Chapter 211 What are you pretending for!
“Dafu, you are such an honest kid, how much can they ask for?
I’m afraid that if you pick and choose too much, the pieces will be hard to sell and you won’t be able to sell them at a high price.”
Mrs. Cao was supported by her two grandsons. Seeing Zhao Mingyue and his group exclaiming at a pile of prey as if they had never seen the world before, she mocked them.
At the same time, she thought that her Cao family had really fallen on hard times and had to live in the same place with such a group of ignorant people.
Moreover, the servants said that every household has now moved into a tiled house!
Her own house was also made of mud and tiled roofs, but a group of farmers who had fled had also replaced their roofs with tiles for the sake of face. The more she thought about it, the angrier she became.
The group of people who were originally smiling happily turned around and saw the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, and the smiles on their faces faded.
Boss Lei felt a little uncomfortable, but he maintained a friendly expression and asked, "Auntie, are you here to buy prey as well?"
Mrs. Cao hummed calmly, "We always buy it in the past, but this time you have a new guest, I'm afraid you won't look down on my Cao family."
So when he came back from hunting, he informed the villagers but didn't inform her.
But she will let the Lei family know that having more people is useless, and buying meat depends on having more money in the family!
No matter how many people there are, how can they afford to eat meat without money? Only the Cao family is willing to eat meat from time to time, so they buy a lot.
Boss Lei forced a smile and said awkwardly, "No, no! I just got back and didn't have time to tell anyone!"
There are some money that I really don't want to earn.
Mrs. Cao's mood finally brightened. Her face, etched with wrinkles, remained expressionless as she ordered, "Alright, show me the prey."
Zhao Mingyue's eyes almost rolled to the sky.
After all, he was a buyer, especially one who came to take care of the Lei family's business, so I couldn't delay their business.
Anyway, they had already made up their minds, so they and Shen Qing led the other women aside to discuss how and what to buy.
Shen Qing looked at the big wild boar with thick skin and meat and said, "I will definitely buy a wild boar. You know that I have dozens of people eating at noon. I think half a pig can last for seven or eight days. Do you want to buy it?"
At noon, if it weren't for her family, the six hired craftsmen, or the villagers who came to help her family on a voluntary basis, what kind of person would she be if she didn't pay them and put more meat on the table?
The other women thought of their families, young and old, who helped Shen Qing pull bricks and tiles, and their eyes sparkled when they talked about the lunch.
Shen Qing is so generous in putting in meat!
He was willing to use oil and white flour, saying that he had never eaten such a greasy dish at home.
They were so envious that they wished they could help carry bricks and tiles!
Now that they had a big wild boar and some money, they also wanted to try some meaty and greasy food.
Jiang Ying said, "I asked Cuihua on the way, and she said fat meat is 25 cents per pound, and lean meat is 21 pounds. I plan to order 30 pounds of fat meat and 20 pounds of lean meat to replenish my energy."
Wild boar meat is much cheaper than fat pig. This much is only a little over a hundred coins. Now that I have nearly a hundred taels of silver left in my savings after building a house, I suddenly feel like I can buy some more...
"No, Shen Qing wants half a fan, you want fifty kilograms, and I plan to take thirty or forty kilograms. There are many other families behind us, and we can't divide it." Zhao Mingyue hurriedly calculated.
Jiang Ying thought so too.
Shen Qing’s food could not be moved. It was the food for the helpers at home, so they had to distribute it among themselves.
Shen Qing offered, "I can give up half of mine. I'll buy another sheep. It's getting cold now, and mutton soup is the most nourishing. Boil a big iron pot of it with pancakes, and it's delicious too."
Speaking of nourishing food, the women present were very excited - make it for their families to drink, who doesn't want to give good food?
"I can't take the whole one. Who can share one with me?" Li E asked.
The Hong family immediately responded: "Me, me, me! Let's split it up."
Feng Xing asked Grandma Qin for a share.
Jiang Ying and Zhao Mingyue each got one.
Xu Hongmei and Zhou Dashan's wife Wang Xiaohua split one end.
Feng Xing suddenly thought: "What should we do with the Guan family?" Sister Guan Li was out carrying bricks and tiles and had no idea they were here to buy meat.
"She can just take it back from me." Shen Qing said.
The others felt relieved and started to choose other ones.
In the end, the big wild boar Shen Qing got a quarter, and the remaining eight families divided it.
Except for Shen Qing's family which only had one sheep, the other families had two sheep at a time.
Pheasants, rabbits, roe deer, musk deer...each family brought a few.
What Shen Qing was thinking about most was the deer!
The cost of buying meat is just a small amount of money, but the deer can make her a lot of money!
When she first arrived, the mall sent her several messages, just like when she discovered the wild honey.
Venison is a good thing, and she can understand the excitement of discovering good things in the mall, but it is inconvenient to ask with so many people around, so she can only wait patiently.
"We need three pheasants. We can only weigh them after removing the feathers and internal organs. We need two hind legs of the rabbit, a total of eight. We need the right hind leg of the roe deer, three. And the sheep..."
The Lei family members looked unhappy.
Shen Qing and a group of women were shocked!
They could understand buying the hind legs of large animals like pigs and sheep, and roe deer would be fine too, but how many pounds did a rabbit weigh after skinning and removing the internal organs? All the meat was in the two hind legs. If Mrs. Cao bought the two hind legs, who would she sell the front half to?
Which sucker is willing to buy it?
Lei Sigui curled his lips and muttered, "It's always like this. In the end, the leftovers and corners can only be left for our family to eat."
Granny Qin was close by and was the first to react. She interrupted, "The sheep are not acceptable. We want them!"
Mrs. Cao was furious. She looked at Granny Qin with narrowed eyes. She wanted to scold her for not knowing how to respect the elderly, but seeing that Granny Qin was of the same age as her, she swallowed it back and scolded instead, "Do you understand the principle of first come, first served?!"
Granny Qin asked back, "Then do you understand who comes first and who comes last? We're letting you look first, not letting you choose first!"
Mrs. Cao thought about it and realized that they had arrived first. She gritted her teeth and sneered, "Okay, okay, then you guys go first. I want to see how much you can buy!"
Cao Wenzhu saw these people for the first time and frowned in dissatisfaction. Cao Qingzhu said from the side: "Second brother, it's them, the refugees who have come here to escape the famine. They are so shameless to fight and grab things."
Cao Wenzhu nodded, thinking that it was no wonder that grandma didn't like them.
The Lei family is really something. They don't make friends with their family, but get close to these disaster victims. I don't know what they are trying to achieve...
Granny Qin, as the representative, stepped forward and announced the division they had agreed on: "We will divide this wild boar. Dafu, please chop it up and weigh it.
The same thing happened with the sheep. Shen Qing wanted a whole one, so the remaining four were divided in half, with each of our families taking half.
The Hong family, the Zhou family, and I each want a musk deer, three rabbits, and a pheasant. The Zhao family, Mr. Jiang, and the others want a roe deer, five rabbits, and two pheasants.
The rest belongs to Shen Qing."
The Lei family members stood there in a daze.
The three members of the Cao family also stood there in a daze.
Granny Qin turned to Granny Cao and asked, "You've lived to this age, and you don't know how to sell chickens and rabbits?
Who sells chickens with the feathers and internal organs removed?
You bought the hind legs of the rabbit, but who will you sell the front half to?"
What are you pretending for!
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