CHAPTER 197: CHAPTER 197 ORIGINAL SIN 6

Of course, Hao Laosan was just momentarily surprised. Although these mushrooms were hard to pick, they weren’t impossible to find. Besides, Yun Shuangshuang’s words pleased him. Everyone had kids, and who wouldn’t like a filial child? It was rare for a child to have a crazy mother yet not dislike her, which made him like her even more.

"Hey! No need for money, you’re just a little kid and don’t take up much space. Come on up, I’ll give you a ride. Just don’t wander off by yourself, remember to stick with the uncles and brothers on the truck so you won’t get lost." Hao Laosan tapped his pipe and spoke with great enthusiasm.

Yun Shuangshuang quickly thanked him profusely, letting out a big sigh of relief inside. She didn’t have a single cent, although she knew where her grandma, Wang Guixiang, hid money at home. But whether in her past life or this one, stealing was something she didn’t want to do!

Even luckier, an uncle from her village on the tractor also offered to let Yun Shuangshuang put her stuff on his stall to sell together, saving her the stall fee. Naturally, Yun Shuangshuang thanked him profusely again.

The tractor was slow, taking over an hour to reach the place even though it was just a few minutes away in modern times. The country roads were not easy to travel on, being paved with gravel and a bit bumpy.

The town’s vegetable market was concentrated in a street alley on the east side. After getting off the tractor, the people, familiar with the place, each found a spot to sell their vegetables by looking for an empty space, one next to another. This was an unwritten rule, with people from the same village sticking together.

They pulled a plastic sheet from their baskets and spread it on the ground, then took the vegetables out to arrange neatly. The adults’ baskets were huge, which could more accurately be called baskets, and the vegetables were enough to fill the plastic sheet in front of them completely when laid out.

Yun Shuangshuang also had a piece of plastic sheet. After spreading it out, she took all the mushrooms from her basket and arranged them neatly. Yun Shuangshuang didn’t have many mushrooms, only about a pound or two of each kind, making just a small pile when displayed.

When almost all the market spaces were occupied by villagers selling vegetables, the person collecting stall fees started going stall to stall. When they got to Yun Shuangshuang, without needing an explanation from the person beside her, the fee collector assumed she was with them and didn’t charge Yun Shuangshuang for a stall fee.

The people in town, used to eating various fungi from the mountains, quickly came over to inquire about the price upon seeing Yun Shuangshuang’s mushrooms. Yun Shuangshuang was also worried about not being able to sell them. Each basket was worth around six to seven yuan because they looked really good.

Eager to sell quickly and avoid leftover stock, Yun Shuangshuang directly offered a relatively low price of five yuan each, including a small grass basket to hold the mushrooms.

Unexpectedly, Yun Shuangshuang’s mushrooms sold very quickly. Almost everyone who asked about the price paid without hesitation. After all, people willing to spend on such expensive mushrooms at that time weren’t short of money, and the mushrooms looked so good that almost no one bargained and paid happily.

With fifty yuan in hand while others had just started selling, Yun Shuangshuang thought about it, greeted the people nearby, and then went off to wander around the market with her small basket.

The first thing Yun Shuangshuang did was to go to a stall where clothes were sold for ten yuan each and bought two pieces of clothes for her mother, Feng Jinyan: a top and trousers, both polyester, very sturdy, durable, and also quite comfortable against the skin.

Thirty yuan was quickly spent with twenty gone, but Yun Shuangshuang felt delighted as she put the clothes into her basket, then headed to a meat stall. Meat was a luxury, and Yun Shuangshuang was reluctant to buy it, mainly because buying it now wouldn’t let her mother taste it; that would be too much of a loss.

Bones, however, were cheap, at one yuan for three pounds. Yun Shuangshuang directly bought three yuan worth, and the boss threw in ten pounds, filling Yun Shuangshuang’s small basket completely. With the somewhat heavy basket on her back, Yun Shuangshuang happily spent three cents on two baked cakes, nibbling as she walked.

She had rushed out in the morning without having breakfast, and at home, she couldn’t eat anything when she wasn’t at the table, causing her to feel a bit dizzy and light-headed with hunger. Without eating something, she wouldn’t be able to carry the ten or so pounds on her back.

Nibbling on the baked cake, Yun Shuangshuang planned in her mind to make a pot of bone soup with those many bones when she got back, believing this way her mom would definitely get some.

The remaining twenty or so yuan, Yun Shuangshuang planned to give to the Yun family, including most of the money she would earn in the future, which she also intended to hand over to her father.

Yun Shuangshuang wasn’t being a pushover; she naturally had her own plans in mind. First, she could make money for the family, and she wanted to get her mom out. If the family didn’t want her to go on strike, they would have to agree.

However, to achieve this, she would still have to fight, which Yun Shuangshuang was mentally prepared for long ago, so she wasn’t worried.

Another reason was that Yun Shuangshuang knew her dad, Yun He, always envied those in the town who worked and made money with a three-wheeled motorcycle, as it wasn’t as tiring as farming.

Unfortunately, the Yun family was too poor to have any extra money to help Yun He buy a motorcycle, which was quite an expensive luxury at the time! In her previous life, Yun He didn’t get a significantly discounted second-hand three-wheeled motorcycle until years later, after snatching the money Yun Shuangshuang had saved up.

In this lifetime, Yun Shuangshuang planned to directly give the money to Yun He so he could quickly buy a three-wheeled motorcycle. At this age, compared to her previous life when she ran away, she was even younger and couldn’t buy a motorcycle on her own; even if she tried, no one would dare sell it to her. The only thing Yun Shuangshuang could do was wait for Yun He to buy the three-wheeled motorcycle so she could steal the keys and escape with Feng Jinyan.

Of course, this time, before escaping, Yun Shuangshuang would also save up some money, as everywhere in the city required money, and without it, moving forward would be very difficult.

After finishing the baked cake, Yun Shuangshuang, with her little basket full, returned to her fellow villagers and waited for everyone to finish selling vegetables before taking Hao Laosan’s tractor back to the village.

Everyone’s vegetables sold pretty quickly. Just after noon, they were sold out, and everyone, eager to go home, carried the money they made, their baskets now lighter, and hurried to sit in Hao Laosan’s tractor to rush back. Eating could be done at home to save money and fill the stomach.

Upon returning to the village, Yun Shuangshuang firmly shoved two yuan to Hao Laosan and dashed home. Yun Shuangshuang was also eager to return; ever since she was reborn, she hadn’t felt at ease unless she was watching over her mom.

To Yun Shuangshuang’s surprise, her grandpa Yun Zheng and grandma Wang Guixiang, who should have been in the fields, were at home, and both were looking at Yun Shuangshuang with unpleasant expressions as she walked in the door!