Xu Ling walked around the market for a long time.

He even went to see the place where livestock were bought and sold in Matou Street, where everything from horses to oxen, mules and donkeys were recorded, and the government officials who kept records the sale of livestock were in charge of recording transactions.

After just turning around, Xu Ling gave up his plan to buy a cart of livestock.

A cow starts at ten taels of silver, a horse costs twenty-five taels at the most, and the price of a donkey is much cheaper, but it also costs eight or nine taels of silver, and the cost is too amazing to count the uninterrupted chewing.

Xu Ling made money, but the money had to be spent on the blade.

If you think about it, he has the weapon of space, and he has livestock and can't get into the space, which is in the way.

Xu Ling comforted himself, and when he was about to leave Matou Street, he saw a familiar figure.

Isn't it the horse merchant who harassed Liu Niang!

A few days ago, Liu Niang also mentioned the horse merchant to him, saying that he bought a lot of cans of sugar paste from Liu Niang's tea shop, and then left Matou Street and never went to the tea shop again.

I didn't expect to meet again today.

Xu Ling thought about it, Wang Zhu didn't go home for many days, and he left the other courtyard again, in case this guy had evil thoughts and wanted to harass Liu Niang, she was a weak woman and had no way to deal with it, so what should I do.

So he decided to follow his previous idea and warn the horse merchant to stop doing his own thing.

"This big brother," Xu Ling patted the horse merchant on the shoulder from behind, he and many people gathered outside the horse circle, as if bidding, and when he looked back and saw Xu Ling, his face was full of doubts: "Who are you?" What are you looking for me? ”

Xu Ling pondered for a moment, and only said, "Big brother, do you remember Liu's tea shop?" I saw that you had done something unrighteous that day, and after thinking about it, I still want to remind my eldest brother that there is a god in your head......"

Ma Shang didn't wait for Xu Ling to finish speaking, he looked him up and down, and saw that he was thin, but his clothes were clean, and his eyes were even brighter and simpler.

Deng Shi snorted and said, "Are you the new concubine of that slut? ”

That's a terrible thing to say!

Xu Ling was a little annoyed, "I'm just friends with her, I just want to warn you, don't harass her again, and let me know next time, I will definitely go to the government to sue you!" ”

Who knew that the horse merchant was not angry and laughed, "There is another fool who has taken the bait!" I'm sure I'm not going to look for her again, but you, huh. ”

He looked at Xu Ling with a smile, and muttered: "I really think I can take advantage, it's really something that doesn't know whether to live or die!" ”

Xu Ling didn't understand why he reacted this way, but the horse merchant didn't want to entangle with him more, "Get out, don't go to her if you kill Lao Tzu!" You can rest assured! ”

Ma Shang anxiously waited for the bidding to start, Xu Ling got the result he wanted, so he had to leave, but he was faintly unhappy in his heart.

On the one hand, Ma Shang's reaction was wrong, and on the other hand, he felt that acting rashly like this was indeed not his style.

Could it be that he really has any crooked thoughts about Liu Niang?

Xu Ling spit on himself, his father's is not a man, he is really a stinky man who loves to mess with flowers and grass! He just loves the little sister, what's wrong!

Even if Xu Ling doesn't want to admit it, he does have some gender confusion sometimes.

You can only slowly force yourself to adapt and avoid losing your true self.

Leaving Matou Street, Xu Ling quickly forgot about this little episode, he did what he had to do, with a clear conscience, and that's it.

While there was still time, Xu Ling went to the restaurant to have a hot meal, and then went to the braised meat shop to buy a roast chicken and some braised meat, and then went to Jiwei Zhai to buy pastries, and went to the jewelry store to buy lipstick jewelry for Gu Yu and his mother......

All in all, Xu Ling bought all the good things he could think of.

When he returned to the Lu family's carpenter's shop, it was estimated that this trip of shopping cost him almost eight taels of silver.

"Guest, the cart you want has been prepared, and the things sent by the grain shop are also put on the car, there are a lot of them, do you want to take a look?"

"Don't look at it, Uncle Lu. I'd also like a cargo rack to store things, something like this......"

Xu Ling told Carpenter Lu about the appearance of the shelves again, paid a deposit of 100 yuan, and when he came back, there would be shelves for things in the space.

After doing all this, the time also came to the afternoon.

Xu Ling pushed a cart of good things, but he only felt refreshed, and he walked until he walked to a place where no one was around, and he put the things into the space along with the board car.

Carrying the burden of clothes, I went to the dock to find a boat to Qinghe Town, and this time I asked for a normal cabin and a low-class room, so as to avoid the bad situation of staying with all kinds of goods before.

In the second half of the night, Xu Ling arrived in Qinghe Town. The autumn night was cold and windy, and it was so cold that he waited at the city gate until it was light, and the guards let him out.

Xu Ling rushed straight to Lijiazhuang, he hadn't come back for more than ten days, and he wanted to buy another batch of pears here.

Mrs. Li was very surprised when she saw him, and Xu Ling explained that she had an illness outside, and it took a lot of time to sell the pears.

Mrs. Li had a sad face, didn't smile at all, and only lamented: "It's been difficult these days." ”

As he spoke, he wiped his tears with his sleeve.

Xu Ling hurriedly said, "What's the matter?" ”

Mrs. Li cried: "My hard-working daughter-in-law just fell ill two days ago, and the tiger head has no mother, and she cries when she sees the sky." ”

Xu Ling's eyes widened, he didn't expect it to be such bad news at all, he thought of the mother who saw the tiger on the day of separation, but a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old woman, how long has it been, why is it gone.

The person you know is suddenly gone, and it's easy to get in a trance.

Mrs. Li chattered and asked Xu Ling to come into the house to drink water, she apologized and explained that in order to treat her daughter-in-law's illness, the pears in the family were sold by her, and even her son had no money to serve this year, so she could only go to the river to dig mud and serve enough for a month's agricultural service.

Yes, the people here have to pay taxes and serve.

Xu Ling quickly reacted that all men who had reached the age of 16 in their families had to serve, and the imperial court had a conscription law, and those who should serve but did not want to serve could pay the corresponding money.

In addition, farmers have to pay taxes twice a year, in spring and autumn; Merchants also have a commercial tax; Landlords, tenants, buying and selling shops, etc., even those who frequently travel across state lines, also have road taxes.

These days, Xu Ling rented a house to buy and sell things, and naturally paid taxes. It's just that I didn't take it too seriously.

But now I see Mrs. Li's family only ten days of work, the family is falling apart, I don't know how cold the river water is in this autumn moon, digging river mud there for a month, it's no wonder that people don't get sick!

Xu Ling now understands that the economic vulnerability of small farmers written in his previous life is not a meaningless empty word.

He sat in Mrs. Li's house for a long time, the tiger head woke up, crying and calling for his mother, Mrs. Li propped up the bench and got up to take care of her grandson, leaving Xu Ling in the hall.

Xu Ling left 300 yuan, did not disturb the grandfather and grandson, and quietly left the Li family.

When she passed behind her house, she saw that half of the pear tree was gone, and there was a pile of stumbling branches in the empty vegetable patch.