Chapter 10 Selling wild animals in town

Yong'an Town, the closest town to Yuhe Village, is ten miles away and close to the county seat. The journey is faster and can be reached in about half an hour.

Such a big deer probably wouldn't be fetched at a good price in the town, so it would be better to go directly to the county town.

The mother and daughter set off before dawn, mainly to avoid being noticed.

When we arrived at the county town, it was just getting dark.

There are already vendors on both sides of the street selling steamed buns, steamed buns and various kinds of porridge and rice.

Jiang Wei glanced twice and took Jiang Xiaoxiao straight to a large restaurant not far away.

Yuelai Restaurant is the largest restaurant in the county and has many customers.

Deer is a relatively rare game. Most people can't afford it, and only large restaurants like this can buy it in one go.

It was still early, and there was only a waiter in front of the restaurant, spraying water and cleaning.

"Brother, is your shopkeeper here? I have game to sell." Jiang Wei explained his purpose directly without any nonsense.

The waiter looked up at the huge thing Jiang Wei was carrying behind him. It was tightly wrapped in oilcloth. He didn't know what kind of game it was.

"Yes, yes. I'm going to ask our shopkeeper to come out."

His restaurant business was big, and hunters from the village often brought some game to the county to sell, so he wasn't too surprised by Jiang Wei's appearance.

The waiter threw down the broom in his hand and ran into the restaurant. After a while, he came out with a middle-aged man in a long gown.

"Girl, are you selling game?" The shopkeeper was a little shocked when he saw Jiang Wei.

Usually, the people who come to their restaurant to sell game are men. This is the first time that a woman has come to sell game alone.

After all, it is ancient times, and women generally do not show their faces outside casually.

"Yes." Jiang Wei nodded, put down the stag on his body, and peeled off the oilcloth to reveal the entire deer.

"This, this..." The shopkeeper was so shocked that he could not speak. He couldn't help but look at Jiang Wei in front of her in shock. This stag seemed to weigh three to four hundred kilograms. She, a woman, could actually carry it here alone. Come? !

How powerful is this!

Reluctantly suppressing the surprise in his heart, the shopkeeper bent down and touched his body twice. It was still warm, "This deer must have been just slaughtered. It's quite fresh!"

It's not new.

Jiang Xiaoxiao on the side said silently.

Her mother quietly put it into the space after killing the deer last night and just took it out this morning.

"Girl, how do you want to sell this deer?" After inspection, the shopkeeper was very satisfied.

"You can give it to me." Jiang Wei said calmly.

The shopkeeper considered it carefully and said: "Girl, how about this? You are really rare for a deer. How about I give you a pound and a half?"

One and a half kilograms of money!

Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was listening on the side, couldn't help but feel excited.

In this ancient world, a thousand pieces of silver was equivalent to half a piece of silver!

This deer weighs at least three hundred kilograms, and it costs at least one hundred taels of silver to buy it!

"Okay." Jiang Wei nodded in agreement without much hesitation.

Obviously she also knew that the price was not cheap.

After discussing the price, the shopkeeper asked the waiter to go to the restaurant to get the scale.

In the end, the whole deer weighed a total of 356 pounds!

Got one hundred and seventy-eight taels of silver!
  "Girl, if there is such game in the future, you must remember to sell it to our Yuelai Restaurant to ensure a fair price!" The shopkeeper paid the money with a smile, and couldn't help being happy on his face.

This kind of game is on sale, and dignitaries like to eat it. No matter how much money they spend on it, they will not lose money. Moreover, a nobleman from the capital was coming to Yong'an County in two days. The county magistrate paid a large sum of money and ordered him to arrange a banquet for him. This deer just solved his urgent need.

"Yes." Jiang Wei nodded lightly, stuffed the money into the basket on his back, and left with Jiang Xiaoxiao.

"Mom, where are we going next?" Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at the basket on her mother's back. It was covered with oilcloth, and she couldn't see whether the money was still in it.

"Take you to the county government office to change your name and settle down." Jiang Wei took out the household registration document.

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment.

She had only mentioned the name change once before, but to her surprise, her mother still remembered it and had prepared the household registration documents with her early in the morning.

"Have you decided on a name?" Jiang Wei lowered his head and glanced at her.

"Yeah!" Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded and said crisply: "Xiaoxiao! My maiden name and my surname are Jiang Xiaoxiao!"

"Little?"

"It's the dawn at dawn!" Jiang Xiaoxiao corrected.

But as soon as she finished speaking, her mother tilted her head and looked at her strangely: "Are you still literate?
  "Uh, yes, Brother Ergou told me!" Jiang Xiaoxiao said quickly, "He said that dawn is the moment when the first ray of light shines into the earth, giving hope to all things on the earth and a new beginning!"

Anyway, her mother didn't know who Brother Ergou was, so Jiang Xiaoxiao continued to make it up without changing her face: "Mom, you and I separated from the Li family. Isn't this a new beginning, so I want to call him this name."

"Okay, let's call it this name." Jiang Wei nodded with a smile and didn't ask any more questions.

The mother and daughter arrived at the county government office and quickly changed their names.

I heard that a new county captain has taken office, or a big shot from the capital, so people in the county government have been very active in doing things recently.

The mother and daughter left the county government office and returned to the streets of Yong'an Town, where they found a noodle stall to eat and take a rest.

"Boss, two bowls of wontons!"

The bosses are an old couple with quick hands and feet, and two bowls of wontons were quickly served on the table.

The wontons are stuffed with shiitake mushrooms and meat. The meat is less and the shiitake mushrooms are more. The portion is generous and the soup is thick. It is made from big bone soup.

The mother and daughter quickly finished two bowls of wontons.

A bowl of wontons costs fifteen cents, and Jiang Wei paid 30 cents.

It was now noon, and many shops were open.

The mother and daughter were the first to go to the rice and grain store, where there were already many people.

Jiang Xiaoxiao followed her mother and squeezed into the crowd. When she looked at the prices, rice cost fifteen cents per catty, and white flour cost eighteen cents per catty... The prices were really expensive!
  A family of seven needs to eat about three kilograms of food every day. This rice costing fifteen cents per kilogram costs forty-five cents in one day. How can an ordinary family afford it?

The brown rice next to it is much cheaper, eight cents a pound, and there are more people around to weigh the grain.

However, this brown rice is yellow in color and has a rough texture, and eating it for a long time is not good for the stomach.

While Jiang Xiaoxiao was thinking about it, her mother had already asked the store to weigh five kilograms of rice and five kilograms of white flour each.

Also.

Her mother has made so much money, there is no need to suffer the consequences.

Five pounds of white flour and rice cost a total of one hundred and sixty-five cents.

After Jiang Wei paid the money, he put the rice noodles into his basket, and took Jiang Xiaoxiao to the nearby grocery store to buy a pound of salt, half a pound of sugar, some onions, ginger, garlic and various seasonings. More than one hundred pennies.

The fruit shop next to it happened to be open, and Jiang Wei took Jiang Xiaoxiao there and bought two boxes of candy candies, two large bags of wheat cakes, and a few shortbread cookies.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was eating with her arms full of snacks. Before she could recover, her mother took her to the meat stall again.

Pork costs twenty-five cents per pound, which is not expensive.

Jiang Wei bought three kilograms in one go!

(End of this chapter)

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