"Buy fish food? ... Tianyi, don't be silly. Those people think you are a bad guy who harmed the little girl, and you still go to buy their fish food. Isn't that asking for a beating?"
Susu persuaded me.
I lowered my voice and smiled at her, "Don't worry, Susu, they won't beat me this time."
"Are you so confident?" Susu said unhappily.
I said, "Of course. I don't think anyone would have a problem with money."
Then, without waiting for Susu to say anything, I strode towards the shed built for the fish market.
After I left, the vendors in the fish market had not dispersed. They surrounded the little girl and asked her questions. Finally, after they confirmed that I had not done anything out of line with the little girl, they calmed down.
The middle-aged man with a cane squatted in front of his daughter.
With tears in his eyes, he said excitedly, "Beibei, Daddy didn't take good care of you. He shouldn't have left you alone in the fish market. From now on, Daddy will take you with him when he goes to stock the fish. You are a child, and you can't talk to strangers casually anymore. Some of those strangers may look nice, but they may not have kind hearts."
When the little girl named Beibei saw tears in her father's eyes, she stretched out her little hand and wiped them on his cheek.
"Dad, Beibei knows. It's Beibei's fault. I made you sad."
The middle-aged man hugged his daughter and said with a smile: "Dad is not sad, Dad is worried that you will get hurt. In Dad's heart, I just hope that you can grow up safely and happily."
The little girl Beibei bit her lip, nodded, and said, "Dad, Beibei understands. Beibei will listen to you from now on."
"Good boy, come on, let's go over to our stall."
Then the middle-aged man, leaning on a crutch and holding his daughter's hand, walked towards the fish market.
At this time, I happened to walk into the door of the fish market again.
"Uncle, wait a minute! ... I have something to say."
Hearing someone calling him, the middle-aged man turned around. When he saw me, his brows immediately frowned again.
He looked displeased and said coldly: "Boy, why is it you again?"
I didn't care about the middle-aged man's attitude, but went up to him and the little girl.
Perhaps because of the middle-aged man’s warning just now, the little girl subconsciously shrank behind the man.
The middle-aged man looked at me with vigilance, and shouted at me, "Stop! Stand there... What on earth do you want to do?"
I didn't move forward and stood about one meter away from the middle-aged man.
I said to him, "Uncle, I'm here to help your family."
The middle-aged man's face was livid, his eyes squinted, and he snorted coldly, then said, "What do you mean by helping our family? I don't understand what you mean. Although you didn't do anything to my daughter just now, it doesn't prove that you are a good person."
Although I felt helpless, I still explained patiently.
I said, "Uncle, you really misunderstood me. But it doesn't matter. I came back to tell you that I want to buy a lot of fish feed, all kinds of fish feed, and I hope you can help me contact them. As for the price, just sell it to me according to the retail price in your fish feed market."
Compared with the previous time, the middle-aged man's attitude was not so aggressive this time.
“It’s really buying fish food.
... ... Then how much fish food do you want?"
The man stared at me suspiciously and asked.
I didn't speak immediately. Instead, I took out the paper ticket that I had obtained in the ghost market from my cloth bag and handed it to the middle-aged man.
I smiled and said, "Uncle, don't worry, I am definitely not a liar, nor am I a human trafficker. I really want to buy fish food. This is a check for one million, which is enough to prove that I am not lying."
At this time, the middle-aged man had already taken the check from my hand.
When he saw the seal of Bank of China and the amount of money on it, his shoulders trembled.
“It really is one million!”
At this time, several vendors who had pointed fingers at me and said something to me before came up to the middle-aged man. After they saw the check clearly, they all showed strange expressions on their faces.
After a while, the vendor in the white vest came to my side.
He reached out his hand, shook mine, and said excitedly, "Little brother, you are an honest man. Looking at the check, I know you are here to buy fish feed and you definitely don't have any other purpose. Come on, come on, go to me and I will help you get the fish feed. I will deliver it to your house and the transportation fee will be waived."
The man in the vest changed really quickly. Before, when I said I wanted to buy fish food, he was indifferent to me. But now, after I took out the check, his eyes widened and he kept saying nice things to me. He called me "brother" and I felt sick.
I reached out and untied the hand of the man in the vest that was on my shoulder, and said in a deep voice, "I'm sorry, I don't want to cooperate with you. I'm here to cooperate with this uncle with a broken leg."
The man in the vest was stunned.
He reacted slightly, and although he was unwilling, he still tactfully stepped aside.
The other few people also stopped talking, staring at the check in the middle-aged man's hand with greedy eyes. Their eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets.
"This... this, this, is this much money really used to buy fish feed?"
The middle-aged man's hands were shaking a little as he held the check.
I smiled and said, "Uncle, this time, you should believe my sincerity. However, although it is one million, only 500,000 is used to buy fish feed. I have other uses for the rest of the money."
Although the middle-aged man was very suspicious of me and spoke rudely just now, he was actually a very honest person.
He trembled as he extended the hand holding the check to me and said, "Here, little brother, here's the check. Since you want to buy fish food, I'll help you find a way. You keep the money first."
I smiled and said, "Uncle, buying fish food also requires money. So, you can go to the bank with me first, and I will transfer the money to your card. Then, you can deliver the fish food to the place I specify."
"Is this... okay?"
I smiled and said, "It's nothing bad. I trust you."
The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Okay then."
As for me, I put the check for one million into my pocket for the time being.
At this time, the vendors standing nearby saw that I ignored them, so they turned their attention to the middle-aged uncle. They said they would help collect fish feed and contact the company.
In the final analysis, what they meant was that they hoped that the middle-aged man with a broken leg could collect fish food from them and sell it to me.
Later, many other businesses came to
Trafficking.
I am really annoyed by the noisy and chattering of the vendors. But this is the reality and the way people live.
Half an hour later, things finally calmed down.
The uncle with the broken leg walked up to me with a smile and said, "Little brother, thank you for taking care of me. I can see that you are not a bad person at all, but a kind person. You may think that I have a broken leg and I have a child, so you are willing to take care of me."
"I, Shao Chunfei, am so grateful to you! But I misunderstood you before. I am so sorry."
I smiled and said, "It's okay, uncle. It's not easy for everyone. Life is full of ups and downs. Just understand each other."
Afterwards, after the uncle with the broken leg Shao Chunfei entrusted his daughter to other vendors, he and two vendors he was familiar with got into my car with me.
The car went straight to the bank.
Soon, we completed the transfer procedures in the bank.
When holding the bank card with 500,000 yuan in it, Shao Chunfei's joy was beyond words.
When we returned to the fish feed market, Shao Chunfei said to me in the car, "Don't worry, little brother. We will deliver the large quantities of fish feed to you tomorrow. As for the small quantities of fish feed, I will deliver them to the location you specify before tonight after collecting them from the fish feed market."
I smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble you, Uncle Shao!"
"It's okay, don't bother, don't bother... You are helping us, making us money. If we think making money is hard, then we are really heartless!"
Amid laughter, the car soon returned to the fish market.
After dropping the person off, I prepared to drive away.
Although I did not sign a contract with the uncle with the broken leg, Shao Chunfei, I still trust his character after having only been in contact with him for such a short time.
However, just as they got off the car and I was about to leave the fish market, the little girl Beibei ran over from the shed of the fish market.
Seeing me leaving, the little girl waved her arms and shouted loudly from a distance: "Big brother, thank you for buying fish food for our family. Thank you! ... ... Goodbye!"
It seems that the little girl Beibei is quite sensible.
I waved to her gently and drove back to Songling Community.
On the way, Susu's soul controlled the Taiyin Pearl and flew out again.
She looked at me and said with a smile: "Tianyi, I didn't realize you had so much money. You are considered a small millionaire now!"
I smiled and replied, "That's right. I'm a Taoist priest who catches ghosts, so making money is not a problem. But if I'm a small rich man, then you're a small rich woman. What's mine is yours, and what's yours is mine!"
When I said this, I didn't think it was a big deal, but Su Su's soul's face had already turned red.
Soon, we returned to Songling Community.
It was about three o'clock in the afternoon.
It must be said that Shao Chunfei and others were very efficient. When the sun was about to set, they really delivered the fish feed to the cement factory near Songling Community.
I have to mention here that the cement factory has been abandoned for many years. That's why I set the delivery location there.
After dinner, I rushed to the cement factory with Yuquan and Taiyinzhu.
I have already made a plan. After I put the fish food that was delivered in advance into the fragments of the sea tribe's divine map, Yuquan and I will go directly to the school where Lin Hongyu and others are, Fanghua Women's University.
(to be continued)
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