Song Tan’s Chronicle

Chapter 23: 23. The shepherd’s purse is a bit old

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

Qinqin finally recovered. Seeing that the mother and son hadn't started eating yet, she awkwardly took two dishes and handed them over:

"Mom, Zhao Yang, please try this dish. It's really good!"

The mother and son also took a bite with a smile.

Ugh!!!

Zhao Yang looked at the bottom of the plate, then at his wife who was clearly still unsatisfied, and now looked at his mother expectantly: "Can you buy some more tomorrow?"

The same situation also happened in another community.

Li Xiufen, who had fashionable red curly hair, served her granddaughter a big bowl of dumplings: "Yuanyuan, eat quickly! These shepherd's purse dumplings are very fresh! They are just as delicious as the ones we had this morning."

The daughter-in-law was at a loss whether to laugh or cry:

"Mom, I told you, Yuanyuan is a picky eater. She can't eat so much as you give her."

Then he put his bowl over and said, "Come on, Yuanyuan, share the leftovers with mom."

Unexpectedly, the little girl turned her head while holding the bowl and ate the whole thing, "Ahh!" while sucking on it: "Delicious! I can eat it all!"

Yuanyuan’s mother was stunned.

“Is it so delicious?”

This picky eater has had a weak spleen and stomach since childhood. He won't eat anything and will vomit anything. Now he's in the senior class of kindergarten, but he doesn't seem as strong as those in the junior class. It's really worrying.

But now, there are more than a dozen dumplings in her special small bowl! The child eats a dumpling in two or three bites without even raising his head. It's so delicious!

As a mother-in-law, she finally felt a sense of accomplishment. At this moment, she gave Jiangshan some advice: "You guys are just too expensive. This is imported, that is organic... You keep tossing around so much, and look how thin your child is."

"Look again, wild vegetables are 20 yuan a pound at the market this morning. I made a soup with watercress for Yuanyuan to cook noodles with, and she ate a big bowl in one go. She was reluctant to leave even after I sent her to kindergarten."

At the entrance of the kindergarten, I even said to her, "Grandma, will you still make such delicious food in the evening?"

Ouch!

At that time, Li Xiufen's heart was completely softened.

So I rushed to the vegetable market and thanks to God I managed to grab the last three bunches of watercress.

The three bunches of vegetables are now kept in the refrigerator, and I used the shepherd's purse I grabbed in the morning to make dumplings.

Li Xiufen was also quite proud of her achievements:

"You don't know, I happened to arrive there. There was a young couple picking vegetables in front of us, and they thought twenty yuan a pound was too expensive—"

Li Xiufen sneered disdainfully: "I'm not saying that only you young people know what vegetables to buy. These fresh and juicy wild vegetables are obviously grown in the wild!"

"Besides, at this time of year, the supermarket has everything you need, but cucumbers are already 16 yuan a pound. Do they taste good?"

"Finally I got the chance."

As we were talking, no one responded.

She looked down and saw that her son and daughter-in-law were already holding the bowls and had almost finished eating the dumplings in them.

The son still had a shameless face: "Mom, is there anything else?"

Li Xiufen thought of the silly and good boy in the morning again and became even more angry: How come all the boys' children are so good-looking!

She said angrily: "How many dumplings can you make with just one pound of shepherd's purse?"

"Well, then buy a few more pounds tomorrow!" The son was so greedy! After a small bowl of dumplings, his stomach was still empty. Didn't they say there were other dishes in the refrigerator

Li Xiufen became even angrier!

"Eat, eat, eat, all you know is eating! You said to buy more, so buy more? Just buying a few kilograms costs hundreds of dollars, why don't you feel sorry for the money?"

My son feels wronged.

Didn’t you just say, mom, that twenty dollars is not expensive

At this moment, Yuanyuan put down the bowl and said, "Grandma, I want to eat again tomorrow!"

Li Xiufen's expression changed instantly, and she smiled happily: "We will cook noodles tomorrow morning, and the dumplings are gone - but grandma joined the group today, I will ask you later if they are still available tomorrow. Next time we will buy ten kilograms and make dumplings and freeze them!"

The son and daughter-in-law looked at each other and felt that they had no status in the family.

Song Tan's small group of 17 clients was particularly lively tonight.

[Girl, when will you sell wild vegetables?]

[Boss, can I make a reservation? I want ten kilograms of shepherd's purse]

[Little girl, I'm going to the park to dance in the morning. I'll give you the money first. Can you save the vegetables for me?]

Song Tan was in a good mood and simply replied in unison:

[It’s cold now, and the wild vegetables haven’t grown yet. This is part of what we grew in the valley, and we don’t use pesticides or fertilizers, so there aren’t that many wild vegetables. Therefore, there will be no vegetables tomorrow, and we won’t accept reservations for them.

We will go to the vegetable market at 7 o'clock the morning after tomorrow. This time, it will be my sister and I. The next time we sell it will be three days later. We have to give the wild vegetables a chance to grow.

Then I posted a short video I took today when I went to pick wild vegetables:

There was only sparse green on the mountain, as spring had not yet arrived. However, on the hillside there was a field of emerald green wild vegetables, growing wildly and unrestrainedly.

Suddenly, a cluster of green appeared in the gap between the ridges of the fields and beside the pond, which was enough to prove that it was indeed naturally grown wild vegetables.

At this moment, someone in the group spoke:

"Little girl, these wild vegetables are cheap, why are you selling them so expensively? You need to make them cheaper. And they are not weighed enough, only eight ounces per handful, and the taste is average."

Song Tan raised his eyebrows—not big enough

When they were tied, they weighed about 1.2 jin in a handful. In this weather, the moisture didn't evaporate at all. The leaves were juicy and tender.

When she left in the morning, she picked out a few handfuls at random, and the weight remained basically the same.

As for the taste being average? How could she not know that it was grown by her

This is a disregard for her centuries of experience in farming.

Moreover, there are only a dozen people in this group, and already someone is finding fault

Song Tan won't tolerate it.

So she also politely replied: "Hello, it's not delicious enough, right? Come over the day after tomorrow morning and I will refund you."

Is the boss so easy to talk to

After a long time, someone in the group tentatively said: "Actually, I am a little old eating shepherd's purse..."

What month is it now? The shepherd's purse hasn't grown up yet, how can it be old

But if you can get a good deal, you’d better take advantage of it.

Song Tan also replied in unison: "Sure, if you think the taste is not good, I will refund you the day after tomorrow morning."

Since it tastes bad, don't eat it in the future.

She sells vegetables, she sells spiritual energy, for money and happiness, there is no need to deal with such people. After a hundred years of training, Song Tan rarely gets angry - because she usually solves the problem before getting angry.

However, some people want to take advantage, while others speak fair words:

[Isn’t it funny what you said? You don’t know whether the dish is old or not!]

[That’s right, boss, don’t spoil them. If the food is really that bad, they can just take the food and return it!]

[Girl, your wild vegetables are very good! They are cleaned up very neatly. I came back yesterday and spent a long time picking them, but I didn’t find many old leaves. They are not fake...]

[That’s right, leave the things they don’t want to me!]

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

[1. Pure ecological and pollution-free wild vegetables, regardless of category, are priced at 20 yuan per catty. Each bundle is sorted into 1.2 jin. Customers can take them home and weigh them themselves. The excess will be refunded and the shortage will be supplemented.

2. If the wild vegetables are not fresh or are old, please bring the uneaten wild vegetables (cooked or raw) from my home to the vegetable market and I will refund you in full.

3. The farmers produce it themselves, and the output is limited. We will notify you in the group in advance every time we start selling it. Thank you for your support. ]