Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 114 Buying Chickens, Ducks, and Goose Seedlings

Ji Wenhe took out a pair of scissors and cut the cloth into the desired shape: "Sell three for five cents, Aunt Lan, if you are willing, make twenty first."

After they are done, let them take them to the village to sell. If they can’t sell them, they can only take them to the town.

Lan Qiuhua was willing to do so, and nodded happily: "Okay, you plan to stuff some scraps of cloth in it."

"Well, no need for bamboo leaves. When stuffing the cloth, there should be no dents. Try to make it as round as possible."

"Okay, don't worry, I promise to make it beautiful for you."

Ji Wenhe placed the cut material in front of her: "Aunt Lan, do you have any chicks now?"

"Yes." Lan Qiuhua raised her eyes and glanced at her. "How many more do you plan to buy?"

"Yes, there are also goose seedlings and duck seedlings."

“Yes, there are, but the prices of goose and ducklings are high.”

When I went to buy chicks, I also asked about duck and goose chicks. I wonder if the prices have dropped now.

"A goose seedling is ten cents, and a duck seedling is nine cents. They are expensive. In the past, duck seedlings were seven cents and goose seedlings were eight cents."

Ji Wenhe was shocked. She had originally thought of buying dozens of them to raise.

Lan Qiuhua asked: "How many do you want to buy? I'll go take a look later."

"Aunt Lan, I want to go with you, okay?"

"Okay, but the journey is a bit far, I'm afraid you'll be tired and can't handle it."

"It's okay, just think of it as exercise. Why don't we go now? The sooner we go, the sooner we can return."

Shen Suya put down the silk ribbon in her hand and said, "Mom, I want to go with you too."

Lan Qiuhua stood up and said, "Don't go. Just open the door at home. Your sister-in-law and I will go."

Ji Wenhe nodded and said, "Xiaoya, while you are at home, please take some time to visit my home at the foot of the mountain. Thank you, sister-in-law."

"Okay, I won't go. I'll go to the yard to make silk."

You can see who has entered the village in the yard.

"Wen He, do you have any money with you?"

"No, I'll go back and get it. Aunt Lan, wait for me for a while."

Lan Qiuhua added: "Carry a basket, not a basket."

"Okay, I understand."

Ji Wenhe ran back home quickly, took more than a hundred coins, put the basket on his back, locked the door, and hurried down the mountain again.

"Don't run, there's no rush."

"Aunt Lan, which village are we in? Should we go east or west?"

"Go east, we have to pass two villages, it's not very far, let's go."

Lan Qiuhua brought nothing with her, her hands were empty.

"Wen He, how many do you want to buy? If you buy more, we can bargain with him."

Ji Wenhe thought for a moment and said, "We have ten chicks at home, so let's buy five more, four ducklings, and four gooselings as well."

"Aunt Lan, can we raise them together with the chickens?"

"Yes, but when they are a little older, you have to separate the geese. Some geese are very aggressive and will chase people and bully chickens and ducks."

When she was a child, there was a family in the village who raised geese. The two big geese were not kept in a pen and were allowed to run around the village. The children were afraid to pass in front of the geese.

Once you are spotted by a goose, it will chase you and pinch you, and its bite is very painful.

Ji Wenhe also remembered that one time when he was walking on the road, he was chased by a big goose that suddenly jumped out.

"Wait until they are bigger before separating them. Anyway, the wasteland is huge, so we can block it in the middle."

Glancing to the left, they passed Zhaojia Village and saw many people weeding in the fields. The grass was growing very fast.

I don’t know which village is next to Zhaojia Village, and there are few residents.

At a glance, the scattered villages and fields give people a sense of tranquility and peace.

When I was working outside, I always wanted to go back to the countryside to farm and live a leisurely life.

It has been achieved now, but without a mobile phone and internet, life feels a little boring.

However, with someone to talk to, that feeling is gradually decreasing, and my expectations for the future are growing.

After walking for about an hour, we arrived at a large village.

Lan Qiuhua pointed to a crowded household and said, "See? Many people are coming to buy chicks. That's their family. The boss's surname is Sun, and his name is Sun Tiebu."

Ji Wenhe looked over and saw a huge crowd of people: "Aunt Lan, please help me choose, I don't know how to look at it."

She nodded with a smile: "Okay."

The two men arrived at his door and squeezed through the crowd to the front.

There are about ten cages, and chickens, ducks and goose seedlings are placed in different cages.

Some people were choosing items nearby, some were asking prices, and the boss kept responding.

Lan Qiuhua first looked at the ducklings, then at the gooselings, then stood up and called the boss.

"Boss Sun, how much are the ducklings and gooselings?"

"A duckling is nine coins each, and a gooseling is ten coins each."

“The price hasn’t dropped yet.”

Sun Tiebu waved his hand and said, "It's the same price. If you don't buy from me, you can buy from someone else."

Lan Qiuhua gently held a duckling and examined it repeatedly in her palm: "Boss Sun, we bought a lot, so please give us a discount. We are all regular customers."

"Okay, if you buy more, I promise to give you a lower price. If you buy four or five, that will definitely not work."

"Five chicks, four ducklings, and four gooselings."

After the conversation ended, a woman next to him took over the conversation: "Hey, your family bought so much?"

Lan Qiuhua smiled and said, "We have spent all our savings at home, hoping that they will lay more eggs so that we can sell them in town and make some money."

"Now that we don't have to pay taxes, why not take advantage of these three years to get our family back on track?"

The woman smiled and said, "That's right. I also want to buy a few more chicks and raise them to lay eggs."

"Okay, even if I don't sell it to my family, they can still eat it."

"That won't work. Take it to town and sell it for money."

Lan Qiuhua nodded without saying anything and looked at Sun Tiebu who was walking over.

"Boss Sun, it's a discount of one cent. I bought more than a dozen chicks from you last time. We are all regular customers. We buy from you every year."

"It's not that I don't want to give you a discount, it's just that it's not easy to raise the pigs this year. Many of them died. I've lost a lot this year."

"How about this, I'll give you three cents off the total price, no less. I really didn't make any money this year, I lost a lot."

At this time, a woman in the crowd said, "Boss Sun, if you give them a discount of three cents, you have to give us a discount of three cents as well."

Sun Tiebu said with a smile: "If you buy the same amount as them, I will give you a discount of three cents, without hesitation."

The woman said nothing.

Lan Qiuhua tilted her head and whispered, "Wen He, it's already good enough that Boss Sun can give you a discount of three cents. He won't give you any less."

Ji Wenhe nodded: "Well, Aunt Lan, please help me choose."

She squatted down and learned how to choose.

After picking everything, they paid the money and left the village.

When he reached the entrance of the village, he looked back and said, "Aunt Lan, breeding should be very profitable, so why do they still live in a thatched house?"

"Silly girl, you are seeing things wrong."

Ji Wenhe looked confused.

Lan Qiuhua pointed to the brick house next to the thatched house and said, "That's their home. The thatched house is used to keep chicks."

"It made the house smell bad, so his wife wouldn't let him keep it at home. Later, he built a thatched house, put it in the house during the day, and took it home at night."