Reborn In The ’80s

market early in the morning and sold one Yuan worth of vegetables.
Moreover, it was an old woman who bought it.
Most people didn’t buy Xu Zhao’s vegetables.

One Yuan!

Xu Zuocheng laughed and said, “They’ve been selling all morning and only made one Yuan.
When I came back, the two were still standing there stupidly.
I said they definitely wouldn’t be able to sell it all yet they didn’t believe me and still planted that much.
Yesterday, I told him to come work with me, but he was unwilling.
I can’t do anything either.”

Xu Zuocheng’s face was full of happiness and even looked at Mother Xu as if saying “Who told you to give all your money to your birth son.
Just wait and stave to death!”

Mother Xu’s face immediately paled.
Especially hearing the other villagers say that Xu Zhao hadn’t sold the vegetables, her heart immediately chilled.
The big greenhouse was full of vegetables, and they had only harvested less than 5%.
If they couldn’t even sell this 5%, wouldn’t they lose money? Moreover, they would lose a lot of money!

What to do?

What to do?!

Mother Xu was in a full on panic.
It felt like she was placed in an ice cellar, her entire body was chilled.
Especially when she saw Xu Zuocheng’s triumphant expression, she felt annoyed, angry, and sad.
At this time, Father Xu’s voice came from behind her.

“Jinhua1, Jinhua!” Father Xu huffed as he ran over.
It was unknown if he was tired or excited, but his face was a bit flushed.

Mother Xu looked over to Father Xu, her face full of loss and anxiety.

Father Xu didn’t look at Mother Xu, gasping as he urgently said, “Return home now!”

Mother Xu asked, “Return home and do what?” She didn’t want to return home one bit.
She wanted to go find Xu Zhao.
Xu Zhao had to be very sad.

“Going home to harvest vegetables!” Father Xu said.

“What for?” Mother Xu asked.

“To sell.
What else?”

“We can’t even sell what we have.
How would we sell more?” Mother Xu said.

Father Xu shouted, “Why can’t we sell what we have? Everything has already been sold! Xu Zhao just called, telling us to quickly harvest more vegetables.
Da Zhuang’s father is returning soon to pull the ox cart back to the county town to sell them.
Why are you standing here saying that we can’t sell them?”

“What?” Xu Mu’s face was shocked.

“Not enough to sell!” Father Xu said.

Not enough to sell?!

Mother Xu felt that she had heard wrong.
She shook her head before saying, “No.
Didn’t… Didn’t they say we couldn’t sell them…”

When Mother Xu said this, she couldn’t help but turn to Xu Zuocheng.

Xu Zuocheng didn’t seem to be affected by the “not enough to sell” and continued to smile.
He then said to Father Xu, “Dad, you don’t have to help Xu Zhao save face.
If he couldn’t sell them, then he couldn’t sell them.
Why don’t you just say that? It’s nothing shameful.
It’s not like Xu Zhao hasn’t made many mistakes in the past already, no? This won’t make a difference.
We just returned from the county town, and Xu Zhao didn’t sell any vegetables.
What are you pretending for?”

“Who’s pretending?” Father Xu snapped, very unhappily.
“Who am I pretending for?”

“If you’re not pretending, then what do you mean by not enough to sell? What a joke,” Xu Zuocheng said with a smile.

Joke?

Xu Zuocheng said that he was a joke? Father Xu was angered to death by Xu Zuocheng’s haughty expression.
He pointed at Xu Zuocheng, and before he could say anything, he heard a rough voice calling in the distance.

“Uncle Xu! Auntie Xu! ”

Father Xu turned around to find Da Zhuang’s father.

Da Zhuang’s father ran over from the dirt road, his face full of sweat as he urgently called, “Uncle Xu! Auntie Xu!”

Mother Xu quickly rushed over and asked, “Da Zhuang’s father, why are you back already?”

Da Zhuang’s father’s face was full of excitement as he said, “Auntie Xu, I’m back to take another ox cart full of vegetables to sell in the county town!”

“Another ox cart?” Mother Xu asked in amazement.
“Why?”

Da Zhuang’s father wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, “Didn’t Xu Zhao give you a call? We don’t have enough vegetables to sell.
Xu Zhao had me rush back, and while there were still a lot of people, to pull another ox cart back to sell.

Mother Xu asked in shock, “There really isn’t enough to sell?”

“Yep.” Da Zhuang’s father continued to wipe his sweat.
He had run all the way back.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.

Mother Xu couldn’t help but confirm again, “Didn’t they say that you guys only sold one Yuan worth of vegetables this morning?”

Da Zhuang’s father said, “That’s right.
This morning was because we arrived too early.
The people of the county town and all the villages hadn’t arrived at the vegetable market yet, so of course we couldn’t sell any.
Once there were people in the vegetable market, they started grabbing our vegetables up! Cui Qingfeng and his dad are helping out as well.
They’re waiting for us to deliver another ox cart full of vegetables.”

Grabbed them up— Deliver another ox cart over—

Mother Xu froze.
It was true.
They really sold them! They really sold them! Mother Xu’s eyes lit up with excitement.

Father Xu’s face was full of smiles.

The smile on Xu Zuocheng’s face didn’t fade, but froze instead.
The arrogance from just now immediately disappeared as his color turned green then white.
It was very brilliant.
Adding on the fact that all the villagers were watching him, he was even more ashamed and unable to show his face.
After holding his breath for what seemed like forever, he finally said, “You can’t sell those vegetables for much anyway! You can’t make any money!”

However, Mother and Father Xu, and Da Zhuang’s father didn’t pay any mind to Xu Zuocheng.
Their joy was hard to hide.
Mother Xu couldn’t even help but mutter “we made money, Xu Fan made money.” Afterward, she turned and strode away with Father Xu and Da Zhuang’s father to the big greenhouse.
Xu Fan followed behind, his small feet padding along as he said, “My daddy made money.
My daddy made money!”