Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system

Chapter 33 Procurement
The father and daughter felt something in their hearts and looked at each other secretly, knowing that this matter was basically inevitable.

Sure enough, the old man fondly stroked the sheep's back and nodded to the father and daughter: "Six taels is six taels, I want this sheep!"

The other two old men who wanted to buy sheep, after hearing this, very tactfully bowed to the old man and then left.

Gu Tang gave the old man a thumbs-up. "You really have a good eye for talent! Such a rare goat is meant for someone like you. You spent six taels on the goat today. In a couple of years, it should earn you sixty taels!"

These words made the old man even happier. He took out a purse and a very small scale (a small scale for weighing silver) from his pocket.

Then, he counted out two silver coins from his purse and put them on the scale to be weighed.

These two silver coins were probably cut by the old man at home, weighing exactly six taels, no more, no less.

"You and your daughter, take a look at this." The old man handed the scale to the father and his daughter, asking them to take a look.

After more than a month of traveling through time, Gu Tang was already very familiar with this kind of scale. He only had to glance at it and smiled: "You are an old hand with a sharp eye. The amount of this silver is exactly right!"

The old man beamed at the compliment and turned to Gu Lianshan, saying, "Your daughter is sweet-tongued and well-spoken, and has a generous disposition. I can tell at first glance that you love her dearly. Daughters who aren't loved at home are timid and can't even be in the limelight. You have a wonderful daughter! It will be easy to arrange a marriage for her in the future!"

These words made Gu Lianshan happier than the six taels of silver: "Among all the girls and boys in my house, she is the most caring and filial. If I don't love her, who else can I love?"

The old man agreed with this statement very much. He thought that such a filial and considerate man would be loved by everyone.
After putting away the purse and scales, the old man handed two silver coins to Gu Lianshan.

Seeing this, Gu Tang handed over the rope to tie the sheep and said, "Although this sheep is a goat, its temperament is rare and docile. Just lead it back and don't worry about it being disobedient on the way."

The old man nodded. He had noticed it before. A group of people surrounded the goat, prying its mouth and twisting its hooves, but the goat didn't lose its temper at all.

Even domestic sheep are rarely so docile, which is one of the reasons why the old man likes this sheep.

After patting the sheep's head twice, the old man said goodbye and left with a happy look on his face.

"This old man is quite easy to talk to." Gu Lianshan clenched the silver coins in his hand, grinning so much that he couldn't close his mouth.

"He's not short of money." Gu Tang saw clearly that the fur coat underneath the old man's silk coat was made of deerskin.

To make a fur coat out of deerskin, if you don't go hunting in the mountains to get the skin, and spend all your money on it, don't even think about it without more than twenty taels of silver.

"That's right. If Dad wasn't short of money, he wouldn't care about these six taels." Gu Lianshan clicked his tongue twice and started dreaming in broad daylight.

Gu Tang didn't want to pay attention to this and stretched out her hand in front of her father: "Silver."

Gu Lianshan paused, then his face showed a look of pain.

The big hand holding the silver hesitated for a while before reluctantly handing it over, "Let Dad hold it for a while longer, Dad doesn't want it."

"Look at the sky! It's getting dark early, and we still need to buy some food. If you dawdle any longer, we might have to go back in the dark!"

"Food and daily necessities?" Gu Lianshan was confused. "What food and daily necessities are you buying? We already have everything at home. This money hasn't even warmed up yet, and you want to spend it now?"

Gu Tang was not happy with this. "Yes, we have everything at home, but can I get food and clothes? I should buy some food and clothes before it snows. If I don't buy some food and hide them, once the snow blocks the road, my grandma will kick me out and let me starve to death!"

Gu Lianshan: ...You know what, what his daughter said, his mother can indeed do!
"Don't be angry, don't be angry. Dad will listen to you and buy some food and daily necessities for you to eat and use. Don't worry about other people."

Gu Tang paused, said nothing, and led her father straight to the place where chickens and ducks were sold.

The chickens and ducks sold here are not sold by weight, but by the piece, regardless of size.

A rooster was 40 wen, a hen 60 wen. Ducks were cheaper, 30 wen for a drake and 50 wen for a hen. Gu Tang asked around, and the prices were all the same.

Since the prices are the same, just choose the bigger one.

These chickens and ducks are all raised by farmers themselves. Those who are willing to feed them are fed with wheat bran mixed with wild vegetables and grass. Those who are not willing to feed them are fed with only wild vegetables and grass.

The chickens and ducks raised in the two ways are very different in appearance. The former are slightly larger and fatter, while the latter are not only smaller, but also very thin.

Not to mention laying an egg every day, it is not certain that an egg will be laid in three days.

In addition to differences in fatness, size, and years of feeding, they also vary.

Some of the chickens and ducks are just about to grow up this year, while others are old ones that have been raised for two or three years.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s a rooster or a duck, but the hens and ducks must be from this year.

Chickens and ducks raised in this way don't lay many eggs to begin with, and if they are raised for a long time, they will lay even fewer eggs.

Gu Tang didn't know how to tell the age of the chickens and ducks, so she simply pulled her father over to help her judge.

Gu Lianshan thought his daughter was greedy, so he rolled up his sleeves and squatted down. He pulled over a hen, turned over its comb and claws, and asked Gu Tang if this one would be okay.

"Yes, but it's not enough. I need ten newly grown hens and ten roosters. And ten ducks, ten males and ten females, all newly grown this year."

Gu Lianshan stood up in an instant and asked, "Aren't you greedy?"

"Who said I'm not greedy?" Gu Tang glared at her father. "I'll buy the rooster and duck and eat them slowly. I'll raise the hens and ducks to lay eggs!"

"Right, right, right! Buy the roosters and ducks and kill them for meat, and buy the hens and ducks and keep them for laying eggs! Brother, your daughter knows how to manage the household, so you can't go wrong by listening to her!"

"That's right. If we buy these twenty hens and ducks, we'll have more eggs than we can eat every month! If we save enough and sell them in the city, that'll also bring in some income!"

"Yes, in the future, the income from chicken and duck eggs alone will make the family quite comfortable. This is an unexpected blessing..."

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Several women and men who were selling chickens and ducks came to persuade Gu Lianshan, all with smiles on their faces.

Twenty ducks, twenty chickens, this is a big business, and each of them can sell a few chickens and ducks.

After being persuaded like this, Gu Lianshan didn't dare to ask his daughter what she would use to feed so many chickens and ducks, so he could only bite the bullet and pick.

After picking for about a quarter of an hour, Gu Lianshan went through all the chickens and ducks, picked out forty newly grown chickens and ducks this year, and put them in separate chicken and duck cages.

Then comes the settlement of accounts.

Gu Tang was an expert and quoted 1,800 copper coins.

Gu Lianshan shuddered, his heart bleeding. One thousand eight hundred copper coins, more than one tael of silver!
Gu Tang didn't look at her father's expression, but touched the secret pocket in her sleeve. She only had silver on her, no copper coins.

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