After marrying sick Yangzi, I made my whole family rich

Chapter 472: Confusing the fake with the real thing to scare away the birds
Old Man Gong used straw and wooden sticks to tie up the scarecrow in his hands without raising his head.

After a while, a neat and beautiful scarecrow came to life in his hands. It had a nose and eyes. Lu Hai was so frightened that he swallowed his saliva.

"Just like this one in your hand, how much does it cost?" he asked in a low voice, and even felt that the old man with a wrinkled face and did not answer him was a little evil.

Nowadays, Mr. Gong is getting older and no longer does those dead people's business, but he doesn't want to waste decades of good craftsmanship, so he makes a lot of scarecrows and puts them in the shop.

Lu Hai glanced over and was frightened in his heart. Good guy, he didn't dare to raise his head just now and walked with the corner of his eye. He thought there were people around him.

The scarecrows are all tied up, standing against the wall one by one, placed in rows and rows, not to mention how scary they are!

If nothing else, it looks like it is done, and it will definitely scare those bad birds away.

"Old, old man?" Seeing that he still didn't answer, Lu Hai felt even weaker.

He was afraid that those things would suddenly come alive and jump over to strangle his neck!

If you want to ask him where the psychological shadow came from, it was when he was practicing martial arts when he was young and loved to sneak out to watch shadow puppet shows performed by street artists.

As a result, his master specially paid people to arrange such a scene where the shadow puppets "come alive" and kill people.

But Lu Hai was so scared that he no longer dared to sneak out to watch shadow puppet shows. As a result, when he saw these scarecrows now, he had the same effect.

"What, someone is here. Tell me what you want to buy." Suddenly, the old man next to him stared at him and made a hoarse voice.

Lu Hai was so frightened that he screamed "Ah" and ran out!
Old Man Gong chased him out with a "ghostly" smile on his face and pulled him back to the shop.

"Do you want to buy it or not? Not many people buy the scarecrows my old man made, and I make a lot of them every day. There are still hundreds of them in the warehouse. Did you just say that you want to drive away the birds in the forest? Then Buy more and I’ll sell them to you cheaper!”

Upon hearing the word "cheap", Lu Hai suddenly woke up again and wiped the cold sweat from his head, "How cheap is it?"

"First of all, take a look at my craftsmanship. My workmanship was originally fifty cents a piece, but now it costs thirty cents. Isn't it very cheap?"

"Wow, old man, no wonder you can't sell a few of your excellent craftsmanship. It's too expensive. I can just go back and tie some straw myself. Why spend such a big price?" Lu Hai looked incredulous.

"You kid, don't you know what the goods are? Do you want my straw for free?!"

"Twenty cents is the most, and I can't bear to spend it on a scarecrow." But the skill of making a scarecrow is indeed unmatched by anyone. It's so good that he doesn't even dare to take a look at it. When the time comes, the effect will be It will definitely be great.

"How about twenty cents. If it doesn't work, I'll leave. If it works, I'll buy all the scarecrows in your shop."

Mr. Gong puffed his beard and stared. As he said, the straw he needed for these scarecrows was all of the best quality and he bought it.

There were so many scarecrows, and it cost him more than a tael of silver just to buy straw, knit straw hats, and wear rags.

Not to mention how many days he spent working so hard, but in the end he couldn't even make a few bucks?

But after selling it for so many days, he knew very well that few people would come to buy the scarecrow specifically.

Only the rich landowners are willing to spend money to buy a few good ones and put them in the fields. It is very effective to scare anyone who steals.

But he was good at craftsmanship and could knit quickly, but he didn't sell as much as he made. His family said that if he continued to waste time and money without making any money, they wouldn't let him do it.

It's not as good as making money by making paper figures, but Mr. Gong once had several dreams in a row, saying that if he continued to do these fake paper figures, it would harm his descendants in the future!
Mr. Gong was so frightened that he quickly ended his business, but he couldn't let go of the craft he had worked on all his life, so he simply made a living by making scarecrows.

And his scarecrows are also famous far and wide, but few people buy them, so he puts them down every day, and his house is almost full of scarecrows.

The family also became increasingly dissatisfied.After a final round of bargaining, Lu Hai had to add another half a tael of silver and bought two hundred scarecrows for four and a half taels of silver.

Fortunately for him, there were so many scarecrows that he could use directly without waiting long, and scarecrows were a very useful way to scare away birds.

All the scarecrows made by Mr. Gong have their own characteristics. There are no identical scarecrows, just like different people.

With these two hundred scarecrows, it would be enough to place them in many places on the mountain. They might even scare the wild animals so that they would not easily come down to harm the villagers.

"I'm really smart!" After successfully completing a big task, Lu Hai was satisfied and pulled these scarecrows to the mountain again and again, and asked people to find some places to insert them.

He also ordered someone to bring over the broken bronze mirror he had found.

It should not be too broken, as it could easily hurt innocent people and animals. It should be about as big as the palm of your hand and placed on a mountain where it can be exposed to sunlight.

It will immediately reflect a large dazzling light. Xu Mengxiao said that this is also a way to scare away those birds.

There was no need to use dogs and wild beasts to drive away the beasts. Lu Hai decided to buy some more hounds from Er Huzi and keep them.

Next time I go up the mountain, I will take a few hounds with me to protect myself and scare the birds.

In addition, he did not believe in the method of destroying bird nests, extracting eggs, and cutting off future generations. If he used so many methods at the same time, he would not be able to protect the fruits in the forest!

On the third day, all the scarecrows bought by Lu Hai were installed and stood in every corner of the mountain forest, guarding every place on Zuoshan.

Not to mention the birds, everyone was frightened.

"This is so fake that it makes me afraid to go back too late at night. I am really afraid that these things will come back to life."

But it has to be said that the effect is not ordinary. The number of birds that were flying around overhead and pecking and biting on the fruit trees has been reduced to the naked eye. They are no longer in groups. They are in twos and threes and are constantly frightened. Flapping its wings, it fled away as if for its life.

And these days, they also picked all the ripe fruits in summer, transported them batch after batch, cleaned and dried them for production...

Things were going on here in a busy and orderly manner. Xu Mengxiao had a rough idea of ​​everything. Seeing that Lu Hai had done a good job, she felt more at ease.

After all, the business she had negotiated with the Wen family was left to Lu Hai to try. If something really went wrong, even if she had a way to remedy it, it would be hard to explain.

Fortunately, Lu Hai was so serious this time that he almost didn't do anything, and he didn't even bother to sell the eggs.

He simply sent all the quail eggs collected to her, saying that he would make tiger skin quail eggs in the future and she could eat as many as she wanted!

"It's worthless. It seems like there's no other way to eat it except tiger skin quail eggs." Xu Mengxiao laughed.

If you want to eat tiger quail eggs, you don’t need so many, and you can’t eat them every day. In addition, in the summer, there are many mosquitoes, they are easy to spoil, and they are not easy to store.

It can be stored in the space, but it is not an option.

At this time, Xu Mengxiao had a new idea and simply took out three more baskets full of quail eggs from his own space.

"Ru Yan, call Granny Li and Cuilan, and go to my mother's place together to make something new for today!"

"What do you want to eat?" Then he saw the seven or eight bird eggs in the basket and was shocked. "So many? Are you going to use the bird eggs for something?"

Xu Mengxiao just smiled mysteriously, got on the carriage, took her things with her servants and went to her mother's shop on Fucheng Street not far away.

(End of this chapter)