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Chapter 97
"Okay, thank you, sir, for your size, thank you, sir. In this way, the old man has lived up to everyone's expectations." Wang Changming said with a long sigh of relief.

"Cunchang Wang is serious." Ma Chao said to Wang Changming with a guilty face.

Afterwards, Xie Jinyuan arranged for soldiers to pull in the cart of grain and some meat, and Wang Changming and others breathed a long sigh of relief after seeing the things being pulled in.

"Then, sir, if there is no other order, I will step down." Wang Changming was about to leave now.

"Village Chief Wang, will you try your best to do what I tell you?" Ma Chao asked through Wang Changming's words.

"This... this old man will definitely try his best." As everyone knows, when Ma Chao asked, Wang Changming thumped in his heart, secretly hating himself for talking too much, so he just said goodbye and left. This is going to be difficult .

"Don't worry, you can do it. Village Chief Wang." Ma Chao said in relief.

"Sir, no matter what it is, I will try my best, try my best." Wang Changming said without confidence, and a layer of sweat oozed from his forehead.

"Okay, knife!!!" Ma Chao shouted at the knife behind him.

"Yes, master."

"give me."

"This is..." Wang Changming looked at Ma Chao taking money from the knife, a little surprised.

"Yes, master." After responding, the knife took out about ten yuan from his pocket and handed it to Ma Chao.

"Village Chief Wang, as the ancients said, it's not rude to come and go! Since I have accepted the wishes of the villagers, I can't be rude, right. I hope Village Chief Wang will accept this gift." Ma Chao faced Wang Changming said, holding the ten oceans with both hands at the same time.

"Zhe Sha is old, Zhe Sha is old. Sir, this is absolutely unacceptable." Wang Changming hurriedly pushed Ma Chao's hand outward, and said in a flustered tone.

"Yes, sir, it is absolutely impossible."

"Sir, take it back!"

"Sir, we can't accept it."

The old men who followed Wang Changming also hurriedly persuaded Ma Chao to take back these oceans.

"Hmph!!! Why, are you not going to listen to what I said just now!!!" Seeing this, Ma Chao immediately growled coldly.

Suddenly, the whole scene was silent, only the sound of the southeast wind howling remained.

These old men were silent for a moment, they just stood there, not knowing what to do.

"I just said, this is my request! Why, is it too little and doesn't want it???" Ma Chao continued to hold the ten yuan in one hand, and asked in a cold voice.

"No, no, that's not right, I... sir, stop teasing me and other old people." Wang Changming heard Ma Chao's questioning, he didn't know how to get back, and finally had to beg for mercy.

"Whoever teased you, I will ask you, is it too little!!!" Ma Chao continued to ask.

To be honest, ten oceans can buy a lot of things, but the things sent by Wang Changming and others are far less than the value of ten oceans.

As far as the cart of grain is concerned, the cart is a very common wheelbarrow. Considering that it was pushed by these old people, it is no more than two to three hundred catties at most.However, the sacks on the car are not processed rice as we imagined, but rice!It is rice without shelling!

Because, in the south, the means for every household to preserve food at that time was not as we imagined, after the rice was mature and dried, it was directly processed into rice.Instead, it is stored directly in the form of rice, and when it is ready to eat, a part of it is processed with a mortar to make food.

At the price of polished rice in Guangzhou at that time, a piece of ocean could buy 25 catties.Well, the warehouse manager thinks that here in Taihu Lake, it is estimated that a piece of ocean can buy at least 35 catties of polished rice. Then, for these two to three hundred catties of rice, the most rice produced is two hundred catties.Then it is worth six yuan at most, and this is still the retail price sold in the market, so the purchase price at the place of origin will only be less!
And those chickens, ducks, and fish are not worth anything, so they are only two yuan at most.Fish fish are made in their own village, so they are worthless!And chickens and ducks only look like four or five, so two yuan is enough.

So, to be honest, Ma Chao gave too much out of guilt.

"Sir, we don't think it's too little, but we give too much. Besides, since it's a wish, there's no reason to collect money." Wang Changming looked at the money and said to Ma Chao.

"It's fine if you don't think it's too little! Whoever said it was money, I said it was reciprocity. What, are you insulting me???" Ma Chao emphasized again that this is a gift, not a payment for goods, and blocked it in advance with words What Wang Changming said next.

"Well, that old man will be at a loss." Wang Changming saw that Ma Chao had used his own honor and disgrace to persecute him. If he continued to refuse like this, Ma Chao might be really ashamed. It would be annoying at that time, so That's how it was accepted.

"Hey, that's right. It's so nice, isn't it." After Wang Changming accepted the gift in return, Ma Chao said with a smile as his face changed from cloudy to sunny.

"Originally, I should invite a few old gentlemen to go in and sit down together, but there are many soldiers in the battalion who were injured in the front line fighting with the Japanese army, so I will not invite them if it is inconvenient. I'm sorry." Ma Chao began to invite these old men back.

"It's because we bothered you a lot and delayed the official duties of the officer. Since the officer still has a retrial, we will leave now, please stay." Wang Changming stopped staying any longer after hearing Ma Chao's words, and prepared to leave.

"Okay, old gentlemen, go slowly, I won't see you off soon." Ma Chao said.

"Sir, stay!"

Following Wang Changming's response, several people slowly walked towards the village along the way they came.

"It's really, really difficult." Ma Chao looked at the old gentlemen and sighed with some emotion.

As soon as Ma Chao came here, he faintly smelled the fragrance of ink from these old gentlemen, and noticed their hands during the previous conversation.

Different from farmers who work in the fields, their hands look very clean, and there are traces of long-term use of brushes on the tip of the index finger and the first joint of the middle finger. Coupled with the fragrance of ink on their bodies, this makes Ma Chao When addressing these people, the word "Mr." is used.

After all, in traditional Chinese culture, the word Mr. is not used by any male as it is now.You must know that before the 80s, people must have a certain status before they could be called Mr.

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