Picking up the pheasant, Chen Ping shouted to Chen Sanqiu like a show off, "Brother Sanqiu, now I've got 500 yuan. Let's go to the county seat together tomorrow."
Chen Sanqiu pretended to be very happy and hurried forward. After taking a few steps, he felt sticky on the soles of his feet, which caused fire. Only then did he realize that there was a lot of mucus on the soles of his shoes. It was because he had crushed wild eggs. ah.
Chen Sanqiu's thoughts moved, but he swallowed the words that came to his lips and cursed loudly on purpose, "Damn, I stepped on chicken shit."
Chen Ping was still immersed in excitement and didn't care about it, "Let's go back."
Chen Ping walked in front, while Chen Sanqiu quietly marked the way behind.
As Chen Sanqiu walked, he secretly planned in his mind that when he came back from the county town tomorrow, he would find an opportunity to go into the mountains and get some wild eggs back. When he was a child, he had eaten wild eggs once and they were very delicious. I really have to thank this young master Chen Ping.
Early the next morning, the two set out excitedly.
As they walked, Chen Ping described a bright future to Chen Sanqiu.
"Brother, we were doing an experiment last night, so we caught one. When we come back today, we'll make more rackets. We caught them all night, and we managed to get ten or eight of them. We'll bring them to the county town and sell them. Hehe, in a few days, we will be one of the richest families in Hetou Village."
Chen Sanqiu deliberately pretended to be very surprised and echoed.
Entering the county town, Chen Ping seemed to be familiar with the road. He went all the way west to Cao Mansion. When he came to the door, he gave a fist to the servant guarding the door and said, "Sir, please excuse me. I heard that our Cao Mansion collects pheasants at a high price. I got one here."
As he spoke, he raised the pheasant in his hand and deliberately pinched the drumstick, causing the pheasant to flutter. He wanted to prove that the pheasant was still alive.
The guard guard looked at the pheasant and then at him, "Just wait, I'll report it."
Seeing the servant turn around and leave, Chen Ping was overjoyed and said, "Brother, as you can see, he has to report the pheasant immediately. He may even have to take us into his house and treat us to a meal."
See this scene. Chen Sanqiu felt a little surprised. The Qingniu Mountain behind him was like a golden mountain. There were so many pheasants, and he had made a fortune now.
While I was having a sweet dream here, I saw the servant who reported the news hurried back, stood on the steps and hugged the two of them, "I'm really sorry, we don't want the pheasant anymore."
One sentence made Chen Ping and Chen Sanqiu dumbfounded.
After the two of them looked at each other, Chen Ping raised the pheasant in his hand and asked stammering, "No, your news has spread. The Cao Mansion bought a pheasant for five hundred coins, so why don't you accept it?" Why don’t you accept it?”
The servant laughed again, "Boy, that's what our Butler Cao said. By the way, there are several restaurants over there. You might as well go and ask."
While he was talking, he heard footsteps inside.
Cao Yuanxiang walked out with square steps.
Seeing Chen Ping standing there with the pheasant, he couldn't help but turn around and ask the servant at the door, "Didn't you tell me that we don't want the pheasant anymore?"
"Steward Cao, I told them, but these two refused to leave."
Cao Yuanxiang came forward and hugged Chen Ping, "You two may have some misunderstandings. It's true that I spent 500 yuan to buy pheasants, but I didn't say that I would keep buying them."
"So you two should go look elsewhere."
Chen Ping wanted to say something more, but Chen Sanqiu tugged on the corner of his clothes and said, "Chen Ping, let's go."
Since they don't want it, there's no point in trying to get rid of it.
Watching the two of them walk away, Cao Yuanxiang turned to look at the servant at the door, "If someone brings pheasants in the future, you don't have to ask me again."
After finishing speaking, he sighed, "If it weren't for the Imperial Master's rare interest in this thing, who would have spent five hundred coins to buy it."
Zhang Ping had no choice but to carry the pheasant and sell it from restaurant to restaurant. Finally, he met a kind person and ten big guys took it.
I went to the city hungry early in the morning, and finally I saw money. Chen Ping was generous. They each ate a bowl of soybean noodles, which cost a fortune.
In the end there were eight left, so Chen Ping was cruel and gave four to Chen Sanqiu.
"This time we got off to a bad start. I'll ask around later. Maybe others told me wrong, and it wasn't the Cao family who took over."
Chen Sanqiu seemed very indifferent, "Okay, even if it is sold for ten pieces, it will take two days of work, and it is worth it."
It was said that he was comforting Chen Ping, but actually it was better to say that he was comforting himself. Today's trip to the county town was not in vain.
At this time, Chen Xiaobei was busy beside the fish pond.
Put some of yesterday's chopped weeds on the bottom of the pit, then a layer of chicken manure, and then a layer of chopped grass. They are piled up layer by layer in this way until they are level with the ground.
Then it was covered with a thick layer of weeds, this time the unchopped kind.
Cui Hongyu helped him finish all this, with a look of disbelief on his face, "Can this really feed the fish?"
Chen Xiaobei nodded, "This is not enough. It still needs to ferment. We have to wait for another ten days. During this time, we need to catch more fish."
Fermentation? Cui Hongyu was confused, what word is this?
Chen Xiaobei immediately realized that this word went too far and hurriedly changed the topic, "By the way, I have to make another net later so that I can catch more fish."
He bought the fishing net two days ago, but Chen Xiaobei was reluctant to buy an umbrella stand, so he decided to make it himself.
Chen Xiaobei put on his hatchet and ran towards Qingniu Mountain.
It is feasible for him to cut down some tree branches and make a simple umbrella stand.
Of course, how can we go into the mountains and just cut down a few branches? The simplest thing is to get some Houttuynia Cordata.
Walking into Qingniu Mountain, not far away, Chen Xiaobei felt something was wrong.
There are several places where the grass in the cracks between the stones clearly shows traces of being stepped on repeatedly.
He squatted down and looked carefully. They were the footprints going up the mountain.
And judging from the number of footprints, there were at least dozens of people going up the mountain.
If such a large number of people went up the mountain during the day, the village guards would definitely notice it, so it could only be done at night.
So who could these people be?
Bandits from Centipede Ridge?
No, it shouldn't be possible. Da Laohei made it clear that he would come back after he had repaired the house.
Could that be Liu Rumei? Judging from the question of her asking her to help guard Qingniu Mountain, if she wanted to go into the mountain, she would probably ask herself to help find someone to lead the way.
After a round of analysis, there was only one person left who could possibly come, and that was Sun Jian.
In this way, Sun Jian planned to leave him alone and go it alone. Now, Chen Xiaobei felt relieved, it was great, he didn't have to risk facing the wolves.
Thinking of this, his mood instantly improved, and he turned onto the side road to pick Houttuynia cordata at the bottom of the valley.
While picking Houttuynia Cordata, he suddenly heard the sound of birds being frightened in the distance. Chen Xiaobei was startled, stopped his movements quickly, turned around and hid behind the big tree next to him.
