Volume 1 Chapter 25 Magic

  Have you all collected it? You must collect it! It would be better if some recommendation tickets could be left behind, hehe!

  "Yè zi, Uncle will perform a magic trick for you, want to watch?" Chu Jiaqiang suddenly asked with a smile.

  "Magic? Wow! Uncle can do magic? Sprout also wants to see." Miao Miao immediately squeezed beside Chu Jiaqiang, no longer paying attention to the confusing question.

  Miao Ye also ran to the other side of the Chu family and pointed at Miao Ya, saying: "Uncle Chu is doing it for me to see, you are not allowed to look."

  "I'm watching, I'm watching! I'm your sister, you have to listen to me." As she said that, they went back to their brother and sister quarrel.

  "Cough, cough! Don't fight, let's watch together. You guys mustn't be distracted! Uncle is about to perform." Chu Jiaqiang hastily interrupted.

  The two children finally calmed down, with a pair of pure eyes staring at Chu Jiaqiang's hands. Lian Miao Huo and Mo Xiu also looked at Chu Jiaqiang in surprise, not expecting that he would know how to do this, indeed a good way to coax little kids.

  Chu Jiaqiang took out a coin and said to Yezi, "Yezi, come on, stretch out your palm, put it together with Uncle's palm, and this coin will disappear."

  This delighted the little guy, who immediately reached out and put his palm together with Chu Jiaqiang's, sandwiching the coin between their palms.

  Miao Ya immediately stopped and protested: "Uncle is so biased! If you want Xiao Yezi to help, don't ask me, Miao Ya!"

  "Don't worry, don't worry! Uncle will play with you again later." Chu Jiaqiang immediately coaxed.

  "I'll count one, two, three, and it will disappear, watch out! Okay! One, two, three, let go!" The two people's hands immediately released, and the coin in between had vanished.

  The little sprout turned over both of their hands and didn't find any trace of the coin, so she curiously asked: "Uncle, where did you hide the coin?"

  The young couple were also very surprised. They had seen magic shows on TV before, but didn't have a strong feeling about it. Now that they watched it up close, they found it was indeed quite magical.

  Mo Xu asked: "Little Yezi, do you know where the coin is? You should be able to feel it." He held his son's hand again and looked around once more, feeling all the possible places where the coin might be hidden.

  "Is the coin on you? Don't you know, little sprout?" Chu Jiaqiang asked in feigned surprise.

  "No, I didn't take any coins, did you give me some? How would I have them?" Xiaoyazi searched herself too, but couldn't find any.

  Everyone looked at him, Chu Jiaqiang smiled wryly and said: "It's really in Xiaoyezi's place." He stretched out a hand, opened it to let everyone see clearly, there was nothing. Then he reached into Xiaoyezi's pocket and pinched out a coin, which was the same one as before.

  "I just turned it over a moment ago, and it seemed like there was nothing. How did Uncle take it out?" The little girl tilted her head, unable to figure it out.

  "Haha! So little brother is still a skilled magician, I see! As I said, you might as well go perform, your future is boundless! Why bother growing those labor-intensive fruit trees? Miao Huo didn't see the point either. However, he didn't ask such silly questions like Xiao Ya Zi did. Understanding the magician's unspoken secrets is useless, asking would be pointless anyway."

  "Haha! Since I learned this magic, I haven't performed it either. The profession of a magician doesn't quite suit me, it's better to just go back to being a farmer." Chu Jiaqiang laughed and said.

  Then they did it a few more times with the little sprouts, and the two kids were still having fun, one of them kept asking Chu Jiaqiang to perform magic tricks. Chu Jiaqiang used the props on site, giving everyone a fresh feeling.

  Everyone chatted for a while, and then Miao Huo took Chu Jiaqiang to see Guo Miao.

  "Huh? Miao, you also have pineapple trees here? They're so big now, are you planning to keep them all for yourself?" Chu Jiaqiang discovered over a dozen large pineapple trees, each as thick as a leg, with pineapples already growing on top, although they were still small.

  Miao Huo suddenly smiled bitterly: "How could that be, these fruit trees were thrown to me by a friend, at the beginning they were only one person high, planted in this uninhabited place, and grew so big in three or four years. If no one wants them, they will be cut down, wasting food."

  "Don't you want it? I was just thinking of finding this kind of tree, and now we can pull it back, saving us from running around everywhere later." Chu Jiaqiang's mind was immediately racing with thoughts - pulling this tree back would be perfect, and next year they'd have big tree pineapples to eat.

  "You want it? That's the best, anyway no one wants it and I have to cut it down, so I'll give it to you! And those peach trees are worthless too, I'll give them to you as well. As for the grape seedlings and cherry blossom tree, I just need to get back my investment. Little brother, don't refuse me, if I take your money for this big pineapple tree, your wife will definitely not be happy with me." Miao Huo saw that Chu Jiaqiang wanted to open his mouth to refuse, so he immediately shut him up.

  "Then thank you, Uncle Miao. In the future, when I have children, Uncle can just come and pick them up." Chu Jiaqiang said with a bitter smile.

  Miao Hu finally cracked a smile and said, "That's more like it. I'll definitely come visit you sometime. How many cherry saplings do you want? They're 20 yuan each on the market, and I won't give you any discounts either. We have black grapes, red grapes, green grapes, as well as some foreign varieties - which kind do you need?"

  Miao Huo listed the characteristics and prices of each grape variety, allowing Chu Jiaqiang to compare and choose. After some consideration, Chu Jiaqiang said: "I'll take 50 vines each of Black Diamond, Red Globe, and Thompson Seedless, as well as that new domesticated variety you mentioned. And I'll also take 200 Cherry tomatoes. That's all for now!"

  Having gotten the answer, Miao Huo immediately called on workers to help dig up the seedlings, especially those over ten large tree saplings, which couldn't be dug up without some effort.

  "By the way, little brother, do you have a car? If not, I can help you contact one, but the price is hard to say because I don't know which part of Heqiao Town you are in. The road conditions over there aren't very good and I've never been there either," Miao Huo said.

  "Then I'll have to trouble you, Brother. The price will just have to be reasonable." Chu Jiaqiang was considering this matter.

  Before long, two medium-sized trucks arrived outside. Everyone worked together to load all the fruit seedlings onto the vehicles. Fortunately, those peach tree seedlings were only as tall as chopsticks, otherwise the two trucks really wouldn't have been able to fit them in.

  They spent over 7,000 yuan in total and settled the bill. The Chu family bid farewell to the Miao family and set off on their journey back home.

  Back at the Chu family village, it was almost dark. Chu Jiaqiang called over the villagers who had just picked up the shells to come back and together they carried the saplings down and then carried them to the old house.

  Out of respect for Miao Huo's face, the two drivers didn't overcharge them. Considering the road conditions were indeed poor, each car was charged 600 yuan. Chu Jiaqiang settled the bill and invited the two drivers to stay for a meal. However, they said it was getting dark and they had to hurry back, so Chu Jiaqiang didn't insist further.

  Many hands make light work, and with so many fruit saplings, the villagers were able to transport them back and forth in just two trips.

  "Big brother, I'll come over early tomorrow to help out, I'm leaving now," said Chu Jiaxiong.

  "Alright, rest well tonight! Tomorrow morning, come to my second uncle's house for breakfast." Chu Jiaqiang also didn't hesitate.