Chapter 688 Dilemma
The ghost woman kept nagging, saying that they were haunted by ghosts and needed to exorcise the ghosts, so the lion asked for two hundred coins.
The village chief agreed without saying a word.
The ghost woman said that today was not a good time and she had to start tomorrow. The village chief gave the ghost woman fifty coins. This was the money for summoning the ghosts today and the money for exorcising the ghosts tomorrow. She would give them after the completion.
After the ghost woman left, the village chief's wife and Daya complained that they were hungry.
In fact, they smelled the aroma of meat, and Da Ya even cried and said she wanted to eat meat.
The village chief is in a dilemma.
In fact, the village chief was also greedy. After smelling the meaty aroma of braised pork ribs, his mouth was already watering. But if he, a grown man, begged for meat from a little girl, would he still want that face?
Seeing that the village chief refused to go, Daya started crying and fussing, saying that she had a stomachache and that she needed to eat meat to get better. As a last resort, the village chief went to the West House slowly.
The four Chu Cong people all ate in the west room, and even the basket of meat was moved to the west room. As soon as the village chief entered the door, he glanced at the piled basket of meat, and a hint of covetousness and greed flashed deep in his eyes.
"Uncle, are you looking for us?" Shengdi put down his bowl and came over.
The village chief laughed awkwardly and was thinking about how to speak. But just as he was about to speak, he saw Chu Fei and Chu Cong standing up and clearing away the dishes.
He said with a smile, "We just finished eating. The uncle came to see us for something, so just tell us."
"Yes... that's it." Seeing that several dishes on the table were empty, the village chief glanced at the meat in the basket, gritted his teeth, and opened his mouth, "My daughter was a little frightened just now, and she wanted to You want to eat meat, no, you bought a lot of meat, and I was just thinking...thinking..."
"Uncle, you want to buy meat, okay. My aunt also said before that she wanted to buy meat. I didn't get a good deal, so I sold it to you at the original price, but I can't sell more. We don't have much meat. These meats, But our eldest son finally bought it.”
Chu Fei took up the conversation and repeated what he had said to the village chief's wife before, and then said seriously, "Seriously, at this time, this meat is really not expensive for one tael and a half silver per pound." , when the meat is gone, my eldest son will have no place to buy it even if he has money, don’t you think so?”
"Yes...yes, yes." A thin layer of sweat broke out on the village chief's forehead.
One tael and a half silver per pound of pork, isn’t that expensive?
It's just ridiculously expensive, okay?
However, what this maid said is true. There are only three villages in this hundred-mile radius. All the meat in these three villages has been eaten. Even if they have money, they have no place to buy it. Unless the rain stops, they If they can leave here, otherwise, they will have to become vegetarians in the past few months.
"So, uncle, how many kilograms of meat do you want to buy? Do you want to pay the money first or later?" Chu Fei asked simply.
The village chief was so greedy that his mouth watered, but if he was asked to spend one or two and a half silver to buy a pound of meat, he still felt sorry for the meat.
Chu Fei raised his lips and said with a sinister smile, "Uncle, are you the same as my aunt, unwilling to buy meat to eat? You have also made a lot of money recently, right? Take out three or five taels and buy a few Giving your daughter a pound of meat will save her trouble.”
"If you don't want to give up the money, forget it."
If you don't want to give up money, don't even think about eating meat. If you want to take advantage of them, huh, there's no way.
If they don't give money, they won't give them meat.
It's not that they have to ask for those few taels of silver, but it's better not to pretend to be kind in this kind of thing. Once they get started and give them a few kilograms of meat for free, maybe after eating, they will still ask for... …
There are only a few kilograms of meat in total, and how many days can they afford to feed so many people?
These meats were obtained by the prince after all the hard work for the princess to eat, and they were not given to others in vain.
Even Zheng Wenting had no choice but to agree. As for the village chief and his family, they couldn't even eat a piece of meat. Although they lived in the village chief's house, they also gave a lot of money to the village chief. Between them and the village chief, no one owed anything to the other.
Chu Fei had talked about this, so the village chief couldn't ask for more.
After he returned, Daya saw him coming back empty-handed and cried out of breath. The angry village chief almost slapped him away.
He said angrily, "You greedy girl is reincarnated. Can't you live without eating meat?"
"One tael and a half silver and a pound of meat, how much money did you earn for me?"
He didn't dare to yell loudly. Although his tone was full of anger, his voice was so low that only the people in the room could hear it.
Da Ya said angrily, "You rented my room, so I should have a few taels of silver. Dad, give me the money to rent my room, and I will buy it myself."
Once this person gets greedy, he doesn't care about anything.
Da Ya's mind is now full of meat, and she dreams of eating meat. If she doesn't eat meat, her stomach feels as uncomfortable as if there are ten thousand ants crawling around her.
She didn't care about it anymore and asked the village chief for money.
The village chief was stunned for a moment, and then he was so angry that he almost vomited blood to death.
He said angrily, "If you want to eat meat, that's fine. I was going to give you five taels of silver to buy a dowry. If you want to buy meat, I don't object, but the money has to be deducted from your dowry. Do you want to do it?" ”
Da Ya thought for a while and nodded, "Go ahead, give me one and a half taels of silver, and you can buy me a dowry for the remaining three and a half taels of silver."
A dowry of three and a half taels of silver is already quite a lot. The girls in their village usually get a dowry of one, two and a half taels of silver. Some poor people only have a few hundred coins at the bottom of their pockets.
Daya added, "However, this meat was bought with my dowry money. Once it's cooked, I have to eat it alone, and you don't get a share."
When the village chief heard this, he was so angry that he almost choked to death.
His face was red, and he was filled with anger and did not vent it.
How could he give birth to such a lazy, greedy, rebellious and heartless daughter?
He is her biological father. If she buys meat, does he not have a share?
So what if he has provided her with food, drink, and clothing for more than ten years?
Just as they walked to the door, the second brother who was about to call them to eat listened and stopped. He said, "Why did you buy a pound of meat, just for the little girl to eat alone? We don't have a share. What about her dowry money? She The dowry money is not from the family? If we don’t agree to give it, she won’t have a penny to dowry.”
In the village, when a daughter gets married, her parents need their son's consent to buy a dowry for their daughter. If the son does not agree, the parents will not dare to buy a dowry for their daughter.
When parents get old, they still count on their sons to provide for them until they die, but after their daughters get married, they are just thrown away and become members of other people's families.
In rural areas, there are many families who marry their daughters. Not only do they not buy a dowry, but they also give the betrothal gift from their husband's family to their sons and grandchildren.
(End of chapter)