"I want to exchange for more vegetables, preferably ones that are easy to preserve. Can you help me ask?"
Han Siyue also wanted to buy some vegetables, eggs, dried vegetables and the like.
Liu Qiuxia was just here with her sister. Since there were no children at home, she didn't need to buy anything.
After hearing their request, the village chief told his grandson to go to the field and ask his grandmother to pick vegetables, while he went to several houses in the village to ask if they were selling chickens.
There are only dozens of households in the entire village, and the village chief is very familiar with the situation of each household.
Especially after people from the family compound came frequently to exchange things, every family that had something to exchange would come and say hello to the village chief. When there was a need, the village chief would go directly to them, saving the trouble of asking every household.
As for wanting to exchange some vegetables, the village chief has a lot in his own fields, so the opportunity to make money will naturally be reserved for his family first.
After waiting for about half an hour, an old woman and a young woman came back carrying a lot of vegetables.
Several kinds of beans, winter melon, greens, eggplant, tomato, loofah, pepper, cucumber, pumpkin, lettuce, and onion.
Basically, a lot of vegetables from the fields have been picked.
Jiang Mengxue, Han Siyue and Liu Shuxia divided all the stuff among them.
There seems to be a lot of things, but not much actually gets to each person.
After they had distributed the vegetables, the village chief came with a few people dressed as farmers.
Everyone was holding something in their hands, and they all wanted to try their luck and see if they could buy everything.
In the eyes of these people, those who came from the army were all rich people, and they had to spend money to eat any food.
One of the old men was holding a child and two sheep in his hands. One of them was a ewe that had just given birth and the lamb was still drinking milk.
"Two chickens, a cock and a hen, and two baskets of eggs.
Zhao Laoer has a milk-producing ewe. Would you like to take her? Something happened to his family recently and they can't afford to keep her.
It's a good buy, the ewe is still producing milk and will give birth to lambs in the future."
None of the four people present had any intention of buying sheep, and no one had the time to herd sheep and cut grass every day.
Seeing that none of them wanted to buy, the old man leading the sheep was obviously a little disappointed and nervous.
With his back hunched, he held his grandson in one hand and groped for the rope with the other. He looked not only disappointed but even a little desperate.
Jiang Mengxue didn't understand the situation, but seeing an old man of such age so lost, she still felt a little uncomfortable.
"Village Chief, has something happened to this old man at home? How are you going to sell these two sheep?"
Zhao Laoer looked confused. He didn't understand Mandarin very well, so he didn't know what Jiang Mengxue was saying. He just thought that they didn't want to buy the sheep. He had no hope and planned to take his grandson back.
But before he could turn around, he was stopped by the village chief.
"Zhao Laoer, how much do you plan to sell your sheep for?"
"Zhao Laoer is so pitiful. His wife died early, and his daughter-in-law passed away when she gave birth to their grandson. Some time ago, even his son died of illness. Now, Zhao Laoer is the only old man in the family who has to take care of his grandchildren.
"I can't even support myself, let alone the sheep. I want to sell the sheep and take both children to work to make a living."
Jiang Mengxue asked doubtfully, "The child is still young, and we can raise sheep at home. We can also take the excess goat milk and exchange it for other things. Wouldn't this also help supplement the family income?"
Not only Jiang Mengxue didn't understand, but even Liu Shuxia and others didn't quite understand. Isn't selling goat milk better than letting such a young child do the work?
As soon as Village Chief Zhang heard this, he knew that Jiang Mengxue and her group had no idea about the situation on their side.
However, in order to sell Zhao Laoer's sheep, he still explained patiently.
"Not many people buy goat milk. We have a lot of sheep here, and the collective raises a lot. Even if someone wants to buy some goat milk, they will only use their work points to exchange for some in the village. Who would be willing to spend that spare money on goat milk? It's not scarce."
Those who didn't understand the situation were a little embarrassed, but they also learned something new.
"Then ask how much the two sheep cost. If they are suitable, I will buy them."
Jiang Mengxue was a soft-hearted person, and couldn't bear to see the pitiful look of an old man or child, so she just thought of it as a good deed.
The village chief was very happy when he heard this, and immediately ran to the back to chat with Zhao Laoer.
After a while, someone came back and said to Jiang Mengxue, "This ewe is still young and can at least give birth to several more litters. But I'm very grateful that you bought it, so Zhao Laoer said he would give you the normal price for a wool sheep, three cents per pound, and only charge you two yuan for the lamb. This lamb is also a ewe, so you won't suffer any loss."
Jiang Mengxue was really surprised. You know, the mutton she bought in her hometown was only 70 or 80 cents per pound, and that was after the sheep had been slaughtered.
Sheep without wool or internal organs can usually be sold for 40 cents per pound.
Not to mention that for a ewe that is still in her prime and producing milk, the lamb is essentially a gift. Otherwise, how could a full-month-old lamb cost only two dollars?
The village chief called his two sons and asked them to lift the ewe and weigh it, which was more than 140 kilograms.
Jiang Mengxue didn't hesitate and gave a total of 60 yuan.
The village chief took the money and found that the amount was wrong, but seeing Jiang Mengxue's decisive appearance, he finally swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth and said nothing, and handed the money to Zhao Laoer beside him.
Although Zhao Laoer could not read, he was not so bad as to be unable to calculate even small sums of money. Moreover, when he was preparing to sell the sheep, he had calculated how much he could get for it.
But the amount of money in his hands at this moment was obviously much more.
He and Jiang Mengxue had difficulty communicating, and neither could understand what the other was saying. He could only pull the village chief over and gesture with the money in his hand. He took out two bills and handed them to the village chief, pointing in the direction of Jiang Mengxue.
In the end, no one knew what the village chief said. Zhao Laoer argued with him for a few words, but was suppressed by the village chief.
Zhao Laoer may have also understood Jiang Mengxue's thoughts. His weather-frost face was full of sadness, and he looked at Jiang Mengxue with gratitude.
Then he said something in his grandson's ear, and his grandson ran over and knelt down and kowtowed in front of Jiang Mengxue.
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