NOVEL WEB Chapter 5
Chapter 5 inquire about
Seeing Zhang Eryong’s unwillingness to talk about this topic, the auntie kept nagging, Shen Ruolan kindly rounded off the aunt’s words and said, “Big Brother Zhang, this wild goat is not easy to fight, right? Listen to this stuff. It’s so fast, and you can walk like flying on the cliffs. It’s amazing to be able to beat you to death. I didn’t expect you to catch alive. It’s amazing!”
Zhang Eryong turned his head and saw that Shen Ruolan was looking at him with big dark eyes, with a sincere expression on her face, and she said briefly: “This is just a catch of the cub, and it can’t run fast, so let me be trapped.”
“Oh, that means you will be able to give birth to milk soon.”
Shen Ruolan muttered, looking at the wild goat a little enviously.
It would be great if she also had a female goat in labor. Her small body now needs to be nourished. Using wild goat milk to nourish is much stronger than milk, and goats are better to feed than cows, and they eat less and are not conspicuous. , Hidden in the backyard of her family’s wild grass, no one can find it, and there will be wild mutton to eat in the future.
Just as envious as her is the other wide-faced man in the car. He looked at the fat wild goat eagerly, and said, “Er Yong, your sheep is a hundred pounds heavy, right?”
Zhang Eryong shook his head, “I don’t know, it doesn’t seem to be there.”
In fact, this wild goat weighed one hundred and seven catties, and he weighed it the day he caught it, but he was low-key and didn’t want to show off.
The wide-faced man stared at the goat for a while, and said with certainty: “I promise to have it. My eyesight is accurate. This sheep can weigh at least one hundred catties. Now your kid can send it. This wild goat meat is available in the city. Money lords are the rarest. Yedi can also sell for two hundred and thirty-four cents a catty, and a full one can also sell for twenty cents a catty. This wild sheep is the income of two taels of silver, tut! ”
He sighed as he shook his head, and he was full of envy. Someone laughed at him and said, “What? Are you greedy? If you are greedy, you should also go up the mountain to fight. Wolong Mountain is 800 miles away. Are there any valuable beasts? Maybe you have entered the mountain. It can be worth more than a wild sheep.”
The wide-faced man hurriedly waved his hand and said, “I don’t dare to go. Not everyone can go in Wolong Mountain. Last fall, the two boys in our village went into the mountain to dig ginseng, but they were blinded by a big bear. Neither of them ran away. , I let Xiong Blind shoot him to death. When I got it back, I didn’t look like a man. It’s miserable…”
“Oh, it’s very miserable, but it’s miserable not to catch up with the old grandson of our village.”
Someone continued, “Three years ago, the sixth son of our village grandson took two sons into the mountains to hunt in order to marry his son. He didn’t expect to encounter a group of hungry wolves. Alas, the three lively fathers, when they got it back. There are only bones left, and the sixth daughter-in-law Sun hanged herself after the funeral…”
“It’s so miserable, I don’t know what kind of crime the three people suffered at that time…”
“Yeah, a good family, it’s such a dead-end…”
Everyone was talking about how dangerous it is to go up the mountain, and how someone died on the mountain on a certain day, a certain year, and a certain village.
Shen Ruolan also listened unknowingly. I really didn’t listen. I was shocked. It turned out that going into the mountains is so dangerous. Fortunately, she still wants to raise her body to pick mushrooms and make money by picking fungus. Forget it, although the silver is good, it’s not important to fate no matter how good it is. It’s so easy to live again, and it’s not worth it to spend a few ounces of silver.
It seems that the old Zhang family must also be extremely poor, otherwise they won’t let their second kid go into the mountain at such a big risk. No wonder Shen Ruomei is crying and howling to divorce!
The carriage was trotting, and the car was bumping up and down, but this did not affect everyone’s interest in talking, especially the aunt next to Shen Ruolan, which is a good thing to say. The mouth has never stopped, the east and the west. Short, chattering non-stop, although a bit noisy, Shen Ruolan still inquired a lot of useful information from her.
First of all, she figured out the currency value of this world.
Although her predecessor was a person of this era, the bitter little girl never spent money since she was a child, or even touched it. She doesn’t know as much about the value of currency and prices as she does.
In the last life, she had read many ancient novels about traveling through, and had a general understanding of the price quotations in ancient times. After some teachings from the aunt, she had a basic understanding of the price quotations here.
In this era, the most widely circulated currency is not silver but copper coins. In modern terms, silver is the super-large denomination of currency. One or two silver is worth a thousand ren, and one ren can buy a steamed bun or a plain steamed bun. Meat buns are only sold for two cents a catty, cornmeal is two cents a catty, flour and white rice are slightly more expensive, both are three cents a catty, and pork fifteen cents a catty…
In this way, the purchasing power of a tael of silver is still very strong. You can buy a thousand of steamed buns, which is enough for one person to eat for a year. If you are frugal and eat a bit of coarse grains, you can live two for one or two. Years now. Knowing the price quotation and currency value, she also inquired about the general situation of the county town by the way.
Nong’an County is a big county. There are three main streets alone. One of them is Surabaya Street, which is the market most often visited by villagers. This street is not long. From the street to the end, there are vendors dressed in short clothes. Most of the people are from the countryside, and they sell their own agricultural products, such as vegetables, grain, chicken, duck, geese and other poultry, and occasionally mountain products or game, but there are not many, and the price is relatively expensive.
There are also hand-made products or tools and farming tools, such as pig troughs, kang mats, braziers and curtains, grates sledges, etc., which are practical but not very valuable.
Those who patronize this street are all rural people or poor people in the city, because the things on this street are good and cheap, and are much cheaper than those sold in other places. It can be said that this street is for people from poor families. the best choice.
The second street is located in the middle of the county town, called Bao’an Street. It is a relatively tall street. The county government office in this county is located on this street. In addition, most of the residences of the big figures in the county town are built here.
There are not many shops on the street. There is only one elegant and elegant tea house and one Qingyun Academy, which is famous throughout the county. Those who can study in Qingyun Academy are the children of wealthy families in the county. It is said that beam repair is required for one year. Fifteen taels of silver, not to mention the cost of eating and drinking pen and ink, the poor students can’t even think about it.
The teahouse is even more exaggerated. A cup of tea is sold for 30 cents, which is enough to buy 2 catties of pork. If most people have that 30 cents, they still think about buying 2 catties of pork or 10 catties of white rice for their family. How can they come here and splurge? Up.
Therefore, the people who come here for consumption are rich people who wear silk and silk. Most of these people live on this street or are merchants who travel to and from Nong’an County. Ordinary people will never come here to spoil their money. of.