The road to wealth of a peasant widow

The man with the golden tooth had already followed Chen Cui's instructions and asked someone to notify the butcher to come over.

She didn't want the children to see the cows being taken away for slaughter, so she asked Chen Shangen and Chen Dahai to take them to see the car while she waited here.

At this time, a crowd of people had gathered around to watch the fun and were talking about it.

Butcher Zhou was a burly man. When he arrived, he took one look at the cow on the ground and knew what was going on.

“Are you selling it by the piece or by the pound?”

Butcher Zhou weighed an ox leg and put it down, as if he was measuring the weight, and then asked.

"What do you mean?" Chen Cui didn't quite understand.

"I'll give you an estimate for the price if you sell it by piece. If you sell it by jin, the price will be calculated after weighing it. If I buy this cow as a whole, I'll give you seven taels. If I sell it by jin, I'll probably give you less than that. Look how skinny this cow is. It's completely fatless."

Chen Cui understood. She did not mention the price, but made a request: "Master Zhou, my children love to eat beef offal. No matter how it is sold, I want the whole beef offal."

Butcher Zhou frowned. Although the price of offal was not as high as beef, a plate of offal weighed about 20 to 30 kilograms. How should he calculate the bill?

At this time, the man with the golden tooth squeezed in and approached Zhou the butcher: "Old Zhou, don't be so stingy. This sister-in-law just bought this cow for nine and a half taels, and the cow fell to the ground and died in the blink of an eye. You touch the body of the cow and it is still warm. I won't ask you to pay more. Seven taels, you can take the cow away and give the offal to this sister-in-law, and the deal is settled!"

"You, Old Jin, are always causing trouble for me!"

Butcher Zhou patted the man with gold teeth on the back, making him grimace.

"Don't just do it, tell me if it's okay or not!"

The man with gold teeth asked while enduring the pain, "Old Zhou's grip is really strong!"

Butcher Zhou glanced at Chen Cui and said, "It's no use if I agree. I need the consent of this sister-in-law!"

Even if he took away the waste, he could still make a lot of profit from the seven taels, so he simply gave Lao Jin face. After all, it was he who asked someone to notify him.

Chen Cui said immediately: "Okay, seven taels is seven taels, I will go with you and watch you slaughter the meat and go get the water."

She bet that there must be something in the cow's stomach and she would not lose anything in the end. So she gave in on the price in order to get the internal organs as soon as possible.

Immediately, Zhou the butcher gave seven taels of silver to Chen Cui and asked the clerk stationed at the livestock business to issue a document stating that the cow had died of illness and that it was allowed to be slaughtered.

Then, the cow was lifted onto a cart and taken to Zhou the butcher's house.

His family lives nearby, otherwise he would not have arrived so quickly. The yard is very spacious, and the ground is paved with bluestone slabs. There is a large stone platform on one side of the yard, and the cow was placed on this platform.

While the cow was still dead and the blood had not yet coagulated, Butcher Zhou bled it out, then cut open its stomach and took out the internal organs that Chen Cui wanted.

At this time, Chen Cui had a basket for collecting water at her feet and was staring closely at Zhou the Butcher's hand.

He was very skillful and took out the cow's heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys and stomach from the abdominal cavity one by one. Next came the twisted intestines.

Chen Cui didn't bother to smell the blood in these things. She simply rinsed them with water, put the basket on her back, and said goodbye to Zhou the Butcher.

Chen Shangen and Chen Dahai are still waiting for her at the car sales place!

Sure enough, they had already chosen a car and were just waiting for her to come and make the final decision.

Chen Shangen chose a half-used ox cart, which was wide and large and could carry a lot of things.

He knew that his daughter was no longer the same as before, so he did not dare to make decisions for her easily. He had to let her come and see for herself.

Chen Cui was indeed not very satisfied with the mule cart he chose, which was just an ordinary flatbed cart.

She asked the seller, "Do you have a car with a shed? It would be best if it could be disassembled. It can be used when passengers are sitting and can be removed when transporting goods."

At present, the car is mainly used to pick up and drop off children from school. A bare-flat car is exposed to wind and sun, and it is not very comfortable after all.

The boss nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, I happen to have one here, please see if it meets your requirements."

Chen Cui saw that the car was about 60% to 70% new, and was wider than Chen Shangen's. There were four pillars at the four corners of the car, connecting to the roof above.

The ceiling seemed to be made of wooden boards and oilcloth, but the sides of the carriage were open without any covering.

Seeing that Chen Cui seemed dissatisfied, the boss quickly demonstrated the wonders of the car.

He called his men, and two of them gently pressed the mechanisms at the four corners of the car. The four pillars were removed, and the entire roof was separated from the car body.

The best part is that the four pillars of the roof can be folded. Once folded, the roof becomes a whole board that can be stuck under the car.

Chen Cui was somewhat amazed at the skills of the ancients, they could even think of this.

The boss saw her expression and couldn't help but feel proud: "Look, this car is good, isn't it? It meets your requirements."

Although not all of them met her expectations, she had looked at all the cars and this was the best one. The others were all common cars like the one Chen Shangen chose, which she didn't like.

As for her other ideas about the car, she can buy it and find ways to modify it, but for now, just choose this one!

"How much?" Chen Cui asked.

"To be honest, this car was custom-made a while ago. It's one-of-a-kind. Originally, a new one cost six taels of silver. Now, I definitely can't charge you that price. You can take it away for three taels of silver!"

The boss acted like he was offering a big discount.

The man with the gold tooth came on the scene again. After a fierce argument with the boss, he finally took the two carts, including Chen Shangen's ox cart, for a total of three taels of silver.

At this moment, Chen Cui couldn't help but feel that she had made the right choice by finding this man with gold teeth. He had saved them a lot of money in the past half day.

Although she could also bargain, she was not as willing to lose face as him, nor as eloquent as him!

She knew that the broker was not working in vain and was paid for his work, but for her, doing this would save her trouble, time and money, so why not do it!

When the group walked out of the cattle farm, there was a female goat that had just given birth on the ox cart. Chen Cui bought it to milk it.

From Chen Cui to Sui Sui, every one of them in this family is lacking in nutrition. They seem to have gained some weight in the past few months, but in fact, their foundation is still weak.

Especially for children who are in the growth and development period, they need more supplementation.

The lactation period of a sheep is about seven to nine months. When there is no more milk, you can kill it and eat the meat, which is killing two birds with one stone.

Chen Shangen and Chen Dahai drove two ox carts respectively, while Changping slowly tried to control the mule cart.

In fact, mules and cows are similar in working, and this mule is well-trained. Once it is put on the cart, it will move forward spontaneously.

Although Changping intentionally slowed down its pace, its overall speed was still much faster than that of the ox cart. They had to stop and wait for a while, waiting for Chen Shangen and his son behind to catch up.