Their small business was doing very well now, because the season for winter melons had passed, they were selling things like chickens, ducks, and their eggs, as well as soybean paste and dried vegetables, which didn't take up much space and were more profitable. Thus, each trip to the city would earn them at least fifty to sixty yuan, and sometimes even eighty to ninety yuan.
Everyone knew they sold agricultural products from the countryside, so the two sold their goods particularly quickly, finishing off a cart's worth of items in one morning.
Lu Siyuan and Shen Mianmian gave the remaining vegetables to the adjacent seller of bowls and chopsticks and asked him to keep an eye on their ox cart. Then, the two went to browse around Clothes Street.
In the eighties, Licheng might not have been developed, but the city still had a considerable transient population, people from the surrounding villages and towns would come here to make major purchases.
