After being replaced, she changed from a miserable daughter-in-law to a lucky wife

The two waited until the children fell asleep before leaving Liu Laoshi's house.

Xiao Chiye turned his head and looked at the gate behind him: "Now that the children are sick, I'm afraid I can't send a message to Brother Yin. I'll go there!"

Xia Wanniang nodded: "Then I will go buy an ox cart."

Xiao Chiye: "Will you choose?"

His question stumped Xia Wanniang: "I really can't. Can you?"

Xiao Chiye touched his nose: "I don't know how to do that either."

The two stared at each other for a long time, and finally decided to go with the flow and buy whichever cow they liked.

Xiao Chiye went to the government office and drove the carriage to Yin Yuanxun's house.

Xia Wanniang went to the outskirts of the northern city, where large-scale livestock transactions took place.

Today is only the third day of the Chinese New Year, there are not many people coming here, and there are not many livestock for sale.

When the merchants inside saw customers coming, they started shouting.

"Sir, would you like to buy a donkey? Our donkeys are absolutely excellent."

"Little lamb, strong and easy to raise."

"..."

Xia Wanniang gently shook her head to reject their recommendation and walked inside.

There were not many people selling cows, and she didn't like any of the cows, so she had no choice but to walk further inside.

At the last position, an old man was sleeping on a chair, covered with a quilt, and there was a stove next to him. Behind him were some pots, pans, and other daily necessities, and it seemed that he lived here.

Xia Wanniang saw a few cows behind him and they looked very pleasing to her.

She looked at the old man who was sleeping soundly and was wondering whether to wake him up.

"Look first. If you like her, you can call me old man." The old man said with his eyes closed without opening them.

Xia Wanniang glanced at the old man. This guy was quite interesting.

"Old man, I want to buy your cow, but I don't know much about it. Can you introduce it to me?"

The old man opened his cloudy eyes and looked at Xia Wanniang: "You are a little girl who knows nothing and you come to buy a cow. Aren't you afraid that I will cheat you?"

Xia Wanniang looked at him and just smiled: "It's because I don't understand that I came to ask you for advice."

The old man sat up straight, picked up a worn cotton jacket from the haystack next to him and put it on: "You are a humble girl."

Xia Wanniang waited for him to introduce her: "So are you willing to teach?"

The old man folded the quilt, stood up and opened the fence on the side. Seeing that she didn't follow him, he said, "Since you want to learn, why don't you come in."

Xia Wanniang quickly walked into the cowshed with him.

The old man looked at her and said, "Take a look, which one do you like?"

Xia Wanniang looked at the cows in the cowshed and pointed at a cow in the corner: "I think it's doing well."

The old man looked at the place where she pointed and said: "You have a good eye. Why did you choose this?"

Xia Wanniang: "It looks pleasing to the eye."

The old man turned his head to look at her, wanting to see if she was joking, but was a little surprised to see her serious face: "You are honest."

Xia Wanniang: "Did you choose the right one?"

The old man nodded and said, "This cow has just reached adulthood and is now strong enough to work." Then he began to introduce to her how to distinguish good cows from bad ones and how to choose a cow.

Xia Wanniang listened attentively and observed the cows in the cowshed carefully. If she didn't have these tips, she really wouldn't be able to tell the good from the bad. "Thank you for your advice."

The old man actually liked Xia Wanniang: "Do you want to buy that cow?"

Xia Wanniang nodded: "Yes, I'll take it. I see you have an ox cart and some farming tools here, I want to buy them too."

The old man nodded: "This cow has just reached adulthood, so its price will be much higher than the others."

Xia Wanniang: "It's okay, just name a price."

The old man said: "Thirty taels, the cart and other tools are charged separately."

Xia Wanniang said readily: "Okay."

The old man blinked his eyes: "You don't want to bargain with me?"

Xia Wanniang smiled and shook her head: "You haven't even collected my tuition. If I were to bargain with you, I'm afraid it would be a bit unreasonable."

The old man looked at her with a smile and selected a better ox cart and some useful tools for her.

When Xia Wanniang saw that he was busy, she secretly put a jar of wine for him and hid a new cotton-padded clothes in his quilt.