Xu Ling wandered in the market for a long time.
He even went to see the place where livestock is bought and sold on Matou Street. Everything from horses to cattle, mules and donkeys are available here. Officials from the government who specialize in recording livestock sales are responsible for recording transactions here.
After just one round, Xu Ling gave up the plan of buying livestock for pulling carts.
A cow starts at 10 taels of silver, and a horse costs at least 25 taels. Donkeys are much cheaper, but they also cost 89 taels of silver. Including constant chewing, the cost is really shocking.
Xu Ling made money, but he had to spend it wisely.
If you think about it carefully, he has the powerful tool of space, but the livestock cannot be included in the space, but it will get in the way.
Xu Ling comforted himself, and when he was about to leave Ma Tou Street, he saw a familiar figure.
Isn't it the horse dealer who harassed Liu Niang?
Liu Niang had mentioned the horse merchant to him a few days ago, saying that he bought many cans of sugar paste from Liu Niang's tea shop, and then left Ma Tou Street and never went to the tea shop again.
Unexpectedly, we met again today.
Xu Ling thought about what to do if Wang Zhu didn't come home for many days and he left the other courtyard again. What if this bastard had evil thoughts again and wanted to harass Liu Niang? A weak woman like her had no way to deal with it.
He decided to follow his previous idea and warn the horse dealer not to act rashly.
"This big brother," Xu Ling patted the horse dealer on the shoulder from behind. He and many people gathered outside the horse ring, seemingly bidding. He turned around and saw Xu Ling, with confusion on his face: "Who are you? What do you want from me? "
Xu Ling thought about it for a moment and said: "Brother, do you still remember Liu's Tea Shop? I saw you doing something unjust that day. After thinking about it, I still want to remind brother that there is a god three feet above your head..."
Ma Shang didn't wait for Xu Ling to finish speaking, and looked him up and down. He saw that he was thin, but his clothes were neatly tidied up, and his eyes were bright and simple. He looked like a fool who was not familiar with the world and had a brain cramp after reading. .
He immediately laughed and said, "Are you that bitch's new mistress?"
This is too ugly to say!
Xu Ling was a little annoyed, "She and I are just friends. I just want to warn you not to harass her again. If you let me know next time, I will definitely go to the government to sue you!"
Unexpectedly, the horse dealer was not angry but smiled instead, "Here comes another fool who took the bait! I will definitely not go to her again, but you, huh."
He looked at Xu Ling with a half-smile, and muttered: "I really thought I could take advantage. What a fool!"
Xu Ling didn't understand why he reacted this way, but the horse dealer didn't want to deal with him anymore, "Get out of here, I won't even look for her until I die! Don't worry!"
The horse dealer was anxiously waiting for the bidding to begin. Xu Ling got the result he wanted and had to leave, but he felt a little unhappy in his heart.
On the one hand, the horse dealer's reaction was wrong, and on the other hand, he felt that it was really not his style to act rashly like this.
Is it possible that he really has something wrong with Liu Niang?
Xu Ling despised both of himself. Damn it, if he didn't become a man, he would really be a stinky man who loves to flirt with women! He just loves and protects his little sisters!
Even though Xu Ling didn't want to admit it, he did have some gender confusion sometimes.
You can only slowly force yourself to adapt to avoid losing your true self.
After leaving Ma Tou Street, Xu Ling quickly forgot about this incident. He did what he had to do and had a clear conscience, that's all.
While there was still time, Xu Ling went to a restaurant to have a hot meal, and then went to a braised pork shop to buy a roast chicken and some braised pork. Then he went to Jiweizhai to buy pastries, and went to a jewelry shop to buy some cakes for Gu You and his mother. Buy lipstick jewelry...
All in all, Xu Ling bought all the good things he could think of.
When he returned to Lu's carpenter's shop, he estimated that this big shopping trip cost him almost eight taels of silver.
"Guest, the cart you requested has been prepared, and the things sent by Liangpubuzhuang have also been placed on the cart. There are quite a few of them. Do you want to take a look?"
"No need to read, Uncle Lu. I also want a storage rack for storing things. It looks like this..."
Xu Ling told Carpenter Lu about the appearance of the shelves and paid a hundred cash deposit. When he came back, the space would have shelves for things.
After doing all this, it was afternoon.
Xu Ling pushed a cart full of good things and felt refreshed. He walked to a deserted place and then put the things together with the cart into the space.
Carrying a bag of clothes, I went to the dock to look for a ship to Qinghe Town. This time I asked for a normal cabin in the lower cabin, avoiding the terrible situation of being together with all kinds of cargo.
In the middle of the night, Xu Ling arrived at Qinghe Town. The cold wind on the autumn night was life-threatening. He waited at the city gate until dawn before the guards let him out.
Xu Ling rushed straight to Lijiazhuang. He had not been back for more than ten days and wanted to buy another batch of pears here.
Mrs. Li was very surprised when she saw him. Xu Ling explained that he was sick outside and it took a lot of time to sell out the pears.
Mrs. Li had a sad look on her face, without even a hint of smile. She just lamented: "It's so difficult these days."
As he spoke, he wiped his tears with his sleeves.
Xu Ling said quickly: "What's going on?"
Old Mrs. Li cried: "My miserable daughter-in-law just passed away from illness two days ago. She has lost her mother. She cries when she sees the sky."
Xu Ling's eyes widened. He didn't expect such bad news at all. He thought about the mother who saw Hutou on the day they parted. She was only a woman in her twenties and seventies. How could she have disappeared so recently?
When someone you know suddenly disappears, it's easy to feel in a trance.
Mrs. Li babbled and asked Xu Ling to come in for a drink of water. She apologized and explained that in order to treat her daughter-in-law, she had sold all the pears at home at low prices. She even had no money for her son to serve in the army this year, so she could only go to the river to dig mud. A month's worth of farm service.
Yes, the people here have to pay taxes and serve.
Xu Ling quickly realized that any male in the family who is over 16 years old must serve. The imperial court has a recruitment law. Those who should serve but do not want to serve can pay the corresponding amount of money.
In addition, farmers have to pay taxes twice a year, in spring and autumn; merchants also have commercial taxes; landlords, tenants, merchants, etc., and even those who frequently travel across state lines also have road taxes.
These days, Xu Ling rents a house and buys and sells things, so naturally he also pays taxes. I just didn't take it too seriously.
But now I see that Mrs. Li's family fell apart in just ten days. The river water in this autumn moon is so cold. It's strange that people don't get sick if they dig the river mud there for a month!
Only now did Xu Ling understand that the economic fragility of small farmers written in books in his previous life was not just empty talk.
He sat in Old Mrs. Li's house for a long time. Hutou woke up and cried for his mother. Old Mrs. Li stood up on the bench and went to look after her grandson, leaving Xu Ling in the main room.
Xu Ling left three hundred coins and quietly left the Li family without disturbing his grandfather and grandson.
When passing behind her house, I saw half of the pears on the pear tree were gone, leaving a pile of tangled branches in the empty vegetable patch.
