The Red Mansions

Chapter 16 Buying Livestock

Chapter 16 Buying Livestock

Money can turn ghosts around. With silver, many things you want to buy can be bought easily.

It was almost noon when Jia Yun came back from outside the city.

After arriving at the market, Jia Yun bought four piglets, four goats, and four hares, two males and two females, so that they could reproduce in the space.

On the contrary, his space is really full of spirituality. For example, castrating Piggy doesn't need him to do it himself, as long as he thinks about it, it can be done in an instant.

Unknowingly, the castration was painless. After Piggy was castrated, it was as if nothing happened.

Then, he bought ten ducks, native chickens, pheasants, and geese each, and after getting them to the carrying place, they threw them all into the space for breeding.

When passing by a fruit shop, Jia Yun stopped to take a look, and found that the variety was quite complete, including common fruits.

So he went into the store to choose, such as apples, bananas, hawthorns, loquats, pears, grapes, sugar cane, chestnuts, pineapples, walnuts, persimmons, etc., and bought some of each.

After a circle, I bought so many things, and the ten taels of silver have not been spent yet, which shows that the purchasing power of silver is still very strong.

When the shopping was almost finished, Jia Yun bought another donkey and took it home.

With this donkey at home, Mrs. Bu can use it for transportation when she goes out in the future. This can be regarded as Jia Yun's filial piety.

After returning home, after hearing Jia Yun's talk about the use of donkeys, Mrs. Bu smiled happily and praised him for being grown up and sensible.

After temporarily tying the donkey under the eaves, Jia Yun called Mrs. Bu into the house, gave her 20 taels of silver, and whispered:

"Brother Rong from Ningguo Mansion called me to be the chef yesterday, and I got ten taels of wages and 20 taels of silver reward. You should keep the 20 taels of silver and save it first."

In fact, after returning home last night, Jia Yun told Mrs. Pu about this, but after seeing so much money, Mrs. Bu still couldn't believe it, and couldn't even say a word of excitement.

After a long time, she wiped her tears and said: "Since your father left, mother has not seen so much money in these years. Hey, I never thought that I would still be blessed."

After thinking about it, she handed the money back to Jia Yun, and said with a smile: "Didn't the ancestor say that he would lend us the house of Lao Geng's family yesterday? You can take the money and call some craftsmen to come over and repair it."

"Mother, you can keep this money with peace of mind, I still have it here." Jia Yun returned the money and said with a smile.

As the saying goes, if you have food at home, you don’t panic.

The reason why Jia Yun gave the money to Mrs. Bu was to relieve her pressure.

Now that she has 20 taels of silver saved with her, she will no longer have to do needlework so hard from dawn to dusk.

After all, you really can't make a lot of money doing needlework. It's good to earn half a month a month. How can you make a lot of money in business?
Seeing that Jia Yun had the right idea, Mrs. Bu put away the money after a few excuses, and the smile on her face never stopped.

It could be seen that she was really relaxed in an instant.

After eating at noon, Jia Yun told Mrs. Pu to go out to find a craftsman, and went out.

Coming to the small river where she often practiced, Jia Yun sat down cross-legged and practiced silently.

He had something to do all day yesterday. Although he sneaked in and practiced, it was intermittent and not as effective as a one-time practice.

Now he has been practicing for nearly half a month, and his body is no longer as thin as it was at the beginning. He has gradually become stronger, and his height has also increased a bit. Now he is about 1.7 meters eight.

What changed the most was his temperament, which was gentle and masculine, and the proportions of his already handsome facial features became more harmonious.

A little bit of spiritual energy swims in the body, strengthens the foundation and nourishes the vitality, strengthens the body, strengthens the muscles and bones, makes the body more resilient, the tendons become thicker, and the all-round improvement is greatly improved.

Jia Yun closed her eyes slightly, and clearly sensed that the qi and blood in her body were boiling, making a roar like thunder. The cells in her body were tempered more densely, and the spiritual energy continued to nourish him, strengthening his physique.

An hour later, Jia Yun opened her eyes, took a long breath, stood up, and said in her heart: "At most half a month, I can break through the first floor, and I don't know what magical effect will be there at that time." .”

Pressing her thoughts, Jia Yun got up and went back, and walked to the house of an uncle named Jia Wei.

Jia Wei is in his 50s and is a carpenter, but these days craftsmen are all-rounders. Apart from making furniture, Jia Wei can also do things like stonemasons, strippers and masons.

It happened that Jia Wei was at home today. After Jia Yun explained his intentions, Jia Wei did not refuse and agreed to visit Jia Yun's courtyard first.

On the way, Jia Wei asked, "Brother Yun, what do you plan to renovate the house into?"

"Uncle Wei, you also know the situation of my house. I only have 20 taels of silver here for repairs. Let's see what you can pretend?" Jia Yun replied.

Jia Wei thought for a while and said, "I went to the old man's room this morning to look at it. If the house is just a simple renovation, it doesn't cost much money. You can just replace the broken tiles on the roof and the broken doors. Change it, it’s almost there.”

"But if you are renovating according to the standard of 20 taels of silver, you can do it well, paint all the walls, replace the doors and windows, needless to say, renovate the roof, and also make a few durable sets. furniture."

Jia Yun nodded and said with a smile: "I want to renovate my own house, including Lao Geng's three rooms, a total of five rooms, a total of 20 taels of silver, you can help me look at it."

"Okay, let's look at it later and talk about the details." Jia Wei nodded.

After a while, the two came to the courtyard. Jia Wei first went to Jia Yun's house to take a closer look, and then brought Jia Yun to Lao Geng's house.

After Lao Geng's burial in the morning, Mrs. Pu came to Lao Geng's house, cleaned it inside and out, and threw all the things out and burned them, so the room is empty at the moment.

After Jia Wei looked it over, the two went back to the courtyard and sat down. Jia Wei smiled and said, "Brother Yun, 20 taels of silver can do a lot of things. Listen to Uncle, the doors and windows have been replaced. Make new ones." Yes, the walls are repainted, the roof is completely renovated, as for the furniture, I will try my best to help you arrange all the commonly used ones, how about it?"

Naturally, Jia Yun had no objection, and agreed wholeheartedly.

After the matter was settled, Jia Wei looked around the yard and said with a smile: "Brother Yun, on the way back from outside the city in the morning, I heard from Brother Qin that you want to rent their house, but really ?”

"There is such a thing, what's the matter, is there anything wrong?" Jia Yun nodded doubtfully.

Jia Wei smiled, shook his head and said, "There's nothing wrong with it, I'm just asking. Since you want to rent their house, you must want to be quiet, right?"

Seeing Jia Yun nodding, Jia Wei asked with a smile, "Then do you need to take care of your yard?"

Jia Yun glanced at the yard, frowned and said, "What is there to take care of in this yard?"

"That's what you think is wrong?" Jia Wei smiled and pointed to the corner, and said, "Look, if you build a grape trellis over there, and put a set of stone tables and benches, wouldn't it be very comfortable to enjoy the shade in the hot weather? Wouldn't it be more interesting to have two trees? Besides, wouldn't it be more elegant to plant a few cages of flowers and plants in this courtyard?"

Jia Yun: "Does it cost a lot?"

"I don't want your money, I'll give it to you, just a little, my father-in-law's [-]th birthday next month, how about you help cook?" Jia Wei said with a smile.

Jia Yun chuckled, shook her head and said, "Uncle Wei, you are waiting for me here, okay, whether you give me something or not, I will help."

Jia Wei was pleasantly surprised, and said happily: "Haha, Brother Yun is generous enough. To be honest, I heard from Brother Qin that you went to help Brother Rong cook the kitchen yesterday. reward silver."

"Oh my God, I dare not even open my mouth if I want to invite you. If you hadn't come to the door today, I would definitely bury this matter in my heart and let those old women in the country cook a few dishes to fool me." Just fool around."

After the two chatted for a while, Jia Wei saw that it was not early, so he got up and left, saying that he wanted to go back to call someone first, and come over to start work tomorrow.

According to Jia Wei's estimate, the construction period is about half a month, mainly because the doors, windows and furniture are time-consuming.

Regarding this, Jia Yun didn't make too many demands. Jia Wei's craftsmanship was well-known in the neighborhood, so he didn't need to worry too much.

(End of this chapter)

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