Chapter 15 Selling Vegetables_1
The marketplace was buzzing with voices, vibrantly lively.
Mo Yan was busy greeting customers who came to buy vegetables. With Grandma helping to weigh them, she felt much more at ease, and the increasingly heavy money pouch at her waist filled her heart with joy. However, with just a basket of vegetables, the stock couldn’t last, and within moments, all the cabbages and tomatoes were sold out, leaving only three golden ears of corn.
She didn’t plan to sell the remaining corn, so she took out the corn and placed the basket behind her.
"Child, you still have corn left, why have you put it away?" Grandma couldn’t help but ask.
Mo Yan stuffed the corn into Grandma’s bamboo basket, laughing as she said, "Grandma, thanks to your help today, I was able to sell all the vegetables. This corn isn’t worth much, so I want to give it to you as thanks."
Upon hearing this, Grandma hurriedly tried to return the corn to her: "How can this be? This corn can sell for six wen money!"
Here, corn was sold by the piece, and Mo Yan’s corn was big, each one equal to two of others’, and even worth one wen more, so there were plenty of people buying it.
Mo Yan held onto Grandma’s hand, and with her head hung low, she said somewhat sheepishly, "Grandma, I lost the pass today. If my dad finds out, he will surely beat me to death. I was thinking of keeping it from him for now. In the next few days, as I sell vegetables and save up some money, I will secretly get another pass. For these few days, I hope Grandma can bring me in like you did today. These few ears of corn are to thank you. If you don’t accept them, it’s as if I never said anything."