Chapter 108: A piece of jade for two stones of grain
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"This jade, we won't sell it!" Yan Lao Wu slapped the table, and Zi Baifeng felt a little sorry for his own table. These jade merchants are really ruthless in bargaining, even if they sell these jades, they will only get a hundred stones of grain......
One hundred stone is about five tons of grain, if calculated according to one pound of grain per person a day - in fact, one pound of dry noodles is enough for a pot-bellied man to eat - there are 3,000 people in the entire Jiuyan Township, and your sister is only enough to eat more than a day! Even if you save food, you can only eat for three days!
Don't sell! Resolutely don't sell!
In fact, of course, it can't be counted like this, five tons of grain is not a big problem for the whole township to support for ten more days, but Zi Baifeng is such an uncompromising character, and he will never get used to it when he sees that he can't see it. If he had been willing to give the birds and mice the immortal jade, there would have been no such things as they had happened, but was it possible?
If the price of jade is increased by eight or nine times, you can buy a month's worth of grain at a time, which can basically solve the problem of lack of green and yellow in the entire Xiayan Village.
Of course, the money for these jade stones cannot be spent by him......
Anyway, all kinds of things can't be generalized, and the most important thing is that Zi Baifeng is unhappy.
Take advantage of the fire to rob, really think Lao Tzu is a vegetarian!
We're just not used to it, I really don't sell it!
However, many things are not sold if Zi Baifeng wants to sell them, the people here in Xiayan Village are not in a hurry, anyway, when they go to find jade, they bring two rabbits out, it is enough to eat for two days, Bird and Mouse Mountain is extremely kind to the villagers of Xiayan, backed by the mountains, it is not easy to be hungry, and when it comes to the spring of the next year, everything will grow, and there will be as much food as you want, let these jade merchants eat!
However, not everyone is as breathless as Xiayan Village.
On this day, Yan Lao Wu went to other villages to deliver grain, but came back angrily.
"This Yan Dafu, I know that he is not a good thing!" After coming back, Yan Lao Wu asked Zi Baifeng to slap the table again.
Without waiting for Zi Baifeng to speak, he poured beans and said: "Don't feel sorry for selling Ye Tian, these losers, the ancestors left so little family business, they are so corrupt, how can I go to see the eldest brother under Jiuquan in the future!"
Zi Baifeng asked carefully, and then he realized that they don't sell jade, and some people sell it. The patriarch of Yan Village, who is now also the patriarch of the entire Xia Yan Village, plans to sell the jade at the bottom of the box that the ancestors have saved in exchange for silver money to buy food.
"I have long known the Dao, I have long known the Dao!" Yan Lao Wu circled around Zibaifeng's study like an angry lion, and this is the sentence back and forth in his mouth.
Zi Baifeng didn't dare to agree, he had seen Yan Dafu this person, when they planned to go to the bird and mouse view, Yan Dafu looted all his own food and asked them to take it as a coil, although Zi Baifeng and others did not want these coils, but they left an excellent impression on this person.
Zi Baifeng can probably understand their thoughts, but in fact, Yan Lao Wu can also understand, so he came back angrily and didn't drag Yan Dafu to beat him.
If they could, who would want to be a loser in the eyes of their ancestors?
"Did they sell it?" Zi Baifeng asked Yan Lao Wu.
"Not yet, it's good that I'm going early, otherwise they'll open the box out!" Yan Lao Wu snorted.
Since they have all been stopped, what is Yan Lao Wu still doing angrily? Yan Lao Wu snorted and said: "This Yan Dafu has no prestige at all, and the villagers in their village have already sold seven or eight pieces of jade sporadically, you said that we were desperately trying to drive away the demon path of the bird and mouse view, and help them save the jade, in order to let them exchange it for five taels of silver?
Zi Baifeng could only shake his head, now the liquidity of Xiayan Village is less than a hundred taels of silver, which has been accumulated one after another for many days, and Zi Baifeng himself has quietly subsidized some of it. He didn't know how much Yan Lao Wu's family had in the end, but there was no doubt that a large part of Yan Lao Wu's property should actually be jade, and there was no way to realize it now.
What's more, if someone is pinched on this, even if you plan to sell jade in the future, it will not be able to sell it at a price.
Ordinary villagers don't know the way, but Zi Baifeng knows the importance of the jade in the road, these people want to play with the white wolf with empty gloves, Nima got into the eyes of money, do you really treat everyone else as a fool?
"I'm going to meet these jade merchants. Zi Baifeng stood up and said, it seems that they don't give them a little color, they really don't know that the prince of the horse has three eyes!
"I'll go too!" Yan Lao Wu said so much, in fact, it was to let Zi Baifeng get an idea, and now that Zi Baifeng is going to meet the jade merchants, Yan Lao Wu naturally wants to follow.
Not only did Yan Lao Wu go, but when he heard Zi Baifeng's plan, the other villagers also wanted to go one by one.
Speaking of this period of time, Xiayan Village raised its eyebrows, and the villagers were also arrogant one by one, suffering from this kind of wretchedness, it was really not the style of Xiayan villagers, they took longbows and machetes one by one, not like they were going to negotiate, but like they were going to make trouble.
Without Zi Baifeng to speak, Yan Lao Wu took action to drink these people back, Liu Lieli wanted to go, Zi Baifeng didn't take them, in fact, if he didn't want to find someone who was familiar with the situation, Zi Baifeng really planned to go to meet these people single-handedly for a while, and he would not be in the way alone.
Koi Yunzhou, a hundred miles in an instant, Zi Baifeng rode out of the snow from the moat wharf, Yan Lao Wu walked aside to lead the way, and after a while, he pointed ahead and said: "Those jade merchants are now there in Huji Firm." ”
Zi Baifeng raised his head, and sure enough, he saw that next to the past Hu Ji, there was a flag of "collecting jade", now there was no wind, the flag was hanging weakly, in front of the flag, there was a dilapidated flatbed truck, and there was a teenager on the flatbed with his head shrunk and was napping.
Seeing that person, Yan Lao Wu exploded his lungs and shouted: "Yan Dafu!"
And he ran into the book.
The young man with his neck shrunk on the flatbed truck was startled, and when he saw Yan Lao Wu rushing over, he thought he was coming at him, and almost peed his pants in fright: "Fifth master! Don't blame me, it's all my father's idea!"
Who knew that Lu Daoyan Lao Wu didn't pay attention to him at all, turned around and rushed into Hu Ji directly, grabbed a man, and shouted angrily: "See if I don't kill you!"
Zi Baifeng followed without hurry, turned over and got off the donkey in front of Hu Ji, patted the frightened young man on the shoulder, stuffed the reins in his hand into his hand, and walked in with his hands behind his back.
On the counter, a wooden box similar to that in the ancestral hall of Xia Yan Village has been moved out and placed on the counter, and Yan Dafu is opening the box, intending to take out the jade inside.
As soon as the box was opened, you could see the jade piled up inside, the jade in Yancun was estimated to be less than that in Yancun, and the box was a little smaller, but there were more than 100 in it.
"Yan Dafu!" Yan Lao Wu's roar made Yan Dafu tremble, and subconsciously closed the box, and a middle-aged steward standing behind the counter was reaching into the box, and suddenly he was stuck in the box, and let out a loud shout: "You howl!"
"Five...... Fifth Uncle ......" Seeing Yan Lao Wu coming in, Yan Dafu shuddered for a moment, turned around with a smile, and said, "I...... I am...... It's ......"
There were four or five men standing next to them, all of them were villagers of Yan Village, they saw Yan Lao Wu coming in, and their faces were red one by one, they wanted to sell jade, but they were scolded by Yan Lao Wu, but they didn't expect Yan Lao Wu to just leave with their front feet, and they carried the boxes out of the village with their back feet.
"Fifth uncle, don't be angry. A thin man with a smiling face stepped forward and said, "We can't do anything about it, the things left by our ancestors are no better than human life......
"Get out of the way!" Seeing this person, Yan Lao Wu was angry, "It's you, a rabbit cub, fooling your eldest brother to sell jade all day long, see if I don't kill you!"
Yan Lao Wu slapped the man, turning the man around, and hitting his head on the counter, making a bang.
"Fifth uncle!" Seeing that Yan Lao Wu beat people, and he was still his younger brother, Yan Dafu couldn't sit still, "Don't sell jade, what do you say we should do......?"
"You...... You......" Seeing that Yan Dafu actually spoke for Yan Erlamb, Yan Lao Wu was even more angry, "When you get to the spring, do you still have the face to see your ancestors?"
"Can the ancestors eat as food, can the ancestors let us eat enough?" Yan Erlang was helped up by several villagers, and he was still grinning there.
Yan Lao Wu saw that Yan Dafu was also holding his neck, and only felt that his heart was angry, last time he persuaded him for so long, and what he said emotionally was in his ears!
Yan Lao Wu took a breath, forcibly suppressed his violent temper, and said, "Dafu, do you remember what I told you? You are still young, you have just become the elder of the Shang clan, and I don't know how to be the elder of the Lu Dao clan. You don't think you can live anymore, in fact, in the early years, there were many worse than this year, and a few of our old brothers came over with each other's support. You think that you are going to starve to death if you have no food at the moment, let me tell you, there is one who starves to death in our nine villages of the Yan family, and I, Yan Lao Wu, will accompany you with your life! This jade really can't be sold, and the ancestors left this box of jade, not for us to sell, but for us to set the sea god needle! As long as there is this box of jade to press the waist, we will have confidence in our hearts at any time. ”
"What you said is easy, your Xiayan Village is good now, there is money and food, do you know our suffering?" Yan Erlamb was still fooling around, and several other villagers hurriedly pulled him away.
In their hearts, they are also entangled and hesitant.
Sell.
Or not for sale.
It's hard to decide.
Zi Baifeng walked in, but he kept standing on the side and didn't speak.
He was still a young man at this time, just like a young student who came to see the excitement.
He saw that Yan Lao Wu was trying to persuade Yan Dafu, but he just shook his head and didn't speak.