Chapter 31 Cutting the head of the ox and smashing the clay pot
When Jiang Ying was eating eggs, Chunni got some food.
In the spring and March, it is the time when the greens and yellows are not harvested, and there is nothing to eat, that is, the dried vegetables dried earlier, and then the wild vegetables that I dug myself.
Chunni felt sorry for Jiang Ying's hard pregnancy, so she fried some minced meat with wild vegetables, not to mention, it was really delicious.
Jiang Ying ate a lot of steamed buns, and after she was full, she couldn't sit still when she saw that Jiang Jun hadn't come back yet.
"Mother, let's go to my cousin's house to have a look."
Chunni is a habitual child, and she has never refutated Jiang Ying's order since she was a child.
Jiang Ying said that she would go to Fang Ling's house, but she did not object.
The two of them packed up and went to Fang's house.
The Fang family is actually not far from the Jiang family, and it is said that it is separated from the village, but the two families are the head of the village, and the head of the village is almost next to each other.
The two of them had been gone for more than a quarter of an hour.
It was the middle of the morning, and everyone had eaten and worked in the fields.
Along the way, Chunni met many acquaintances, and she pulled Jiang Ying to greet people.
When he was about to arrive at Fang's house, someone said to Chunni: "Hurry up and take a look, what kind of sin is this, good ......"
Chunni couldn't help but speed up her pace.
Jiang Ying was also full of curiosity.
She wanted to see what strange things Jiang Jun could do.
It was easy to arrive at the door of Jiang's house, and before I entered the door, I heard bursts of crying.
Jiang Ying and Chunni were very familiar with this voice as soon as they heard it, not Jiang Jun.
Jiang Ying's pace is much faster now.
"Daddy......"
She shouted as she walked through the door.
After shouting, Jiang Ying looked into the courtyard.
The courtyard of the Fang family is very large, this place is passed down from the ancestors, and later Fang Ling has the money to buy a new house built together with a piece of land.
The house has been built for a few years, the main house has seven large tile houses, there are wing rooms on the left and right, and there are livestock pens in the backyard, and the house with the yard adds up to more than two acres of land.
And now there is the corpse of a cow lying in the yard.
Jiang Ying was not mistaken, it was indeed the carcass of a cow, or a cow that had been cut off.
And there was a broken crockpot next to the cow carcass.
"What's going on?"
Chunni was obviously startled: "How can you kill a good cow?" ”
Fang Ling saw that it was Chunni and Jiang Ying coming, so he hurriedly brought a stool for the two of them, and while beckoning the two of them to sit down, he said ashamedly: "Don't worry, uncle, uncle is fine, but I'm just crying because I'm worried about me, I'm too stupid, so my uncle is so worried." ”
Chunni was even more puzzled: "What does this have to do with killing cows?" ”
Jiang Jun wiped a handful of tears and said: "It's not all this stinky boy, his cow can't pull his head out of the crockpot when he drinks water, and he really can't ask me to come and see how to get it, so I said, if you can't get it, cut the cow's head, cut the cow's head and the crockpot still grows tight, then the crockpot will be smashed......"
Jiang Ying's eyebrows jumped when he heard this.
With Jiang Jun's operation, he even dared to dislike Fang Ling's stupidity.
She looked at Fang Ling.
Fang Ling scratched the back of his head and smiled innocently: "It's my uncle's method, isn't it just going to come out." ”
Jiang Ying wanted to say that it was okay to just smash the crockpot, but before she could speak, she saw Jiang Jun glaring at her.
Jiang Ying bowed his head and remained silent.
Chunni didn't say anything.
When there was silence in the courtyard, I heard a voice from afar: "Is it Fang Erlang's house?" Do you have beef for sale? ”
Fang Ling hurriedly greeted him out, and after a while, he brought in a person who looked like a housekeeper.
The steward was overjoyed when he saw the oxen in the yard.
He went around the cow and said, "If this cow is well raised, the meat must be tender...... Let's weigh it first. ”
Jiang Jun went over to greet the housekeeper: "It turned out that the housekeeper was in front of him, and you are always here?" ”
Steward He smiled: "It's not my young master, I don't know how, I always want to eat roast beef strips these days, you also know that beef is expensive now, fresh beef is not easy to get, we inquired for several days, and finally found out the news of your family, you see, how much is this meat?" ”
Jiang Jun and Steward He are old acquaintances.
He didn't pull the fiber either: "I won't tell you the truth, my cow ...... Do you think fifty wen a pound is appropriate? ”
Fifty wen a pound is indeed expensive.
Nowadays, the best mutton is only more than a dozen yuan a catty, even if beef is more expensive than mutton, where can it be expensive, Steward He also bought beef, and the one he bought earlier was only more than 20 yuan a catty.
He looked at Jiang Jun and thought about it again: "Okay, let's just forget it." ”
Jiang Jun was immediately overjoyed and called Fang Ling to go over and weigh the beef.
This cow includes the head of the cow for a total of 1,200 catties, which means that the cow was sold for 60,000 yuan, a full 60 yuan.
Buying a cow in the market is only five or six times, and Fang Ling has made a fortune.
Steward He is also a neat person, and he paid directly after loading the car.
After Steward He left, Fang Ling almost jumped up when he looked at the bags of money in the yard.
He hurriedly took some money and gave it to Jiang Jun: "Uncle, you keep this money." ”
Jiang Jun didn't refuse.
He carried a bag of money and beckoned Chunni and Jiang Ying to go together.
Coming out of Fang's house, Jiang Jun asked Chunni and Jiang Ying to go first, and he went in the other direction with the money on his back.
When Jiang Ying returned home, Jiang Jun also happened to enter the door.
Jiang Ying saw that he came back empty-handed, and knew what was going on.
The bag of money should have been given to Steward He, which is considered a commission after the transaction is completed.
Jiang Ying also understood why Jiang Jun pretended to be stupid, and had to cut off the cow's head and smash the crockpot.
Only then can the cow be sold for a high price.
Cattle in the market are not expensive, but those cattle are used to cultivate the land, and whoever buys them must keep a record and cannot be slaughtered for no reason.
There are many people who have cattle, but there is an order from the court, and slaughtering cattle for no reason will not only cost you a fine, but also go to jail, plus the people love cattle and horses, who is willing to kill them.
This also makes beef hard to find.
Jiang Jun should have heard that Steward He's little master was looking for beef during this time, and something happened to Fang Ling's cow, so Jiang Jun wanted to help him sell it at a high price, so he directed and acted in this play.
After thinking about it, Jiang Ying didn't know whether to say that Jiang Jun was shrewd or stupid for a while.
It's one thing to understand, but Jiang Ying can't expose Jiang Jun.
When eating lunch, she also pretended to be stupid, and whispered after serving Jiang Jun food: "Dad, you didn't do this right today, you should just smash the crockpot, if the crockpot is smashed, won't the cow's head come out, the cow can still live well, isn't this better than your method?" ”
Jiang Jun turned his head and looked Jiang Ying up and down.
A trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes, and then he patted his head with a look of enlightenment: "Yes, why didn't I think of it, wouldn't it be good to smash the crockpot first, oops, a good cow made me mistaken, why didn't you remind me earlier?" ”
Jiang Ying rolled his eyes: "You didn't ask, the cows died when I passed, can I say these things in front of my cousin, if I want to say this, my cousin still can't hold a grudge against you." ”