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One day, Peng Zhong sent his brother to Lin'an to spend the night at the South Tianwang Temple of the PoJiang River. Seeing dozens of fishermen sitting under the porch, touching each other's pockets, as if they wanted to buy something, Peng went up to him and asked him

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One day, Peng Zhong sent his brother to Lin'an to spend the night at the South Tianwang Temple of the PoJiang River. Seeing dozens of fishermen sitting under the porch, touching each other's pockets as if they were going to buy something, Peng went up to ask them what they were discussing, and the fishermen replied: "A Sichuan merchant brought a macaque skin and bid for thirteen hundred, and we just happened to pay five hundred to buy it, and we wanted to cut and distribute the goods." Peng Zhong said: "The price of a monkey is not high, and its skin can be so high." The fishermen also said: "Monkey skin in Kawaaka, placed on the fish hook, the hook is foolproof." Once in the water, the skin tightens. It won't be bad to use for a long time. If the local cortex, see the water rotten, can only be used two or three times. Therefore, we do not think that the price of Sichuan monkey skin is expensive, but we are afraid that there is no such goods. ”

Peng Zhong had obtained a two-foot-tall monkey on Yiling Mountain the year before, with an ugly shape, and brought it back to the horse shed to raise it, and died the following year. Groom peeled and cooked the meat and ate it. Peng Zhong gave the fishermen the monkey skin he carried with him, because Yiling Mountain was connected to Sichuan, the fishermen bought this monkey skin for five hundred dollars, Peng was very happy, if it was not needed by the fishermen, how could this monkey skin be worth so much money? "The Evening Talk of Kasa wong"

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