Chapter 040: Chen Ning Buys a Horse
After discussing some things with Su Lianyi, Shen Ning took Qiyue away.
It was still early, so they didn't go home directly. Shen Ning took Qiyue to Jufulou for dinner first, and then they found out...this little girl was thin and small, but she had a huge appetite.
At first, seeing her finish a bowl of rice in no time, Shen Ning thought the child was hungry and asked for another bowl for her.
In the end, he finished it in just a few strokes. After finishing, he immediately sat upright and looked at Chen Ning a little embarrassedly.
"Xiao Qi, do you want more?"
The little girl shook her head shyly: "No."
Shen Ning hesitated for a moment, then asked for another bowl for her. Of course, it wasn't because she was reluctant to give it to the little girl, but mainly because she was a little worried that the little girl wouldn't be able to digest it if she ate too much.
When the rice came up again, Shen Ning was already full. There were still dishes on the table. Qi Yue held the rice bowl and asked Shen Ning: "Miss, are you full?"
Shen Ning hummed: "It's okay, eat slowly, there's no rush."
She originally thought that the little girl was embarrassed to make her wait, but then she quickly realized that Xiao Qi's purpose in confirming whether she was full was... to prepare to clean up the battlefield.
Seeing the five or six large plates of food and the rice in the bowls quickly becoming clean, Shen Ning finally couldn't help but said, "Xiao Qi, don't eat anymore. I'm a little scared."
Will it be broken?
Fortunately, after cleaning up the battlefield, the little girl finally burped and looked very satisfied.
Shen Ning was worried, so she checked her pulse and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the little girl's body. She was really just eating a lot, and then she felt relieved.
Qi Yue was embarrassed when she was full. Seeing that Shen Ning was a little worried about her, the little girl shyly whispered: “Miss, don’t worry, I was born with a big appetite…I have been like this since I was a child.”
Looking at the little girl's thin arms and legs and her flat stomach despite eating so much, Shen Ning laughed: "Okay, as long as you don't feel uncomfortable."
After leaving the restaurant, Shen Ning took Qiyue to buy a carriage.
Now she lives in the county town, and she is going to do business next. It is really inconvenient to go out without a car.
She took July to the cattle and horse market to choose a horse first.
It was already past noon, and there were fewer people and livestock in the cattle and horse market. Shen Ning knew that she had arrived a little late, so she thought of just taking a look. If she didn't find anything good, she would come back early tomorrow morning to choose.
Sure enough, after entering, what I saw were all the leftovers of others. Most of the animals were drooping, and after being exposed to the sun, they looked listless.
Just as Shen Ning was about to leave, she suddenly saw a black horse tied under a tree in front of her... Compared to the drooping horses next to it, the black horse had shiny black hair and a sleek and agile body. It stood there with a heroic and high morale.
Shen Ning fell in love with it at first sight. She walked over and asked the person next to her: "Hello, how much is this horse?"
The horse dealer was a young man, leaning against a tree with a straw in his mouth, looking a bit hopeless. "Thirty taels."
An ordinary horse can be bought for about ten taels of silver, and a better one can only cost twenty taels at most. Thirty taels is indeed a very high price...but Shen Ning thinks this horse is worth thirty taels.
But she still bargained: "Make it cheaper."
Bargaining when buying things is an attitude.
The man paused, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "How much can you come up with, my lady?"
Shen Ning said directly: “Twenty taels.”
Isn’t it like this when bargaining? Start with a big price, and then slowly negotiate it down if it doesn’t work... and you have to act like you won’t buy it if it’s not cheap enough.
Seeing that Shen Ning looked like she was going to leave if the negotiation failed, the man twitched his lips slightly, then stood up and said helplessly: "Okay, twenty taels is twenty taels. If I wasn't in urgent need of money, I definitely wouldn't sell it at this price."
Shen Ning hadn't expected that it could be chopped off so easily. It was so easy that she began to wonder if the horse was just a showpiece.
"Wait, let me check on the horse first."
Shen Ning walked over and saw that the horse was dark all over, with a tuft of white hair on its neck, its eyes were clear, bright and docile, its muscles were strong, and its teeth were well taken care of... She didn't know much about horses, but she could tell that this was a good horse.
Shen Ning saw from the corner of her eye that the man looked extremely distressed, and worried that he would go back on his word, so she immediately took out the silver to pay.
After Shen Ning led the horse, the young man walked away without looking back.
Shen Ning glanced over there and saw that the other party was obviously very reluctant to leave, as if he was afraid that he would regret it if he looked at him for one more moment, and he was still muttering something.
"I'm going crazy! A two-and-a-half-year-old Black Qilin, and twenty taels... only worth twenty taels..."
It was painful, but who could blame Mo Qilin's master for not feeling sorry for it? He just found a way to sell the rare BMW that was supposed to come out of nowhere for twenty taels!
This black unicorn can easily be exchanged for a big house in the capital!
Shen Ning knew that she had gotten a bargain, but she didn't know how big a bargain it was, after all, she didn't know much about horses.
With a horse, buying a car was much easier. So when she returned, she had become a car owner.
Moreover, Shen Ning was surprised to find that Xiao Qiyue could actually drive a car.
The carriage was covered with a mat given by the merchant who sold the carriage, and there was nothing else. Shen Ning planned to buy it herself.
After returning home, Qi Yue drove the carriage directly into the yard through the back door... But as soon as Shen Ning lifted the curtain, she found that the yard, which was clean in the morning, was in a mess. The ground was full of smashed rambutan fruits, and there was almost no place to step.
The two young boys, Eleven and Twelve, were cleaning silently.
"What's going on?"
As Shen Ning walked over, she looked up at the huge rambutan tree on the other side of the courtyard wall.
Before going out in the morning, she saw the tree full of red fruits and exclaimed that it was growing so well. But when she got home, all the fruits on the tree fell into her yard.
It's impossible that the fruit fell by itself... But rambutans are edible, and ordinary people would not deliberately waste them. But in just half a day, the fruit on the tree turned into a mess in her yard. So, was this a deliberate targeting of her?
Eleven came over and said in a muffled voice, "They deliberately smashed it down from the tree."
Shen Ning hummed: "Don't worry about it, I'll go ask."
She turned and walked out the door, and July immediately caught up with her: "Miss, I'll go with you."
Shen Ning did not stop him and knocked on the door next door with Qiyue.
The person who opened the door was a fat lady. She stood behind the half-open door, looking unfriendly. "What are you doing?"
Shen Ning smiled and asked her: "I want to ask what's going on with the fruit in our yard?"
The fat lady rolled her eyes: "The fruit is ripe and it's about to fall off. What can we do..."
After saying that, he was about to close the door, but Shen Ning pushed the door shut: "Excuse me, do you have any old grudges with our landlord?"
The fat aunt sneered: "We have been neighbors for more than ten years. What old grudges can there be? Stop talking nonsense and let go!"
"That's deliberately targeting our family."
Shen Ning smiled and let go of her hand: "I just came to confirm."
From inside the door came the fat aunt's disdainful sneer: "Tsk!"
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