Zhuang Zhimeng bent down and rubbed Hu Zi's head.
"Alright, then you can come with me and catch them!"
"Okay, thank you, Sister Zhimeng!"
Jiang Yanxia quickly moved closer to Zhuang Zhimeng, hooking her arm around hers and shaking it.
"Okay, Zhimeng, I'll go with you too, the three of us together!"
Zhuang Zhimeng looked at Xiazi helplessly.
"Okay, okay, let's do it together!"
Hu Zi and Jiang Yanxia exchanged a glance and then laughed.
"That's awesome!"
"Hehe, let's go! Zhimeng, where are we going?"
Zhuang Zhimeng pointed in a direction she had never been before.
"Let's go take a look over there!"
The three of them walked that way together.
I don't know if it's because there are fewer people here, or if we're just lucky.
Many have climbed out of several trees.
The three of them had a great time catching cicadas and monkeys.
They spent quite a while arresting people in this area; it was past nine o'clock by the time they finished.
Zhuang Zhimeng looked at the cicada nymphs in the bucket and felt there were quite a few, so she made a suggestion.
"Let's head back now!"
Jiang Yanxia and Hu Zi had no objections.
"Okay, let's go back then!"
"OK!"
Zhuang Zhi dreamed that cicada nymphs could be sold, so he asked Hu Zi, who was standing next to him.
"Tiger, how much do people who come to buy cicada nymphs usually pay?"
Tiger actually knew.
"Sister Zhimeng, Sister Yanxia, let me tell you, cicada nymphs are sold by the piece, and each one costs fifty cents."
Zhuang Zhimeng was puzzled.
"That can't be right. I heard that cicada nymphs fetch a pretty good price at pharmacies. That means each one should be worth at least 80 cents to 1 yuan, right?"
Tiger shook his head.
"The people who come to our brigade to collect cicada nymphs always give us 50 cents!"
Jiang Yanxia asked Hu Zi.
"The person who collects the cicada nymphs has always been the same person; the person hasn't changed?"
Tiger thought for a moment before answering them.
"Yes, this is the person I remember! I've seen him several times!"
After hearing what Hu Zi said, Jiang Yanxia looked at Zhuang Zhimeng.
"Zhimeng, so this person has been doubling his earnings from the brigade all these years!"
Zhuang Zhimeng thought so too.
"Then let Brother Qingbai and Brother Meng talk to him. If he doesn't raise the price, we won't sell to him!"
"At worst, I'll just buy it all and sell it to pharmacies. The villagers were just trying to earn some extra money this way, and he's already pocketed half of it!"
"Alright, let's go meet up with Brother An and Brother Meng now, tell them what happened, and have them talk to the cicada hunter!"
The three quickened their pace and walked back.
An Qingbai stood up and greeted Zhuang Zhimeng and the other two with a smile when he saw them.
"Zhizhi, Yanxia, how many have you arrested? I've arrested quite a few!"
Zhuang Zhimeng simply poured the cicada nymphs from her bucket into An Qingbai's bucket and laughed.
"Hehe, no need to count, Qingbai, you're definitely number one now!"
An Qingbai was dumbfounded. He hadn't expected the competition to be like this. This was far too casual!
Jiang Yanxia and Hu Zi were both covering their mouths and chuckling.
Su Mengmeng happened to walk over at that moment and was surprised to see the amount in Brother An's bucket.
"Brother An, why is there so much in your bucket?"
He casually tossed the contents into the eldest bucket, but found nothing, which puzzled him again.
"Boss, why is your bucket empty? You didn't catch a single one?"
Jiang Yanxia and Hu Zi couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Ha ha!"
"Ha ha!"
Zhuang Zhimeng told Su Mengmeng with a smile.
"Haha, I poured all my stuff into Brother Qingbai's bucket. Are we really going to compare and decide who's number one, two, three, four? Should we even put a ranking together?"
An Qingbai and Su Mengmeng also laughed.
After the group laughed, Zhuang Zhimeng told them about the price of cicada nymphs.
"The person who buys cicada nymphs must have made a lot of money. He only pays 50 cents per nymph, so he must have kept at least 30 to 50 cents for himself!"
One or two may not seem like much, but add them all up, how much would that be? Just one month's harvest a year, how much would our entire production brigade earn?
An Qingbai nodded.
"Zhizhi, I hadn't noticed until you pointed it out, it's true! I didn't sell many cicada nymphs before, and no one ever complained about the price, so nobody noticed this!"
Su Mengmeng was furious.
"This is outrageous! We have to make him raise the price. What do you think about making him pay 1.5 yuan for two?"
Zhuang Zhimeng thought the price was acceptable, so she looked at An Qingbai.
"Brother Qingbai, what do you think? Anyway, I think the price Meng Ge'er mentioned is the lowest possible price!"
If he's unwilling to pay even 1.5 yuan for two, then tell him that we won't sell him any more cicada nymphs from our brigade; we have our own solutions!
An Qingbai and Su Mengmeng both expressed their opinions.
"Okay, let's go talk to him!"
"Brother An and I will go find him right away!"
When An Qingbai and Su Mengmeng returned, they both had smiles on their faces.
Zhuang Zhimeng felt it was a success and asked them.
"How did your talks with him go? Did he agree to raise the price?"
Su Mengmeng couldn't wait to tell the others.
"Hehe, let me tell you, he absolutely refused to raise prices at first!"
He even said that's the price we always buy them at. We told him that the Anyang brigade wouldn't sell him any more, and that's when he got anxious and now he's raised the price to eight cents a piece!
Zhuang Zhimeng nodded.
"Alright then, he should at least make some money. A three-cent increase in the recycling price is already pretty good! Who knows, he might raise it to one dollar on his own later!"
An Qingbai responded.
"Well, we thought we'd let him earn some money if he wanted, at least more than he used to!"
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