The two swindlers stared angrily at the Lin family: "Why did you report it to the police for such a trivial matter?"
Boss Lin and others looked at each other, and also looked puzzled at the officials who came over.
Two strong government officials quickly shackled the two of them.
The older one slapped the middle-aged man on the forehead.
"It's not the officials they reported to. As soon as something happened yesterday, the servants of the Zhou family went to the government to report the crime. They are from other places. I don't know that I, a member of the Communist Party of China, cherishes his own reputation the most. How dare you use the name of a member of the Zhou family to cheat outside?" , isn’t this just seeking death?”
The two of them turned pale in an instant, and their intestines turned green with regret.
When the yamen officer passed by Lin Laosan, his eyes stayed on him for two more seconds.
"I just saw that my brother is very good at martial arts. Is he an expert?"
Lin Laosan hurriedly waved his hands: "It's just that my grandfather taught me two moves when I was a child. The villagers are very strong and use brute force. It's okay to fool those who haven't learned it seriously, but it won't work when it comes to real skills."
The middle-aged yamen officer had just seen clearly that the man's two moves were quite methodical. It was rare to see a man who was capable and didn't show off, so he couldn't help but feel a little more favorable to Lin Sanlang.
"I'm Xia Song Yin, the head catcher of Liuhe County. The two thieves captured today have a share of your family's credit. I don't know where my brother's home is. I'll go and visit him another day."
Although the Lin family are honest farmers, because Mr. Lin also worked as a servant in the yamen, the family has a lot of affection for the yamen servants. Lin Laosan immediately signed himself up and accepted the job.
When Song Yinya heard that the ancestors of the Lin family were traveling together, he felt that they were a little closer to each other.
When he was pressing the culprit to leave, the young man fell to his knees on the ground, holding his red and swollen palms, crying and wanting to report the Lin family for poisoning him.
Before the officer spoke, Lin Silang explained: "It's not poison. What we used to coax him was just a little bit of yam mucus. We can wash it with vinegar and water and the itchiness will go away."
"What is yam?" Song Yin heard this name for the first time and couldn't help but be curious.
"A plant that can be used as medicine or eaten."
Song Yin nodded slowly. What kind of strange plant can be used as medicine and food, and can also make people's hands look like this? Is it really not poisonous?
Seeing that the Lin family looked normal and not talking nonsense, I felt relieved, kicked the two thieves again, and took them away.
After retrieving the medicinal materials, Boss Lin and others took the medicinal materials to the drug store to sell them.
The shopkeeper of Baohetang is a young man in his early twenties, who is checking the store's medicinal materials with the accountant.
The stocks of some in-demand medicinal herbs are seriously insufficient. The ship that has been cooperating to transport medicinal materials between several towns encountered strong winds at sea two days ago. The ship was flooded. The entire ship's medicinal materials were soaked in sea water and could no longer be used.
They were too worried to eat when they heard someone coming to the front door to report that someone was selling medicinal materials.
The shopkeeper thought he heard it wrong. Liuhe Town had a large population, but there were not many doctors, and even fewer people knew about medicinal materials.
He also tried to teach the people around him to go up the mountain to pick medicinal herbs, but found that they either mixed up the herbs, or even searched for a long time and couldn't find a few useful ones, which was a waste of time.
"Who wants to sell medicinal materials?"
The shopkeeper walked out from behind the curtain and saw three strong men, leading a young man, surrounded by an old lady sitting in a wheelchair with a baby in her arms.
At first glance, he thought the other party was here to see a doctor, but the waiter told him that this family was selling medicinal materials.
He was still a little unconvinced at first, but when Boss Lin put two large bags of medicinal materials on the table and carefully took out the clearly classified herbs inside, his eyes lit up.
Dried white peony root, money grass with neatly trimmed roots, white nut kernels with the outer shell removed leaving only the core...
Each one is processed to facilitate the use of medicinal materials, and you will be recognized as an expert at first sight.
When Lin Silang saw the other party holding the medicinal materials and looking at them for a long time, he thought that his own medicinal herbs would not be sold at a good price.
As a result, the shopkeeper's voice was heard the next second.
"I want it all. I won't bargain with you. The total is three to two or five cents."
Mrs. Lin knew that the price given by the other party was very fair and even exceeded the price of the medicinal materials, so she immediately thanked her.
"Thank you very much, shopkeeper. Baohetang is indeed a shop that people say is a shop where children and adults can be trusted."
Mrs. Lin sincerely praised her. The young shopkeeper had heard too many compliments and didn't react much. He was more concerned about whether the family could get more herbs.
After all, the town has a large population, and people get sick every day, so the medicine shops are running out of supplies.
"Old lady, you're welcome. What matters when doing business is integrity." He weighed out three taels of broken silver, counted five ounces of money, put it into a small cloth bag, and handed it to Mrs. Lin together.
As a result, she was snatched away by the little girl in her arms, holding the money bag and laughing so hard that she couldn't even see her eyes.
Seeing that everyone in this family was staring at Milk Baby dotingly, and no one thought anything was wrong, they knew that the family loved him very much.
The shopkeeper couldn't help but laugh out loud. This was the first time he had seen a girl who loved money at such a young age.
He couldn't help but take out five more copper coins and stuff them into Xiangyun's little palm: "This is for you, take it to buy candies."
Xiangyun shouted in joy, his gums exposed, a few little white teeth that had just sprouted out, and his eyes were bright.
Seeing that her granddaughter was popular, Mrs. Lin hurriedly struck up a conversation with the shopkeeper and asked what medicinal materials were missing in the store. They lived at the foot of the mountain and often went up the mountain to collect herbs, which they could sell for money.
These words hit the shopkeeper's heart. He did not say that the ship transporting medicinal materials was flooded. He only said that winter was approaching, the number of people suffering from influenza was increasing, and the store did not have enough medicinal materials for treating colds, such as forsythia, dandelion, and isatis root.
As long as the quality of the medicinal materials delivered next time is the same as today, Baohetang will accept it, and the price will be even higher!
When the Lin family heard this, their faces were full of excitement. It turned out that selling herbal medicines was so profitable. If I had known that everyone would go to the mountains to collect medicines, this would not be more profitable than making bamboo baskets.
I secretly made up my mind to go back into the mountains and dig up more herbs before winter came, sell them and exchange them for grain bedding to survive the winter.
Xiangyun also plans to follow her every time he sells medicinal materials in the future. Maybe the shopkeeper will be happy and give her a few cents. Although the money is not much, it is always good to accumulate a little.
After getting the money, everyone was happy. For the first time, Mrs. Lin asked her eldest son to cut two kilograms of mutton, stew it with yams and make soup at home to reward the family for their hard work.
Mrs. Zheng was worried about what to do with the pile of yams peeled by Lin Tianci in the kitchen. When she saw her mother-in-law bought the mutton, she happily washed it and took it to the kitchen to chop the meat.
Soon the mutton was stewed until it was soft and tender. Then the yams were poured in and stewed for a while. The smell of mutton wafted out of the kitchen and even the yard.
There were several boys squatting next to the stove who came over after smelling the smell. They all stretched their necks and waited to be fed.
"Third Aunt, how long will it take? Tianfu is so hungry."
Tianrui was young but very steady, and advised him: "It's almost time, we don't rush it, the mutton needs to be stewed until it's delicious."
When the yams in the pot can be pinched with chopsticks and the mutton can be poked from front to back, the Lin family's dinner is finally ready.
The family sat down in high spirits early in the morning to wait for the meal. What they were waiting for was not only mutton stewed with yams, but also an important event.
Split the money!
