Chapter 335 Buying a donkey is also adding to the family property

Shen Qing originally thought that it would not be easy to ask someone to accompany him to Jincheng during the New Year and the rare holiday.

The weather was cold, slippery and windy. Many businesses in the city were closed during the New Year holiday, and the same was true for the street vendors. It was hard and tiring, and there was nothing much to see.

She originally told Xie Qingshan that the accompanying person could be chosen from Xu Lin and others, and they only needed to borrow a donkey from the villagers.

As a result, when Xie Qingshan went to greet and borrow the donkey, after asking the reason, a bunch of men came running up excitedly and asked if they could go with them!

Shen Qing: .....

What can I do? Of course I agree.

In the end, the team originally intended for the city with only 20 people was forced to become 40 or 50 people! This was because the donkey cart could not accommodate everyone. If it could, many more people would have to squeeze in!

With so many people going to the city, it would be a waste for them to make a trip in vain.

So Shen Qing added a task: go to the mule and horse market to check the number and price of donkeys, as well as when to purchase them.

Now, the whole village, including the Lei family, knew that Shen Qing wanted to buy a donkey.

Liu Cuihua asked in shock: "You already have six donkeys and three cows at home, why did you buy a donkey?"

Yes, she had also heard that Huo Bing was going to Bashu, but wasn't the purpose of going to the city to hire an escort agency? So, he should be going with the escort agency's car, right?

Besides, donkeys are very expensive, costing as much as eleven or twelve taels each!

The other women around were also puzzled. Shen Qing's family had the most donkeys and cows in the village, several times more than the village chief's family!

And since Guan Li married Jiang Xiangxi, they also used the two donkeys of the Guan family. After all, Guan the carpenter was busy with carpentry and could not go out.

Guan Xiaoshan works in a brush workshop and has difficulty walking, so he doesn't go out.

Jiang Xiangxi brought back all the pork, cloth, food, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc. needed by the Guan family. The donkeys needed to be fed with grass, so the two donkeys were placed directly at the Jiang family and fed together by Jiang Xiangxi.

In other words, Shen Qing can use not six donkeys, but eight. Wouldn’t it be a waste of money to buy more?

Livestock are not cheap.

"I calculated the weight of the inventory. If a single donkey were to pull the goods, the person would have to walk and not sit on the carriage. Going out is tiring already, so wouldn't walking and driving the cart be even more tiring?

There is so much cargo and I don’t know how many cities I will have to go through before I can sell it all. If I walk there, it will waste even more time, so I plan to convert all the donkey carts at home into double donkey carts, which can both carry cargo and carry people.

I did some calculations. The more goods I transport, the less time it takes to go back and forth. Coming back won't delay the land reclamation. After the land reclamation is completed, I can go out to deliver goods again, and even go to cities that are farther away.

We go up the mountain quite often. Donkeys can't go up the steep and narrow roads, but most of the mountain roads are passable. We can pull fruit saplings up the mountain in spring, harvest fruits in summer and autumn, and transport medicinal herbs... With donkeys, not only will it be easier, but the efficiency will also be greatly improved, right? "Shen Qing didn't hide anything and told all his plans at once.

As for the rest, everyone will make corresponding decisions based on their own situation and amount of deposits.

Many women heard that it was okay. It didn't matter if they couldn't sit on a cart when delivering goods. It was just a matter of walking. There were donkeys to pull the goods, and no men had to carry them. What was so tiring about walking?

But it’s a waste of time which is not good!

Moreover, if the donkeys come back soon, the wasteland can be reclaimed. It would be fine if the men come back too. After all, it takes people to plow the land, and the people who plow the land need to be strong, otherwise the plowing will not be deep enough, and the crops will not be able to take root or their rooting will be affected.

Shen Qing's family has a lot of acres of land, but she not only has donkeys but also cows. Their family only has one donkey, which is far from enough to open up wasteland and cultivate the land... In fact, it is not enough to go to the city to buy things before the New Year, so they have been taking advantage of Shen Qing's livestock.

In the past, being poor and having no money was something they could do, but now they actually have quite a bit of money in their savings, so why would they borrow money from others when they can buy it themselves?

Besides, buying livestock is also buying household property!

Liu Cuihua also thought of this.

Every family in the village has at least one donkey, but these three families don’t have any!

They live halfway up the mountain and actually need donkeys more because donkeys can walk on mountain roads. If they put the cart at the foot of the mountain and tie the goods to be carried on the donkey's back, wouldn't that save manpower?

She already had 78 taels and 3 qian of silver in her hands. The second and third sons' families didn't have as much as her, but they had almost 50 taels. Her family could buy two donkeys, which was about 22 taels. The second and third sons' families could each buy one, so the Lei family would have four donkeys. Why would they have to worry about going out to buy and transport goods?

After figuring it out, Liu Cuihua suddenly realized that buying a donkey was no longer out of reach!

Yes, I used to think donkeys were incredibly expensive, and hunters like us couldn't afford them. But after doing the math today, I realized it's not impossible, and I could even buy two at once...

Wang Xiaohua spoke first, "I've discovered that one donkey at home is not enough to open up the wasteland. In the past, we thought we could rely on more people to pull the plow, but three strong laborers can only plow about the same amount of acres as one donkey in a day, and these three strong laborers can earn hundreds of coins a day working in the workshop!

No matter how you calculate this, it's a loss. No, no, you guys talk about it, I'll go back and discuss it with Dashan."

Seeing her sister-in-law was about to go back, Zhou Yan hurriedly reminded her, "One more isn't enough. Talk to your brother and ask him to get two or three more!"

Her husband's family only has two donkeys and a cow. They discovered last year when they were reclaiming the vegetable plots that they were not enough! If they want to reclaim more wasteland, they need more people.

However, reclaiming wasteland is indeed much more difficult than farming. Once the wasteland is reclaimed next year, it should be completely sufficient for pure farming, but there may be other situations.

For example, the open space at the foot of the mountain, the flat land on the hillside and the mountainside...can't these places that donkeys can reach also be reclaimed and used to grow medicinal herbs?

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt that her own donkey was not enough!

"I'm going back first, you guys continue chatting."

Jiang Ying followed up, "Yanzi, let's go back and discuss this with Dad and the others."

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After a while, the many women around said goodbye and left.

Liu Cuihua couldn't stay any longer, but she still had one problem that she was most worried about!

She looked at Shen Qing and asked anxiously, "Shen Qing, do they all want to buy a donkey?

Can the mule and horse market in the city have so many? What if there are not enough? "

In their village alone, roughly speaking, there are more than twenty of them, right? And that doesn't even include Shen Qing's share!

Shen Qing smiled and reassured him, "It's okay. I asked Zhao Hu and the others to find out when the next shipment will be. We want a large number of heads, so they can definitely get a few more when they go to stock up, right?"

How can a businessman not be flexible?

They are all very smart and will certainly not let the business in front of them slip away.