Chapter 1342 Help
Bai Erlang said, "How could you be so careless as to let yourself be beaten for ten cents?"
The buyer was stunned and couldn't find any words to refute.
Bai Shan smiled and said, "Uncle, you should go back soon. It's noon now. Just go back and have lunch and take a nap. But you still have to tell your relatives and friends not to come to the Jia family to buy cattle in the future. I heard that they have already collected money from several families to look after the cattle."
When the buyer heard this, he was furious, "This is a deliberate trick!"
After he calmed down, he frowned and looked at Bai Shan, saying, "Why call me uncle? My grandson is older than you. My last name is Jiao, so call me Grandpa Jiao."
Seeing that he looked younger than her father, Manbao said, "My father is older than you."
Old man Jiao stopped talking immediately.
Bai Shan insisted on not taking the money back. Old Man Jiao looked at the clothes they were wearing, hesitated for a moment, and then took the money away.
Bai Shan even waved to others.
After the others left, Manbao felt something was wrong and asked Bai Shan, "Why did you pay these ten cents for him?"
Bai Shan smiled and said, "It's only ten cents, not much. I really don't want them to fight. Doesn't your family want to buy a cow? This is a good opportunity."
"The price he offered is too high. We won't buy it."
Bai Shan said, "The price is set by people. Sometimes it's high, and sometimes it's low. Just wait."
Manbao blinked and became thoughtful.
Bai Shan said: "I wonder if their family is in urgent need of money."
"What's so difficult about this? Just ask and you'll know." Manbao turned his head and looked for the young man he had just met. He was staggering towards the market.
Manbao chased after him and asked him, "Big brother, I wonder why the Jia family wants to sell the cow?"
She said, "They're already pregnant. If we keep the baby, we'll have an extra calf next year. How wonderful."
The young man laughed and said, "The two brothers got involved in gambling and owed the casino a lot of money, so they wanted to sell the cow to pay it back."
Manbao hated gambling the most. He frowned and asked, "But I don't think they're in a hurry."
"Anyway, we just need to get the money together before the New Year," the young man said. "We won't have trouble selling this cow. If the price isn't right, we can just put it aside. If one buyer doesn't buy, another will. That's why the two brothers aren't in a hurry."
Bai Shan immediately understood the key point and asked, "Is there no cattle for sale in the county now?"
"Yes, there are, but not many," the young man said. "Every time one is released, it's snapped up. So even though the price in the cattle and horse market isn't high, once the competition starts, no cattle will be sold for less than four taels."
He was quite well-informed and said, "I heard that since County Magistrate Yang is no longer around, the cattle and horse traders outside are not very willing to store too much goods in our Luojiang County."
Where did Yang Heshu get so many awesome things before?
That was all spread out, one by one, the county government would pay for it all and then sell it to the farmers at a fair price.
Many farmers cannot come up with so much money at once. What should they do?
Just like the Zhou family, they all borrowed money at the beginning and then paid it back in installments.
Luojiang County was poor, and the county government didn't have enough money to pay for these expenses, so Yang Heshu had to take out the money himself and get a document, which was considered a temporary loan to the county government.
After the farmer paid the money back to the county government, the county government would issue a document to return it to him, which was equivalent to him paying the county government out of his own pocket.
Now that he is gone, he has promoted County Lieutenant Liu to be the county magistrate. Not to mention that County Lieutenant Liu cannot afford to store so much money for cattle and grain for the county government, even if he could, he would not dare to take it.
Just because the gentry in Luojiang County couldn't suppress Yang Heshu doesn't mean they couldn't suppress him.
Therefore, as soon as Yang Heshu left, the grain prices in the county town rose briefly, but the grain purchase price in the countryside was actually lowered.
However, in general, the county's rules have not changed much.
But now, it has only been two months since Yang Heshu left office, and no one knows what the situation will be like in two, five, ten, or even twenty years.
Bai Shan then quietly said to Man Bao, "County Magistrate Liu can't control the people in the county, but he can maintain the status quo. If you want to buy cattle, I'm afraid you'll have to use your connections to have someone keep an eye on you in the county."
Manbao said, "When we have time, let's go into the city and have a look. If we really can't find it, let my second brother know and have him go into the city ahead of time to guard it."
Bai Erlang said, "Why bother? Just tell me how many cows you want to buy and what kind you want. I'll go back and tell my father and have him find them for you."
"Is the thread your father helped you tie expensive?"
"Don't worry. Our two families have nothing to do with each other. My father will definitely not take your money. If he doesn't agree, my grandmother won't agree either." Bai Erlang said, "You don't know, my grandmother loves to talk about you the most now. She talked about you all the time during dinner yesterday, saying that it was thanks to you that my eldest brother was treated this time. Otherwise, my eldest brother would have suffered so much."
Manbao said, "I want to buy two more bulls, preferably over a year and a half old, two years old is best."
"Don't you already have a cow at home?"
"But my family has quite a bit of land. My sixth brother also got a share of the land. But now several of my brothers are away from home, so only my eldest brother and his family are busy at home. More cattle will help them have some free time."
“Feeding cattle is also hard work.”
Manbao: "Hey, the fields are covered with grass. No matter how hard it is to herd cattle, how can it be as hard as pulling a plow?"
When he was a child, Bai Erlang, who had once pulled a five-step plow just to join in the fun, immediately fell silent. After all, what other work in the world could be harder than pulling a plow?
Bai Shan pointed to the Jia family's backyard and said, "What if we can buy this cow?"
"Then I'll buy two more bulls."
Bai Shan: "Can your cowshed fit so many cows?"
Manbao said meaningfully: "Once I buy it back, my father will naturally find a way."
She asked, "How are you going to get my family to buy his cow?"
Bai Shan also said meaningfully: "You will know in two days."
Two days later, Manbao really found out, and she learned it from her elder brother.
Bai Dalang's illness was almost cured, so Manbao only prescribed some medicine for him to take himself and for him to get an acupuncture treatment once a day.
She had just returned from the Bai family with her medicine box when Zhou Dalang hurried in. He said hello to Manbao and rushed to find Old Zhou. "Dad, do we still want the cow from the Jia family in Dali Village?"
Old Zhou sat by the brazier, smoking a pipe, and said slowly, "Didn't his family insist on five taels of silver? That's too expensive, I don't want it."
"Gang Jiali came to me and said they would sell it to us for four ounces and five cents of silver if our family was willing."
Old Zhou: "Aren't they quite tough? Why are they willing to give in?"
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