Chapter 32: Sold at a High Price (Qingyun Plus Change)

Guo Yang was very obedient, Meng Hao asked him to go down the mountain, and he immediately left without looking back.

After watching him walk to a safe area, Meng Hao took Su Shen and continued to go up the mountain.

They didn't go far, they just went to relatively distant places that ordinary villagers wouldn't set foot in.

There are generally no dangerous creatures such as tigers, leopards, blind bears, and wolves here, and as for foxes, wild boars, roe deer, wild sheep and other animals that are not too lethal, Meng Hao can completely protect Su Shen while collecting them as his own trophies.

The two of them stayed on the mountain until two o'clock in the afternoon (half past three in the afternoon), when Meng Hao made a simple but very sturdy raft out of branches and vines to drag the prey they had hit.

Among the prey, it is worth paying more attention to a half-large wild sheep that was injured by Meng Hao on its right hind leg, an adult wild boar weighing about 200 pounds that has died completely, a badger that was sent to the door by himself and pierced by Meng Hao's sword, and the others are all pheasants and hares, the most common small prey.

The live pheasants and hares, Meng Zhen put them all into the basket to prevent them from running around.

The half-grown wild sheep couldn't fit into the back basket, so Meng Zhen asked Su Shen to be in charge of holding the poor lamb who had been firmly tied to her hooves.

Su Shen was reluctant, "It's better for you to hold it, and I'll pull the raft." ”

Meng Hao gave a small look of unknown meaning to the stupid mortal who didn't know her strange power, "You can't hold it." ”

With that, the girl had already dragged up the raft and began to adjust the angle of the raft with a serious face.

The only advantage of going down the mountain is that Meng Hao only needs to control the angle of the raft and let it go down, which is much less laborious than using the raft on flat ground or even uphill.

But even so, when she returned to her own door at the foot of the mountain, Meng Zhen was still sweating.

She gasped and reached for the key and opened the courtyard door.

Su Shen walked in with the lamb in his arms, "Where to put it?" Is a cowshed in the backyard OK? ”

Meng Hao nodded, "Yes." ”

Su Shen then neatly locked the lamb in the cowshed, "Then I'll go to Brother Guo to help borrow the car now." ”

Meng Hao wiped her sweat, "Take a pheasant over and add a dish to Aunt Guo and them." ”

Su Shen then picked out a dead pheasant and carried it in his hand, "More than fifty wild eggs in my back basket, don't forget to put them in a cool place and store them." ”

Meng Zhen said "um", "Don't worry, I won't forget it." ”

Su Shen then took the pheasant to the Guo family's yard next door.

Meng Zhen wiped her sweat again, and after wiping it, she picked out the seven hens that were still alive and fastened them under another basket.

She didn't have time to clip the pheasants' wings right now, so she had to let them settle in the basket first.

"Zhenzhen, the ox cart is here." As soon as Meng Hao pressed a bluestone slab on the basket holding the pheasant, Su Shen was already standing at the gate and beckoning to her, and behind him was Guo Yang, a young boy who was driving an ox cart and staring at the prey on the ground with sparkling eyes.

"So fast!" Meng Hao exclaimed.

Su Shen pointed to the black boy who had already taken the initiative to come over to help carry things, "Brother Guo guessed that we might go to the town to sell our prey immediately after we came back, so he went to Lizheng's house to borrow the ox cart after noon." ”

Meng Hao gave a thumbs up to Guo Yang and praised him, "Amazing!" It's so thoughtful. ”

Guo Yang's black face flushed.

Meng Zhen has already begun to teach him hunting, for him it is equivalent to half a master, the master has something, the disciple obeys him, doesn't he want to be attentive to everything and want to be in front of the master.

The three of them worked together to load the wild boar and badger onto the ox cart, and then the pheasants and hares that Meng Hao was going to take to the town for sale.

"Let's go to the biggest restaurant in town, Uncle Yan said that the price given by his family is very fair." While measuring the dirt road between the village and the town on foot, Meng Zhen said this to Guo Yang, who was walking in front of Su Shen with the ox.

Guo Yang nodded, "Okay." ”

The three of them followed the ox cart all the way, and after walking for about a quarter of an hour, they reached the busiest street in town.

The restaurant that Yan Zhenwu had recommended before was on this street, and from a distance, Meng Zhen and the others saw the red lacquer signboard in front of the restaurant with the three big characters "Jufu".

The three of them drove the carriage to the door of the restaurant, and immediately a shopkeeper came out of the restaurant.

Hearing Meng Hao say that they were here to sell game, Xiao Er hurriedly led the three of them to the back door of the restaurant.

"A few guest officers, please wait a moment, the little one will go and ask our shopkeeper to come over now." Xiao Er invited Meng Zhen and them into the backyard, and then hurried to find his shopkeeper.

Meng Zhen and the others stood in the small courtyard behind the restaurant, silently guarding the things in the car.

After a while, the old shopkeeper of the restaurant was invited by the shopkeeper, and when he saw the badger and wild boar in the car, the old shopkeeper stroked his beard excitedly.

In these years, the game is not good, not to mention the fierce beasts in the mountains, and the homeless people and mountain bandits are also a big disaster.

Although the army of the new dynasty has now uprooted almost all the bandits, and the displaced people from various places have been orderly resettled by the government to the nearby prefectures and counties, there are still very few hunters who dare to go up to the mountains to look for game.

It was only a few days ago that their restaurant finally received a batch of game.

What the old shopkeeper didn't know was that Yan Zhenwu, who had sent game to their restaurant a few times before, was actually Meng Zhen's old acquaintance.

"You guys are all new today, aren't they? It's very fresh to look at. The old shopkeeper flipped through it at random, and then found that all the game sent by Meng Zhen and them were just dead or still panting, which made the old shopkeeper very satisfied.

Seeing Meng Hao nodding, the old shopkeeper touched his beard and began to quote, "I will give you thirty-two wen a catty for wild boar, eighty wen a catty for badgers, twenty-eight wen a catty for pheasants and hares, and thirty wen a catty for the living." Are you satisfied with the price? ”

Meng Hao smiled slightly, "Thank you to the shopkeeper for giving us a fair price." ”

The old shopkeeper also smiled, and he beckoned to his little man, "Big head, you go and call the two of you." ”

The shopkeeper called "Big Head" said "hey", and then hurried to the back kitchen.

After a while, the big head ran back with two men and a scale that seemed very old to Meng Hao.

The three men first called the badger, then the hare and the pheasant, and finally they blushed and began to call the boar.

The wild boar is two hundred and thirteen pounds, the badger is nineteen and a half pounds, the pheasants and hares are added together, the dead are a total of one hundred and seven pounds, the living one is sixty-two pounds and nine taels, and the old shopkeeper counts sixty-three pounds.

According to the price quoted by the old shopkeeper, Meng Zhen sold these things for a total of thirteen taels and two hundred and sixty-two yuan.