Chapter 1509 - 1331: Xiao’ai, Dabao, Xiaobei
Chapter 1509: Chapter 1331: Xiao’ai, Dabao, Xiaobei
“How long are you planning to keep this up? Zou Yu, if I had known this was your trade in the past, I would have thrown you into the river right there and then,” Xia Dabao said fiercely.
No sooner had Xia Dabao finished speaking than some of the elderly folks looking to buy started to persuade Xia Dabao, “Abao, don’t come out and cause trouble, ah. It’s rare for the Divine Doctor to come by, and if he can return the liver to its original state in such a short time, it proves he truly is a Divine Doctor. Don’t interfere.”
“Elder Wang, this man is a swindler, don’t give him your hard-earned money!” Xia Dabao felt Elder Wang was far too gullible.
“Then do you have any evidence to prove he’s a swindler?” Elder Wang asked.
“…” Xia Dabao, of course, had no evidence.
Seeing she couldn’t produce any evidence, a few other elders also began to say, “Divine Doctor, this young lady doesn’t understand things, she’s just worried we’ll be swindled. It’s okay, I’ve saved up a good bit of money from selling fish over the years. I can afford it. Give me a jar first.”
Elder Zhang also said, “I’ve saved up a bit for my coffin money; I’ll buy a jar too.”
“…”
Watching helplessly as she couldn’t stop them, Xia Dabao went back to find Nan Feng.
After hearing Xia Dabao’s account, Nan Feng rushed over to the drying yard, only to see that many people had already started buying the ’Immortal Water.’
“Mom, how do we stop them?” Xia Dabao asked.
Nan Feng shook her head, “Right now, mom doesn’t have a way. We can only first see how his trick is done.”
Nan Feng went over to the two pig livers, looked at the basins, and sniffed, noticing a scent of alcohol.
The spoiled pig liver also carried a whiff of alcohol.
She suddenly remembered, back in her Special Agent School days, a theory she had learned: livers soaked for a long time in iodine would turn this dark color. Yet soaking them in water with vitamin C, they would return to their original state.
So clearly, Zou Kai was deceiving people.
However, she couldn’t extract the iodine on the spot, hence she couldn’t expose the trick there and then and to do so afterwards would make her wise after the event.
“Mom, what do we do?” Xia Dabao quickly asked Nan Feng.
Nan Feng shook her head again and pulled Xia Dabao back, “Abao, let’s go.”
“Mom, are we just going to watch the villagers be deceived? That’s their coffin money,” Xia Dabao didn’t understand. Mom was always righteous, so why wasn’t she taking care of the villagers now?
“Abao, if you want revenge, then once this group leaves Peach Blossom Village, you can just disguise yourself and beat them up. But we can’t do anything about the current situation. As the saying goes, a fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. Once the villagers buy those things and discover they don’t work, they’ll realize they’ve been duped. The next time someone else comes, they’ll be able to spot the fraud,” Nan Feng said, pulling Xia Dabao away.
Xia Dabao heard what Nan Feng said, but with her nature, how could she just watch the villagers be cheated? That day, after returning home, she quickly disguised herself in black clothing and stealthily followed Zou Yu and his group out of the village.
Zou Yu and his group had made a tidy sum in Peach Blossom Village today and were currently overjoyed.
Except for Zou Yu.
He was increasingly questioning whether what he was doing was right. His father had said the ’Immortal Water’ was effective, and he was completely convinced about the pig liver changing color experiment.
As for why he had to deceive the villagers by saying he was over forty years old, even having a grandson, it was because his father told him that if he didn’t do so, the villagers wouldn’t believe him, and then he wouldn’t be able to achieve the goal of saving people.