Chapter 63 - Marketplace
Chapter 63: Marketplace
Yu Yao stuffed the money into her pocket. Facing Yu Jue, who seemed to be serious about making his oath, her response was a little flat.
“We’re participating in the variety show mainly to show the way our family interacts. Even if we are siblings and the older brother has to take care of the younger sister, I can’t just blindly enjoy your care. If I only know how to ask for favors and not how to repay them, then I will become the person I hate the most.”
She snorted and said meaningfully, “You know who I’m talking about.”
Although Yu Yao did not say it outright, Yu Jue could easily guess that she was talking about Yu Wan. Yu Jue carefully thought about what Yu Yao had just said and could not help but be secretly shocked.
In the previous life, Yu Wan had indeed acted like Yu Yao had said: she only knew how to ask for things and never knew how to repay them. In the end, they raised an ingrate.
The three of them were the same towards Yu Yao. As her elder brothers, they had never taken the initiative to reciprocate her kindness or reciprocate her feelings. From this point of view, they were the same as Yu Wan. They were complete bastards.
Yu Jue thought about the heavy past the entire way to buying groceries, seeming unhappy and did not speak.
He followed Yu Yao silently. After a long time, he finally realized that Yu Yao did not take him to a large commercial supermarket in the neighborhood. Instead, she took him out of the neighborhood and to an electric scooter sharing stop.
Yu Yao skillfully took out her phone and checked out two electric scooters. She sat on one of them and urged Yu Jue with her eyes, “Quickly get on the scooter. What are you waiting for?”
Yu Jue looked at Yu Yao in disbelief, then at the simple electric scooter. “Yaoyao, aren’t we going to the supermarket?”
Yu Yao tried to hold it in for a long time but still couldn’t help but roll her eyes. “The vegetables in the supermarket are ridiculously expensive. We only have about 200 yuan left for our activities. If we continue to buy vegetables in the supermarket, we won’t have any funds tomorrow. How can we continue?”
Thinking back to the money he had spent at the supermarket this morning, Yu Jue’s heart also dripped blood. In the past, he had never taken tens or hundreds of yuan seriously. Now that he had to carefully calculate how to save money, he inevitably felt a little at a loss.
He had wanted to appear skillful and at ease, solving all his problems without any trouble, and establish the image of an omnipotent brother in front of Yu Yao. But now it seemed that he hadn’t done a good job. In the end, Yu Yao still had to worry about their groceries.
Yu Jue was afraid that he would receive Yu Yao’s disdainful gaze, but Yu Yao did not blame him because of this. She just looked at him suspiciously and asked, “Don’t you know how to ride an electric scooter?”
“Of course I do!”
Yu Jue came back to his senses and quickly observed his small electric scooter. Although he had never used an electric scooter sharing service before, he had ridden a similar one during filming. He figured out the method after a little fumbling.
Yu Yao snapped her fingers and waved her arm like she was commanding an army. “Target: marketplace, let’s go!”
She took the lead, followed by Yu Jue, who was not too familiar with riding, and finally the cameraman, who was carrying a camera with one hand.
The three of them spent nearly ten minutes arriving at the bustling wet market.
This was completely different from the supermarket where Yu Jue used to buy goods. It was noisy and crowded, and the air was filled with all kinds of smells.
Vendors from various provinces spoke to the customers in broken Mandarin. All of them raised their voices as if they could start an argument at any moment. However, after the transaction was over, they would also smile politely…
These lively scenes were quite unfamiliar to Yu Jue, and they could even be considered magical.
This made Yu Jue appear at a loss. In the camera lens, he couldn’t help but widen his eyes as he followed closely behind Yu Yao. He looked around as if he had never seen the world before, and from time to time, he would be shocked by the meat stall owner, who was holding a large cleaver and chopping up bones.
Yu Yao noticed that Yu Jue seemed to be tugging at her clothes uneasily. She turned around to see the owner of the meat stall, who was covered in red meat, chopping up ribs noisily.
The boss seemed to have noticed Yu Jue and Yu Yao’s gazes and stopped what he was doing. “Do you want pork ribs?”
Perhaps it was psychological, but Yu Jue felt that the boss looked fierce. He did not dare to buy ribs from such a person’s stall, so he wanted to pull Yu Yao away.
Yu Yao didn’t care about the boss’s gaze at all. She took a step forward and carefully observed the ribs on the chopping board. She nodded and said, “Your ribs are quite fresh. How much for a pound?”
“Twenty-three. Market price.” The boss pulled out a bag. “Little sister, how much do you want?”
Yu Jue originally thought that Yu Yao had already decided to buy ribs here, but unexpectedly, Yu Yao shook her head. “I’ll walk further in and take a look. What if you’re selling at a higher price than others?”
The owner of the butcher’s shop raised his fierce eyes. “Little sister, don’t talk nonsense. I always do business fairly!”