"Brother Pei? What are you doing?"
After repeatedly confirming that the "coiled snake dragging wolf" young man in front of him was Pei Wende, Zhang Chusheng made no secret of his inner surprise and shock.
"Are you planning to change your career? Are you planning to become a hunter?"
In fact, it is no wonder that Zhang Chusheng has such doubts.
He hadn't seen Pei Wende for a long time since he dropped out of school a year ago.
Zhang Chusheng felt that with Pei Wende's character and ability, even if he really changed his career to become a hunter one day, he wouldn't find anything strange.
"hunt?"
After being reminded by Zhang Chusheng, Pei Wende realized that his current image seemed a bit too "exaggerated".
"No, no, no, I just came down the mountain to buy some things and ask this wolf for a little favor."
First he let go of his right hand that was holding the wolf's tail, and then reached out to support the little green snake around his neck. Then Pei Wende said in a very calm tone.
"But this guy is too timid."
"The help he promised me was only half-finished and he wanted to run away. I can only drag him here like this."
Although he had tried his best to ignore the flaws in Pei Wende's words, Zhang Chusheng still couldn't help but complain when he saw Lone Wolf's aggrieved look but did not dare to run away.
"Brother Pei, let's not talk about how you 'discussed' with this wolf before, but it is obviously unwilling now!"
When Zhang Chusheng said this, he clearly saw the lone wolf cast a grateful look at him, as if to say that finally someone was willing to speak fair for me.
As for why this lone wolf can understand what he is saying?
And why is there such a humanized expression?
Although Zhang Chusheng, who was still just a child, felt it was a bit magical, he did not show too much fear or fear.
In other words, Zhang Chusheng felt that any strange thing that happened to Pei Wende was normal and not worth the panic and fear.
After all, when he was studying in a private school, Pei Wende was known as "Crazy Pei" and "Bold Pei". There was absolutely nothing wrong with asking Pei Wende if anything abnormal happened.
"And that snake around your neck, is that a bamboo leaf green, right?"
"I remember my dad said that this kind of snake is poisonous. Is it really okay for you to keep it coiled like this?"
Hearing this, Pei Wende immediately patted his chest and promised.
"Of course there is no problem. I have also discussed this green snake with it. It will not attack others on its own initiative."
As if responding to Pei Wende's statement, the little green snake wrapped around his neck suddenly stared at Zhang Chusheng with its head raised, and its indifferent eyes made him feel as if he was in the cold winter in the north.
——This is an existence that you cannot afford to offend!
When this idea came to his mind for the first time, Zhang Chusheng quickly changed his gaze and also changed the topic.
"Brother Pei, you told me about the 'product diversion' method last time. I tried it during this period and it is indeed very effective."
"Two days ago, I went to the town to buy in bulk some things I need for the Hungry Ghost Festival."
"The result was the same as what you said. Not only did the store give me a discount, people in the village saw that I was selling it cheaply and they all bought it directly from me."
When talking about this, Zhang Chusheng made no secret of his childlike nature and ostentatiously told Pei Wende about his "great achievements" in the past few days.
"Although because I sold them at cost price, I didn't make any money on the things I needed for the Ghost Festival. Instead, I put in the travel expenses I earned some time ago."
"But when everyone in the village was shopping, they also bought the pork that my father had slaughtered. So if you really count these days, you have actually made a lot of money."
Or to be more precise, due to Zhang Chusheng's "low-price dumping" strategy, even those traveling merchants and butchers who planned to make a fortune through the Ghost Festival decisively abandoned the village.
This caused Butcher Zhang to be so happy that he could hardly close his mouth from ear to ear these days. This was the first time that he enjoyed the dividends brought by this "business monopoly".
The only regret that Zhang Chusheng felt was that he had never thought that this "commodity diversion" method was so effective before, so he stocked a little less.
Fortunately, Zhangjiacun itself was not that big, and most people worshiped ancestors from the same line, so there was not much conflict in this regard.
They even hold the thought that “no outsider can make this money no matter what.”
Some old people in Zhangjiacun even cursed them in front of the traveling merchants for their evil intentions of taking advantage of the opportunity to raise prices, and drove them out of the village.
"No wonder you've grown stronger during this time. It seems like the food is good!"
Reaching out and patting Zhang Chusheng on the shoulder, Pei Wende didn't expect that this kid could reach this level of business with just a few nonsense words.
If it were the 21st century in the future, children of Zhang Chusheng's age would probably still be acting coquettishly and getting into trouble with their parents!
But considering the limitations of this era, Pei Wende understood.
It's one thing for children from poor families to be the head of the family early, but it's also because children of Zhang Chusheng's age have actually reached the age where they are gradually shouldering the burden of the family.
After all, this era is not like the 21st century. The average life expectancy is so short that future humans cannot imagine it.
At least among the people Pei Wende came into contact with, except for the upper gentry class, humans living in this era were generally frail and sick and had a short life span.
Confucius once said, at thirty you stand firm; at forty you are not confused; at fifty you know the destiny of heaven; at sixty your ears are attuned; at seventy you follow your heart's desires.
In the 21st century, Pei Wende didn't have much feelings about this sentence.
Because at that time, it was completely normal for people to live to be seventy years old.
On the contrary, if there were no other unexpected factors, it would be a real surprise that people at that time did not live to be seventy years old.
However, in this ancient Chinese society, the reality was somewhat different from what he imagined.
At least in Pei Wende's sixteen years of life experience, he has seen too many people who turn gray-haired at the age of forty and become senile at the age of fifty.
This is still in this peaceful era. If we are born in troubled times, the average life span of normal people will be shorter and their physical fitness will be worse.
"Hehe, the main reason is that my mother was afraid that I would be tired from studying, so she secretly gave me extra meals without telling my father."
Although the "extra meal" in Zhang Chusheng's words is only an extra piece of thumb-sized meat per meal, it is already a rare delicacy for people living in this era.
An ordinary person might not have a few meaty meals throughout the year.
It was only because Tutu Zhang was a butcher himself and had the strong skills to go hunting alone in the mountains that he could ensure the "abnormal" development of his children.
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