The so-called livestock market is not a special place, but a piece of land outside the town, all the four villages and eight townships want to sell livestock are traded here, the livestock market is not fixed, generally speaking, with the market wheel, and the small market is customary is that there is no livestock market, only like Changping Township, where the township government is located, there will be a livestock market when the town is located. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Wen Xu had seen it before, but when he saw the livestock market again, he was a little disappointed, both the number of people and animals was far smaller than the scene he remembered.

In Wen Xu's memory, the most lively stall in the whole Fengji was the livestock market, where there were fried fritters, flatbreads, and chaotic sellers near the livestock market at that time, and the sound of selling was almost endless, and there were seven or eight people behind each livestock economy. If you want to distinguish the livestock economy, it is so easy, just look at the ears! Why can the ears tell the livestock economy? Because every livestock economy has two or three machine-made cigarettes with a mouth on its ears!

Now, even less than half of the past, there are far more livestock than people in the whole livestock market, and the main trade is not big livestock, such as cattle, buffaloes, donkeys, etc., but have turned into pigs and sheep, that is, pigs and sheep are rarely seen in large ones, and they are all half-sized piglets and lambs.

"Return!

Entering the livestock market, Wen Shigui looked around with his hands on his hands, and then found the target, shouting and motioning for Wen Xu to follow him.

Wen Xu followed behind the old brother and thought to himself: Old turtle?! This name is very creative! How big is this father's heart, give the child a name Lao Turtle!

While thinking in his heart, he searched around in the direction where the second brother went! Because there were not many people, he quickly found his target. An old man of about seventy years old, the old man's hair has fallen out, there are more spots on his bare head, his face is also that brownish black, his face is full of wrinkles, and he has a blue towel with a hole on his shoulder, which can barely see the blue, wearing a torn green military uniform on his upper body, camouflage pants on his lower body, and a pair of tourist shoes on his feet. Patches can be seen on camouflage pants or shoes, but although the clothes worn by the whole person are torn, they are still quite clean.

"What an old man, an old man! It's your mother's egg!" The old man called himself an old man to Wen Shigui, and the old man was very dissatisfied and scolded him directly.

Wen Shigui was not annoyed, and laughed loudly: "What do you call Lao Gui if I don't call you?

The few people who were squatting next to him immediately laughed loudly.

Wen Shigui saw that Lao Gui was going to be annoyed and immediately said, "Hurry up and get up, I'm here to find you a job!"

Lao Gui glanced at Wen Xu, who was following Wen Shigui, still squatting on the ground and smoking his cigarette pouch, and sucking his dry tobacco without saying a word.

Seeing Lao Gui's style, Wen Shigui directly laughed and scolded: "You old thing, you don't say hello when business comes to the door, what's wrong? It's good to go home and be scolded by your mother-in-law, isn't it?"

"This posterity is in the city at a glance, why does he want me to buy livestock, pick up the fat ones to buy, anyway, they are all killed and eat meat, what to pick!" Lao Gui glanced at Wen Xu, lowered his eyebrows and continued to sip his cigarette.

Wen Shigui said with a smile: "You still need to buy livestock to kill people? My brother of my own family came today to buy a donkey or mule to pull the old grinding disc in the original village, so that you can grow your eyes together, if you don't want to, I will have to find someone else to earn this hundred?"

As soon as he heard Wen Xu buy a donkey to grind, the eyes of the old man who smoked the bag lit up, put down the cigarette bag and asked Wen Shigui, "Really?"

"Who has nothing to do, you old thing, you can't play? hurry up!" Wen Shigui said with a smile.

At this time, Lao Gui stood up, bit the cigarette pouch in his mouth, held the cigarette pouch in one hand and walked while sucking, and after a few steps, a man in his thirties led an old cow through Lao Gui.

Lao Gui stopped, let the man walk by, looked at the cattle that were taken away, shook his head with pity and sighed, and said with emotion: "Now many of the big animals on the set are sold for slaughter, and there are fewer and fewer who are really sold back to plow the land, and many good cattle have been led over there for a knife, if they were put in the past, these people could be poked in the backbone and scolded to death......."

Listening to the old man walking in front babbling about the old days, Wen Xu became a little bored for a while. The times are developing, and now there are a few people who use oxen to plow the fields, and who is not a tractor, a rice transplanter, or so on? Agriculture is mechanized, and cattle are naturally eliminated, and this is the inevitable result of the development of productive forces. Wen Xu's willingness to toss the life of a small farmer does not mean that he wants everyone to go home to farmers and women to weave.

When it came to the big cattle selling farm, there were a total of about 100 donkeys and cattle in the whole field, and there was not a lot of room for selection, and there were only seven or eight tall red donkeys that Wen Xu saw, and he could see them all at a glance.

Lao Gui looked at each one carefully, looked at the teeth, touched the body, looked at the hooves, and so on, and all the donkeys looked at it once, standing aside and smoking without saying a word.

Wen Xu was a little confused, and directly glanced at the second brother next to him, Wen Shigui looked at Wen Xu and shook his head, signaling him to be a little patient.

"Lao Guitou, how about it, which one do you think is suitable, we also have to negotiate with this boss" An old man who sold donkeys couldn't help it a little, and said directly to Lao Gui.

Lao Gui didn't pay attention to the old man, thought about it carefully, and said to Wen Shigui and Wen Xu: "Don't look at the mule?"

"Okay!" Wen Xu saw that the second brother looked at him, so he agreed to Lao Gui's proposal, anyway, the difference between a mule and a donkey is not very big for Wen Xu!

"Hey, don't go, the price is negotiable, I said that your old man is too unauthentic, people are going to buy donkeys, you old goods let people buy mules" The donkey seller is a little unhappy.

Lao Gui said: "Your donkey should still sell the meat and feed it as a pig!" After speaking, he continued to hold on to his cigarette pouch and walked forward slowly.

Wen Xu looked at the old man and looked at the mule again, and the old man in the mule was selected for the first time, but it seemed that the old man himself was not very satisfied, and his brows were locked all the time when he stood in front of the mule.

Pulling Wen Xu to the side, Lao Gui said: "Wen Housheng, the donkeys and mules in the market today are not very good, if you are not in a hurry to ask for it, wait for the next integration to fail, such animals are too ordinary"

Wen Xu thought that it would be okay in general, he wanted livestock to grind, not to ask for a beauty pageant, why was he so picky?

Thinking of this, I was just about to speak, when I heard a cow cry from the side.

"Moo!

Although Wen Xu didn't understand the cow's language, he could still hear that the cow's cry was quite miserable, and following the cry, Wen Xu saw a small buffalo that was half the size of a buffalo.

Some people may think that cattle all look almost the same, in fact, cattle and buffalo are not the same, of course, the appearance can be distinguished by a search of Du Niang, as far as Wen Xu's hometown is concerned, the buffalo has a very good temperament, and rarely takes the horn to top the owner, and the cattle are different, especially for raising male cattle, the top of the cattle can be said to be commonplace.

This little buffalo is different from other buffaloes, the whole body is snow-white, and it looks like it has albinism! The little buffalo is very good-looking, but this is not a good thing for cattle breeders, if it is put in the past, the main family may not take this albino cow, it is also a plough and plough the land, and the appearance is not very important, but now, it is estimated that the end of this cow is not very good!

Indeed, as Wen Xu guessed, the man holding the ox rope held a branch and whipped the cow's back and drove loudly: "Go, hurry up, what are you afraid of, when you get to the place, you will be over with a knife and endure it! Remember not to be reincarnated as a cow in the next life, it is better to go to the city to be a poodle than a human life."

Hearing this, Wen Xu knew that the cow did not have much time to live, and it was obvious that the man wanted to drive the cow to the slaughterhouse on the other side and sell it to the cattle slaughterer.

Just when the man was smoking the cow with a branch, there was a snap, and the little white cow knelt on the ground with its front hooves directly, and then kept mooing, and after a few sounds, tears actually welled up from the corners of the big bull's eyes.

Wen Xu had heard the story of the cow crying, but the first time he really saw the cow crying! At this time, Wen Xu didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment, in short, he felt a little panicked, and the cow's dying could actually show people's feelings, which really made Wen Xu unbearable.

The cow cried and knelt down, which immediately attracted the people around to come around to watch the excitement.

Seeing the cow crying, the man who drove the cow raised the branch in his hand and put it down again, sighed and said: "Don't blame me, I have no choice but to sell you to replace the walk-behind tractor and come back"

After speaking, the man stood on the edge of the bull's head and stretched out his hand to stroke the white cow: "Then wait until you go back?!"

Wen Xu couldn't bear it, so he opened his mouth and asked, "How much does your cow sell?"

When the man heard this, he said, "Four thousand!"

Hearing that someone wanted to buy his own cattle, the original pity in the man's heart immediately turned into a colorful ticket, and he opened his lion's mouth directly at Wen Xu.

When Lao Gui heard this, he stepped forward to take a closer look at the white ox lying on the ground, and then said: "Your ox is 4,000 yuan, and how much money you sell to kill the cow is at most 2,500 yuan! You should sell it to the cattle killer for 4,000 yuan, and see how much they can give you!"

The man listened to Lao Gui's words and asked, "Who are you, the business I talked about with this little brother!"

Without waiting for Lao Gui to speak, the people around him opened their mouths one after another.

"You don't even know about Lao Guitou, and you still come to sell cattle?" Let me tell you, Lao Guitou said that your cattle are worth two thousand and a half, and it is only worth two thousand and a half at most!" Someone in the crowd of onlookers laughed at the man.

"Yes, you're still selling cattle like this!"

The man said angrily: "I can sell my cattle if I want to, why don't I sell it and take it back?"

"I'm the cow economy hired by this little brother" After speaking, Lao Gui looked at Wen Xu, saw Wen Xu nodded, and said to the man: "Your cow is still an albino cow, and two thousand five are considered high!"

The man was suddenly a little unhappy, he also saw that Wen Xu felt pity for the head in his hand, and seeing that Wen Xu's dress did not look like a farmer's family, he argued: "No matter how you look at it, this cow can't be worth only two thousand and five, at least three thousand!"

Lao Gui said: "Then you can sell it for three thousand! Two thousand four, if you like to sell it or not!"

After saying that, the old man didn't say a word, he directly pulled up Wen Xu and walked out of the human circle, Wen Xu took pity on the cow, so he subconsciously paused, and the old man grabbed Wen Xu's hand hard, and then let go and sent out a code. Wen Xu understood in his heart and immediately followed.

Seeing that the old man was about to leave with the young patron, the man was a little panicked, and the price of the family who drove the cattle over and sold them to the cattle killer was only two thousand three, and one hundred more here.

"I've sold you!" Seeing Wen Xu's figure disappear, the man immediately shouted loudly.

That's it, Lao Gui dragged Wen Xu back to the middle of the crowd, Wen Xu took out the money, and looked for a witness twice, proving that the cow was not stealing or robbing, and it was sold.

It turned out that Wen Xu, who was going to buy a donkey or mule, bought a cow before the donkey and mule were bought!