Farming and reading family

Chapter 502 Lei's Complaint

Luo Dagang and Chen Jie heard the sound and slowly retreated, standing in a place in the yard where there were relatively fewer snakes.

"Who are you?" Lin Dazhu immediately became alert when he saw Luo Dagang and Chen Jie.

"Don't get me wrong, we were introduced by Uncle Sun to buy snake gall." Chen Jie explained immediately.

Lin Dazhu looked at the broken snakes on the ground and asked, "Where are the people here?"

Chen Jie pointed inside the house.

The people who came with Lin Dazhu were afraid to get close when they saw so many dead snakes. Lin Dazhu ran over alone and wailed when he saw the people in the house.

Then he quietly put some dead snakes into a jar on the side and killed the snakes that were wrapped around the man.

Luo Dagang and Chen Jie saw it clearly from a close distance, but did not say anything.

After a while, the people outside couldn't wait any longer: "Lin Dazhu, we agreed to help you rescue the people, and the snakes are ours."

Lin Dazhu came out, wiping his tears: "Now that he's dead, you can take these snakes as you please."

Those people looked at each other. It was normal for a snake catcher to die. As the saying goes, people die for money, so there is nothing to be sad about.

But since the person was dead, they had nothing to say and they all took their backpacks to pick up the snakes on the ground.

The most valuable thing is naturally snake gallbladder, but snake gallbladders also come in different types, and people who don’t know much about them can’t tell them apart.

But no matter what kind of snake it is, you can make snake soup, because it's meat.

Soon all the snakes in the yard were picked up, and most of the snakes in the house were picked up as well, leaving only the corners and crevices untouched.

After catching the snake, everyone left quickly without stopping, as if they thought this place was unlucky.

"Why aren't you leaving yet?" Lin Dazhu looked at Luo Dagang and Chen Jie warily.

Both of them pointed at the jar at the same time.

Lin Dazhu's face turned bad, but he didn't continue to chase them away: "I'll give you a snake gallbladder, but you can't tell anyone about this."

As he spoke, he took out a snake from the jar, quickly took out the snake gall with his fingernails, and threw it over.

Chen Jie had never seen such a lively transaction scene before, so he subconsciously avoided it.

Luo Dagang raised his hand and caught the peanut-sized snake gallbladder: "One is not enough."

"Don't push your luck. I lost a close friend." Lin Dazhu immediately protected the jar.

"Really?" Luo Dagang glanced at the dead man on the ground. "Didn't you lure the snake to kill the man?"

Lin Dazhu panicked when he heard this: "Don't talk nonsense, he accidentally opened the snake-attracting incense and attracted so many snakes."

"Snake-attracting incense?" Luo Dagang had heard of it. "You've sprinkled so much snake repellent powder outside, how can snake-attracting incense attract so many snakes?"

Seeing that the other party was in a difficult position to evade, Lin Dazhu said, "That is a treasure passed down from my family's ancestors. It can attract even a snake king, not to mention ordinary snakes. There are only four left, and he wasted one yesterday."

Originally, they wanted to make a big profit when the snakes came out of their dens in the spring. With the current price of snake gallbladder, they could make a lot of money.

Who knew that after drinking too much last night, his friend didn't believe that the Lin family's snake-attracting incense was so effective, so he just pinched one open. At that time, Lin Dazhu was almost scared to death and pulled him to run away.

The man knew some martial arts skills, was very brave and skilled, so he didn't take Lin Dazhu seriously at all. He had no choice but to run away.

Today he was afraid that this matter would really be pinned on him, so he called many people to be witnesses, but he didn't expect that Luo Dagang and Chen Jie were already here.

Luo Dagang looked suspicious, but did not ask any further questions.

"We are not here to argue about this matter, we are just here to buy snake gallbladders, so please sell us a few more." Chen Jie didn't want to know too much.

Lin Dazhu rolled his eyes and said, "One tael of silver each."

"Deal." Chen Jie agreed readily.

The pharmacy said yesterday that the price of each pill was 200 to 300 grams.

Lin Dazhu immediately squeezed out six snake gallbladders and told them what kind of snakes they were from. Although he was not a very good person, he knew a lot about poisonous snakes.

Although there were some twists and turns, the two people successfully brought back the snake gall.

Chen Jie returned home and while picking up the snake gallbladder, he recounted his encounter with Lin Dazhu: "I think he's just bragging. If there really was such a powerful snake-attracting incense, and the snake ran to him on its own, wouldn't that be like picking up money?"

Gao E actually figured out something. It seemed that the snake-attracting incense was really useful, but it was uncontrollable and should not be used unless absolutely necessary.

Then Lin Dazhu was considered an unfilial son of the Lin family, as he was used like this.

With the snake gall, the Chen family boiled medicine for the old man to take.

This medicine is quite effective. My cough has improved a lot after I took one dose.

Gao E glanced at Lei, who immediately understood.

"Dad, thank goodness you're okay. If anything had happened to you, what would have happened to our family?" Lei said with such sorrow, "We only have a few melons and dates, and we've spent all of them on the store. If Dad's illness had really cost a lot of money, we wouldn't even have anything to sell..."

Chen Fansheng almost started coughing again after hearing this, but he managed to hold it back. He just wanted to say that Lei was a spendthrift woman.

He originally wanted to take this opportunity to prevent Lei from opening a store, but he had already invested the money and couldn't let it go to waste.

Forget it, forget it. Let her go out and work hard. She will know that business is difficult and will stay at home to take care of the children from now on. It can be considered as a lesson learned.

After figuring this out, Chen Fansheng closed his eyes helplessly, feeling pained at the thought that a snake gall would cost one or two taels of silver.

Gao E watched the changes in her father-in-law's expression and knew that the matter was done.

Sure enough, the father-in-law never mentioned the Lei family opening a shop until he recovered from his illness, and everyone's worries gradually settled down.

Time passed smoothly and fully. A few days before the opening of Lei's store, Gao E taught Lei how to make braised pork and several kinds of acorn jelly toppings.

"In fact, there are many things that can be used to make jelly, and some of them have different names." Gao E recalled the various kinds of jelly in the past.

"Then can we all do it?" Lei became excited.

"Just do one dish well. The more dishes you have in a small shop like this, the thinner the profit will be. Preparing the dishes will be a big problem," Gao E reminded.

Lei chuckled and said, "Listen to my second sister-in-law."

"The money earned from this snack is hard-earned. It's not easy to become rich." Gao E didn't let her have too many expectations.

"I don't want to be rich," Lei said awkwardly. "What I'm worried about now is that there won't be anyone when the business opens."

"Don't you have a good relationship with the villagers?" Gao E reminded him, "Just say it's a grand opening gift and treat them to a meal. First, build up popularity, then talk about it."

"Yes." Lei became excited. "I have to call them all over. I can afford a bowl of jelly."

"If your business is good, there will be a lot of demand for acorns in the future, and the villagers will be able to earn more, which is a good thing for them." Gao E reminded.

"What if they also do this business?" Lei became worried again.

"What are you afraid of? Food is all about taste. Don't you have confidence in the seasoning I taught you?"

"My second sister-in-law taught me this, so I definitely have confidence in it." Lei smiled innocently.

Their acorn jelly comes in two varieties: hot and cold, and each has three flavors, trying to satisfy the tastes of different people without having to prepare too many dishes.