Father Niu snorted and said: "There are so many people in Yangzhou City. Do they know who has bought it and who has not? After buying it once, put all the salt in the hands of your elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, and then we will queue up again! After all, It’s hard to come across such a good opportunity, so you have to buy more salt! Anyway, if you put that thing in a jar, it won’t go bad as long as it’s not damp, so you can save a lot of money!”
Niu Mantun said: "The senior officials of the imperial court have said that in the future, the price of salt will be almost ten cents, and in the future, caravans will continue to deliver salt here. Buying so much will also take up money! "
Father Niu snorted again and said: "What do you know! How can the government be accurate when it speaks? I guess this time it may be some happy event for the emperor, so he let the common people take advantage of it. I'm afraid it's just passing this village. This store no longer exists!"
Niu Mantun was still talking when he heard someone knocking on the door outside the yard. At the same time, someone shouted loudly: "Uncle Niu, is brother Mantun at home? My dad asked him to come over!"
Father Niu motioned to his boss to open the courtyard door, and a middle-aged man came in. Everyone immediately recognized this man as the second son of the village chief's family. Father Niu also asked hurriedly: "Why did your father ask Mantun to go there?"
The visitor said: "Brother Mantun and Brother Arita came to the village to say they had cheap salt for sale, and the whole village was alarmed! When my father heard about it, he wanted to ask them to ask about the situation and discuss it. .Now many people in the village are waiting outside for that!"
When Father Niu heard this, he nodded and said, "You should, you should! Let's all go together!"
Then the entire Niu family followed the village chief's second son to the center of the village. When they arrived, a large number of villagers had gathered there, noisily discussing low-price salt.
When they saw the Niu family coming, someone immediately greeted them and asked them to go to the center of the crowd. When the Niu family squeezed into the crowd, they found that Li Youtian had arrived first and was standing next to the village chief with his hands lowered.
The village chief is an old man about seventy years old. He is neither deaf nor blind, and he is very prestigious in the village! When he saw the people coming, he smiled and waved and said, "Mantun, come forward! The others are waiting nearby."
Niu Mantun stepped forward and saluted the village chief, then stood there honestly. At this time, the village chief's eldest son said loudly: "Okay, stop arguing and listen to my father's questions."
After the villagers calmed down, the village chief held on to the crutch in his hand and said, "Mantun, Youtian, you are both good children that grandpa watched grow up, and this matter is important, you two can't lie!"
When Niu Mantun and the others heard this, they both swore that what they said was true. The village chief paused with his crutch and said, "Grandpa also believes that what you said is true, so now you tell me the whole story and let the villagers listen."
The two of them explained the whole story clearly to you and me. After they finished speaking, the villagers became excited and shouted that this was a good opportunity. They could save a lot of copper coins by buying salt and saving it at this time!
But the old village chief let the villagers clamor and sat there without speaking, holding his crutch with one hand and stroking his beard with the other. He waited until the villagers asked him to calm down before he used his crutches vigorously. The villagers immediately fell silent upon hearing the sound.
I just heard the old village chief say: "This is a good thing. Maybe we will encounter this once in this life! So, everyone in the village will prepare copper coins and go buy salt tomorrow!"
The villagers had this plan, and when the village chief said so, they immediately went home to pack their things and prepare to get up early. But then the village chief paused his cane and said, "You all, stop here! Old man, I still have something to say!"
The villagers didn't know why, but they all stayed. I just heard the old village chief say: "You all want to take your family to buy salt, so you haven't thought about whether people from other villages will also buy salt? Plus people from Yangzhou city, when the time comes There are so many people, aren’t you afraid that something will happen?”
Everyone woke up after hearing this, and then looked around. There were almost hundreds of people in their own village alone. If people from other villages went there, plus people from Yangzhou City, wouldn't it be true? It's like a huge crowd!
When the time comes, thieves, photo-takers, including gangsters
Rogues will definitely take the opportunity to appear there, and things like stealing things and losing children will definitely happen one after another! While everyone was talking about it, the old village chief said loudly: "So, this time we can't buy salt separately, we have to get the whole village together!"
The villagers started boiling the pot as soon as they heard the bang! Someone said: "That's right! Let's go together as a village and look after each other, so we won't be afraid of those bastards!"
"Yes! Let's go together, so we can get a good spot with so many people!"
Just when the villagers were talking a lot and praising the village chief for his cleverness, the village chief said loudly: "But we have all left the village, and outsiders have entered the village. What should we do if we lose things? So we have to leave some young people to guard them. In the village!"
When he said this, all the villagers were unwilling! Because whichever family stays will mean that whichever family buys one less pound of salt, and no one is willing to bear this loss for nothing. So the villagers didn't raise their heads and just talked in low voices.
At this time, I heard the old village chief say: "Look at all of you, you are hopeless! I will order some people to stay and guard the village in a while. Those who are not going will just grab a handful of salt from each house to count them!" As a fellow villager, can’t you help me with this little bit of work?”
The words of the old village chief made the villagers extremely ashamed. They all expressed their willingness to obey the old village chief's instructions. At the same time, they also expressed that they would never treat the people guarding the village badly. Because as the old village chief said, there are so many households in the village, so if you grab a small handful from each household, you can quickly collect a pound! .
At this time, the old village chief saw that he had completely grasped the situation, so he stood up with a cane and loudly called the names of ten people. Everyone nodded when they heard the old village chief's roll call. Because these ten people are all relatively strong people in the village, but their minds are not very flexible. But it takes such an honest person to watch over the village!
These ten people were named by the old village chief. Knowing that they would be responsible for guarding the village, they all stood up with their chests and belly folded, and they were very proud! They all patted their chests and promised that not a single straw would be lost when the villagers came back!
Then the old village chief said loudly: "Everyone is ready tonight, and has all the copper coin bags ready! Except for those who are too old to walk, everyone will set out to buy salt tomorrow! Even the Milk Baby will bring it with him!" "
