Chapter Twenty-Eight: Selling Tigers
Xiaohu skinned the wolf who was about to treat him, and Erya looked at the dead tiger and thought about what to do with it.
Uncle was talking to Grandpa Tai in the hall, "Sixth Grandpa! As a big family, we really want to invite you to drink a thank you wine! This little tiger daughter-in-law, that's really a good daughter-in-law who is hard to find! ”
Grandpa looked up and laughed: "Okay! When you tigers sell for money, I'll invite me, a bad old man, to have a drink. Hey! If you want to talk about this Liu family's daughter! That's not me blowing! At that time, when she came to my house, her expression was flat, and her tone was firm and she said that she wanted to reconcile with Dacai, I saw that this girl was not simple! Otherwise, which girl's family has no ability and no support, so she dares to leave casually? Isn't that self-defeating?
The rich man is taking this point and practicing other girls! Hehe! Since they are blind, I will not help them find out.
I still thought that if Xiaohu and you don't like this girl, I will keep it for my great-grandson! My eldest daughter-in-law likes this girl so much! ”
Uncle hurriedly smiled respectfully: "Hey! This is all the sixth grandfather, you are worried about our family, and everything puts our family in front. We all know each other! Our family remembers your kindness! ”
Grandpa waved his hand: "What are you talking about?!" They are all big families, and your grandfather and my father are also cousins. Although we are not close to the head of the house, it is only the fifth room! Besides, back then, your father and I were closer than our own uncles and nephews! ”
Uncle Han smiled and agreed: "Yes, yes!" My dad also said that when he was young, no one played with him, and you took him to play. ”
Grandpa seemed to think of something and sighed.
The second girl entered the hall, and after greeting the grandfather, she said to the uncle: "Uncle, I think about going to the county seat tomorrow to sell the tiger." If the price is too low, I will hire a car in the county seat and sell it directly in the provincial capital! ”
Uncle nodded and said, "Okay!" It's all up to you. ”
Grandpa said beside him: "Great-granddaughter-in-law! My grandson talked to me and said that once, a dart game they hired beat a tiger on the road and sold it for more than 100 taels of silver. Although your fur is not good, it can't be sold cheaply! ”
Erya was a little disappointed when she heard this, a tiger with a complete fur only sold for a hundred taels of silver, so she was only a few dozen taels of silver.
Why was this tiger so cheap in ancient times? Didn't you say that just one skin would cost hundreds of taels of silver? Alas! Who is so boastful?
"Grandpa, if you skin the tiger and bring it back, how much money can you sell?"
"Sixty or seventy taels should be able to be sold, right?!" Grandpa Tai said with some certainty, after all, he hadn't sold it either.
Er Ya raised her hand, "Forget it, when I arrive in the county seat, I'll inquire about it." ”
Uncle remembered the matter of inviting everyone to eat wolf meat tomorrow night: "Little tiger daughter-in-law! When you cook dinner tonight, teach your aunt how to cook wolf meat, and if you can't come back tomorrow, let your aunt cook. ”
"Okay! That wolf meat is a big supplement, if anyone is vain, you can't eat it, you have to give everyone a reminder. ”
Erya asked Grandpa again: "Grandpa, do you dare to eat wolf meat?" If you dare to eat it, eat it here tonight! ”
Grandpa hurriedly shook his hand: "No, no, it's okay at noon tomorrow, and I only drink porridge at night." I'm too old to be as old as you young people! ”
"Then wait for me to do it, send it to you, and let the big be hot for you to eat at noon tomorrow."
"Hey! That's fine, too! Grandpa Tai agreed with a smile, turned his head and said to Uncle Xiaohu: "Shoufa, if this tiger can be sold for a good price this time, this difficulty of your family will be over!" If there is an income in the future, I will think about buying more land. ”
"Yes! Be! This time it's a coincidence, I'm afraid I won't have this opportunity in the future! ”
"Nonsense, the most important thing is to do your duty, how can you think about picking up cheap!" Grandpa reproached.
Uncle scratched his head in embarrassment, "Hehe! Hey! I'm just saying, just talking! ”
The next day, Erya took a few brothers to drive the ox cart borrowed from Grandpa's house, pulled a dead tiger and a dead wolf, and came to the county seat from the main road.
Although the wolf and the tiger were covered with straw mats, they could still see the head and tail, causing a lot of screams along the way.
When he entered the city gate, he saw the old soldiers guarding the gate. Er Ya got out of the car and chatted with the veteran: "Uncle, are you on duty again today?" ”
"Hey! I'm here every day! You're in town again today! ”
"Yes! Uncle, let me ask you something, do you know how much a skinned tiger can be sold for? ”
"Ouch! Little lady, I really don't know this, I've never seen it, and I haven't heard anyone talk about buying and selling. Are you hitting a tiger? ”
"We didn't hit it, we picked it up from the mountains."
"That's what you're capable of, too."
"Thanks for the compliment! Uncle, I still have to go to the East Gate Market, see you back! Erya couldn't see that she couldn't ask anything, so she said hello and went to the East Gate Market to find the person who bought white fungus.
"Hey! See you later! ”
When I arrived at the East Gate Market, I was just in time for the middle-aged man to come out. The man was still quite conspicuous in the crowd, and Laizi saw it from a distance, "Sister-in-law! Look, the guy who bought the white fungus is there! ”
Looking in the direction that the man pointed to, he finally saw that the man was looking east and west and walking out.
The second girl hurriedly walked over, pulled the man's sleeve, and shouted: "Uncle! ”
The man turned around and saw that it was Erya, and he was very happy: "It's here today!" I've been watching here every day for the past few days, and I'm afraid that you guys will come and accidentally make a mistake! ”
"Nope! We will definitely wait for you if you agree on something. ”
"Good! Let's go out and say. ”
Er Ya followed the man to the place where the carriage was parked, and their ox cart was also parked there. Xiaohu took the basket with white fungus, and after the man looked at it carefully, he gave Er Ya twenty taels of silver tickets.
Erya took the silver ticket and hurriedly asked the man: "Uncle, do you know how much a skinned tiger can be sold for?" ”
"What! Do you have a tiger to sell? The man asked intriguingly.
"Yes! I don't know how much I can sell, but if I sell low, I'm afraid of losing money! "Er Ya told the truth, and there was nothing to hide.
"Oh! Show me! ”
"Okay! It's on the ox cart over there. Erya motioned for Xiaohu to take his uncle over to have a look.
The man looked at it and said, "If you sell it to me, I can only give you sixty taels, and if you go to the provincial city Chunlintang Pharmacy, you should be able to buy seventy or eighty taels." ”
"Uncle, do you mainly want meat or bones?"
"Me! I want meat, but the main thing is that it's hard to tell you! ”
The second girl looked at the man with puzzlement!
The man thought about it and said, "So be it! I asked someone to help you send this dead tiger to the provincial capital Chunlin Hall, and I bought it with his family. You take the money directly, how to divide it is my business with his family. Do you think it's possible? ”
"Okay! But I'm going to peel this tiger skin off! ”
"This is no problem, such a broken tiger skin, I guess I will give it to him, and he won't ask for it!"
They put the oxen and the oxen cart in the sustenance shop of the market, and went to the provincial capital with the carriage arranged by the man.
Hurried all the way and rushed directly to Chunlin Hall.
The shopkeeper of Chunlin Hall came out to greet him in person. The shopkeeper arched his hand to the guy who was driving the car: "Brother Lin is here!" When I saw your carriage, I thought it was your shopkeeper coming! ”
The guy named Brother Lin hurriedly returned the salute and said, "My shopkeeper will not be able to come back until the New Year's store closes." This time, it was these little brothers and this little lady who wanted to sell tigers, and the shopkeeper of my family asked me to help send them over. The guy said as he pointed to the two of them.
The two Ya had already gotten out of the car, standing next to the car and saluting and greeting the shopkeeper of the medicine hall, and the shopkeeper nodded at them, which was regarded as a greeting. Then let the dead tiger be brought down and let him see it.
Brother Lin remembered something, and said to the shopkeeper: "By the way, my shopkeeper also said that he asked for tiger meat and tiger whip, and the rest are yours." The price will be calculated with you when he returns! The tiger skin, the shopkeeper of my house, also promised to the little lady. ”
The shopkeeper looked at the broken tiger skin, and said with a smile: "It's useless to leave this broken skin to me, she will take it if she wants!" ”
The shopkeeper opened the tiger's mouth and touched the tiger's skull. After looking around for a long time, he said, "Alas! This tiger was not so much killed by a fight with a wolf as it was killed by old age. This tiger is so powerful, it's all old like this, and it can bite two prime-aged wolves to death. It's really an old man who can be bullied, and the tiger can't be ridden! ”
Erya looked at the shopkeeper and touched around, while talking to himself, talking happily. Don't interrupt him, patiently watch him busy.
The guy was in a hurry, "Big shopkeeper, you have to hurry up, my shopkeeper asked me to bring this tiger meat back today!" ”
"What's the hurry? I can't delay your shopkeeper's business. ”
The shopkeeper said to Daman, "Do you have any opinion that this tiger will give you eighty taels of silver?" ”
Daman looked at Erya, and Erya nodded.
Daman bowed his hand to the shopkeeper: "Thank you for the shopkeeper!" We have no opinion. ”
"That's good! Help me carry it in! ”
A few of them carried the dead tiger in, but Erya stopped the shopkeeper: "Big shopkeeper, can you see if this wolf can also be wanted?" ”
"This!? I'm not a restaurant, so what do you want it to do? ”
The shopkeeper turned his head to Brother Lin and said, "Brother Lin, I am in charge of buying this wolf for your shopkeeper, and you can bring it back with you!" ”
Brother Lin nodded hurriedly, "Okay!" You can't talk well?! ”
"That's good! Little lady, you wolf, I'll give you five taels of silver, buy it! ”
Hi! Five taels of silver is better than eating meat, "Okay!" Then I want to peel this wolf skin and bring it back, okay? ”
The shopkeeper laughed and quacked, "Quack! All right! All right! Take it. He gave away my tiger skin as a favor, and I gave away his wolf skin. One report and one report, just right! Quack"
Brother Lin also laughed dryly, and Erya suddenly felt that he had become a little begging for food?
Several brothers sent the dead tiger into the medicine hall, and as soon as they came out, they were busy carrying the dead wolf in. Entering the medicine hall, Erya suddenly remembered the back basket containing gastrodia, and turned back to the carriage to bring the back basket in. The shopkeeper watched Xiaohu peel the skin in the backyard, and the second girl walked to the shopkeeper with a basket and took out the gastrodia to show the shopkeeper.
"Shopkeeper, look at this, do you know?"
The shopkeeper picked it up and looked at it, "This is the Red Arrow, where did you get it?" Also from the mountains? ”
Er Ya frowned, red arrow? What is that? "Shopkeeper, do you know what it does?"
"Of course, the main treatment, headache, dizziness, numbness in the limbs."
Erya breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh! That's the same, we call it gastrodia. How do you collect it here? ”
"You just dug it up! We generally collect dry, the best quality, five taels of silver a catty. It's hard to say if it's bad, it depends on whether the thing can be used. ”
"Isn't it better that I just dug it up? You concoct it yourself, don't you want whatever quality you want? Erya thought, those who do medicine halls are absolutely professional in concocting medicinal materials. At least more professional than her!
The shopkeeper looked at Erya with a smile and shook his head helplessly! The merciless blow said: "That's not what you say, the bigger this red arrow, the higher the price!" ”
"Oh! That's it! What do you think of me? ”
The shopkeeper looked at a dozen of them and filled half a basket, which was already very large, enough to be of the highest quality.
"I'll give you the best, but in terms of weight, three catties are worth one catty. There are more dry goods system, you admit it. I admit that the dry goods system is less. Luckily? ”
That is, three to one, and Er Ya thinks it should be about the same. He nodded: "Okay!" That's it! ”
The shopkeeper weighed them one by one, and there was no less than half a catty in weight, and one catty here is sixteen taels! These can be considered superb.
The shopkeeper's heart was already happy and hated to shout a few times to vent his joy and happiness. But on the surface, his face was tight, and he seemed to be reluctant to accept these troublesome things that he had to deal with by himself.
Eighty taels of dead tigers, five taels of dead wolves, and a total of twelve catties and three taels of gastrodia, which is four catties and one tael calculated at three to one, and the price of silver is twenty taels and five cents. It's a total of one hundred and fifty dollars.
Er Ya asked for ten silver tickets of ten taels, five taels of broken silver, and five hundred copper coins.
After getting the money, Er Ya took a deep breath, and finally didn't have to worry about the money to repay the debt. Although she has always told everyone with confidence, saying that she will definitely be able to pay it off. But the world is unpredictable, and if the money to repay the debt is not in hand, there will be no real peace of mind for a day.
The Xiaohu brothers were busy peeling and removing the bones, and they were busy for more than two hours before they were busy. In winter, it gets dark early, and before the unitary time, the sky is already dark.
If you go back to the county seat, it will be dark at night, and the road will definitely be difficult to walk. If something happens, it's even harder to say.
The shopkeeper persuaded the young man to leave early tomorrow.
The young man insisted on replying: "No! My shopkeeper told me to go back today, and I have to go back today. Besides, there are so many little brothers with me, it's okay! ”
When the shopkeeper saw that he could not be persuaded to do so, he took several torches and a jar of oil for them to use on the road.
When they got into the carriage, they took out the machetes wrapped in straw mats and put them in a place where they could reach them.
Along the way, several brothers took turns to accompany the guy who was driving the car, sitting in front.
When I arrived at the county seat, it was already midday, and the road had been walked for two and a half hours and more than five hours.
Erya felt that taking the car was more tiring than going up the mountain, and after entering the city, the guy helped them find an inn closest to the Dongmen Market to stay.
Because I often read novels and TV series, there are often plots, and thieves steal things by means such as blowing smoke while guests are asleep. Er Ya didn't dare to be careless, so she asked Xiao Er for a piece of cloth curtain, blocked the window tightly, and buckled the window panel.
Before going to bed, he asked Xiaohu to wake up, but Xiaohu didn't sleep all night. Because of the reason for boiling harriers, Xiaohu has basically developed the habit of not sleeping at night, which makes Erya sleep soundly.
"Daughter-in-law! Hurry up, Brother Da Man has already made several trips. ”
"Daughter-in-law! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! ”
When I first arrived, Er Ya was sleeping dimly and didn't wake up after thunder, but she was forced to get up by Xiaohu pushing and rubbing and screaming.
After the second girl finished washing, touched her chest, the inner pocket she sewed, and the thick stack of silver tickets, all of which were still there, she left the inn with confidence.
A few people walked to the place where the cattle and horses were stored in the East Gate Market, which was already busy with activity.
Just deposited it for half a day and a night, and they received 100 yuan, and the forage money was calculated separately!
Laizi sighed enviously: "It's so easy for them to make money!" ”
"yes!"
This is indeed a high-level cadre industry with low capital, low risk and high income.