Chapter 187: Returned
Taking a two yuan farm vehicle ride from the village to the town, she then carried the vegetables to the market to find a stall to sell them at.
Grandma didn’t need to shout out; people came one after another to buy vegetables. The vegetables were sold by the handful, while sweet potatoes and potatoes were sold individually, with no need for weighing. The way money exchanged hands was particularly magical: people gave Grandma money, and she allowed them to pick out their own change with practiced ease. It seemed that was her usual method.
Tu Hengsha curiously asked the neighboring vegetable sellers, and they laughed, "We’re all villagers, who would take advantage of an old lady? Besides, there are so many of us watching over here, nothing will go wrong!"
Her load of vegetables was all sold out by midday. She caught another farm vehicle back home. Grandma had her help count the day’s earnings. After deducting the transport costs, they’d made several tens of yuan. She neatly wrapped two twenty-yuan notes and one ten-yuan note into a fifty-yuan bundle for Grandma, leaving the rest of the change in small bills to the side.
Grandma somehow produced a handkerchief bundle, unwinding its layers to reveal yet another stack of change. She added that fifty to the money and handed it over to her, "Together, that’s exactly one hundred, take it."
"For... for me?" Tu Hengsha didn’t react at first.
"It’s your first time back to your hometown, it’s for you!"
"..." Tu Hengsha smiled, and raising her voice for Grandma’s ears, she shouted, "Grandma, I’m not a child anymore!"
"But you have to take it! That’s only proper!"
Tu Hengsha did not argue with Grandma, planning to give it back to her before she left.
An old lady who had been widowed for eighteen years suddenly hosting a young girl at her home aroused much curiosity in the village, and by afternoon people came in twos and threes to snoop around.