It was market day, and Jiang Quan, Dani and Erni took Yingbao to the market to sell apricots.
A large basket of yellow apricots, each one is ripe and plump, making one's mouth water just by looking at them.
Jiang Quan found a place with the most traffic, put down his backpack, and started shouting, "Apricots for sale. Big, sweet yellow apricots. Ten cents a pound."
He brought the scale from home today, which was just right for weighing the apricots, and also picked a large bunch of lotus leaves to wrap the apricots.
Soon someone came to ask, "Are apricots sour?"
"There is no apricot that is not sour, but the ones I have are less sour and are about 80% sweet," Jiang Quan explained.
"Let me try it." An old lady reached out, picked one up and took a bite.
Jiang Quan failed to stop the quick-eyed and quick-handed old lady. He stared at her with some displeasure, as if he would not let her leave unless she bought something.
Fortunately, after tasting one, the old lady bought two pounds, but when she paid, she gave one cent less and only gave nineteen cents before leaving.
By the time Jiang Quan counted the money, the old lady had disappeared.
Jiang Quan shook his head and started shouting again.
At this time, several people from Dongcun came. Seeing the fairy boy from their village sitting here selling apricots, they hurried over to show their support. Not only did they buy two kilograms of apricots each, but they also praised loudly, "These apricots are really delicious. This is the first time I have eaten such delicious apricots in my life. Hey, stop looking at them and buy them quickly. If you are late, they will be gone."
After they called out like that, a group of people gathered around to buy apricots.
Jiang Quan was so happy that he was overjoyed. He quickly wrapped apricots for the customer in lotus leaves and put them on the scale.
When the people who came to the market saw a large crowd of people gathered here, they became curious and leaned in to take a look.
As a result, more and more people came, and soon the place was completely blocked.
"Get out of the way! All of you, get out of the way!"
Someone shouted loudly to drive away the crowd.
I saw a boy of six or seven years old squeezed in under the protection of others.
The boy was dressed in brocade silk and had an exquisite jade plate hanging around his neck. He was obviously a child of a wealthy family.
There aren't many people who can wear jade ornaments in this rural area, but the jade pendant on the boy's neck is of a warm and transparent quality, and it's obvious that it's worth a lot of money.
The boy came up to Yingbao and looked at her, "What are you doing?"
"Selling apricots." Yingbao heard that his accent was not that of a local, but rather sounded like the accent of the provincial capital, so she couldn't help but look at him curiously.
"Apricots?" The boy stretched his neck to look into the basket. "Are they delicious?"
"It's delicious." Yingbao replied.
The boy turned to the attendant beside him and said, "I want to buy apricots."
The attendant shook his head quickly: "No, young master, this thing hurts the spleen and stomach, you can't eat it."
The boy got angry and kicked the waiter hard, "I want to buy it!"
The servant had no choice but to take out copper coins from his pocket and buy one pound.
The boy also imitated the people around him, took an apricot, rubbed it on his sleeve, and took a bite.
But as soon as she took a bite, her face turned as sour as a dumpling.
He secretly glanced at Yingbao and saw that she was looking at him, so he quickly ate the apricots in three or two bites.
After he finished eating, he seemed to be still unsatisfied and wanted to take another one. The servant quickly put a bag of apricots in his arms and escorted him out: "Young Master, let's go back and eat more. There are too many people here."
The boy didn't want to leave, and kept turning his head to look at Yingbao. Finally, he pointed at her and said, "Take her away too."
The attendant said in a low voice with a sad face: "Young Master, that is a child from a good family. We cannot take him away."
"Then buy her." the boy said arrogantly.
"Oh, young master, I don't sell people." The servant coaxed the boy to a carriage and said, "Hurry up and get in the carriage. The eldest master is waiting anxiously."
"I don't want to get on the bus!" The boy got angry and kicked the attendant hard, "I still want to buy apricots!"
"Okay, okay, you get in the car first, I'll go buy it right away."
As long as this little ancestor doesn't mention buying someone else's baby, he would go and do it, let alone buy apricots, even if it's just a donkey.
The servant carried the boy onto the carriage, quickly squeezed into the crowd and bought a pound of apricots. He looked at the little girl again and was amazed.
No wonder the young master wanted to buy her, this little girl is so pretty.
In the carriage, the young man sitting upright looked suspicious and scolded coldly: "Wei Zhan, why were you running around just now?"
Wei Zhan was not afraid of this illegitimate cousin at all, and said confidently: "I saw a group of people gathered over there, so I was curious."
Wei Wenbo said angrily, "Curious? You jumped off the carriage just because you were curious? If I had known you were so naughty and disobedient, I shouldn't have brought you out."
Wei Zhan curled his lips and snorted. Seeing the servant coming back, he immediately ordered, "Give me the apricot!"
The attendant stole a glance at the eldest son, took out a bag of yellow apricots wrapped in lotus leaves from his bosom, and whispered: "Eating too many apricots is harmful to the body, young master should eat less..."
Wei Zhan snatched the lotus leaf bag and glared at the servant, then took out one and took a bite.
Wei Wenbo's teeth ached when he saw this, and he couldn't help but pick one up, "Isn't it sour?"
"Not sour, delicious." Wei Zhan said expressionlessly.
The accompanying steward came over and asked, "Master, are we still going to follow the Chen family father and son?"
"No need, let's find an inn to stay in first." Wei Wenbai said.
"But the inn in this town is too shabby. Why don't we go with the Chen family father and son?" The steward said carefully: "After all, his family is considered a wealthy family in the area, and their accommodation should be clean."
"That's fine, but you have to explain to the Chen family father and son that we are here for sightseeing, and we can talk about other things later."
"yes."
The housekeeper ran to the mule cart in front and said to Chen Laoshuan, who looked haggard, "Our eldest master has agreed to go to your house. You lead the way."
"Okay." Chen Laoshuan was pleasantly surprised, and quickly sat on the cart and whipped the horse to drive.
In the mule cart shed, Chen Changping was already exhausted and leaned against the cart, not wanting to move.
He and his father had been exhausted from the journey, and the young master of the Wei family was particularly difficult to deal with, doing this and that, which could almost make him exhausted.
When they were almost at the doorstep of his home, the young master suddenly became agitated again and insisted on going shopping in the market.
Chen Changping just felt tired and just wanted to go home and lie down to sleep for a few days and nights before talking about other things.
…
At the market, Jiang Quan quickly sold out a basket of yellow apricots.
Someone even asked, "Will you come to the next episode?"
Jiang Quan smiled and nodded: "Come again."
There are still quite a few apricots on the tree, but most of them are half green and half yellow. They can probably be picked after a few more days.
Jiang Quan carried his little cousin on his back in an empty backpack and walked around with his two younger sisters, Da Ni and Er Ni.
He also wanted to buy a puppy, but unfortunately he didn't find one after walking around.
In the end, they spent more than twenty coins and each of the four brothers and sisters had a bowl of boiled vegetable dumplings before returning home.
When passing by Xichen Village, I saw several horse-drawn carriages and several tall horses parked in front of Chen Laoshuan's house.
Many villagers watched from afar and talked about it.
Yingbao frowned and urged her second cousin, who wanted to watch the fun, to go home quickly.
The family emblem was embroidered on the carriage tarpaulin, which was the logo of the Wei family in the capital.
It seems that Chen Changping really did bring reinforcements from the Wei family in the provincial capital.
I just don’t know how they want to exonerate Han.
No, I have to go to the county town as soon as possible to inform Wu Daozi first.
Since the Wei family wants to overturn Han's case, they must have sufficient evidence.
Or they don't need any evidence at all and just use their power to force the county magistrate to re-examine the case.
Is a person like Wu Daozi easy to compromise? Definitely not.
If Wu Daozi did not agree to a retrial, he would be offending the Wei family.
He was just a small seventh-rank county magistrate who had just taken office for less than a year and had no political achievements. It would be easy for him to be ousted.