Rebirth Ninety's Fat Wife Should Be Self-reliant

Chapter 150 Selling Melon Seeds

"Mom, I also want to eat melon seeds." Yaoyao swallowed her saliva unconsciously. The melon seeds were so fragrant. When the old man passed by her, she could smell the fragrance.

Zhou Huilan was stunned for a moment, pulled Yaoyao, and walked forward along with the crowd. After walking a few steps, she found Lu Changqing who was setting up a stall at the intersection. He was holding a bag and weighing melon seeds. He was so busy that he didn't know whether he had weighed melon seeds or not.

After spotting it, he poured it all into a plastic bag.

"This young man can't read scales, but these melon seeds are quite delicious!" Two aunts walked past Zhou Huilan and laughed at Lu Changqing while eating.

Zhou Huilan clenched her fists unconsciously, trying to pretend not to hear, but she still couldn't hold back, "You are taking advantage of others, so why do you have to say it so carelessly? Is it that funny!?"

The aunt was frightened by Zhou Huilan's roar, but she reacted immediately.

"What we say is none of your business! Why do you care so much? It's really..." After the aunt finished speaking, seeing Zhou Huilan's face full of anger, she was dragged by the person next to her, rubbed oil on her soles and ran away.

Zhou Huilan couldn't tell whether she was angry at Lu Changqing for being laughed at, or angry at losing money for selling the melon seeds.

But Yaoyao saw Lu Changqing and grabbed Zhou Huilan's clothes excitedly, "Mom, it's Uncle Lu who sells melon seeds!"

Zhou Huilan sighed helplessly and pulled Yaoyao over.

Seeing Zhou Huilan, Lu Changqing was still busy holding melon seeds, but he still took the time to smile at the mother and daughter, "Wait for me for a while, they will be sold out soon!"

Zhou Huilan looked at the empty tricycle, but she didn't expect that Lu Changqing's business would be so good in such a short period of time.

I just don’t know how much I lost if I looked at the scale wrong.

She told Yaoyao to stand aside and stop running around. She took the scale beam from Lu Changqing's hand and helped her weigh it.

Zhou Huilan knew how to use this old-fashioned scale. When the aunt who was first in line saw Zhou Huilan pouring out the plate, she immediately shouted, "Hey, you girl, why are you pouring it out? Isn't that what we agreed to do?"

These guys have already weighed them, why did you pour them out as soon as you came over?"

Without even looking at her, Zhou Huilan poured the weighed pound of melon seeds into a plastic bag, "Don't you want a pound? This is exactly one pound."

The aunt's hand holding the two dollars shrank back, "I don't want this pound of money from you. I want that young man to weigh it for me. Besides, he was the one who weighed me just now. What are you doing here?"

Zhou Huilan pursed her lips and looked at the queue of people behind her, especially the uncles and aunts. She guessed that these people must have been passed on to take advantage of her.

Seeing that Zhou Huilan didn't move, Lu Changqing quickly grabbed two handfuls of melon seeds and put them into the bag, "I'll do it, I'll do it. Auntie, take a look, is the scale high?"

Then the aunt smiled again, took out two yuan, and left with the melon seeds.

The aunt at the back followed the team and said she didn't want Chow Huilan to weigh her, "I only want this young man to weigh me."

Everyone knew so well that they treated Lu Changqing as a fool. Although she knew that the compensation would not be much, Zhou Huilan still felt unhappy.

Seeing her like this, Lu Changqing weighed melon seeds and asked Zhou Huilan to go home first, "I only have a little left and they will be sold out soon. You go home first."

Zhou Huilan took a deep breath, looked at the confused Yaoyao, and finally took the child and left first.

But before leaving, she weighed a large bag of melon seeds in a plastic bag and took her daughter home to eat.

Halfway through, passing by a newsstand, Yaoyao's shoelaces suddenly came apart.

Chow Huilan squatted down to tie her child's shoelaces, but she saw the results of the food competition written on the page of a newspaper in the newsstand.

So Zhou Huilan tied the child's shoelaces and bought a newspaper.

An entire page of Anning Daily reported that the winner of the food competition was Master Xu's Manxiang Restaurant, Niu Guangde's Niuji Restaurant came in second place, and Donghua Restaurant only came in third place.

In the photo of Master Xu, he looks proud with his championship gold medal.

Although Zhang Shaokun did not win the first place, which made Zhou Huilan a little happy, but seeing that the position that should have been hers became someone else's, Zhou Huilan couldn't help but feel a little sad.

She took Yaoyao home, and not long after, Lu Changqing came back on a tricycle.

The plastic bucket containing melon seeds was empty. Lu Changqing took off his satchel and smiled while pushing the tricycle and handed the bag to Zhou Huilan.

"Count how much money you made today."

Zhou Huilan rolled her eyes at him and said, "Those aunts know that you weighed me wrongly and are here to take advantage. As long as you don't lose money today, how can you expect to make money?"

Lu Changqing knew that Zhou Huilan was unhappy, so he pursed his lips and looked at Yaoyao, "Mom, you blame me for losing money?"

Yaoyao covered her mouth and smiled, shaking the satchel in her hand, "No, there seems to be a lot of money here!"

The whole family worked hard to please her, and Zhou Huilan didn't feel sorry for the few melon seeds. She mainly didn't like Lu Changqing being treated like a fool.

Seeing the father and daughter like this, they couldn't help but laugh.

"Okay, okay, let's go in and count how much Uncle Lu made today?"

50 kilograms of fresh melon seeds cost 50 cents per kilogram when Zhou Huilan bought them.

After deducting the cost of buying coarse salt and aniseed, I bought a lot and used a little. The full dozen is only one yuan, plus the loss of firewood and labor, it is also one yuan. The cost of today's bucket of melon seeds is also

Only 27 yuan.

Lu Changqing led his mother and daughter into the house, opened his crossbody bag, and poured the money on the table. The bulging pile of money was like a hill, and at first glance it amounted to more than 30 yuan.

"All this money... did you earn this afternoon?" Zhou Huilan couldn't help but widen her eyes and clasped her hands a few times. Although they were all small bills of 1 yuan and 50 cents, the money was still more than 50 yuan.

"That's right." Lu Changqing was very indifferent, reaching out to pick up the cents, "In my opinion, selling melon seeds is faster than selling traditional Chinese medicine. When the uncles and aunties heard that they had to take medicine, they all looked sad.

Queuing up to grab melon seeds is quite relaxing."

Chow Huilan also counted along with her, and in the end the two people’s bills together amounted to a full 83 yuan!

"Aren't they all here to take advantage?" Zhou Huilan still thinks it's impossible, "They buy a pound, and you give out at least a pound and a half. How can you make so much money back?"

Hearing this, Lu Changqing also laughed, "They all want to take advantage of it, but if they take advantage of it, don't they have the scale in my hand?"

(End of chapter)