Chapter 24: The Seller Is Not a Good Buyer
At night, at Sun Shuping's house.
Seeing Sun Shuping coming back, Wang Xiaoling quickly stepped forward and asked, "How is it, did Lin Xi say he wanted to buy our pork?"
Sun Shuping said happily, "It's almost done."
"What do you mean it's almost there? If you want to buy it, you buy it. If you don't want to buy it, you don't buy it. Why don't you make your words clear?" Wang Xiaoling was very dissatisfied.
"She said she would go back and discuss it with her husband, but her husband wouldn't take the initiative. I think Lin Xi definitely wants to buy it." Sun Shuping was quite confident in himself.
Wang Xiaoling was not so optimistic. Lin Xi was a cunning woman and who knew if she was really willing to buy her pigs.
"What about the price? What do you say?" Wang Xiaoling asked again.
"Forty-five per pound." Sun Shuping answered casually.
"Forty-five!" Wang Xiaoling was annoyed. "Pork in town is at least fifty cents a pound. You just gave me five cents less for no reason. What's the point?"
Is her husband out of his mind? He actually sold it to Lin Xi at this price. No wonder he was so confident that Lin Xi would buy it.
“I’m selling it at my doorstep, so what’s the problem with it being a little cheaper?” Sun Shuping didn’t think there was anything wrong with what he did. He could sell it at his doorstep and save himself from transporting it to town.
"You're almost making me die of anger by selling a pig for just one or two taels of silver less!" Wang Xiaoling immediately became unhappy.
After all, it was she who got this business back, but it was ruined by Sun Shuping.
Hearing Wang Xiaoling say this, Sun Shuping was also unhappy, "I am the master of this house, I decide how to sell it!"
"What?" Wang Xiaoling was annoyed, "You decide. If I'm not here, the old lady will look at you more!"
The couple quarreled all night long. Outside the door, Sun Xiaomao heard his parents quarreling. He was delighted and quickly ran to the kitchen secretly. He remembered that his mother had cooked more than one egg during the day.
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Lin Xi discussed it with Xiao Yongyan and decided that they just needed to buy some pork. Since the Sun family had it ready, they could just buy it.
Lin Xi also asked around with others, and found out that the Sun family's conditions were pretty good. Their pigs were fed better food than other families', so they had more meat.
After several inspections, Lin Xi decided to buy a whole pig from the Sun family.
After removing the offal, there is still more than 100 kilograms of meat, and it is estimated that 90 kilograms of bacon can be produced.
Strictly speaking, not all parts of the pig are suitable for making bacon, but Lin Xi guessed that people here wouldn't care too much, so he decided to make a slight distinction, selling the meat from the better areas at a higher price and the meat from the worse areas at a lower price.
After making up his mind, Lin Xi found Sun Shuping and told her that he wanted to buy a whole pig.
This made Sun Shuping very happy. Originally it should have been more than nine taels of silver, but Sun Shuping directly calculated it as nine taels.
Lin Xi felt that although Wang Xiaoling was not very popular with her, her husband was actually okay and was easy to talk to.
"Okay, I'll start working on it early tomorrow morning and send it to you later." Sun Shuping was very happy.
"The money is..."
"It's not too late to give me the money after I receive the pork. We are from the same village. I'm not afraid that you will run away." Sun Shuping was happy.
After saying goodbye to Lin Xi, Sun Shuping happily announced as soon as he entered the house, "Wife, where is the butcher knife at home? I am going to butcher a pig tomorrow."
When Wang Xiaoling heard what Sun Shuping said, she knew that the deal with Lin Xi was done, so she immediately said, "I'll get it for you. The whetstone hasn't been used for a long time. I'll take it to the creek to rinse it for you."
"Okay." Sun Shuping sat on the bench, picked up a bowl of cold water and drank it. "Haha, nine taels of silver. Take Xiaomao to the town later and buy him new clothes. Buy some cakes for his parents."
Wang Xiaoling's smile froze on her face. Nine taels of silver?
A pig from her family could be sold for about ten taels of silver at the market. Even if Sun Shuping gave Lin Xi a discount, how come there were only nine taels left? It should be more than nine taels.
"No, how did you calculate nine taels?" Wang Xiaoling couldn't help asking.
When this was mentioned, Sun Shuping became even more excited. Not only did he not feel that he had underestimated the money, but he felt that he was particularly good at doing business. He explained the whole story to Wang Xiaoling.
After hearing this, Wang Xiaoling didn't know what to say, and said coldly, "I suddenly remembered that I left a pair of shoes at someone's house last time. I'll go get them."
After saying that, Wang Xiaoling left.
Sun Shuping was immersed in his own joy the whole time and didn't notice Wang Xiaoling's emotions at all.
Wang Xiaoling hurried to the Wang family.
When Old Mrs. Wang saw Wang Xiaoling coming back, she immediately frowned, quickly pulled her into the house, and closed the door behind her.
"Why did you suddenly come back in broad daylight?" Old Mrs. Wang was very unhappy. If her married daughter often came back to her parents' home, she would be gossiped if others saw her.
"Mom, I'm unhappy." Wang Xiaoling pouted.
"What's the matter? Sun Shuping still makes you angry?" Old Mrs. Wang knows her daughter well. She doesn't think Wang Xiaoling will be bullied by Sun Shuping.
"Mom, he's just a fool." Wang Xiaoling recounted what Sun Shuping had done, and said at the end, "I've never seen such a thing, selling things for less and less money."
Old Mrs. Wang had no sympathy for Wang Xiaoling at all, "You were willing to do that in the first place."
Wang Xiaoling curled her lips and said nothing more. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of a few pigs in the corner of the house.
"Mom, why do I feel like there's something wrong with one of the pigs?" Wang Xiaoling asked curiously.
Old Lady Wang said, "Who knows, this pig seems to be sick."
Wang Xiaoling's eyes rolled around. Sick? This was a good opportunity.
The next day.
Sun Shuping sharpened the butcher knife early in the morning, called several brothers from his family, and started butchering the pig early in the morning.
The fresh pork has blood streaks on it and the cuts are all new. It couldn't be fresher.
Sun Shuping found a hemp rope to tie up the pig, and prepared to follow his brother to deliver the pork to Lin Xi's house first.
Who knew that when they were about to leave, Wang Xiaoling suddenly said, "Dad, you've been busy all morning. I've made a pot of noodles with pig blood. You guys can eat first. I'll ask my brother from my mother's family to deliver the pig."
Sun Shuping subconsciously felt something strange about Wang Xiaoling's arrangement, but when the steaming noodles came up, Sun Shuping also smelled the aroma of sesame oil.
The Sun brothers, who had been busy all morning, could not bear such temptation and immediately changed sides. "My sister-in-law is right. Let's eat first. It's the same if they send it."
As they were talking, Wang Xingxiong and other people came in from outside, tied up the pig, carried it up and left.
The two brothers of the Sun family were eating noodles with their mouths full of oil.
Wang Xiaoling gave Wang Xingxiong a look, and Wang Xingxiong nodded and left the Sun family.
A freshly slaughtered pig attracted countless people's attention, and the attention didn't stop until it reached the door of Lin Xi's house.
"Girl, the pigs are coming."
When Lin Xi went out, he saw that the person who delivered the pig was not Sun Shuping, but Wang Xingxiong.
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