Chapter 1173: County Magistrate Is Worse than Current Manager

It was rare that the Naha auntie could understand Chinese. She nodded to Lin Mumu: "Little girl, do you want to eat apples? They are not ripe yet, only crabapples, which are a bit sour."

"Auntie, I just want to buy some crabapples. My dog ​​just picked two. I will calculate the price for you later. Please sell me a few more pounds." Lin Mumu said politely.

The auntie shook her head: "At most one kilogram."

People in Xinjiang Province don't like to say pounds when selling things. They like to say kilograms. One kilogram is also two kilograms.

One kilogram is one kilogram. Crabapples are small, but there can be many of them.

Lin Mumu followed the auntie to pick fruits. The auntie seemed to like Lin Mumu very much. She picked two tomatoes for her on the way.

Aren't tomatoes used for cooking? Lin Mumu has never eaten them raw.

But now she is a little hungry and thinks everything tastes good. She wiped the tomatoes with her clothes and took a bite.

"Wow, so sweet! I haven't eaten such sweet tomatoes." Lin Mumu suddenly felt that tomatoes are better than crabapples!

Yun Ting also explained to Lin Mumu: "Xijiang Province has plenty of sunshine and a large temperature difference between day and night, so the fruits here are particularly sweet. For example, the honeydew melons and grapes here are much sweeter than those produced in the mainland.

Tomatoes are between vegetables and fruits, and they can also accumulate sugars, so they will be sweeter than what you have eaten before."

"Do you want them? I'll pick a few more for you." Seeing that Lin Mumu liked to eat them, the auntie hurriedly picked them for her and picked a bag of them at once.

Lin Mumu felt embarrassed and insisted on paying: "Auntie, you can sell these to me. My husband and I are traveling and we can eat them on the road."

"This is not worth much. They come to collect it. A basket is only eight yuan. If you must pay, just give me three yuan for this." The auntie of the Kazakh ethnic group spoke Mandarin not in a standard way, with ethnic emphasis, but it was very clear.

"Three yuan?" Lin Mumu was stunned for a moment. The vegetable market charges three yuan for a pound of eggplants. She must have five pounds of these, right?

Yun Ting reacted quickly and didn't let Lin Mumu say more. He had already paid the auntie.

Although the aunt was enthusiastic and happy to sell some things, she took Lin Mumu to see the crabapples.

"My crabapples are a little expensive, so I dare not sell too much. I will weigh one kilogram for you for ten yuan. I will try my best to help you pick the sweeter ones." The aunt said to Lin Mumu embarrassedly:

"The main reason is that the village head's wife likes to eat my fruit. She has already ordered it and won't let me sell it.

You came to me yourself, so I will secretly sell some to you. Anyway, there are so many, she can't finish it."

"Thank you, aunt." Lin Mumu smiled charmingly, which was particularly pleasing.

Ten yuan a kilogram of crabapples is indeed a bit expensive. However, the aunt explained that spring in Western Xinjiang Province comes later than in the inland areas, and the fruits are also harvested later. Her crabapples are harvested early, so they are rare.

And she is a little risky to sell crabapples to Lin Mumu. If the village head's wife knows that she secretly sells them, she will not let her contract the orchard.

"Oh, then how much per kilogram do you give to your village chief?" Lin Mumu asked curiously.

The aunt turned her head in surprise and looked at Lin Mumu as if he were a monster. She smiled and explained to Lin Mumu:

"You are dressed like mainlanders and don't know the lives of ordinary people like us. Don't you Han people have a saying that the county magistrate is worse than the current one? We are sending crabapples to the village chief, how can we ask for money?"