Chapter 52: Setting Up A Stall
In the end, Yun Jiao kept a few little monkeys, and two wind chimes that her fourth brother gave her for her birthday, which were her favorites.
“Try these other ones.”
She didn’t keep the wood carvings belonging to her brothers’ zodiac animals, because her fourth brother had carved one for her, and her other brothers also had them.
It was just that she didn’t have as many; her brothers each only had one.
After tidying up her things, Yun Jiao hugged one of the little monkeys and fell asleep soundly.
Her older brothers watched for a while at their sister sleeping cutely, poked her little chubby face, and squeezed her soft, plump cheeks.
Fluffy cats didn’t have as good a hand-feel as their sister’s chubby hands.
After squeezing a few times and feeling satisfied, they then lay down next to Yun Jiao to sleep.
The next day, she woke up with sleepy eyes.
Shen Yunlian picked her up and took her to the next room to get dressed.
She sat on the bed, yawning, her eyes teary.
Her little hands and feet were soft and limp, making it easy for Shen Yunlian to dress her.
Yun Linhai wiped her face with a warm, damp towel.
“Jiaojiao, you’re not awake yet?”
Yun Jiao shook her head, mumbling softly, “I’m awake.”
After washing her face, she patted her own little cheeks, gradually becoming more energetic.
After her hair was combed, she was completely awake.
“Dad, when are we going to market day? Is Mom going?”
Yun Linhai: “Everyone is going except for Grandpa and Grandma.”
With so many children to bring along, they felt uneasy with fewer adults.
Yun Jiao tidied herself up simply and was immediately neat and pretty. Shen Yunlian held her in her arms, finding her more and more endearing no matter how she looked.
Their Jiaojiao was truly beautiful; she would surely grow up to be a great beauty.
“Let’s go~”
Although it was a small town, there were quite a lot of people on market day, and the whole town was very lively.
There were especially many selling various seafood.
There were also some small vendors, and even people selling popsicles.
Upon hearing someone calling out about popsicles, Yun Xiao Wu and the others became energetic, immediately pestering the adults for a popsicle, which they held and happily ate.
They first went to the temple to offer incense and donate merit to Mazu and various deities.
Most people by the sea believed in Mazu. Yun Jiao took the one Yuan coin her father handed her and put it into the merit box.
They also donated one Yuan to the Dragon King.
One Yuan was considered a lot of merit at this time. Yun Linhai had thought of the recent good sea transport and gritted his teeth to take it out.
Here, the mischievous boys were also exceptionally well-behaved.
After donating merit and burning incense, Shen Yunlian and the others went to buy necessary items for the family.
Yun Xiao Wu’s eyes darted around, and he pulled his eldest and second brothers along.
“Dad, Mom, Uncle, Aunt, you guys go ahead. Eldest brother, second brother, third brother, and fourth brother are watching us; we’ll go stroll around over there by ourselves.”
Children like to play, so Yun Linhai and the others didn’t suspect anything.
“Don’t wander off. We’ll meet here in an hour.”
“No problem!”
After the four elders left, Yun Chen Dong and Yun Chen Xi asked, “What do you want to do?”
Yun Xiao Wu grinned and took out the items they had been carrying.
The items were carried separately, but when brought together, the quantity was still considerable.
This morning, they had also gotten some of the things Yun Chen Bei usually made from him.
“Sell things.”
“Let’s go, let’s go! First, let’s go inquire about the prices of those things.”
Yun Chen Dong and Yun Chen Xi also let them have their way, as long as they didn’t run off and cause trouble.
After inquiring about the basic prices of those toys, they found a spot, spread some newspapers on the ground, and arranged various toys and good-looking accessories on the newspapers.
Yun Chen Bei hesitated: “Can these be sold?”
He squatted beside his brothers, trying to minimize his presence.
Yun Jiao: “If they don’t sell, we’ll take them back. If they don’t like them, I like them. Fourth brother’s things are the best-looking.”
Yun Jiao took a small shell hair clip and put it in her hair.
The shell was small and cute. It was made from hair clips Yun Chen Bei bought with his pocket money when he came back from school, which had no decorations. He then picked suitable shells or small stones to stick on them.
“What a cute hair clip. How much are these hair clips?”
Two young girls walked up to their small stall, their eyes fixed on the hair clip on Yun Jiao’s head, full of admiration.
Yun Xiao Qi held up three fingers: “Two jiao each.”
Yun Chen Bei: He got those hair clips for one jiao for two or three.
The hair clips were just a thin piece of iron, so they weren’t expensive.
But the decorated hair clips sold for more.
Yun Xiao Qi found that even the ones with just some poorly made fake flowers and a bit of yarn woven together were sold for one or two jiao each.
Theirs looked better, so he was confident they would sell for two jiao each.
As expected, the two girls squatted down, looked at the hair clips, and liked them very much.
“Okay, I’ll take four.”
They picked and chose and took away four hair clips.
After they left, Yun Jiao and her brothers high-fived.
Hehe… they sold!
Yun Chen Bei still hadn’t fully recovered.
They… sold them?
And at two jiao each!
Yun Chen Dong and the others were also surprised.
The hair clips seemed to be just the beginning; more people came one after another.
Mostly girls.
Young girls who loved beauty liked pretty hair clips, bracelets, and hair ties.
Little boys preferred those wood carvings.
This was because Yun Chen Bei’s wood carvings were not only lifelike but also had simple moving parts.
For example, the limbs of the rabbit could move back and forth.
“This wind chime is really beautiful.”
A fashionably dressed woman stopped at their small stall. She picked up the largest wind chime.
Shells of various colors were interwoven and arranged irregularly, the whole thing looking like a spiral hanging down.
When the wind blew, they collided and made a pleasant sound.
“How much is this?”
Yun Xiao Qi: “That one is three Yuan.”
Yun Chen Bei: … His younger brother really knows how to ask for the moon!
Yun Xiao Qi was young but very clever and sharp-tongued.
“These beautiful shells were found by us on the seaside after much searching, and we carefully selected the prettiest ones to make them…”
The wind chime was made to sound glorious by Yun Xiao Qi. The behind-the-scenes Yun Chen Bei hid behind his eldest and second brothers, his thin face blushing.
Under Yun Xiao Qi’s silver tongue, the wind chime was indeed sold for three Yuan.
The other brothers’ eyes widened, and their gaze towards Yun Xiao Qi changed.
Yun Xiao Wu patted his shoulder.
“Seventh brother, I used to only know you liked to follow me around, but I never expected you had this ability!”
Yun Jiao also hadn’t expected it.
She had just suggested trying, but unexpectedly discovered Yun Xiao Qi’s talent.
If this wasn’t a divine body for business, what was it?
They were so engrossed in selling things that they lost track of time, so the four adults at home searched for the children everywhere.
Fortunately, their group was easy to identify; there were many of them, and they were good-looking. Especially Yun Jiao, whom they could find almost with a single question.
Coincidentally, they learned Yun Jiao and the others’ exact location from the woman who had bought the wind chime.
