Chapter 30: Two hundred and thirty
Walking on the official road under the scorching sun, trotting in the direction of the county seat, I asked the small stone just now, the market town has to walk for two or three hours to the county seat, Fang Jing wants to rush to the county seat before the sun sets, but don't get to the city gate to close, the two of them have to sleep outside the city, the small stone behind is tired and no longer looks good, but it is also gritted his teeth and holds on.
The tall city wall came into view, and there were not many pedestrians on the official road, some rushed to the city gate, and some walked out from the city gate, Fang Jing dragged the bamboo rake and finally arrived at the county seat before the sun set.
Fang Jing dragged the bamboo rake to the city gate, this small stone caught up, followed slowly forward, and when he walked to the city gate, Fang Jing looked at the two big characters "Pingli" above the city gate, and his eyes could see the gods.
The two soldiers wearing armor, holding halberds in their hands and long knives at their waists saw Fang Jing dragging two tigers and bears over, and hurriedly looked at them.
"Where did you come from, and what are you doing in the city? This tiger is what you hunted? A soldier asked Fang Jing and the two of them.
"This sergeant, we are from Fangjia Village, Xiaohe Town, and we have newly hunted the tiger this morning, why don't we come to the county seat to sell it, if you want to sell it at a good price, you can exchange it for some grain and go back to relieve the current hunger for food shortages." Xiaoshi hurriedly came over and saluted the soldiers guarding the city gate, and carefully responded to the soldiers' questions.
"How did you hunt such a big tiger?" The soldier asked, but Xiao Shi didn't know how to answer.
"This sergeant, the tiger fought with the two, and the tiger bit the bear to death, but the tiger was also seriously injured, so he looked for an opportunity to kill the tiger." Fang Jing hurriedly took over and responded to the soldier's question, but Xiao Shi didn't know how Hu Zhen died.
"The little brother has some ability, and this tiger looks like it has some weight, you just drag it like this, which shows the strength of the little brother." The soldiers were also impressed by Fang Jing's strength.
"Sergeant Xie praised, can you enter the city and sell this tiger?" Fang Jing didn't want to waste any more time, thinking about quickly selling Hu Zhen to get some food, this would also be very hungry, dragging such a heavy thing, after walking for this day, he was tired and hungry.
"You may go into the city, but don't make trouble." The soldiers also told Fang Jing and the two.
"Sergeant Xie." Xiao Shi and Fang Jing thanked each other and dragged the bamboo rake into the city.
Fang Jing looked at the county town, there were many buildings, I don't know how many times more prosperous than the market town, all kinds of pedestrians on the street looked at Fang Jing dragging the tiger on the bamboo rake, they all gave way to the side, standing and pointing, talking about something, Fang Jing didn't care what they pointed and discussed, just walked forward according to the instructions of the small stone.
Fang Jing pulled the bamboo rake and walked forward, thinking in her heart, Pingli County? How many Pingli counties are there in Huaxia? Seems like there's only one, right?
Fang Jing is relatively clear about the geographical map of China, thanks to a hobby in Fang Jing's previous life, traveling, Fang Jing in his previous life was very persistent in traveling, as long as he was free, he would travel around the provinces with a bag on his back, not for anything else, just for a bite to eat, so he was relatively familiar with the geographical environment of China.
Pingli County is located in the middle of the original Huaxia map, located in the south of Shaanxi Province, east of Hubei, west of Shu land, north to Ankang, south is the mountains continuous; Pingli County is located in a very awkward location, belonging to the county surrounded by mountains, high in the south and low in the north, further north is Qinling, southeast is Shennongjia, northwest and south is Daba Mountain.
Fang Jing thought all the way forward, and came to the most prosperous area of the county, there will be no street dedicated to selling things, of course, there is also a market in Dongcheng that specializes in selling livestock, but what is usually sold is some shops or a stall nearby, of course, the main street or the vicinity of the county government is relatively prosperous, and some shops are set up everywhere, and the place where Fang Jing and the two came is the prosperous area of this main street.
"Past visitors have taken a look, the newly hunted tiger this morning, if necessary, please come and have a look." The little stone began to sell again.
"This tiger is really big enough, I don't know how to hunt it, and there are two of them, which is amazing." Passerby not far away.
"Yes, yes, such two big ones, how can they be seven or eight hundred pounds, it's really big." Passerby B.
"It's worth a lot." Passerby C.
"Two, this tiger was hunted today? What is the price? A middle-aged man dressed as a businessman ran up to Fang Jing and asked Fang Jing.
"Back to this guest officer, the tiger was hunted this morning, and one tiger and one tiger were two hundred and thirty times." The little stone answered the merchant's question.
"Two hundred and thirty guan is high, Hu Ba's fur is damaged, not complete, two hundred and thirty guan is too high." The merchant squatted down and picked up the tiger.
"This guest officer, the fur of the tiger is rare, you can't look at it once in a few years, the price of two hundred and thirty yuan is not high, if the guest officer wants to see it again, then I don't know how many years later." Small stones are not stupid, but they will not be sold at a low price because of some damage to their fur.
"What the little brother said is very true, but this tiger is not worth two hundred and thirty yuan." Merchants want to buy at a low price.
"This little brother, I'm going to have two hundred and thirty times, carry it up and follow me." Suddenly, a well-dressed middle-aged man stepped out of the crowd and interjected.
"Okay, this nobleman, you wait a minute, we will come." The little stone responded to the middle-aged man.
"This guest officer, you see that this noble man wants to buy me and other tigers, I'm really sorry." Xiao Shi apologized to the first guest officer who asked for the price.
"How can you be like this? We were already discussing, and you suddenly interjected to buy this tiger dog, but there was a violation of the rules. The guest officer questioned the middle-aged man just now.
"This little brother is priced at two hundred and thirty yuan, and you haven't agreed, so I will buy it at a price of two hundred and thirty yuan, why not?" This noble man is not afraid of questioning guest officers.
The people who watched the excitement on the side also discussed, and they all felt that what this middle-aged man said was right, you are not willing to spend more than 200 yuan to buy the skin, others are willing to spend more than 200 yuan to buy it, of course, the seller wants to give it to the person who is willing to spend more than 200 yuan to buy the tiger, who is willing to tell you about it, this is obvious.
The guest officer just now listened to the discussion, his face turned red, and he quickly turned to leave, so ashamed that he didn't dare to stand here for a debate.
Fang Jing picked up the bamboo rake, dragged it and followed the middle-aged man walking in front, and after a while, he arrived in front of a three-room restaurant, seeing that there were already some people eating and drinking, and mixed with all kinds of eating and drinking, Xiaoshi was also very slanderous, mainly tired and hungry.
The crowd in the restaurant saw the tiger on the bamboo rake at the door, and they all put down the bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses in their hands and came to the door to see the excitement, chattering and asking this and that.
"This is the tiger that I just bought, the tiger meat is used to sprinkle the building to make food, fur, I am going to find someone to return to Jinyang after the nitrate, everyone should not think that Wang is stingy."
"Boss Wang is magnificent, I'm going to try this tiger meat tomorrow." A diner.
"Come together, come together." A group of diners nodded in response.
The nobleman in front of the door watched all the diners run out to see the excitement, and he also waved his hand to the diners, and then asked Fang Jing and the two to resist the tiger into the backyard of the restaurant.
Fang Jing heard that the boss surnamed Wang was the owner of this restaurant, and he felt rich in his heart, and his gestures looked magnificent, quite a taste of a loser in his previous life, well, he was a loser.
Fang Jing untied the tiger, held the bear in both hands, sent it to the backyard under the guidance of the guy, turned around and came back to carry the tiger in, it was extremely easy, like holding a pillow in his hand, and a group of people were stunned for a while, and they all sighed that this little brother had great strength.
Boss Wang was also dumbfounded, he thought that this tiger was not hunted by Fang Jing, it seems that he misestimated the little brother in front of him, this strength and ability, it should be a good thing.
"Little brother is very skilled." Boss Wang praised Fang Jing.
"This leather is two hundred and thirty times, all of them need copper coins or silk cloth or silk cloth?" Although Boss Wang praised Fang Jing, he didn't pay too much attention to it.
"This nobleman, copper coins are good, copper coins are good." Xiao Shi hurriedly responded, for fear that the two hundred and thirty guan in his hand would be gone.
It's not that Xiaoshi and Fang Jing don't want to sell at a high price, in fact, this is also due to the fact that the two of them don't know the market, if there are people who know how to do it, it must be impossible to sell it for only this little money, two tigers and bears, how can they sell it for three or four hundred yuan, which is why people who don't understand only open this price.
Boss Wang nodded to the shopkeeper inside, and went inside, and the shopkeeper instructed the man to carry out a lot of baskets with copper coins and put them on the edge of the restaurant, and the small stone looked down to count the number.
"This little brother, you can rest assured, our Wang Family Restaurant will not be missing you, and you can come to me if you are missing." The shopkeeper saw that Xiaoshi was counting the copper coins, and said unpleasantly.
"This shopkeeper, it's not like I've never seen so much money, no wonder." Little Stone smiled and held a hint of embarrassment.
"How do you carry this copper coin back?" The shopkeeper asked the little stone, his eyes full of ridicule and disdain, and he thought that he would see how you carried the copper coin back in a moment.
"I'll hire a car in a while, and I won't occupy the shopkeeper's place for too long." Xiao Shi understood the meaning of the shopkeeper's question.
"That's good." After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he went back to the restaurant to greet the diners, and he didn't care about Fang Jing's uncle and nephew outside the restaurant, besides, the deal is over, who cares what you are.
"Jing Wazi, you are watching here, Uncle is going to hire two cars." Xiao Shi hurriedly said to Fang Jing and walked to the other side of the street.
"Uncle Shi, you go and hire a car, I'll watch." Fang Jing has always looked at all this calmly, whether it is Boss Wang or this shopkeeper, they are all people who look down on the banker's family, Fang Jing doesn't care who looks down on whom, doesn't speak, doesn't show gestures, and doesn't care what you do, as long as you don't mess with me, you can do whatever you like.
Six ox carts came slowly from the other side of the street, Fang Jing looked at this posture, is Uncle Shi going to go back tonight?
"Jing Wazi, put all this copper money in the car, and the city gate will be closed later." Xiao Shi shouted at Fang Jing.
It turns out that Uncle Shi is really going to go back at night tonight, this is not a good thing, now the time is only about five o'clock, why do you have to go to ninety o'clock in the evening when you return to the town, this, okay, Fang Jing divided the copper coin into five ox carts, and put them separately so that they could share the weight.
"Uncle Shi, how much does it cost to hire an ox cart?" Fang Jing sat on the ox cart, biting the cake in his mouth and asking Xiao Shi, before leaving the county seat just now, he bought some cakes and prepared to eat them on the road, one for each coachman, and one for Xiao Shi and Fang Jing in his hand.
"An ox cart is not expensive, thirty dollars." Little Stone replied as he ate the cake.
"Well, thirty dollars is not expensive, then you can hire it again tomorrow and buy more food and salt in the market town." Fang Jing began to settle the account in his heart.
Six ox carts are one hundred and eighty yuan for one lay, and three hundred and sixty dollars for two days, each ox cart can hold ten stone of grain, and this one is sixty stones, and each stone of rice has always been one dollar and one stone, and millet is nine hundred dollars and one stone, well, you can buy one hundred and thirty-five stone of rice first, ten stone of millet, and fifteen catties of salt, and then pull five pieces of cloth, well, just like that, in this case, there is not much money left for more than two hundred yuan.
Fang Jing was calculating in his heart, but he didn't know that Xiao Shi was also calculating in his heart.