During the Spring Festival, visiting the bustling vegetable market is an indispensable "sense of ceremony" for most Chinese. Behind every steaming reunion dinner, it is inseparable from the vegetable farm to ensure that the merchants get up early and warm their hearts. Today's (February 10th) "New Year Walking grassroots", let's experience a busy day for a couple after 80 in the vegetable market.
At five o'clock in the morning, the Ke Lane vegetable market
At five o'clock in the morning, the cold was overwhelming, and when the city of Nanjing had not yet fully awakened, the Kexiang vegetable market in the old city was already brightly lit. The vegetable market merchants are busy carrying the purchased goods to the stalls, the meat is placed on the case, the dishes are neatly arranged, and the taste of the market is alive and fragrant.
Opposite a stall selling pork, the stalls of the post-80s "second generation of vegetables" Mu Jie and her husband Li Tao have been almost cleaned up, picking off rotten leaves and cutting off excess roots, Mu Jie neatly cleaned up a basket of cabbage, yarded up, and made the final preparations before leaving the stall: "Every day at about three o'clock, first give the unit side dishes at home, and then come to the market to retail, almost until 7:30 p.m. ”
Sister Mu and her husband Li Tao's parents originally came to Nanjing from their hometown of Anhui because they were in the vegetable business. The stalls of the two families were next to each other in the market, and over time, the two also developed feelings. In 2005, the couple successively took over the vegetable distribution business from their parents, and worked for seventeen years, the family division of labor was also very clear, the husband Li Tao managed the purchase and delivery, and the wife Mu Jie stayed in the vegetable market to guard the stall. Get up early and greedy, all year round, and the little two earn hard money. A few days ago, the snow road was not easy to walk, and Sister Mu was very distressed about her husband: "Every time my husband goes to Hexi to deliver, he usually drives 40 minutes to get home, but on the day of the snow, he walked for more than an hour. Because it snowed those two days, the goods were not easy to take, and he was a little worried about not being able to get the dishes, so he came back to eat a meal and left early, did not sleep, and went directly to get the goods. ”
In addition to vegetable retail, the couple is also responsible for the daily vegetable distribution of several units, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Li Tao just rested at home for more than an hour, and then set off in the rain, he wanted to go to the Zhongcai Logistics Wholesale Market to buy tomorrow's vegetables.
"Are there any tomatoes?" "No more." "Then come to three baskets of cabbage, and green peppers also bring three baskets." Three baskets of parsley are enough, and there are still a little bit at home..."
In order to be able to buy fresh goods in the first time in the market, Li Tao will generally leave at 2 p.m. or 2 a.m. to purchase. After purchasing retail vegetables, you also have to wait for the order of the unit in the vegetable farm: "If the goods on the stall are sold almost, come to get more, and take less if you have more." Generally, we will find some old patrons to buy, in the WeChat group can see the quality of today's goods in advance, and after coming, we will pick some fresher and better quality. Wait for the order of the unit to come, and then take a little more as needed. ”
Coupled with the round-trip drive, a single purchase takes more than five hours. Going home in the evening to have a meal with the child is a rare time of day for the couple to stay with the child. The eldest son is in the first year of high school, the younger daughter is in the second year of junior high school, and the couple talks about their children and evaluates them as independent, sensible and obedient. Li Tao said that there is very little time to accompany them, after the delivery in the morning, they immediately went to school, and when they returned home in the afternoon, they have begun to write homework, "I don't dare to bother, I always feel indebted to them." You can only earn more money and try to make your child's life a little better. ”
Vegetable farm acquaintance, vegetable farm entrepreneurship, from the original rental house to the current new house, from the original whistle leaking van to now equipped with a new truck with heating, the "husband and wife stall" in the vegetable farm, for more than ten years, has witnessed the upgrading of the vegetable farm in Kexiang, and also in mutual understanding and support, with two hands to support a better and better "small home". Sister Mu said that she hopes that the family's business is getting more and more prosperous, and the children can have a better future: "In the past, the conditions in the family were not good, but now it is much better than before." Like our age, the safety of the family is better than anything, we are not worried about life, more content, the only requirement is that the parents are in good health, the children are healthy and healthy. Through the hands of our husband and wife, we will create a better future for our children. ”
(Source: Jiangsu News Broadcasting/Li Qiuyu, Suo Haoyang, Editor/Zhao Mengyan)