Chapter 198 Strategy
Chapter 198 Strategy
198 Raiders
"Auntie, you don't know yet! You exchanged rice for Gou'er today, and Gou'er will also exchange delicious food for you!"
Speak of Cao Cao, he appeared immediately. We heard a commotion in the dense woods below. The group of children who had been picking up stones had all returned, and wherever they went, there was noise.
Zhao Xiaoer ran to the front, holding a round stone as big as a watermelon in his hand.
It was really hard for him to carry such a heavy stone all the way up the mountain.
Zhang Gou'er was running right behind him.
"Master Zhou, Master Zhou, come and see! The stone I chose is the biggest and the best."
The person has not arrived yet, but his voice has already begun to travel thousands of miles.
With a bang, the stone fell heavily on the table in front of Wu Sanmei, luckily it didn't break the table.
Looking at the table that was shaking and about to fall apart, Zhou Xiaozhou was really worried about it.
Just as he was stunned, Zhao Xiaoer's friends who were running back behind him rushed up together.
"My stone is much better! It's ten times better than yours, Xiaoer."
"Master Zhou, look at me. I am following your request. You want to put the rocks in the fish tank. The ones they found won't fit."
"That's right, Zhao Xiaoer, you only want big stones, but the stones you found are totally unqualified."
“My stones are beautiful.”
“My stones are the best.”
There was so much chatter at once that Zhou Xiaozhou's head felt like it was going to explode.
"Stop, stop, stop. Speak carefully, one by one."
Zhao Xiaoer pushed his way to the front of the table like a bully, and the children at the back were pushed behind him.
"Master Zhou, look, although the stone I found is big, it can still be placed in the fish tank. Can't you just buy a bigger fish tank?"
Does this guy know what he is talking about? Buy a bigger fish tank.
Zhou Xiaozhou reasonably suspected that these children had never seen a fish tank!
Of course, Zhou Xiaozhou was thinking of the glass fish tank in his hometown.
The children of Lai'an Village thought that in the past, when they caught small fish and shrimps from the river and brought them home, they would put them in bowls or jars and keep them for a few days. Then they would either die on their own or be used as sacrifices to the internal organs.
I really didn't expect what kind of fish tank Zhou Xiaozhou and the others were talking about. It was so different from their usual operation.
"Okay! Size is not a problem. How do you prove that your stone is the best? I think the stones they hold are pretty good-looking too!"
That is, the stones in the children's hands have red, yellow, white, green, and various colors of surface. But I don't know if they are jade when they are cut open.
"Of course what I found is the best. If you don't believe me, just look."
Zhao Xiaoer raised the stone and pointed it at the sun.
A ray of sunlight actually shone through the round, watermelon-like stone.
This performance can't be called bad! The stone is transparent. What kind of pattern is inside?
Zhou Xiaozhou was immediately envious. Such a good stone should be hers.
"How about the stone I found?"
The waiter was very proud, but Zhou Xiaozhou pretended to be unmoved.
"Well, yours is good, but theirs seems OK too. How about this! Your stone is on hold while I take a look at theirs."
"Ah?" Zhao Xiaoer's smiling face disappeared visibly.
Zhou Xiaozhou was in a much better mood.
Ge Meili and Chen Dahe were both trying to hold back their laughter, knowing that Zhou Xiaozhou was teasing the child.
"Well, can you stand by and help me see if the others have found it well?"
Zhou Xiaozhou assigned a task to Zhao Xiaoer, and the little guy became happy again. He stood aside obediently and acted as Zhou Xiaozhou's stone appraiser.
The second one to come up was Zhang Gou'er. No one knew where he came from, but he looked like a mud monkey. His mother was scraping the dried mud off his face.
"Master Zhou, I dug this stone out from underground, look."
Zhang Gou'er's little hands were dirty and covered in mud, but Zhou Xiaozhou didn't despise him at all and took a round bead the size of a longan from his hands.
It can be seen that this bead has been held in Zhang Gou'er's hand for a while. There is no mud on it and the whole bead is white and translucent.
It seems that they are better than the ones Zhou Xiaozhou and his friends found before.
"This is good." Zhou Xiaozhou praised generously.
Zhang Gou'er's eyes curved with laughter instantly.
"What's so good about it! It's so small."
Stone appraiser Zhao Xiaoer started speaking.
Everyone around him heard it, but they just laughed and ignored his little thoughts.
Zhou Xiaozhou also recognized the second child who came up. She was the little girl who brought the poisonous mushrooms, and her companions followed behind her.
The little girl obviously wanted to win by quantity, and with a "crash", she poured all the stones wrapped in clothes onto the table.
It seems that this is the result of collective labor.
Zhou Xiaozhou picked up the stones one by one from the pile and examined them.
It looked like there was jade inside these stones. She couldn't make up her mind, so she handed the stones to Ge Meili and Chen Dahe to look at.
"You found these. They are quite even in size. That's very thoughtful of you."
Zhou Xiaozhou's praise made the little girl embarrassed, and her friends behind her also became a little reserved, but there was still a glimmer of hope in their eyes.
"What's the point of being evenly distributed? I'll take one of yours for a hundred."
Stone appraiser Zhao Xiaoer spoke again.
This time Zhou Xiaozhou didn't indulge him: "Why? Is it hard to admit that it's not bad for others to find stones? Or do you think you are the best in the world?"
After being criticized, Zhao Xiaoer did not run away angrily as usual, but continued to stand by, but his mouth was pouting, and it was obvious that he was unhappy.
Ge Meili looked at the stone for a long time before nodding at Zhou Xiaozhou.
Zhou Xiaozhou continued talking to the owner of the pile of stones.
"These are all great. I'll put them aside too. We'll look at the others. Is that ok?"
There was no reason for the little girl to refuse.
The fourth person to take out a stone was Lin Xiaoyu.
Her brother was standing behind her. Zhou Xiaozhou thought the brother and sister were together, but he didn't expect that the little girl would quickly distance herself from them.
"He and I are not the same. He is him and I am me."
As he said this, he placed the pair of stones in his hand on the table.
It can be seen that this pile of stones was carefully selected by the little girl. Each stone has a little skin on it, and the color of the jade flesh of each stone is different.
There are white, off-white, beige, light green, bluish, and a piece of lavender.
This is very rare, and this is the first time Zhou Xiaozhou has seen it.
Ge Meili grabbed the lavender stone. She liked it.
Chen Dahao was also playing with the seed material brought by Lin Xiaoyu.
It can be seen that everyone was very satisfied with what the little girl brought back.
The children who followed showed off the treasures they had found one by one.
They are all pretty good.
Is this a difficult problem?
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