Back in the village, the village chief began to go door-to-door to ask the villagers to collect pearls.

"Hey, Lao Wang, collect all your pearls, that businessman Xiao Tian wants to buy pearls, one big ten copper plates, one small copper plate, as many as you want, hurry up, people are still waiting!"

"Huh, merchant, which merchant?"

"It's Xiao Tian, the merchant with two lions, the one I brought back from the mountains. ”

"Oh, collect pearls, one for ten copper plates, are you telling the truth?

"Of course it's true, you hurry up, if it's too late and people leave, you can cry slowly! I'm going to inform the others and won't tell you." ”

"Hey, wait a minute, you haven't said where to trade yet!"

"Village!"

"Oh, then I'll go and collect the pearls at home. ”

The village chief left, and Lao Wang hurried back to his home to collect pearls. In the box, in the cupboard, under the bed, the pearls that he didn't know which one he threw them in before were all turned out by him. In the end, he counted carefully, and there were more than 20 of them. Then happily took the pearl to the entrance of the village.

The same scene happened in another place.

"Hey, you, hurry up and collect your pearls, Xiao Tian wants to buy pearls, one of the ten copper plates for the big ones, and one for the small ones. ”

"What, village chief, I didn't understand what you said. ”

The village chief explained what he had just said again, and finally the pillar understood.

"Oh, I see, go ahead, chief, I'll go collect pearls. The pillar replied with excitement.

There are people who want to buy pearls, and the price is hundreds of times that of before, and there are still dozens of them in stock at home, so they naturally want to sell them at a good price. At this time, she thought that her son, who was the pillar in the village chief's mouth, had taken a lot of pearls to play, and she should also collect those pearls and sell them to Xiao Tian together. In this way, it can be sold for more money.

The pillar happily goes home to collect the pearls, and when she wants to collect the pearls that the pillar is playing with, she makes a scene.

The pillar house was the standard of living of ordinary civilians, bungalows, brick and wood structure, with seven or eight rooms. The black tiles and carvings on the surrounding walls indicate that the house has been built for a long time.

After rummaging through the boxes and cabinets in the room, the pillar found more than twenty pearls in total, and his face was slightly happy. Since her family was not wealthy, she wore a dress that had been washed to a little white, and she also wore a patch on her clothes. Rural women rarely do maintenance and often have to go out to work and farm, so their faces are dark.

For the pillar family whose income is not high, pearls can be sold for money, and the price is high, more than 20 pearls, you can buy almost two taels of silver, which is a lot of income. The pillar carefully packed the pearls into a cloth bag and went out to find his son.

Zhu Zi was about ten years old, not very tall, and was playing with two or three children of his age in an open space not far from his home. They played with pearls like they played with glass marbles when they were children, as if they didn't know that their mother was looking for him and wanted to take the pearls in their hands.

After some searching, it didn't take long to be found. The pillar walked to the place where the children were playing, and saw the pearls being played with on the ground, just like seeing copper plates.

These pearls are sold for money, if I had known that this was the case, I would have collected a little more before, but the world did not know about it earlier. Mother Zhuzi also wanted to collect the pearls in the hands of other children at this moment, but she thought that this was someone else's child, and it was very unkind to do it herself, so she dispelled this idea.

"Pillar, give all your pearls to Mom, Mom will be useful. Mother Pillar said to the pillar.

"Mom, why? I'm going to play with them!"

When the pillar heard what his mother said, he immediately resisted, if he handed over all the pearls to his mother, what would he play?

"Obedient, don't they still have a lot of pearls? ”

Mother Zhu didn't explain too much, and now she was anxious to put away the pearl.

"No, they're theirs, not mine, I'm just playing my own. ”

"You kid, my mother told you to give it to me, you can just bring it, hurry up, don't ink. ”

Zhuzi's mother was a little impatient, I heard that Xiao Tian was waiting at the head of the village, if he went late, the number of pearls purchased by others was enough, maybe he wouldn't accept it. Although the village chief said that there would be as much as he collected, who knows if there would be an accident. After all, there are so many pearls in the village that every household can collect dozens of them.

"Don't!" Pillar carried the pearl in his pocket, not giving it to his mother.

"You give it to me first, and then I will catch pearls from fishing, and then I will play with you, and my mother will make you something to eat tonight." ”

As the pillar mother spoke, she didn't wait for the pillar to take the initiative to call out, but stepped forward to dig out the pearl in the pillar's pocket. The pillar covered his pockets with both hands and tried his best to resist, but he was too young and did not have much strength, and finally his mother took all the pearls away.

In a moment, the pillar rolled on the ground and began to cry. The children who were playing with the pillar looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

"Don't cry on the pillar, I'll play with these two for you!" There was still a little friend who stood up and saw that the pillar was crying sadly, so he gave him two pearls to play with.

"Well, thanks... Thank. The pillar sobbed as he took the pearl.

"I'll give you two too. ”

"Oh, and mine!"

The first partner set an example, and the other partners followed suit, and finally the pillar's mood changed and he stopped crying.

"Your mother went to the direction of the village just now, is there anything fun, let's go and take a look!"

"Alright then, let's go together. ”

After the children finished speaking, they went to the entrance of the village to see the excitement.

At this moment, a long time has passed since the village chief notified the villagers to collect pearls, and many people have been notified.

There are several big trees at the entrance of the village, the branches of the trees are long, and the leaves are luxuriant, so it is very cool under the trees, and a breeze blows, which is very pleasant. There are some stone platforms under the big trees, and one stone platform is surrounded by people.

"Don't worry, come one by one, I want all the pearls, and no one will miss them. Come first, pour out all your pearls and show me. ”

Xiao Tian felt that the villagers were too enthusiastic, and a group of people surrounded him, scrambling to sell their pearls. He had long expected such a situation, but he didn't expect the villagers to be so fast.

At this time, Xiao Qi was playing with a few children, and the big lion Huang Shi still didn't want to play with children. However, he was still very faithful squatting near Xiao Qi, and occasionally a child stepped forward to touch it, although he was speechless, but he could only act as if it had never happened.

Everything is for the sake of the beasts, it's just a group of children, I'm a demon general, I don't care about you!