It's really a bit miserable to think about it, Jiang Wanbai crossed the crowd and came to the middle-aged man, "I want these small shrimps, just according to the price I said before." ”

"Really?" The middle-aged man's lips trembled excitedly, and he stretched out his hand as if he wanted to grab Jiang Wanbai's hand, but halfway through, he thought of the difference between men and women, so he withdrew his hand embarrassedly and laughed innocently.

"Of course." The price of these small shrimps is not even one-fifth of the price in the capital, such two baskets, a total of only a few dozen yuan, Jiang Wanbai has no need to lie, not to mention, she still has something to ask this man.

"Old lady, I'm cheap, don't you want it?" The thin man persevered.

"Not today." Jiang Wanbai said with some regret, the other ingredients for making shrimp paste are not ready, otherwise, don't talk about these, even if it is ten times more, twenty times, Jiang Wanbai will also buy it, who has a grudge against silver.

When the shrimp sellers heard this, they scattered stupidly, only the thin man stood in place, his eyes kept rolling, he didn't know what he was thinking, but it had nothing to do with Jiang Wanbai.

"I didn't bring anything with me when I went out today, can you deliver these shrimp to my house?" Jiang Wanbai asked the middle-aged man.

"No problem, no problem." The man agreed.

On the way back, Jiang Wanbai was talking to the man.

"What's your name?"

"What's not a name, everyone calls me the sea."

"Oh, the sea. I think you're running out of money. ”

The sea pursed his lips and sighed, "This Yancheng, who is not short of money." After a pause, he added, "The skinny monkey just now, I also know, is the best water-based here, but what's the use, there is ......?"

Speaking of this, he felt speechless, and no longer continued, but asked Jiang Wanbai, "The old lady doesn't seem to be a local." ”

"I'm from the capital."

"No wonder, it looks different from us." The sea is very sincere and praised.

At this time, he had already arrived at the courtyard where Jiang Wanbai lived, so Jiang Wanbai asked Jiang Huai to accept the shrimp and then settle the money for the sea.

There are a total of eighty-two texts, strung together with ropes, and it is just a small string, but in the eyes of the sea, it is different.

Touched and touched excitedly, he was embarrassed to put the money carefully in his arms, thanked Jiang Wanbai, and finally said: "I know that your family can't eat so many shrimp at all, and I pity me when I buy my shrimp, but I really need this money too much, otherwise, ...... Ay! ”

The man who was seven or eight feet old was also embarrassed when he talked about this.

"I buy your shrimp, it's naturally useful, and that's it, it's not enough to see at all. If you want, when I settle down, you can send me as many shrimp as you catch, and I want them all. "Jiang Wanbaijue's man has a good character and wants to develop him into a long-term supplier.

"All of them." The sea was a little incredulous, "These shrimps, if you don't eat them today, they will rot tomorrow, I don't think there are many people in your family, how can you get so much." ”

"You don't have to worry about it, you just have to say whether you want it or not."

"Yes, I do." The sea kept nodding its head, like a chicken pecking rice.

"That'll be fine, I'll let you know when I'm settled."

"Hmm." Without the slightest suspicion, the sea walked away.

He left, Jiang Wanbai also felt a little tired, and was about to rest, Jiang Huai led the thin monkey he had seen in the market just now.

"Auntie, he said he had something to tell you." Jiang Huai pointed to the thin monkey and said.

The thin monkey seemed a little nervous, looked out, and found that the door outside was closed, and there was no one eavesdropping around, so he came to Jiang Wanbai and whispered, "Don't dare to hide it from the old lady, in fact, I have something I want to sell to you." ”

"What's that?" Jiang Wanbai saw that he was so mysterious, and she was also a little interested.

The thin monkey looked left and right a few more times, and then took out a palm-sized cloth bag from between his ribs, and opened the cloth bag layer by layer, revealing the contents inside, a stone-like thing full of ravines, yellow-brown on the top, and slightly white on the bottom.

"This is ......" Jiang Wanbai had a guess at the first glance of this thing, but she felt that this guess was a bit too outrageous, so she didn't say it, but took the thing and looked at it carefully.

was not immediately refused, and the thin monkey knew that he had finally found the right person, and hurriedly said: "I found someone to see it, and it was that thing." ”

Jiang Wanbai didn't answer, because she was looking at the things in her hand intently, and after a while, she breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on her face.

Jiang Huai was already impatient waiting next to him, and when he saw that Jiang Wanbai had finally finished reading it, he hurriedly asked, "Auntie, what is this?" I think it's just a stone that no one picked up there. ”

"This thing ......" Jiang Wanbai groped for the thing in her hand, closed her eyes and thought about it for a while, and then returned the thing to the thin monkey, and said leisurely, "You have also done agate business, do you know what is the number one treasure of the Seven Treasures of the Buddhist Family?" ”

"Tridacn." Jiang Huai was also taken aback, "It is said that high monks use it as a rosary, which can double their merits, and it will only appear when the tsunami collapses, and it is only available in the south, how can it appear here." ”

Tridacnus is actually a kind of shell shell that lives in the deep sea, and after thousands of years of formation, it is a kind of jade-like thing, which has a better effect of repelling evil spirits than pearls or even pearls, so it will be sought after.

In modern times, there are so many high-tech machinery, it is not easy to find the clams, not to mention that in ancient times, as Jiang Huai said, only when there are major geological changes, there are only one or two modern worlds, and this also casts another layer of mystery on the clams.

"That's going to ask him." Jiang Wanbai looked at the thin monkey.

The thin monkey was also very excited when he met someone who knew the goods, "Buddha bless, there is a chaotic beach in the north of this Yancheng, called Ghost Stone Beach, this place is amazing, it is all a kind of black stone, and there is a very special smell."

As soon as people get there, they will feel nauseous and want to vomit, lose their way, and if they don't leave quickly, they will fall into a coma at least and die at worst. By the way, some people say that they have seen people there who are entangled in a kind of ghost fire, and even if they jump into the sea, the fire will not be extinguished until they burn people to ashes. ”

Speaking of this, the thin monkey couldn't help but shudder, as if he was very afraid, "So the people of Yancheng have been passed down from generation to generation, and there are evil ghosts there who specialize in asking for people's lives, so everyone would rather pay taxes to Yuan Huzi, and no one dares to go fishing over there."

I was also angry that day, so I wanted to try my luck near the ghost rock beach, and the result was ......"

"How did it turn out?" Jiang Huai was a little anxious when he heard it.

The thin monkey's eyes were a little hollow, and he muttered, "The black water ghost, it is chasing me, chasing me, and it is about to swallow me." The surroundings are full of mud and sand, and the sea water is boiling like it is boiling, and there are really ghosts there, ghosts. ”

The thin monkey took a step back in fright, called out "Mommy", and sat down on the ground.

Jiang Wanbai and Jiang Huai were also taken aback, and a warm breeze blew, and the two of them suppressed their minds and asked the thin monkey.

The thin monkey didn't want to say anything, and shouted to leave.

"Then do you still sell this thing?" Jiang Wanbai pointed to the clams in his hand.

Speaking of selling money, the thin monkey's love was much better, and he got up with a bone, and he said a little flatteringly: "Sell, sell, how can you not sell it." ”

"And how much are you going to cost?"

"This ......" this question can stump the thin monkey, it's too much, I'm afraid of missing such a buyer, it's difficult to make another move in the future, it's going to be less, and I feel like I'm panicking.

His eyes rolled twice, and he decided to kick the ball to Jiang Wanbai, "I see that you know the goods, then you can say a price, I think, you won't lie to me a bitter haha." ”

Of course, Jiang Wanbai knew his plan, smiled, she took the piece of clams, and said with some regret: "Only this is not enough to get a string of prayer beads out, if you can go there again and help me find more, I can pay a good price." ”

"Don't you dare to go again, if you don't go, you won't go if you kill me." The skinny monkey's head shook like a rattle.

Jiang Wanbai was noncommittal, this matter could be said. "Now this clams haven't been polished, and I don't know the quality of the inside, so I can't give a price. Otherwise, you go and polish it out, and we'll talk about it. As she spoke, she wanted to return the clam to the skinny monkey.

The thin monkey looked like he was about to cry, "You are a foreigner, you may not know, we have a tyrant here, everyone calls him Yuan Huzi, we are the emperor of the soil here, not only he has the final say in the salt field, even if he goes out to sea to fish, he has to pay a layer of taxes."

Not only that, if you don't get anything good on this trip to the sea, just some stinky fish and rotten shrimp, if you find something of little value, you have to hand it over to him, saying that it should be used to worship the god of the sea, bless us, I bah.

I almost killed this thing the last time I took it out, and now you let me take it out and polish it, isn't it my life? ”

A little dejected, the thin monkey begged: "I believe you, you can give me a price, take it, just don't tell others, I sold it to you." Saying that, he actually wanted to kneel down for Jiang Wanbai.

When Jiang Wanbai heard this, she almost completely understood what was going on in this Yancheng, stretched out her hand to support the thin monkey, and she said, "I didn't bring much money when I went out this time, and this money is still very useful."

In this way, ten taels, if you want, leave this clams, and if you don't want to, I won't force you, go out of this door, and make sure that no one knows what you are doing here. ”

"Ten taels?" The thin monkey almost jumped up in surprise, "I do, I do." ”

Jiang Wanbai's reaction to him was not surprising at all, he was the only outsider who dared to accept it, today, even if she gave five taels, this person would sell it to her.

However, after all, this thing was bought by him with his life, it was too exploitative, Jiang Wanbai really didn't have such a black heart, these ten taels, if the quality of the clams grinding out was not good, she just didn't lose or earn.