Goldfield
Chapter 116: Prince

There was a wine-red horse tied not too far away from Little Grey. At this time, he was no longer interested in the fine animal feed grains in his own tub. He stuck out his neck and tried to eat the coarse straw in front of the little donkey. But the range of its activities is limited by control. The feeling of not being able to eat something that he wanted to eat made him feel extremely grumpy. It could help but kick backwards while raising its head and neighing nonstop.

As soon as the owner exited the pickled vegetable shop, he swiftly stepped forward after hearing the furious screams of his beloved horse. Looking at that scene, the handsome young man laughed and scolded, “Red Cloud, you are truly acting shamelessly! Why don't you eat nuts that are good for animal feed, but covet someone else's hay? You are really embarrassing fighting for food with that little donkey !! ”

The burgundy horse seemed to have understood the words of its owner and made some long augmentative sounds as he struggled to escape his control. The young man gave up control, and the little red horse immediately rushed towards the little donkey. It forcefully pushed Little Grey aside and devoured the leftovers. He even neighed loudly at Little Grey with dissatisfaction, as if to blame Little Grey for not leaving more straw for him!

Little Grey had a mild temperament and did not make a fuss despite his food being robbed. He just stared at the wine-red horse with his big, soft eyes. The wine-red horse looked somewhat embarrassed and stopped making a fuss. He turned around, with his butt facing Little Grey, and chewed the straw in his mouth several times as if he were enjoying the delicious taste of fodder.

“This beast, you are really shameless! If you like hay, then I'll tell the horse guards to prepare some for you when we get home! ” The young man gently touched Little Gray's polished and silky hair. He patted her and said, “Sorry about that, buddy! Old man, give my bean bag of animal feed to the donkey owner as compensation later! ”

The old man, who was in charge of taking care of the horses and the cattle, also smiled cheerfully and promised.

The young man herded his beloved horse, which was still reluctant to leave, exited the food market, and rushed towards the capital.

Her mother was worried about her younger brother, who had recently traveled to the ocean. So, his appetite is not very good. They have replaced some cooks, but there is still no increase in their appetite. Mrs Wu, whose husband serves in Tanggu City, told them there was some kind of nice, refreshing pickled vegetable at the Tanggu City food market. After her mother tried the crispy radish pickle that Madam Wu had sent, she ate one bowl more porridge than before.

After all, Madam Wu did not bring much pickled vegetables back to the capital. It was enough for his mother to eat for two days. After finishing the vegetable, his mother returned in a state of no appetite. As a filial child, he could not bear to see his mother getting thinner, so he took advantage of his break time and rushed to Tanggu City. After wondering, he finally found his mother's favorite crunchy pickled radish!

To make sure that this trip was not in vain, he even packed all kinds of pickled vegetables available in the store! If his close friends find out that he, Prince Jing's dignified son, has been traveling busily between the capital and the small town of Tanggu in a day after day of some raw pickled vegetables, they will surely laugh. However, for the sake of his mother, he did not mind letting them laugh a little!

Today, they arrived just in time for the five major markets. Small businesses, vegetable traders, traveling merchants, they all gather in this food market. As soon as Yu Xiaocao took out fresh green vegetables, they were surrounded by a group of people.

“Hei! There are actually fresh vegetables for sale during this season! Look at this bok choy, so tender that water can come out of it! It looks very appetizing !! This big brother, how much is this bok choy worth? ” The one who asked was a wealthy housewife, who wore a fine cotton jacket and silver hairpins in her hair. He looked like he came from a family with good living conditions.

On the way to town, the father-son couple had decided on the price of their vegetables. Yu Hai chuckled and said, “bok choy is twenty copper coins per catties and spinach costs fifteen coins one catties. Eighteen copper coins for lettuce leaves, while romaine lettuce costs twenty-five coins. Sister, look. Which one do you want?”

“Oh! Your vegetables are not cheap. Almost as expensive as pork! Ordinary people would not be able to afford it !! ” The warden's fat face was tangled and he looked very dissatisfied with the price.

With a smile on his face, Yu Xiaocao sweetly replied, “Auntie, as the saying goes, the rarer something is, the greater its value! As you know, a heavy snowstorm this winter is a disaster. There are also two more snowfalls in spring! What vegetables would not freeze to death in such a situation? So it's pretty hard for us to grow these vegetables! ”

Although the audience was curious about how these fresh and juicy vegetables survived the early spring blizzard, no one asks because they know that only a fool will reveal their own secret method of making money. However, most of the people who come to the market are villagers around. Very few people can afford to buy vegetables for almost the same price as meat.

The fat lady actually felt the vegetables were expensive, but she still had the money to eat them once or twice. In addition, her pregnant daughter-in-law would vomit every time she ate and wanted green vegetables. He also knew that no vegetable seeds had been planted this season, so there was no way he could find green leafy vegetables.

He came with the intention to try his luck to see if he could find them. If he could not find it, he would buy garlic and plant garlic sprouts, which could also be considered a green plant. But he had not expected to be so lucky and find vegetables. Moreover, it seemed like they had all kinds of spring vegetables.

Although expensive, for the sake of her eldest unborn grandchild, she gritted her teeth — buy!

Under the envious gazes of the crowd, the fat warden smiled proudly and pointed towards bok choy, spinach, and romaine lettuce with his fat finger. As if he was afraid that others could not hear him, he raised his voice and said, “Little girl, this, this, and this. Give me half a kati of each one! If it's good, Auntie will be back to buy again tomorrow! ”

“Good!” Yu Xiaocao quickly weighed the vegetables that the woman wanted. He lifted her up high as he handed her over and said, “Auntie, the total is exactly thirty copper coins!”

“Thirty copper coins ah! That's enough to buy one catties of pork! In previous years, a small portion of that green vegetable would have been the same price as one and a half catties of pork. Who wants to eat that! ”

“True, that's right! I originally wanted to buy some for my family to taste, but I didn't expect it to be that expensive! Forget it, I'll hold it! We just need to wait another month or two and there will be vegetables for sale by then! ”

……

There were many spectators, but very few bought. An hour had passed, but Yu Hai and his daughter did not get another customer other than the fat warden.

“Cao’er, do we put too high price? It's also noon. If we can't sell it, the vegetables will wither. At that time, it would be difficult to sell it at a good price! ” Yu Hai felt a little worried as he looked at the vegetables inside the basket.

Her youngest daughter had gone to great lengths to grow this vegetable. He watered and washed it himself every day without needing the help of others. The temperature was low in early spring, so he covered the vegetable garden with straw to prevent them from dying from the cold. In the morning at dawn, he would lift the weeds again. Every day, he would not miss any of these two steps.

In front and behind the house will be planted with vegetables in all open spaces that amount to four or five mu. Cao’er and the other children never said they were tired. They were so sensitive that his heart hurt for them.

Her youngest daughter, in particular, personally took care of making boiled food and growing crops. This little girl, whose height had only reached her waist, had more things to worry about than herself, her father. Aye! If he worked harder as the head of the family, they would not need to let a nine-year-old girl shoulder the burden of the family at such a young age.

Yu Xiaocao did not know that his father had thought of many things in his heart in such a short time, but he still confidently said, “Don't worry, Father! There are many rich people in Tanggu City !! Right now, people might not even be able to buy our vegetables even though they have money! ”

His eyes swept through the crowd and saw a middle-aged man, who looked like a servant. He shouted loudly, “Hey, Uncle, do you want to buy fresh vegetables? We're the only ones selling it in the entire market! ”

This bearded man is the second richest housekeeper in town after the Zhou Family — Yao Family. Old Master Yao's sixtieth birthday banquet took place in two days, which happened to happen at a time when the new plant had yet to mature. It is easy to prepare meat dishes, but vegetable dishes are a more difficult problem to deal with.

As a result of this winter blizzard, Old Master Yao did not plan a big party and only invited a few close friends and family, all of whom were wealthy and honorable people. So, they could only serve radishes and cabbages, which were simple and humble, to these esteemed guests.

The waiter was so distressed by the planning of the banquet dish that some of his hair was bleached. When faced with the approaching date of the birthday banquet, he not only mobilized the servants below him, but he also personally came out to find a solution. He had explored most of the food market, but he was still unable to find a solution to the problem. The waiter scratched his head in distress!

As the saying goes: ‘Surga never closes all exits.’ He did not expect that there would be a light at the end of the tunnel, and a heavenly voice sounded in his ears.

The steward followed the voice and saw a basket of green vegetables. They looked so fresh that he could not even take his eyes off them. The manager's eyes were filled with tears of joy — he has been saved!

He immediately rushed towards Yu Hai stall and his daughter. Without asking for the price, he pointed to the bamboo basket and said excitedly, “I want all this ..”

“Oh, isn't this Miss Yu!” A familiar voice interrupted Steward Yao's words.

Yu Xiaocao turned his head and saw that it was Principal Chef Wang's apprentice from Zhenxiu Restaurant. He was the worker in charge of collecting and buying materials, Qian Xiaoduo!

“Nona Yu, it's been a long time since I've seen you deliver the hunted to our restaurant. My teacher has been talking about you for days! ” Qian Xiaoduo was surprised to see a basket of green vegetables.

Even for wealthy families like their bosses, it is not easy to be able to have several different vegetable dishes on the table during the season. They have to spend a lot of money to build a greenhouse to grow vegetables. How did the Yu Family grow fresh vegetables this time?

“There are some things going on at home. We may not be able to send the hunted to your restaurant again in the future. But Uncle Zhao and Brother Han were both skilled hunters. They will definitely send quite a lot of the hunted to your restaurant. ”

In this past month, many things had happened one after another in their families. First his father was wounded. Later, they separated from the parent family and had to repair their new residence. After that, they worked selling boiled food at the dock. Moreover, his elder brother had an accident.After thinking about this, he realized that it had been a long time since he had visited Zhenxiu Restaurant.

“Nona Yu, you sell vegetables ?!” Each family had its own problems, so Qian Xiaoduo did not ask him again. He looked at a basket of vegetables and said, “Seriously, what should I say about you! If you have rare green vegetables, why don't you send them to Zhenxiu Restaurant? Our restaurant will take all the vegetables you have. No need to set up shop! C'mon c'mon! Take them all to our restaurant.. ”.