Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 238 Buying a Donkey Cart

I kept following him, wanting to ask but not daring to, probably because I was afraid of his face.

He had no choice but to turn around and ask if the old woman wanted to buy eggs, and then she nodded.

"Aunt Lan, please sit on it, let's go to Jinxiufang."

Lan Qiuhua nodded.

Ji Wenhe was in the back alley, squatting on the ground with two baskets beside him, waiting for them with his chin in his hand.

Boss Yang still had business to do, so he didn't bother her all the time.

He watched the donkey cart turn the corner from the alley and stood up as he approached: "The cheapest cloth shoes cost twenty-one pairs."

"It's not decorated with any patterns, but if it has a little embroidery, the price will be several cents higher."

"That's the price." Lan Qiuhua looked at her. "The shop I asked you to go to is still cheap. Other shops are either twenty-one or twenty-three."

Shen Rongshan put the two baskets on the top, passed the rattan through them, and tied them to the wooden cart: "Wen He, sit tight."

"Okay." Ji Wenhe sat not far from her, holding the basket behind him with one hand.

We bought a lot of things today, and the car can barely fit three of us. There is no extra space at all.

"Aunt Lan, when will Uncle Shen and the others be back?"

"He should be back in two days. He will be harvesting rice on the 4th and will be back on the 3rd in the evening."

If I don't come back early to help, I won't be able to handle it all by myself. I have three acres of land at home.

When they returned to the village, they had just unloaded the goods when the donkey cart was borrowed by someone else.

Everyone discussed who would go to the town to buy wheat seeds. Some people bought them early and had already bought them two days ago.

"Aunt Lan, let's go back first." Ji Wenhe shouted.

"Oh." Lan Qiuhua responded.

She took Shen Rongshan's hand and ran up the mountain excitedly.

"Wen He, run slower." He followed her steps and reminded her.

Arriving at the door of the house: "Brother Shen, let's buy a donkey cart."

Shen Wenshan, who was cooking in the kitchen, heard her words and quickly stuck his head out: "Sister-in-law, do we have enough money to buy a donkey cart?"

"I went to Jinxiufang to get money today, and I made more than five taels in total. Adding our savings, after buying the donkey cart, I will still have nearly three taels left."

I calculated it in detail on the way back.

Shen Yuanshan, who followed behind, was surprised and said, "Sister-in-law, the puppets you make are so profitable."

He hadn't thought the doll could sell for so much money, nor had he asked.

The twins were both shocked, as they thought they could only earn a few hundred coins.

Shen Rongshan knew that the limited edition style sold for more than five taels last month, and if the limited edition style was produced again this month, the price would not be less than five taels.

Ji Wenhe turned and walked towards the kitchen, saying as he walked: "Now that we have bought the donkey cart, you won't have to work so hard pushing it outside."

"In the future, I can go out and sell goods by myself, and go to villages farther away. We can also go to town at any time."

"I wanted to tell you on the way, but Aunt Lan was here, so I kept it to myself until now."

Shen Rongshan sat next to her, looking into the courtyard: "Then buy the donkey cart. Didn't you ask Aunt Yang last time that it would cost ten taels in total? Should we go this afternoon or tomorrow?"

She thought for a moment and said, "Let's go in the afternoon and buy it back early. You walk fast, so you can be back in the evening, right?"

"Yes." There was a donkey cart coming back.

"Well, you go after dinner and I'll count the money."

With more than twelve taels of silver, a family should be considered wealthy in a small mountain village. Suddenly, she had to spend ten taels again. Her heart ached.

After serving the meal, the three brothers sat at the table, waiting for her to come and eat.

Shen Wenshan held his chin and said, "Brother, I didn't expect that our family could buy a donkey cart so soon. Ten taels, that's ten taels."

He had never seen so much money in his life.

"I was thinking I could buy a donkey cart next year."

"Me too." Shen Yuanshan agreed, "After buying a donkey cart, my family will be able to buy a residential plot soon."

Shen Rongshan said, "Your sister-in-law has made limited-edition items in the past two months and earned more than ten taels. She only makes them during festivals, and the rest will have to wait until the Chinese New Year."

So I have to wait until next year to buy a residential plot.

Ji Wenhe came out of the house and handed him ten taels of copper coins, which were put in a large cloth bag, with each string weighing one tael.

"Let's eat. Tomorrow, the three of you can discuss who will go out to sell the goods."

Looking at the twins, "Can you drive a donkey cart?"

The two shook their heads and nodded.

Shen Rongshan took over the conversation: "I will teach them after we buy the donkey cart. I will go out to sell goods in the next few days."

"When the rice is harvested, you two will take turns going out. I'll stay at home."

The two brothers nodded.

He eats fast, so we let him go first after he finishes his meal.

There were only three of them left at the table.

Shen Yuanshan asked: "Sister-in-law, can't you make a few more limited edition styles?"

"No, we only make it during festivals. If we make too many, it won't feel fresh and people won't want to buy it."

He nodded in understanding.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Shen Rongshan drove a donkey cart into the village.

The people watching the rice in the field didn't pay much attention to it, thinking it was a donkey cart borrowed from Zhao Sanbao's house.

In the shed, Ji Wenhe and his two brothers stood up excitedly.

Lan Qiuhua looked at him in confusion: "What's going on? Why is Rongshan going to borrow a donkey cart again? Your family still needs to go to town."

She smiled and said, "It's not borrowed, it's bought by our family."

The two brothers ran over and circled around the donkey cart.

The cart is bigger than the one Zhao Sanbao's.

When Shen Suya heard this, she looked up in surprise and said, "Sister-in-law, did your family buy a donkey cart?"

"Yes, you see I bought them all."

"Oh my!" Lan Qiuhua put down the purse in her hand, stood up and walked to the donkey cart, "Oh my God, I sold the donkey cart without saying anything."

"I thought you went to Zhaojia Village to borrow it, and I was wondering why the donkey was different from before. That's great. You don't have to borrow it from other people anymore."

Shen Rongshan tied the donkey to the tree, with a happy look on his face: "I fed it on the roadside when I came back. I couldn't pull it up the mountain, so I put it in the shed."

"Aunt Lan, please keep an eye on us at night. I'm afraid someone will come and steal the donkey cart. Please be careful."

"Don't worry, I'm a light sleeper and I can hear anything going on outside."

After buying the donkey cart, their family also benefited from it. Whenever they wanted to go to town, they could take their cart at any time.

"By the way, can you lend your donkey cart to someone to plow the land?"

Ji Wenhe shook his head: "I have told Aunt Yang before that our donkey cart will not be lent to others for farming. In addition to our own use, there is also Aunt Lan and your family."

"We are all from the same village, so it would be embarrassing to ask for money. But if we don't ask for money, we are afraid that people will always come to borrow money. So we don't lend the land to others to farm, but sell the goods ourselves."

"Yes, yes, yes." Lan Qiuhua nodded repeatedly, "They often come to borrow the donkey cart. If they don't want to lend it to them one day, they will talk about it behind their backs."

It would be better not to lend it at the beginning so as not to offend anyone.

Shen Suya stood beside the donkey and touched its back: "Mom, when can our family buy a donkey cart?"

"Don't even think about it in this life. Besides, why would our family buy a donkey cart?"

How can I get the money to buy a donkey cart when I can’t even find a daughter-in-law?

"Why are you circling around the donkey cart?" Wang Erfeng came over from the east.