Chapter 253 What's wrong with giving a few more cents?
"Exchange for sugarcane?" Shi Lizheng's mouth twitched. Looking at the carts of sugarcane here, his mind was working really fast!
"Of course, I have to buy melon seeds, but it's different with sugarcane. I have it in my fields!" Wang Lizheng said confidently. He thought it would be better to give me sugarcane instead of spending money on melon seeds. He said, "Eating too many melon seeds will make you get a sore throat. It's better to eat sugarcane and save money!"
"Well, you are good at calculating." Shi Lizheng said with a nod.
"So the matter of going to school... is it settled?" said Wang Lizheng.
"No, we have to ask Miss Xiao and ask the master if he will accept it." Shi Lizheng looked at him with a smile.
"Okay, I'll go ask tomorrow." Wang Lizheng said, then looked at Xiao Jiayuan and Xiao Jiachen and said, "No, I'll go ask now!"
Li Zheng Wang asked his two sons to work hard, one to record the weights and the other to settle the accounts, and then he went to look for Miss Xiao.
"Wait a minute, I'll go check on the school first." Wang Lizheng was about to say he was going to check on the school, but Shi Lizheng grabbed him and said, "Let's go to Miss Xiao first, then go to the school. It's still so early..."
Shi Lizheng looked up at the sky. It was only a short while after dawn. He stopped and said, "No, it's too early. How can we go to see Miss Xiao so early?"
"That's right." Li Zheng Wang looked at the Xiao family house halfway up the mountain. The morning mist enveloped the Xiao family's house, making it feel like they were surrounded by clouds. He asked, "Li Zheng Shi, you used to hate the Xiao family for moving away, but now, you're glad, right?"
At the beginning, Shi Lizheng often said how hateful the Xiao family was. The old master Xiao who loved drinking and gambling, the arrogant Madam Gan, and the young master of the Xiao family would bring disaster to the villagers and the village land.
Because a villager was herding cattle and accidentally startled a carriage, Mrs. Gan actually beat the man to a cripple. In the end, the man died of a high fever.
It also harmed the girl of the He family. Compared with the He family, which suffered the most, the harm suffered by other family members could not be any smaller.
"Of course not." Shi Lizheng stroked his beard upon hearing this and said, "That's because I had foresight. If the situation had really gotten out of hand and the Xiao family was gone, how could there be the Xiao family we have today?"
"Oh no, a fight has broken out." Shi Lizheng was feeling excited when he suddenly heard a noisy noise. He turned around and saw that a quarrel had already broken out in the workshop.
Shi Lizheng and Wang Lizheng looked at each other and immediately ran away.
"What's wrong with this sugarcane? Why aren't you harvesting it?" Ma Laoliu shouted in a powerful voice. Wang Lizheng listened to his voice, and the veins on his forehead throbbed. He rushed forward and said, "What's going on? If you have something to say, just talk it over. Why are you carrying things?"
Li Zheng Wang pulled Ma Laoliu back and signaled him to put away the knife in his hand. He was about to dig up the sugarcane seedlings and plant mango branches. Fortunately, he was persuaded at that time. Otherwise, if he really planted the mango branches, he would not be able to find his father to look for him!
"Look, Li Zheng Wang! So much sugarcane has been harvested up front. Why do we have to pick out so much sugarcane from our family?" Ma Laoliu glared at Aunt He fiercely and said, "She's clearly trying to embarrass me on purpose!"
As soon as Ma Laoliu mentioned this matter, he couldn't wait to pick up a knife and start working!
"Stop making noise!" Li Zheng Wang pulled him back and said, "Let me take a look."
"His sugarcane is rotten here and he won't harvest it. But here are a few. You can all take a look. They are so rotten, how can he still take them?" Aunt He was not offended at all. She was a widow, but she was able to raise two children. It was not the kindness of the villagers that she relied on, but her fearlessness!
"Miss Xiao collects sugarcane, not just any garbage!" Aunt He has never been vague about the quality. When she collected tangerines in the past, if there was a bad one, Aunt He would never compromise!
"Isn't it just a little bit damaged? Why can't we harvest it?" Ma Laoliu said confidently while holding his sugarcane.
Wang Lizheng looked at the half-rotten sugarcane in his hand, cleared his throat and said, "Ma Laoliu, it's so rotten, they definitely won't buy it!"
Ma Laoliu cut off the damaged part of the sugarcane and said, "Why don't you harvest it? Can't I just cut off this part?"
"Everything in here is red and can't be eaten!" Aunt He's mouth twitched. In the past, some people ate sugarcane, even the red ones, and in the end, they almost died!
"Well, this one isn't too bad, is it?" Ma Laoliu picked up another one next to him and cut it one by one without saying a word.
Aunt He said, "Alright, just chop it slowly. Come on, next one." Aunt He waved her hand and planned to take the next one first. She said, "Hurry up. The two young masters have to go to school later!"
"After you sell the sugarcane, you can go back to harvest it and continue selling it tomorrow!" Aunt He said with a smile, ignoring Ma Laoliu.
"Bang!" When Ma Laoliu saw that she was not going to take his scale, he was so angry that he overturned the scale in Aunt He's hand. Donggui walked straight forward and pressed her to the ground.
"I just said I'll collect yours later, why are you in such a hurry?" Aunt He picked up the scale and continued to collect the sugarcane at the back.
Xiao Jiayuan had just finished registering when he saw this. He signaled Donggui to move the man to the side and said, "If only one of the three was broken, we would have turned a blind eye and accepted it. But if even one of your three is broken, not only will Aunt He not accept it, I won't pay for it either!"
"You are so rich, what's wrong with giving me a few more cents? This sugarcane is cut in half, but it can still be eaten, right?" Ma Laoliu struggled, but Donggui, a woman, had such great strength in her hands.
Jin Wen, who was standing by, saw what was happening and immediately stepped forward to hold Ma Laoliu down, so as to avoid embarrassing Donggui, a woman, by holding him down.
Ma Laoliu's voice was almost shouted at the top of his lungs. His words made everyone murmur in their hearts, and some people even had some small thoughts. Yes, the Xiao family is so rich, so what if they collect one more rotten sugarcane?
"No one's money comes from the wind. If we collect rotten sugarcane, then we don't need to weigh it or pick it out. We can just collect it all. Then, when we send grain to the county, we don't need to weigh it or pick it out!"
"Also, let's say you go to a shop and buy some cloth, and it has a hole in it, would you buy it?" Xiao Jiayuan countered with an example, saying, "If you feel you're losing money selling sugarcane to us, you can just sell it somewhere else."
"Hmph, if you don't want to sell it, then don't sell it!" Ma Laoliu felt like he was being taught a lesson by the little brat. He was too embarrassed to save face so he took his sugarcane and pushed the cart away. He didn't believe that he couldn't sell it in previous years without the Xiao family.
"Miss, the young master handled it very well." Lianxin said in a low voice. Hearing that there was a conflict here, Xiao Jiuyue was about to rush over, but then she heard Luokui say that Xiao Jiayuan had already handled the matter!
"Jiayuan has grown up." Xiao Jiuyue looked proud. It seemed that he listened to everything she said to Xiao Jiayuan on weekdays!
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