Chapter 17: Bartering
Qian Guihua saw that Feng Shanyue didn't take her words to heart, and said: "March, your mother is dead, and you are the only one left in the family, so someone has to take care of you." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info It's not that my aunt is boasting, there are dozens of families in this Nie family village, except for my family's rock, who dares to marry you! Your Uncle Nie is the head of a village! If the Wang family dares to be delusional, the next time the lord of the country sends a military service, I will give all the places in the village to their family. As she spoke, Qian Guihua's face also showed the same arrogance as her son.
With Feng Shanyue's temper, she really wanted to push her back, but she couldn't cause trouble for the Wang family because of her words. The village chief doesn't look big, but the military service, conscription, taxes and everything sent down from above are all handled through him, and what kind of fuss he wants to do in it, this common people really can't do anything.
She smiled, "My aunt misunderstood, the aunt of the Wang family just took pity on me and took care of me." Speaking of which, I'm also very curious, I'm just an orphan girl, and I have no money and no power, how can I let my aunt take a fancy to me?"
"Didn't my aunt say it? My aunt likes a well-behaved and obedient child like you, and I am satisfied with you as my daughter-in-law!"
"I wonder if you had any tokens when you told my mother about this?"
Qian Guihua was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect an eleven-year-old girl to be so calm, what she said just now could be regarded as a threat, she was still very calm.
"That's... That... That's not true, we have a verbal agreement, everyone is a happy person, so there is no need to be so troublesome. ”
Feng Shanyue said very seriously: "My nephew doesn't dare to agree with this. Although the marriage event is the order of the parents, but the marriage is fixed, and there is not even a fixed ceremony, then it can only be said that the aunt's family does not attach importance to this family matter, or that the aunt is simply joking with me, looking at my mother's death, so she came to fool me, an orphan girl?"
Qian Guihua was exposed to the truth, and a very embarrassed look appeared on her face. Feng Shanyue was right, Chun Jiuniang refused when she first proposed the family matter, and never answered her again. Naturally, there is no etiquette. Feng Shanyue's words made her open her mouth, and she couldn't speak for a while.
"Hmph!" Nie Panshi stood up impatiently, "Let's go, you don't want to marry, I don't want to marry yet! A little orphan girl who has nothing, what is there to be proud of?" After saying that, he shook his hand and left.
Qian Guihua hurriedly stood up and said to Feng Shanyue with a smile: "March, you think carefully about what your aunt said just now, and then tell your aunt when you understand!" After speaking, he hurriedly chased Nie Panshi out.
Feng Shanyue snorted coldly and said, "What a smiling tiger, you want to threaten me before leaving." ”
The next day, Feng Shanyue came to Aunt Wang's house and asked Wang Dashan, the boss of the Wang family, to go to the market. Wang Dashan is a shy and honest person, only seventeen or eighteen years old. As soon as he saw Feng Shanyue, he immediately blushed. Aunt Wang told him to check the dry food and water, and asked him to take good care of Feng Shanyue on the road.
Feng Shanyue looked at Wang Dashan in amazement, with a jug, a bag of dry food, and a bamboo stick, "Aren't we going to the market?
Aunt Wang said with a smile: "The nearest market is also half a day's walk away from us, and it will be midnight when you come back from shopping, can you not bring these things?"
"Ah, so far away?" Feng Shanyue looked at Wang Dashan and then at herself, "What should I do?"
"It's okay, I'll let the boss take it, you just follow him. Let him carry back the food you bought. ”
Wang Dashan nodded honestly and took the lead to walk outside, and Feng Shanyue hurriedly followed. When the two left the village, they were watched by Nie Panshi, who was playing outside the village.
Feng Shanyue followed Wang Dashan for half a day's journey, and the people she met along the way were counted on one hand, and she saw that she was about to go to the middle of the day, and finally saw three or three people.
"Brother Wang, it's almost there, right?" Feng Shanyue thumped her legs, and Chun Sanyue's body didn't seem to be able to withstand such a long-distance journey.
"Well, it's coming soon. Wang Dashan said angrily, it was the first time he had been alone with a woman outside his family for so long, although this woman was only an eleven-year-old girl, but it also made him very uncomfortable.
As they spoke, they came to the bazaar, a wide flat area where people put everything they had brought in to trade, waiting for interested traders. Feng Shanyue looked all the way and found that the things that people traded at this time were quite rich, but they were mainly daily necessities, including pottery utensils, chickens, ducks, pigs and other livestock, and there were many things that Feng Shanyue couldn't understand the usefulness of.
Feng Shanyue picked up a pottery container with a strange shape and three fat feet, and was about to ask Wang Dashan about the purpose of this utensil, when suddenly there was a sound of dispute from the other end of the flat ground.
Feng Shanyue looked for prestige, and it turned out that a man holding a lamb and a merchant selling grain were arguing. The man who held the lamb wanted to exchange the lamb for grain, but the grain merchant was a merchant and could not take the lamb with him, so he only accepted all kinds of shell coins and copper coins, which were easy to carry.
"My family has run out of food, this is my little lamb that has just been laid for a month, and if it weren't for the lack of food to eat, I would be reluctant to exchange it! Please, give me some food!" begged the lamb seller.
The merchant looked embarrassed and waved his hand: "Don't embarrass me, I also do some small business, and I really can't bring such a living creature." Why don't you ask someone else and see if anyone is willing to trade grain for your lamb?"
"I've already asked, it's a time of shortage of food, and no one comes out to sell food at all. ”
Feng Shanyue and Wang Dashan glanced at each other, Wang Dashan also brought two chickens, ready to exchange some food to go home, but now it seems that they can't be changed. The man who sold the lamb did not tell a lie, and in the whole market, only this merchant had grain here.
"Brother Wang, you go and ask the merchant what kind of grain he sells, and if he buys it all, how much will it cost, okay?" Feng Shanyue decided that she should not be too showy, after all, this body was only an eleven-year-old girl.
Wang Dashan nodded, stepped forward to ask, and came back and said: "He has three kinds of grain, rice, wheat and sorghum, if you buy them all, you will need one coin." ”
The merchant was a picky trader, carrying grain on his two shoulders and selling it around to earn a difference. All the food he has left now adds up to only one hundred and fifty or sixty catties.
Feng Shanyue asked in a low voice, "Brother Wang, is he selling expensive?"
"It's not too expensive at this time of year. Because this year's food has not yet been beaten, last year's food is almost the same. But most people rarely buy rice and wheat, or you just buy sorghum, which is cheaper. ”
Feng Shanyue shook her head, "I want to buy them all." ”