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When Ao Yan entered the building, he saw a wooden sign on the back wall, in which the cheapest "Peach Blossom Mandarin Fish" was eighty-eight Wen, and the most expensive "Ayaluo Carp Flower Child" was five hundred and eighty-eight Wen!

Mandarin fish is also known as flower crucian carp, and crucian carp is also called carp, so "Ayara flower carp" is also mandarin fish to put it bluntly.

Ordinary mandarin fish is three to seven catties, according to the market price is seventy-seven wen, and the cheapest dish in Longtan Lou is also eighty-eight wen, and what if it is a big fish of more than 20 catties?

If it were Ao Yan, wouldn't he make a one-time move and cook a few dishes separately, wouldn't it be more profitable?

He didn't believe that such a big restaurant couldn't think of this, so it would be no problem for this mandarin fish to sell for thousands of wen after changing hands, wouldn't it be a loss if he sold it at the market price?

But if the lion opened his mouth, and this fat man was not stupid, how could he agree?

He thought about it, this fat man first asked how much was to see how much he priced, and then cut it, saying more and less to get the other party to think, always felt that he would suffer openly and secretly, and he was poor like this and suffered a loss, so he didn't do it.

Rubbing his hands in embarrassment, smiling on his shy face, the honest face of the country boy said embarrassedly: "The shopkeeper, the small one is illiterate, the neighbor helped to weigh the scales, twenty-five pounds and nine taels, I wanted to sell it according to the market price, but this thing is heavy, the road is far away, the small one wants to break the mind, it takes great effort to keep it alive in order to sell it at a price that is not lost, and it is carefully transported all the way here, and the small one dares to guarantee that the fish is unharmed, as for the price...... You...... You...... Look at it, little one, I believe you won't bully me a kid who just entered town today, hehe......"

When the shopkeeper heard this, his chubby face trembled, and he laughed and opened his eyes wide.

Twenty-five pounds and nine taels, heavy things, long distances, painstaking efforts, keep alive, unharmed, and still believe in yourself? Especially the words illiteracy and bullying, don't you clearly tell yourself not to lie to him?

"Interesting, interesting. The shopkeeper was secretly praising in his heart.

called Xiao Er over and said, "How much does the fish weigh under the real scale?" After speaking, he turned back to Ao Yan and said, "Take a sip of tea at my place first, and bring it a little." ”

"Under the real scale" and "under the scale" are tired again.

The store only said that the scale, then to deduct the scale head, the weight of the report must be low, the real scale means "full five into one", less than twenty-six pounds is also twenty-six.

Ao Yan's heart is as careful as a hair, how could he not notice this?

He nodded, still smiling.

It didn't take long for the little two to run back and report: "Shopkeeper, the fish is uninjured, and it weighs twenty-six pounds and four taels and seven dollars." ”

"Oh?" The shopkeeper's hand that was pinching the mustache suddenly stopped, and he swept Ao Yan up and down with his eyes open, and praised it quite meaningfully: "Little brother is a good method." It seems that the scales in your village are not allowed, little brother, for the sake of the fish body, I will give you twenty-seven catties, according to the market price of two hundred and ninety-seven yuan, I count you three hundred yuan, little brother, you have not been easy all the way, I will add another fifty yuan, count it as inviting you to tea, how about it?"

Ao Yan nodded in satisfaction.

The number of catties I said was said to Xiaoli, in order to see how the store's family is doing, and it seems to be pretty good now.

Ao Yan took the copper coin and left, not long after leaving, Longtan Lou came out with a table called "Arowana Full Feast", a total of fourteen dishes, five cold and nine hot, all made of a big mandarin fish, the price is two taels of silver.

One or two pieces of silver is consistent money, equivalent to the same thousand Wen, this dish is simply sky-high.

But in fact, removing the ingredient money, master helpers and other profits and miscellaneous expenses, as well as the money for buying fish that belongs to the big head, it is said that the sky-high price is actually a loss, but after this time, Longtan Building is in the limelight for a while.

Of course, this is an afterword, Ao Yan won't think about it so much, he only knows that he is trapped in the eyes of money and does not want to come out.

The previous budget of two hundred and fifty wen could make him excited, but at this time, it was a full hundred wen more than the budget, how could he not like it?

That joy, that excitement, just mention it.

Walking on the road, sometimes he was so excited that he seemed to have lost his mind, and sometimes he was nervous like a thief, for fear that the money would be stolen.

I finally tensed my nerves, and spent fifty yuan to buy oil, salt, rice and noodles and the like to get out of town, and the whole person was like a hundred hungry wolves chasing after his buttocks, and he ran in the direction of Xiangliu Village all the way, without a pause in the middle, for fear of being seen.

"Whew...... Hoo ......" back in the village, he held on to a tree and gasped, and said to himself: "I finally know why those who win the lottery have to wear hats, masks, and sunglasses......

After resting, I sneaked back to my cabin, and when I was opening the door, I suddenly found a cloth bag at the door.

When I opened it, it contained green vegetables, two bowls of rice and some chickens and ducks in the water, and my eyes were hot, which must have been sent by Uncle Zhao's family in the north of the village.

For a period of time after coming here, he has been taken care of by Uncle Zhao's family in the north of the village, and the family treats him very well.

"Alas...... The heart is simple. Ao Yan sighed, opened the door and entered the house to put things away, took out a hundred yuan and a pound of fine white noodles in a cloth bag, locked the door again and went to the north of the village.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of a courtyard, I saw that the gate was open, and there were noises and cries from inside, and my heart chuckled.

At this time, the courtyard was crowded with people.

Through the crowd, a little girl with pigtails of twelve or thirteen years old was sitting on the steps crying, while a woman in a coarse cloth floral dress comforted her.

"Xiaobao, it's okay, your parents are still healthy, this disease will definitely be eliminated, don't worry. ”

"Aunt May...... Woowoowoo......"

The girl Ao Yan recognized that it was Uncle Zhao's only daughter, Zhao Xiaobao, and the woman called Aunt Mei was more familiar, but wasn't it Yang Li's?

"This Zhao Laosan is a person who can work against two iron rakes, and his body is one of the best, how can he say that he will fall, isn't it a plague ......"

"Phew, crow's mouth, don't talk nonsense! If the plague is the only one of them, the two of them faint?"

"I think there's something strange about this. ”

"I really remembered when you said that, Zhao Laosan was fine yesterday, I heard that I went to the mountains after hoeing, and I picked some wild vegetables and came back like this. ”

"You mean ......"

"His field is close to the red soil slope, and you know what kind of place it used to be, a mass grave. ”

Speaking of this, the voice stopped abruptly, and everyone had a faint guess in their hearts, that is, Zhao Laosan was evil.

"Alas, don't cry, girl, go to the east of the village and invite Xie Xiangu. Someone walked out and reminded.

Upon hearing this name, Ao Yan and Yang Li frowned at the same time.

Ao Yan frowned because the villagers were ignorant, and on weekdays, after plowing the fields, they went to the land temple to make incense, and if they had nothing to do, they went to the God of Wealth Temple to make incense, and whenever they didn't go to incense, they went to find that Xie Xiangu.

He also knows this fairy girl or something, it is an old woman in her sixties and dresses up with bells and whistles, who is not ashamed all day long, an old goddess and a shrew. None of the villagers dared to provoke her, and she didn't dare to say it behind her back, because she did seem to have some means, so that the villagers would not go to Mayfly Town to ask for a doctor when they were sick, but to find the old goddess.

The goddess makes a hand, a hundred wen, and the doctor makes a hand, one hundred and twenty wen, and it can still be seen which is more important.

For Ao Yan, who is a lake uncle, this goddess is a stumbling block.

Yang Li frowned, because she now believes in Hu Bo, and she is extremely disgusted with Xie Shenpo herself.

After listening to everyone's words, she bit her lip and thought: "Girl, if your parents are really evil, go to Hubo Temple with your aunt to burn pillar incense, don't believe Mrs. Xie." ”

As soon as she said this, the villagers who were still muttering suddenly quieted down, and their faces changed unexpectedly at the same time.

"Dare to say this Xie Xiangu, don't be afraid that she will ask God to trouble you, but don't bother us. ”

Some of them had quietly exited the courtyard gate, and the rest of the people also turned around and prepared to leave, when a sharp laugh came from the courtyard gate, piercing everyone's eardrums.

"Yo...... My Aunt Xie heard that someone was caught in a strange way, and she rushed over with good intentions, but she didn't expect to hear such words, alas~ Kindness as a donkey, liver, lungs ~ Na~"

Everyone chuckled and turned their heads.

Sure enough, I saw a 60-year-old woman wearing a black gauze skirt, a heavy powder on her face, and a pink silk in her hand, and her waist twisted and twisted.

This person is none other than Mrs. Xie.

Suddenly, the air seemed to stagnate, and the faces of everyone in the room became embarrassed.

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