Transmigrated & Triumphant: Defying Destiny's Chosen One-Chapter 487 - 39: [Additional Update 3 for Qingyi Qian Dan Alliance Leader]_2
When everything was loaded onto it, the hard-working cart of her entire life emitted a groaning "creak" under the strain, Chu River even suspected that after this trip, the cart might just sacrifice itself.
But looking at the goods on the cart, who would care about that ten yuan at this moment?
She covered the goods with coarse burlap, glanced at the sky, and rushed forward, dragging the cart with both hands.
——It’s fortunate it’s the weekend these days, otherwise she would have to take time off again!
From here to the city center, it takes about two to three hours on foot, but Chu River, dragging the cart and running all the way, spent just over an hour and a half.
When she parked at Ning City Hua Jia Lane, she finally tasted the feeling of utter exhaustion.
——Her body is still not fully recovered.
She’s done so much for this family!
Chen Changhai was in the house sorting through the goods he had found recently and recalled Chu River’s big order, feeling more and more enthusiastic. When he heard the door open and came out, he was taken aback to see the pale, sweat-soaked Chu River. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
"You..."
Chu River was not in the mood for small talk.
Her fish couldn’t be kept for long.
"Hurry, I’m here to deliver the goods."
The two of them... well, mainly just one of them.
She maneuvered the cart into the yard, closed the gate, and lifted the burlap. Even Chen Changhai, usually calm and composed, almost jumped up in surprise.
"Oh my goodness!"
He instinctively touched above his lip — wild boars could be caught, and two at once too?!
With this lady’s skills, he was really lucky she held back last time on the train when he tried to grab a seat.
Upon seeing the ducks that fainted in the sack and the already dead fish, he immediately understood:
"I’ll find someone right away!"
While quickly dealing with the fish, he was pained to see:
"They’re all dead!"
The price for dead fish is slightly cheaper, but if they were kept alive in water, Chu River couldn’t make this trip.
If the fish made any noise on the road and got discovered, it would be unprofitable.
Chen Changhai called a few kids over from the alley, whispered a few words to them, and within ten minutes, people began arriving one after another.
First came two men empty-handed, who were led by Chen Changhai to the backyard to see the two boars without a word.
Chu River didn’t intend to sell the wild ducks and put them aside to hide.
As for the remaining big pile of fish, the live ones had to be snatched at the supply and marketing cooperative for 0.5 yuan a pound, but here the dead fish were only 0.35 yuan.
Ning City is not close to water bodies, and fresh river products are not yet farmed at scale, they are either secretly sold by fishermen or directly supplied to the cooperative.
Even if it doesn’t have the rich taste of meat, it’s still meat.
Moreover, if someone in the family is weak, fish soup is much more nourishing than meat soup.
With everyone coming and going, noticing the fish weren’t fresh, they persistently haggled down by an additional three cents, and twelve people wrapped up a total of more than 300 pounds of fish and shrimp of various sizes.
Chen Changhai knew that with the current market demand, these would be gone from their hands in less than 15 minutes.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It’s too hot, it wasn’t his intent to sell cheaply, it just couldn’t be delayed.
At least the two wild boars weren’t dead yet, steady.
...
Chu River sighed a bit.
Fish and shrimp with water weigh more than a pig, but they only came up to a hundred yuan... not worth it, not worth it, better to eat them herself next time.
Instead, the two wild boars, because they were whole, weren’t that expensive, but were slightly more pricey than back home.
Chen Changhai haggled a bit, and as expected by Chu River, they garnered a total of 685 yuan.
The day’s haul was 800 yuan and 17 wild ducks.
Chu River was satisfied.
Chen Changhai was half-dead tired, yet didn’t forget to bring out two buckets from the house:
"Others need huge quantities, it’s hard to gather in a hurry, but there’s a local paint factory, paint is easy to get."
"There’s also some tin, should I take it first?"
Chu River thought of her six little laborers and agreed without hesitation: "Take it."
Then, taking a look back at the cart she bought for ten yuan — she had to admit, it was solidly built, despite some wear on the tires from running too fast, it held up.
Just enough to take these things back.
But doing so, she would have to pay part of the payment.
She took out 15 big bills and handed them over, leaving 5 wild ducks as well. Thus covering today’s payment and as remuneration for previously helping with sales.
So, she was left with only 650 yuan.
Chen Changhai smiled so broadly that his teeth showed — he loved dealing with straightforward customers like this.
He also remembered another thing: "By the way, I got a bicycle, why not take it with you today?"
Chu River thought for a moment: "No, I have to come again in a couple of days, I’ll just ride it then."
Gu An is getting discharged the day after tomorrow morning, by then let Shi Suifeng bring him. Gu Ping will ride another one, and they’ll go back directly.
As for whether Gu Ping would know how to ride?
This is the bike every boy dreams of, what rural kid could resist it?!
Not know how to ride?
After trying a couple of laps and falling a few times, it should be fine.
Not that fragile.
Chen Changhai naturally knew their family situation but was still curious enough to ask:
"What kind of toy car are you planning to make? If it’s too big, I might as well keep dealing with bicycles."
Otherwise, there’s no way to carry it around!
Families willing to spend big money on their kids are hard to find, he doesn’t have many clients like that at hand.
Chu River looked at the materials piled on the cart, and without saying more, thought of going to Old Zheng to patch it up, making two of each size is possible.
Thinking further about the progress —
"The day after tomorrow morning, you can come to my house and see it for yourself."
They’ve put everything into this, success is just around the corner!
