Those people shook their heads helplessly and thanked the Qin family father and daughter again before leaving.

Afraid that the group of people would leave and come back, Qin Shan did not dare to stay at the city gate, let alone enter the city, so he put away the pole and basket, hugged Qin Xiaoxiao and rushed back, planning to wait at the mountain pass for those in the village to arrive.

It's time to go back together.

Sitting on a clean rock, enjoying the cool mountain breeze, Qin Xiaoxiao felt a little hungry, so she took out a few dates from the basket on her back, kept one for herself, and gave two to her father.

She slowly nibbled the jujubes, unconsciously thinking about what had just happened. After nibbling four or five jujubes in a row, and savoring the sweetness like honey, the bad thing gradually faded away in her heart.

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The little girl took a look at her father's face and asked her doubts: "Dad, didn't you say that whoever wants to take me away is a kidnapper? That little brother just wanted to take me away, why did you say he was not a kidnapper?

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Qin Shan's mood just improved, but his face darkened again when he heard his daughter's words: "He is either a kidnapper or a human trafficker. In short, he is not a good person!"

Qin Xiaoxiao asked curiously: "What is a human trafficker?"

"They are similar to cattle traders and sheep traders, but human traffickers specialize in buying and selling people." Qinshan Popular Science said: "For example, when our family gets rich in the future and wants to buy someone to work with, we have to buy it from a human trafficker. Some kidnappers are kidnappers.

If you find someone, you will secretly sell it to a trafficker, and the trafficker will sell it again to make a profit on the price. It is a sinful business anyway."

Qin Xiaoxiao understood it as soon as he heard it, and said a little sadly: "My little brother is so beautiful, is he also a human trafficker?"

Qin Shan was afraid that his daughter would be confused by her pretty face and not be able to distinguish between good and bad, so he tried his best to discredit Jing Heng who dared to call him stupid: "Some people look like dogs on the surface, but secretly they are personal traffickers! That bastard has become a traitor at a young age.

If you ask me to buy you, my family must be in the business of being a human trafficker and want to buy you back and resell you at a good price!"

Qin Xiaoxiao was young after all. He believed what his father said was "reasonable and well-founded", and suddenly felt very uncomfortable: "His little nest is so beautiful, but I haven't poked it yet! If I see him again in the future, I will have to

Hiding far away, you can’t teach him to find it, alas——”

"That's right, that's how it should be!" Seeing that his daughter had this awareness, Qin Shan felt proud of his successful teaching.

Huh, little bastard, you dare to scold me for being stupid and not being able to teach your daughter well! If there is a chance that I will catch you, I will make you kneel down and call me daddy!

The father and daughter chatted for a long time, until they were so hungry that they ate up a few fried cakes and the remaining dozens of dates, and then the villagers who came with them in the morning came slowly.

Seeing that there was only one basket left, there was not even half a date in it. Everyone was shocked and asked Qin Shan how long it took to sell out and how much it cost.

Qin Shan did not say that most of the jujubes were wrapped up by the little bastard in exchange for five taels of silver. He only said that he was lucky and met several merchants who divided a basket of jujubes. The total of fifty kilograms was only sold for one hundred and fifty cents.

I also brought a basket in as compensation.

Even so, everyone is extremely envious.

As long as someone buys these dates, the dates produced by the Qin family's jujube tree every year can earn the Qin family at least three taels of silver.

This is three taels of silver. They work hard in the fields, so it would be great if they can get two or three taels of silver throughout the year. As a result, a good jujube tree can earn more than their whole family.

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Some even silently prayed that the heavy thunderstorm next summer would chop down the jujube trees in front of and behind their houses, and maybe it would turn into a money-making tree just like the old jujube tree in the Qin family.

Not long after returning to the village, the news that a basket of jujubes from the Qin family could be sold for 150 cash spread throughout the village, causing many people to come to ask if it was true or not. After receiving a positive answer,

I also stared at the fruit-laden jujube trees in the yard with envy for a long time.

However, after the Qin family learned what happened to Qin Shan and Qin Xiaoxiao, their worry and anger outweighed their joy of getting money from selling the dates, and they regretted letting Qin Xiaoxiao go with them.

Mr. Qin was more knowledgeable and knew that those people were definitely not the human traffickers that his eldest son said. He was worried that if they refused to give up, his eldest son would be recognized if he went to sell dates again, so he decided that he and Qin Chuan would be responsible for selling dates in the future.

Go and sell it in the city, so you don't have to worry about being discovered and just follow it to the village.

Qin Shan had no objection to this arrangement, but he was a little worried: "Dad, it's all because of Xiaoxiao that I was able to successfully sell the jujubes today and make so much extra money. I'm afraid you and my second son will sell them in the future."

It’s not that easy to sell.”

"It's okay, no one will buy our jujubes because they are delicious, and the price will go up a bit." Mr. Qin is not worried about not being able to sell them. It will be difficult in the first two days at most, when the reputation of his jujubes is established.

, there is no need to worry about sales.

"Price increase? By how much? Will it be difficult to sell if the price is high?" Zhao Cao'er is very sensitive to monetary matters. As soon as his father-in-law said that the price would increase, a series of questions arose.

"It has risen to eight cents per catty, which is the same price as the fruits in the city." Mr. Qin directly threw out a number that made the whole family stare: "Our jujubes are worth this price. If they are sold too cheap, they will lose value."

Qin Xiaoxiao counted on his fingers and was the first to agree with Mr. Qin's words: "Grandpa, for only eight cents a pound, the jujubes will be sold out!"

The Qin family, who originally wanted to persuade the old man to lower the price, had no objections after hearing this. They were so happy that they wanted to stand up and jump a few times.

However, Zhao Cao'er was greedy and deliberately coaxed Qin Xiaoxiao: "Our jujubes are good. If we set the price higher, we can sell them out, right? This way we can make more money, and I can buy them for you during the Chinese New Year."

Beautiful new clothes to wear."

Mr. Qin's face darkened. Just as he was about to have a fit, Qin Chuan took the first step and covered Zhao Cao'er's mouth: "Eight cents is enough. If it goes up, you can pick up the dates and sell them yourself. See if you can sell them."

How many pounds!"

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded: "Second uncle is right, eight cents is a lot of money, if it goes up again no one will buy it!"

Seeing that his niece had already spoken, Zhao Caoer, who was still unwilling to give up, finally gave up and no longer dared to instigate a price increase. He was afraid that no one would buy it in the end, and thousands of kilograms of dates would pile up at home and rot in vain.

After discussing the matters related to selling jujubes, all the men of the Qin family came to the jujube tree before it got completely dark, and each of them stood under the tree holding a bamboo pole to beat jujubes.

Now that the old jujube tree has become a money-making tree, I have to be a lot more careful when picking dates, for fear of breaking the branches. The highest dates cannot be reached even with a ladder, so I have to wait for them to fall off by themselves when they are mature.

, no one is willing to shake the tree trunk or climb up the tree to get the dates off.

The women and children took baskets to pick up the jujubes that had fallen on the ground. For a while, the whole yard became very lively and attracted many people to come and watch.

Seeing that the two baskets on the side were gradually filled with jujubes, some people stared at the old jujube tree with only half a trunk and started to think carefully, thinking that these jujubes could be worth three hundred coins.

The moonlight is bright, the clouds are light and the stars are sparse.

In an exquisite house on the outskirts of Beijing, Jing Heng sat alone by the lotus pond, scattering food into the water. Dozens of koi carp jumped at each other to fight for the food, and the sound of splashing water broke the silence.

of night.

Not far away, a group of three people were standing buying dates. Looking at the master sitting alone by the lotus pond, feeding the koi for two hours, you pushed me and I pushed you, but no one dared to come forward to persuade.

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"Shitou, I think we have to go to Le'an and get that little girl here." One of them thought about it and came up with this idea.

"Get it here? Are you going to buy it or rob it by force?" Shitou said with a half-smile: "The master didn't say anything, so don't make your own decisions, scissors. I don't want to hear that you went to dig a pond after the master attacked you in a few days.

information."

"Scissors, do you think you are stupid or not? The master made the father and daughter so angry. If you bring someone here to make the master angry, you will wait to die."

He angrily hit the scissors.

Scissors scratched his head irritably, and said angrily: "That father and daughter don't know how to show appreciation. Our master took notice of the smoke coming out of their ancestral graves, and they are still chattering there!"

"Isn't it normal for people not to want to separate their flesh and blood?" Shitou patted Scissors on the shoulder and advised in a tone of experience: "When you marry a wife and have a baby one day, you will be able to understand this feeling. Besides,

, the master was angry because he remembered that incident, and it really had nothing to do with the father and daughter."

Scissors was inspired by it, and an incredible idea came to his mind: "Hey, you said that the master is so good, why do you insist on buying that little girl? Is it possible that because the little girl is beautiful, you want to buy it back and raise her as your little girl?

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At first, he just sent them to buy jujubes. After buying jujubes, the master just tasted one and jumped out of the carriage to find the father and daughter. He wanted to buy the little girl as soon as he opened his mouth. Even the little girl repeatedly offended him.

The master also endured it, it was even more strange than the sun rising in the west.

Anyway, this thing doesn't look right either horizontally or vertically.

Shitou and Dabu looked at Scissors with a gossipy face speechlessly, wanting to pry open his head to see if there was grass inside.

Being looked at with disdain by his good brother, Scissors also realized that his idea was too ridiculous, and hurriedly added: "The three of us have been following the master for three or four years, right? Apart from those koi fish, have you ever seen the master take care of anything else?

Are you sad?"

Dabu looked at the scissors as if he was mentally retarded: "No matter how beautiful and adorable these koi are, they can't become spirits and talk to the master. As the master grows older, the master is not allowed to find a playmate for him on a whim?"

Just as Scissors was about to retort, from the corner of his eye, he saw his master throwing away the fish food and walking towards this side. He immediately stood up straight and looked straight ahead.

Rock and Paper also reacted and made the same movements and expressions as scissors.

Jing Heng didn't hear the conversation between the three guards. When he got closer, he saw that they were still here. He said impatiently: "Go down and have a rest. We will go back home early tomorrow morning."

The three of them had followed Jing Heng for several years, but they didn't know what he really meant. They quickly replied: "Sir, when you rest, we will go down to rest."

Jing Heng rolled his eyes at them and walked in front, hands behind his back.

Rock, Paper, Scissors followed closely behind, and the palace lanterns on the roadside shone on their winking faces, clearly singing several more big plays.

When he was about to reach the dormitory, Jing Heng, who had been silent all the way, suddenly turned around, with a hint of tangle on his young face: "That girl, she... forget it, get out of here!"

After that, he walked forward very quickly, turned a corner and entered the dormitory. Gradually, even the sound of footsteps was no longer heard.

Rock, Scissors, and Paper looked at each other in confusion, wondering what the master was up to.

After a while, Dabu patted Scissors on the shoulder and said seriously: "I'm afraid your suggestion just now is in line with the master's wishes."

Shitou encouraged, "Why don't you go to Le'an and bring that little girl over?"

Scissors glared at the two of them: "You can do things like cheating on your brothers, but you're still not human!"

A hint of guilt flashed across the faces of Shitou and Dabu, and they tried their best to persuade Scissors: "Otherwise, you can go to Le'an and find out about the little girl's condition first. Then when the master asks about it later, we can have an explanation.

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To be continued...