Chapter 23: Shepherd's Purse is a Bit Old

By the time Zhao Yang brought the rice, the vegetable plate was almost empty.

Qinqin finally recovered. Seeing that the mother and son hadn't started eating yet, she felt embarrassed and picked two chopsticks of vegetables for them:

"Mom, Zhao Yang, you try it, these vegetables are really good!"

The mother and son also ate a bite with a smile—

Mmm!!!

Zhao Yang looked at the bottom of the plate, then at his wife who was clearly still wanting more, and looked at his mother with expectation: "Buy more tomorrow?"

The same situation happened in another community.

Li Xiufen, with a fashionable red curly hair, served her granddaughter a large bowl of dumplings: "Yuanyuan, eat quickly! These shepherd's purse dumplings are very fresh! As delicious as the ones in the morning."

Her daughter-in-law couldn't help but laugh or cry:

"Mom, I told you, Yuanyuan is picky; you gave her so much, she can't eat it."

As she spoke, she put her bowl over: "Come, Yuanyuan, if you can't finish, share it with Mom."

Unexpectedly, the little girl turned her head while holding the bowl, "Ah-woo," and it was a whole one, mumbling: "Delicious! I can eat it all!"

Yuanyuan's mother was stunned.

"Is it that delicious?"

This picky child had a weak stomach since she was small; she didn't eat this, she wanted to vomit that. She was in the senior class of kindergarten, but she didn't look as strong as the junior class, which was worrying.

But now, her special small bowl had over ten dumplings! Looking at the child eating one dumpling every two or three bites, eating without even raising her head, it couldn't be more fragrant!

As a grandmother, she finally had some sense of achievement, pointing out the country: "You guys, you're just too precious usually. This imported, that organic... tossing back and forth, look at how thin the child is?"

"Look again, the wild vegetables at the vegetable market for twenty yuan a jin this morning. I stewed some watercress for Yuanyuan to have with noodles this morning, and she ate a big bowl in one breath, and didn't want to leave when I sent her to kindergarten."

At the kindergarten gate, she even said to her: "Grandma, make something this delicious tonight too?"

Oh my!

At that time, Li Xiufen's heart softened into a mess.

This wasn't it, she rushed to the vegetable market in a hurry and was blessed by God to grab the last three bundles of watercress.

The three bundles of vegetables were now kept in the refrigerator, and the shepherd's purse grabbed in the morning was hurriedly wrapped into dumplings.

Speaking of her battle results, Li Xiufen was also quite proud:

"You don't know, I caught it just right. There was a pair of young people in front picking vegetables, complaining that twenty yuan a jin was expensive—"

Li Xiufen let out a disdainful snort: "It's not that I'm saying, what do you young people know about buying vegetables? These fresh and tender wild vegetables look like they grew well in the wild!"

"Besides, in this season, the supermarket has everything, but cucumber is sixteen yuan a jin. Does it taste good?"

"I was lucky to grab them."

As she spoke, no one was cheering for her.

She looked down and saw that her son and daughter-in-law had finished their bowls, and the dumplings were almost gone.

Her son even had the face to say: "Mom, is there any more?"

Li Xiufen remembered that silly good treasure from the morning again, and she was even more angry: How are they both men, and that child grows so well!

She said unpleasantly: "Just one jin of shepherd's purse, how many dumplings can you wrap?"

"Then, then buy a few more jin tomorrow!" Her son was greedy! With a small bowl of dumplings in his stomach, his stomach was still empty. Didn't you say there were other vegetables in the refrigerator...

Li Xiufen was even angrier!

"Eat, eat, eat, only know how to eat! You say buy more, so buy more? Buying a few jin casually costs over a hundred yuan, why don't you feel heartache for the money?"

Her son was aggrieved.

Didn't you just say twenty yuan wasn't expensive, Mom?

Just then, Yuanyuan put down her bowl: "Grandma, I want to eat it tomorrow too!"

Li Xiufen changed her face instantly, beaming with joy: "We'll boil noodles tomorrow morning, the dumplings are gone—but Grandma joined the group today, I'll ask you tomorrow if they're still selling them, and next time we'll buy ten jin and wrap them all into dumplings to freeze!"

Her son and daughter-in-law looked at each other, feeling that they had no status in the family.

Song Tan's 17-member customer group was exceptionally lively tonight.

【Girl, when are you selling wild vegetables again?】

【Boss, can I reserve? I want ten jin of shepherd's purse】

【Little girl, I'm going to the park to dance in the morning recently, can I give you the money first and you keep the vegetables for me?】

Song Tan was in a beautiful mood and simply replied uniformly:

【It's cold now, and the wild vegetables haven't grown yet. This is a part that grew in the mountain depression, without pesticides or fertilizers, so there aren't many wild vegetables. Therefore, there won't be any tomorrow, and I don't accept reservations.】

【Tentatively, the day after tomorrow at seven o'clock in the morning at the vegetable market, it will still be the two of us siblings. The next time we sell, it will be three days later. We must give the wild vegetables a chance to grow.】

Then she posted a small video taken when picking wild vegetables today:

I saw the greenness on the mountain was sparse, spring hadn't arrived yet, but there was a patch of emerald-green wild vegetables on the hillside, growing wantonly and unrestrainedly.

In the cracks of the ridges and by the pond, a clump of green appeared unexpectedly, which was enough to verify that these were indeed wild vegetables growing naturally.

And just then, someone in the group spoke:

"Little girl, the wild vegetables on the ground have no cost, so you sell them so expensive? It should be cheaper. And it's underweight, only eight liang a bundle, and the taste is average."

Song Tan raised her eyebrows—underweight?

When tying them, it was one jin two liang a bundle. In this weather, the moisture hadn't evaporated at all, and the vegetable leaves were crisp and fresh, not to mention how tender they were.

As for the taste being average? Could she not know what she grew?

This was looking down on her hundred years of farming experience.

Besides, there were only a dozen people in this group, and someone was already picking faults?

Song Tan wouldn't tolerate it.

So she replied politely: "Hello, underweight and doesn't taste good, right? Come over the day after tomorrow morning, and I'll refund you."

The boss is so easy to talk to?

After a long while, someone in the group tentatively said: "Actually, I think that shepherd's purse is also a bit old..."

What month is this? The shepherd's purse hasn't grown big yet, what kind of old?

But if you don't take advantage of cheapness, you don't take it.

Song Tan also replied uniformly: "It's okay, as long as you think the taste is not good, I will refund you uniformly the day after tomorrow morning."

Since the taste is not good, don't eat it in the future.

She sells vegetables, selling spiritual energy, seeking money and happiness, no need to deal with such people. After a hundred years of tempering, Song Tan rarely had angry emotions—because she usually solved things before getting angry.

However, some people wanted to take advantage, but some people spoke fair words:

【Do you think it's interesting to say this? You know whether the vegetables are old or not!】

【Exactly, Boss, don't spoil them. If it's really that hard to eat, have the ability to take the vegetables and return them!】

【Girl, your wild vegetables are very good! They are cleaned cleanly. I picked through them for a long time yesterday and couldn't find a few old leaves. It's not fake...】

【That's right, leave the ones they don't want to me!】

Although Song Tan wanted to make money, she wanted a comfortable life even more. So she edited the group announcement again:

【1. Pure ecological pollution-free wild vegetables, regardless of category, unified at 20 yuan per jin. Each bundle is one jin two liang when sorted. Customers can take them home and weigh them themselves; more will be refunded, less will be made up.】

【2. If the wild vegetables are not fresh or old, please bring the uneaten (cooked or raw) wild vegetables to the vegetable market, and I will refund the full amount.】

【3. Farm-produced, limited output. Each sale will be notified in the group in advance. Thank you for your support.】 ===== CHAPTER 24 =====

3. Farm-produced, limited quantity. Every sale will be announced in the group in advance. Thank you for your support.】