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Chapter 237 Elder Ma's Advice
"We'll buy it all? Will we be able to sell it all?" If they bought all the grain that the whole village wanted to sell, it would be a considerable sum.

Currently, the price of ordinary grain outside is nine qian (approximately 30 grams) for one shi (approximately 50 grams) of rice, including the husk and grain.

If it's the kind of standard that's taxable, the price will be one or two taels of silver.

The village is having a bumper harvest now. Even if each household only sells ten shi of grain, that's still ten liang. With more than a hundred people in the village, that's more than a thousand liang.

If they don't recoup their investment after spending a thousand taels, their family will suffer a huge loss!
"You don't need to worry about anything else. Go tell the village chief that if there are any young people who want to follow Chuanman, bring them along too."

With so much grain, it would be impossible for Wang Chuanman to manage it alone; he needed someone to help him.

And they also have to be reliable.

Even if we rush the whole way to Manager Zhou's place, transporting the grain, it will probably take more than ten days.

When I returned, I was just in time for the next batch of planting in the village.

Old Wang knew that Old Lady Wang was not someone who spoke without reason, so he immediately went to tell Village Chief Hu about it.

Village Chief Hu and his colleagues were just having a hard time when they heard that Old Wang's family wanted to buy grain, which surprised Village Chief Hu.

"Does your family have that much money?"

Old Wang said, "Manager Zhou is a kind man. He gave us some money first and told us to use it to tide us over if we found anything suitable to sell. Our village has had a bumper harvest now, and it's not easy to sell this grain directly locally. So we thought we'd transport it elsewhere and have Manager Zhou cover it up, and that would be the end of it."

Is that Manager Zhou reliable?

Old Wang thought for a moment and said, "Our family saved his life."

"That's certainly possible." In Village Chief Hu's eyes, the life-saving grace was of paramount importance.

Just as the villagers of Hujia Village see Xiao Ayu as a lucky star who has saved their lives. It is precisely because of this that they spare no effort to protect Xiao Ayu.

Unable to make a decision on his own, Village Chief Hu went to consult with Old Master Hu and others.

"The Wang family is truly a kind and honest family. This move can really solve our urgent problem." Old Master Hu stroked his beard, his eyes full of approval. They had thought of this method before, but there was just too much grain in the village. Even if they could eat it all, they might not be able to find a way to sell it.

If you lose money on it, it won't just be a matter of a few taels of silver.

Unexpectedly, the Wang family was willing to take this risk.

The elder of the Ma clan disagreed: "You only think about making others bear the risks, but you're unwilling to take any risks yourselves? Transporting grain isn't that simple. There are bandits along the way, and ordinary people have to be on tenterhooks to pass by. If the Wang family were to hoard grain, wouldn't they be putting their heads on the line?"

These words changed the expression on Village Chief Hu's face.

Yes, they really hadn't thought of that.

The famine has only just ended. Even if there are no bandits, what if those vicious villages discover it and another Shanyang Village appears?
"What should we do then?" an elder asked anxiously. "We can't just sit here guarding a mountain of treasure and starve to death!"

They used to have no food and worried every day about how to get enough to eat.

There's an abundance of food now, yet we're still worried. What's going on?

"Since the Wang family is willing to do it, it means they have a plan, so there's no need to deny them. However, we can't let them bear all the risks. Otherwise, if word gets out that our Hu family village didn't treat the Wang family well and only thought about taking advantage of them, where will we put our old faces?"

Grandpa Hu looked at Elder Ma and asked, "Then what do you suggest we do?"

"We'll collect 10% of the grain as a deposit first, and then the Wang family boy will come back and pay the remaining 90% after he sells the grain."

(End of this chapter)