"Get lost."
Only after Xu Zhenting had walked away into the distance was Wang Junjun, whose body was weak, able to barely straighten himself and walk towards his home.
One hundred yuan is gone.
The excitement just now turned into a false alarm in the blink of an eye.
...
The next morning, just as dawn was breaking, the village chief arrived with a donkey cart.
Shortly after he arrived, Wang Junjun and his parents also came to the Lin family's house.
The aspic that my mother cooked, along with the pine nuts, were already packed and prepared last night.
While they were loading the donkey cart, Miao Qingsong and Awang arrived, along with their parents.
I came here specifically to see if the village chief really accepts aspic.
It's really there; it's already been loaded onto the truck.
They were practically watching the village chief pay Lin Mo's bill.
Lin Mo didn't try to hide his intentions from people; on the contrary, the village chief did.
For no other reason than that pine nuts are so expensive per kilogram, he didn't want even a third person to know the real price.
Once they find out, how can he profit from the price difference by exploiting information asymmetry?
So the village chief took the initiative to pull Lin Mo to the edge of the yard. Once they were there, fearing that someone might eavesdrop, he mysteriously dragged Lin Mo to the back of the house.
"Don't reveal the price of the pine nuts," the village chief whispered in Lin Mo's ear, almost commandingly.
Lin Mo knew perfectly well what was going on in the village chief's stomach.
That old scoundrel is cunning and treacherous.
If I hadn't been clever enough to peek at him, he would have swindled a lot of money from me.
"Okay." What else could I do but agree?
After responding, the village chief mysteriously pulled a snakeskin bag from his pocket.
He stuck his head and hands inside and counted a bunch of things.
He discreetly stuffed the entire snakeskin bag into Lin Mo's coat, keeping the money out of sight.
Wow, that's heavy!
A whole half pound of banknotes!
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