Rebirth 1983: Back to the day when his wife and daughter died

"Uncle, it's true, eight cents per foot." Xu Yang didn't intend to raise the price on the ground. As the saying goes, small profits but quick turnover. Besides, for cloth, a profit of five cents is enough.

"If it's eight cents, it's too little to buy only five or six feet. Then just give me twenty feet." After confirming that Xu Yang was not joking, the old man said with excitement.

This cloth is too cheap. If you don't buy more now, you will suffer a loss. How can you do this? What's more, if you want to wait for the supply and marketing office to lower the price, you don't know how to wait for the Year of the Monkey and the Horse.

"Okay, I'll measure it for you right now." Xu Yang carried a piece of cloth from the cart into the house, measuring one meter and three feet. Although there was no measuring ruler, Bai Qinghan had a wooden stick at home that he used to make clothes in place of a measuring ruler.

Before Xu Yang found the scissors, he saw Bai Qinghan running over to help.

"It's easy for you to cut the cloth this way. It's too wasteful. Let me do it," Bai Qinghan said hurriedly while looking at Xu Yang's cutting posture.

"Uh... Okay." It turned out that he was not helping but was being disliked. Xu Yang handed the scissors to Bai Qinghan's hand.

"Stab"

The cloth was pulled open in an instant, and as expected, it was Bai Qinghan who could do this, and the cutting was much smoother and smoother.

"A total of one dollar and six." Xu Yang handed the cloth into the hands of the old man who picked the goods.

"Ahem, I just earned your money and haven't covered my head yet, so I still have to take money out of my pocket." The old man couldn't help but jokingly said,

But it can be seen that he was very happy in his heart. Being able to buy twenty feet of cloth for a price of one six yuan was something he had never dreamed of before.

After buying the cloth, the old man was very satisfied. He happily beat the rattle and shouted and left in a hurry.

"This cloth is very easy to sell." Seeing this, Xu Yang already had an idea in his mind about selling cloth.

"Tangtang, stop playing, let's eat." Following Bai Qinghan's call, the little guy took the rattle and ran over, and Xu Yang followed suit.

After enjoying the meal cooked by Bai Qinghan happily, Xu Yang filled the bucket with water, washed it and put it away.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Yang planned to go to the countryside to see the donkey. He had already thought about buying a donkey. Now he had a little more money, so he wanted to go and see the donkey before he confiscated it.

When it comes to buying donkeys, it is naturally easier to buy them in the countryside. Xu Yang rarely sells them in the city, and they are definitely cheaper in the countryside than in the county.

"Qinghan, isn't there a place for buying and selling livestock in the countryside? I'll go and have a look, otherwise dragging a cart to the city every day will affect efficiency too much." Xu Yang then said to Bai Qinghan who was cleaning up the kitchen.

Bai Qinghan smiled when she heard that Xu Yang wanted to buy livestock. She couldn't bear it just now when she saw how tired Xu Yang was when he came back. Now that she heard that Xu Yang wanted to buy livestock, it was too late for her to be happy.

"I really need to buy it, otherwise I will be too tired."

"Well, then I'm going. If I come back late, you tell the villagers to wait until later to collect the bastard." Xu Yang said immediately when he saw his wife agreeing.

"Yeah~" Bai Qinghan nodded.

Xu Yang then stood up and was about to go out when the little Tangtang guy ran over with his short legs humming.

"Dad, please come back soon~" As he said this, the little guy started shaking the rattle until Xu Yang's back disappeared around the corner.

The township and county are one in the east and one in the west. When Xu Yang was still a second-rate boy,

I often hang out at rural fairs, so I am very familiar with it. I know there is a place for livestock trading, but I have never been there.

More than an hour later, Xu Yang finally arrived at the rural market. Since it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, there were not many people at the market, and it was not as lively as when he went to the market in the morning.

So Xu Yang asked for directions again and finally found the livestock trading market.

In the countryside, a large part of this livestock trade is basically used for exchange.

After all, these livestock can be as small as a few hundred or as large as several hundred. In this era, not many people can afford them, and they are usually reluctant to sell them.

For example, in Guangshan County, there are basically three types of working animals: cattle, mules, and donkeys.

Among them, cows are the most precious. In Kaoshan Village, there was only one cow in the whole village during the collective period. At that time, the food was better than the people. Unfortunately, it eventually died of illness.

Until now, no one has bought a cow. They usually spend money borrowed from other villages to buy cows for work. The money Xu Yang has now is definitely not enough.

Mules are not cheap either. Since they are a cross between donkeys and horses, they have a long production cycle and are hard-working. In addition to not being able to reproduce, the meat is not as delicious as donkey meat, but the price is much more expensive.

There were a lot of livestock in this livestock trading market. Just as they were wandering around, a mule barked at Xu Yang. When he asked about the price, he found that he still couldn't afford it.

Xu Yang searched around and finally stopped in front of a donkey that looked to be in its prime.

"Brother, how do you sell your donkey?"

The donkey seller is a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, wearing a broken straw hat.

A pair of black cloth shoes covered in mud, and a piece of clothing that has been worn countless times and is worn wrinkled.

There is mud in the seam of the trousers, and they are rolled up high.

His dark and lean calves were exposed, and his face was dark and red. He had obviously been working in the farmland for a long time.

"What? You want to buy my donkey?"

The middle-aged man suspected that he had heard wrongly. He paused and said, "I don't want to sell my donkey. I want to trade it for a cow."

Xu Yang: "????" This idea is a bit like a toad wanting to eat swan meat. Xu Yang hasn't planned to leave yet to take a look.

There was a cow seller nearby and when he heard what the donkey seller said, he immediately felt that his cows had been insulted.

"Boy, if you want to trade a donkey for a cow, I advise you to go back as soon as possible. Don't waste time here. Don't talk about a few days.

Even if you wait a few more months and you can't change it, what can you do with that donkey of yours? Only a fool would change it with you." The old man counted the options.

The middle-aged brother selling donkeys felt a little embarrassed when he said this. "Uncle, you misunderstood. How dare I exchange for a cow like yours? I just want to exchange for a smaller calf."

"Oh oh oh, that's pretty much it. But if someone wants to buy a donkey, you just put up a price and sell it for the money. If you're like this, when will you replace it? Isn't the money better than donkeys?"

The uncle nodded. It was indeed okay to replace an adult donkey with a calf. But at this moment, the uncle seemed to have opened up a conversation and gave some advice to the middle-aged donkey buyer.

When the people nearby heard this, they all started to cheer, and even the person who knew the donkey seller shouted:

"Boss of the Li family, why are you so stupid? What I said makes sense. I want to buy a donkey, but you want a calf. The money is no better than a calf."

"Yes! Isn't it the same if you sell your donkey and then buy a calf? Maybe you can still make some money."

"If you don't sell it, you'll go to someone else's house later. By then it will be too late for you to regret it."

The eldest son of the Li family was actually quite embarrassed when he heard this from his uncle alone.

He had never sold a donkey, he originally traded it for cattle.

Now when I heard everyone next to me say this, I hesitated for a moment, and suddenly I figured it out like an enlightenment.