Chapter 8

Love and romance have never been a problem for Zhou Ping. Her family of origin is extremely bad, with a cowardly mother, an incompetent but authoritarian father, a younger brother who seemed to have everyone revolve around him since he was born, and four older sisters who gradually became numb day by day.

None of the families she met when she was young were happy. Later, she left home and gradually became independent. Due to the social environment at that time, she also went on blind dates. The objects of blind dates were all kinds of people. Some made people laugh and cry, some made people speechless, and some made their brains congested…

She kept putting it off until she was forty, and became what people called an old aunt, an old maid who couldn’t get married. Zhou Ping suddenly came to her senses. She had money, so why should she use her family to tie herself down?

After thinking it through, she suddenly understood life and was happy every day. Even if she met a stupid customer, Zhou Ping could still receive him/her happily.

If she lived again, she would still have no expectations for love. Instead, she was quite satisfied with her current lifestyle. She had three children with different personalities, but none of them were obviously heartless. Raising them well would be better than finding a stinky man, right?

But this is just her current thought. The future is still long, and Zhou Ping herself can’t say for sure what will happen. Living well in the present is the most important thing.

The most important thing at the moment was to cut the leeks. Zhou Pingguo was not very fast at the beginning, but he got more and more adept at it later. He got up at four in the morning to start cutting. Because the area was not large and not many were planted, it took him more than half an hour to finish cutting all the leeks.

Zhou Sen got up early to help her. He packed everything into a wooden box and tied the box tightly to the back seat of the bicycle with a rope. Zhou Pingguo rode around the yard and found it was stable, so she set off with peace of mind.

Zhou Pingguo rode until her legs were sore before they finally reached the county town.

I asked a kind lady for directions and found out the location of the Red Star Hotel. Then I rushed to the Red Star Hotel without stopping.

During the time of growing leek greens, Zhou Pingguo has been thinking about one thing, which is what is the selling point of leek greens.

In addition to being winter vegetables, she thought hard and finally came up with a selling point that the restaurant owner simply couldn’t refuse.

“Aphrodisiac!”

Leeks are good for sexual performance, and the yellow leeks are leeks that have not turned green, so they are also good for sexual performance. Zhou Pingguo thought of the words and waited at the entrance of the Red Star Hotel, which had not yet opened.

About half an hour later, a tricycle arrived and knocked on the door, and someone from the Red Star Hotel came out to take the food. It was probably their long-term business partner who delivered fish, meat, and vegetables.

Zhou Pingguo had good eyesight, and she looked at the side. There were not many vegetables, but bean sprouts were the most common, and there were some pickles. There were some leafy greens, probably grown by people nearby, not necessarily in greenhouses, and some covered with plastic film like she did, in a place sheltered from the wind. After all, they were in the south, and it was just so cold because of the high altitude.

Some kitchens use firewood all year round and can plant some, but they will not grow very big and the economic benefits are not very high.

It can’t be compared with Zhou Pingguo’s leek.

The things were all unloaded, and the back door of the Red Star Hotel was about to close. Zhou Pingguo rushed over and said, “Wait, please wait, I have some good stuff here, do you want to see it?”

“What the hell?” Tao Zaishan, the manager of the Red Star Hotel, was startled by the girl who suddenly appeared. He covered his heart and patted it twice, “Oh, where did it come from?”

“Don’t worry about me getting it yet, just look at what I brought.”

“Okay, let me see.” Tao Zaishan actually didn’t expect this little country girl to come up with anything good, but today happened to be Laba Festival, and many people came to the store. Even if the loaches were caught by the farmers themselves, they could be collected, processed, and sold at a good price.

“My things can’t stand the cold, let’s see if I can get inside.” The wind was blowing outside, and Zhou Pingguo was afraid that her leeks would be damaged. She had worked so hard to grow such a small amount, and she would be sad if she lost even a little.

“So mysterious. Okay. Come in.” Tao Zaishan said with disdain.

Zhou Pingguo unloaded the wooden boxes by herself. They were very heavy, so she and Zhou Sen had to carry them onto the bicycle. Tao Zaishan couldn’t stand her clumsiness and called two shop assistants to help carry them into the kitchen.

After entering, Zhou Pingguo opened the box and saw the tender and fresh leeks, which made people happy.

Tao Zaishan, who had a normal attitude at first, immediately straightened his attitude after seeing Jiu Huang, “Little girl, what is this?”

“Chives, which we grow at home, are very delicious when boiled and served cold or fried with eggs. And—”

Zhou Pingguo blushed at the right time and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

“And what? Tell me.”

Zhou Pingguo held it in for a long time before saying, “Leeks are good for boosting virility!”

After saying that, he covered his mouth embarrassedly.

“This… good, good, good stuff, good stuff.” Tao Zaishan knew that the little girl was thin-skinned and looked simple, so she would not say anything to lie. Even if she lied, it was okay. Things like aphrodisiacs would become true if you talked about them too much, so it was a good gimmick.

“Go call Chef Hu and ask him to cook something for us to try.” Tao Zaishan made arrangements immediately.

Chef Hu lived in the staff dormitory of the Red Star Hotel and came over soon. When he came, the vegetables had been washed, and Chef Hu quickly started to heat the oil in the wok. Their hotel had already used liquefied gas, so the fire was very strong. With the heavy oil, the fried chives and eggs tasted much better than the ones Zhou Pingguo had fried yesterday.

Tao Zaishan was a connoisseur of goods. He took a bite, put down his chopsticks, and immediately said to Zhou Pingguo, “Little girl, how are you going to sell it?”

“It’s not easy to grow this. The whole family has been taking care of it day and night, and only this much has come out.” Zhou Pingguo must be playing the victim, but it’s not that hard. It’s just that it’s more troublesome to change the honeycomb coal. If there are too many, the temperature will be too high, and if there are too few, the temperature will be too low. You have to keep an eye on it. “Four yuan per pound.”

Zhou Pingguo showed four fingers. Nowadays, pork is 3.6 yuan per pound. Zhou Pingguo did not want to sell it at a higher price than pork, so she gave some room for bargaining.

But unexpectedly, Tao Zaishan did not bargain and agreed directly, “Okay, 4 yuan per pound, right? Come on, move it to the scale.”

Because they purchased a lot of things, it was obviously unrealistic to weigh them with weights, so they had a special mechanical scale. They lifted the things up and weighed a number first, then took out all the leeks, weighed a number from the empty box, and subtracted it to get the weight of the peeled ones. “It’s 30 jin 4 liang in total. I just cooked some, so it’s 31 jin, 124 yuan. Come with me and I’ll give it to you.”

After Zhou Pingguo received the money, her heartbeat quickened for a moment. After all, this was the first time she had earned money that could be considered “big money” since her rebirth.