"Daughter, are you thirsty? Do you want some water?" Mrs. Xu carried a steaming cup of water to Xu Ying.
Xu Ying felt a bit thirsty indeed and took the cup, but her hand froze mid-air, thinking she still needed to tally the scarves.
"Mom, I'm not thirsty, let's collect the vegetables first!" Xu Ying said, and then glanced at Xu Jing: "Let's start."
As soon as Xu Jing shouted "start," the aunty in the front of the line placed her two largest cabbages on the scale.
"Two cabbages, eight pounds." These had been stripped of their outer leaves, leaving only the untouched cabbage leaves.
Xu shouted, and Xu Jing hastily noted it down: eight pounds of cabbage, twenty cents.
"Green vegetables, fifteen pounds."
Xu Jing wrote quickly, noting fifteen pounds of greens at two cents per pound, totaling thirty cents.
"One big yellow fish, three pounds."
The big yellow fish was forty cents a pound, so three pounds came to one yuan and twenty cents.
