All kinds of delicious sheep and goats floated in their minds.
The saliva was flowing uncontrollably.
"It's a live sheep, it costs...six cents of silver." The child hesitated and quoted a price.
"Six ounces of money?" Yan Laoer thought about whether it was appropriate.
"No." The child shook his head violently: "It's six denarii."
He repeated it again. Although his face was dirty, his eyes were bright and he stared at Yan Laoer without blinking.
"Not all are the same." Yan Laoer said deliberately.
"Silver is valuable, I know." The child looked at Yan Laoer warily, almost saying, don't try to deceive me. "I only want silver, not copper coins."
Yan Laoer saw that if he continued teasing, he would make the child anxious, so he asked with a smile: "Where is your sheep? I have to take a look first."
"You have to go to my house to hold it," the child said.
Afraid that they would not want to go, the child emphasized: "My sheep are well-raised and very clean. Pork costs twenty-five cents, and mutton only costs fifteen cents. They are all eaten like meat. I even gave you a bargain. A few days ago,
On the scale, my sheep weighs sixty pounds. They must have grown a little more these days, so I'll give them to you. Not counting the money, it's a great deal."
Yan Laoer laughed, seeing that the child really wanted to sell the sheep to them.
"Is your home far away?"
"It's not far. Just walk along this street for a while. It's very close." The child said impatiently.
"Go and have a look." Li Xuemei said.
Yan Laoer asked the child to get on the bullock cart.
The child shook his head and ran ahead.
The group of people followed the child for the so-called section. It was so close that they almost reached the eastern end of the town...
The children were afraid that they would run away, so they kept looking back while running ahead.
Until he ran to the alley of his house and shouted happily: "Mom! Mother! I found the person who bought the sheep! I brought it to him. It's at the entrance of the alley. Come out and have a look!"
Not long after, a woman hurriedly came out and saw a family on the bullock cart. She quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm not sensible. Don't blame me. My sheep...the sheep...have been fixed."
The child was running and wheezing. Hearing what the woman said, he immediately became anxious: "It's not determined. We didn't get Mr. Feng's coins. The sheep are still at home. Mom, they really want to buy meat. After Mr. Feng
I stood in front of the stall for a long time. I wanted to eat meat but thought it was too expensive. Our sheep happened to be sold to them. We all agreed, and it was six cents of silver."
Yan Laoer coughed twice, wanting to educate his children that the price without a transaction is all fictitious, and the final selling price will be when the money is obtained.
But seeing that the child was jumping in a hurry, he swallowed his words.
"Six cents of silver?" When the woman heard this, her face turned red and she said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you're talking nonsense, it's not worth the price, it's not worth it."
The child loudly said: "I asked someone, mutton is fifteen cents per catty, and our sheep weighs sixty cents, which can be sold for nine cents. Mr. Feng bullied us and only gave us two and a half cents. He also had to pay for the slaughter.
Mom, let’s sell it to this uncle, and he’ll pay six cents.”
Yan Laoer:......
Don't lie, he didn't bid.
"Sister-in-law, you have a sheep that you want to sell. I want to buy it. Since no one's deposit has been confiscated, how about selling it to me? I'll take a look at the sheep first, and then we'll discuss the price. If it's suitable, I'll give you the cash and take it away directly.
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Yan Laoer didn't want to worry about the lawsuit between mother and son. He was more concerned about the sheep.
When the child heard this, he ran in and came with the goat.
The sheep bleated twice and then stopped braying.
Yan Laoer came closer to look at his teeth and then touched his belly.
"Ewe? She just gave birth to a lamb, right? Do you want to sell it?" Yan Laoer was surprised.
He thought it was a ram, and generally rams were sold and slaughtered for meat.
People who raise sheep do not sell their ewes, but keep them for breeding.
"My father is not at home. Grandpa is ill and is eager to get medicine," the child said.
Yan Yu couldn't help but hold her forehead. The child who was quite clever before told the truth now. No wonder Mr. Feng wants to lower the price. You are in a hurry to use money. If you don't lower the price, who will lower the price?
Yan Laoer said: "Since it has been weighed, it will be calculated as sixty kilograms. You don't want six cents of silver, and I won't give you two cents of five or four cents of silver. Sister-in-law, can you think of it?"
The woman only hesitated for a moment before agreeing.
The price is very good, higher than usual prices.
Mr. Feng took advantage of the fact that he was the only meat stall in town and bullied her family into using money to severely lower the price.
She originally thought that if she had to deal with him in the future, she would offend him by showing off to others.
But I couldn't care less about the money in person.
It is important to treat my father-in-law.
The child stopped doing it.
"Uncle, how could you do this? We agreed that it would be six cents of silver."
"Hey! Kid, who made the agreement with you? It was you who said it yourself, but we didn't agree." Yan Yu said.
"Besides, who made the calculation for you? Can live sheep and mutton have the same price? You can't eat the sheep's heads, skins, and bones. If a sheep has these internal organs and water removed, it's only half of the meat. Thirty
I’ll give you four cents of silver per catty, four hundred and eighty cents per pound of copper, and sixteen cents per catty of meat, and we’re still at a loss!”
The child was stunned by Yan Yu's loud settlement of accounts.
He clenched his little fists and wanted to refute, but he didn't know what to say.
The sheep weighed sixty kilograms because Mr. Feng brought a scale to hang it up when he came to collect the goods last time. He overheard the price of the pork and mutton at the meat stall, and asked someone to help calculate the account.
He vaguely remembered that his father had said when he was at home that live sheep were cheaper than slaughtered mutton. He thought that he had given up a lot, but it was not enough? He wanted half as much?
Not wanting to show her cowardice, the child glared at her fiercely, "Four coins is four coins, I want silver, not copper coins!"
The woman collected the money, and Yan Laoer tied the sheep to the side of the bullock cart.
They all walked a long way and were caught up by the children.
He touched the ewe reluctantly and asked, "Will your family still collect sheep in the future?"
He asked his mother and found out that the kid on the bullock cart was right. He felt a little embarrassed and lowered his eyelids slightly.
Yan Yu asked: "Do you still have some at home? Why don't you take them out together?"
This is a ewe, which is more cost-effective to raise than to eat.
If there is still a sheep, go back and buy it quickly.
Suck, saliva - back, back, back!
"I still have three lambs that I need to raise, but I know who has them. If you still want them, I will bring them to you." The child looked at her expectantly.
Yan Yu looked at him carefully, no, she.
Very smart, he even knows how to deliver goods to your door.
"The wasteland in Linxi is where our village is. My family name is Yan. You can find out if you go there and ask."
She guessed what this little girl was thinking, she wanted to sell it at a high price, maybe she also wanted to make a little money in the process?
"But we have agreed that you can bring the sheep over. Today's price is not available. We will charge whatever the market price is."
The child thought for a while and nodded heavily.
She could understand that if the family didn't want to kill the sheep, it would be better than what Mr. Feng gave them.
