Chapter 132 Why Should I Buy It?
Wang Lizheng's old face turned red. It was he who had solemnly promised in front of Xiao Jiuyue that not only 80,000 kilograms of sugarcane, but also 100,000 kilograms, or even more!
Now, Ma Laoliu brought this group of people and was determined to uproot the sugarcane seedlings. If they succeeded, not to mention 80,000 kilograms of sugarcane, even 50,000 kilograms would not be able to be grown.
"Then..." Ma Laoliu looked back at the group of people who followed him to plant mango branches, and now he lowered his head in embarrassment. What a bunch of fence-sitters!
Ma Laoliu cursed in his heart. He turned his eyes and looked at Xiao Jiuyue and said, "Xiao, Miss Xiao."
Facing Xiao Jiuyue, Ma Laoliu's momentum weakened a bit. He sighed and said, "I only dug up an acre of sugarcane seedlings and mango saplings. I spent a lot of effort and spent more than a month to transport them from Shaocheng."
"Now you're not going to plant them, so what's going to happen to my batch of mango saplings?" Ma Laoliu threw away the bloody shovel, sat down on the ground, and said in despair, "It's over. If I can't plant any mango saplings, then all my savings will be gone!"
Ma Laoliu covered his face with his hands, his voice hoarse and choked with sobs.
Those who had previously followed Ma Laoliu and said they wanted to plant mango branches now said nothing. If they didn't plant the mango branches, the worst that could happen was that they would just pretend to be cowards, but if they didn't plant sugarcane, they would have to pay 480 taels of silver!
Every household in the village earns a lot of money.
"Ma Laoliu, when you said you wanted to plant mango branches, I disagreed." Wang Lizheng said while pursing his lips. Before planting sugarcane, the entire Wan'an Village had mentioned this matter.
Wang Lizheng had just been looking for buyers for sugarcane when Shi Lizheng from Fu'an Village happened to find him. Wang Lizheng immediately agreed to grow sugarcane. However, who would have known that in just this short period of time, Ma Laoliu went to Shaocheng to transport mango seedlings.
"What's the point of saying this now? I've already brought the mango saplings here." Ma Laoliu shouted at Wang Lizheng with red eyes. He looked at Xiao Jiuyue and pleaded, "Miss Xiao, you're so rich, why don't you buy the mango saplings too?"
Ma Laoliu looked at Xiao Jiuyue eagerly, as if he was looking at a life-saving straw.
"Mango seedlings will bear fruit in three years. If the seedlings are small, they will bear fruit in seven or eight years. Not to mention that our Hongdu is not suitable for growing mango branches." Xiao Jiuyue shrugged, looking helpless.
"Miss Xiao, I didn't sign an agreement with you when I went to buy the mango branches." Ma Laoliu thought about how he had spent so much effort to get the mango seedlings from Shaocheng. If he couldn't plant them, it would be a waste of money. It would cost at least one or two taels of silver to go back and forth!
"Now that the sugarcane has been planted, the mango seedlings are ruined. My brother-in-law said they're easy to grow." Ma Laoliu sat down on the ground and looked at Wang Lizheng and said, "Master Wang, I don't care. Now let's talk about what to do with my mango seedlings. They cost thirty cents a plant, and I bought a hundred of them, which gave me three taels of silver!"
"I'll give it back to you. I told you before that you would follow me to plant mango seedlings." Ma Laoliu stared at the people behind him and called out their names: "Zou Laoer, Liu Laosan..."
Anyone named by Ma Laoliu lowered their head involuntarily. They would rather not have the deposit of several dozen cents than to dig up the sugarcane seedlings and plant mango branches.
"I've already got the mango branches, and now you just say you don't want them? How can that be?" Ma Laoliu didn't care about anything and just started making a fuss. He stared at Wang Lizheng and said, "Master Wang, if these mango seedlings can't be planted, don't blame me for digging up the sugarcane seedlings!"
"Open up wasteland." As soon as Wang Lizheng finished speaking, Ma Laoliu started to make a fuss: "No, wasteland can't even grow sweet potatoes, so how can we grow mango branches?"
Xiao Jiuyue frowned as he listened to Ma Laoliu's noisy words. Yu Ge, who was standing by, saw this and immediately stepped on the branch that Jin Wu had kicked off. "If you can't hand over the sugarcane seedlings, you'll have to pay 480 taels of silver, not a single penny less."
Yu Ge was small and looked shrewd, but when he frowned, his eyes were fierce, which frightened the villagers inexplicably. They all began to persuade him: "The sugarcane seedlings cannot be dug up. Each family will have to pay 20 or 30 taels of silver. Who can afford it?"
"That's right, Ma Laoliu, if it doesn't work out, just reclaim the wasteland!"
Everyone was trying to persuade him, and Xiao Jiuyue took a look and decided to go back to the carriage. If Wang Lizheng couldn't handle this little farce, he would not be able to be the Lizheng anymore!
"No, you can't leave." Seeing that Xiao Jiuyue was about to leave, Ma Laoliu quickly got up and blocked Xiao Jiuyue's way.
"Miss." Luo Kui protected Xiao Jiuyue.
Jin Wu pulled out a sword directly from the carriage and pointed it at Ma Laoliu, and Yu Ge pulled out a dagger from his shoe.
"No, no." Ma Laoliu looked at the sword, which shone with a cold light, swallowed his saliva, took a step back and said, "Miss Xiao, we can't grow it in our village. You can grow it in your farm. I bought it for three taels of silver. That way, I will lose one tael of silver. How about selling it to Miss Xiao for two taels of silver?"
"This way, I don't have to dig up the sugarcane seedlings." Ma Laoliu looked at Xiao Jiuyue with a smile.
"Why should I buy it?" Xiao Jiuyue looked at him expressionlessly.
If Ma Laoliu had honestly told her the real price, she wouldn't have cared less than a tael or two of silver. But, did she look like she was a fool with a lot of money? Ma Laoliu could tell from the first glance that she was being taken advantage of!
Wouldn't it be better for her to keep her money to support her grandmother, her beautiful mother, and her chubby brother? Why did she give it to Ma Laoliu?
If she hadn't come just now, Ma Laoliu's shovel might have caused a death. There was a viciousness in his eyes that was not found in ordinary people.
"If it weren't for you buying sugarcane seedlings..."
As Ma Laoliu opened his mouth to speak, Xiao Jiuyue snorted coldly and interrupted him, "Lizheng Wang, if your village doesn't need to sell the sugarcane, I..."
"Miss Xiao, we'll sell you all the sugarcane in our village." Wang Lizheng said excitedly. He pulled Ma Laoliu with his bloody hand and walked away: "Laoliu, let's talk it over. Don't disturb Miss Xiao."
"Miss Xiao, shall I take you to see the sugarcane seedlings?" Wang Lizheng looked at Xiao Jiuyue with a smile, his eyes full of flattery.
Xiao Jiuyue turned and left. Wang Lizheng winked at Shi Lizheng and his son standing beside him, "Brother Shi, you have to help me."
"Bah, you're still calling me Miss, yet you're not willing to give me two taels of silver!" Ma Laoliu stared at Xiao Jiuyue's departing figure with a sinister look in his eyes. He shook off the Wang family's hands, sat down on the ground, and said, "I've already delivered the mango saplings. Now tell me what to do!"
Xiao Jiuyue got on the carriage and said, "Li Zheng Wang, you should bandage your hand first."
"It's okay. My son used a spider web to stop the bleeding." Wang Lizheng, standing beside the carriage, said, "Miss Xiao, this piece of sugarcane seedling isn't the biggest one yet. We'll find one if we walk a little further."
Li Zheng Wang spoke attentively while taking Xiao Jiuyue to look after the sugarcane seedlings in Wan'an Village. At the same time, he asked his son to go back and report that he would treat Miss Xiao to lunch later.
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