Dressed as a farmer's widow, she brought her daughter to stock up on food and reached the top

Chapter 416: Raising the price from the ground up

Xiuying calmly took out twenty taels of silver and handed it over, saying in a calm tone, "Here you go."

The shopkeeper looked at the twenty taels of silver, then looked up at Xiuying. His face instantly darkened, and he said discontentedly, "Madam, if you're bored, just embroider or enjoy the scenery. Why are you running to the carriage and horse shop? You bargained for the price but didn't buy anything. Aren't you deliberately trying to make fun of me?"

When Wang Dali heard this, he yelled, "What nonsense are you talking about! How could you see that our wife didn't want to buy it? This is your deposit."

As he spoke, Wang Dali quickly took out a pre-written receipt and handed it to the boss: "Our wife will give you twenty taels first. Come back later to get the carriage. Take a good look at it and sign it if there are no problems."

The boss took the receipt with a look of suspicion on his face and squinted his eyes to read it carefully. After looking at it for a while, he couldn't help but feel secretly surprised. It turned out that this woman really wanted to buy a carriage, but he never expected that she would buy the carriage first.

In the past, customers who came to buy carriages and horses would first go to the livestock market, buy horses, and then bring them to buy carriages. I always quoted a high price, knowing these people were determined to buy, so I wasn't worried they wouldn't accept. But this time, it was really beyond my expectations.

"Ah!" The boss sighed helplessly, his voice filled with disappointment. Then, like a deflated ball, he slowly stamped his fingerprint on the receipt and reluctantly accepted the twenty taels of silver that Xiuying had given him as a deposit.

"Okay, boss, we'll come and pick up the carriage in a while." Xiuying looked calm. After she finished speaking, she put away the receipt, turned around and hurried to the livestock market with Wang Dali.

Meanwhile, the people of Futian Village were already excitedly strolling through the livestock market, each one looking excited and eagerly selecting the livestock they liked.

Ma Ergun walked up to a donkey with great enthusiasm, patted its buttocks excitedly, and said with a grin, "This donkey is really good. Look at its buttocks, how solid it is."

Ma Ergun's life has improved. He wears a set of coarse cotton clothes that Wang Fuping carefully made for him. Although the clothes are not expensive, they look neat and decent, making him look like the head of a small family.

Walking in this livestock market, he felt confident, and he knew in his heart that this confidence came from his virtuous and capable wife Wang Fuping.

The donkey seller came over with a big smile on his face. "Sir, you have a really good eye! This donkey is in its prime, very strong, and a great worker. It only costs twenty taels of silver."

"What? Twenty taels of silver!" Ma Ergun's eyes widened, nearly popping out of his head. He made a two-digit gesture with his hand. Before he left, his beloved son-in-law had told him that the price of a donkey wouldn't exceed ten taels of silver. His wife had given him fifteen taels, asking him to buy a donkey and a piece of cloth.

He never expected that the price of donkeys now is not much different from the price before the famine. This was beyond his expectation.

However, Uncle Ma was not a novice. After a brief surprise, Ma Ergun immediately calmed down, took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and then looked calmly at the boss who was selling the donkey.

"Isn't your price right?" Then, Ma Ergun cleared his throat and repeated to the boss seriously and eloquently what his beloved son-in-law had said to him yesterday.

The boss obviously hadn't encountered such a customer before. He still had a professional smile on his face. "Uncle, you also know that it's a bad harvest year now. Look at me. I raise these donkeys, which one doesn't require money?

People can endure tightening their belts, but my donkeys cannot starve. I treat them more carefully than my own sons!

And this land, renting it costs money, and those errand boys have to be paid, right? Food is ridiculously expensive now, and fodder is also going up in price, so there's money everywhere!

I really didn't raise the price intentionally. I only gave you this fair price out of consideration for the hardship everyone faces during this famine."

Every word the boss said made sense. Ma Ergun stood there and opened his mouth, but found that he could not find any words to refute. After a long while, he could only sigh helplessly and turned away silently.

In the end, the people of Futian Village were all dejected and squatted at the gate of the livestock market. They were unwilling to go back like this.

"Uncle Li, your family didn't buy it either?" a young man came over and asked.

"No, my wife said it's cheap now, but I think the price is not cheap at all." Uncle Li frowned and answered in a muffled voice.

"Yeah, I didn't buy it either. I think I was ripped off at this price." Another villager nearby couldn't help but complain.

"I said that everyone shouldn't come together. With more people buying, the price will naturally be raised." An older villager said regretfully.

"Yes, if there was only one buyer, wouldn't those livestock sellers be scrambling to lower the price?"

Everyone was discussing it at once, but no one could come up with a good solution for a while.

At this moment, they happened to meet Xiuying who was rushing over.

"Have you bought it?" Xiuying asked doubtfully, looking at the dejected looks of the crowd.

"No, it's too expensive. These businessmen are very shrewd. Seeing that there are so many of us, they all insisted on the price and refused to budge. It's ridiculously expensive." A villager couldn't help but complain loudly.

"Yes, if we had known this earlier, we would have separated and bought our own. Maybe the price would have been cheaper." Another villager agreed.

"Yeah, it seems that it's not a big deal, more people means more. We've suffered a big loss this time and learned a lesson." Another sigh came from the crowd.

Xiuying said to Aunt Sun and Aunt Li in the crowd, "Aunt Sun, Aunt Li, please take the trouble to register how many households in our village have bought cows and donkeys."

Aunt Sun and Aunt Li sprang into action. Knowing Xiuying well, they knew she must have had a plan for this arrangement. They began questioning everyone, and within a short while, they had accurately reported the number of items to Xiuying.

Mrs. Sun quickly said, "There are two families who bought the cows. It's me and Aunt Li."

Aunt Li then added: "There are more than 45 families who want to buy donkeys. Some families want to buy two, so a total of donkeys are needed."