A few people walked forward, and after a few steps, they saw a group of people huddled together, scrambling, and it was very lively. Zhao Qian squeezed through the legs of everyone, only to see that there was a fish seller in the middle of the crowd, and the big fish of various colors in the basin were jumping around. The old fish seller shouted: "Don't crowd, come one by one, these are all just from Yaochi, good quality and low price." ”

Sun Li's sleeve was pulled, he turned his head to see that it was Xiao Linglong, she pointed to the crowd, Sun Li looked in the direction of Xiao Linglong's finger, and a thief was untying an old woman's money bag.

Sun Li was just about to shout to catch the thief, but Zhao Gan just squeezed out and said: "It's a stall selling fish, that old man is not ashamed, there is nothing to see." ”

Looking at the thief again, I don't know where he went.

The old woman picked the fish, and watched the fishmonger weigh the rod and scale, and shouted: "See clearly, three catties and seven taels are high, count you three and a half catties, and come back next time." The fishmonger expertly pulled out the thin willow branches, threaded them through the gills of the fish's mouth, and pulled them into a wicker ring that was easy to carry and handed them over.

The old woman took the fish with one hand, looked at it with satisfaction, and touched the money bag with the other hand, only to find that the money had been stolen.

Sun Li thought to himself, this old woman must be in a hurry, this damn thief. Who knew that the old woman just shook her head and smiled, and unhurriedly took out a copper coin from her sleeve, which was angry and rubbing, and there were words in her mouth. After a while, I heard the sound of children playing and chasing in the air, and then a row of copper coins flew in, like long eyes, and they all fell steadily in the hands of the old woman.

Sun Li and Zhao Gan looked at each other, and only listened to Xiao Linglong say: "Legend has it that there is a kind of green worm money, using the blood of the mother worm to paint eighty-one dollars, and then the blood of the insects to paint eighty-one dollars, every time you buy something, use the child money first, and the mother money is in your hand, and the child money will fly back." ”

Zhao Qian said: "Good girl, no wonder the old woman didn't panic at all when she lost her money." ”

"Go, go, don't get in my way." A man squatting in front of the fish stall reached out and pushed Zhao Qian away.

Zhao Qian looked this person up and down, but saw that he was about 30 years old, very neatly dressed, holding a bamboo basket in his hand, and was staring intently at the fish in the big wooden basin at the moment.

Zhao Qian said: "What are you looking at? ”

The bamboo basket man was still staring at the fish in the wooden basin, thinking that Sun Li next to Zhao Qian was asking him, and replied, "Do you want to buy fish?" I won't tell you if you want to buy fish. ”

Zhao Qian thought to himself, I want to see what kind of medicine you sell in the gourd, and said, "We don't sell it." ”

The bamboo basket man said: "You must know that live fish and dead fish are not the same price, but live fish are dead when they are mentioned at home, and there is no big difference between buying new dead fish directly." Look at the carp with the red tail, the belly has been turned over seven times, and after a while, I will buy it as soon as it dies...... You can save more than half of the money, hehehehe. ”

Zhao Qian said: "How long have you been squatting here?" ”

The bamboo basket man said: "Not long after, almost two hours. ”

Zhao Gan said: "I don't think you are very poor, so you are not so calculating." ”

The bamboo basket man said: "If you can save it, you can save it, and the family style is like this." ”

Sun Li said: "Why don't we buy two fish and bring them?" The boss said that it was fished from the Yao Pond. ”

Zhao Qian said: "Let's not say whether this boss's words are true or false. Just such a long way, it is estimated that the fish will stink halfway, unless we bring it as a dish. Unless the empty airway people like to eat 'stinky salmon'......"

"In that case, you should buy something that will live a long time." Sun Li muttered to himself.

"There's nothing that outlasts a tortoise." Zhao Qian replied.

"Sell turtles, turtles." There was a man next to the fishmonger who was selling too much fish and blocked him.

Sun Li and the others came up to take a look, and there was really a turtle on the ground, the difference was that the turtle shell was concave horizontally, and the turtle's head and claws were shrunk, and the whole thing looked like a saddle.

Zhao Qian said: "Why did this turtle grow like this?" Odd. ”

The turtle seller said, "Ducks can talk, what's so strange about turtles looking like this." ”

Zhao Qian arched the turtle shell with his mouth and said, "Is this turtle still alive?" Suddenly, the turtle's head stretched out and made a gesture to bite Zhao Gan, so frightened that he spread his wings and took a few steps back, and sat on the ground.

Sun Li said: "How did this turtle look like this? ”

The turtle seller said: "This is a long story, that year I went up to the mountain to cut wood, and I caught a turtle basking in the sun by the stream, and I carried firewood on my shoulders, and my waist was full of mountain goods, and I could not spare my hand, so I squeezed the turtle between the two accompanying trees, thinking of coming back to get it." On the way down the mountain, I saw two old men playing chess and singing, so I stood and listened for a while. ”

"Then I was hungry and gurgling, and one of the old men gave me two walnuts, and I ate them so that I didn't feel hungry. At the end of the game, the old man asked me if I would go with them or go home. I said I was going home and getting the axe, but I found that the handle was rotten. When I got home, I learned that my relatives and friends had been dead for many years. ”

"Then I went up the hill and found this turtle between two big trees hugging each other, and then I remembered that I had put it there before, and the tree grew and the turtle also grew, and the trunk of the tree squeezed its shell like this."

After listening to the woodcutter's words, Sun Li, Zhao Qian, and Xiao Linglong didn't know what to say for a while.

Zhao Qian whispered to Sun Li: "You can't believe all this, some businessmen have figured out people's curiosity-hunting mentality, and they specialize in manipulating hands and feet, and I have seen fake patterns engraved on turtle shells." ”

Sun Li said: "There are such things, but the flowers and trees of the potted plants are twisted around by those florists, and they are deliberately made into the posture of the dragon, which is amazing at first glance, and then looks strange and hateful." ”

Sun Li said: "Let's not talk about this first, or let's ask how much it is, buy it, although the turtle is not a valuable thing, but a thousand miles to send goose feathers - the gift is light." ”

Before Zhao Qianxiao Linglong could answer, he heard someone next to him shouting: "Sell geese, golden geese." ”

Sun Li and the others turned around and saw that it was not two golden geese, with a long roar from their necks, and the sound reached nine heavens.

Sun Li asked the goose seller: "These two geese are rare, what breed is it?" ”

The goose seller replied: "The origin of my two geese is so long, and legend has it that when Pangu opened the world......

Suddenly, water poured over and threw it on the goose's body, and the golden feathers of the goose at the place where the water fell instantly faded, revealing their original white.

"Who? Who's sprinkling the water? Don't you have long eyes, or are you deliberately amusing me? The goose seller looked around angrily while protecting the goose with his body.

I saw a hunchbacked old man standing at his feet with a bamboo basket at his feet, holding a few small cloth bags in his hands and throwing them around: "This peach seller is really treacherous, he uses so much water, and half a catty of peaches is half a catty of water." As he spoke, he twisted, his brow furrowed.

The goose seller stood up and grabbed the hunchback, and the old man shouted, "You got water on my goose, it will cause a cold, and they are very unhappy!" You say what to do. Seeing that there was a quarrel here, the surrounding people all gathered around, and immediately formed an impermeable circle, for fear that the lively long legs would run away.

The hunchbacked old man apologized again and again, stepped forward and wiped it on the goose with a cloth bag, and kept saying, "I'm sorry, little brother, I didn't see it, I'll wipe it for you." "It doesn't matter if you rub it, the goose is even more yellow and white.

The goose seller pushed away the hunchbacked old man, picked up the two geese and got out of the crowd, and scolded as he walked: "Bad luck, I don't know where the coffin came from......

When the crowd saw that there was no excitement to see, they couldn't help but look depressed, and they scattered all at once. The old man lowered his head and searched for a long time on the ground, and his peaches were kicked away and trampled on a lot. The old man said whimsily: "Oh, this half a catty is not enough." ”

Sun Li said: "Don't be sad old man, buy a few more." ”

The old man replied without raising his head: "This kind of peach is a specialty of Penglai Island, and my mole crickets love to eat, which is not easy to buy." ”

Zhao Qian said: "It turned out that I bought it to feed the mole crickets, so what else is there to choose, what cabbage and green cabbage leaves can't do." ”

The old man said: "That's not an ordinary mole cricket, but my savior, how can I be lazy." ”

Zhao Qian said: "I have heard the story of pigs, horses, cows, sheep, snakes, tigers and dogs since I was a child, and it is the first time I have heard of mole crickets to repay their kindness." Don't look at us young and fool us with words. ”

The old man said: "This is a long story, twenty years ago I was still working as a taishou, and I was implicated by others and imprisoned, and was sentenced to be beheaded after one month. That day when I was eating, I noticed a thin mole cricket spinning around on the table, and I was bored, so I said to it, 'If you can help me out of trouble, I will feed you until death,' and I gave it a little of my own food. The next day it came again at dinner, but the difference was that it had grown in circles. After a month, it had grown to the size of a pig. The night before the execution, it knocked a hole in the wall of the cell and allowed me to escape. Later, when I encountered the amnesty of the world, I lived as a cloth cloth until now. ”

"Oh, I see." Sun Li sighed, he saw the old man put the peaches into the cloth bag one by one and said, "The old man is really careful enough, and each peach also wears a cloth bag." ”

The old man looked around, lowered his voice and said, "You don't know, not long ago, the emperor died, and all subjects are not allowed to have fun for a hundred days, slaughter for forty-nine days, and marry for a month. Red things are not allowed, no, if you want to sell them with red, you have to bring them this blue cloth cover, and the peach dealer will soak the cloth cover in water to increase the weight. ”

When Sun Li heard this, he immediately knelt down and cried: "Your Majesty is dead, the pain of the people, woo woo woo woo ......"

Zhao Gan said: "Brother Sun, you are stupid when you read, can you hear the emperor crying here?" No one knows how loyal you are. ”

Sun Li said: "Oh, I am grieving from the heart, why do I need others to know? ”

Zhao Qian said: "Then why are you sad for someone you have never met and who is out of reach?" You know, people are dying all the time in this world. ”

Sun Li originally wanted to say that the book taught him to "respect the king and love his relatives", but when he thought about Zhao Gan's words, he felt that his so-called "from the heart" did not seem to be very reliable. When I thought about it like this, tears hung in the corners of my eyes, and I couldn't fall for a long time.

Zhao Qian said to the old man: "Old man, don't be sad, I'll give you ten catties." ”

The old man said: "This Penglai peach can't be bought even if you have money." ”

"Why is that?" Zhao Qian was puzzled.

"The peach forest is not large, and it is monopolized by people, and it only picks peaches, but does not plant trees. Insects come to eat birds to peck, and there are fewer and fewer peaches beaten by wind and frost. The peaches in this market are getting more and more expensive, but in fact, the quality is not as good as before. The old man turned and walked away as he spoke.

"Brother Sun, I thought of a good way to make money." Zhao Gan said, "When we go back, we will go to sell peaches, pull peaches from other places to Penglai for a turn, and then distribute them elsewhere in the name of Penglai peaches, and the sales will not be worried." Zhao Qiandao.

Sun Lidao: "This method is a deceptive business after all, and it is not very good. ”