Poor family mother and son

Chapter 141 Two Horses in One Pot

Little Treasure caught up with the herders.A good beginning is half the battle.

The men scattered the horses by the small river, the horses drank water, ate grass, and some stood in the water... Soak their feet!
Veterinarian Antuta yelled at them, and the men gathered around.

Chu Yuan and Lao Yu also came to Chu Qing's side, and the boys in the caravan were ready to move.

Brother Zhuizi very calmly made a gesture of "Be safe and don't be impatient", and brought a few pieces of bean cakes with the boy from the secret investigation department to Chu Qing's side, lit a fire, and baked bean cakes.

What a treat!There is nothing that one bean cake can't solve, if there is, then two!
Chu Qing signaled the Worth boys to sit down and eat something.These men all speak Daxuan, and I learned from the conversation that they are no strangers to Daxuan.

Because the East Lun Kingdom has always communicated with Voss through trade, which is why the sturdy Voss Kingdom did not destroy them even though it was a tiny place.

The East Lun Kingdom has always received help from Daxuan in an attitude of dependence, so they act as middlemen, earning the price difference between Voss and Daxuan.

This deal is very cost-effective, because Donglun Kingdom obtained duty-free goods during the reign of Emperor Xuan Xuan, or ex-factory prices, or even free supplies, and then sold them to Voss Kingdom at a high price, or exchanged for their horses.

Donglun Kingdom also speaks big propaganda, so many people in Voss receive a "bilingual" education.

They like Daxuan's things very much, but most of the time they can't afford them because the price is too high.

"We don't know how to do business, and we don't have the money to do business, otherwise we'll go to the exchange market." A Worth man said.

"The caravans you make public usually don't come to us, and even if they come, we can't afford to buy things, so no one comes."

Zhang Mingyu said that the range on the road map is too small. Since we want to improve the map this time, we have to go around a big circle.So this time it was clear that they were traveling along the mountains, which was why they hadn't seen people for several days.

When Chu Qing talked with them, her voice couldn't hide her gender, so they were very curious about Chu Qing.Chu Qing ignored their eyes, just pointed to the convoy and told them that there was food.

When the men saw the cargo of fifty carriages, they all put down their guard and warmly invited the caravan to their village.

Their village is not big, only dozens of yurts.The blue sky, white clouds, green land, rugs, and flocks of sheep all look so harmonious.

The working women saw the caravan and horse herd from a distance, and they all stopped their work and looked over here.

The children had already been riding horses in their father's arms, and kept shouting to their mother, "Grandma, we have guests!"

The caravan was warmly received. Chu Qing ate yak meat and drank yogurt.

"Do you have an iron pot?" Huayi's mother suddenly shouted in surprise.She saw the amphora.

Chu Qing, who was drinking yogurt, could see the excitement in her eyes, the excitement was even higher than seeing the food.This is a good thing. Iron pots are more popular than food, so it's easy to negotiate prices.

"We have two kinds of pots!" Chu Yuan introduced, unloading a few spoons from another carriage.Sure enough, Ma Shao got even more enthusiasm.Because this kind of pot can be moved with only one hand, it is much more convenient than a crock pot.

In Chu Qing's eyes, their pots are the same shape as the vats used by the women in the village to pickle vegetables, and they feel that they are not as convenient as medicine jars.

"How do I change this?" The women were enthusiastic.

Chu Yuan scratched his head to see clearly.What Chu Qing had planned was to exchange a bag of grain for a horse, but Guo Guo hadn't made up his mind yet.

In Daxuan, basically the price of a bag of [-] catties of grain is the price of an iron pot, so a pot should also be the price of a horse.

Chu Qing was about to answer "one horse", but Xiao Bao had already answered: "Two horses."

What Chu Qing wanted to say became: "Ah... yes!"

Zhuo Yao: "Master? What's the matter?"

Chu Qing: "..."

The herdsman is also very happy at this price, but Xiaobao is a little frustrated, he feels that his asking price is too low.

Chu Qing said to the herdsmen: "Take it as the opening of our caravan today, and just obey the children. Don't tell others this price, we will lose money."

Xiaobao looked at Chu Qing speechlessly: In terms of thick skin, she has to be a mother!
The herdsmen only bought [-] pots, and they had to exchange for food and set aside horses for the prince, so they didn't dare to buy more.No matter how large the family is, they only bought one pot.

"Are these patterns or words?" A woman asked, pointing to the mark on the ear of the pot.

"This is the brand name of our Chu family 'Bao Qing Sheng'."

"Bao Qingsheng. Remember! Your pot is very good!"

The young man followed to pick the horse.

One bag of Chuqing’s food is two hundred catties, and each family can buy two bags, which can last for four to five months with a little food.After all, they hunt and grow some food by themselves, but the output is too low.

From Chu Qing's point of view, the herdsmen are still very rich, and she got a lot of furs, ox horns, and sheep horns in exchange.But the herdsmen feel that they are poor, because they have no money in their hands, and these furs have no chance to be exchanged for money.

The herdsmen also have some herbal medicines such as snow lotus, safflower, and spathula, which are very expensive in Daxuan.The herdsmen also had very few of these things, and they were not easy to pick up, so Chu Qing exchanged them with dried vegetables.

The herdsmen don't actually eat vegetables very much, because they can't grow vegetables in their climate, so they don't have this eating habit.

But after they tried Chu Qing's stewed chicken with mushrooms and roast lamb with dried beans, they felt that the taste was really good, so they felt that they had taken advantage of Chu Qing.

Chu Qing gave them dried hawthorn and dried mint leaves as toppings, letting them have a taste.

Because there is no tea, the herdsmen are very happy to hear that dried hawthorn and mint leaves soaked in water can also help them relieve their anger, and because they heard that these things are not as expensive as tea, they hope to get them in the future.

Both parties to the transaction are satisfied.The boy in the caravan reported to Chu in private: "Boss, we have exchanged for a total of one hundred horses, purebred Worth horses!"

Chu Qing asked, "Only a hundred horses? We still have plenty of food and iron pots!"

"Boss, they don't dare to exchange more, and they have to hand over the horses to the princes. They don't have any money in their hands, so they can't buy them."

"They don't have money, but we have it! Wool is worthless to them, so we collect it with silver, not grain! Go tell them to collect wool, and take as much as you can get."

"Got it!"

The boy took the order.

When the herdsmen heard that their wool could be sold for silver, they said that they had a lot at home.

A woman was afraid that Chu Qing and they would leave soon, so she hurriedly said: "Your ones, don't leave, our woolen ones, cut them, it will take a few days!"

This is a big statement that is not very fluent.She wanted to say that it was time to shear the sheep in a few days, and she hoped that Chu Qing could wait for a few days.

Herdsmen shear their wool twice a year, one in May and one in September to October, depending on the weather conditions.

The weather in Voss is considered warm this year, so we have to wait a few more days.Chu Qing naturally agreed, what she thought was that after this batch of wool was taken back, the woolen products could be distributed on the market around the autumn harvest, and the weather was getting colder by then, but it was another profit.

Seeing that they did not object, the herdsmen were very happy, and took out a lot of meat, preparing to roast mutton for dinner.What they eat is not their own sheep, but hunted yellow sheep and hares.

Their horses, cattle and sheep have to be counted, and they cannot be eaten casually.

In most cases, they use their own cattle and sheep to exchange materials with farmers, so as to ensure that their lives can continue to live. After all, cattle and sheep reproduce slowly, and sitting and eating mountains and empty mountains is tantamount to waiting for death.

They have to set aside the number of livestock for trading, calculate the number for mating, and consider the amount paid to the nobles. Therefore, a herdsman may have hundreds or thousands of sheep, and often only a few sheep can be used for their own food. only.

The greatest opportunity for them to eat meat is old, weak, sick and disabled livestock that cannot be sold, or meat obtained from hunting.

There are also a few marmots to be roasted today, which were obtained by the horse herding men digging out the marmot's nest outside.

Chu Qing's own kid, let her throw out more than half of it, and go out to find food.Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to drink water, the herdsmen can live, so can they.

Soon the boys came back almost empty-handed: hares, wild deer, argali, woodchucks, and even fish.Shallots, wild leeks, bitter vegetables, and spicy horseradish are brought back a lot.

The consumption of a meal for more than 200 people is not small, but there is food in the car, and there are a lot of milk dregs, cheese, etc. in the hands of the herdsmen, so they eat very well.

For things like barbecue, the boys think that the herdsmen are not authentic, but their boss is authentic.Otherwise, you can see that the way the herdsmen eat it is roasted and sliced ​​layer by layer, every bite is bloodshot, the meat is not cooked through, and the cheeks hurt when chewing.

They began to miss the skewers that the boss brought them to eat.Only Xiaobao has no objection, as long as he has roasted garlic.

Herdsmen like baked bean cakes very much. They are delicious and hungry, but unfortunately they don't sell them, so they are just invited to taste them.

Chu Qing brought a lot of dried vegetables, and now she really dare not give them all to the herdsmen. She found that eating vegetables on the grassland is a problem.I got a lot of wild vegetables today, what about tomorrow?They have to wait here for several days to collect the wool.

　Xiaobao: What do you want, friends?My treat!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)