Chapter 543 Buying Piglets

Qiao Ran knocked on the door, and a dark-skinned man in his sixties opened the door and looked at her suspiciously.

"Girl, what's the matter with you coming to my house?"

"Uncle, I'm here to buy piglets. I heard that your family has piglets for sale. I wonder how many are left? Can you sell them all to me?"

When the old man heard that he was here to buy piglets, he immediately opened the courtyard door and warmly welcomed Qiao Ran in.

"Girl, you want to buy piglets? Yes, yes! Come on, please come in, ten piglets haven't been sold yet!"

Qiao Ran followed the old man into the yard. As soon as he entered, he saw a pigsty under the wall.

A black sow was eating pig food. Some of the piglets were sleeping, and some were arching under the sow's body, wanting to suck milk.

The old man took Qiao Ran to the pigsty, pointed at the piglets in the pigsty and said:

"Girl, look at my piglets. They are all chubby and lovely. Do you want to buy them all? I'll sell them to you cheaper."

Qiao Ran looked at the piglets carefully and found that most of them were indeed round. Although they were not as white and pink as modern domestic pigs, they still looked cute in their naive appearance.

But when she looked at a little piglet in the corner, she raised her eyebrows and pointed at the piglet: "Why is that one so small?"

Old man Yang couldn't help but smile awkwardly when he saw her pointing at the little piglet.

"Girl, that is the smallest one. It was much smaller than the other piglets when it was born. Now it has been raised so that it is not much different from the others. Don't worry, you can definitely raise it fat in the future. Fat and fat.”

Qiao Ran was speechless. At first glance, the little pig was born with deficiencies. If it were raised by ordinary people, it would be impossible to grow it into a normal pig size no matter how much it was raised. It would probably die soon.

However, I have spiritual spring water, which can help the piglet improve its physical condition, and perhaps make it become like other piglets.

"Uncle, how do you sell these piglets?"

When Old Man Yang saw that she didn't continue to ask about the little piglet, he was worried that if she bought other piglets and didn't want that one, he would just give it up, so he said:

"Girl, if you buy all ten of them, it will cost you five taels of silver. If you want to buy them individually, each one will cost you six hundred coins."

Ten piglets cost only five taels of silver. Qiao Ran felt that the price was fair, so she stopped negotiating.

"Okay, then I want all ten of them."

"Okay! I'll put it on for you right now!"

Old man Yang was so happy. He thought the girl would negotiate the price or take out the smallest piglet. He didn't expect that she would be so cheerful and buy all the piglets without any bargaining.

This saved him a lot of time.

You know, in previous years, these piglets had to be picked to be sold in the market. Sometimes only one or two could be sold after entering the city, and sometimes none could be sold, and they had to be picked back again.

And these piglets are raised at home, and he has to waste a lot of time going up the mountain to collect pig grass and cook pig food every day.

If it still can't be sold when it gets older, it will be even more difficult to sell it. After all, I have raised it for so long and spent so much time on it, so it is impossible to sell it at this price.

But if it's more expensive and others don't want it, it's more cost-effective to just buy the piglets.

Therefore, now that he can sell the piglets at once, and with the money in hand, he can raise the sow and quickly breed it to produce a litter of piglets for sale.

The happy old man Yang almost hummed a tune and quickly brought two bamboo cages from the yard.

He stepped into the dirty pig pen and quickly grabbed all the piglets and stuffed them into the bamboo cage without paying attention to the pig excrement on the floor.

Several piglets that were sucking milk from the sow were suddenly picked up and screamed in fright, which also woke up the sleeping piglets.

Suddenly, the yard echoed with the screams of the piglets one after another, like pigs being killed.

Putting the ten little piglets into two bamboo cages respectively, Old Man Yang clapped his hands, pointed to the two bamboo cages boldly and said:

"Girl, all the piglets have been packed for you, and these two bamboo cages are given to you! You came in a carriage, right? I will help you put them on the carriage."

With that said, he was about to lift the two bamboo cages.

There were only five piglets in one bamboo cage, each weighing more than ten kilograms, and the piglets in the two cages weighed more than a hundred kilograms.

In the past, he had to borrow a bullock cart to drive to the city, or carry two cages on his shoulders.

Now he just carried it by hand, but he didn't even lift it up.

Seeing this, Qiao Ran asked Old Man Yang to stand aside. She stood in the middle of the two cages, lifted the cages with both hands at the same time, and walked easily out of the courtyard gate.

Old man Yang was shocked by this girl's actions. He didn't expect that a seemingly weak and small girl could be so powerful.

Old man Yang quickly followed him out of the courtyard. When he saw the girl effortlessly placing the two cages on the carriage covered with banana leaves, he ignored his shock and rubbed his hands while looking at this girl who was even stronger than the man.

Qiao Ran put the two cages of piglets on the carriage. When she came, she picked a few large banana leaves beside the mountain road and placed them on the floor of the carriage to prevent the piglets from soiling the carriage.

After placing the cage, she didn't hesitate, took out a silver coin from her purse and threw it into Old Man Yang's arms.

"Fifty taels of silver, not a penny. I'm leaving."

Old man Yang hurriedly caught the silver, and when he saw that it was indeed a five-tael silver ingot, his face couldn't help but bloom with joy.

He had never sold so many piglets at once, so this was the first time he received a complete silver ingot.

He smiled and waved to the girl who had already boarded the carriage and was raising her whip to drive away:

"Okay, thank you girl! If you need piglets next year, come and see me!"

It wasn't until the carriage was far away that Old Yang lowered his waving hand, and the smile on his face never went away.

Suddenly, he thought of a question. He had never asked the girl her last name or where she lived. If he knew which village's God of Wealth was so rich, he would just have a good relationship with her and let her come to him to buy piglets in the future. Now, he doesn’t have to go to the city to sell them.

It would even be much easier if we could make an agreement with that girl that all future piglets would be exclusively for that girl!

Such a generous God of Wealth is a rare thing to come across!

"Oh, I have such a pig brain!"

Old Man Yang slapped his forehead in annoyance, but he hit himself too hard and almost fainted.

Rubbing his red forehead, Old Man Yang returned to the yard with his head lowered.

But when he saw that the pig pen was empty except for the sows, and then looked at the heavy silver ingot in his hand, he became happy again.

Forget it, let’s talk about the future later. The piglet sale went so well today, why don’t we go to Widow Yang’s house in the village to buy a few taels of wine for a few drinks?

Old man Yang happily went to buy wine with his money, while Qiao Ran was driving the carriage and was about to leave the village.