said I'd give it to you, so I gave it to you. Thanks to you, young lady, I can go back earlier today. Maybe I can come back and sell it again!"

The old man was very happy and turned around to go home.

Zhou Lingling was moved when she heard this: "Uncle, how many dishes do you have left? I want them all!"

The old man passed away in a daze.

Half an hour later,

Two couples, one old and one young, each carrying a load full of green vegetables came to the alley behind the study.

Seeing the small figure standing there, the sweaty old man breathed a sigh of relief.

"Little girl, these are all the vegetables we can pick at home, take a look."

Zhou Lingling said "hmm" and began to casually flip through the eight baskets of vegetables.

They were indeed just picked from the ground, and there was still some mud and sand on the roots. They were all very strong and of good quality.

This family must be very careful in growing vegetables.

The old woman next to the old man was also gasping for breath. Although they worked all year round, it was really unbearable for them to carry a load of dozens of kilograms and rush on the road at a risky cost.

She and her son and daughter-in-law looked at the little girl in the alley with confusion.

The daughter-in-law tugged at her husband's sleeve, and the old man's son turned to look at his mother:

Mom, didn’t Dad get cheated by someone?

Reading this from her son's eyes, the old woman frowned and shook her head.

If the old man hadn't really brought back the thirty cents, she would have thought she had been scammed.

Zhou Lingling raised her head and met four pairs of eyes looking at her.

No problem, just pay and leave.

This time, it was not only the old man who left in a daze, but a family of four.

Zhou Lingling observed for a while and made sure that no one was around to see her. Then she quickly put the eight baskets of vegetables into the space.

[Sister! Ten baskets of vegetables, please accept!]

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