Chapter 834 His hands are black and purple, and so is his tongue!

Everyone looked at the hands of the corpse. In order to let everyone see more clearly, Qiao Ran had turned over the palms and backs of both hands.

A little girl who was only in her teens picked up the dead body without showing any fear at all, which made the onlookers secretly admire her.

The brave ones came closer and looked at the two hands carefully, then shook their heads:

"Nothing unusual."

No one else noticed anything either.

Qiao Ran asked her second uncle to go into the shop and get out a box of mulberries.

"Uncle, eat this box of mulberries in front of everyone."

When Qiao Erhe heard this, he didn't ask any questions and just grabbed the mulberries and put them into his mouth.

Most of the people watching here are ordinary people, or servants and managers in charge of purchasing for wealthy families. How could they normally get to eat mulberries that could be used as tribute?

Suddenly, everyone stared at the mulberries in Qiao Erhe's hand with shining eyes. They saw him eating the expensive fruits worth twenty taels a box as if they were a cow chewing a peony without any cherishment, and they swallowed their saliva with envy.

The fat steward also stared at the mulberries in Qiao Erhe's hand and swallowed his saliva.

In fact, mulberries are very scarce near the capital of Dai Viet. If they are sent from farther places, it will be difficult for them to remain intact due to improper storage and bumps on the road. Therefore, they are not cheap and most people are reluctant to buy them to eat.

The prices of fruits and vegetables in Qiao Ran's "Shenxian Valley Supermarket" are several times more expensive than those on the market, so even the steward of Prince Ping's Mansion can hardly eat such expensive fruits.

Although the fat steward bought two full baskets of fruits yesterday, there was not much left for King Ping, his many wives and concubines, aides, servants, and the chief steward. How could an ordinary servant like the gardener get any?

The fat steward just ate half a piece of cantaloupe to take advantage of his uncle.

As for the mulberries, he overheard one of the most favored servants in Prince Ping's mansion boasting that Prince Ping personally fed him two, and he also said how sour, sweet and delicious they were, which made the fat steward, who usually loved delicious food, salivate.

Therefore, when he was explaining Wang Baogui's wife, he casually mentioned mulberries.

Now, watching the shop owner chewing the mulberries he had been longing for so arrogantly, the fat manager felt a surge of greed in his stomach and swallowed his saliva unconsciously. The greedy look on his face was so greedy that Eunuch Chen turned his head away without even looking at it.

Under the envious and jealous stares of the crowd, Qiao Erhe ate up the entire small box of mulberries and burped with satisfaction.

"Ran Ran, what else do you need from your uncle?"

Qiao Erhe looked at his niece with great interest, waiting for the next instruction.

Unexpectedly, Qiao Ran just smiled and said:

"Uncle, spread your palms and stick out your tongue."

"what?"

Qiao Erhe was confused, but still did as he was told subconsciously.

Qiao Ran pointed at Qiao Erhe's hands and tongue, motioning for everyone to look:

"What did everyone see?"

Everyone looked in the direction of her finger with puzzled expressions, and someone suddenly shouted:

"His hands are black and purple, and so is his tongue!"

Qiao Erhe wiped his mouth with his hand, and the area around his mouth became black and purple.