Seeing that her mother agreed, Song Qiu became more determined and planned to go to the town again tomorrow and pick up a mule first and then come back and learn.
It's just after the Dragon Boat Festival, and it can still be hot for a while, so we can do this business.
It wasn't dark yet, so Song Qiu rested enough to help pick long beans and pick out the wormy ones, which they would dry in the sun tomorrow.
They were busy at the Zhang house next door. Old Deng came out of the upper room and came over excitedly, "This man has a bad memory because he is old. I have been rummaging through the boxes for a long time, but can I just find this?" My dad brought it back many years ago and left it unattended at the bottom of the box. Look, it's all rusted like this."
Song Qiu turned around and saw that Old Deng was holding a copper piece that was too rusty to tell what it looked like. He was surprised and rummaged through the cabinets to find what it was for.
Then I heard her grandma say: "Hey, it's rusted like this. It's just like leaving it alone. Why not sell it for some money? Didn't that person say that I want the rusty one, as long as it's made of copper?" "
Old Mrs. Deng carefully patted the rust on his head, nodded and said: "That's the truth, but I don't know if that person will come again. It's also because of my bad memory. I really didn't remember it at first. I'm like After dinner, I had nothing to do and thought about it, so I rummaged through the cabinets and found this thing."
"If you really want to sell it by the pound, the one I have in my hands is not a big deal! It can be sold for a lot of money, right?" Old Mrs. Deng laughed as she said it.
"That's right, when that person comes back tomorrow, you can just sell it or keep it. It's useless." Old Yuan agreed.
Song Qiu was confused when he heard this, but his heart was already pounding, "Mistress, is there anyone coming to our village today?"
Old Yuan answered casually: "Yes, before noon a man came to sell copper items. He took me and asked your grandma Deng for a long time, what do you think we should buy this thing for? Before leaving, the man said, As for the copper objects, even the rusty ones, let us look for them at home, and if there are any, we will sell them to him!"
"We don't have it at home, but you, Grandma Deng, have been rummaging through boxes and cabinets for a long time, and you just found this one. It depends on whether that person will come tomorrow. I don't think he is afraid of the hard work, carrying such a heavy thing. Damn it, I’ve asked all of our villages today!”
Song Qiu's heart felt heavy as he listened.
Is it a coincidence?
still?
She didn't dare to figure it out.
"In our village, there haven't been any vendors selling gadgets for a long time." She said.
Old Yuan nodded and agreed, "Yes, it's quite strange today."
After picking a dustpan full of long beans, Old Yuan sat under the eaves and picked up a handful.
Zhang Lihua, who had dragged back a bundle of firewood from the mountain, came back. Seeing that Song Qiu was back, she happily took a sickle and a basket on her back and asked her to go hunting pigweed with her.
The Zhang family's pigs are big and need to eat a lot of pig grass every day. The Song family's pigs are still small, so they still have enough pig grass, so they don't need to fetch them every day.
But Song Qiu followed him carrying a basket.
Along the way, Zhang Lihua asked Song Qiu about his trip to town today, and chattered about what he had done today.
"Aqiu, you don't know that I just came back from the mountain before noon, and the salesman asked me to buy something made of copper. Where do you think I have the money to buy it? He didn't let me go, and insisted on asking me if I had any copper at home. If you can sell it to him, he will pay you for it. You said that even if I have some at home, I won’t be able to sell them, right? I saw that the man didn’t sell anything, and I felt very regretful!”
Song Qiu listened, and he had to think about things that he didn't dare to think about just now.
Her intuition told her that these people were either here to sell some copper objects, or they were here for the thing she hid in the mountain.
Although I don’t know why those people suspected them so accurately, the fact is that she was being persuaded to buy in the town, and Lihua was also being encouraged in the village.
And I even asked them both.
Obviously they were well hidden at that time and it was impossible for them to be discovered. If they were discovered, they would not be able to get down the mountain at that time.
Song Qiu's heart was heavy, thinking that luckily, she didn't let Lihua see it when she picked up the thing. Lihua couldn't hide anything, and she couldn't say what she had revealed when she was asked before.
Fortunately, fortunately.
She guessed that they were just testing them. If they tested them, they wouldn't stare at them anymore, right?
I hope so.
Two little girls here went to Nanniwan to hunt pigweed. In Baishui Town, more than ten miles away, someone was also returning to life in a house.
"Master, our people are here today, and we have tried everything that needs to be tested. I think those two little girls have never seen the copper bird. Country girls, they don't have much knowledge. If they really pick it up, how can they withstand the money?
Not selling it?”
"Except for their two families, everyone in the other families in Songshan Village also went there, and no one had anything made of copper to sell."
The man listened and immediately got angry, "Have good things really disappeared from Songshan? A bunch of trash! If you were to wake up, could someone come in and steal things?"
"If you can't handle even a small thing, why should I support you?!"
"Whose are those people? Can you find out their identity?"
The middle-aged man was scolded so badly that he lowered his head and did not dare to refute. It was indeed because they were useless.
After hearing this, he quickly told what finally had some clues, "After checking, these people are not dead soldiers. On the contrary, the martial arts routines are messy and disorderly, different from each other, and they are not trained uniformly. However, my subordinates found out that Prince Changshan
He likes to make friends with people in the world, and has also recruited many capable people and strangers in the house. These people are most likely his people!"
"You mean Li Mi?" The man straightened up subconsciously, obviously surprised.
"I've never had any issues with him. We're so good, but he actually has issues with me?" When he came to his senses, his face became gloomy.
"It makes sense that he is the one. After all, there are not many people who know me in my Baishui Town, and he happens to be one of them."
"Didn't I hear last time that he led people into the Monkey Mountain and his whereabouts are unknown? How come he was so desperate that he came out alive? Even the Monkey King couldn't keep him as a companion!" He said in a sneer.
The middle-aged man continued: "His whereabouts are unknown. King Changshan sent three thousand troops into the mountain to look for him, but they couldn't find him. I heard that he returned to the palace on his own, unscathed, and brought two of his companions with him.
The monkeys, who have the same habits, are very surprised."
"This Li Mi is also a talented person, and I admire him very much, but now that he dares to antagonize me, I can't be polite to him anymore." The man said, "Since he sent people to steal my
Thing, I will retaliate to him, you can take people to Xiangzhou and capture his two monkeys for me!"
"Yes! Master." The middle-aged man clasped his fists.
"Then Bronze Bird here..."
"Since it was Li Mi who did it, let's catch his monkey first and force him to bring the things back to me obediently!"
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This is a leave of absence stamp. I’m really embarrassed to ask for leave the day after it was put on the shelves. But Shudong had a low fever last night, had a dizzy headache, couldn’t take medicine, and couldn’t think straight, so I could only barely type out this chapter.
(ps: Because there is no deposit of manuscripts, the codes are distributed every day.)