Rebirth in the 80s: The Scholar Wife is Cute
Chapter 159 Brother Lu

Chapter 159: Chapter 159 Brother Lu

Shen Mianmian wasn’t worried at all about purchasing winter melons; they were abundant and low-cost, with nearly every household growing them. Many people were even tired of eating them.

They didn’t have the mindset to go sell their winter melons. Some had more than they could eat, and they would just rot away. If someone said they were buying winter melons, most people would gladly sell, as long as they were paid in cash.

As for the capital needed to buy the winter melons, Shen Mianmian was also not worried. It didn’t take much to start buying them, and even if she couldn’t sell them, she could just take them back home to eat.

Before being cut open, winter melons were quite good at keeping.

Lu Siyuan didn’t want to dampen Shen Mianmian’s enthusiasm, but there was a fact that he had to tell her, "Winter melons don’t sell well in the city, urban residents don’t like to store vegetables. They buy their groceries close to home and prefer fresh produce, purchasing only a little each time."

In the city, it’s not like in the countryside where a meal is for a large family. Urban families are usually just three or four people and can’t eat much in one meal. Even a small winter melon weighs over twenty pounds, which a family cannot finish in two or three days.

"That’s not a problem, why not just sell them cut?" In the twenty-first century, watermelons were sold in slices, so why not winter melons? In big supermarkets, aren’t pumpkins and winter melons sold in pieces?

"Sell them cut?" Lu Siyuan was taken aback by Shen Mianmian’s idea, "How did you think of that?"

How come he had never thought of that?

"Eh... This is called ’drawing inspiration’..." In Shen Mianmian’s view, ’drawing inspiration’ sounded better than ’imitating’.

"Drawing inspiration from whom?" Lu Siyuan stared at Shen Mianmian with a strange expression.

"Don’t get hung up on these minor details."

Shen Mianmian added a handful of firewood to the pot, looking at Lu Siyuan mischievously, not bothering to hide her cunning ambitions.

"Don’t look at me like that, it’s no use," Lu Siyuan immediately dashed Shen Mianmian’s fantasies, "My family didn’t grow any winter melons."

His grandfather had a bad back, he had to go to school, and it was almost too much to tend to the family’s fields, let alone have the energy to grow winter melons.

However, he did not plan to stay out of it, "After we eat, I’ll go ask other families if they have any to sell."

"I knew you wouldn’t let me down, kid." Shen Mianmian jumped up excitedly and slapped Lu Siyuan on the shoulder, buying within their own village was the best option.

If it were in Zhao Family’s village, that would alert her own family. Going to other villages, people wouldn’t trust the word of two kids.

"Who are you calling ’kid’?" Lu Siyuan glared at her, "You’re not even older than me."

"Just by a few months, right?" Shen Mianmian was unimpressed. What’s there to fuss about this?

"Being older by one day is still older," Lu Siyuan bragged, "You should be grateful I’m not making you call me ’Brother Lu’!"

Brother Lu?

Shen Mianmian shuddered with goosebumps, calling someone who could be her son ’brother’—wasn’t that asking for her life?

Shen Mianmian, with her mind full of money, didn’t dwell too much on the matter.

She suggested to Lu Siyuan, "We’re not very old, and people might not take us seriously. You could go on behalf of Grandpa. Everyone knows his back is bad, and they won’t question your authority."

After thinking it over, Shen Mianmian added, "Just say I have relatives who work in a factory cafeteria in the city."

That way, people would believe they were truly purchasing winter melons.

After hearing Shen Mianmian’s words, Lu Siyuan gave a very genuine assessment, "You’re quite the schemer."

In the past, she kept to herself with no presence at school. He hadn’t expected that she was the smartest one in school, and the teachers had all been mistaken.