Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 557 - Chapter 557 557. Watch me not leave you any small fry_1

Chapter 557: 557. Watch me not leave you any small fry!_1 Chapter 557: 557. Watch me not leave you any small fry!_1 After quite a lively hustle, Yan Ran, Tai Xiaodong, and the others finally managed to squeeze into the crowd under Wu Lan’s lead.

By the shore, there was no longer any distinction between the host, customers, or helpers; everyone was spontaneously picking up fish, throwing fish, in a hustle and bustle like a grand village festival.

Halfway there, the three young people could no longer push through, so they just stood by the pond, hastily setting up scales and plastic bags while shouting themselves hoarse to communicate with people:

“Carp over here! Don’t worry about the size, all are good–”

“Grass carp too, 40, all 40! Great for stewing when you get home!”

“That goes for silver carp too, all the big ones over here–”

“White fish strips! White fish strips here!”

Xiaocai was still at the shore, itching to join the fish-catching action, when suddenly there was a seamless transition to selling! With so many people scrambling, how could she possible resist!

Instantly, she felt a sense of crisis!

Forgetting her disdain, she quickly hopped to the side, fiercely securing a central spot in front of Yan Ran, while tearing open a big plastic bag and shouting herself hoarse:

“Mom! Buying fish! What fish are we buying?”

It was then that Xiaocai’s mom realized what was happening, but she had already gotten herself stuck in the crowd, unable to extricate herself, and could only join in the frenzy, sweating profusely:

“I’ll take everything! Everything–start with 40 pounds of carp! Then another 40 pounds of small white fish! And that grass carp… get two big ones of the grass carp… oh you silly child, don’t you know how to choose? Hurry up, there are so many people waiting behind!”

What what what, forty pounds?

Overwhelmed by the passionate people behind her, Xiaocai’s mind was racing, and all she could manage to do was extend a plastic bag: “I need 40 pounds of each kind!”

What?

Yan Ran paused her hands: “Every kind? Isn’t that too much?”

As she questioned, people behind her were also raising their voices, asking for thirty or fifty pounds, how could Xiaocai withstand this frenzied all-out buying spree?

All she managed to shout out was, “We have an ice chest at home! Empty! Can fit!”

At those words, everyone around fell silent.

After a while, an aunt nearby looked at her with envious eyes: “Oh, your family still has space in the ice chest? My! My! Our fridge is just too small! Too small!”

In that moment, Xiaocai actually felt an unprecedented pride for that ice chest that hadn’t even arrived home yet–meaning, it took real capability to have an ice chest delivered late at night, right?

…

Tai Xiaodong and Qi Lin, one holding a bag and the other packing fish, quickly filled several black plastic bags to the brim, and with everyone’s help, Xiaocai, feeling dizzy, dragged the bags under the shade of a tree, her hands trembling as she scanned QR codes and clumsily wiped her face:”

“Auntie, don’t throw away the fish scales, intestines, or swim bladders, okay?”

Although she didn’t know how to cook and had only eaten such things at barbecue stalls, that didn’t matter, as Mom would take care of everything!

The old lady who butchered fish had been in the village for many years and had never seen anyone sell fish with such a setup; she just couldn’t understand how city folk had enough relatives to distribute so much fish.

She also couldn’t grasp why they were scrambling for fish at 40 yuan a pound as if it cost just 4 cents?

But currently, she was working with the 150 yuan she got from Wu Lan, so she asked with considerable respect:

“Should I chop up the big fish for you? Otherwise, I’m afraid it won’t be easy for you to fit it into the fridge when you get home.”

The morning glow covered the pond, the sound of voices was roaring, and the clamor mixed with the hoarse shouts of scanning QR codes…

Xiaocai let out a huge sigh of relief, watching the old lady swiftly pack her fish, and fiercely drank a gulp of tea from her mom’s cup–

?!!!

Tea! The clear, bitter, yet inexplicably fragrant tea!

It was the tea from this place! No wonder her mom wouldn’t drink tea in the evening but would still pour out the cup’s contents to replace it with the used tea leaves from here!

This is the place with the tea that cost ten thousand a pound! Her watermelon! Her leafy greens! And those exorbitantly priced eggs at ten bucks apiece!

Xiaocai finally realized she had arrived at the gourmet’s headquarters today; how come her mom hadn’t told her earlier!

I heard that it’s been impossible to even get vegetables at the market these past few days!

She had gone for barbecue simply because there was nothing good to eat at home!

At this moment, her mind was flooded with thoughts, and all she could muster was to reach for her phone:

“Hello! Home appliances shop owner, right? Delivering at half past ten at night’s no problem, no problem! I’ll wait for you tonight… Yes, yes, yes, I just wanted to ask if I could switch to a larger freezer… Yes, yes, yes, the one for 2599! Yes, I know, the big one; there’s space for it… Alright, alright, alright! I’ll transfer the money right now…”

After she hung up, she saw an increasingly plump vegetable seller hopping about amidst the crowd, his voice nearly hoarse–

“Song Tan! Song Tan! Look at me! My truck’s waiting right at the door! Me! This net full of fish, give it to me–hey, hey, hey, give it to me, this net full of fish! You others wait for the next catch! I told my customers I’d be back to sell at eight, so save some for meeeee!!!”

Old Zhao, the vegetable vendor, was on the verge of tears.

When he arrived, he fretted over how stingy Song Tan was, only willing to knock two bucks off a pound. And once he got there, seeing her rent the entire pond in one go, and picking through to leave the smaller fish behind?

And the result?

The first catch of fish and he didn’t even touch a tail!

By the time the second catch came up, it was all snatched away before he could squeeze in!

The third catch…

Even the loaches from the third catch were swept away by a rough man who didn’t even bother to choose! You, a rough fellow, do you even eat loaches? They taste fragrant only after being sauteed with garlic and chili, wuwuwu, he was so hungry it hurt!

Hungry, resentful, and green with envy–don’t you people have any sense? Isn’t it fresh enough to eat fish directly from the market where they’re killed on the spot? Buying so much expensive fish today, won’t they just get spoiled when frozen, huhhhhh! Forty pounds of fish aren’t free, you know!

Old Zhao was so angry he could spit blood, but fortunately, Song Tan cared enough to fight her way through the crowd to him:

“Old Zhao, I told my dad to set aside the fish from the small pond for you. Let’s just wait until everyone else is done here.”

“Why do I have to wait, huh?”

Old Zhao’s heart lightened, almost bursting into tears.

Song Tan helplessly said, “These folks have private cars; they’ll have to clean the fish a while, and it may be dangerous to delay until night.”

“Don’t you worry, I’m used to driving my nephew’s big car; leaving a bit late won’t matter!”

“But I notified them I’d be back by eight tonight…” Old Zhao felt aggrieved: He too wished to buy several dozen pounds of fish overnight and get them cleaned up!

After all, everyone who managed to come here for the frenzied catch had their own calculations–

Song Tan’s vegetables, if not available today or tomorrow, could still eventually be bought. But this fish had never once hit the market!

Now that they were setting up for another catch, if this opportunity was missed, you might have to wait until next year for another taste…

An egg at ten bucks each could be so fresh it’d make someone swallow their tongue, and if you weren’t quick with the forty-a-pound fish, you wouldn’t even get to eat anything warm as a beggar!

Song Tan also felt helpless, “I hadn’t anticipated people would spend their money so irrationally…”

What else could be done?

The only option was to notify a market sale at ten o’clock tonight.

Fortunately, it’s midsummer now; ten shouldn’t be too late, right?

Search the lightnovelworld.cc website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.