The Male Lead’s Wife in the ’80s

The Male Lead’s Wife in the ‘80s Chapter 31 – I Already Prepared to Sacrifice My Life

“I didn’t tell her,” Chi Yunchen finally spoke, his voice terribly cold.

“What? You didn’t tell her?” Zhao Zhiyi clicked his tongue. “But this mission is extremely dangerous. Maybe you won’t return. You didn’t tell Sister-in-law, so if you can’t return, Sister-in-law…”

“I will return!” Chi Yunchen interrupted him and glanced at him coldly, “We will come back safely this time!”

Zhao Zhiyi, “…” Although he also wants to return safely, the mission was really dangerous. He was already prepared to sacrifice his life.

However, looking at Chi Yunchen’s resolution, he didn’t say more.

Saying those kinds of words were just a blow to Chi Yunchen’s self-confidence.

He wouldn’t put down Chi Yunchen.

He also wouldn’t put down…himself.

……

The scene of selling vegetables.

Su Man-er and Hong Yashan sold their things very well. In less than two hours, there were only a few mushrooms left. They had sold the pheasant, rabbits, and the other mushrooms.

Su Man-er turned her head to look at Hong Yashan and smiled, “Sister-in-law, let’s wait for another ten minutes. If no one comes to buy these mushrooms in ten minutes, we’ll take them back and eat them ourselves. Anyway, there’s only this much left. It doesn’t matter if we eat it ourselves.”

She made a lot of money today. She was happy. She couldn’t wait to go back to the village and immediately wander around the mountain again.

If she could find pheasants and rabbits on the mountain and sell them, she could make more money.

“Ok, I’ll listen to Man-er.” Seeing that their things sold well, Hong Yashan was also happy.

Su Man-er turned her head. She reached out and touched the money in her pocket. As she thought about how she could buy some clothes for Jiayue and the others with the money she earned today, a mother and daughter pair suddenly came to her.

The mother and daughter pair wore fashionable clothes and had perms.

However, Su Man-er didn’t think this kind of curly hair was beautiful, and she thought it vulgar instead.

Moreover, she saw that the mother and daughter pair looked mean and not easy to get along with.

Su Man-er didn’t want to greet them, but she adhered to the principle that all visitors were customers. She got up and smiled, “Do you want to buy mushrooms? These are all the mushrooms that are left. If you want to buy them, I can make it a little cheaper.”

Since there was only a little left and others had picked the rest, she should make it cheaper.

“How much cheaper?” Dai Yajuan asked and squatted down. She reached out and picked up a mushroom.

Su Man-er smiled, “If you buy them all, I can make it one mao cheaper.”1

“It’s only one mao cheaper?” Tao Lele, Dai Yajuan’s daughter, curled her lip, looking disdainful.

“This is a small business. Making it a mao cheaper is already giving up a share of the profits,” Su Man-er smiled, her attitude still polite.

“Make it five mao cheaper. I’ll buy it all if you make it five mao cheaper.” Dai Yajuan threw the crushed mushroom back into the basket, her tone condescending.

When she finished, she stood up straight and touched the money in her bag. “Your basket looks very good to me, and I’ll buy it too. I’ll pay two mao for the basket.”

Su Man-er, “…” This person was greedy. Forget that she wanted to pay five mao less for the mushrooms, she even wanted to use two mao to buy her basket! This basket was exquisitely woven. No matter how you look at it, it was worth more than two mao, right?

The person made it clear that she was here to take advantage of her.

Su Man-er deepened her voice, and her attitude became indifferent and alienated. “I’m not selling! I’m not selling the mushrooms or the basket!”

As she said this, she gathered her things to avoid letting that person pick up her mushrooms again.

Dai Yajuan crushed the mushroom just now. A perfectly good fungus was wasted.

Dai Yajuan’s face immediately fell. She looked at Su Man-er unhappily. “You’re not selling? Why are you refusing to sell? Didn’t you put these things out to sell? You…”

“I want to sell it, but are you sincerely buying it? Say that I make it five mao cheaper. If I happened to sell my mushrooms for five mao and I made them five mao cheaper, wouldn’t I give you them for free? Also, you even want this basket. It’s a beautiful basket, but you want to pay two mao for it. Hehe, look at it yourself. Is this basket only worth two mao?”

Su Man-er’s tone was cold. She didn’t expect to meet such a difficult person on her first day of selling things. There was no shortage of “good” people in the world.

The surrounding vegetable sellers and customers looked over.

Looking at the exquisite basket and the fresh mushrooms, all of them inwardly clicked their tongues.

Those mushrooms were only available in summer. Since the seller could pick those mushrooms in the winter, it was definitely a rare commodity. This rare commodity was more expensive than meat, and it was more difficult to buy than meat. It was out of line for the customer to make the price five mao cheaper.

The basket was so beautifully woven that it could be placed at home as decoration. Since the customer wanted to buy that beautiful basket for only two mao, she was obviously bullying the young lady.

An old man who couldn’t put up with it any longer glanced at Dai Yajuan, frowned, and said, “It’s not easy for the young lady to sell things during the winter, so you should pay more. I think the mushrooms are very fresh. They should cost one or two more mao than pork. If you really want the basket, you can have a good discussion with the young lady. At the very least, it should cost one yuan.”

“One yuan? Why don’t you buy it?” Dai Yajuan raised her voice. She instantly glared at the old man. “The basket is made of mountain vines. The vines are worthless. Since she weaved a basket with worthless things, giving her two mao is a profit for her. If you want to sell it for one yuan, you might as well go to the main street and steal it! It’s settled. The basket is two mao. As for the mushrooms, I can give an extra mao!”

She took out her money and stretched out her hands to the mushrooms. She wanted to bring the mushrooms to her side quickly.

Su Man-er’s eyes darkened. She blocked Dai Yajuan’s hands and said coldly, “I said I’m not selling! No matter how much money you pay today, I won’t sell.”

“You…”

“Although my basket is woven with vines, it takes time to weave. Time is the most precious thing in the world, don’t you understand? Also, if you think you can buy these mushrooms at that price, you can buy them elsewhere, not from me!”

Su Man-er put the mushrooms back into the basket and put the basket behind her so that Dai Yajuan couldn’t reach them.

Dai Yajuan flushed red with anger. She ground her teeth, and her face was full of fury.

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A person laughed, “It’s a good thing that she got the opportunity to buy mushrooms during this season. Where can she buy them so cheaply? If she could buy them elsewhere, she wouldn’t be entangled here.”

“Exactly, it’s clear that she wants to bully the young lady,” another person echoed.

Hearing their words, Dai Yajuan only felt angrier.

She ground her teeth, glared at Su Man-er, and said, “I’ll ask you again. Are you selling or not?”

Hu Yujiao looked at Dai Yajuan and Tao Lele in a nearby corner. Her face sank in anger.

That mother and daughter pair were really useless. While they shopped, they dawdled. Couldn’t they just throw their money there, pick up the things, and run away? She had never met such useless people.

She looked at Su Man-er again. Su Man-er, that b*tch, must have made a lot of money today.

In that case, she… should just ask Su Man-er for money!

Reaching out to touch a letter in her bag, the corners of her mouth turned up, and a cold smile crossed her face.

Su Man-er looked at Dai Yajuan and ridiculed, “I’m not selling! I won’t sell no matter how many times you ask!”

“Dead girl, do you know who I am?” Dai Yajuan was so angry that she couldn’t help shouting in a low voice.

Footnotes

One mao is 1/10 of a yuan.