Overbearing Immortal Doctor
Chapter 145 - 145 145 Surfacing

145: Chapter 145 Surfacing 145: Chapter 145 Surfacing Wu Xiaoyu sat on a bamboo chair and looked out.

Seeing many people from the Liu family picking mushrooms below the chicken farm, and even a few new faces, he was almost certain it was Liu Sheng.

In Daxin Village, most villagers were conservative and lacked the spirit power to engage in trade, fearing financial loss.

Therefore, those able to spend money to purchase mushrooms were few.

Now there were a few more young people from the Liu family suddenly picking mushrooms on the mountain; it was as obvious as lice on a bald man’s head!

Wu Xiaoyu, having someone to suspect, became even more curious.

How did Liu Sheng manage to keep everything so airtight?

And who was he selling the mushrooms to?

If, as he suspected, he was selling them to Chen Zhaofeng’s Juxian Inn, then how did he find out that Juxian Inn would purchase them at a high price?

He has been buying mushrooms from the villagers for five or six days now.

How did he keep it so secret?

Although the villagers thought competing to buy mushrooms wasn’t a very honorable thing, and they generally wouldn’t talk to avoid offending either side.

But with so many people, and loose lips everywhere, it was quite impressive he managed to keep it quiet for so long!

His mother, pretending to pick mushrooms at the foot of the mountain, saw no useful information could be drawn from these two people and walked away.

Wang Aifeng moved to the side of a sixty-year-old lady, placed the mushrooms from her basket into the lady’s and smiled, “Aunty Zhaodi, here to pick mushrooms again!”

The elderly lady, seeing her add mushrooms to her basket, smiled awkwardly and replied, “Yes, I have nothing else to do anyway, so I’m picking some mushrooms to help my daughter-in-law.”

“Really?

You are so diligent, worrying about Baosheng and his wife after all these years of hard work!” Wang Aifeng flattered her.

Hearing his mother, Wu Xiaoyu couldn’t help but laugh; her flattery skills were quite lacking!

However, the lady called Zhaodi was pleased, smiling as she squatted to pick mushrooms and said, “My legs and feet are still good.

As long as I can help, I will!”

Wang Aifeng saw her reaching for a mushroom far away and quickly stepped forward to pick it for her and placed it in the basket, “You pick so many mushrooms, why not sell them?”

“Why not sell?

I usually have my daughter-in-law sell…”

Before she could finish, a woman dashed out from behind them and said, “Mom!

You’ve picked a lot already.

Go back and cook for Lele!”

The elderly lady thought her daughter-in-law was feeling sorry for her and quickly stood up with a smile, being helped down the mountain by her.

Wang Aifeng stood up, sighing in frustration, wondering why these people were so guarded, like she was some kind of spy!

To many mushroom-picking villagers, she was indeed an indisputable spy.

They all avoided her after her two failed attempts to gather information.

Wu Xiaoyu, seeing his mother’s frustration, was about to call her home when he heard someone whisper, “If Sister-in-law Aifeng comes over, let’s move aside!”

“Don’t worry about these few mushrooms!

If Liu Sheng finds out we told her, he won’t buy from us anymore!”

Another woman agreed, “Liu Sheng is really smart, making people supervise each other!”

Supervising each other?

Wu Xiaoyu almost burst out laughing hearing that.

Nima!

Buying mushrooms felt like a spy movie!

He had to admit, Liu Sheng was a bit crafty and unprincipled!

Just as Wu Xiaoyu was secretly praising him, he suddenly realized, wasn’t Liu Sheng using the same tricks as a factory team leader?

He knew how to use them flexibly!

Through the villagers’ words, Wu Xiaoyu confirmed his suspicions and even solved some mysteries.

Seeing his mother had no more to learn, he shouted towards the foot of the mountain, “Mom, go home and cook!

I’m hungry!”

The mushroom-picking villagers at the foot of the mountain, hearing Wu Xiaoyu’s shout, became nervous and quickly avoided Wang Aifeng.

Seeing her son at the chicken farm gate, Wang Aifeng went up the mountain and whispered, “Xiaoyu, I’m trying to gather information!

Why are you shouting?

You’re alerting them!”

“Alerting them?

Mom, please go home and make food.

I’m hungry!” Wu Xiaoyu acted hungry, trying to persuade her to go home.

Seeing her son treating this lightly, Wang Aifeng scolded, “Eat, eat, all you think about is eating!

I’ll go home later!”

It seemed his mother wouldn’t give up easily!

Wu Xiaoyu, helpless, finally said, “Mom, I already know who’s behind this.

Just go home!

I’ll handle it!”

Just as Wang Aifeng was about to express doubt, Wu Daqing and others came down the mountain with mushrooms.

Wu Xiaoyu seized the chance and said:

“Mom, take your cousins home and weigh the mushrooms!

Maybe little Li is here to collect too.

You should go back!”

Hearing this, Wang Aifeng reluctantly led her nephews down the mountain.

Seeing so many mushrooms Wu Xiaoyu’s family brought down made the villagers at the foot of the mountain envious and helpless.

They dared not go deep into the forest, as it was pathless and dangerous; a fall into a ravine could be fatal.

After picking all the mushrooms at the foot, the villagers reluctantly searched around the chicken farm before finally heading down the mountain.

Wu Xiaoyu secretly followed Ma Caifeng, who had picked the most, down the mountain, planning to appear suddenly during their transaction and catch them off guard!

But Ma Caifeng went straight home, leaving Wu Xiaoyu no choice but to circle around Liu Sheng’s home, hoping to catch someone delivering goods, but was again unsuccessful.

However, he did find traces of a tricycle at Liu Sheng’s door, confirming that he took the mushrooms to the town to sell.

Since villagers sold mushrooms to him, it meant his purchase price was higher than Wu Xiaoyu’s.

And only Juxian Inn in town would buy wild mushrooms at a high price.

How did they connect?

How did Liu Sheng know Juxian Inn would buy at a high price?

He toiled so hard, irrigating and planting, even developing sales channels himself, and now Liu Sheng was taking all the benefits?

And he was constantly opposing him—how could Wu Xiaoyu tolerate it?

An idea began to form in Wu Xiaoyu’s mind, but first, he needed to confront Liu Sheng and let him know that these petty tricks wouldn’t fool him!

He wasn’t someone to mess with!