Looking at the freshly caught fish, Shu Jiaying's eyes lit up and she didn't beat around the bush.
"Uncle Erlang, I think you have a pretty good catch today. I came to your house to buy two fish from you."
"Buy fish?"
Erlang was a little surprised. Usually, when he gave away the fish he caught for free, others would look down on him. But today, this ugly girl actually came to him and asked to buy fish?
But I heard that the ugly girl broke off relations with her parents in front of everyone in the village. Now that the ugly girl has lost the protection of her parents, her life must be very difficult.
Erlang had some idea of what this ugly girl had experienced in the Shu family before, and he felt pity for her. He took out two live fish from the trap.
"Big girl, take these fish. It's not nice to say you're buying them. Uncle Erlang will just feed the pigs with them anyway."
"Feed the pigs?"
Although Shu Jiaying had long known that the villagers of Guangming Village did not eat fish, she still felt that it would be a waste of resources if this full basket of fish and shrimp were used to feed pigs.
She blurted out, "Uncle Erleng, why don't you sell all these fish to me?"
Even if you can’t finish it all at once, you can take it home and pickle it to make salted fish.
Erlang smiled and looked at Shu Jiaying with some curiosity.
"You girl... I see you're quite arrogant, do you have money on you?
How much do you want to pay for my cage of fish?"
Shu Jiaying didn't know the prices here, but in order to make it easier to spend money, she deliberately exchanged one or two taels of silver for one hundred copper coins from Village Chief Xu. She asked Erlang in return.
"Uncle Erleng, I don't have too much money. How about you name a price and see if I can accept it?"
"hey-hey……"
Originally, Erlang wanted to tease Shu Jiaying, but when he heard the moans coming from the house, he immediately rushed into the house nervously.
"Xiaohua, what's wrong with you? Is your stomach still hurting?"
When Shu Jiaying heard this, she realized that the "ghost screams" she had heard before were made by the silly daughter in the house, and she ran into the house.
When Shu Jiaying saw a little girl about ten years old lying on the simple wooden bed in the room, she was a little surprised because the little girl's face was so pale and beads of sweat were oozing from her forehead.
Following Erlang, Shu Jiaying whispered, "Uncle Erlang, didn't you say Xiaohua had a fever yesterday? She looks so miserable now, is she having stomach cramps?"
Erlang had no intention of listening to what Shu Jiaying was saying. He just said "hmm" perfunctorily, then walked to the bed and wiped Xiaohua's forehead with a towel.
"Xiaohua, bear with it. Daddy will get you the magic medicine prescribed by the female doctor of Wan'antang. As long as you drink it, your stomachache will stop."
Xiaohua on the bed kept shaking her head, her lips trembling as she spoke intermittently, "Dad... no, don't take that medicine, I... don't want to take it..."
"Silly child, how can your illness be cured if you don't take medicine? You see, your fever went down after taking that medicine. Xiaohua, be good, daddy will bring you medicine. This medicine is not cheap. It is precisely because of its high price that its effect..."
"vomit……"
Before he could finish his words, Xiaohua suddenly sat up from the bed and vomited all over the floor. Looking at the vomit on the floor, it was all puddles of black water.
Erleng stood there in a daze.
Shu Jiaying hurriedly took Xiaohua's hand to feel her pulse, but Erlang pushed her away.
"Don't touch my daughter. Get out of here quickly. My daughter is so scared that she's vomiting..."
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