Chapter 43: Do you dare to bet with me?
"Not really. Inside this sachet is a strange thing, but it doesn't look like a seed. The shopkeeper didn't hide his secrets, and generously untied the sachet for Song Lingyue to see.
Song Lingyue stretched out her head to look, and saw that inside the sachet was a seed that was only the size of a little thumb cover, the seed shell was very hard, and the whole body was round and full, it didn't look like a seed, but like a piece of jasper, rolling back and forth in the palm of the shopkeeper's palm.
"Well, I said this thing doesn't look like a seed." Seeing the look of surprise on Song Lingyue's face, the shopkeeper only thought that Song Lingyue was shocked, and proudly played off:
"Little girl, if you can tell me what the thing in my hand is, I will give you the seed of the 'Demon Horn' you just now, along with the seed in my hand. If you can't answer, I see that you are a literate person, so I will ask you to help me re-count and transcribe the items in my grocery store. ”
"Boss, you're a bit of a bully." Before Song Lingyue could say anything, Xiangling on the side had already spoken, "Boss, there are hundreds of things in your grocery store, not to mention hundreds of things, and Sister Lingyue has to transcribe it alone, when will it go!" ”
Xiangling crossed her hands on her hips and looked at the shopkeeper in front of her angrily, hugging Song Lingyue upset.
"It's a bet, so naturally the stakes are a little bigger." The shopkeeper touched his beard, a light smile appeared on his face, but his ink eyes fell on Song Lingyue's face with interest, "How about it, little girl, do you dare to bet with me?" ”
"What's not to dare to do." Song Lingyue smiled slightly, not stage frightened at all. With a roll of his eyes, he pointed to the undivided seeds on the table and said to the shopkeeper:
"It's just giving me the seed of the 'Demon Horn', boss, your bet is too stingy. Your grocery store is so big, it will take at least a month for me to board the inventory alone, so you have to add a little more to it. ”
The shopkeeper happily touched his beard: "What else do you want to bet?" ”
Song Lingyue pointed to the pile of seeds that had not yet been mixed together, and said, "These seeds are also counted in as an addition to the bet, how about it?" ”
The shopkeeper glanced at the scattered seeds on the table, all of which were seeds from some crops, which were not worth much together, so he nodded in agreement.
In fact, the reason why the shopkeeper was able to agree was because the merchant of the Western Regions had told him that the things grown from this seed only grew in the bitter cold land of the far north, and ordinary people had never heard of its name, let alone see it.
"Boss, can you lend me your seeds?" Song Lingyue stretched out her hand to the boss.
The boss didn't put the seed directly in Song Lingyue's palm, but took a step back and made a gesture of please, and there was a smile on the corner of his lips.
Song Lingyue took the sachet, poured out the seed, put it in the palm of her hand, first looked at it carefully, and then leaned in and sniffed it carefully with her nose.
Looking at Song Lingyue's serious appearance, Xiangling and Song Yanzhi on the side glanced at each other, and they didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere, for fear of disturbing Song Lingyue's judgment at this time.
The shopkeeper was not afraid of being anxious at all, and the old god with his beard was looking at Song Lingyue on the ground, with a determined smile on the corner of his lips, as if he was very sure that Song Lingyue would definitely not be able to guess.
Song Lingyue gently pinched the seed with her hand, put her finger to the tip of her nose and sniffed it for a moment, the corners of her lips that were originally pursed suddenly relaxed, and she raised an arc.
The shopkeeper, who had been secretly observing Song Lingyue's every move, naturally did not miss the shallow smile on the corner of Song Lingyue's lips, and couldn't help but be shocked:
Could it be that this little girl really knows this treasure from the Western Regions?
"Boss, I've got it in my heart." Song Lingyue put the seed back into the sachet and put the sachet in the center of the table, looking very confident.
"You really know?" The shopkeeper looked at Song Lingyue with a look of surprise.
Song Lingyue just wanted to nod and say her answer, but she paused again and said to the shopkeeper: "I think the shopkeeper should be literate, right?" In this case, it is better to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and we transcribe each other's answers directly on the paper, and exchange them with each other, don't we know whether it is right or wrong? ”
In fact, Song Lingyue thought that if she said what the name of this seed was now, in case she said it was right, but the shopkeeper said it was wrong, she would have no choice.
Although she felt that the shopkeeper would not be as foolish as she thought.
However, Song Lingyue still thinks that the heart of guarding against others is indispensable.
When the shopkeeper heard Song Lingyue say this, his hand touching his beard paused in mid-air, and then he laughed again:
"What a ghostly little girl! I'm still worried that I'm cheating, old man! ”
was guessed what she thought in her heart, Song Lingyue couldn't help but blush, and was inevitably a little embarrassed.
The shopkeeper didn't think anything of it, but happily took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from under the container.
Song Yanzhi on the side saw the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in the shopkeeper's hand, his eyes began to glow, and a small face was eager to try, wishing that he could also pick up the pen stained with ink and scold Fang Xuan on the white rice paper.
All this was seen by Song Lingyue and remembered in her heart.
Although Song Lingyue sent Song Yanzhi to study in a private school before, the four treasures of the study were a lot of expenses, and Song Lingyue really couldn't afford it.
Therefore, Song Yanzhi was ridiculed by several boys in the same village in Baishi County, saying that he had no money to study at others.
Song Lingyue almost taught Song Yanzhi to read by herself, but if she really did this, she would definitely be considered a monster by the people around her.
Song Lingyue before didn't even know how to write, she didn't even know how to hold a pen. Suddenly, she was filled with a belly full of ink, and the people in the village didn't think she was a monster.
"That's it!" The shopkeeper dipped his brush in ink, wrote his answer on rice paper, and then folded it and put it in his sleeve pocket, "Next, I will ask the little girl to teach me." ”
The shopkeeper's words interrupted Song Lingyue's memories of the past, and her gaze refixed on the table in front of her.
Song Lingyue picked up the shopkeeper's pen, dipped it in some ink, and began to write the answer in her heart silently.
It's just that Song Lingyue didn't expect that her body was really a little too weak, she just picked up a pen and wrote, and her wrists were a little trembling and it seemed very difficult.
It seems that not only Song Yanzhi has to replenish her body, but even she has to make up her body well.
This small body carries the whole family and does a lot of dirty work, but in fact, it is overdrawing the capital of the body.
is only twelve or thirteen years old, but his physique is terrible.
Thanks to this period of time, she has helped to improve her life, otherwise this small body is afraid of constant illness.
Song Lingyue took a breath, picked up a pen on her wrist, and wrote her answer on the white rice paper.
Before she could finish writing, the shopkeeper had already laughed first, "Little girl, you lost, this thing is not a purple pearl fruit!" It seems that I can relax this month and not have to rush to take stock in the warehouse. ”
The shopkeeper stretched his waist as he spoke, and his beard shook twice with pleasure.
Song Lingyue raised her head and smiled at the shopkeeper, "Boss, I haven't finished writing yet, don't worry." ”
As soon as he said this, the curvature of the corner of the shopkeeper's lips suddenly stiffened a little.
"Don't you already have the answer?" The shopkeeper's stubby fingers pointed to the three words in black and white on the rice paper.
"No, that's not my full answer." Song Lingyue raised her head and smiled at the shopkeeper, "Now this is my real answer." ”
Song Lingyue's wrist flicked, the brush snaked into a flower under her hand, and a handful of graceful small letters wrote these three words - dragon sprouts.
"How's that, I'm getting my answer right?" Song Lingyue didn't miss the moment her last stroke fell, the shock flashed in the shopkeeper's eyes.
Looks like she got her bet right.
Song Lingyue was originally worried that the names of things in this dynasty and modern times might be different.
"Then now the boss can also show me your answer?" Song Lingyue put the rice paper with six characters written on it on the table, and looked up at the shopkeeper.
A thin layer of sweat broke out on the shopkeeper's forehead, and he took out the rice paper he had just written from his cuff.
Song Lingyue took it with both hands with a smile, and saw three words written on the white rice paper - dragon sprout grass, which was exactly the same as Song Lingyue's final answer.
"You actually know Dragon Sprouts? Who the hell are you? The shopkeeper looked at Song Lingyue with a face full of surprise:
"I told my merchants in the Western Regions that this dragon sprout grass grows in the bitter cold land of Mobei in the far north, which is a very closed and conservative country, and this dragon sprout grass is abundant there.
But you, why did you know about the existence of dragon sprouts? ”
Song Lingyue never expected that this dragon sprout grass was only available in Mobei Kingdom.
In fact, even in modern times, Song Lingyue had only seen this herb in the ancient medical classics, and at that time she thought that this kind of thing was made up nonsense.
Because the characteristics of this dragon sprout grass are very strange. It is an herbaceous plant, covered with sharp barbs before it bears fruit, and has a paralyzing effect, and if you encounter someone with more sensitive characteristics, you may even faint because of its thorns.
But when the dragon tooth grass begins to bear fruit, the barbs on its veins will slowly dissipate, as if all the nutrients are being used to supply the fruit that is about to bear.
It stands to reason that the fruit of this kind of paralyzing grass should also have such characteristics.
However, the fruit produced by the dragon's tooth grass - purple pearl fruit, has the function of clearing heat and detoxifying, and its skin is very thin, the flesh is very thick, and the juice is very abundant, which is a delicious kind of detoxification herb.
This kind of plant has two different characteristics, and Song Lingyue has always thought that this is something that the ancestor who wrote the "Song Family Medical Codex" wrote blindly to deceive children.
Song Lingyue never expected to encounter such a magical herb after crossing over!