Chapter 367 The Suffering Sparrow
After hearing He Yuzhu's idea, the boys immediately thought it made sense.
Then the request was made.

"Brother Zhuzi, I can sell you Mahjong, but even if you teach us how to play Mahjong, the price cannot be lower than the price at the supply and marketing cooperative.

If you agree, we will sell it to you.
If they don’t agree, forget it. We can take them to the supply and marketing cooperative and not only sell them for money, but also get praise and rewards.”

The world is bustling with people, all for profit; the world is bustling with people, all for profit.

In order to get the people of Daxia to participate in the campaign to eliminate the four pests,

Not only did they carry out various types of publicity, they also purchased the corpses or parts of flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows.

Among them, sparrows are the most expensive of the four pests because they can be eaten as meat.

They were also the ones who were dealt the worst by the common people.

During the entire activity, more than 10 to 20 billion sparrows were killed, and the species was almost wiped out, so sparrows have been listed as a protected species since then.

The real four pests are

Why are the number of flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, rats, etc. killed less than a fraction of the number of sparrows?

It’s because it’s not valuable and can’t be eaten that people are not enthusiastic about it.

Hearing that the price they offered him was higher than the purchase price from the supply and marketing cooperative, He Yuzhu agreed with a smile, but he did impose some restrictions.
"Okay, I'll double the price.

But I only need 100 sparrows a week, and I won’t take any more when I have enough.”

At first, when they heard He Yuzhu say he was willing to pay twice the price of the supply and marketing cooperative, the teenagers were quite happy. But when they heard that he only wanted 100 pieces, they immediately became unhappy.

"Brother Zhuzi, why don't you buy more? This is meat."

"Yes, Brother Zhuzi, your family is not short of money, buy more, your family eats meat, and we can sell more money to buy toys."

Seeing these young people gathered around him and asked him to buy more,

He Yuzhu smiled and shook his head.

"You guys, if I don't set any restrictions on the price, all the mahjong in Nanluoguxiang will be sent to my house.

Besides, what do I need so many sparrows for? I just want to taste them.

Okay, I'm going home, you guys continue."

Seeing He Yuzhu turning away, the older ones looked at the younger ones and warned them,
"Brother Zhuzi only needs this little bit of sparrows a week. You can't let this spread, understand?"

"I know, I know. Don't worry, brother. We still want to make more money to buy toys."

"That's right, no one can compete with us."

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As soon as he walked into the front yard, He Yuzhu smelled a strong aroma of chicken soup.

Then I saw several winnowing baskets placed in the yard. The children in the front yard stopped playing with slingshots and started setting traps like He Yushui and the others.

At this time, He Ying, who had been sitting at the door of his house for the whole morning, saw He Yuzhu coming back and ran straight towards him.
"Dad, you're back!"

Looking at his son holding his calf, He Yuzhu smiled and picked him up.
"How's it going, He Ying? Did you catch any sparrows with your aunt today?"

"Yes, we caught them. My aunt and I caught sparrows. Later, my second uncle and my youngest uncle also said they wanted to set up traps, but they were at grandpa's side."

"Oh, really? Then let's go back and see how many sparrows you have caught, okay?"

"it is good!"

When I returned to the east wing, I saw a few dead sparrows on the table. I turned to look at He Yushui and asked,
"Why are they all killed?"

"It flew away as soon as I was not careful. What else can I do if I don't kill it?

Oh, brother, can you please stop catching sparrows this afternoon? Not only can you not catch many, but it’s not fun either.” Hearing his sister’s almost complaining words, He Yuzhu knew that she was tired of the novelty and felt that it was a bit boring to keep staring at them like this, so she didn’t want to catch them anymore.

So he smiled and nodded.

"Okay, then bring an enamel basin with you and go out with me this afternoon."

When He Yushui heard her brother say that he would take her out to play in the afternoon, she happily agreed immediately without asking why he had to bring an enamel basin or what he was going to do.

"Okay, then remember to call me when you go out."

After saying that, He Yushui couldn't wait to get up and collect the traps and cornmeal. It was obvious that he didn't want to catch sparrows like this anymore.

"Brother, I'll pack up first, then we'll go to the middle courtyard. Dad and Aunt Bai have stewed the chicken and snake.
I'm waiting for you to come back."

He Yuzhu was also hungry at this moment, so he nodded.

"Okay, you collect them first. He Ying and I will go over first. After we collect the sparrows, bring them to the middle courtyard. Remember to close the door."

"understood."

Just as I was walking into the middle courtyard holding He Ying's hand,

He Yuzhu saw a bunch of traps made of winnowing baskets in the yard.

Li Qingshan and He Jianguo were also holding fishing lines at this moment, standing at the door of their house, staring at the trap outside.

I walked past the two people who were concentrating and walked into the main room. Then I saw that the whole family was already waiting at home.
Seeing He Yuzhu coming back, the deaf old lady said with a smile,
"Qingshan, Jianguo, your brother is back. Hurry up and pack up your things and go see if the rain has come so we can eat now."

"Oh, here comes the madam."

Li Qingshan and He Jianguo went to the yard to collect the traps, while He Yuzhu looked at He Daqing who was serving the soup and asked,
"Dad, how is Second Uncle? Is he seriously burned?"

"Liu Guangqi and his three brothers took Lao Liu to the health center. He was only slightly burned. It's not a big deal."

After talking about Liu Haizhong's situation, He Daqing immediately said angrily,
"When I mention Lao Liu, I get angry.

This guy just came back from the clinic and asked me for the snake. He said that the snake was dug out from a rat hole under his house and it should be his. He asked me to return it to him.

This really made me angry.

When he saw the snake, he was so scared that he didn't have the ability to catch it, so he came to me to pick up the ready-made one.

I've already put all my stuff into the pot, why should I give it back to him?

I've seen shameless people, but I've never seen anyone as shameless as him."

When He Yuzhu heard He Daqing scolding Liu Haizhong, he did not interrupt. Anyway, the spicy strips were still in his own pot, so there was no need for him to say anything nonsense.

Then he asked about the rat hole digging today and the next plan.
"Dad, we should have checked all the rat holes in our courtyard this morning.
How many were caught?

Should we go find those in the alleys next?"

"We caught about 20 mice in the courtyard this morning. If we cut off their tails, we could probably make more than 10 boxes of matches.

Before you came back, the people from the neighborhood committee had already been here.

He checked the progress of our rat holes in the courtyard and said we had to go out in the alleys in the afternoon to clean up the rat holes. We had no choice but to go."

As He Daqing spoke, he scooped another bowl of Dragon and Phoenix and sent it to Li Qingshan who had just returned.

"Bring it to your godfather and godmother, and we'll have dinner when you come back."

"Okay, let's go."

Li Qingshan went to Yi Zhonghai's house with the auspicious dragon and phoenix. He Yuzhu mentioned in passing that he had just bought 100 sparrows at double the price.

(End of this chapter)