"This," Xia Dezhang looked down and pondered, "how has it always been?" ”

"One or two?" Liu Yiyi was happy and said: "I have always saved two dying ploughing cattle with money, and Uncle Xia has a good calculation. ”

Xia Dezhang's old face flushed, before this, he had spent no less than 800 yuan in silver to treat the cultivated cattle, if Liu Yiyi could take care of it at one time, it would always be lower. He tried to increase the price again: "Then how about adding another 300 wen?" ”

Liu Yiyi snorted, without words, as if he hadn't heard Xia Dezhang's words.

As a last resort, Xia Dezhang had to increase the price.

"Five hundred wen?"

"Eight hundred wen?"

"Erguan! It can't be more, a virtuous nephew, two pieces of silver are enough for ordinary people to spend four or five years, which is already a lot. Wasn't the ploughing ox I sold to Brother Liu the day before yesterday only five times? That's almost half a cow's money. ”

"Hehe, Uncle Xia is reasonable, but the medicine I want to use is not cheap. If you feel sorry for the money, you can sell these two cows again, and no one will force you to see a doctor with me, right?" Seeing that Xia Dezhang still had the face to mention the matter of selling to Liu Laoshi's sick cow again, Liu Yiyi couldn't help but stimulated him with his words.

"This..."Xia Dezhang was choked and speechless. If he could still sell it, would he have waited until now?

"A virtuous nephew, you can give me a real truth, you say, how much silver do you need before you are willing to heal?"

"Ten times!" Liu Yiyi stretched out a finger unhurriedly and said unceremoniously: "There is no less!" Otherwise, I can't guarantee that it will be completely cured. ”

"You! You might as well grab it! Xia Dezhang almost jumped up, the fat on his face shook and trembled, and he looked good. He wanted to stomp his foot and walk away, but in the end he endured it.

Although ten pieces of silver are a lot, if they can really exchange the lives of two ploughing oxen, it is still worth it. You must know that the two ploughing oxen can be sold for at least thirty taels when they are healthy, and if they die, there will be nothing. Xia Dezhang didn't want to give up this opportunity.

"Uncle Xia, if it doesn't work, you can go back and think about it, ten pieces of silver, and cure two cultivated cattle with intestinal tracts. Come back to me when you've thought about it. Liu Yiyi didn't urge, dysentery was a disease that would be in danger for a day, and he believed that Xia Dezhang would not think about it for too long.

And Xia Dezhang's arrival today gave him an idea.

That is, veterinarians, perhaps, are a good profession in this day and age. If Lao Liu is trained to become a veterinarian in the new era, will it be very promising?

"Good! Don't think about it, ten taels is ten taels! At the critical moment, Xia Dezhang still has a clear distinction between the most important and the most important.

Liu Yiyi glanced at Lao Xia appreciatively, although he was still a little annoyed by his behavior of deceiving Liu Honestly, but he was still very decisive in doing things. got up and brought a pen and paper, put it in front of Xia Dezhang, and said, "Then ask Uncle Xia to write a word here, first pay five times in advance, as the medicine money and deposit in the early stage, and then pay off the remaining five times after being cured." After writing, let's each sign our own names, in duplicate, and keep one for each as evidence of breach of contract in the future, I don't know what Uncle Xia thinks? ”

"This is reasonable," Xia Dezhang nodded, this way of signing is also novel, and both parties are guaranteed, and they will not be afraid of the other party defaulting.

"I want to explain one thing," Liu Yiyi continued, "the prescription for curing diseases is handed down by my ancestors, and it is inconvenient to leak it, and your cattle can only be cured in my house." In three days at most, I will return you two healthy ploughing oxen. ”

"Of course, if Uncle Xia can't trust the little nephew, it's better to invite another Gao Ming earlier."

"The virtuous nephew is too worried, if I don't believe it, I won't lead the cow today." Xia Dezhang quickly signed it, and handed the written contract and five pieces of silver to Liu Yiyi, and said, "I will come to the cow on time in three days." ”

Liu Yiyi picked up the pen and signed, and said with a smile: "Happy work!" ”

Stretching out his right hand, but retracting it halfway, he suddenly thought that there was no such etiquette as shaking hands in this era.

Sure enough, Liu Yiyi's strange behavior attracted Xia Dezhang's strange gaze. However, Lao Xia is asking for help now, and he didn't say anything. After collecting the contract, he got up and took his leave. The two cows he brought naturally stayed in Lao Liu's house.

"One, although this old Xia is hateful, is it too much for you to collect ten pieces of silver from him at once?" Liu Laoshi walked out of the inner compartment at this time and looked at Liu Yiyi suspiciously. A few heads of garlic for ten silver coins, isn't this too dark?

Liu Yiyi sighed lightly in his heart, his father is too honest, he has been deceived like this and has the leisure to worry about others, doesn't he know that to deal with the wicked, he has to use the method of the wicked?

"Dad, ten yuan can be exchanged for the lives of two ploughing cows, do you say more is not much?" Liu Yiyi continued: "That Xia Dezhang is not a fool, since he is willing to take out this money, it means that the price I gave is within the range that he can accept, and it is not much." ”

"But the cost of treatment is less than three big dollars in total, and it's always a little wrong for you to charge him ten times at once." Liu Laoshi still couldn't figure it out. "Our Lao Liu family has always been a farmer who does his duty, and he can't make money with a clear conscience."

Liu Yiyi is almost dizzy, how did this kind of trade that you and I want to do has become a matter of conscience in Liu Laoshi's mouth?

"Dad, how can this be considered money without a conscience? He paid for it, and I treated the disease, which is a matter of course. If you don't deceive anyone and rob anyone, how can you have a bad conscience? ”

"Speaking of conscience, Xia Dezhang deceived you into buying his sick cow, whether it is a conscience. If it weren't for the fact that I happened to be able to cure the intestinal disease, our family's five yuan would have been wasted a long time ago, and I would have lost my conscience? Compared to him, I am nobly becoming a saint! ”

Liu Yiyi was a little angry, and his voice rose a lot unconsciously. The Liu He clan in the inner room was also shocked.

Liu He glared at Liu Laoshi, she had heard the words of their father and son just now, and she was also holding back some anger in her heart.

She walked to Liu Yiyi's side and didn't give Liu Honest any good look. said: "There is nothing wrong with doing this thing, people like Xia Dezhang should teach a good lesson." What's wrong with charging him ten times? Even if you take him twenty times, it's not too much! ”

"You want to talk to him about your conscience, but has he told you about your conscience? If he had a good conscience, that sick cow wouldn't have come to our house! Didn't you do this to give you a breath of air? You're fine, but you're blaming him. If you really have the ability, why didn't you go to Xia Dezhang to reason in the first place?! ”

"You're a woman, what are you talking about here!" Liu Laoshi was a little embarrassed by Liu He's words, and couldn't help but open his mouth and drink.

"Humph!" Liu He turned his head and snorted, then stopped speaking, and went straight into the inner room with Liu Xiaohui in his arms.

"Dad," Liu Yiyi said at this time, "Although my mother's words are a little more intense, they are not unreasonable. For people like Xia Dezhang, my approach is not excessive. ”

"Brother Liu! At home?! Brother, I've come to see you! An unfamiliar voice sounded outside the door.

Liu Yiyi noticed that Lao Yanagi's face became even more ugly after hearing this. Feeling strange in his heart, he got up and went out, only to see another fat man dressed in gorgeous clothes appear in front of the door of their house.