Seeing that Zhang Eryong was unwilling to talk about this topic, and the aunt kept nagging, Shen Ruolan kindly smoothed things over, and diverted the aunt's words: "Brother Zhang, this wild goat is not easy to fight, right? Listen to this thing and run away." It’s so fast, and you can walk like flying on the cliffs, it’s amazing to be able to beat someone to death, I didn’t expect you to be able to catch someone alive, it’s really amazing!"
Zhang Eryong turned his head and saw that Shen Ruolan was looking at him with big black eyes, with a sincere expression on his face, and said briefly: "This is just a kid, and it can't run fast, so let me trap you."
"Oh, that means the cubs will be born and milked soon."
Shen Ruolan muttered, looking at the wild goat with a little envy.
It would be great if she also had a female goat in labor, her small body now needs to supplement nutrition, nourishing with wild goat's milk is much better than milk nourishing, and goats are also easier to feed than cows, eating less and not conspicuous , hidden in the weedy back garden of her house, no one can find it, and there will be wild lamb to eat in the future.
Like her, there was another broad-faced man in the car. He looked at the fat wild goat eagerly, and said twice, "Er Yong, your sheep weighs a hundred catties, right?"
Zhang Eryong shook his head, "I don't know, maybe not."
In fact, this wild goat weighs 107 catties, and he weighed it the day it was caught, but he is low-key and doesn't want to show off.
The broad-faced man stared at the goat for a while, and said with certainty: "I guarantee it, I have good eyesight, this sheep can weigh at least a hundred catties, and now you are in trouble, this wild goat meat can be found in the city." Money lords are the rarest thing. You can sell it for twenty-three or four yuan a catty, and you can sell it whole for twenty yuan a catty. This wild sheep is worth two taels of silver, tsk tsk! "
He shook his head and sighed, his envy was beyond words. Someone laughed at him and said, "Why? Are you greedy? You also go up the mountain to fight. Wolong Mountain is 800 miles away. Are there any valuable beasts? Maybe you have entered the mountain. You can get one worth more than a wild goat."
The broad-faced man quickly waved his hands and said, "I dare not go. Not everyone can enter Wolong Mountain. Last autumn, two boys from our village went to the mountain to dig ginseng, but they met a big bear and were blinded. Neither of them ran away. , I let Xiong Xiazi shoot him to death, and when he got it back, he was no longer in human form, that's miserable... "
"Oh, it's pretty miserable, but if you don't catch up with the old Sun's family in our village, it's miserable."
Someone continued, "Three years ago, the sixth grandson of our village took his two sons into the mountains to hunt in order to marry him. Only skeletons are left, Sun Laoliu's daughter-in-law hanged herself after finishing her funeral..."
"It's so miserable, I don't know what kind of crimes those three people suffered at that time..."
"Yeah, a good family, just like this..."
Everyone talked about how dangerous it is to go up the mountain, and how a certain person died on the mountain on a certain day in a certain year and a certain month.
Shen Ruolan also listened to it unknowingly, she really didn't know if she didn't listen, she was startled when she heard it, it turned out that going into the mountains was so dangerous, fortunately she still wanted to get healthy and go pick mushrooms and fungus to make money, now it seems that Forget it, although money is good, no matter how good it is, it doesn't matter if you die. It's not worth it to live another life so easily.
It seems that the old Zhang's family must be extremely poor, otherwise they wouldn't have allowed their second boy to take such a big risk into the mountains. No wonder Shen Ruomei was crying and howling to divorce her engagement!
The carriage trotted and jolted, but this did not affect everyone's interest in talking, especially the lady next to Shen Ruolan, who was easy to talk about, and she never stopped talking all the way. Short, rambling non-stop, although a bit noisy, but Shen Ruolan still got a lot of useful information from her.
First, she figured out the monetary value of the world.
Although she was born in this era, that poor little girl has never spent money since she was a child, and she has never even touched it. She doesn't know as much about the value of money and prices as she does herself.
In her previous life, she had read many ancient time-travel novels, and she had a general understanding of the prices in ancient times. After being taught by her aunt, she had a basic understanding of the prices here.
In this era, the most widely circulated currency is not silver but copper coins. In modern terms, silver is the super denomination of currency. One tael of silver is worth a thousand Wen, and one penny can buy a steamed bun or a plain bun. Meat buns are only sold for two Wen a catty, cornmeal is sold for two Wen a catty, flour and white rice are a little more expensive at three Wen a catty, and pork is sold for fifteen Wen a catty...
Calculated in this way, the purchasing power of one tael of silver is still very strong. You can buy a thousand steamed buns alone, which is enough for one person to eat for a year. years old. After learning about the prices and currency value, she also inquired about the general situation of the county.
Nong'an County is considered a large county. There are three main streets. One of them is Sishui Street, which is the most frequent market for country people. This street is not long. Most of the people are from the countryside, and they sell their own agricultural products, such as vegetables, grain, poultry such as chicken, duck, and goose, and occasionally mountain products or game, but there are not many of them, and the prices are relatively expensive.
There are also handmade products or tools and agricultural tools, such as pig troughs, kang mats, braziers and curtains, grate sledges, etc., all of which are practical and not very valuable.
Those who patronize this street are all country people or poor people in the city, because the things on this street are of high quality and cheap, much cheaper than those sold in other places. It can be said that this street is a place for poor people. the best choice.
The second street is located in the middle of the county town, called Bao'an Street, it is a relatively tall street, the county's county government is located on this street, and in addition, most of the mansions of the famous people in the county town are built here.
There are not many shops on the street, only an elegant and luxurious tea house and Qingyun Academy, which is famous throughout the county. Those who can study in Qingyun Academy are the children of wealthy families in the county. Fifteen taels of silver, not counting the cost of eating, drinking, pen and ink, is beyond the imagination of a poor family.
The tea house is even more extreme. A cup of clear tea sells for thirty yuan, which is enough to buy two catties of pork. If ordinary people have that thirty yuan, they still think about buying two catties of pork or ten catties of white rice for their family. How can they come here and waste it? up.
Therefore, the people who come here to consume are all rich people who wear silk and satin. Most of these people live on this street, or are merchants who travel to and from Nong'an County. Ordinary people will never come here to waste money. of.