Chapter 134: Farming Extra 2...
Farming Extra 2
"Ten taels of silver, come with me, and I will bury your father for you." A pot-bellied man in his forties reached out to touch Lin Baige's face.
Lin Baige quickly dodged, really afraid that he would smear grease all over his face: "Ten taels of silver? Are you buying vegetables? Is there anyone who offers a higher price?"
"I'll pay twelve taels." Another younger man came over, but he looked like a dandy young master in a costume drama, who looked like he would get sick if touched.
Lin Baige dodged back in even greater disgust: "Twelve taels, is there anything higher than this?"
He didn't intend to auction himself off, but wanted to scare them away in this way. After everyone left, he buried the original owner's father himself.
The system only said that the payment for the things he brought would not be counted as part of the task, but it did not say that he could not spend them. He had plenty of silver in his space, so he would not really sell himself out.
When he was the emperor or the imperial concubine, a dozen taels of silver was nothing. But for ordinary people, a dozen taels of silver was a lot of money. Some families could spend ten taels of silver in a year. I heard that buying a beautiful maid only cost twelve or thirteen taels of silver. How could he, a man, be more expensive than a beautiful maid?
Twelve taels was considered a high price, and sure enough, a few people shook their heads and left, but soon someone shouted thirteen taels.
"Thirteen taels? Too little. Is there anyone who can offer eighteen taels?" Lin Baige said confidently, looking at them as if to say, "If you can't afford it, don't buy it."
"Eighteen taels? Thirteen taels is already expensive. Don't you think you're worth it?"
"Ten taels of silver was enough for him to bury his father, so why did they raise the price? It's like they're selling his father like pork. They have no respect for the deceased at all."
"I think he's like a little vixen on a daily basis, seducing people everywhere. I think he just wants to take advantage of his father's death and sell himself for a good price."
"Bah! How shameless!"
"His father is the same. For so many years, he has been devoted to studying, but he has never passed the exam. Even after becoming a scholar, he did not learn to teach and earn money to supplement the family income. He let his mother work in the fields. As a result, she worked herself to death in the past two years. Now the scholar is sick. He sold the house and land, but the illness could not be cured. Now the child has to sell his body."
"His father is a bad person, so how good can his child be? He just has a pretty face, but he's lazy and can't do anything. What's the point of buying him back?"
"What do you know? His foxy face is so alluring, all men like it."
Although the villagers who were watching were scolding him, he got a lot of information from it.
The original owner's father was a scholar, and the original owner was a lazy man with a pretty face. He seduced people in the village all day long, and all the houses and land in his family were sold.
It was really a disaster at the beginning. Not only did his family have no money, but he also had a bad reputation. Under normal circumstances, people from the same village would help such a poor man and help dig a grave to bury him. But he ended up in a situation where no one helped him and a lot of people made fun of him.
It is not easy for him to get away now. The original owner is a prominent figure in the village. If he suddenly becomes rich, the villagers will gossip about him, saying that he has sold himself and used the money to bury his father.
That would only make his situation worse, but he couldn't really sell himself out.
What if I move to another village? But where is Fu Jiangyu? What if Fu Jiangyu is still in this village? If he leaves, the two of us will miss each other.
He brought Fu Jiangyu along because he wanted to spend more time together. If he didn't see Fu Jiangyu during the entire mission, wouldn't it be that Fu Jiangyu came here in vain and suffered a lot?
Fu Jiangyu is here to recall the good old days?
If he wants to leave, he has to find Fu Jiangyu first.
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard someone shout from the back of the crowd: "I'll give you twenty taels."
A man squeezed in from behind the crowd, holding two land deeds. "Lin Baige, I sold these two plots of land for exactly twenty taels of silver. Come back with me, I'll bury your father, and you can marry me."
"Fu Jiangyu!?" Lin Baige's eyes lit up instantly when he saw him.
The others were talking at once, pointing, "Why is he here?"
"A farmer who usually looks quite honest actually covets the beauty of this little vixen?"
Someone even pulled Fu Jiangyu aside to persuade him, "You're so confused!" "Your parents left you these two plots of land before they died. You should find a girl in our village, marry her, and have a child. In two years, you'll have a big, fat boy. Is it really necessary for you to squander all your family's land just for this little vixen?"
"I really want to punch you twice on behalf of your parents to wake you up."
"I've made up my mind and I won't regret it. Uncles and aunts, don't worry about me." Fu Jiangyu said, looking in the direction of Lin Baige, "I'll give you twenty taels. If you become my husband, I'll support you in the future. Are you willing?"
While he was speaking, Lin Baige kept staring at Fu Jiangyu.
When others said that Fu Jiangyu was an honest farmer, Lin Baige wanted to laugh. Although Fu Jiangyu was wearing coarse clothes, his noble air was not diminished at all.
He was still handsome and tall. Except for his somewhat simple expression, wheat-colored skin, and calluses on his hands, he was still Fu Jiangyu.
When Fu Jiangyu stretched out his hand, he saw Lin Baige looking at him with her big round eyes, neither speaking nor moving, and was so nervous that she didn't dare to breathe.
He has liked Lin Baige since he was a child, but Lin Baige's father is a scholar. Lin Baige always says that once his father passes the exam, he will become a high-ranking official in the future. He is a different class from them, a bunch of country folk.
Now that he saw Lin Baige in trouble, he finally mustered up the courage to come over and ask. He thought that by betting his entire fortune, he could bring the person he loved home, but when he saw Lin Baige didn't move, he couldn't help feeling depressed.
The people beside him didn't forget to make sarcastic remarks: "Why don't you give up those little tricks? You only have these two pieces of land. If he follows you back, he will be left with nothing."
"This little vixen wants to go back with the rich man to live a good life, not go back with you to live a hard life."
"If you don't have land, how are you going to support him?"
"I can go hunting in the mountains or work in the city. I have hands and feet, so why can't I support him?" Fu Jiangyu said, clenching his fists. "Also, don't call him a vixen. If anyone disrespects him like that, I'll beat them up."
"Okay, not everyone can be a vixen, so just take it as a compliment." Lin Baige reached out and grabbed Fu Jiangyu, "Take me home."
He didn't care at all about what people around him said. In the past, he was always called a vixen concubine, and in the previous life, people always said that he was extremely licentious. Anyway, now that he met Fu Jiangyu, he didn't care about anyone else. He just regarded the word "fox spirit" as a compliment on his beauty.
"You are so shameless! You are so happy when people call you a vixen?" An uncle pointed at him and cursed.
"What else? If you say you're a fox spirit, would anyone believe it?" Lin Baige looked at him with a smile, "It's more like saying you're a pig spirit."
"You!" The uncle's face turned black with anger, and he wanted to rush up and beat him. If Lin Baige was alone, he would definitely beat Lin Baige, but Fu Jiangyu was standing behind him to protect him, and he couldn't beat the tall Fu Jiangyu.
"Do you want to sell your land? I'll sell your two pieces of land for twenty taels." A man came over and had already taken out the money.
In fact, the two plots of land owned by Fu Jiangyu's family are excellent paddy fields. Not to mention twenty taels, they can be sold for twenty-six or twenty-seven taels when the market is good. If you work hard, you can even sell them for thirty taels.
But he was anxious to buy Lin Baige, who sold herself to bury her father, so he lowered the price to twenty taels, fearing that if he bid too late, Lin Baige would be bought by someone else.
The two landlords in their village are not good people. If they buy Lin Baige back, they will definitely torture him. By then, Lin Baige will be tortured to the point where he looks like neither a human nor a ghost, and will definitely be ridiculed by the villagers. He feels distressed and can't bear to see Lin Baige being abused.
Now someone has made an offer to buy his land, which saves him the time of looking for a buyer. Just as he was about to agree, he was stopped by Lin Baige.
"Who said we're selling the land? I'll go back with you. We're not selling the land." Lin Baige asked Fu Jiangyu to calm down and help carry his father back. "Tomorrow we'll go up the mountain to cut down some trees and make a coffin for my father. We'll bury him in our ancestral tomb. It won't cost any money. The dead are dead. I have to consider the living."
The villagers who were watching were all surprised that he could say such words.
In fact, half a funeral does not cost that much money. For ordinary people, if they don't hold a grand funeral, four or five taels of silver will be enough. For a grand funeral, ten or twenty taels of silver will be enough.
They thought that Lin Baige wanted to keep the eighteen taels of silver for himself, but who knew that he not only rejected the two landlords and went back with Fu Jiangyu, but also refused to let Fu Jiangyu sell the land and insisted on going up the mountain to chop wood for the coffin?
Fu Jiangyu's mind went blank after Lin Baige held his hand. It took him a long time to react to what Lin Baige said: "I do have some carpentry skills, so making a coffin is not a problem, but the funeral cannot be skipped."
"I don't have many relatives. If we hold a funeral, who will see it? My father suffered a lot before he died. I just want him to live a peaceful life." Lin Baige took his hand and patted it, "Let's go, help me take Dad back."
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