Chapter 77: Chapter 77: Everyone Wants a Share of the Money

Seeing how clueless Yu Hai looked, Xu Shuhua couldn’t help but get angry all over again.

Fortunately, this time Chen Qiaoqin reacted quickly. She shot Yu Hai a look while heading into the house. “Are you stupid? It’s the ones we picked last night!”

Yu Hai suddenly understood. “Oh, right, right! I totally forgot! I’ll go get them now!”

With that, Yu Hai followed Chen Qiaoqin into the house.

But when the two of them pulled out the two baskets from under the bed, they were both stunned.

Outside, the jujube tree was still loaded with fruit, branches packed full.

Would anyone believe these two baskets were picked from that tree?

The two hesitated, but then Xu Shuhua’s voice called in from outside, “There are two more baskets—not from this tree, but the quality and taste are just as good. Please have a look, sir.”

Hearing this, Yu Hai and Chen Qiaoqin no longer hesitated.

Both baskets were filled to the brim and heavy, so the two of them had to carry them out together.

After two trips, they finally managed to bring both baskets of jujubes into the yard.

Old Mr. Xie stepped forward, picked up a jujube to look at, tasted it, and nodded in satisfaction. “Yes, these are just as good. I’ll take them all!”

“Great!” Xu Shuhua replied, then turned to Yu Hai. “Fourth, go borrow the village chief’s scale.”

The Yu family did have a scale, but it was a small one.

It was fine for selling small amounts, but not for this kind of business.

Before Yu Hai could agree, Old Mr. Xie spoke up. “No need, I brought one in my car. Just help Xiao Wang carry it down.”

Hearing this, Xu Shuhua didn’t insist.

After all, Old Mr. Xie had come all this way and was offering a generous price—he probably wouldn’t try to cheat them on the scale.

Next, picking, packing, and weighing all went very quickly.

They brought out two baskets from the house, picked another two from the tree, plus what Yu Hai had brought back. Altogether, it came to over 360 jin.

Xu Shuhua became generous at this point and said to Old Mr. Xie, “You came all this way, so let’s not bother with the odd bits—let’s just call it 360 jin.”

At eighty cents per jin, 360 jin came to 288 yuan.

When the rest of the Yu family heard this number, they were stunned.

They never imagined that these sour jujubes, which everyone in the village had looked down on just yesterday, could suddenly sell for nearly 300 yuan.

They watched as Xu Shuhua took a thick stack of bills from Old Mr. Xie, and only then did everyone finally relax.

Hearing the number was shocking, but it didn’t feel real.

Now that they’d seen the money with their own eyes, they finally felt at ease.

Although Xu Shuhua had acted calm from start to finish, only Yu Nuannuan in her arms knew that Xu Shuhua was just as excited as everyone else—she was even trembling a little!

It was only Xu Shuhua’s pride that kept her holding it together.

After helping load the jujubes and the scale onto the car, Yu Hai and the others exchanged a few polite words with Old Mr. Xie, then watched as he got in the car and drove away. Only then did they breathe a sigh of relief.

They had really been worried!

Afraid that Old Mr. Xie might suddenly change his mind and not want them after all.

Now that he and the goods were gone, there was nothing left to fear!

Xu Shuhua was just about to lead everyone home when Old Lady Wang suddenly stepped forward. “Old Lady Yu, you’re just going to leave like that?”

Xu Shuhua shot her a sharp look. “What, you want something?”

Old Lady Wang swallowed. “Shouldn’t you share that money with all of us?”"

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