Man Bao and Zhou Lijun came over soon.
Zhou Zhou Lang glanced at their mouths and asked, "What delicious food did you eat?"
Man Bao looked at the expressions of Zhou Zhoulang and Xiang Mingxue, and asked, "Fourth brother, why are you looking so bad?"
Zhou Zhoulang waved his hand and said, "Don't mention it, we walked all the way back from the grassland, is it not bad?"
When Man Bao heard this, he was stunned, "Fourth brother, have you been robbed?"
Zhou Lijun couldn't help asking, "Fourth Uncle, all the money and goods you brought are gone?"
Zhou Zhoulang: "...can't you miss me a little bit?"
Xiang Mingxue couldn't help laughing, Zhou Zhoulang said: "I didn't get robbed, but I bought some cows back, and the cows were not easy to transport, so I had to lead them slowly to the pass, almost all the way back. .”
Man Bao asked, "How many cows did you buy back?"
Zhou Zhoulang said complacently: "It's not a lot, maybe a hundred."
This time, the group of them led about five cows back home. If it wasn't for the fear of being robbed on the way, he could actually buy more.
But it was his first time taking this road, even if Xiang Mingxue took it with him, he didn't dare to bring too many conspicuous goods like this at once.
Man Bao exclaimed: "Fourth brother, you are really good enough to go to the grassland. By the way, are there many people and good things on the grassland?"
"Not many, sometimes you may not be able to meet a single person for ten days and a half months," Zhou Zhoulang said, "If Brother Xiang hadn't brought him this time, I wouldn't have dared to enter the grassland."
Xiang Mingxue said with a smile: "The grassland is different from the pass. When we entered, sheep and cattle were migrating, so it would be difficult to meet people if it wasn't in a place with abundant water and grass."
Zhou Zhoulang said to Zhou Lijun: "Go get some food, I'm hungry."
Man Bao said to her: "Just take some steamed buns and light dishes. They are too tired to eat too oily food all at once."
Zhou Lijun brought them a basket of steamed buns and desserts, plus a bowl of soup full of vegetables.
Zhou Zhoulang and Xiang Mingxue didn't dislike it either, and started eating directly, and said while eating: "After going to the grassland, I finally understand why Aliudun and the others like tea so much. There is no vegetable growing there, and the vegetables they eat It's all wild vegetables dug up."
He said: "But how many wild vegetables are there? It's not enough to eat. The most I eat every day is milk and meat. I've only been in the grassland for 20 days and I can't get it out cough cough."
Xiang Mingxue continued to eat without being affected at all.
Zhou Zhoulang continued: "I always feel that I have a bad appetite. Obviously I like to eat meat, but if I eat too much, I can't eat any more. The third son and the others are not acclimatized. In the end, I ate the meat you brought us. The medicine is good, and then we each have a cup of tea every day, chewing and swallowing the tea dregs, almost not thinking of ourselves as savages."
Man Bao and Bai Shan listened with gusto.
Zhou Zhoulang continued: "Originally we wanted to buy medicinal materials and leave, but we went back late with A Liudun. A lot of medicinal materials in their tribe were confiscated, and we only received a little. If we just turn around and come back like this , Although this trip will not be in vain, and it will not make much money, I just happened to see that they have a lot of cattle and they are cheap, so I bought a hundred cattle."
He pointed at Xiang Mingxue and said with a smile: "At first I didn't dare to take the third son and the others on the road. Thanks to Brother Xiang's help, we can come back safely."
Xiang Mingxue smiled and said, "It happens that we are going back to Beijing too."
Bai Shan looked at Xiang Mingxue and asked with a smile, "Why did brother Xiang go to the grassland too?"
"Go to see a few friends I knew before," Xiang Mingxue said, "I owed favors before, but this time I went to make them."
Bai Shan and Man Bao looked at each other, and guessed that they were probably people they knew to deal with the King of Yizhou. At this time, the revenge had been avenged, so there was no need to pursue the past, so they smiled and didn't ask any more questions.
Seeing that they were all right, Zhou Lijun immediately asked himself the most curious question, "Fourth Uncle, how do you sell the cattle on the grassland?"
Zhou Zhoulang immediately said: "There are two ways, one is to kill and weigh the meat, and the other is to divide the meat by size, estimate how many catties it weighs, and then calculate the price. Anyway, it is much cheaper than those sold in the pass."
"But the cows on the grassland are raised for meat and milk, so they are not very good at work," he said, "Fortunately, I have seen how the cowherd of Master Bai's family put nose rings on the cows and trained them. Otherwise, we won’t be able to bring these cows back this time.”
The cattle and sheep on the prairie are free-range, who will wear nose rings for them
The reason why Zhou Zhoulang went there for two months was to put nose rings on them, and after a simple training, he dared to lead them back.
Zhou Lijun asked: "How much did you spend on buying the cattle?"
Zhou Zhoulang touched his body and took out a crumpled piece of paper on which he kept his account, "No, it's all written on it. The price of a cow is two hundred and thirty-two taels. After a few days, when they are more energetic, they will be divided into three classes and sold at different prices."
Man Bao immediately said: "I'll come with twenty first."
Zhou Zhou Lang glanced at her and said, "What do you want a cow for?"
"Planting employment land," Man Bao said, "fourth brother, I have already made an agreement with the Ministry of Household Affairs, we will manage the 1,000 mu of employment land allocated to me, and the 200 mu of sir's."
Zhou Zhoulang was stunned, and quickly asked: "So father and mother came to the capital..."
"Father and mother have already decided to stay in the capital, and the eldest brother and sister-in-law are also staying. How about it, are you happy?"
To be honest, not very happy!
Zhou Zhoulang couldn't be happier when he thought of four mountains falling down on his head.
Before his parents and eldest brother and sister-in-law came, he was the most uncompromising person in the capital except Man Bao, now...
Zhou Zhoulang drooped his head and said, "Okay, I see, I'll go to say hello to my mother first?"
"Let's go and say hello to Dad first." Although Man Bao understood his frustration at this time, he still couldn't hide his happiness, "Mother is with a large group of female relatives, you haven't even washed your hair, so don't move forward gone."
Man Bao stretched out his hand and patted Bai Shan's shoulder, and said with a smile: "You take my fourth brother to see my father, by the way, let my fourth brother toast Bai Senior Brother with a glass of wine, don't let him drink too much, they are the last I drink less alcohol, and when I go back, I will make a soup for them, drink it and let it flow through the water and soil."
Bai Shan responded with a smile, and pulled Zhou Zhoulang and Xiang Mingxue to the front.
Zhou Zhoulang sighed for a while, then pulled himself together and asked, "Did Master Bai rent or buy this house?"
"bought."
Zhou Zhoulang turned his head and smiled at Xiang Mingxue: "You said that you bought this house after earning money from the grassland, but you were taken a step ahead?"
Xiang Mingxue said: "This is also fate, you can't force it."
After hearing this, Bai Shan turned his head to look at Xiang Mingxue, and asked, "Brother Xiang, is he planning to settle down in the capital?"
Xiang Mingxue shook his head and smiled, "It doesn't really count, it's just that the family farm needs a lot of money to cultivate, so I plan to stay in the capital temporarily to earn some money."