Chapter 127 - Sold Out!
Chapter 127: Sold Out!
Translator: Lonelytree
By the time everyone left, there were no more vegetables in Xiao Lingyu’s warehouse. Xiao Lingyu thought for a moment and retrieved a small portion from the farming space.
As Xiao Lingyu approached the tree where she normally stopped, she saw many people standing or sitting there. Some had small carts with them. The crowd was larger than before.
Someone saw Xiao Lingyu and shouted, “The miss is here!” Then, the crowd rushed over to swarm Xiao Lingyu.
People noticed there was less stock on the tricycle than before. Someone asked, “Miss, why are there so few crops today?”
Xiao Lingyu smiled apologetically, “I had already sold some before I arrived! So this is all that’s left today.”
“How much did you sell earlier? Most of your tricycle is already empty!”
“It was around 400 catties!” Xiao Lingyu said.
“So much?!”
“Today will be my last day setting up stall for a while. I’ll return to the county town sometime later.” Xiao Lingyu announced.
“What? Then, I need to stock up. If my children don’t have your vegetables to eat, they will lose their temper.”
“Same here!”
Instantly, the crowd’s shopping list grew. The vegetables were quickly snatched away.
“Hey, I got that first. Don’t steal it from me!”
“I got it first.”
“No, I did!”
People started to fight for the vegetables like they were gold. The vegetables were expensive, but they were delicacies for children and pregnant women. They were worth every penny.
After someone got their portion, they said, “Miss, when will you be coming back?”
Xiao Lingyu shook her head. “That’s hard to say.” She had more stock in her farming space, but she didn’t want to attract unnecessary attention. Her three consecutive days of conducting business had already attracted some people’s attention. Therefore, she would keep the crops in the farming space for now.
Moreover, Xiao Lingyu wanted to go back to Taoyuan Village to see how their gardening sheds were coming along. Also, she had to deal with the strawberry seedlings. She kept a small portion of the strawberry seedlings in the farming space. She planned to grow them there for a while. When the shed was ready, she would transplant them.
Before Xiao Lingyu reached the market, she had already sold out.
Xiao Lingyu had no idea there was a conspiracy waiting for her at the market. Two UMALE officers were sitting inside a vegetable shop. The younger of the two took out a notebook and looked around. Then, he asked a short and fat man, “Big Brother, where is the person you mentioned?”
Li Daqiang glanced at the spot where Xiao Lingyu normally set up her stall. There were some people standing there. They were probably waiting for Xiao Lingyu to arrive.
Li Dajiang narrowed her beady eyes. “She’s not here yet.”
Li Dazhi glanced at his watch. “It’s already so late. Brother, is she not coming?”
Li Daqiang said, “She will come. She has been here for two days already. Dazhi, you have to teach her a lesson for setting up by the roadside and scamming people with expensive vegetables!”
The girl had crowds fighting for her vegetables despite their crazy prices. This meant that Li Daqiang had no business left. Therefore, she needed to be taught a lesson. It was why Li Daqiang called his younger brother, who was a UMALE officer. They would confiscate her stock and give her a heavy fine. That would teach her a lesson for trying to provoke him by setting up a stall in front of his shop!
However, Xiao Lingyu’s tricycle was actually parked more than ten meters away from his shop. On top of that, she was across the street from his business. The man was just jealous. Seeing how good Xiao Lingyu’s business was, he assumed Xiao Lingyu had stolen his customers and decided to do something about it.
“Don’t worry, big brother.” Li Dazhi said, “I will give her a severe punishment!”
“Thank you, little brother!” Li Dazhi looked into the distance with a vicious gaze. They waited for another half an hour. Li Daqiang looked at the clock. He frowned.
Li Dazhi asked in puzzlement, “Brother, it’s already so late, and she is still not here. Is she not coming today?”
Li Daqiang wasn’t sure anymore.
At that moment, the crowd, who was waiting, started to get anxious too. “Is the Miss not coming? She was already here yesterday morning.”
“Right, the Miss said she would stop up the road before coming here. Could she be there now?”
“I remember she did say that. I’ll go there to take a look. It’s not that far anyway.”
“Yes, let’s go!”
Li Dazhi and his colleague, who wandered over, heard their conversation. Li Dazhi was delighted. He told his colleague, “Penghua, let’s go too!” Penghua obliged. They would get extra money from catching unscrupulous vendors.
When Li Dazhi and Peng Hua followed the crowd to Construction North Road, they heard someone mutter, “Where is the Miss? We haven’t seen her!”
“Let’s go look around. If we still can’t find her, we’ll ask the people here!”
“Okay!”
They reached the end of the junction, and they still didn’t see Xiao Lingyu.
“We’re at the end of the road. There’s still no sign of the Miss. Let’s ask someone!”
“There are a few fruit vendors over there. Let’s go ask them!”
“Boss, I want to ask. Have you seen a girl selling vegetables around here?”
The boss was too busy packing up to answer. It was another vendor who said, “Yes, she was here. She has returned because her stuff has sold out.”
“Ah, she has sold out?” The people were surprised. “So fast?”
The fruit vendor said, “Please move. The UMALE people are here. We need to leave!”
“Huh?” The crowd was confused. Then, they turned around and saw two UMALE officers coming their way. The crowd quickly parted. As the crowd saw the fruit vendors running away, they sighed, “The Miss sold out too quickly. It’s still so early. To think I purposely I woke up early today.”
“I should have come here instead of waiting at the market.”
When Li Dazhi and Peng Hua heard that the unscrupulous vendor scamming people with expensive prices had already returned, they were also disappointed.
Penghua said, “Li Dazhi, what should we do now?”
Li Dazhi said somewhat irritably, “We’ll come back tomorrow.” The two turned around and left.
As soon as they left, the three fruit sellers appeared out of nowhere and quickly set up their stalls again.
These passers-by were dumbfounded.
The fruit seller told them kindly. “You guys can stop waiting too. The girl said this was her last day selling and she won’t be coming back for the next few days. So, her customers quickly snatched up her stock. After she sold out, she left.”
“How can this be?!” The crowd was disappointed.
“What should we do now? Without those vegetables, my children won’t eat during meals!”
“My family is the same. In the past two days, my children have gained such a big appetite for vegetables. It’s a miracle.”
The fruit vendor said, “Everyone is a good parent. The customers earlier also bought a lot because they had children or pregnant women to take care of. Her vegetables are so expensive, normal people like us wouldn’t be able to afford them.”
The fruit vendor’s words struck a chord with the crowd.
“Indeed, if not for my children, I wouldn’t be waiting here so early in the morning.”
“But what can we do since our children like her vegetables? They won’t eat the vegetables we buy from elsewhere. For their health, the extra price is worth it. They are still growing after all.”
The fruit vendor was curious. “Her vegetables are so pricey. Are they worth the price?”
“Of course they are. If not, how did she get sold out so soon?”
The crowd was sad that they couldn’t get Xiao Lingyu’s vegetables. They could only return disappointed to the market to purchase the normal vegetables.
After having comparisons to Xiao Lingyu’s stock, the other vegetables looked so pale and yellow. They complained a lot. This angered Li Daqiang but since they were paying customers, he could only endure the grievances.
Of course, Xiao Lingyu didn’t know about these things. After she sold out, she rode her tricycle home.
Once she arrived at the rental, she teleported into the farming space. She wanted to check on the fruit trees she planted yesterday.
The fruit trees didn’t grow like the vegetables. They didn’t ripen and bear fruit overnight. They had grown bigger than before, but they hadn’t reached the flowering period.
Xiao Lingyu believed it had to do with the fruit trees’ growth cycle. Most fruit trees needed three years to grow from seedlings to mature trees and then another three years to bear fruits.
Therefore, even in the farming space, the fruit trees would take longer to grow than vegetables. It might not take three to five years, but it would take at least a few months.
Thankfully, Xiao Lingyu was not in a hurry.
She could transplant the trees when they were at flowering age. With that in mind, Xiao Lingyu believed she could buy a few more fruit tree seedlings. The farming space still had some empty plots.
As she exited the farming space, Xiao Lingyu’s phone rang.