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Chapter 14 The Black Cage

Lin Fengjin said that now that autumn and winter are approaching, his wet nurse will cough and wheeze over the years. Finally, she found a proven prescription, but the medicine introduction was about to celebrate the New Year. After the frost and snow, the three-tailed crickets came to ask for help from the old seniors.

Boss Yang listened to Lin Fengjin's words and pondered for a while and said:

"I just know a little about fighting crickets and raising crickets, but what Mr. Lin asked about was a group of people like black cages and half grass. In recent years, they have caught a small amount of crickets sold on my shop. If it is the off-season, their livelihood is to go up the mountain to collect herbs, and all the centipedes, scorpions, and poisonous snakes are easy to capture. If there are really three-tailed white-bearded crickets passing through frost and snow, then only they can find them."

Lin Fengjin smiled and said:

"Then I'll trouble Boss Yang."

As he spoke, he pushed another ingot of silver over. Boss Yang had a little flattering intention. When he saw the white silver, he naturally smiled and immediately went to help with the business.

The next good news came one after another. The first thing I got was one or two new buds of the old tree hit by lightning. Qian Qiang rode his horse and took people to ask and inquire, and then found the ground. The old tree hit by lightning grew lush branches and leaves. It should not be too simple to pick it up. Most of the time spent on time climbing up and down the trees.

Next, Li Hu's brother heard about this and asked him about it from the medicine shop. Sure enough, he found the wintersweet flowers that were still hanging in April. They were goods coming in from Zhongtang. They immediately said that they hurriedly sent them to Lin Fengjin.

Then the half-foot-long ivy also had a fancy: Qipan Mountain, 35 miles away from the city, was caught in a fire at the beginning of autumn, and a woodcutter saw it there. He talked about it when he was carrying firewood to sell it in the city. He heard that the young master wanted this thing, but someone rushed over at this time and probably would be able to come back in the dark.

Lin Fengjin waited in this tea shop until the sun sets west. When Li Hu thought about how to persuade the young master to go back, he stood up and stretched his straight waist and smiled:

"I didn't waste my time this afternoon. At least two of the four things were found, and the remaining two were still obvious. Let's go back now."

But at this time, I suddenly heard someone talking below. Then, a man who looked stupid and had a foolish eyebrows and eyes walked in, carrying a small cricket cage on his hand. Others asked him one by one, which was very difficult. But only Boss Yang knew him, it was the black cage that was good at catching crickets and insects.

The black cage opened its mouth and was actually a stutter:

"You, you you... want crickets?"

Lin Fengjin smiled and said gently:

"Well, I'm going to catch three-tailed crickets that have passed through the frost and snow in the first year. Can you catch them?"

A hint of color suddenly appeared in the black cage's eyes, and a small cage made of wheat straw was lifted from behind. At this time, the sunset was shining, and a three-tailed cricket with white beards was lying listlessly inside. The black cage stammered:

"Dang, of course! This insect is also called the matchmaker. Wherever it goes, the male crickets will make a sound when they smell its smell. I searched for it for three months at the beginning of the year, but my waist couldn't straighten up, so I pointed at this thing and had a meal."

Lin Fengjin laughed and said:

"You just say how much it costs to sell it."

The black cage's originally stupid gaze suddenly showed a hint of cunning, which was more than three fingers. If you quote this, then three liang, thirty liang, and thirty liang make sense, mainly to adapt to the situation. In the eyes of the black cage, Lin Fengjin is a young man who knows nothing, and it is not uncommon to ask a thousand liang out.

After looking at the black cage's gestures and eyes, how could Lin Fengjin not know what he was planning in his heart, and then smiled and said:

"Give him thirty taels."

According to the previous conversion ratio, it is not difficult to infer that thirty taels of silver is 40,000 yuan.

Although this black cage said that it would rely on this accompaniment to lure insects as a livelihood, it was already Mid-Autumn Festival, and it can be said that it was the end of the cricket fighting. Even if you catch the insect king, you can't sell it for a very high price.

It is rare for this matchmaker to survive one winter, and it is definitely impossible to survive the second winter! It seems that although there are not many ordinary people who live over a hundred years old, they can still be found, but those who live over a hundred years old are just a truth in the legend.

So Lin Fengjin took out 40,000 yuan to buy this black cage, which is almost useless. It can be said that he is already very kind. In fact, even if he snatched the cage and left, others would not be surprised. In this chaotic world, rich people and officials naturally have their own privileges.

If Lin Fengjin was arrogant as soon as he came, beat him up and then snatched the cage and threw thirty taels of silver, this guy would be so excited that he would even wish God would like to give him such a fat beating every day.

At this time, the black cage was deceived by Lin Fengjin's gentle attitude. This kind of scoundrel who rolled in the market was originally a bad life. When he saw such a fat sheep who seemed to be slaughtering, of course he had to slaughter it. At worst, he wouldn't stay in Hecang City after the matter was done.

So the black cage immediately wiped away tears and said dryly:

"Young master, thirty taels can only buy this cage. My whole family is counting on this matchmaker to survive. You are always studying and understanding the truth, so you can't take away my job to support the family."

Lin Fengjin smiled and said:

"Then how much do you want?"

The black cage gritted its teeth, and the number of three hundred taels was lingering in my heart, but the last one shouted was six hundred taels!

As soon as the count was reported, the faces of the people next to him immediately changed. Six hundred taels of silver, almost one million yuan. The scoundrel could even scream! The guards of the Lin family next to him were scolding each other, and Qian Qiang, who was more impulsive, sneered and touched the guy at his waist.

However, the black cage was also prepared. When he saw the person next to him moving, he immediately grabbed the cage and raised it, took out the rogue method and shouted:

"I found this matchmaker insect for twenty-seven days in the spring of the spring. At night, I was raised under the brick wall of the old city, hung on the grape rack made of purple bamboo during the day. I ate chestnut mixed with chicken blood that I had cooked for two hours, and drank rootless water at the third day of the day. When it was cold, I was afraid of being frozen. When it was hot, I hung it three feet into the wellhead to be afraid of being hot. So this treasure was able to survive until now. At this time, I was really the only one in the world! I was sorry for you, if you accidentally pinched the matchmaker and sucked some blood from a villain, you may have to wait until the spring of the morning to find the white-bearded cricket."

As the saying goes, "There are those who are afraid of being arrogant and those who are afraid of being desperate." When encountering this kind of hob meat and the jealousy of throwing rats, Li Hu and Qian Qiang, who have traveled all over the world, have also made trouble. They have to watch the young master being cheated of 600 taels of silver, and the old master will definitely not be able to explain it, but if he accidentally intervenes in the big matter of Lin Fengjin, it is difficult to guarantee that he will remember it in his heart for the rest of his life! Such dilemma is rarely encountered.

However, unlike the other people's clamor, Lin Fengjin was not surprised when he heard the lion in the black cage speak loudly, and smiled slightly and said:

"Six hundred taels are not a great number, but can you take them alone?"

The black cage was stunned. The most money he had in his life was only three or five cents and two cents. He just spit out the courage to call the number six hundred taels. After all, he was like a traitor and a ghost. After all, he was too superficial. He didn't expect the clues and couldn't help but say:

"I, I…..."

Lin Fengjin smiled and said:

"Six hundred taels of silver are not much, just fifty or sixty kilograms. If you get it back, I will ask the counter to send the silver. But I still have a silver note of three hundred taels here. The ticket numbers all over the country are paid as soon as they see the tickets. What are you going to do?"

Although the white-bearded cricket was still holding the palm of the black cage, the host and guest had already turned over. It was originally Lin Fengjin and his group who were being held on the vital point, but after such a turn, it turned out that the vital point of the black cage was greedy for money and was seized by Lin Fengjin.

You know, if Lin Fengjin and the others fail, at most they will go back to seek medicine again. But if the black cage tear apart the face and pinch the cricket to death, then the life will be lost here. The psychological pressure between the two cannot be calculated. Lin Fengjin saw this point correctly, so he led him into the trap step by step.

Hei Cangzi was in a dilemma after hearing Lin Fengjin's words, but when he heard the words of the silver notes, he immediately said:

"I want to see the silver bill!"

Lin Fengjin seemed to have expected that he had asked this question, so he took out a silver note from his arms and handed it to Li Hu. It seemed that he was going to let him send it over. The black cage immediately screamed:

"Don't! I don't know who is in the city of Kawacang, General Li of the Lin family? He got closer and I immediately pinched the cage!"

Then the black cage looked around and finally his eyes fell on Lin Fengjin, and he gritted his teeth and said:

"Young Master Lin, it seems that you can only send it to me by yourself."

"Bold!" Li Hu and Qian Qiang started to angrily. For them, owing hundreds of taels of silver, they would scold them if they had any mistakes from the three generations of single-letters and left the sin of protecting the Lord Buzhou, that is, the whole family would have to make a life in the sea of ​​blood, and they both rushed out and stopped Lin Fengjin.

However, Lin Fengjin smiled slightly and said:

"It's okay, I have a number."

Then he pushed the two of them away and walked over with the silver notes. Li Hu and Qian Qiang said that they would not let him go, but for some reason, Lin Fengjin's gentle eyes could only stop and watch the young scholar walking towards the black cage openly and seemingly harmlessly. He was holding the silver note in his hand.
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