Datang: Beat Tang Taizong violently at the beginning

Chapter 454 Your uncle is still your uncle!

The older child who was the leader was not so shy of strangers, and seeing that the old vegetable seller didn't look like a bad guy, he immediately said crisply:

"Sell it, my father said, as long as I catch this bag full of locusts, buy me a candied haws!"

The old vegetable seller was taken aback for a moment, and grabbed a bag of locusts to buy a candied haws to eat. What kind of magical operation is this?
Old Wang couldn't help being curious, it's true that Old Wang just thought that these little brats were trying to catch locusts for mischievous tricks.

But listening to what this group of broken children are saying, it seems a little bit wrong. I never heard that the parents rewarded candied haws for being mischievous!

Before Lao Wang could react, a braided kid next to him raised the bag in his hand and said:
"My mother also said, as long as this bag can be filled with locusts, buy me a maltose to eat!"

This little boy's words were a little untrue, but upon closer inspection, two of his front teeth were missing, and the air leakage was severe!
The old vegetable seller was even more surprised when he heard it, and wondered if the parents in the west city were so enthusiastic about catching locusts?

The governor of Chang'an issued an order to catch the locusts, but he couldn't mobilize the enthusiasm of the people. After all, the locusts are flying all over the sky, how can they be caught cleanly, and how can they be caught completely?

After these little brats finished speaking, they immediately wore horn braids, dangled crotch pants, jumped up and down the street, and went to catch locusts again!

Vegetable seller Wang smiled and didn't take it seriously, but he took a few steps forward. Vegetable seller suddenly became even more strange, because he walked all the way
The old vegetable seller has already seen many people catching locusts, not only those children with horn braids and open crotch pants, but also some strong laborers who are also catching locusts all over the street!

The old vegetable seller was suddenly surprised, seeing a white-haired old man in front of him tremblingly starting to catch locusts with a cloth bag,

Lao Wang couldn't bear it anymore, and asked, "Master, what are you doing?"

When the old man heard it, his ears pricked up, and he turned around: "What is it?"

The old vegetable seller was taken aback for a moment, and thought to himself, good guy, he still has bad ears.

So the old vegetable seller raised his voice and continued to ask, "I said, sir, what are you doing to catch locusts?"

The old man's ears moved again: "What kind of bug?"

The old vegetable seller was stunned and stood still for a few seconds, then he roared and said, "What are you doing by catching locusts?"

The old man shook his head: "I haven't eaten yet!"

The old vegetable seller suddenly went crazy, and he didn't want to say anything to the old man:

"Dele, sir, play slowly!"

The old man nodded:
"Good Le!"

"..."

Old Wang was speechless for a moment, he didn't know whether the old man's last sentence was true or not!
But soon, Vegetable Selling Old Wang asked why he walked all the way, and the people he met, whether they were four or five-year-old children wearing crotch pants and braided horns,

Still sometimes you listen to the truth, sometimes you don't listen to the old man, or those strong laborers, why are the streets full of locusts?
"Prince Yan's Mansion buys locusts for ten catties for one penny, and one hundred catties of locusts can be exchanged for eleven catties of carbon! Is this true? The more I hear it, the more it feels like a fantasy?"

The old vegetable seller is not in a hurry to buy coal at the moment, but feels that his outlook on life is a little messed up. When did locusts become so expensive, ten catties for a penny, are they still locusts?
But even so, the old vegetable seller is still very puzzled. Since ancient times, he has never heard of anyone harvesting locusts. If he really harvested locusts, there is still a dense layer of locusts on the vegetable field outside his city. If you mess with it casually, you can't make him a thousand and eight hundred catties!

Just seeing the people all over Chang'an City catching locusts, Vegetable Seller Wang couldn't help but feel excited:

"Anyway, if you are idle, you are idle. Whoever let my old king's food be ruined by these locusts, just catch some locusts. It is good to sell them for two dollars. If you can't sell them, just give them to Chang'an The city has been wiped out!"

Thinking of this, Old Vegetable Seller didn't hesitate for a moment, and stopped buying coal. He turned around and went home to find a big cloth bag, and went to his vegetable field outside the city!

Lao Wang's vegetable field is not far from the city. Although the vegetable leaves on the ground have been eaten clean by these locusts, there are still densely packed locusts on the vegetable field, trying to find a way to eat the vegetable roots. !
When Lao Wang saw the locusts in the vegetable field, he was overjoyed for a moment. He threw a stick, but there was no need to stroke it. The branches and branches had already been eaten by the locusts.
Put the cloth bag on the ground, hold a branch and poke it into the cloth bag, these locusts will be swept into the cloth bag by the wooden stick,

The locusts were frightened and flew away, but the old vegetable seller was not in a hurry. He lifted the cloth bag and weighed it. With just a few sticks, there were two or three catties of locusts in the cloth bag!

After doing the same thing a few times, the cloth bag was half full in just a few moments, and the old vegetable seller weighed it. With his many years of experience in selling vegetables, the cloth bag in his hand is at least half full now. There are locusts weighing thirty to forty catties!

"It's so cold. It's only a matter of time. It's only thirty or forty catties of locusts. If it can be sold, it will be three or four pennies!"

At this moment, Old Vegetable Seller Wang couldn't help but be moved. He sells vegetables for a living. , It's just earning thirty coins!When business is bad, there are more than ten or twenty coins!

But right now, selling vegetables at the speed of catching locusts, Lao Wang estimates that he can't catch hundreds of catties in a day!

This is more profitable than when he was selling vegetables at his best. Of course, the premise is that these locusts can really be sold!

Two hours later, Pharaoh grabbed two full cloth sacks. Originally, Pharaoh wanted to grab half a sack and inspect the goods first.
It's just that I didn't expect that the more I grasped, the more addictive it became. I actually grasped it for two hours and grabbed two big pockets.
But it doesn't matter, Lao Wang sells vegetables on weekdays, and he also has a small wheelbarrow, push the small wheelbarrow over, put two bags of locusts on the wheelbarrow, and send them to the center of Chang'an city!
He didn't even inquire about the location of King Yan's Mansion, the vegetable seller Wang still had an account in his heart.
Since the coal at the city gate of Baqiao can be exchanged for eleven catties with one hundred catties of locusts, it is more cost-effective than exchanging one hundred catties of locusts for ten copper plates.
So Lao Wang's idea is very simple, that is, if these locusts can really be exchanged for copper plates or coal, then naturally they should be exchanged for coal first, after all, there is really nothing to burn at home now!
(End of this chapter)