Chapter 14: The Black Cage
Lin Fengjin said that now that it is autumn and winter, his nurse will cough and wheezing all year round, and it is easy to find a prescription, but the medicine primer is going to turn over the New Year, and the white-bearded three-tailed crickets that have passed through the frost and snow have come to ask the old-timers for help.
Boss Yang listened to Lin Fengjin's words, and muttered for a while:
"I just know a little bit about fighting crickets and raising crickets, but what Young Master Lin asked about it had to fall on the black cage and half a grass, and a small half of the crickets sold in my shop in the past few years were caught by them. If it is in the off-season, their livelihood is to go up to the mountains to collect medicine, and all centipedes, scorpions, and poisonous snakes are caught at hand. If there really are white-bearded three-tailed crickets that have passed through the frost and snow, then only they can find them. ”
Lin Fengjin smiled and said:
"Then I'm going to trouble Boss Yang. ”
As he spoke, he pushed another ingot of silver over, and Boss Yang was already a little flattering, but when he saw the silver in Baihuahua, he naturally smiled, and immediately went to help with the errand.
Then the good news came one after another, the first thing to get was the new sprouts of the old tree that had been struck by lightning, Qian Qiang rode a horse and took people to ask and inquire, and found the ground, the old tree that had been struck by lightning grew luxuriantly, and it was not too simple to pick, and most of the time delayed was climbing up and down the tree.
Next, Li Hu's brother heard about this, and asked next to the pharmacy, and sure enough, he found the plum blossom that was still hanging in April, which was brought in from the Zhongtang Dynasty, and immediately weighed it and sent it to Lin Fengjin in a hurry.
Immediately after that, the half-foot-long creeper also had eyebrows: Thirty-five miles away from the city, Qipan Mountain was hit by a mountain fire in the beginning of autumn, and a woodcutter saw it there, and when he picked firewood to sell it in the city, he chatted and talked about it, and heard that the young master wanted this thing, and at this time someone had already rushed over, and it was estimated that he would be able to come back after dark.
Lin Fengjin waited in this tea shop until the sun was setting in the west, and when Li Hu was thinking in his heart how to persuade the young master to go back, he had already stood up, stretched his straight waist and smiled:
"I didn't waste time in vain this afternoon, but I found two of the four things, and the remaining two still have eyebrows, so let's go back." ”
But at this time, I suddenly heard someone talking below, and then, a man who looked stupid and stupid, with a stupid look in his eyebrows and eyes, walked in, carrying a small cricket cage in his hand. But only Boss Yang knew him, it was the black cage that was good at catching crickets and insects.
The black cage has a mouth, and it is still a stutter:
"You, you, you......... Do you want crickets?"
Lin Fengjin smiled and said gently:
"Well, I want the white-bearded three-tailed crickets that have gone through frost and snow in the first year, can you catch them?"
The black cage's eyes suddenly showed a hint of triumph, and a small cage made of wheat straw was lifted out from behind him, and at this time, the sunset was shining, and a white-bearded three-tailed cricket could be seen lying listlessly inside, and the black cage stammered:
"When, when of course, this insect is also called a matchmaker, everywhere I go, the male cricket will cry out for pleasure when he smells it, I looked for three whole months at the beginning of the year, and I couldn't straighten my waist, so I pointed to this thing to eat. ”
Lin Feng said with a smile:
"You just say, how much money is willing to sell. ”
The black cage's originally stupid eyes suddenly showed a hint of cunning, and compared three fingers, if you quote like this, then three taels, thirty taels, and three hundred taels all make sense, mainly improvised, in the eyes of the black cage, Lin Fengjin is a boy who doesn't know anything, and it is not uncommon to call a thousand children and eight hundred.
Looking at the gesture and eyes of the black cage, how could Lin Fengjin not know the calculation in his heart, so he smiled and said:
"Give him thirty taels. ”
According to the previous conversion ratio, it is not difficult to deduce that thirty taels of silver is forty thousand yuan.
Although this black cage said that it would rely on this medium insect to attract insects as a livelihood, it was already the Mid-Autumn Festival at this time, and it could be said that it was the end of the cricket fight, and even if the king of insects was caught, it would not be able to sell it for any price.
It is already rare for this medium insect to survive one winter, and it is impossible for it to survive the second winter! This is as if there are not many old people among ordinary people who have lived to be 100 years old, but they can be found, but it is only a truth in the legend that they can live to be more than 200 years old.
So Lin Fengjin took 40,000 yuan out, and it can be said that he was already very kind to buy this black cage that was almost useless. In fact, even if he snatched the cage and left, others were not used to seeing it, in this troubled world, rich people and officials naturally have their privileges.
If Lin Fengjin was domineering as soon as he came, gave him a stinky beating, and then grabbed the cage and threw down thirty taels of silver, this guy would be excited, and even wished that God would reward him with such a fat meal every day.
At this time, this black cage was deceived by Lin Fengjin's gentle attitude, this kind of scoundrel who rolled in the market was originally a rotten life, and he was good at being small and broad, and when he saw such a fat sheep who seemed to be stupid in his studies, of course he had to slaughter it well, and he didn't stay in Hecang City after the big deal.
So the black cage immediately wiped a handful of tears and howled:
"Young master, thirty taels can only buy this cage, my whole family is counting on this matchmaker to live, you are always a person who reads and understands things, you can't take away my job to feed the family." ”
Lin Fengjin smiled and said:
"And how much do you want?"
The black cage gritted his teeth, the number three hundred taels circled in his heart, but the last one shouted out was six hundred taels!
As soon as this number was reported, the faces of the people next to him immediately changed, six hundred taels of silver, almost one million yuan, this scoundrel can actually be called! Suddenly, the Lin family guards next to him were scolding, and the impulsive Qian Qiang even sneered and touched the guy on his waist.
However, the black cage also came prepared, and when he saw that the person next to him was moving, he immediately grabbed the cage and lifted it up, and took out the means of the scoundrel and shouted:
"I found this medium insect for 27 days in the spring of this year, raised under the outer courtyard wall of the brick fortress of the old city at night, hung on the grape trellis built by Zinan bamboo during the day, ate the chestnut mixed with chicken blood that was boiled for two hours, drank the rootless water of the three watches, held it in my arms when it was cold, and hung it three feet to the wellhead when it was hot, so this baby can survive until now, at this time it is really the only one in the world! I can't help it, if you accidentally pinch this matchmaker and mix some villain's blood into it, young master, I'm afraid you will have to wait until next year's spring to find this white-whiskered cricket. ”
As the saying goes, those who are afraid of the horizontal, those who are afraid of the horizontal, encountered this kind of hob meat plus a rat thrower, Li Hu and Qian Qiang, who ran all over the rivers and lakes, were also in difficulty, and they had to watch the young master being blackmailed by someone to take away six hundred taels of silver, and the old man would definitely not be able to explain, but if he accidentally interfered in Lin Fengjin's big things, it was difficult to guarantee that he would remember it in his heart for a lifetime! This kind of dilemma is really rare.
However, unlike the clamor of the others, Lin Fengjin was not very surprised when he heard the big mouth of the black caged lion, and said with a slight smile:
"Six hundred taels is not a great amount, but can you take it alone?"
The black cage was stunned for a moment, the most silver he had come into contact with in his life was three taels and five cents, and he had just poured out the courage to call the number six hundred taels, and he was like a ghost after all, he still had too shallow knowledge, and he didn't think of the trick, so he couldn't help but say:
"I, I ......"
Lin Fengjin smiled and said:
"Six hundred taels of silver is not much, only fifty or sixty catties, if you can get it back, I will ask the counter to send the silver." But I still have a silver ticket of three hundred taels here, and the ticket numbers all over the country are paid at sight, what do you want?"
At this time, although the white-bearded cricket was still in the palm of the black cage, the momentum of the host and guest had already turned over, and it was originally Lin Fengjin and their gang who were pinched by the key point, but in such a turnaround, it became the key point of the black cage's greed for money, and Lin Fengjin was pinched by Lin Fengjin.
You must know that if Lin Fengjin and them fail to negotiate, then at most they will go to find medicine again, but if the black cage tears his face and pinchs the cricket to death, then it is estimated that this life will be lost here, and the psychological pressure between the two cannot be calculated in the Dao, Lin Fengjin saw this, so he led him in step by step.
After listening to Lin Fengjin's words, the black cage was originally in a dilemma, but when he heard the words of the silver ticket, he immediately said:
"I want to see the silver ticket!"
Lin Fengjin seemed to have expected him to ask such a question, so he casually took out a silver ticket from his arms and handed it to Li Hu, apparently intending to let him send it over. The black cage immediately screamed:
"Don't! General Li of the Lin family doesn't know which one in Hecang City? He takes a step closer, and I will immediately pinch this cage!"
Then the black cage looked around, and his eyes fell on Lin Fengjin's body, gritting his teeth and saying:
"Young Master Lin, it seems that only you have sent it by yourself. ”
"Bold!" Li Hu and Qian Qiang shouted angrily at the same time. For them, owing a few hundred taels of silver, it is a scolding to the sky, if Lin Fengjin, the only seedling of the three generations of single transmission, has any mistakes, and falls into the sin of a careless protector, that is, the whole family has to fight for their lives in the sea of blood, and they both rushed out and stopped in front of Lin Fengjin.
However, Lin Fengjin smiled slightly:
"It's okay, I have it. ”
Li Hu and Qian Qiang originally said that they would not let him go, but they didn't know what Lu Dao was doing, they were swept away by Lin Fengjin's gentle eyes, so they could only stop, looking at the young scholar who was frank and swaying, and walked towards the black cage seemingly harmlessly, holding the silver ticket in his hand.
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