"Uncle, how much is this turtle?"

"I don't know how much it is. I dug it out in the village and it can be sold for dozens of yuan. I came out to give it a try."

"I don't know where to sell it, so I'll just wait here."

This is a turtle weighing more than ten kilograms, and it doesn't look fierce at all.

If it weren't for the rolled-up eyes, Zhang Weiguo would have thought the turtle was dead.

"Uncle, I'll give you fifty dollars, please sell this turtle to me."

"Yes, yes."

This turtle must be at least a hundred years old.

This turtle has witnessed history for a hundred years. It is a turtle from the Qing Dynasty.

If living things are antiques, then this turtle must be an antique.

Zhang Weiguo gave the uncle five big black tens.

The uncle was just trying his luck. If he couldn’t sell it, he would go home and eat it himself.

Unexpectedly, it was actually sold for fifty dollars.

At that time, fifty yuan was a huge sum of money in the countryside, and a family could not earn fifty yuan a year.

With these fifty yuan, I won't have to worry about basic living.

Zhang Weiguo didn't expect that the thing he didn't buy in his previous life would come true in this life.

Zhang Weiguo put the turtle into the space and raised it there.

He is over a hundred years old and is of the same generation as Zhang Weiguo’s grandfather.

If it were a human, this generation would be hung on the wall.

In the past life, these migrant workers who were sold as turtles were all fake. They were not farmers at all. They thought that they were really farmers just because they wore torn camouflage uniforms and had mud on their trouser legs.

If someone can't even tell the difference between wheat seedlings and leeks, how can he be called a farmer? He doesn't even have a piece of land at home.

This scam is not new, it is a very old-fashioned scam. Even so, Zhang Weiguo fell for it.

One reason is that the money is not much, and the other is that I feel sympathy for the migrant workers.

Many people will be fooled, but as more and more people do this, the game can no longer be continued. Sometimes, there are three people on the same street, all selling turtles, and they are all wearing the same clothes.

Same equipment, same rhetoric, even the turtles are the same.

Even a fool can see that there is a problem.

This business is becoming more and more smelly. Whenever you see someone selling turtles, you'll go up and kick them.

Zhang Weiguo went to the pigeon market again in the evening, but this time he was not selling rice.

They were selling pork, one dollar a pound, no ticket required.

Meat is a scarce resource now, and even meat processing plants can’t buy live pigs.

It can be seen how scarce pork is now. Zhang Weiguo directly took out a whole pig.

This pig weighs more than 300 pounds, and it is pure meat after removing the bones.

Among the various types of meat available today, except for beef, cows are used for work and cannot be killed, and no one eats them.

For example, chicken, duck, mutton, as long as it is meat, there is no problem selling it in the pigeon market.

They will be snatched away by others, and pigeon meat is not always available in the market.

Zhang Weiguo was noticed as soon as he set up his stall. With so much pork, it was impossible not to be noticed.

Zhang Weiguo said: "Pork is one yuan per pound, no meat coupons are needed."

A pound of pork was a lot in that era, and each person only had four ounces of meat coupons per month.

It is a very rare thing that you can buy a pound of pork at once.

Zhang Weiguo's pork stall was surrounded by people, all waiting to buy pork.

In this era, fatty meat is more popular than lean meat.

When Zhang Weiguo was cutting the meat, he paid attention to making the fat and lean meat as evenly distributed as possible.

This way everyone gets half lean meat and half fat.

The fat can be braised into lard and saved for cooking.

Nowadays, only a little bit of meat is put into stir-fried dishes, just to give it a meaty taste.

Unlike later generations, the first dish served was a bowl of braised pork and a bowl of pork elbow.

Zhang Weiguo distributes the meat evenly, and everyone is very happy. It is not like other meat stalls, where if you go early you can still buy fat meat, but if you go late you can only buy lean meat, and if you go even later you won't even get bones.

If you want to buy meat, pick a day a month and line up early.

More than 300 kilograms of pork were quickly sold out.

Those who came late regretted not coming earlier.

After selling pork, Zhang Weiguo went to the pigeon market.

Soon we found a stall selling rice.

The rice sold by Zhang Weiguo was 20 cents per pound.

The managers of the pigeon market started selling rice themselves, making a profit of a five-cent difference.

Even though it only costs 20 cents per pound, it is still very popular. Such good rice is not expensive at 20 cents.

Zhang Weiguo didn't plan to sell it like this. He couldn't make much money from selling rice.

You can still make more money selling pork, one pound for one dollar, and it’s never hard to sell.

Suddenly, Zhang Weiguo saw several turtles at a stall, one of which was particularly beautiful.

It is a golden coin turtle, about the size of a palm.

The little turtles curled up together, and the money mark on their shells shrunk a little, making the whole turtle golden and very pleasing to the eye.

Zhang Weiguo fell in love with the little turtle at first sight.

This is the fortune-attracting turtle.

It looks so beautiful when you keep it at home, with its golden body.

"Boss, how much is this turtle?" Zhang Weiguo asked.

"Ten dollars."

"It's too expensive. It costs ten dollars for something this size."

"Ten dollars can buy seven or eight chickens."

"How about five bucks?"

"Five dollars is too little. No, eight dollars."

Zhang Weiguo bargained with the boss and finally bought the golden coin turtle for six yuan and sixty cents.

Zhang Weiguo placed the golden coin turtle in the palm of his hand.

The golden coin turtle stretched out its little head, looked at Zhang Weiguo, and then retracted its head.

The entire body is in the turtle shell.

Zhang Weiguo touched the turtle.

The little turtle fell asleep comfortably.

Zhang Weiguo walked around the pigeon market and found that there were fewer things in the market now than before.

Especially food, which sold even less.

After walking around and finding nothing to buy, Zhang Weiguo returned to the courtyard.

I got home and called Ran Qiuye.

Let her see the golden coin turtle she just bought.

Ran Qiuye also liked the golden coin turtle very much.

I found a porcelain basin, put water in it, and put the golden coin turtle in it.

When encountering water, the golden coin turtle wakes up and swims happily in the water.

Zhang Weiguo added some spiritual spring water into it. Feeling the spiritual spring water, the golden coin turtle swam more happily.

These animals are much more sensitive to these spiritual creatures.

Ran Qiuye cut some more raw meat to feed the golden coin turtle.

In other words, there was no shortage of meat in Zhang Wei's home, with plenty of pig livers, pig lungs and so on.

If it were another family, where even the people couldn't eat pork, how could they get meat to feed the turtle?

When the golden coin turtle had eaten and drunk its fill, it floated on the water and fell asleep.

Zhang Weiguo took a look at the porcelain bowl that held the golden coin turtle. It didn't fit the turtle's identity at all, so he decided to get an official kiln blue and white porcelain bowl.

At present, Zhang Weiguo has not yet seen a bowl from the official kiln.

After all, the golden coin turtle is an animal that brings fortune, so it must have a high-end home. If it is a shabby home, how can the golden coin turtle bring fortune?