Chapter Fourteen
Taoyuan Town governs 105 villages of all sizes within a radius of fifty miles, but its own area is not large, with only four or five streets a hundred feet long. It takes only three or two minutes to walk from the street to the end of the street to the entire town.
Although it covers a small area, Taoyuan Town is located in the hometown of fish and rice and is located on the official road leading to the city. Most of the business trips from north to south pass by, especially during the harvest seasons in late spring and early autumn, and business trips are more frequent, thus presenting a prosperous scene.
Sang Ye looked at the shops on both sides of the street, and in the afternoon, no one closed their doors and customers. He thought that the people in Taoyuan Town should have a very comfortable life.
"Mom, there are so many people..." Huan'er held her mother's hand, staring at the crowd coming and going, and couldn't help but open her mouth and exclaim in surprise.
"A lot of people, like us, come to sell food, so there are naturally more people on the street." Sang Ye explained to Huan'er who was curious about everything, but sighed silently in his heart. He didn't know whether to pity or to be glad that this child had forgotten the past.
The mother and son stood in the corner while talking while waiting for the Sang family who were selling grain in the opposite grain station.
After waiting for about two minutes, it was finally the Sang family's turn. Not long after, the Sang family walked towards the mother and son with a smile, thinking that the food would be sold at a good price.
Sure enough, Mu walked over quickly and said to Sangye happily: "This year our wheat grows well. The grain dealer is very satisfied with giving more than half a penny per catty, which makes more than nine hundred pennies at once."
Others could not hide their excitement. Yu even pinched Huan'er's little face and laughed loudly at the top of his voice: "Your grandma is going to buy meat later. Is there a delicious meat to eat tonight? Is Huaner happy?"
Although Huan'er didn't like eating meat so much, she was not disappointed when she saw her elders so happy, so she lit up her head and blinked her eyes and said, "Good!"
Looking at Huan'er's cute and pleasing appearance, everyone laughed and shouted that they would weigh two more pounds of meat so that Huan'er could have enough food at night.
Sang Ye also laughed, but his heart was very sad. After earning nine hundred cents more, the family was so happy. It shows how difficult it is to earn this money, so the family is afraid that there is not much financial resources.
The family chatted and laughed for a while, then took an empty cart to the place where the animals were sold and asked the livestock dealers about plowing oxen.
There are donkey dealers, sheep dealers, pig dealers... There are no cattle dealers, and you have to buy cattle and get the county town. However, these sheep dealers and pig dealers travel back and forth between the county town and Taoyuan town. Even if they have no business of cattle dealers, the news is in a first-class circulation. It is absolutely right to ask them about plowing oxes.
Everyone quickly found the place. Under the reminder of Sang Ye, Mu took out ten cents from his wallet and handed them to Sang Lin, who was good at dealing with people, with some pain: "If you can find out more information, ask more. Don't spend this ten cents in vain."
Sang Lin carefully took the Tongbaner and said with a laugh and cry: "Mom, if you are not at ease with your son, if you are not at ease with me, no one can do it."
Mu glared at his second son and cursed, "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and do serious business. If you can't find out the news, don't think about eating meat tonight."
Sang Lin smiled and hurriedly put the copper plate into his pocket, and walked towards a kind-faced pig dealer.
Without saying a word, he stuffed ten cents into the pig dealer's hands. Sang Lin said a few more compliments. After making the pig dealer smile, he happily told Sang Lin the news he knew.
The two of them talked for a while until they found out all the news they wanted to know clearly. Sang Lin said goodbye to the pig dealer and said what they found out in the expectant eyes of the family:
"The pig dealer said that the cow dealer in the county has the skills to get cows, but he had to say hello to the cow dealer in advance and bring the cows back half of the deposited cow dealer. Because of this, many people pretended to use cow dealers to make deposits to cheat money. Therefore, if you want to buy cows, you should use your relationship to find a familiar cow dealer."
"What? Can this cattle dealer still have fake ones?" Mu widened his eyes incredibly. It was difficult to understand that such a vicious person would deceive the hard-earned money of the merchants.
In addition to mulberry leaves, others also looked at mulberry forests, and couldn't believe that there were people like fake cattle dealers.
It is not difficult to understand that the Sang family has such a reaction. They are just the most ordinary farmers. They spend all year round and even count the number of times they come to the town. Even if there are occasional fraud incidents, they naturally don’t know that they have never encountered them. They just think that everyone is honestly making a living by their ability.
Although fake cattle dealers also make a living by deceiving skills, this kind of "ability" is a traitor, and anyone with a little conscience doesn't want to do such things.
Sang Lin smacked his lips and continued, "There are all kinds of people in the county, and it is not uncommon to have scammers. However, our family must be careful when buying cows. Just be careful not to be fooled by fake cow dealers."
Yu patted his chest and said in fear: "It's a good thing we know the trick inside. We can't afford to buy cows now. Otherwise, the first time we went to the city to go to the bull market, we might have been cheated by fake cow dealers."
"When the time comes, let's ask those nearby who have bought cows to see if they can help them and get a familiar cow dealer."
"Yeah, mom has a good idea. When we save enough money to buy cows, we will ask."
The Sang family was talking nonsense that the fake cow dealer did not break their determination to buy cows.
Sang Ye held Huan'er's little hand and thought without interrupting. She wanted to buy the cows as soon as possible. There is still an autumn harvest in the second half of this year. After the autumn harvest, autumn planting will be followed, and the work is not easy at all. In this way, she has to find an opportunity to go to the county town, and it is best to find a reliable cow dealer and buy the cows before the autumn harvest.
Next, the Sang family divided into two groups, with Sang Laoshi and his son taking the silver to the grain shop to buy cheap coarse grains, while Sang Ye took Huan'er to go shopping with Mu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to buy the goods needed by the family.
After taking the mulberry leaves to the cloth shop, Mu asked the mulberry leaves to slowly choose the fabric they like, and he took his two daughters-in-law to buy things at the grocery store, and agreed to meet up at the town head after buying things.
Yu and Liu wanted to stay. Even if they didn't buy it, they would be fine. However, they were lucky to stay away if they were lucky. They just looked at Sang Ye with envy and left.
Mang Ye breathed a sigh of relief and carefully selected fabrics under the warm hospitality of the cloth shop.
The types of materials in the cloth shop are far less colorful than those in Beijing, but there are also materials with good quality and good quality. After choosing mulberry leaves for a while, they chose four colors of pure cotton fabrics, namely navy blue, sky blue, dark blue and pink.
It is very suitable for navy blue to make clothes for the three men at home, and the sky blue is generous but not gorgeous. Four women of different ages can use it. The dark blue is used for Huan'er and a few boys, and the pink ones are sure to make clothes for the two girls of Mulberry and Mulberry and Date.
The unit price of the four-color material is not cheap, and it adds up to almost one piece, which costs nearly 400 million yuan at once, which is a considerable expense for the Sang family.
Mangye did not hesitate at all when paying. Although it was difficult to make money, he could not even save the necessary goods like clothes.
In the corner of the alley, Li Baogui got together with a group of friends. At this time, he was holding a straw in his mouth, leaning against the wall as if he had no bones, thinking about how to get the money and go to Yihongyuan in the county to find fun.
"Hey, Brother Gui, look, you're a beauty!" One of the Hu Peng accidentally saw a beautiful woman walking by, and his eyes glowed and hit Li Baogui.
Li Baogui suddenly became energetic, and quickly spit out the straw in his mouth, staring at him widened his eyes: "Where is where, where is the beauty?"
Another dog friend pointed to the beauty who was about to walk over the street and said, "It's right there. I didn't expect that I was so lucky today. I met such a beautiful beauty. Looking at her tender skin, she was even tenderer than the lady in the Zhang family in town."
Seeing the woman's face clearly, Li Baogui's face froze, and raised his hand and touched the scar on his arm unconsciously, with a resentful light appearing in his eyes: It turned out to be this stinky girl!
Humph, I suffered a great loss last time, and I couldn’t do anything in the village. This time, I want to see who will save you!
Sang Ye walked slowly along the bustling streets with the material in one hand and holding his son in the other. From time to time, he came to the stalls on the side of the road to see if he could find business opportunities. However, he did not gain anything after walking down the street, and he did not know that he was being targeted...
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By the way, after being updated for so long, you only read and don’t leave messages, I’m shameless. I’m so sad that I’m writing in the text is so good that you have nothing to say. O(╯□╰)o The difference between this farming article and the previous one is still very big. I don’t know how it is swelling. Do you like it or not? If you have any opinions or suggestions on the plot and plot arrangement, please leave a message! (*^__^*)
After checking some information, it is different to convert the measurement unit of ancient fabrics into the current rice. In some dynasties, 1p was 33.3 meters, some were more than 20 meters, and there were more than 40 meters. In the text, I calculated it according to 1p equal to 33.3 meters.
Chapter completed!