Rebirth Counterattack with Space-Chapter 54 - To Sell Something

Things were so cheap at that time.

The honeycomb could be used as medicine, rich in nutritional value and being monosaccharides also made it easier for the body to absorb. But if you really wanted pure natural honey without additives, of course, it was better to buy directly from beekeepers. A honeycomb like this wasn’t something you came across easily.

“Such a little glutton,” Xia Yuan said.

Xia Yuan, seeing the old man’s quick agreement, regretted not bargaining harder; perhaps she could have gotten it for three dollars if she had insisted.

However, seeing the excitement in Lu Yun, she felt the expense was worthwhile. After paying the man, she couldn’t help but touch Lu Yun’s forehead affectionately before placing the honeycomb into her basket.

Once Xia Yuan had covered the basket with coarse cloth, Lu Yun immediately stashed the item away in her space, “Mom, this is such a treasure.”

“Yes, yes, yes, I’ll make some honey water for you when we get home,” Xia Yuan replied.

To Xia Yuan, spending three and five on a honeycomb felt like a bit of a waste. Wasn’t drinking honey water just like drinking sugar water? They were both sweet after all. Sugar was already precious enough, costing only seven or eight dimes a pound. Yet here was honey, even more expensive than sugar water.

Thinking that three and five could buy more than four pounds of white sugar with some left over, Xia Yuan felt a pang of regret; if it hadn’t been for her daughter’s desire, she would definitely not have bought the honey.

“Everyone should have some,” Lu Yun nodded.

“Hehe, okay. We’ll let your dad and Shitou have a taste too, it’s bound to sweeten them up,” Xia Yuan said, stroking Lu Yun’s head, pleased with her daughter’s willingness to share. They would all have a little taste and save the rest for her daughter.

Content with her honeycomb, Lu Yun followed her mother towards the post office on the next street. She reached into her mother’s basket and took out two washed, big red apples from her space, and the mother-daughter duo munched on them at a leisurely pace. By the time they finished the apples, the post office was in sight, and the doors were open.

The post office was even smaller than Lu Yun had imagined, simply a single room of about ten square meters with a counter and a middle-aged man in postal uniform inside.

I sent Xia Na a package with the meat already removed from a salted ham, twenty pounds of cured pork, twenty pounds of flour, twenty pounds of rice, ten pounds of soybeans, and a one-pound bottle of peanut oil. Besides these, I also sent local specialties like mushrooms, black fungus, and dried bamboo shoots, and finally, I tucked in an envelope containing fifty dollars.

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It wasn’t even nine o’clock by the time I had finished sending the package, and there were still several hours left before returning in the afternoon, yet they almost had nothing else to do.

“Why don’t we go and browse the supply and marketing cooperative? I’ll buy you soda and cream popsicles to eat, and if you see anything else you like, we can buy it,” Xia Yuan suggested. She had planned to buy some things for her daughter today, so she had brought enough money and food coupons.

“If you get thirsty, mom, I can give you a soda. They also have popsicles and ice cream,” Lu Yun shook her head, knowing that the items in the cooperative couldn’t compare to the abundance in her space. Having seen what West Street was like, she really had no desire to shop there anymore.

And without thinking, she also knew that her mother must be tight on money. Although they had that ginseng as a backup for the trip to Haicheng, the ginseng hadn’t been sold yet, had it? Seeing her mother’s pained expression when buying honeycomb gave her an idea. It wasn’t exactly a novel idea.

“Mom, let’s go to West Street.”

“Go there again? Didn’t we already browse through that place?” Xia Yuan was puzzled as she looked at her daughter. She had clearly shown little interest in West Street just a moment ago, so why go back?

“We’re going to sell things,” Lu Yun said as she tugged on her mother’s sleeve to make her lean down, whispering into her ear.

“Money, we have enough money, and it’s just us, so let’s not,” Xia Yuan unconsciously looked around with the feeling of a guilty conscience. Even though she had heard from Aiguo how he and Shitou had dabbled in trading many times and it sounded quite fun, the thought of doing it herself still made her nervously apprehensive.

Lu Yun: “…”

Her mother’s timidity was understandable, right?

“If only your father hadn’t booked our return seats in advance yesterday, then we could have gone back first and helped your grandmother with cooking,” Xia Yuan said fretfully. She hadn’t expected that she and her daughter would run out of places to visit on their rare trip to the countryside and want to return already.

Fortunately, her father had the foresight; otherwise, wouldn’t they have to walk back now?

Lu Yun wiped a bead of cold sweat secretly, deciding to help her mother build her courage. Selling goods was the task at hand, and they would have to do the same once they reached Haicheng anyway. Once bitten, twice shy; with some practice, her mother would grow braver.

“Mom, Shitou said it’s fun, and there’s nothing to worry about,” Lu Yun assertively used Shitou as a shield without a second thought.

Xia Yuan looked at Lu Yun, bit her lip, and nodded almost imperceptibly, “Let’s give it a try then.”

At this moment, Shitou, picking goji berries on the mountain, sneezed and scratched his slightly itchy ear, puzzled. He scratched his head, wondering if someone was thinking of him.

“Are you okay? Did you catch a cold?” Aiguo asked with concern after seeing him sneeze.

“No, something probably just got into my nose,” Shitou shook his head as he bent down to continue his task—picking, picking, picking. Their mission today was to pick all the goji berries, let them air out a bit, and then store them in a cave here. They would come back early tomorrow morning to spread them out to dry and then collect them in the evening. This routine would repeat until all the goji berries were dried.

If we were to take so many fresh goji berries back to dry immediately, it would be too conspicuous. Fortunately, there are no large animals in this “secret base,” and the small wild creatures had long been eaten or sold by them.