Chapter 9: The Snake Catcher
The two tugged and pulled down the street, attracting the attention of passers-by.
Not far away, a young man wearing a coarse cloth shirt and carrying a bamboo cage looked at the two of them "flirting" with big black eyes.
He looked at the sky and touched the bamboo cage diagonally. It contained a snake, and although it was not poisonous, it looked scary. He wanted to take a ride to the county seat several times before, but as soon as people asked him what he was carrying, he would not let him take the car.
Here, Chen Xiao's attitude softened and said:
"You don't owe me anything, it doesn't have to be."
Fang Yu shook his wrist: "I owe a lot now!" ”
Then he laughed: "You can't go until this bracelet is not used." ”
Chen Xiao stretched out his hand: "Or I'll change it for you." ”
"For what?"
"Change it to one at a time."
"Nope." Fang Yu protected his wrist and said in a somewhat deceitful tone:
"That's what I want."
Chen Xiao is not a person who cares too much, but she doesn't like to take advantage of others and make others suffer. If Fang Yu had been refusing to let her pay, it would have been better for her to leave early.
As the saying goes, eating people with a soft mouth and short hands is short. Look at Chunhong, it only took two days to help Fang Yu run errands.
Chen Xiao has lived for 30 years, and he has seen a lot of all kinds of people in society. At this time, Fang Yu had already shown compromise, so she also gave up, and the two were reconciled.
"You'd better put the bracelet away." Chen Xiaodao.
He was dressed as a farmer and wore a gold bracelet, which was very inconsistent.
"No, I'll wear it."
Fang Yu looked proud, as if he had received a token of love.
While the two were talking, Sister Pu's nephew came over with Chunhong.
"Brother Fang, the owner said that he wanted to add money." Chunhong felt that the car owner was ridiculously expensive.
"How much?" Fang Yu asked.
Sister Pu's nephew said: "Usually we take a car to the county seat, one hundred wen per person, six people in a car, and it stands to reason that the chartered bus is six hundred wen." But the owner said that it was getting late now, and he had to stay in the county seat for one night, so he ...... He asked for a thousand dollars. ”
"Give it to him." Fang Yu was almost unthinking.
Chunhong said: "Why don't we stay in the town for one night and leave early tomorrow morning?" ”
In this way, they can pay for the car at the rate of 100 wen per person.
Fang Yudao: "Don't stop, let's go." ”
Even tomorrow, he will charter a car to go. What's more, there are no good inns or good restaurants in this town.
He took out a piece of broken silver and gave it to Chunhong: "Call the carriage over, let's go." ”
"Okay." Chunhong took the broken silver and went to call a taxi.
Soon, the carriage came.
They were getting into the car when a teenager with a bamboo cage on his back came over.
"Are you going to the county seat?" The teenager asked.
"What's the matter with you?" Chunhong asked.
"That...... I'm going to the county seat too, but I don't have a car now. Can I ride your car? I'll pay for the ride. ”
The boy hurriedly added, looking a little shy.
Chunhong heard that he would pay for the car and looked at Brother Fang.
Fang Yu glanced at the bamboo cage and asked, "What's inside?" ”
The young man was a little nervous all of a sudden, pressed the cage lid, and hesitated: "Yes, it's a snake." ”
"Snake!" Chunhong screamed suddenly, and her voice became higher.
"These snakes are not venomous." The teenager hurriedly added.
Fang Yu looked at Chen Xiao, looked at her with a calm face, and said, "You are in charge." ”
Chen Xiao looked at the young man, thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed as a poor man, and said:
"Get in the car, don't want your money."
"Thank you, thank you, you guys are such nice people!" The boy's face was full of gratitude.
Chunhong didn't want him to get into the car because she was afraid of snakes. But Brother Fang and Sister Chen allowed him to get in the car, and she didn't say much. So as soon as she got in the car, Chunhong sat in the innermost seat, away from the boy and his bamboo cage.
The carriage drove out of the town and onto the official road. The coachman whipped up and sped forward.
Today's carriages are still wooden wheels, and they can't be bumpy when they are fast.
Chen Xiao grabbed the wooden ridge on the carriage and tried his best to keep his body balanced. Fang Yu sat next to her, almost wanting to help her, but he couldn't do it.
Chunhong pressed the two baskets hard, for fear of breaking the eggs in the baskets.
She had never been in a carriage before, and she used to walk to the county seat. For a mountain person like her, don't say that walking fifty or sixty miles is hundreds of miles, and she also walks on two legs.
The boy also pressed the lid of his bamboo cage, for fear that the snake would crawl out.
"Are you going to take these snakes to the county seat to sell?" Chen Xiao asked.
"Yes." The boy couldn't press the lid when he sitting, so he simply squatted down.
"How much can these snakes sell for?"
"About two taels of silver."
"So much!" Chen Xiao was a little surprised: "How many are there?" ”
"Gojo."
Five snakes can be sold for two taels of silver! Chunhong sounded a little envious, but she didn't dare to do such a thing as catching snakes and selling them. I was scared to death when I saw a snake.
The young man said, "These snakes are sold to restaurants. They sell it, and the price multiplies several times. He also envied the extra money that the restaurant made.
The South Vietnamese have a habit of eating snakes, and snake meat is a precious delicacy for them.
Chen Xiao was a little moved, he hadn't eaten snake meat for a long time.
Although she has a white snake in her space, she does not reject eating snakes. Even when I saw the white cockroach for the first time, I thought: I caught it and cooked it.
Chen Xiao asked Fang Yu: "Do you eat snake meat?" ”
"Yes." Fang Yu took the opportunity to hold Chen Xiao's wrist. Because of the bumpy carriage, Chen Xiao didn't care that he held himself.
"Will you kill snakes?" Chen Xiao asked Fang Yu.
"No, it won't."
Chen Xiao was a little distressed, she wouldn't kill snakes. It's not that she can't kill at all, it's just that killing snakes must keep snake blood, snake gall bladder, and snake skin intact. Although some things can be understood by the eye, when actually done, it may not be like that.
"You want to buy my snake?" The boy saw the other party's intentions.
"Yes, will you kill snakes?" Chen Xiao asked.
"Absolutely."
"Then we'll go to the county seat in a moment and find an inn to stay. You sell us the snake and help us kill it. ”
"Yes. How many are you going to buy? ”
Chen Xiao turned his head to look at Fang Yu and asked with his eyes.
In her opinion, she bought them all, and kept them in the space when she couldn't finish eating, and grabbed them and slaughtered one when she wanted to eat them. But in this way, Fang Yu will probably ask "Where did the snake go", how should she answer.
Fang Yudao: "Buy two." ”
The boy said, "Okay! I sell snakes by weighing, but if you let me take a ride and don't want my money, I won't weigh them. I will sell it to you for four hundred dollars for a serpent. ”
The snakes in his bamboo cage are big and small, and the big ones are about two catties or more, although he will suffer a little loss, but it is only one or two hundred yuan, which just offsets the car money.
Chen Xiaodao: "How much is a pound of weighing and selling?" ”
The young man waved his hand: "You don't need to weigh it, the two largest ones in it may add up to four or five catties, and these two are for you." ”
Chunhong sat at the end of the carriage, stretched out her head and asked, "If you ask you, you will say, how much is a catty?" ”
The young man glanced at her: "This is a water snake, cheaper, more than two hundred yuan a catty." ”
"More than two hundred? How much more? ”
The boy didn't bother to pay attention to her. He hated being shocked when he heard that he had a snake.
The bamboo cage is well covered, and it will not climb out.
These people are cowardly themselves, and they blame others!