After returning to the canopy, Jiang Xiaobai sat down by himself, and Chen Lao, who was holding Jiang Xiaolu, glanced at him and sighed lightly.

"Mr. Xiao seems to be a different person than just now. ”

He whispered to Jiang Xiaobai.

"Oh?" Jiang Xiaobai was surprised that Old Chen could see the changes in him at a glance, and then chuckled dumbly: "I was confused before, but now that it is gone, I am naturally refreshed, can I still change everything!"

In a wonderful mood, Jiang Xiaobai couldn't help but make fun of Old Chen.

"Haha, it's really funny for the little gentleman to talk!"

Chen Lao smiled heartily, and the wrinkles on his face were like flowers.

Although the two have been separated for most of their lives, there is no gap between old and young when they speak.

One year into the ancient, there is a lot of red dust wisdom, one has been cultivating for 20 years, the clouds are light and the wind is light, young and old, respect each other, and speak naturally.

After such a small episode, after about a quarter of an hour, the ship arrived at the pier in the town.

The boat stopped, everyone got off the boat, and swept the dock, which was a festive and lively atmosphere.

On the wharf, large boats and small boats sit in rows, and people rushing to the market like locusts continue to pour into the shore of the wharf from the boats.

The mountain people who rushed to the market dragged their families and brought their mouths, and they were bustling with each other, preparing to buy some New Year's goods, and some people carried their burdens, which were full of delicacies and game from the mountains, ready to be sold at the market.....

After getting off the boat, Jiang Xiaobai separated from Chen Lao's family and agreed to meet at the pier at eleven o'clock to return to the village.

The market is not far from the wharf, a street several hundred meters long, lined with all kinds of small restaurants, grocery stores, jade, flowers and birds.... Because of the daily flow of people on the pier, this is the most lively place in Wanshan Town.

The market was crowded with people, and even though there was snow on the roads and on the trees and rooftops of the streets, it was also melted by the bustle of people coming and going.

The two siblings came early, and before breakfast, after getting off the boat, Jiang Xiaobai took the little girl to a rice noodle shop.

When he was along the road, Jiang Xiaobai bought five large meat buns, nibbled on one himself, and handed over the other four rhubarb.

The rice noodle shop is not big and remote, it is opened in an alley, but there is a chance to come to the market, Jiang Xiaobai likes to eat a bite of this small pot of cold noodles, and the little girl also likes it.

It took about ten minutes for the siblings to settle breakfast, and then they rushed to the northwest corner of the market, which is close to the vegetable market, where the villagers in the mountains set up stalls, mostly selling wild game.

The 100,000 mountains hide a lot of good things, pheasants and hares, they are all ordinary things, as for the mountain treasures that are difficult to find, you can also see one or two at this time.

Jiang Xiaobai found a corner, took out a snakeskin bag from the bamboo basket, spread it on the ground, and then took out seven or eight ordinary Chinese medicinal materials that were easy to sell and placed them on it, and then took out a small scale, and the things were all gathered.

The little girl is sensible, Jiang Xiaobai bought her a sugar gourd, and let her stay by the side obediently, and she didn't cause trouble.

So, I saw a young man setting up a stall to greet guests, and a little girl and a big yellow dog were munching on sugar gourds beside them, and they looked beautiful.

Because they were selling some edible and people-friendly Chinese herbs such as wolfberries and astragalus, coupled with the large number of people coming and going, and the good condition, in less than 20 minutes, the things on Jiang Xiaobai's stall were sold for seventy-seven, eighty-eight, and several red bills were collected.

Jiang Xiaobai was thinking in his heart, wait for the stall to close, and buy some New Year's goods.

At this moment, there was a commotion in this stall, and many people gathered together in the middle section, and gradually increased, as if they were gathered around to see something lively.

After a while, someone rushed to tell each other and told the reason.

"Hey, let's go and see, someone over there caught a fifty-pound wild turtle in the mountains, that guy is amazing, it's so big. ”

A stall owner ran up to a vendor next door in amazement, and as he spoke, his hands in an exaggerated gesture.

"Really, it's not like I've never seen a wild turtle, at most four or five catties will reach the sky, and fifty catties will have to live for many years!"

The stall owner was incredulous.

"If you don't believe it, go and see, otherwise it would be so lively. ”

"Hey, that's a strange thing, you show me some stalls, I'll take a look. ”

Then the stall owner couldn't resist running to see the excitement.

Jiang Xiaobai heard their conversation, looked at the crowd gathered dozens of meters away, and became a little interested in his heart.

Thinking about it, he simply cleaned up the stall, led the deer, and walked towards the crowd.

As soon as he approached the periphery of the crowd, he heard a burst of amazement.

"It's really strange, it's the first time I've seen such a big turtle, and according to this weight, it will live for at least a few hundred years. ”

"I heard this farmer say that he accidentally caught it with a trap on the bank of a mountain river, and he wanted to catch a rabbit or pheasant or something, but he didn't expect to catch this strange thing. ”

"It's a pity, this turtle lived for such a long time, and in the end it couldn't escape the fate of cooking in the pot. ”

Some people couldn't help but shake their heads, after all, the more things that live and have good luck, the rarer they are, and some people can't help but feel sorry for this.

Of course, it's just a pity, and the excitement still has to be seen.

Jiang Xiaobai listened to the discussion of the onlookers, picked up the little girl and squeezed in, and when he looked inside, he saw a father and son and several people bargaining, and there was a large square bamboo cage nearly a meter long and wide on the stall.

Inside the cage, a huge old turtle was lying on its stomach sickly, with an injury to its lower right foot and stains of blood.

The old turtle is indeed a large and amazing body, the body length is seventy or eighty centimeters, the dorsal armor has three edges, the ridge is obvious, the back and the ventral carapace are connected by bone seams, if the abdominal carapace is shorter than the dorsal carapace; the throat shield is prominent, and there are seven cones and plates, and it is the endemic Ai's tortoise that lives in the mountainous area of Guizhou Province.

This turtle is usually less than 20 centimeters long in adulthood, but this old turtle is clearly much more than the "normal" range.

Jiang Xiaobai has lived in the 100,000 mountains for a long time, and he has dealt with countless rare birds of prey in the mountains when collecting medicines, but it is the first time he has seen such a large Ai's turtle, just by the size and texture of the turtle shell, he thinks that this old turtle should have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years.

The thousand-year-old king and 80,000-year-old turtle, the life span of the turtle is very long, but it is really rare to see it!

At this moment, he saw that the farmer's father and son were haggling with the customer who was interested in buying the old turtle.

"Fifty yuan a catty, don't sell it and pull it down, anyway, it's all to eat when you buy it back, after all, this old turtle is estimated to have lived for hundreds of years, and the meat is old, don't shout the price, I just look strange." ”

A guest yelled at the farmer.

"That's not possible, don't treat me as ignorant, just this old turtle has lived for hundreds of years, and being a specimen is more than this price, a hundred yuan a catty, I also feel troublesome, otherwise it must be more than this price." ”

The farmer waved his hand, biting the price, with a resolute attitude, showing that this old turtle was a strange commodity to live in.

"A hundred yuan a pound is too expensive, fellow countryman, you have less, after all, you can't keep it when you buy it back." ”

Another guest is interested in buying this old turtle.

"One hundred yuan a catty, take it away whole, and don't sell it if it's low. ”

The farmer waved his hand again.

In the crowd, Jiang Xiaobai looked at the faces of farmers and guests bargaining, shook his head, and sighed lightly:

"It's a pity!"

After all, an old turtle that has lived for hundreds of years has struggled for a long time, and in the end it is difficult to escape the fate of being cooked.

Of course, sighing and sighing, it is normal for ordinary beasts to enter the table, Jiang Xiaobai glanced at the excitement, turned around and prepared to leave.

At this moment, there was a sudden exclamation from the crowd.

"Oh my God, that old turtle is in tears!"

When Jiang Xiaobai heard this, he saw in a blink of an eye that the old turtle was dripping with tears in the corners of his eyes, as if he was crying.