"Young lady, where are you going on such a hot day? This donkey looks very energetic, how old is it?"
Women living near the main road greeted Yue Jiuyue warmly, asking her all sorts of questions.
"Hello, sister! Alas! We're facing a disaster, and on top of that, something else has happened at home. I'm thinking of selling these two grown donkeys to get some money to tide us over. Sigh!"
Yue Jiuyue sighed, her face full of sorrow, as if there was some insurmountable obstacle in her family.
"Oh? That's really..."
The woman hadn't expected that her words had struck a nerve, and she looked embarrassed, unsure of what to say next.
But looking at Yue Jiuyue's two donkeys, she still mustered up the courage to ask:
"So, how much did you sell this donkey for, young lady?"
"Sigh! It's been so hard to raise them to this size, I really can't bear to sell them!"
Yue Jiuyue sighed. It wasn't that she wanted to pretend; the main problem was that she didn't know the prices of horses and donkeys. She hadn't even noticed if there was a horse market in Huandong Town, so how would she know the prices?
"Uh... well, sister, I also see that you raise this donkey very well. You can tell at a glance that you take good care of it. But I really want to buy your donkey."
"Now, because of the rich people in the city, the prices of these animals are outrageously high. A horse costs over a hundred taels of silver, and a donkey can sell for almost fifty taels. I really can't come up with that much money right now. How about this, I'll go and discuss it with my husband. Will you wait a moment?"
The woman's idea was simple: she also wanted to ride this wave and make some money. However, she knew that such a large sum of money was not something a woman like her could decide, even though she was quite envious of others making that kind of money.
Their village is relatively close to the county town, so families would take any eggs or vegetables they had to sell in the county town, and every family had some extra money.
This year, due to the drought, wealthy people who didn't have enough livestock wanted to move away from here, so they set their sights on villages like theirs, buying up anything that could be used to haul things, such as cows and donkeys, at high prices.
More than one family in their village sold their livestock for a good price. For families like theirs who usually borrow livestock from the village, they could only watch with envy.
Now that she has this opportunity, she certainly wants to seize it.
However, she needed to go home and discuss it with her child's father, so she could only ask Yue Jiuyue to wait a bit.
"Okay, then I'll wait for half an hour. I'll take this opportunity to rest here."
Yue Jiuyue agreed, and seeing the woman run away as fast as she could, she sat quietly under the shade of a tree and waited.
After waiting for a quarter of an hour, the woman did not return, but other people did.
"Sister-in-law, I heard you're planning to sell these two donkeys? Sell them to me! I'll give you 120 taels for both donkeys, how about that?"
The newcomers were not a single person; they appeared to be a pair of brothers, both around thirty years old and seemingly honest and unassuming. However, Yue Jiuyue dared not relax her guard and had already taken out her stun gun, concealing it with her sleeve.
"Brother, I'm sorry, I just promised a lady that she wants to buy one, and I went home to discuss it with her family. How about you buy one?"
Yue Jiuyue knew that her voice was trembling and her expression must be terrible, but she was really scared. There were two strong men in front of her!
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