? ? ?
As soon as Xu Zhenting finished speaking, all the villagers were immediately filled with questions.
The village chief was also dumbfounded. What? What's going on?
"What, you don't believe me?" Xu Zhenting still smiled smugly.
"If you don't believe me, try selling it yourself. I guarantee that you'll receive the goods on the spot."
The villagers were briefly stunned, but Old Zhu, who was extremely sensitive to money, was the first to react.
This means...
Selling it to him will earn you an extra 50 cents per pound? Wow, 50 cents is quite a lot of money.
Looking down at his wife, he saw that she had already peeled more than ten pounds of fruit in the basket next to her; this was all that had been peeled since early this morning.
Old Zhu, half-believing and half-doubting, picked up the basket and walked to the front, saying to Xu Zhenting:
"You really want it? We guarantee at least fifteen jin here, you..."
Before Old Zhu could finish speaking, Xu Zhenting smugly pulled out a wad of ten-yuan bills from his pocket, a neatly bundled stack of them:
"Fifteen catties is twenty-two yuan and five mao."
As they spoke, Xu Zhenting counted the money with a loud thud, then handed three bills to Old Zhu.
"This is thirty. The extra seven yuan and fifty cents, you can peel another five jin for me, and we'll be even."
Seeing that Old Zhu had actually received the money at 1.5 yuan per jin, the villagers were immediately filled with eager anticipation.
It's 50 cents a pound, which sounds alright, not too much.
But ten pounds is five yuan! One hundred pounds is fifty yuan!
Once the accounts were settled, the villagers immediately became agitated.
Lin Gangtie hurriedly ran to the village chief, scratching the back of his head somewhat embarrassed:
"Hey, village chief, you can cross out the amount you tallied for our family yesterday."
After saying that, Lin Gangtie turned around and ran back home, carrying all fifty catties of pine nuts he had shelled yesterday and today back home.
Xu Zhenting did indeed settle the cash payment for him on the spot.
Wu Fengshou watched as the villagers went from hesitant to defecting, and one after another they sold their pine nuts to Xu Zhenting.
A feeling of tightness gradually rose in his stomach.
That son of a bitch, he never does anything worthwhile, just stirs up trouble in the village.
Today they actually publicly challenged themselves?!
Are they openly going against us?
"Village chief... I'm sorry, my family is poor, please don't be angry, please forgive us..."
Old Zhu knew very well that he owed the village chief a huge favor, since only the village chief had ever been willing to lend him money to help him with his debts.
Suddenly, he became the first to defect. Although it wasn't intentional, I didn't notice this because I was too sensitive about money at the time.
After apologizing to the village chief, Old Zhu felt too embarrassed to linger in front of him any longer, so he took his wife home.
"Village chief, I'm so sorry, please forgive me..."
One after another, many villagers turned against their allies and apologized, then slunk away, either going home or squatting there waiting to watch TV.
No amount of apology could soothe the intense sense of betrayal churning within the village chief.
Wow, this is incredible! The village chief has never experienced anything like this in his life.
Lin Mo remained silent, helping Su the carpenter wander around, checking the situation inside the shop and then coming out to look at the shed.
Seeing the village chief's chest heaving with anger, he leaned over to offer some words of comfort.
As a result, after reaping a great harvest, Xu Zhenting became even more smug.
He also moved closer to the village chief, and casually glanced down at Chen Gang.
Chen Gang didn't sell the pine nuts to him, but Xu Zhenting probably knew what he was thinking—
Those pedantic people, talking about so-called backbone.
He always held his head high before, and now he's even less likely to bow down to someone who used to have to obey his orders.
"Tsk tsk, this shop is doing quite well, so many villagers are staying here."
"That's good, that's good."
"If Lin Mo can run a store, it means we can too. We also plan to run a store."
"...?" Lin Mo's eye twitched, wondering if this guy's brain had gone crazy.
I used to always be at odds with myself, constantly looking for trouble.
Now they've suddenly changed their tune and are using the copy-and-paste method on us?
"Can't you be a little more creative? Stop always doing what I do. You look like a thief." Lin Mo said sarcastically with a smile.
"Haha, a thief?" Xu Zhenting smiled smugly, but his eyes were icy cold.
"Watch out, or I'll sue you for defamation."
"..." Lin Mo was speechless for once.
"That's all you've got. All you can do is follow me around and drink my farts. Whatever flavor of my farts, that's what you get. What's the point?"
"What's so interesting? It's very interesting," Xu Zhenting had decided to openly confront Lin Mo:
"You just wait and see."
Having said that, he turned to the villagers and yelled at the top of his lungs:
"Don't all the uncles and aunts in the village know how to fish?"
"Anyone with free time is welcome to go fishing. You can sell your catch to me for two cents a pound!"
"I've already taken care of the connections in the county, so everyone can fish with peace of mind!"
Upon hearing this, the villagers started chattering again.
"Wow, pine nuts are out of season right now, I was just worried about not having any other way to make money!" Wang Yanli exclaimed in surprise.
“Yes, we’re really good at fishing! We caught so many fish last time! But, are the county officials really not going to come and catch them?” Wang Yanli’s husband chimed in.
Xu Zhenting was beaming with pride:
“We have relatives in the Revolutionary Committee. They know we took them in, so they won’t come to our village again, understand?”
“Xu Zhenting,” Chen Gang stood up sharply at this moment, seizing the opportunity to clear his name:
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