Chapter 22: Suspected Foolishness

  The waist card does not indicate whether you are patrolling the streets or catching thieves in the government office. After carefully examining it for a few eyes to confirm that it is not a fake, the soldier on duty did not care about Zhao Xiutai and Tie Dan's route guide at all, and directly let them go. One colleague was sent to follow Jiang Feng and his party, and then he quickly went to report to his superiors.

  Jiang Feng walked on the small road of Gangkou, and found that at this time, Yantai was only an understaffed thousand households, with more than 600 soldiers stationed here. The place where the thousand households were located was the Yantai Mountain Battery, which was the barracks for the soldiers stationed in Dengzhou Wei.

  Although Shandong has a Lu Wang in the Da Ming Fu, and the Shandong Bu Zheng Shi Si government office is located in Dengzhou, Yantai Mountain, which is not far from these places, seems relatively remote. Except for the carriage road and post station at the port, there are no towns, only some small fishing villages.

  Three people on the boat had a good sleep and were now full of energy, walking slowly by the sea. Zhao Xiuzai couldn't help but ask Jiang Feng:

  "The master, what's the use of bringing in that sea cucumber? In Beijing and Tianjin, including Baoding city and other major commercial ports, the only seafood they eat is fish, shrimp, crab, and shellfish. Who would buy this thing?"

  Jiang Feng looked at Zhao Xiuzai beside him with a puzzled face and naturally wouldn't tell him why. He just smiled and replied:

  "This is one kind of medicinal material, Old Zhao you just don't ask too many questions."

  Zhao Xiūcái hastily and respectfully replied, which made the casual Jiang Feng feel quite uncomfortable. At this time, he saw a few children in front of them laughing and playing, apparently all children of fishermen, who didn't seem to be very well-off. They were all wearing tattered pants and had bare upper bodies.

  Jiang Feng quickened his pace and walked up to them, beckoning a little kid over with his hand, asking:

  "Do you know there's a sea intestine here?"

  The child was very lively just now, but in front of these strangers, especially the more ferocious Jiang Feng, he looked extremely timid and afraid, shaking his head and not daring to speak, and step by step retreating backwards, obviously scared to death. Jiang Feng reached into his pocket and pulled out a copper coin.

  Shaking it in his hand, the little kid was clearly tempted, but after thinking about it, he shook his head and spoke up this time:

  "I don't know, we don't have a sea creature called that around here."

  Jiang Feng's heart felt a chill, could it be that his memory was wrong? However, he still didn't give up, using his finger to draw a picture of a sea cucumber on the sand, saying to the little kid:

  "Do you know this?"

  The child looked carefully and then said:

  "Are you talking about Haikan cuisine?"

  Fortunately, Jiang Feng had a classmate from Shandong when he was in vocational school, otherwise the boy's Shandong dialect would have been really incomprehensible. Upon hearing the term "Hai Luan Cai", he thought to himself that after all it was something that happened hundreds of years ago, so maybe the name was different, and nodded along at the time.

  The little boy stretched out his hand and Jiang Feng smiled and handed over the coin in his hand. The little boy took the money, laughed loudly, and pointed at Jiang Feng saying:

  "We use this rotten vegetable to feed pigs at home!"

  Obviously feeling that he had made a good bargain, Zhao Xiuzai, who was standing beside him, looked disappointed and thought to himself that although his master's actions were generous and chivalrous, he was spending money too lavishly. What was the point of coming to this poor and remote place to buy this pig feed seaweed?

  Never heard of any medicine that needs this kind of seaweed, but Jiang Feng was already beyond excited, jumping up and down on the beach, following a similarly ecstatic little boy who said:

  "Take me to your village and show me the leftover food you feed your pigs. I'll give you another coin."

  The little boy heard this and immediately nodded desperately, pulling Jiang Feng towards the fishing village. Zhao Xiucai and Tie Dan hurriedly followed behind them.

  As soon as they entered the village, a pungent smell hit them in the face. Tianjin Wei was near the sea, so Zhao Xiucan and Tie Dan were somewhat used to it, but Jiang Feng almost threw up. The fishermen had been drying salted fish there for a long time to preserve them, and the smell wasn't very pleasant.

  The little boy ran back to his home, and after a while, he fumbled out something that looked like a rotten intestine, grinning as he handed it over to Jiang Feng. Looking at the thing's appearance, this pig feed had been around for quite some time, and its smell was imaginable. Looking at its appearance and asking about its smell, Zhao Xiucai and Tie Dan felt a sense of nausea, but looking at Jiang Feng, he was fondling it back and forth as if he had obtained a treasure.

  Several people looked at Jiang Feng's expression, which was somewhat strange. After fiddling around for half a day, Jiang Feng suddenly raised his head and shouted towards Tie Dan behind him. Tie Dan immediately ran over, bowed and said:

  "Master Jiang, is there anything you'd like me to do?"

  Jiang Feng hesitated for a moment, then pulled out a handful of copper coins from his waist bag and handed them to Tie Dan, saying:

  "Hey kid, go from door to door and shout it out: Uncle's buying this seaweed dish, 10 bucks a pound..."

  Originally, Jiang Feng wanted to shout fifteen cents a catty, but was interrupted by Zhao Xiucan behind him. Zhao Xiucan said to Tie Dan, who was holding the copper coins:

  "Go on, Iron Egg, say it, two cents a pound."

  His tone was slightly reproachful, and Tie Dan didn't dare show any disrespect to Zhao Xiucan now. After all, Zhao Xiucan was the steward, while he himself was just a servant, a huge difference from half a month ago. He hastily replied with respect, "Yes, I know."

  Going from door to door shouting, Jiang Feng looked at Tie Dan's back and smiled:

  "I never thought that when I wanted to buy it, his uncle would rush to deliver it to me and even ask for less money."

  Zhao Xiūcái shook his head on the side and said:

  "Master, now these people who can't even make a living as soldiers and eat imperial rations, who doesn't want to have a stable livelihood? You spend money so generously here, his uncle is naturally willing. However, Master, please listen to my advice, in the capital six or seven copper coins can buy more than a catty of white flour, if it's a good harvest year, it will be even cheaper. This pig feed, how can it be worth such an expensive price? The old master's accumulated family wealth can't be squandered like this."

  These words are sincere and heartfelt, also seeing that Jiang Feng is a person who can listen to others' advice despite being hot-tempered, so he dares to advise him in this way.

  However, the price of two cents seems to be too much. The little boy was listening intently on the side, and when he heard that it was two cents per catty, his eyes widened suddenly and he ran back home like crazy, shouting:

  "Mom, mom, someone is buying pig feed for two cents a catty!!!"

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