Chapter 1616 — On the Spur of the Moment
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Zhong Yongliang seethed with displeasure. He shot Shen Yushu a venomous glare and silently swore to himself: You great big cow, one day I'll finish you off! Making a fool of me, humiliating me!
But for now, Zhong Yongliang still had to keep sucking the venom out of Gao Xiaofu.
"Grandpa Zhu, something happened... That grass snake — it bit someone, and it seems to have venom!" Chen Xi stared in horror at Gao Xiaofu and Zhong Yongliang, her voice edged with worry.
"Yes, that snake does seem to be venomous — let's get out of here before we get dragged into this!" Foreman Zhu's expression flickered between dark and light. A perfectly good plan, and it had been ruined by this idiot Gao Xiaofu who had appeared out of nowhere — Zhu wanted nothing more than to slap the boy senseless!
But with everyone watching, he couldn't do a thing about it. All he could do now was leave first and think of another way to deal with Wei Zhao later. With Gao Xiaofu bitten by the snake, selling the snake to Wei Zhao was out of the question — Wei Zhao wouldn't buy it even if it were given away for free!
Just as Foreman Zhu was preparing to flee with Chen Xi, his eyes flickered to the two thousand yuan that Gao Xiaofu had thrown onto the bamboo basket earlier. Delighted, a new scheme immediately took shape in his mind!
Foreman Zhu cast a sly glance at Chen Xi, then pretended to reach for the money — only to "accidentally" knock the banknotes off the rim of the basket, letting them fall in among the grass snakes!
"Grandpa Zhu, the money dropped..." Chen Xi had also noticed Foreman Zhu's careless fumble that sent the money tumbling into the basket.
"Quick, pick it up and let's go! We don't need the snakes!" Foreman Zhu said to Chen Xi.
"Ah? But shouldn't this money be returned to the person who bought the snake..." Chen Xi hesitated. She was a kind-hearted person — the snake had bitten someone, and now they were just going to walk off with the money? Wasn't that a bit too... ruthless?
Although a sale was a deal between two willing parties — one willing to buy, the other willing to sell — Chen Xi still felt they were in the wrong, and she didn't want the money. Even though the sum was no small amount!
"Then pick it up and give it back to him, and then let's hurry and run!" Foreman Zhu didn't care either way. As long as Chen Xi went to pick up the money, it didn't matter whether she returned it or not.
"All right!" Chen Xi reached down to pick up the money, but she never expected that the very moment her hand touched the banknotes inside the basket, she let out a bloodcurdling scream — "Ahh!" Her hand had been bitten by a snake inside the basket!
Chen Xi instinctively yanked her hand back, but a clearly visible wound on it was already bleeding, and it had swollen up in an instant. She was so frightened she didn't know what to do!
"Ahh! Xi, how could you be so careless!" Foreman Zhu cried out in feigned panic. "What do we do, what do we do? There's no doctor here. Xi, stay right where you are — Grandpa will go to the nearby clinic and find one!"