Chapter 33 Procurement
The father and daughter felt something in their hearts and looked at each other secretly, knowing that this matter was basically inevitable.
Sure enough, the old man fondly stroked the sheep's back and nodded to the father and daughter: "Six taels is six taels, I want this sheep!"
After hearing this, the other two old men who wanted to buy sheep bowed to the old man very tactfully and then left.
Gu Tang gave the old man a thumbs up and said, "You really have a good eye for talent! Such a rare goat should be matched with someone like you. You spent six taels to buy the goat today. After a few years, it can earn you sixty taels!"
These words made the old man even happier. He took out a purse and a very small scale from his arms.
Then he counted out two silver coins from the purse and put them on the scale to weigh them.
I guess these two silver coins were cut by the old man at home, weighing exactly six taels, no more, no less.
"You two, father and daughter, take a look at it." The old man handed the scale to the father and daughter and asked them to take a look.
After more than a month of traveling through time, Gu Tang was already very familiar with this kind of scale. He smiled after just one glance: "You are an old hand, your eyes are accurate, the amount of this silver is exactly right!"
The old man was so flattered that his face lit up with smiles. He turned around and said to Gu Lianshan, "Your daughter is sweet and good at talking, and has a generous temper. I can tell at a glance that you love your daughter. Daughters who are not loved at home are all timid and can't show up in public. You have a great daughter! It will be easy to arrange a marriage for her in the future!"
These words made Gu Lianshan happier than the six taels of silver: "Among all the girls and boys in my house, she is the most caring and filial. If I don't love her, who else can I love?"
The old man agreed with this statement very much. He thought that such a filial and considerate person would be loved by everyone.
After putting away the purse and scales, the old man handed two silver coins to Gu Lianshan.
Seeing this, Gu Tang handed over the rope to tie the sheep and reminded him, "Although this sheep is a goat, it has a rare docile temperament. Just lead it back and don't worry about it being disobedient on the way."
The old man nodded. He had noticed it before. A group of people surrounded the goat, prying its mouth and turning its hooves, but the goat didn't lose its temper.
Even domestic sheep are rarely so docile, which is one of the reasons why the old man likes this sheep.
After patting the sheep's head twice, the old man said goodbye and left with a happy look on his face.
"This old man is quite easy to talk to." Gu Lianshan clenched the silver coins in his hand, smiling so much that he couldn't close his mouth.
"They don't lack money." Gu Tang saw clearly that the fur coat underneath the old man's silk coat was made of deerskin.
To make a fur coat out of deerskin, if you don't go hunting in the mountains to get the skin, and buy it all with silver, don't even think about it without more than twenty taels of silver.
"That's right. If Dad wasn't short of money, he wouldn't care about these six taels." Gu Lianshan clicked his tongue twice and started dreaming in the daytime.
Gu Tang didn't want to pay attention to this, and stretched out her hand in front of her father: "Silver."
Gu Lianshan paused, then looked painful.
The hand holding the silver hesitated for a while before reluctantly handing it over, "Let Dad hold it for a while longer, Dad doesn't want it."
"Look at the sky. It's getting dark early today, and we still need to buy some food and daily necessities. If you dawdle any longer, we might have to go back in the dark!"
"Food and daily necessities?" Gu Lianshan was confused. "What food and daily necessities do you want to buy? We already have everything at home. This money is not even warm yet, and you want to spend it now?"
Gu Tang was not happy with this. "Yes, we have everything at home, but can I get food and clothes? I should buy some food and daily necessities and hide them before the snow falls. When the road is blocked by heavy snow, my grandma is so cruel that she will kick me out and let me starve to death!"
Gu Lianshan: ...You know what, what his daughter said, his mother can indeed do it!
"Don't be angry, don't be angry. Dad will listen to you. Buy some food and daily necessities for you to eat and use. Don't worry about other people."
Gu Tang paused, said nothing, and led her father straight to the place where chickens and ducks were sold.
The chickens and ducks sold here are not sold by weight. Regardless of size, they are all sold individually.
A rooster costs 40 wen, a hen 60 wen. Ducks are cheaper, 30 wen for a rooster and 50 wen for a hen.
Gu Tang asked around and found out that the prices were all the same.
Since the prices are the same, just choose the bigger one.
These chickens and ducks are all raised by farmers themselves. Those who can afford to raise them are fed with wheat bran mixed with wild vegetables and grass. Those who cannot afford to raise them are fed with only wild vegetables and grass.
The chickens and ducks raised in the two ways are very different in appearance. The former are slightly larger and fatter, while the latter are not only smaller, but also very thin.
Not to mention laying one egg every day, it is not certain that an egg will be laid even in three days.
In addition to differences in fatness, size, and the number of years they are fed is also different.
Some of the chickens and ducks are just about to grow up this year, while others are old creatures that have been raised for two or three years.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a rooster or a duck, but the hens and ducks must be from this year.
Chickens and ducks raised in this way don't lay many eggs to begin with, and as they are raised for longer years, they lay even fewer eggs.
Gu Tang didn't know how to tell the age of the chickens and ducks, so she simply pulled her father over and asked him to help take a look.
Gu Lianshan thought his daughter was greedy, so he rolled up his sleeves, squatted down, pulled over a hen, turned over its comb and claws, and asked Gu Tang if this one would do.
"Yes, but it's not enough. I need ten newly grown hens and ten roosters. And ten male and female ducks, all newly grown this year."
Gu Lianshan stood up immediately and asked, "Aren't you greedy?"
"Who said I'm not greedy?" Gu Tang glared at her father. "I'll buy the rooster and duck and eat them slowly. I'll raise the hens and ducks to lay eggs!"
"Yes, yes, yes! Buy the roosters and ducks and kill them for meat, and buy the hens and ducks and keep them for laying eggs! Brother, your daughter knows how to manage the household, so you can't go wrong by listening to her!"
"That's right. If we buy these twenty hens and ducks, we can eat more eggs every month than we can use up! If we save a lot and sell them in the city, that will also be a profit!"
"Yes, in the future, the income from chicken and duck eggs alone will make the family a lot more comfortable. This is an unexpected good thing..."
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Several women and men who were selling chickens and ducks started to persuade Gu Lianshan, all of them with smiles on their faces.
Twenty ducks, twenty chickens, this is a big business, and each of them can afford a few chickens and ducks.
After being advised like this, Gu Lianshan didn't want to ask his daughter what she would use to feed so many chickens and ducks, so he could only bite the bullet and pick.
After picking for about a quarter of an hour, Gu Lianshan went through all the chickens and ducks, picked out forty newly grown chickens and ducks this year, and put them in separate chicken and duck cages.
Then comes the settlement of accounts.
This Gu Tang was an expert and quoted 1,800 copper coins.
Gu Lianshan shuddered, his heart bleeding. One thousand eight hundred copper coins is more than one tael of silver!
Gu Tang didn't look at her father's expression. She touched the secret pocket in her sleeve. She only had silver on her, no copper coins.
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