The man's name is Li Zhi, his family lives in Yueyang, Hunan, and he makes a living by selling all kinds of local goods in the mountains, the so-called local goods, which are some local eggs, local chickens and ducks, mushrooms and fungus.
With the rapid development of the times, many people have begun to pay attention to the health of their diet, and local goods in the village have become more and more popular.
Li Zhi opened a local goods store in the county seat, specializing in selling these local chickens, ducks, mushrooms and fungus and other goods, all of which he bought back from the mountains, and only in this way can the quality be guaranteed.
On this day, Li Zhi drove a tricycle on the mountain road, and the front horn shouted over and over again: "Collect local eggs, collect local chickens, local ducks, and local pigs, collect mushrooms and fungus, and collect yams and ......."
Not long after, Li Zhi came to a small village, which was not very large, with dozens of households, and they were all very scattered, scattered in the mountain cols.
Li Zhi parked the tricycle at the entrance of the village, carried his pocket and walked to the east end of the village.
"Grandma Zhao, are you at home?"
Coming to the door of a family, Li Zhi shouted loudly.
The owner of the family is a grandmother whose husband died many years ago, and her only son also died of illness five years ago, and now lives alone.
Half a month ago, Li Zhi met her when he was collecting local goods in the town.
She asked Li Zhi to go to her house when she went to the village to collect local eggs, and she had accumulated a lot in the past two months, because the mountain road was difficult to walk, she couldn't bring much to sell when she was old, so she could only let Li Zhi come to buy it.
In the past two years, Li Zhi has asked if there are any local eggs every time he passes by Grandma Zhao's village, and Grandma Zhao has fed a lot of local chickens, and the eggs will accumulate a lot every once in a while, and slowly she has become an important supplier of Li Zhi.
Originally, Li Zhi would come over once a month, but in the past two months, his father-in-law was sick and hospitalized, and in order to take care of his father-in-law, he had not gone to the village to collect things for more than two months.
Grandma Zhao told him half a month ago, and he didn't have time to come over until now.
"Grandma...... Are you at home?"
Li Zhi continued to bang on the wooden door.
He knocked for a moment, but found that no one responded.
This made Li Zhi a little puzzled in his heart, usually Grandma Zhao rarely went out! He used to meet every time he came, why wasn't he at home today?
Li Zhi did not leave immediately, he pushed open the wooden door and entered Grandma Zhao's house, and after finding that there was no one at home, he turned around and went to the backyard to look for it.
Generally speaking, if Grandma Zhao is not at home, she must be feeding the chickens in the backyard.
Li Zhi came to the backyard to look for a long time, but still didn't find Grandma Zhao's figure, just when he was about to give up and was about to go to other homes to ask, a big yellow dog suddenly rushed towards him.
“汪汪汪...... 汪汪汪......”。
This big yellow dog Li Zhi is very familiar, he has been to Grandma Zhao's house many times, this big yellow dog is no stranger to him at all, and he will never yell at him.
Today is a bit unusual.
However, Li Zhi soon noticed something unusual, and the big yellow dog roared at him while running towards the back mountain, as if asking Li Zhi to follow it.
Seeing this, Li Zhi's mind changed sharply, and he asked the big yellow dog as he followed, "Big rhubarb, do you know where Grandma is?"
This big yellow dog and Grandma Zhao depend on each other, and they are usually very clever, at this time, this big yellow dog has been barking, there must be something to find him.
When the big yellow dog heard this, he stopped and barked twice, and then ran into the mountains.
Seeing this, Li Zhi couldn't smile bitterly, so he could only continue to keep up.
It didn't take long for the big yellow dog to stop, and kept barking at a bush on the side of the road, Li Zhi saw that there should be a deep ditch under the bush, and there were traces of slipping on the side of the road.
Li Zhi suddenly realized in an instant, Grandma Zhao wouldn't have fallen from here, right?
Immediately, Li Zhi shouted: "Grandma...... Grandma, are you down there?"
Soon, Grandma's response came from below: "Is it Xiaozhi?
After getting Grandma Zhao's response, Li Zhi did not delay, and asked Grandma Zhao to wait first, he immediately ran back to Grandma Zhao's house to find a rope to drink firewood knives, Li Zhi first cut down the bushes, and then tied the big tree next to him with a rope, and only after making these preparations did he slowly slide down the ditch.
After coming to the bottom of the ditch, Li Zhi found Grandma Zhao lying on the ground, he hurriedly ran up and asked, "Grandma, how do you feel?"
Grandma Zhao smiled when she heard this: "It's okay, my old bones are hard! It's just that this foot is a little sprained, just go back and rest for a few days."
Li Zhi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, but fortunately it was fine.
He turned his head and looked around, and found that Grandma Zhao was really blessed with a great fate, and when she fell from such a high place, she only sprained her ankle, which was really good luck.
Li Zhi checked it and found that Grandma Zhao was indeed fine, so he asked Grandma Zhao to lie on his back, and after fixing Grandma Zhao's body with a rope, Li Zhi climbed up with his hands and feet and pulled the rope.
Fortunately, Grandma Zhao is very light, otherwise it would be really difficult for Li Zhi to climb up.
After Li Zhi carried Grandma Zhao up, he didn't stop long, and went home directly with Grandma Zhao, and the big yellow dog was also very happy to see Grandma being rescued by Li Zhi, and followed the two of them up and down.
On the way, Li Zhi asked, "Grandma, why did you fall into that ditch?"
Grandma Zhao sighed when she heard this, and said, "Didn't I see that there was nothing to eat in the chicken coop this morning?" I thought about going to the vegetable garden to cut some vegetables, but I didn't expect that the temperature dropped last night, and there were ice cubes on the road, and I accidentally fell down."
Li Zhi heard the words and said: "Grandma, if you want me to say that you should not feed so many chickens, just feed a few and eat them yourself."
Grandma Zhao said: "I don't want to feed it either, since you are here today, you can buy them all!
Li Zhi smiled when he heard this: "Grandma, how can it be! I come to your village every time, and when I come to collect things in the future, I will come to you to sit here, and if you have anything to bring, just tell me."
Li Zhi felt a little sour in his heart, Grandma Zhao lived alone, in fact, she still wanted someone to talk to him, in the past two years, only Li Zhi often came to the door, and would bring her some daily necessities, lest she walk for several hours to the town to buy.
Grandma Zhao smiled: "That's too troublesome for you."
Li Zhi said: "These are the ...... they should be."
What Li Zhi didn't know was that when Grandma Zhao heard him say this, there was a trace of tears in her eyes, and looking at the young man who was carrying her, she seemed to have a trace of determination in her eyes.
Grandma Zhao's vegetable garden was not far from the backyard, and the two came back after ten minutes.
Back at home, Li Zhi put Grandma Zhao on the stool, and found her a spray to reduce swelling and sprayed it on her feet, and after doing this, Li Zhi asked again: "Grandma, do you want me to take you to the hospital to see?"
Grandma Zhao refused when she heard this: "No need, it's just a little sprained, it's fine in a few days, it's a little inconvenient to walk now, I'll put the eggs in the kitchen and you can look for them, and you can take away the chickens in the backyard! I don't want to feed them in the future."
When Li Zhi heard this, he nodded and said, "Grandma, don't worry! I'll do ...... just do this."
After settling down Grandma Zhao, Li Zhi went to look for the eggs, and after finding the eggs, Li Zhi counted them, there were a total of three hundred and fifteen eggs, which Grandma Zhao had accumulated for more than two months.
Li Zhi collected two yuan of local eggs, and when he got it to the store, he sold it for two yuan and five yuan, and one made five cents.
He counted all the chickens in the backyard, big and small, a total of twenty-eight, and he weighed them one by one in front of Grandma Zhao.
These local chickens are not heavy, and the largest is about five catties.
Twenty-eight chickens, a total of 108.4 catties, Li Zhi directly calculated according to 110 catties.
Eggs cost two dollars a piece, a total of 630 yuan.
He received 30 pounds of local chicken, a total of 3,300 yuan.
Together with the local chicken, the total is 3930 yuan.
After settling the account, Li Zhi directly gave Grandma Zhao 4,000 yuan, and instructed: "Grandma, here is 4,000 yuan, the local chicken and the local egg are counted together, and the excess is counted as the money I came to you for dinner."
Grandma Zhao took the money and said a little embarrassedly: "How can this work, you can't make much money when you run around!"
Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "Grandma, it's decided! Didn't you ask me to come here to sit down?
When Grandma Zhao heard this, she didn't shirk it, and said with a smile: "You can come a little bit later."
"Constant ......".
After handing over the money to Grandma Zhao, Li Zhi began to move eggs to the tricycle, and he was busy until noon, when he finished moving everything.
At noon, due to the inconvenience of Grandma Zhao's legs and feet, Li Zhi also specially cooked a meal for her.
……。
After returning home, Li Zhi put the goods separately, and left it alone after the eggs were piled up in the store.
About a week later, Li Zhi's wife Chen Yue suddenly came to him in a hurry: "Husband, husband ......."
Li Zhi wondered when he heard this: "What's the matter? What kind of system is it to be so panicked?"
Chen Yue was not annoyed, took out a piece of jade and asked, "Husband, where did you get this thing? Just now, a guest who came to buy local eggs saw that it was Hetian jade, and the price is precious!"
Li Zhi was stunned when he heard this, and asked, "I don't know! Where did you find this thing?"
When Chen Yue heard this, he obviously didn't believe it, and he said: "It's the canvas bag you carried with you! Didn't you collect a lot of eggs last time? Today, the eggs in the store are sold out, and I thought that you should still have them in the bag, so I went to look for them."
"When I was picking up eggs for guests, this jade was mixed in those eggs, don't you say, if it weren't for the sharp eyes of that guest, I might not have noticed that the color of this jade is too similar to eggs."
The guest said that this is a kind of nephrite, and the carving on it is very exquisite, and it is worth 1.8 million yuan if you add such a large piece."
"Husband, we have made a fortune, why do you have this good thing casually?"
When Li Zhi heard this, he was even more confused, he had never seen this thing at all.
Thinking of what his wife said, he suddenly reacted and asked again, "You mean this jade was found in my canvas pocket?"
Chen Yue nodded and said, "Of course, you take it first, the guest outside is still waiting!"
Chen Yue said that, then stuffed the jade into Li Zhi's hand, and hurriedly went out again.
Li Zhi looked at the jade in his hand, and his mind was in a hurry.
Suddenly, he suddenly remembered that he only went to Grandma Zhao's house to collect things during this time, could it be that this thing belonged to Grandma Zhao?
Thinking of this, Li Zhi also followed his wife Chen Yue out.
At the door of the store, there was still a middle-aged man standing, and when he saw Chen Yue coming out, he hurriedly asked, "Boss, how did the discussion go?"
Chen Yue didn't know how to answer, so she pointed to Li Zhi behind her and said, "You and my husband should discuss it! I don't understand any of this."
When the man saw Li Zhi, he came over and said, "You are Boss Li, right? I want to buy the jade of Mrs. Zun just now, I don't know if you sell it or not, if you are willing to sell it, I am willing to pay 800,000 yuan to buy it."
When Li Zhi heard this, he was not surprised, his store name was Li Family Dashan Native Goods, and this person knew that his surname was normal, so he asked: "Do you know the origin of your jade?
When the man heard this, he smiled and said: "I can buy it, naturally I know its value, I have seen it just now, the texture of the jade is very good, if it is an uncarved seed material, how can I say that it can be worth 500,000 yuan."
"You have carved this jade, although I don't know that everyone carved it, but from the perspective of knife work and moistness, I think it should be some years, and the technique is quite good."
"And this jade has been worn for a long time, and there are already some bloodshots, which is a rare treasure."
Li Zhi thought about it, but still said, "Let me think about it!"
Li Zhi didn't sell it right away, and the man was not annoyed, but took out a business card and said, "This is my business card and contact information, as long as you want to sell it, just contact me."
After that, he looked at Chen Yue and said, "Boss, has my local chicken been dealt with?"
When Chen Yue heard this, she hurriedly said, "You wait, I'll go and urge."
Ten minutes later, the man left with eggs and chickens.
Chen Yue looked at this person and asked, "Husband, you really don't know the origin of that jade?
Li Zhi shook his head when he heard this: "I probably guessed, this thing is not ours, it is not good to sell, in case its owner pursues the door, it will be unclear."
"I go to ask every day, if what I expected is correct, this thing should be Grandma Zhao's, I went to her house to collect things before, it seems that I saw her take it out."
I didn't think it before, but now the more he looks at it, the more it looks like it, but he doesn't think about it for a long time.
He remembered that Grandma Zhao had told him that after her husband and son died, her two nephews had heard that she had antiques in her hands and had been bothering her.
Her two nephews are not very good-natured, and they don't care very much about her, because they beat her once, and Grandma Zhao naturally refuses to admit that she has it.
At that time, Li Zhi only regarded Grandma Zhao's chatter, and didn't take it to heart, but she didn't expect that what her two nephews were fighting for would be here.
Although I don't know if this thing is Grandma Zhao's, Li Zhi still has to ask.
"Grandma Zhao"?
Chen Yue was a little surprised.
Li Zhi often goes to Grandma Zhao's house to collect things, and she naturally knows it.
And, she went with her a few times.
Li Zhi nodded and said, "Anyway, I'll go ask first!"
Chen Yue nodded and agreed with Li Zhi's idea, after all, this thing is so expensive, if they sell it, it will be difficult for its owner to come to the door.
The next day, Li Zhi drove a tricycle and came to Grandma Zhao's village again.
As soon as he entered the village, he found that someone was going out for a funeral.
When he saw the portrait of Grandma Zhao, he was completely stunned.
After inquiring about Li Zhi, it turned out that today was the day of Grandma Zhao's funeral, and Grandma Zhao had passed away five days ago.
Because Grandma Zhao has no children and no daughters, under the auspices of the village chief, Grandma Zhao's two nephews will run it, at the cost of giving Grandma Zhao's old house to the two of them.
In addition, the village chief also said that they found a lot of cash at Grandma Zhao's house, about 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, which was used to take care of her funeral.
At this time, Li Zhi realized that Grandma Zhao sold him all the local chickens that day, and probably felt that his body was not good, and when Li Zhi left, he quietly stuffed the jade in his canvas bag.
What Li Zhi didn't know was that Grandma Zhao was also well-intentioned in doing this, the two nephews were not filial, and she was worried that the two nephews would fight because of this jade, so she simply gave the jade to Li Zhi.
That day, if Li Zhi hadn't rescued her, I'm afraid no one would have known that she had fallen into the ditch, and after Li Zhi left, Grandma Zhao found the village chief and explained her future.
Li Zhi sighed in his heart, as the people in the village gave Grandma Zhao a ride, when he was about to leave, the big yellow dog didn't know where to come out and followed him.
Li Zhi shouted at Rhubarb: "Rhubarb, Grandma is gone, you will follow me in the future, let's go!"
Rhubarb jumped into Li Zhi's tricycle and left the village with him.