Thinking of the way Xu He yelled before, he also tried to sell: "The pig that is just slaughtered, the meat is fat! Take a look, don't miss it!"


    Although he was yelling on the bad street, it was better than sticking a stick in front of the stall and not soliciting the customers. It really works. The young girls and ge’ers didn’t dare to come to look at the meat when they saw his face and burly body, but the elderly women very happy to come.

    "Ma'am, look at this meat. The live pig weighs more than two hundred catties. The fat meat is as thick as two fingers. You can satisfy your hunger no matter what you do when you go back."

The woman pinched the meat hanging on the bar with two fingers, but her eyes were on Zhang Fangyuan's straight nose bridge and hard jaw line back and forth: "How do you sell it?"

    "Twenty copper coins."

    The woman was shocked when she heard the price: "Why is it so much more expensive than the one at the gate!"

    "Then you have to take a look at the appearance of this meat."

Then the woman looked at the meat carefully. The fat was indeed very attractive. Ordinary people liked to buy meaty and fat pork. Those who liked lean meat were rich and noble people, but often such people didn’t like pork very much. They chose mutton and venison.

    "What about the pork ribs?"

    "You can give fifteen copper coins for the bones."

The woman buried her head and looked at the ribs on the chopping board, and said, "Women are weak, can you chop them here?"

    "Small things, I'll chop it for you."

The woman said again: "Can you give me another big pig bone? If you break it and take it back, I can make pork bone porridge for my grandchildren. Children will grow strong after eating it. Just like you, young man~"

    Zhang Fangyuan had no choice but to say, "Sure, I see you are the first customer, so get one for auntie."

 After saying that, he didn't give the woman any time to repent, so he quickly took the meat and put it on the scale. He rolled up his sleeves and sharpened the big knife, bang bang bang a few times, and a piece of rib was neatly turned into a small cube that was easy to cook.

    The woman looked at the well-proportioned, slender and strong forearm under the thick winter coat, and the blue veins bulging when holding the knife, and her eyes stared straight: "Young man, your body... you have really good knife skills! Do you want to continue to set up a stall here in summer?"

    Zhang Fangyuan didn't know what connection between knife skills and seasons, although the woman looked a little strange, but he felt that it was quite possible to develop into a regular customer, and said enthusiastically: "It's natural. "

    “That's great. I'll definitely come here when it's hot in summer..."

    With a muffled bang, Zhang Fangyuan raised his knife and smashed the thigh bone in half.”

    "Okay!"

    Zhang Fangyuan packed all the meat the woman asked for and handed it over to her. The woman thought since Zhang Fangyuan was carrying a large bag of pork ribs in one hand and thought it was very light. When she took it, it was so heavy that it almost hit the chopping board.


    She greeted Zhang Fangyuan with a smile, and she turned around while twisting her waist.

    "Hey, Widow Zeng bought so much meat today, she really is willing to buy it for the New Year."

The woman walked forward, and someone joked on her back. Zhang Fangyuan ignored it, and just threw the money he received into the money box.

    During the period between the end of the year and the beginning of the year, ordinary people were willing to spend money. Zhang Fangyuan didn’t catch up with the end of the year, but fortunately he caught up with the beginning of the year. For example, at the end of the year, the villagers generally raised pigs, and they had meat to eat at home, but people in the city were restricted by region, and they all relied on the market to buy meat, and at the beginning of the year, they visited relatives and friends, and bought some to give good meat for relatives.

    Although it was a new stall, his business was doing well thanks to the large flow of people. The fat pig he was slaughtered almost sold out in three or five days.

    "You don't have much meat left at this stall."

    "Close the stall soon." Zhang Fangyuan threw a pig's trotter to the chopping board: "There's still this left, if the lady wants it, you can take it."

    After setting up a stall for a few days, Zhang Fangyuan would also start a small business.

    The woman looked at the pig's trotters and there was meat attached to them. This time, she was going to visit the relatives in the countryside. It would be more appropriate to buy a piece of fat meat, but since the pig's trotters were sold cheap, the child liked to gnaw on it, so after looking at them for a while, she let the butcher wrap them up.

    "Do you want me to chop it up?"

    The woman thought about it after hearing the sound, and it was good to chop them up, because she was going to eat in the country and come back. so it was thoughtful to chop and take them with her, and it happened to be used by relatives as a treat? It killed two birds with one stone

"No extra money, right?"

    "Chop it for free."

The woman nodded in satisfaction when she heard it. He looked at Zhang Fangyuan who was chopping the bones, and felt that this person looked familiar, but she didn't open her mouth to say polite words, just seeing him handling the oiled paper of pig's trotters swiftly and in one go, it was obviously not the first day he did this business.

    She took the well-packed pig's trotters and shook them: "It happened that I’m going to visit the relatives in the village."

When Zhang Fangyuan collected the money, he took a careful look at the woman, and he felt very familiar: " Liu Xiangmei, Aunt Liu?"

The woman's eyebrows twitched: "Do you recognize me?"

    Zhang Fangyuan actually didn't like to recognize acquaintances and distant relatives whom he hadn't seen for a long time, but this was a woman who was somewhat similar to Xu He's eccentric old lady. It was difficult for him not to recognize people, "I’m Zhang Fangyuan, Laowu of the Zhang family in Jijiu Village."

[老lǎo: prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family, wu: five]

The woman said bluntly: "I am dead..."

    Without saying a word, Liu Xiangmei felt that something was wrong , hastily smiled and said: "Remember, remember, it turned out to be Fangyuan! I looked at you and I thought you are strangely familiar, but I couldn't remember the name for a while. Look at this young man who has grown into such a young man."

The two talked a few words, Liu Xiangmei was going to visit her sister Liu Xianglan in the village, and Zhang Fangyuan was also preparing to pack up the stall and go back to the village. He had a horse-drawn cart, so he took Liu Xiangmei to the village.

    Liu Xiangmei didn't refuse, not to mention that horse-drawn cart was faster than bullock cart, and she didn't need to pay money if they were acquaintances.

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