Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s

Chapter 239: Chapter 239: Selling Mountain Goods

Ma Jincai saw Chiang Xiao, but his reaction wasn’t as visibly pleased as Ma Cuifeng’s.

However, Chiang Xiao wasn’t fooled by his demeanor and instantly noticed his excitement.

”Chiang Xiao, do you have something to deliver today?”

”Yes. But there’s quite a bit of stuff, and also, I’m not sure if Director Ma can handle it.”

Handle it?

This handling clearly wasn’t about eating food, but about whether he could take it or wrap his head around it. Ma Jincai felt a bit of dissonance when he heard Chiang Xiao say this.

How could a thirteen-year-old village girl talk business with the slickness of an old hand?

”Oh? How much stuff? Is it what you mentioned last time?” Ma Jincai asked curiously.

Chiang Xiao shook her head, ”This time we couldn’t manage to pick Tianlvxiang, nor did we find any mushrooms.”

Ma Jincai’s smile stiffened slightly: ”None? So it’s all bracken?”

Having just one type of vegetable did disappoint him.

But something was better than nothing, right?

Yet Chiang Xiao shook her head again: ”Not just that, we have bracken, wood ear mushrooms, a wild hare, and also...” She paused, then said, ”There’s a wild boar. I’m not sure if Director Ma can handle boar meat...”

Before she could finish, Ma Jincai suddenly stood up, his excitement inexplicable as he exclaimed, ”Wild boar?! Of course, I can! Couldn’t be better!”

Wild boar meat tasted much better than domestic pork! And it had an element of novelty, which made it easier to sell!

Just yesterday, a visitor from out of town complained that our township lacked local flavors; finding nothing at Peace Restaurant really disappointed him.

If we had wild hare and wild boar, not to mention anything else, we’d make those out-of-town guests’ mouths greasy with satisfaction. When they’d return home, they’d surely mention Peace Restaurant!

”How big is it?” Ma Jincai asked excitedly, rubbing his hands together.

”I estimate about three hundred pounds.”

Ma Jincai sharply inhaled a breath of cold air.

”How did you catch it? This is amazing!”

”We had several people, it took a lot of effort. Director Ma, catching this boar wasn’t easy.”

Ma Jincai understood her implication, sighing inwardly at the girl’s shrewdness, and couldn’t help but chortle, ”Well, let me check the goods, and if there’s no problem, I’ll take the wild boar off your hands, how about one yuan per pound?”

One yuan per pound!

That price was indeed not low!

Chiang Xiao felt joy in her heart and immediately nodded, ”Fine, Director Ma is straightforward, I won’t haggle. My relative is waiting outside with the goods; they haven’t been brought to the entrance. I came in first to ask Director Ma where to weigh them.”

She hadn’t shown off at the restaurant’s front entrance, truly a clever girl.

Ma Jincai said joyfully, ”Good, good, you’ve thought this through. Bring it to the back door. We’ve opened a back door for our restaurant’s kitchen; the ingredients are directly brought in there. There’s hardly anyone in that alley at this time.”

Chiang Xiao immediately agreed and left the restaurant to find Ge Dejun and Xu Linjiang.

They were waiting anxiously, unsure whether Chiang Xiao had managed to negotiate a deal, whether the restaurant director could take off their hands the goods. Seeing Chiang Xiao return, both of them stood up at once, asking nervously, ”Little, how did it go?”

”Uncle, Auntie Father,” Chiang Xiao dropped the formal term for Xu Linjiang, calling him more intimately as ’Auntie Father’, ”Director Ma said he can take the wild boar too. Let’s go now and take the goods to the back kitchen.”

Chiang Xiao led them around to the back door of Peace Restaurant, where Ma Jincai had already opened the door and waited with two workers.

Seeing the large wild boar on the cart, even the eyes of those two workers gleamed with light.