Chu Xiaoxiao looked around and saw that there were so many stalls on the street. She could not help but worry about whether her roasted insects could be sold.
"Who would eat bugs!" Chu Xiaoxiao sighed. She no longer had any hope.
"Hey, little girl, what are you roasting? It smells good!”
A middle-aged man in a Chinese tunic suit walked over and asked curiously.
Chu Xiaoxiao hurriedly said," Roasted green worms, roasted grasshoppers, and roasted autumn cicadas. Do you want a bunch?"”
"What?! Is it a bug?" The middle-aged man was shocked.
Chu Xiaoxiao's heart sank when she saw the middle-aged man's reaction. She thought to herself that no one liked bugs.
However, the middle-aged man did not leave. Instead, he carefully looked at the bugs that were being roasted above the fire and could not help but swallow his saliva.
"Little girl, how much is this roasted bug?”The middle-aged man asked.
Chu Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment before answering,""Fifty cents for a string!"
As soon as she said that, her expression changed. She had actually misspoken. She had originally planned to sell them for five cents.
Just as she was about to correct her mistake, the middle-aged man in front of her said,"It's a little expensive, but give me four skewers!”
Chu Xiaoxiao was dumbfounded.
Are all the people in the city so rich? They actually bought a string for 50 cents.
She stiffly handed the four skewers of roasted worms to the middle-aged man in front of her.
The middle-aged man paid her two dollars and frowned at the roasted bug in his hand. He hesitated for a moment before opening his mouth to bite it.
"Hmm, not bad. It's quite delicious!" The middle-aged man's eyes lit up. He turned to Chu Xiaoxiao and said,""I didn't expect that bugs could be roasted and eaten. The taste is quite special. I'll come again next time!”
With that, the middle-aged man strode away.
Chu Xiaoxiao stared at the two yuan in her hand in disbelief.
There were actually people eating roasted bugs, and there were even people buying them for 50 cents a skewer. What was wrong with this world?
If Chen Ming was here, he would definitely tell her the reason.
Although there were many small stalls on this street, they were basically selling raw materials, such as vegetables, eggs, fish, pork, and so on. These things needed to be prepared by the customers themselves before they could eat them.
Only the women or chefs in charge of cooking would buy these ingredients.
The worms that Chu Xiaoxiao sold had already been processed and roasted in advance. They were second-hand processed food that could be eaten immediately after purchase. They were attractive to anyone.
And the most crucial point was to seek novelty.
The people in the city had warm clothes and sufficient food. Their lives were comfortable. It was inevitable that they would have a curiosity about things they had never seen before.
In this era, barbeque hadn't even become popular yet, so roasting bugs was naturally more eye-catching.
The middle-aged man was only willing to spend two yuan to buy four skewers to try because he had never eaten such things before.
Chu Xiaoxiao suppressed the excitement in her heart. After putting the two yuan into her pocket, she cleaned up the bugs again and started roasting them.
It was still sold for 50 cents per skewer.
Since the people in the city were so rich, why not extort a sum of money from them!
Immediately after, more customers came to her stall to ask.
Most of them came here out of curiosity and couldn't help but buy some to try.
Her stall had a surprisingly good customer base. One would come almost every few minutes.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Chu Xiaoxiao had sold all the worms.
She touched the bulging banknotes in her pocket. She knew very well that money should not be exposed, so she did not take it out to count. She pushed the wooden cart and rushed back to Pingliang Village.
Two hours later, she arrived at an empty hill. Finally, she couldn't help but take out the money in her pocket and count them one by one.
"Two pieces!"
"6.50!"
"105!"
"265!"
“……”
She only finished counting after five minutes. Afraid that she had made a mistake, she counted again.
He had earned a total of 486 yuan and 50 cents!
Looking at the thick wad of money in her hand, Chu Xiaoxiao was in a daze.
This was the first time in her life that she had seen so much money, and it was earned in a day.
According to the average person's monthly salary of 40 yuan, she earned ten months of other people's salary in one day.
Moreover, it was at zero cost.
The worms were caught by his brother and the other kids. The chili and garlic were grown at home. Even the firewood for the stove was picked up from the mountains.
Staring blankly at the money in her hand, Chu Xiaoxiao recalled the hardships she had gone through after her father's death. She could not help but feel a lump in her throat, and her eyes turned red. She buried her head in her tears.
After crying for more than ten minutes, she finally raised her head. Her eyes were swollen from crying.
She carefully put away the money and looked at the mountains in the distance. She muttered,"If it weren't for the officer's words, I wouldn't have earned so much money!”
"If I have the chance to meet him in the future, I must repay him!”Chu Xiaoxiao swore to herself.
Although she was smart, she was not an ungrateful person. She knew very well that Chen Ming was her benefactor.
Repaying kindness was what her father had told her before he died.
After wiping her tears, Chu Xiaoxiao pushed the wooden cart back home.
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