IATLF Chapter 98

I Am That Little Fox [Quick Transmigration] Chapter 98: The Village Tyrant and the Little Educated Youth (13)

 

“I’m just telling you!” The other party clapped her hands, “I was picking vegetables at the back door, and it vaguely sounded like it, but someone said it wasn’t. Come and prove it to me – Hey, what are you doing with a big lump of wood?”

 

Bai Xiaoxi scratched her cheek and looked a little embarrassed, “I was sitting on the edge of the mountain eating at that time. I was startled by the cry. I thought there was a wild beast nearby. I got up and ran away. I even stumbled. Only later did I realize that… The sound sounded quite far away. When I walked back, I found the thing that tripped me. It turned out to be a piece of Polygonum multiflorum.”

 

When the woman heard this, she immediately forgot about howling like a wolf or not. She looked around the piece of Polygonum multiflorum, turning it over with her hands from time to time, and said in her mouth, “How much is such a big piece of Polygonum multiflorum worth?”

 

The people who had spoken before also gathered around, saying something to each other.

 

“Last year, my fifth uncle sold it for two cents a catty, but it was much smaller than this.”

 

“Look at this piece, it must be a few years old. Maybe the price can be higher.”

 

Someone looked at it and shook his head, saying, “Let’s say thirty catties at least. Even if it costs two cents a catty, it’s still six yuan.”

 

The woman was extremely envious. Six yuan was enough to buy more than thirty kilograms of white noodles. Her family couldn’t bear to make several meals of noodles throughout the year.

 

She kept saying: “This fall was worth it. If it were me, I would be willing to fall a few more times!”

 

Someone asked where Bai Xiaoxi found it, and obviously wanted to try his luck.

 

Bai Xiaoxi mentioned a location in Xiaoyangmeiling, where she and Liang Sheng had just pretended to be.

 

After going down the mountain in the evening, Bai Xiaoxi’s trophies dazzled people all the way, returning to the educated youth spot, which caused another heated discussion.

 

“Xiaoxi, what is this?” Huang Pingping looked curious.

 

Bai Xiaoxi was washing her face, and the Polygonum multiflorum was placed in the yard, and several educated youths gathered around to watch.

 

“The Polygonum multiflorum is a Chinese medicinal material.”

 

Huang Pingping exclaimed: “Such a big medicinal material, Xiaoxi, you are so powerful.”

 

Bai Xiaoxi smiled and told everyone what she said to deceive others before, “So, I am just lucky.”

 

Huang Pingping shook her head and said, “Xiaoxi, you are very knowledgeable. If it were me, I wouldn’t recognize such a big Polygonum multiflorum in front of me. Moreover, I was so scared to death when I heard that wolf howl, how could I dare to look back.”

 

“Yes, we heard a bit here, Comrade Xiaoxi, are there really wolves on the mountain? We usually don’t encounter wolves when we go up the mountain, right?” asked an educated youth.

 

Bai Xiaoxi said: “That sound was quite far away when I heard it. At least you won’t encounter it in Xiaoyangmeiling. Don’t go to Dayangmeiling. There are many wild animals.”

 

Lu Xiaoyan was stood on the side. When she heard what she said, she wanted to say a few words, but she fell into the gutter in the morning and her feet, which were still aching, reminded her to shut up.

 

She didn’t dare to say anything, so she could only look at Bai Xiaoxi’s gains with jealousy and envy.

 

The next day, Bai Xiaoxi went to the commune carrying Polygonum multiflorum on her back, sold it for sixty-eight yuan at the purchase station, and went straight to the counter of the supply and marketing cooperative with the money.

 

Candies, canned food, chicken cakes… She wanted them all, but unfortunately they were all in limited supply and there were no corresponding tickets. The salesperson was only willing to sell a few bits and pieces meagerly, and not much more.

 

In the end, Bai Xiaoxi only bought a small handful of toffee, two pieces of maltose, and three pieces of chicken cake, which cost one yuan.

 

She stood at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative and touched the remaining money in her pocket. For the first time, she experienced what it was like to have money but not be able to spend it.

 

The little fox couldn’t help but sigh, this sadness was just like a group of eunuchs going to a brothel.