After Picking Up the Lucky Girl, The Entire Village Flourished

Chapter 42: Bad idea

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"What do you mean by bad idea?"

Chen Sanshi smiled and said, "The deer is originally a wild animal. Whoever gets it will own it, right, donkey?"

The pockmarked young man who was called a donkey smiled and said, "That's right, brother Sanshi is right, whoever gets it owns it."

Tu Xiong tutted his lips, slapped Chen Sanshi with his fat palm, then embraced the pockmarked young man and asked with a smile: "Well, what do you want?"

"Come here, come here and listen to me!" Chen Sanshi waved his hand. The three of them leaned against each other and discussed furtively for a while, then all smiled knowingly.

“Ding, ding, ding, ding…”

A peddler walked past the saddle shop carrying a load on his shoulder and beating a small gong.

Yingbao saw that his shoulder pole was full of small items and immediately ran over to him, "Peddler, peddler, stop."

When the peddler saw a little kid running towards him, he knew that business was coming, so he immediately stopped and put down his burden.

Yingbao ran up to him and was almost dazzled by the items on the peddler's basket.

Embroidery frame, needle and thread, colorful silk threads, sandalwood beads, and auspicious knots.

Also hung on the basket are jade pendants, copper coin pendants, small dolls, small gourds, small colorful charms, and colorful paper windmills.

There are also head flowers, earrings, hoopoes, copper hairpins, wooden hairpins, combs, bracelets, and necklaces worn by women.

The large and small bronze mirrors are placed at the bottom of the basket, and that one is more valuable.

Jiang Sanlang sat at the door of the shop, looking at his little girl with a smile, knowing that she was going to spend money to buy a bunch of gadgets again.

Yingbao picked out more than a dozen brightly colored silk threads and prepared to give them to A-niang.

I also picked up two goose-shaped porcelain whistles for my younger brother.

I also picked out a few embroidered towels for the family members to use for washing their faces.

She pointed to the small gourd with tassels and asked, "Do you have this seed?"

"Yes." The peddler took out a burlap bag from the bottom of the basket, opened it, and took out a small oil paper bag. "This is the gourd seeds."

Yingbao was surprised. She took it and looked at it, but she didn't recognize it. "Is this really a gourd seed?"

"Of course, I not only have gourd seeds, but also seeds from foreign countries."

The peddler took out two small paper packages and opened them to show her.

"Foreign seeds? What are they?" Yingbao was very interested in foreign seeds and quickly grabbed one to check, but unfortunately she still didn't recognize it.

The young peddler scratched his head, in fact he didn't know it either.

These seeds were picked out by his father from things that a foreign merchant didn't want, and were given to him to sell.

Yingbao didn't hesitate and asked, "How much do these seeds cost?"

"Vegetable seeds are one cent a bag, gourd seeds are two cents a bag, and foreign seeds are ten cents a bag." The peddler replied.

It doesn’t seem expensive, Yingbao thought.

"Except for the vegetable seeds, I want all the rest."

There are plenty of vegetable seeds at home, so there is no need to spend money to buy them.

"Okay." The peddler was very happy. He picked out the vegetable seeds, counted the rest into different categories, and gave them all to the little kid.

Finally, Yingbao collected a bunch of seeds and bought a small bronze mirror. Seeing that there was nothing else he wanted, he took out copper coins from his pocket to pay the bill.

The total cost is less than two hundred coins, not expensive.

After a while, several more children came and surrounded the peddler's carrying pole to check it out.

Yingbao ran back with a bunch of things and put them in the backpack.

Jiang Sanlang smiled and touched his daughter's head, saying, "Dad will give you another one when you get home."

The way my little girl spends money is so adorable that I can't bear to criticize her.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Jiang Sanlang touched his stomach and asked his daughter, "Are you hungry, Baoer?"

Yingbao blinked, took out some cooked water chestnuts from her pocket and handed them to her father.

Jiang Sanlang laughed and said, "How come you have so many things in your pocket?"

It wasn't really a question, he just said it casually.

Yingbao laughed and stuffed the water chestnuts into her father's hand: "If Dad is hungry, eat it quickly. Bao'er is not hungry."

Jiang Sanlang took it, took a bite, and found it was cooked. He thought it must be something his wife gave to their daughter.

"Baoer, aren't you really hungry?" he asked.

"Well, Bao'er, I have more here." Yingbao took out another water chestnut.

Jiang Sanlang laughed and ate all the water chestnuts in his hand.

He didn't know if it was because the weather was getting warmer, but he just felt a warm current flowing through the meridians in his limbs.

I clenched my palms and suddenly felt extremely powerful.

Yoyo put its head close by and nudged its little master, indicating that there was another one of it here.

Yingbao had no choice but to stuff the water chestnut in her hand into its mouth and patted its head: "Take me home later."

She was looking forward to the feeling of riding a deer.

Finally, the shopkeeper brought the finished leather saddle over and said, "Come on, try it first. If it doesn't fit, we can adjust it."

Yingbao held Youyou and asked the shopkeeper to put the saddle on it and tighten the belt.

Yoyo was a little repulsed and kept wanting to jump up and bump into him.

"Okay, okay." Yingbao touched its neck to calm it down.

Yoyo rubbed his little master aggrievedly and finally became quiet.

The shopkeeper put the reins on it and told Jiang Sanlang how to steer it and what to pay attention to.

Yingbao listened carefully and didn't miss a word.

After tying the leather saddle and reins, Jiang Sanlang carried the little girl onto the deer's back.

Yingbao sat firmly, put her feet on the foot rope, took the reins from her father, and immediately felt as steady as an old dog.

I urged Yoyo to take a walk, it was so cool.

Jiang Sanlang paid the money and walked back beside Youyou with a smile on his face.

"Baby, slow down." He was still worried that the little girl would be thrown off.

Yingbao believes in Yoyo. It will not kick her for no reason, nor will it dump her on purpose.

Along the way, Yoyo attracted the attention of passers-by, and several people came forward to ask where the deer was bought from and how it was trained.

Jiang Sanlang just smiled and ignored it.

There are several wild bamboo forests on the way to the village after getting off the official road.

The bamboo forest has been pruned and is not dense, but it is exceptionally tall and strong, making it a great place to cool off in the summer.

There were vaguely three people squatting in the bamboo forest, and no one knew what they were doing.

Jiang Sanlang immediately became alert and took out an axe from his backpack and held it in his hand.

He often hunted and had a keen intuition. The three men did not seem to be resting but rather waiting for someone.

In the bamboo forest, Tu Xiong, Chen Sanshi and Chen Lu'er had been waiting for more than an hour, and they were getting very angry.

Before that, Chen Sanshi had specially run back to the town twice to confirm whether the deer was still there, and then came back to continue waiting.

"Damn it! He made me wait so long. I'll teach that guy a lesson later...what's his name?"

Chen Sanshi said harshly, then turned to ask Chen Luer, "What's that man's name?"

Chen Lu'er: "His name is Jiang Sanlang, he is from Dongchen Village, the kid is picked up by him, not his biological daughter. I heard recently that his family has become rich, and they are building a house in Nanshan."

"Really?" Chen Sanshi was quite interested and asked, "How did his family send it?"

"It seems like he planted some golden ears." Chen Lu'er spat and said with a look of disgust: "Last time I went to his house, I took a few away. They tasted terrible."

"Golden ears?" Chen Sanshiyi was even more curious when he heard the word "gold". "What golden ears? Made of gold?"

"It's not real gold." Chen Lu'er couldn't tell. "It looks like a kind of yellow mushroom. It looks weird. Maybe it's poisonous."

"It's poisonous?" Chen Sanshi didn't believe it. "Why would you eat it if it's poisonous?"

Chen Lu'er: "I was just curious, so I took a bite. My mother told me that mushrooms are poisonous and cannot be eaten, so I dumped the whole thing into the ditch."