My village can't be like this

Chapter 164 Buying Sheep
This borrowed trawl net is not too small, and it takes a lot of effort to wash it.

Moreover, there are a lot of aquatic plants in Zhang An's pond, so there are many grass leaves hanging on the net.

The father and son cleaned for a long time before they were considered clean.

"Anzi, someone is looking for your house."

Just back from clearing the nets by the river, Zhang An and his son were holding bamboo poles in the yard to dry the nets.

Huang Ming's father's greeting came from the road outside the yard, and he led people into the yard.

"Hey, Uncle Ming Qian is here."

Unexpectedly, the person brought by Huang Dabiao turned out to be Wang Mingqian, who was raising sheep in the Wang family.

"Come, come, sit in the yard."

Zhang Jianguo greeted Wang Mingqian and Huang Dabiao to the yard.

"I won't sit down anymore. I just came back from the field and I'm planning to go home. When I meet Mingqian asking for directions, I'll bring them here for him."

After speaking, Huang Dabiao walked out of the yard with the basket on his back.

Zhang Jianguo greeted Wang Mingqian to sit at home, while Zhang An was still drying some leather pants.

"Big brother, how is the ewe in your family doing?"

Wang Mingqian knew Zhang An's family mainly because of the sheep at home, so when the two were talking now, Wang Mingqian found topics from the sheep.

"It's doing well. The kind of sheep in your family is not bad. The ewe at home just gave birth to a calf half a month ago and gave birth to three lambs."

Zhang Jianguo was very happy when he mentioned this. The ewe at the family's New Year's Eve gave birth to three lambs.

That is a matter of the prosperity of domestic animals, and everyone is happy to meet it.

"This is a good thing. Our black goats usually have one or two lambs. It is rare to have three lambs in one litter. Besides, I think your ewes are so strong that it must be impossible to milk three lambs." problematic."

Speaking of this, Wang Mingqian was a little envious.

There are several ewes in their family, but every time the ewe gives birth, it is only a single lamb.

One ewe of Zhang An's family is worth three of theirs.

After the two chatted for a long time, Wang Mingqian finally got to the point.

"Brother Zhang, I'm here mainly to ask if your family still wants to buy some more sheep."

When the sheep were bred at their home last time, Zhang An proposed to buy a few sheep.

But at that time, the sheep in the pen were fattening, and they were sold at a loss, so Wang Mingqian was not willing to sell them.

"Why, Mingqian will sell those sheep in your family?"

"Yes, I have to sell five or six at home. Didn't Zhang An ask me last year if the sheep were sold at home, so I'm here today to ask."

Seeing Wang Mingqian like this, the family should be in urgent need of money, so now they asked Zhang An to sell sheep to raise money.

A few days ago, Zhang An told Mr. Su that he wanted to buy a few more sheep and then roast the whole sheep.

It's just that I have something to do these few days, so I don't have time to ask Wang Mingqian.

As a result, he came to the door by himself. Hearing Wang Mingqian's question, Zhang An was definitely willing to buy it.

"Uncle Mingqian, then sell them all to us. I'm thinking of buying more."

Hearing that Zhang An said that he wanted everything, Wang Mingqian heaved a sigh of relief.

For livestock such as cattle, horses, pigs and sheep, when others come to buy them, you can ask the price.

But when you take the initiative to sell it to others, you can't sell it at a price.

Especially when you need money very urgently, other people will not only refuse to give you the price, but will even lower your price.

Wang Mingqian asked several sheep dealers these days, but seeing him like this, everyone lowered the price very low.

"Then are you going to see the sheep now, or when?"

Zhang An saw that it was still early, looked at Wang Mingqian's questioning, and felt that he should be in need of money urgently.

"Then let's go first, there is just time."

After Zhang An finished speaking, he went back to the house to get the car keys and money.

He called his father and Wang Mingqian into the car and drove towards Wang's house.

When he arrived at Wang Mingqian's house, he had separated the sheep to be sold.

The small compartment used to breed sheep at that time is now closed with a ram and two ewes, and the rest are three kid goats.

In the large pen next to it, six adult goats were kept.

"These are all ready to be sold, Zhang An, come and have a look."

Wang Mingqian took Zhang An and his son to the gate of Daquan.

These sheep are not very fat, but they are passable.

It can be seen that Wang Mingqian has not been short of corn kernels this winter.

"Uncle Ming Qian, what price do you plan to sell these sheep for?"

Just now at his home, Zhang An didn't see the sheep, so it was difficult to ask the price.

Now that I see it, I naturally have to start asking the price.

"These six sheep are together, and you can drive them away for 500 yuan."

Wang Mingqian thought about it, and said his own psychological price.

In fact, these sheep are not very big, most of them are in the size of sixty to seventy catties.

Because the big sheep weighing more than [-] catties were sold by Wang Mingqian.

Now these are what he was supposed to keep.

Hearing the price, Zhang An didn't speak immediately.

Instead, he continued to look at the sheep and estimated their weight in his mind.

"Then one thousand and five."

Zhang An thought about it and agreed.

The price was about the same as Zhang An estimated, so he took out the money and counted it to Wang Ming after speaking.

And Wang Mingqian was smiling a little at this time.

In the past few days, several people came to see it, but they all suppressed the price very hard.

Originally, when he said [-], he thought that Zhang An would negotiate the price, but he didn't expect Zhang An to agree.

This had to be the last time Zhang An came to breed sheep, he confiscated the money, Zhang An kept it in mind.

In addition, Zhang An could see that he was in a hurry to collect money, so he didn't want to pressure him on the price.

Zhang An counted 500 yuan and handed it to Wang Ming to let him see the money.

When the money is gone, these sheep will all belong to Zhang An's family.

After the sheep was bought, Zhang An thought about tying the feet of the sheep and putting them in the cart to take them away.

But Wang Mingqian left the father and son to drink a cup of tea.

After making a big business, you can't even give people a sip of tea, which is unreasonable.

But in fact, Zhang An and his son didn't think so much, it was still early, so they just sat down for a while.

It was later that Zhang An found out that it was Wang Mingqian's father who was sick and needed to be hospitalized for surgery, which would cost about 3000 yuan.

That's why Wang Mingqian wanted to raise money by selling sheep, because the disease couldn't be delayed.

And after selling such a sheep, there is no need to keep so much corn at home, half of it can be sold.

After sitting at their house for half pay, Zhang An tied the sheep's feet and put them on the car.

If they are not tied, they like to jump when the car is driving. These guys are not afraid of jumping.

From now on, Zhang An's family will have ten sheep. Zhang An looks at the goats in the sheep pen.

I thought in my heart, when Teacher Xiao Su came over next time, I would roast a whole head.

Among the six sheep bought from Wang Mingqian's house, there was a ram, and it was not an eunuch, but a stud male.

Now Zhang An's family has three rams, because the three lambs born by the ewe in the family also have two rams.

If there was only one male, he would probably be exhausted to death.

"Mom, can you cook mutton?"

During dinner at night, Zhang An asked his mother.

This mutton is quite stinky, and it's really not very tasty if it's not cooked properly.

Although many people go there because of the smell of sheep, although Zhang An can accept some smell of sheep, he can't eat it if it is too smelly.

"It will definitely be. When I was at your mother-in-law's house, I used to do a lot of sutras, but this mutton is really not as good as pork."

When Wang Fang was a child, there was often mutton at home.

Because Zhang An's grandfather often showed people the geomantic omen and land, normal people would use live chickens for sacrifices.

However, we often encounter rich families who are more generous and use live sheep as sacrifices.

Let him take away the remaining chickens and sheep from the final sacrifice.

So when Wang Fang was young, the family ate mutton quite often.

"Then next time our family will kill one and eat it ourselves. I haven't eaten mutton much before."

When Zhang An was young, Wang Fang only sold pork when buying meat.

Basically do not buy mutton and beef, because there is a lot of pork fat.

So Zhang An hardly ate it when he was a child.

Zhang An of the later generations must have eaten it, after all, he often eats mutton powder, and there are at least three or five slices in the bowl.

But the further you go to the back, the thinner the meat.

Although it is not as transparent as the beef in Lanzhou noodles, it is not too much.

"You, you know how to eat every day."

After dinner, Zhang An went back to his room and called Teacher Xiao Su.

Since the two of them came back from the park last time, Su Ying was very resolute not to let Zhang An call her Teacher Su.

She said so listening, feeling very awkward.

Zhang An told Su Ying what happened at home in the past few days on the phone.

Su Ying didn't care about selling fish, but when she heard that Zhang An had caught a big red carp.

Su Ying is like a curious baby, asking this and that.

"Why don't I pick you up, and then you can look at it as you want, and I bought a few black goats today, we can roast the whole sheep."

Hearing that Su Ying said on the phone that she wanted to see what a red carp looked like, Zhang An wanted to take her over.

"You really bought the sheep?"

Su Ying thought what Zhang An said last time, but she didn't expect this person to buy it when he went back, and he even bought several heads.

"That's not true. I'm a person who always counts what I say. Why don't you come over these two days. My mother misses you a lot. You probably have to go to summer vacation next time."

Now in the first half of the semester in the past few years, the school has no holidays at all.

There are only normal weekends, but Su Yingping has to go home on weekends, go shopping with friends and buy something, so that the time is gone.

"And you only have a few days to start school now. If you don't come, you won't have time. Let's do it tomorrow. I'll come and pick you up."

"Okay then, I'll talk to my mother later."

After Su Ying finished speaking, she hung up the phone, probably asking her mother for leave.

Zhang An originally wanted to talk to her more, but think about the time tomorrow, and talk about it then.

Anyway, I will pick up Su Ying tomorrow, and I will have plenty of time to talk.

After a while, Su Ying called and asked Zhang An to pick her up tomorrow.

The next morning, Wang Fang saw her son tidy up neatly.

"Xiao An, are you going out today?"

"Mom, Su Ying's school is about to start, I'll pick her up and come to our house to play for two days, otherwise it will be June and July next time."

Hearing that Zhang An was going to the county to pick up Su Ying, Wang Fang burst into a smile.

"Okay, then you can go after breakfast."

Wang Fang had put the pot on the fire at this moment, and quickly made breakfast.

Today I ate fish soup noodles. When I caught fish yesterday, I hurt a lot of fish.

So Zhang Jianguo killed all the seriously injured fish.

Zhang An drove out of the yard and met Zhou Yang and Zhou's sister-in-law at the bridge.

"Sister-in-law, Yoko, where are you going?"

Zhang An looked at Zhou Yang and sister-in-law Zhou's clothes were also very formal, they didn't look like they were going to make a living.

"Not long ago, I asked my relatives to introduce Xiaoyang to a girl named Maomaoqing, and agreed to meet her in the past today."

When Mrs. Zhou spoke, Zhou Yang was still a little shy.

"Why are you shy? Don't you just mean kissing? When you meet a girl, you see me like this now. What will you do when you see the girl later?"

"Sister-in-law, come up, I'm going to the county, I just drop by and take you there."

Maomaoqing is a small village nearby, more than ten miles away from Changqing.

It would take more than half an hour to walk there, but anyway, I will drop by my sister-in-law next week and Zhou Yang by the way.

"Anzi, I heard from some uncles and grandmas that you are dating, when will you get married?"

Zhang An's mother didn't say much about this matter.

But with Aunt Zhang and Aunt Zhang present, there was no need for Wang Fang to step in.

Everyone in the small half of the village can know it clearly.

Because the two aunts Zhang An are important personnel in the information center of the village.

"Auntie, I'm not in a hurry, Zhou Yang hasn't married yet."

Speaking of Zhou Yang, Mrs. Zhou sighed a little.

I had a lot of introductions to people years ago, but none of them succeeded.

Some girls said it was good, but when they heard that Zhou Yang was no longer in the provincial capital, but in the village.

Immediately disagree, such a person only wants to marry in the city.

As for those who were satisfied with the conditions of Zhou Yang's family, Zhou Yang didn't like some of them, because the girl of the family was quite special.

In addition, Zhou Yang was not happy about the high price at home.

"Hey, I hope this can be done today."

Zhou's sister-in-law has been worrying about Zhou Yang's life-long affairs for several years.

I was not around a few years ago, and I wanted to talk about it, but I didn't have the chance to say it.

So as soon as Zhou Yang came back last year and the family's financial situation improved, Mrs. Zhou immediately took care of this matter.

"Sister-in-law, picking a daughter-in-law is done slowly. There is no rush for this matter, otherwise the couple will live an uncomfortable life in the future, and they will not be filial to you two elders. Anyway, take your time and you will always meet the right one."

Now Zhou Yang's family is not the same as before, and finding a wife must be much easier than before.

So Zhang An comforted Mrs. Zhou all the way, telling him not to be in a hurry.

Talking to sister-in-law Zhou, I arrived at the intersection of Maomaoqing.

"Xiao An, you put us down here."

Knowing that Zhang An was going to the county, sister-in-law Zhou thought that she would just get off at the intersection and walk in.

"Sister-in-law, don't worry. I'll send you in. It's convenient for me to drive in and out. You'll have to go for a long time."

After entering the intersection, Zhang An didn't know the way, so he followed Mrs. Zhou's guidance all the way.

All the way into the village, just as Mrs. Zhou said that the family was on the side of the road, Zhang An drove the car directly in.

When we arrived at Miss Ren's house, the relative of Zhou Yang's Mao Maoqing was already here.

Seeing Zhou Yang's mother and son getting off the car, the relative walked towards them.

And many people came out of the woman's house, watching them at the door.

"Then sister-in-law, you should be busy, I will go here first."

"It's okay, Xiao An, you go to your work first, and I'm really sorry to trouble you when I come out."

"If there is anything troublesome about the drop-in, Zhou Yang hastened to make a decision. It's a big deal for us to have a drink."

At this moment, Zhang An saw a girl in her twenties staring at the crowd at the door of the woman's house.

If Zhang An's guess is correct, this person should be Zhou Yang's blind date.

This girl looks pretty good, I hope Zhou Yang can succeed this time.

(End of this chapter)