Chapter 221: Pity the little ones

Hearing this, several people were a little stunned, at the beginning they built the high-walled village on the one hand, on the one hand, it was for the sake of being able to form a large city smoothly in the future, but also for the safety of the people, the wild beasts in this vicinity are frequent, and the manpower is undoubtedly too weak in the face of them, if there is a strong city wall to protect it, it will naturally be much safer, but they ignore how those poor people should survive after being enclosed in the wall.

It seems that it is necessary to increase the efforts to open up the wasteland, at least to make those who live in the high walls find a way to make a living, and it is much safer to be tenants than to risk being hunters.

"We didn't think it through." Su Shi looked at the atmosphere a little stiff, and laughed in a round: "I'm afraid this will depend on Brother Mo, if we can reclaim the land as soon as possible, we will naturally need a lot of people to help cultivate the land, and at that time, we will invisibly protect a lot of people." ”

Dong Li looked at this short little girl, and bent down slightly: "What medicinal herbs have you picked, delayed until this time." Is it convenient for me to see? If it's okay, I'll take it, and I can help you hire a doctor with good medical skills to help treat your father, how about it? ”

"Seriously?" The boy spoke up first, and without waiting for Dong Li's answer, he took out the krait he had got: "Look at this, the snake gall of this snake is said to be very valuable?" Can you get a hundred big bucks? ”

It's actually a poisonous snake, Dong Li doesn't know what a krait snake looks like, but looking at the appearance of the snake, she knows that it is definitely not a good stubble, she has always been a little afraid of these reptiles, and took a step back: "This is what you got it?" This should be a poisonous snake, you have a lot of guts."

The young man raised his head proudly, because his body was thin, his head was extraordinarily big, and it looked a little funny: "I am the best at catching snakes, snake meat is very fragrant, but I didn't know that snake gall bladder can also be exchanged for money, so I was asked to throw it away, if I saved it, wouldn't it be possible to exchange it for a lot of money now?" ”

Zuo Zhan looked at the poisonous snake: "The snake gall bladder of the krait snake is still very valuable, and it will be needed in the medicine store." "I was wondering in my heart, the krait snake is something only in the south, how can it appear here? Looking at the appearance of the two children, they are no strangers to this snake, this is really strange, is it possible that this snake will not be able to migrate?

"Then, can you get a hundred dollars?" The boy is a little urgent, if he can get it, he can ask for a doctor for Daddy, although the female owner said that he was willing to help find a doctor, but they have to pay for the doctor's treatment, otherwise the doctor will not give a good doctor, Daddy's illness will not be better?

Dong Li looked at the appearance of this child, a little sad, risking his life to catch the poisonous snake, just for a hundred big money: "Of course it's worth it, a hundred big money is nothing, at least five hundred big money is there." ”

Five hundred dollars? The eyes of the two sisters and brothers widened, the sturdy men here sometimes go far away to help the rich people work, and they only have more than 30 yuan a day, and they can get 500 yuan if they catch a poisonous snake? The two sisters and brothers were stunned by the good news that fell from the sky, and they couldn't speak for a long time, and then the elder sister took off the basket on her back: "Look, we have a lot of medicinal materials here, you see what you need, oh, by the way, my brother took out the mallet, that's a good thing, I heard that someone used to make a lot of money with the mallet, and the house built a brand new brick house, and we are also very good." ”

The younger brother took out something from his arms, white with a slight yellow, with red threads tied on it, and the roots were intact, just like a small man with limbs, but it was a rare formed old ginseng.

Ginseng in Changbai Mountain is not rare, it is a specialty, but it is rare in some years, even a few well-informed people did not expect to see such a rare old ginseng with their own eyes, if this thing is taken to the capital, it may not be possible to buy it if you have money, so Dong Li couldn't help laughing after being surprised, she knew that opening a medicine store or something in Liaodong was definitely a safe profit: "This is indeed a good thing, but I want to ask you what you plan to do with it?" Do you sell it directly to us, or do you take it to us and consign it? Wait until you're sold to get the money? I'll just tell you, if you sell it to us directly, you can get the money right away, but the price is definitely cheaper than the latter, what do you two want? ”

The two sisters and brothers were suddenly embarrassed, thought about it, got together and muttered for a while, and finally the boy gritted his teeth: "We are in a hurry to use the money, if we sell it to you, how much can you pay?" ”

Dong Li has a good impression of these two hard-working children, and he doesn't want to take advantage of them: "In this way, I will give you a hundred taels of silver first, which can be regarded as buying this ginseng, if it is sold at a much higher price in the future, I will make up for you when the time comes, what do you think?" ”

After the words came out, the two of them didn't answer, the smile on Dong Li's face was a little unbearable, the price she gave was very fair, although this hundred-year-old ginseng is precious, but there are few people nearby who know the goods, even if those businessmen who came here to buy ginseng, they are mostly trying to push down the price, some black-hearted hundred-year-old ginseng only opened a dozen taels of silver, which is simply deceiving these simple mountain people, this ginseng can be sold at a very high price when it enters the capital, but from here to the capital, people sigh just on the road, Who would dare to block this one without the strength of a big businessman? Besides, even if you have the ability to enter the capital, it doesn't matter, good things can only be forcibly seized by others, where can they be sold at a price? She thinks that these two children are pitiful and sensible, and they have already said it highly, who knows that people actually didn't react, isn't it that they have too high expectations for this ginseng in their hearts, and they are counting on this thing to get rich and rich? Since ancient times, people's hearts have not been enough to swallow elephants, so these two children may not think that they are those profiteers, and deliberately deceive them in order to make huge profits from them.

"Sister, you pinch me and try it." The younger brother's eyes turned to look at his sister blankly, "I seem to be able to dream while standing, I remember that the snake didn't bite me, how could I hallucinate?" ”

"I feel like I'm dreaming, too." Although the elder sister said this, she did not hesitate to pinch her younger brother fiercely, and the boy who pinched jumped three feet high with a snort.

Although the body hurts, but the two of them are very happy, this means that they are not dreaming, they took the risk to dig up the mallet, people offered a hundred taels of silver and a hundred taels, or silver, the two of them have never seen silver since they grew so old, even the big money is rarely contacted, the poor family, I can't wait for a big son to be broken into three, where is willing to show the child.

Dong Liang looked at their performance, a little dumbfounded, and then it was funny, he had been messing with those people in the capital for a long time, and he would unconsciously think about things in the bad way, but he forgot that some people are actually very easy to satisfy, just like the two children in front of them, their wishes are actually very simple, as long as they can exchange money to cure their father, they can have money to renovate the house, and the family lives together peacefully, which is enough.

"You, did you really give us a hundred taels of silver?" The boy rubbed his hands excitedly and asked nervously, as if he was afraid that Dongli would regret it: "Don't lie to us?" ”

"What am I lying to you for?" Dong Li squatted down in a good mood, looked at the girl's medicine basket, and was surprised to find that there were a lot of good things in it, of course, that did not refer to medicinal materials, except for ginseng, the rest of the medicinal materials are very common and ordinary, you can't expect a child who has not read a book to know how many medicinal materials, these are still commonly used before to remember, but this child's basket contains a lot of things, such as wild fruits and wild vegetables, Dong Li found a lot of things that he has not seen, and asked the little girl, most of them can be eaten.

"Is that the tiger yours?" No mistakes, no word skipping. The little girl timidly looked at the wind that was feasting on the side, and was afraid and envious, with this tiger by her side, they were not afraid of anything when they entered the forest, right? There are many words without mistakes: "Please, can you help us get out of here?" The two of us came up the mountain without Daddy's knowledge, and if we can't go back tonight, Daddy will definitely be in a hurry. ”

seems to have thought of his father's illness, and the boy's face became gloomy, not as excited as before: "Daddy can't be angry and anxious, you can help us, please" The pitiful appearance is particularly sad, because of thinness, the eyes seem extraordinarily energetic, so the worry and sorrow contained in it are also completely revealed.

"Looks like we don't have to camp at night." Nangong Xiao jokingly said, the home of these two children is definitely not very far from here, it is good to spend a night there, it is better than feeding mosquitoes in the deep mountains and old forests, it is autumn Those mosquitoes are still very active, they are not afraid of the wind This king of mountains and forests, the east fence has a few layers of protection and naturally will not care about the little mosquitoes, although they can also get a little light, they will not be sucked dry by those fierce mosquitoes, in the end, the next day there will be a lot of red bags on the face of the body, itchy and itchy, but also affect the image.

Now that the decision has been made, several people escorted the two children down the mountain, the wind stopped when it reached the edge of the forest, Dong Liang turned around and waved his hand at it, the wind whined in a low voice, turned his head and ran away in the blink of an eye, the king of the mountains and forests belonged to the mountains and forests, she couldn't be so selfish and asked that the tiger who should be proud of the mountains and forests became a domestic dog.

When they arrived, they saw many men running towards them with torches, and dogs roaring loudly, creating a panicked atmosphere.

"Uncle Jin, what are you doing here?" The little girl had good eyes, recognized her acquaintance from afar, and asked loudly.

"It's Niko?" A rough voice came from there, and then a number of people ran over quickly with torches, and the little girl was talking to a man who looked to be in his early forties and had a weathered face: "Is it really Nizi?" And Changsheng, where did you two children go? I'm going to kill your daddy, aren't we going to look for you? "No mistakes, no skipping words.

It turned out that when it was dark, he didn't see his children come back, and the father who was lying on the bed was in a hurry, especially the wild animals in this area, and recently they have been attacking people like crazy, who dares to go out at night? Aunt Wu of the neighbor's house next door was kind enough to help make dinner, but when the father could eat, he begged the neighbor to help find the two children.

It just so happened that Aunt Wu suddenly remembered that she had inadvertently told the two children that the Mo family medicine store in the high wall bought medicinal materials and could exchange some medicinal materials for money, and suddenly secretly screamed in her heart, isn't it that the two children are interested and secretly run to the mountains, right? No mistakes in many words

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