EBE Chapter 194 Strange things
Chapter 194 Strange things
"Xiangxiang, please don't be like this. Look at your master, a little girl, running to the mountains in the middle of the night, burning the midnight oil. How hard is it to earn a little money?"
"Okay... then this won't happen again. Next time I receive something on the first day, I'll charge a handling fee!"
"Okay, definitely next time!"
Song Anning smiled secretly. This was the good thing about Xiangxiang: her emotions came and went quickly, she was easy to coax and didn't hold grudges.
After Xiangxiang vented her emotions, she also became serious.
"After systematic testing, this wood is confirmed to be Phoebe nanmu, a submerged wood that has been buried underground for over 5,000 years. It is extremely valuable. There is a saying among the people that even a box of jewels is not worth a piece of ebony.
Compared with other ebony, the advantages of golden nanmu ebony are: corrosion resistance, insect resistance, mild texture, not cold to the touch in winter and not hot to the touch in summer.
Its internal texture is delicate, the golden threads are shining, it sparkles in the sun, and it has a pleasant aroma.
Not only that, the golden nanmu ebony also has medicinal value and can be used to detoxify. "
After listening to Xiangxiang's words, Song Anning suddenly felt reluctant to sell it. Getting this wood was also an opportunity, so should he keep it?
Then he thought again, even if he kept it, this thing was extremely precious. He couldn't make it into furniture to put at home, nor could he sell it.
"Damn, this golden nanmu ebony wood weighs 1,700 jin, and each jin is 20 liang."
“Sell it, sell it now!”
After Xiangxiang quoted the price, Song Anning didn't hesitate for a moment. More than 30,000 taels of silver, and she still wanted to make furniture? What good things was she thinking?
She had thought it would fetch a few thousand taels of silver at best, but she still underestimated its value. Xiangxiang couldn't help laughing when she saw her eagerness, and then reported:
"Ding, the recovery was successful, 34,000 taels of silver have arrived."
“Huh…so cool!”
That eight hundred taels of excavator was really worth buying!
After putting the wooden boards and steel bars into the backpack, the mud next to them slowly filled up the big hole. From the outside, it looked like a dent with no plants.
Song Anning didn't care about the pile of mud next to him. He had been busy all night and was a little tired.
After putting No. 1 into the backpack, I bought a set of clothes from the mall and then went down the mountain.
The weather is good today. In the fields at the foot of the mountain, people are happily planting corn. I don’t know which god gave them good seeds, and the difficult problems that have been lingering in their minds for a long time have been solved.
Seeing that there were quite a few people in the fields, Song An Ning went around the mountains and returned to Banyue Village nearly an hour later.
During the busy farming season, it was rare to find no one under the banyan tree. Even half-grown children were assigned to the fields to dig holes and sow seeds.
The same thing happened at the Song family. When Song An Ning arrived home, the courtyard gate was closed and only Wang Ying'er was sitting under a big tree weaving baskets.
Seeing Song An Ning coming back, she paused, smiled foolishly at her daughter, and then lowered her head to continue weaving the basket.
"Xiangxiang, among the pills the system gave me, is there anything that can cure my mother's illness?"
"No, Master."
She opened her backpack and rummaged through it, looking for silver. She had plenty of it now, but even with so many treasures and silver, she still couldn't cure Wang Ying'er's illness.
Now she can only buy the medicine that will cause the least harm to her mother to prevent her from getting sick.
"Aning? Are you back?"
Wang Qiuyue came back to get corn seeds. As soon as she entered the yard, she saw Song Anning standing next to Wang Yinger in a daze, and her face didn't look very good.
She knew that Aning had tried everything to make Wang Ying'er get better, but last time she went to Zuixianju with her, the doctors in the city all said that the disease could not be cured.
It seemed that Aning didn't care about Wang Ying'er, but only she knew that every time Song Anning went out, she would prepare more than a month's worth of medicine and put them in the cabinet in bags.
Song Anning also prepared a lot of clothes, shoes, underwear and underwear for Wang Yinger to change into.
Afraid that she would cut her hands while weaving the backpack, Song An Ning personally trimmed a lot of smooth willow branches to ensure that she could weave the basket safely without getting hurt.
Wang Qiuyue felt that with such meticulousness, even if she stayed at home all day, there were still some things she could not have thought of.
"Well, you went to the fields? Grandpa went too?"
"Not only that, your grandma is back too, she's in the fields."
I wanted to go back and sleep for a while, but the whole family was busy, and Song Anning was embarrassed to lie down, so she and Wang Qiuyue could only carry a bag of seeds each and go to the field.
"Let me tell you a strange thing."
"What? What strange thing could happen in this village? Is it that corn seed?"
Song An Ning naturally couldn't pretend not to know about the major event that shocked the entire Ping'an Town and even the provincial capital, but she could only say that she had heard about it but didn't know the details.
"Yes, that's it! You don't know, I went to the toilet door in the middle of the night and there was nothing there.
When I woke up in the morning, there were two packets of seeds at our doorstep, one at my grandfather's door and one at my doorstep.
And grandpa said that the seeds are much better than the ones we have, they are big and plump.
Not only are there seeds, but there are also ten copper coins in each bag."
"It's really a strange thing. The whole Ping'an Town has been talking about it these past two days.
On the way back, I saw that every household was working in the fields."
"Yes, the weather has been good these past two days, and we've got such good seeds, so we're in a hurry to plant the crops.
Only the village head and the elders in our village were different. They believed that this was a manifestation of the mountain god, and they went to the foot of the mountain to pay their respects every morning.
"Hahaha, Second Grandpa is so happy. If this continues, the corn harvest should be good this year. Our village has also planted chili peppers. Everyone has money in their hands, and we don't have to suffer from hunger anymore."
"Yeah, how come things get better all of a sudden.
By the way, Aning, the Liujia Village incident took two days to finally come to a conclusion."
Song Anning was also very curious about this matter. Based on her understanding of Song Erhe, it should be impossible to report it to the police.
After all, no substantial losses were caused, and the two villages are adjacent to each other, and everyone is familiar with each other after living there for decades.
"Second Grandpa is very smart. He must have asked for a lot of things, right?"
"Hahaha, you're smart too, you thought of it right away.
I have returned the pepper seedlings and peppers that I pulled out of your house, and also gave you five taels of silver as compensation.
Each of the five of them received one tael of silver. And the piece of sand in the front was taken over by the village head."
"The area where the two villages are adjacent?"
Song Anning's eyes lit up when she heard this. For so many years, that piece of land had been barren, unable to grow crops and of little value.
But as a village head, who doesn’t want his village to be bigger?
Wang Qiuyue said that Song Erhe threatened and intimidated everyone, saying that he would spread the news that the people from Liujia Village had stolen things so that everyone would know.
He would not go to the market or leave the village anymore. Not only that, he would also file a complaint with the government, accusing the head of Liujia Village of condoning villagers stealing...
"Hahaha, this old man is so cruel."
People here attach great importance to their reputation. Even if they don't report it to the authorities, if their reputation is ruined, the whole village will be finished.
Daughters can't get married, men can't marry women from other villages, and even people won't agree to let them go to the market to do business. Compared to this, giving up a piece of worthless sand is not a loss.
After talking about Liujia Village, Wang Qiuyue whispered mysteriously in Song Anning's ear:
"And Zhao Lanhua, she's dead..."
"Ah? Dead? Did our villagers catch her?"
Wang Qiuyue looked around and saw no one nearby, then said:
"No, listen to me and I'll tell you in detail..."