After listening to Fang Fang's words, Old Zhao was stunned for a moment, and then a very defeated expression appeared on his face. He seemed to be feeling a little exhausted, holding on to the stone wall next to him and gasping for several breaths! "I...

..I lied! These ornaments were indeed not carved by me!"

He finally admitted it.

"I am already old and can no longer see the materials and carving knife clearly! So...so my son inherited my skills. Now we are him carving at home, and I set up a stall to sell! But...

.....But I can guarantee that my son paid the mountain entry fee when he went to the mountains to hunt. Only this time recently, we...we really didn't have much money on hand, so...

..... We just sneaked into the mountain! But we promise that if we make money, we will make up for the mountain entry fee this time..." Old Zhaotou hurriedly explained to Fang Fang and the others, making everyone present

Everyone looked strange and puzzled! "Entry fee?

What’s that fee?”

Li Zhaowen was the first to ask, and then turned to look at City Lord Song! "Do you have to pay a mountain fee when you go hunting in the mountains?

Isn’t this an arbitrary charge?”

He always goes straight and says whatever he wants, without caring whether the other person is a city lord or a land lord! Even if he is a realm lord, he will still argue! "Song has never levied this fee, and Song is not very clear about it either!"

Song Qingran shook her head first, then turned to look at Captain Sun aside.

Captain Sun also looked puzzled and nervous, and couldn't help but hurried forward.

"City Lord, I've heard of the market cleaning fees, I've heard of the city gate maintenance fees, but I've really never heard of the mountain entry fees?

This fee...is not officially levied by our government!"

After hearing this, everyone immediately understood. It seemed that the Zhao family and his son had encountered the king of the mountain who charged excessive fees! And the reason why old Zhaotou deceived everyone at the beginning and said that these ornaments were carved by him was probably because

I want to protect my son, and don’t want them to take their anger out on my son for not paying the mountain entry fee! "Old man, the so-called mountain entry fee you mentioned is not the fee required by our government. I think...

.You should have met the so-called mountain king! Don’t worry, we will solve the problem of this mountain king, and we can ensure that this problem of charging mountain entry fees will not happen again in the future! But...

Song Qingran said, changing the topic and turning the conversation back to those carvings! "Old man, you want to tell me, who carved these carvings?"

And who collects the entrance fee?"

"Yes...it's my son, Zhao Heng!"

Old Zhaotou hesitated for a moment, but still told the truth! "I am old, my eyes can't see clearly, and my hands can't hold it steady.

My son didn't like carving at first, but when he saw that I had always insisted on this craft, he compromised. He studied with me for three years and then started practicing! Maybe it really has something to do with being exposed to it since he was a child. He is very good at it.

The one who is talented can sculpt much better than me! So... the two of us started living a life of him inside the home and me outside the home! Although we can't make much money, we can still live a decent life!"

Speaking of this, Old Zhaotou couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"However, two years ago, for some reason, a group of people suddenly appeared in the forest behind my house. They guarded the entrance to the mountain and started collecting mountain entry fees. The mountain entrance fees were very expensive. If my son entered the mountain,

If we have to pay once, then our money will not be enough.

Since the introduction of mountain entry fees, many hunters have chosen not to hunt in that mountain. However, hunters can go hunting in other farther places, and the mountain birds and beasts they hunt back can be sold for a lot of money. But we are not hunters.

, and I don’t know how to hunt. I only go into the mountains to pick up some ready-made bones and catch some small prey such as hares and pheasants at most. I can’t afford to spend travel expenses to go to distant mountains! In that case, our costs will be even higher

The higher the income, the less money you can make! So...my son will try his best to sneak into the mountains, continue to pick up bones, hunt hares, pheasants and so on!"

Lao Zhaotou told all the situation in his family in one breath. Everyone present understood the whole story, but there was one thing that was difficult for everyone to understand! "This mountain king charges mountain entry fees just to make money.

But the mountain king you are talking about doesn’t seem to want to make money! He charges such a high fee to enter the mountain that almost all the hunters leave the mountain to find another way. So how can he make money?

"

Song Qingran didn't understand what those mountain kings were doing! "Maybe... their purpose is not to make money at all?"

Hearing this, the equation on the side spoke! Everyone turned to look at him, as if they couldn't understand what he said.

"Brother, the mountain king charges mountain entry fees not to make money, but to protect wild animals?"

Li Zhaowen also looked incomprehensible! "What if they... simply want to set up a barrier so that everyone will automatically stop entering that mountain forest?"

The equation tells the key point of the whole thing! "Prevent people from entering the mountain?"

Song Qingran instantly understood the meaning of the equation! "Well, it seems... we should ask the old man's son to see if he has found anything in the mountains that is questionable or that makes him feel strange.

!”

Saying that, Song Qingran looked at Old Zhaotou on the side! Old Zhaotou also seemed to realize that this matter was not a matter of the mountain king charging them to enter the mountain in order to make huge profits, so he nodded hurriedly and expressed his

You can help! However, until this moment, he still didn't know what was wrong with the decorations in his home! So after hesitating again and again, he still asked this question that he couldn't understand! "Then...

...Sir, why did you find me directly at my stall?"

After hearing what Old Zhaotou said, everyone turned their attention to the human bone ornaments on the stall, and then Song Qingran smiled and shook her head.

"Old man, let's go to your house first to find your son and ask some questions. As for why we found you, then...you will know!"

The people from the City Lord's Mansion helped Old Zhaotou push a cart of human bone ornaments back to his home! Old Zhaotou's home is not far from the market, and he probably chose to live here because of the convenience of selling a stall! This is

An extremely small courtyard in the deepest part of the alley! Open the door and push the stall cart into the courtyard. In addition, there are a lot of raw materials for making ornaments in the courtyard. There is almost nothing in this courtyard.
Chapter completed!