Wang Jiulang got the news and spat on the boy who came to report the news.
"I'll tell you now! If I don't buy the horse, I'll sell you out!" After saying this, he hurriedly got up from the couch, put on his shoes, and left in a hurry.
As soon as I entered the house, someone greeted me.
"Kuroro is here!"
"I haven't seen you for a long time, and you finally came out."
After Wang Jiulang heard this, his face darkened instantly, he clenched his teeth and walked inside.
These guys knew that he was banned, so why were they deliberately teasing him now?
What the hell are they!
How can I be ridiculed by you low-class guys?
When I walked inside, I finally saw someone familiar in the side room and hurried in.
Seeing him coming, several people made room for him to sit in the main seat.
After the "Cefu Yuangui" compiled by his father was completed, Wang Jiulang could sit on the throne whenever he appeared among these people.
"Jiulang, where is your brother? Why don't you see him coming? He is worthy of a Xixia horse." A gentleman next to him asked without waiting for Wang Jiulang to sit down.
After hearing this, Wang Jiulang's smile disappeared instantly. He stared at the speaker with a pair of small eyes, snorted coldly and said: "The eldest brother is a doctor of praise, how can he have time to come here? Besides, his How can I know everything?"
Every time he comes out, people ask him, "Big brother is the big brother, he is him." These people ask him what he is doing!
The eldest son of the Wang family, Wang Congyi, was thirty years old and was appointed as the official of Zanshan.
"Okay, interested people will naturally come. Let's see if there is a chance to buy this first horse. If there is no chance, we will just treat it as a fun today."
After hearing this, Wang Jiulang felt better and said to the speaker: "We, Ding Liulang, can still speak!"
The person who spoke first languished and stopped talking, thinking in his heart that Ding Liulang and Wang Jiulang were in similar situations, or even worse.
Finally, when the time came, shopkeeper Liu stood on the stage set up in the garden. He held the gong in his hand and struck it three times before bowing to everyone around him.
"Masters and gentlemen, our horse shop is selling our first horse today. This horse is called Phantom." As soon as he finished speaking, someone brought a tall horse over.
This horse, called Phantom, is two inches taller than an ordinary horse. Its coat is bright and shiny, with perfect curves and strong and powerful limbs.
A rare horse indeed.
The horses had been led many times in the garden, and everyone knew what the phantom looked like.
Shopkeeper Liu continued: "Phantom's price is fifty taels. If anyone wants to increase the price, just shake the bell in the wing and shout out the price increase. If no one increases the price within half a cup of tea after the price increase, then Phantom will follow the price increase. It was sold at the price of the gentleman who raised the last bid! We will hand over the money with one hand and the horse with the other. The gentleman who does not bring any silver can come back another day."
Wang Jiulang and others in this room first rang the bell, "Sixty taels."
Before he could finish his words, someone shouted from the opposite side: "Seventy taels."
The bidding was getting higher and higher, and Ding Liulang asked, "Jiulang, why don't you increase the bid?" Everyone knew that the Wang family was rich, after all, Wang Jiulang's previous bidding for the girl Xin'er was extremely high.
"This horse doesn't suit my eyes. I'll take a look today." Wang Jiulang took him casually.
In the end, the horse was taken away by Hu Jiawulang for a price of one hundred and twenty taels. After he paid the money, he took the horse away without stopping for a moment.
Because Xixia horses can be used as war horses, one Xixia horse is worth a dozen ordinary horses.
Today's Phantom transaction price is similar to the price of war horses on the market, and is within Shopkeeper Liu's expectations.
Seeing the horse being taken away, Wang Jiulang was shocked. How could the Hu family have money to buy this Xixia horse? But because of his marriage, he now doesn't have much money in his hands.
If he could ride a horse like this, he would be really majestic, and those who tease him would have to shut up.
At first he refused to marry anyone other than the head of Jiaren County, but he didn't know that the person he was marrying was an ancestor who could not be touched. Moreover, this ancestor had cut off his wealth, and his father actually turned to her and let her make the decision!
Thinking of his miserable situation after marriage, Wang Jiulang sighed heavily.
The next day, Wu Lang of the Hu family went hunting on his newly purchased horse, and it was reported that he returned with a full load before the sun set.
I think this horse is well-deserved!
A few days later, shopkeeper Liu started selling his second horse. On this day, he limited the number of people who could come to see the horse.
Because it was only noon and the house was already full of people. Seeing that the situation could not be controlled, we could only stipulate that one person could only enter after one person had been admitted.
But everyone wants to see more of the good horse, and also wants to know who bought the horse, and wants to know which gentleman is rich and willing to spend money.
This excitement is a bit like an oiran auction, but since it is a horse instead of an oiran, more people can participate openly.
Besides, loving horses is a noble thing, so there are also ladies who, with the intention of doing justice to their daughters, gather their horses out, and some even come with them themselves.
Therefore, as long as people came in in the morning, no one would come out until the time of the evening.
Those who came late sat in a restaurant not far away and waited for news.
Wang Jiulang was also late, but he didn't bother to go to the restaurant and went back directly after listening to the second-hand information.
After all, he is the one who really wants to buy a horse, so why sit in a restaurant and wait for the result?
However, it took a lot of effort to get the money to buy the horse from the housekeeper. He came with full confidence but didn't even get in, which made people angry.
The second horse was named Blast, and was bought by the husband of the Hu family.
For a time, the Hu family was the most talked about in Bianjing City.
On the day the third horse was sold, Wang Jiulang asked the boy to come and line up early. Although he came late, he could be replaced as soon as the boy came out.
Shopkeeper Liu came up with a new method that day. You can pay to test ride the horses sold that day. After the real experience, more people are willing to pay to buy the horses. In the end the price went up extremely high.
Until one hundred and seventy taels.
Shopkeeper Liu didn't expect that the selling price could exceed the market price by thirty points.
The young man of the Qian family came to pay the price. He was a young man of twelve or thirteen years old, followed by the housekeeper and the boy. Anyone with a discerning eye can understand that this is just showing up for the elders in the family.
Wang Jiulang only bid once and was covered by someone else. It wasn't that he didn't want to bid again, but he didn't prepare so much silver.
Finding nothing, he left angrily.
After returning home, Miss Xin'er immediately greeted her.
Xin'er is now four months pregnant, but fortunately she doesn't show her pregnancy in winter, and the head of Jiaren County also allows her to walk around outside.
Nowadays, although I can't wear gold and jade jewelry, I can wear warm clothes, eat well, don't have to do menial work, and look good.
"Alang, what are you doing?" Xin'er was the maid of the Lord Jiaren County in the Wang family, so she could only call Wang Jiulang Alang like other maids.
She asked and helped him take off his cloak.
The Lord of Jiaren County held the tea cup, glanced at the two of them, and sneered: "What else can we do? It used to be a place to auction prostitutes, but now it's just a place to auction other things."
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About money:
In the early Northern Song Dynasty, one tael of silver was exchanged for one guan of money. During the reign of Emperor Huizong, one tael of silver was exchanged for two guan of money.
Under normal circumstances, Guanqian refers to one thousand copper coins, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, seventy-seven coins were counted as one hundred, so Guanqian was 770 coins.
