Jiang Quan did it right away. He found some red paper at home and cut it into diamond shapes. He wrote the words "Fu", "Lu", "Shou", "Xi" and "Cai" on them respectively, and also marked at the bottom: Fairy Child Gourd.
Then he pasted the red paper on his gourd, looked around, and felt very satisfied.
Then he called his two friends Li Dao and Li He, pointed at the red paper and said to them: "From now on, my gourd will be called the Fairy Child Gourd. Do you want to join it?"
Li Dao and Li He were confused. "What do you mean?"
"That is to say, if you bring your own gourds here to sell, I will take 30% of the proceeds from the sales." Jiang Quan explained to the two.
Li He blinked, a little reluctantly: "Why?"
Jiang Quan raised his chin and said, "Because the gourds I sell are expensive, I can make more money than if you sell them yourself, so just tell me if you want to do it or not. If not, I'll find someone else."
Li Dao was quick-witted and nodded immediately: "Let's do it!"
He had seen Jiang Quan's sales methods, so he trusted him very much.
So that day, Jiang Quan, Li Dao and Li He drove a mule cart to the market to sell gourds.
Of course, Yingbao was also tricked by him into coming along.
The mule cart stopped at the place where he sold apricots last time. He unloaded ten large gourds from the cart and laid them out on the side of the road.
"Selling gourds! These gourds are planted by the fairy boy himself. They bring fortune, luck, longevity, happiness and wealth. You can have whatever you want. The quantity is limited, so hurry up and buy them. If you are late, they will be gone!"
Yingbao was stunned by her second cousin's shocking slogan.
It turns out that this guy actually uses himself to gain popularity.
"Is this really the gourd planted by the little fairy boy himself?" someone came over and asked.
Jiang Quan pulled his little cousin out from behind him and said with a smile, "Is this true?"
Now, most of the villagers in Chuanhe Town know the little girl of Jiang Sanlang's family. They saw that she was the fairy child of the Jiang family, so they asked, "How much is the gourd?"
Jiang Quan spread out his five fingers, "Five strings of cash for the big one, two strings of cash for the small one."
"What?" The man almost stumbled in shock. "Are you crazy? What's so expensive?"
Five strings of cash could buy one acre of good paddy field. This young man was really bold in asking for the price.
"It's too expensive, but there's nothing we can do about it. This is still the cheapest." Jiang Quan said proudly, "You can't even look at our gourd king without fifty taels of silver."
"Tsk! I think you're crazy about money." Someone said angrily.
"That's right!" others echoed.
Jiang Quan ignored these people and continued to shout: "The fairy gourds planted by the fairy boy himself, five strings of cash each, first come first served, don't miss the chance, come and buy if you want to get some good fortune, we won't wait any longer."
Yingbao was convinced by her second cousin.
But what can I do? I'm already here, what else can I do
She pointed her finger at Jiang Quan and said, "Brother, come here. If you sell gourds under my name, how are we going to divide the profits later?"
Jiang Quan said with a smile: "When we make money, we'll split it in half."
"Oh, that's good enough." Yingbao was satisfied.
But even though Jiang Quan shouted for half an hour, he didn't sell a single one.
Li Dao and Li He were both a little discouraged, so they stood up and looked somewhere else, and they knew the reason after just one look.
It turned out that there were several villagers from Dongcun nearby also selling gourds. They only sold them for 500 wen each, and some for only 200 wen.
These idiots!
"Second Brother Jiang, how about we sell it for 500 Wen?" Li He was a little worried that his gourds would not be able to sell.
Jiang Quan glared at him and said, "If you want to sell it for 500 coins, go somewhere else and not here." Are you kidding? He is known as a fairy boy, how can he be the same as those mortals
Li Dao also glared at his cousin: "You are the only one who can't keep calm."
Li He felt wronged, but he didn't dare to refute.
Suddenly, someone came running over holding a child, knelt down in front of Yingbao, and cried, "Please, little fairy boy, save my child, wuwuwuwuwu... I beg you..."
Yingbao was startled. She saw that the child in the man's arms had a sallow complexion, foam at the mouth, and was dying. One of his legs was blue and black, obviously injured by some poison.
"Put it down and let me see it." Yingbao didn't care to be surprised and quickly ordered the man to put the child down.
The man was also obedient and put the child on the ground.
Yingbao quickly pulled up the child's eyelids and saw that his pupils were dilated and he was obviously dying.
With a thought in mind, Yingbao took out a pill from her pocket, crushed it and stuffed it into the child's mouth. She then took out a small porcelain bottle from her pocket. The bottle contained the detoxification potion she had prepared earlier, but she didn't know if it was the right one for the child.
After the child drank the medicine, his complexion looked much better.
Yingbao didn't dare to relax either. She rolled up the child's trouser legs and saw two small blood spots on the calf.
It looked like the calf was bitten by some kind of poisonous snake.
After thinking for a while, he said to the man holding the child, "Go buy a candle."
Without hesitation, the man got up and ran to the grocery store to buy a candle.
Yingbao asked him to light the candle with a tinder, and then took out a thin blade and placed it on the fire to roast and disinfect it.
Then he used a thin blade to cut a cross on the boy's wound to let the poisonous blood flow out.
After this operation, quite a few people gathered around.
People were talking about it, but no one questioned it.
After a while, Yingbao fed the child another bottle of detoxifying medicine, squeezed it on his calf, and then sprinkled her own medicine powder on the wound.
The child's expression eased a little, but he started to whimper and cry.
Ying Bao heaved a sigh of relief and said to the man, "Give me the money for the medicine, a total of ten taels of silver."
"Ah?" The man was stunned.
Jiang Quan, who was standing by, was unhappy when he saw this and said, "What? Does my little fairy boy have to treat your child for free?"
The man shook his head quickly and said hesitantly, "But...but I, I don't have that much money."
Jiang Quan frowned and said, "If you don't have money, you can work to pay it off. My fairy boy's medicine is all fairy medicine. Ten taels is already very cheap for you. You won't be ungrateful and want to default on the debt, right?"
"No, no, the fairy girl saved my son's life, so I am willing to work for her for the rest of my life."
The man was the only boy in his family, and unexpectedly he was bitten by a poisonous snake. Even Doctor Li was helpless and unwilling to take him in.
He sent his son to the fairy boy only because he thought it was a good thing.
The deathly look on the child's face had disappeared, and he could breathe again. Even the bruises on his calves had faded a lot. He knew that his son was saved.
The man cried with joy but was also very conflicted. His family really couldn't afford ten taels of silver. Since the fairy asked him to work to pay off the debt, he would go.
Someone said, "Zhao Da, if you can work for the fairy boy, it will be a blessing for your ancestors. Why don't you agree to it quickly?"
"That's right. It's a good opportunity to bring your son along, and let the fairy boy continue to treat him."
Someone urged Zhao Da, "Why don't you hurry up and thank the little fairy boy for saving your life?"
Zhao Da suddenly understood, knelt down in front of Ying Bao, and kowtowed three times: "Thank you, little fairy boy, for saving my life. I will work hard and pay back the medical expenses."
Yingbao was also confused. Just as she was about to refuse, Jiang Quan pulled her sleeve and said, "We are not running a charity. There will be many people who will come to you for treatment in the future. Are you going to give them all free treatment? You can't do that. You must accept this person to work and pay him back."