Quick travel: The poor little thing in the period novel strikes back

Zhao Ze hurried back in a hurry. Because of his anxiety, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. When he was only a few steps away, he saw the little girl standing on the roadside with a red face and a look of resistance.

Next to her stood two well-dressed young men who kept leaning towards the girl. Zhao Ze felt angry and walked over quickly, pulling the two strange young men by the arms and pushing them aside.

"Xiao Lian, are you okay?"

Because of his anxiety and some unspeakable selfishness in his heart, Zhao Ze did not call her sister-in-law anymore. He put his hand on the girl's shoulder and checked her up and down. After making sure that the girl was not injured, he looked at the two young men he had pushed away.

The two were not frightened by Zhao Ze's arrival, nor did they take the opportunity to escape. Instead, they stood aside waiting with anxious looks on their faces.

"What do you want to do?"

Zhao Ze was tall and had a stern face, which was quite intimidating. The two young men subconsciously took a step back because of the intimidation, but still mustered up the courage to speak.

"Comrade, we don't have any other intentions. We just saw that the thing in this female comrade's basket seems to be the medicinal herb that my brothers and I have been looking for, so we want this female comrade to lift the gauze a little so that we can take a closer look."

"We were afraid of being seen by others, so we got a little closer in a moment of anxiety, but we didn't have any bad intentions, and we are really sorry."

Zhao Ze did not listen to one side of the story, but turned his head to cast a glance at the silent Shi Yan. When he saw the little girl nodded in affirmation, he looked at the two young men again.

"If you need anything, let's talk somewhere else. This is not the place to talk."

Zhao Ze was very familiar with the streets here. He protected Shi Yan and brought the two of them into a dead end alley. The two young men were inside, while Zhuang Ze and Shi Yan were outside. If any accidents occurred, it would be convenient for the two of them to run away in advance.

"Look, this is a hundred-year-old ginseng. I dug it out with the flower, roots and soil. Take a look first to see if it's what you want."

The two were already very excited when they heard that it was a hundred-year-old ginseng. When Shi Yan lifted the gauze covering the basket, the two young men's eyes lit up.

"This is it. This is what we want. Comrade, can you sell us this ginseng? How much do you want? We can try to get the sum together."

Shi Yan didn't understand the prices of goods in this era. She had only heard before that ginseng could be exchanged for a hundred yuan. Although a hundred yuan was a lot of money, in this situation, the one who bid first would always be at a disadvantage. So Shi Yan didn't say anything, but covered the item with gauze and hid behind Zhao Ze.

"It's not easy to find a 100-year-old ginseng that's so well preserved. If we want to talk about business, we should at least know your sincerity, right?"

The man who had a stern face originally now put on a cynical expression again, with his hands in his pockets and looking at people with squinted eyes, acting like he was the boss and the boss of everything.

The two young men are brothers. They are both intellectuals who run errands in government agencies. Although their positions are not high, the work is respectable in public, so both of them want to move up.

This time the big leader's father is sick and needs a century-old ginseng to save his life. If they can get it, not to mention promotion, they will definitely be reused. The most important thing is that they don't have to pay for it. The leader pays and they do the running errands.

"We have 2000 here. I don't know if we can buy what you have, because this ginseng is not for us to use. If we want to add money, we have to go back and ask the leader for his opinion."

The man who spoke directly pulled out a thick envelope from his inner pocket, then took out the Great Unity in the envelope and showed it to the two men.

His attitude was very frank and he spoke the truth. The money was handed to them by their leader a week ago, and he said it was a deposit. If the seller wanted to add more money, he would be willing to pay more.

In the 2000s, yuan was not a small amount of money. It was almost ten years' salary for an ordinary worker.

Shi Yan was not greedy. She reached out and carefully tugged at the hem of Zhao Ze's clothes to show her intention, and Zhao Ze also understood what the person behind him meant.

"Do you have tickets?" Zhao Ze asked.

"Yes, what kind of tickets do you want?" The two men were confused by the question, and then they searched their bodies separately. After a while, they found more than 20 tickets.

"Let me see."

Zhao Ze held the tickets in his hand. Most of them were food tickets, followed by cloth tickets and meat tickets, and then the relatively rare industrial tickets, bicycle tickets and radio tickets. Ordinary people might not be able to get these tickets even if they had money.

"How about this, 2000 plus these tickets, and the things are yours."

The tickets were already in Zhao Ze's hands, leaving no chance for the two to refuse.

"Okay, I'll give you the money and give us the stuff!"

After the payment and goods were settled, the four people had no intention of staying any longer and left the alley separately.

"I invite you to dinner."

The little girl's voice was like the humming of a mosquito.

In the busy street, if Zhao Ze hadn't been completely focused on Shi Yan, he might not have been able to hear clearly.

Zhao Ze wanted to refuse, as he felt it was humiliating to let a little girl treat him to a meal, but he really had no money on him. Feeling frustrated and embarrassed, he couldn't open his mouth.

"Go ahead~ I didn't eat anything this morning and I'm really hungry now."

Seeing the expectant look and soft words, Zhao Ze's awkward heart was relieved. All his face was thrown to the back of his mind, and he blurted out the words of promise.

"Okay, go eat. You look so thin, you need to eat some more."

Shi Yan was wearing a single skirt without pockets. All the money from selling ginseng was on Zhao Ze, so she didn't have to worry about finding a seat, ordering food, and paying.

Shi Yan not only eats well, but also maintains Zhao Ze's face as a man when she is outside.

After eating and drinking, Zhao Ze accompanied Shi Yan to buy a lot of food, clothes and daily necessities, and then prepared to go back to get the ox cart to return to the village.

This time, Zhao Ze carried a bunch of things and led Shi Yan to the yard where the ox cart was stored. He still knocked three times. As soon as the gate opened, Zhao Ze rushed into the yard. Shi Yan waited for a long time before he came out leading the ox cart with several woven bags of grain in his hands.

He stuffed all the large and small bags piled on the ground into the woven bags, tied the bags tightly, and finally called Shi Yan to get in the car.

"Sister-in-law, when we get back to the village later, if anyone in the village asks you what you bought, just say it's all food. As for the ginseng, just say it's too young and you exchanged it for 80. Don't worry about the rest, just leave it to me."

"it is good."

"You are so smart!"

Zhao Ze subconsciously straightened his back because of the admiring look in the man's eyes and casually waved the whip in his hand a few times.

"Hey, it's nothing big. Sit tight, little sister-in-law, we'll be leaving soon."