Chapter 1342

"Isn't it about the new year? The casino came to collect the money. They couldn't take it out and wanted to sell the cattle. It's been said that their Jia brothers are overbearing everywhere these two days. Whoever goes to see the cattle, whether they are successful or not, they have to pay them ten Wen, or they will beat people, so no one goes to see the cattle. It's said that they took the cattle to the county early this morning, but they didn't sell it."

Zhou Dalang said, "the new year is coming, and there are not many people in the cattle and horse market. Most cattle dealers go home for the new year, so there are few people who buy cattle. They can't sell them. That's why they brought them back to ask us."

As soon as Lao Zhou heard this, he immediately put away the cigarette rod and got up and said, "let's go and call Lao San. Let's go to Dali Village."

Man Bao wants to join in the fun. Lao Zhou tou doesn't let her follow. The Jia brothers have a bad temper. Even if they don't fight, they must have a quarrel to buy it. Don't take man Bao with you.

Man Bao can only watch them go.

Feng came back from picking vegetables from the vegetable garden. When he saw it, he smiled and said, "man Bao, come and help the second sister-in-law choose vegetables. Just now your fifth brother asked three of them to come back and send a message that your fourth brother has returned to the county and will go home for dinner tonight."

Man Bao took the medicine box back to the house and put it away. He sat opposite Feng's and asked, "why don't they come back now?"

"He said he wanted to see several people and buy tea. Your fifth brother followed him and asked the third to come back first."

Because the Chinese New Year is coming, Lang will go to the county on Friday to inquire about Lang's news on Thursday, and buy some new year goods and things needed for wedding wine.

The one who wants to get married is Da Ya, who is a close sister of three. Naturally, he runs errands up and down, so he also goes to the county town these two days.

Man Bao knew that his second sister-in-law was the most informed. He couldn't help asking her, "second sister-in-law, do you know the Jia brothers in Dali Village?"

"You know, those are two bastards. They are even younger than your fourth brother." No one else knows about this ten mile eight village, but Feng doesn't know.

If so, it must be because Qili Village is too biased and no one has gone to the market recently.

In the past, Qian was in poor health and needed to stay in the house all year round. She couldn't even get out of the house, but she couldn't hide the news outside the village because Feng was there.

Man Bao also likes to inquire about the news with her second sister-in-law, and Feng likes to gossip with people. He didn't wait for man Bao to ask, so he went on, "your fourth brother was beaten. At least he knew he had changed. Their brothers are like the scabby head in our village. They can't get rid of it. They have exported a lot of money in the past two years."

Man Bao was curious, "recently someone spread gossip about them, so no one wants to see his cattle and buy cattle?"

"It's not gossip. It's been spread all over the ten mile eight village. Two days ago, the day we went to the Taoist temple for worship, a man in Baima village went to their house to see cattle. Guess what?"

Feng looked at man Bao with bright eyes and wanted man Bao to ask her.

Man Bao said, "their family forced the cow watchers to give ten Wen?"

Feng Shizhi asked, "how do you know? But it's not ten Wen. I heard it's fifty Wen. If you touch the cow, you have to give another twenty Wen. "

Man Bao:... It has to be passed on several times before it can be passed on like this.

When gossiping, the most annoying thing is the uncooperative audience like man Bao, so Feng said, "anyway, the whole village has been spread all over. The Jia brothers are very arrogant, but no one dares to offend them and reason with the two bastards. Isn't that a crime? So even those who want to buy cattle will not go. "

Buying and selling cattle in the countryside is not like buying and selling cattle in the city. You can go directly to the cattle and horse market.

In the countryside, both buyers and sellers complete the transaction by introducing and sending letters to each other.

For example, if the Jia brothers intend to sell cattle, their relatives and friends will tell their relatives and friends about it, and then their relatives and friends will publicize it with people they know, so that those who intend to buy cattle will come to the door.

Otherwise, the Jia family is not a bull and horse market. Who knows that his family has cattle to sell?

Now, as soon as the Jia family has a bad reputation and is forced to ask for money, who will go to his family to buy cattle?

As for old Zhou tou, he was stingy and wanted to be cheap. He also had six sons. When the old Zhou family was poorer than the Jia family, the Jia family couldn't bully him, let alone their family's reputation.

So old Zhou tou came to the door with his two sons and impolitely pressed the price to 328 yuan.

The Jia brothers almost vomited blood at this one-off price. After bargaining with Lao Zhoutou for half a day, they still had to sell the cow to Lao Zhoutou for four Liang silver after dark.

No way. The people in the casino will come to get the money tomorrow. If the Zhou family doesn't buy it, they won't find a second buyer for a while.

The people in the casino said that if they couldn't get the money again, they would cut off their hand,

Old Zhou head happily took the number of the cow and the knot cutting book written under the witness of the two elders into his arms, and then personally led the cow out to say goodbye to Guan.

Guan Li smiled and said, "it's dark this day. Go back after your in laws have dinner at home."

Old Zhou tou hurriedly said, "not busy, not busy. Today, when my fourth brother comes back, my family must be waiting for dinner. I'll invite my in laws to eat at home another day."

Zhou Dalang whispered, "Dad, the day after tomorrow is the day when Daya gets married."

"Yes, yes, our two families can have dinner together tomorrow."

Before getting married, the Guan family sent the dowry to the Zhou family first.

Old Zhou tou warmly invited Guan Lichang to come to dinner tomorrow.

Guan Li smiled and responded.

The father and son went home from Dali Village in the dark. Old Zhou tou complained all the way, "they all said that four Liang is a fair price. We have to wait until dark to agree. Two dogs kill us. We have to go back in the dark. It's cold..."

On Wednesday Lang said, "Dad, don't you bite the price of 329 money to the end?"

If you had given up four Liang silver earlier, maybe they could go home before it was completely dark.

Old Zhou tou stared at Sanlang. However, it was too dark for Sanlang to see.

He could only hum: "don't think that if you earn some money at home now, you won't treat it as money. How much work did you have to do to earn it back?"

He said: "no matter how much money you earn in the future, you have to save when you should save. Otherwise, how much money you earn will not be enough to spend. Don't learn manbao. You're always extravagant in spending money."

Zhou Dalang and Wednesday Lang should go.

Far away, seeing a torch at the entrance of the village, they knew that it was the family waiting, so they led the cow and accelerated their pace.

When he got there, he saw that Lang hurriedly greeted him on Friday, "Dad, why is it so long? The family is waiting for you to eat. The fourth brother came back and he made a lot of money."

Old Zhou tou was in a good mood. He stuffed Zhou Dalang with the cow rope he had been holding in his hand. He walked home quickly with Wu Lang and asked, "how much did you earn?"

"Dad, ask the fourth brother yourself."