RBCT Chapter 59 Forced Buying and Selling
Chapter 59 Forced Buying and Selling
"In the morning, the fish and rabbit meat sold for a total of 56 yuan. I gave Jianguo 4 yuan as wages, and bought a flashlight for 2.8 yuan and a gate for 6 yuan. I still have 43 liangmao left."
Not bad, that's quite a lot!
Li Xiangyang sat behind the carriage and carefully counted the money several times to make sure it was correct before putting it into the hidden compartment inside his sheepskin coat.
I lay down comfortably, ready to have a good night's sleep.
"Brother-in-law...aren't we leaving yet?" Liu Jianguo, who was also sitting in the carriage, asked when he saw Li Xiangyang lying down on the carriage.
"Come on, you drive the carriage."
"Me...? I drive a horse-drawn carriage...!" Liu Jianguo was somewhat surprised.
He was still shaken after driving the carriage into the ditch yesterday, and now he's being asked to do it again...
I thought to myself, "Brother-in-law, are you really not afraid of death?"
She tentatively suggested, "Brother-in-law, how about you...?"
"No!"
Li Xiangyang's attitude was firm.
"Didn't you say you wanted to go into business? In Inner Mongolia, we don't even know how to drive a horse-drawn carriage. What kind of business do you want to do?"
After Li Xiangyang finished speaking, he ignored Liu Jianguo, gathered some dry grass to cover himself, closed his eyes, and began to rest.
A moment later, the carriage slowly began to move.
Liu Jianguo knew that Li Xiangyang wanted him to learn how to drive a horse-drawn carriage for his own good, to train him.
If I want to start my own business in the future, I can't just hire someone to help me move things from the very beginning.
How much money do you have to pay per day?
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It was nearly an hour and a half later when Liu Jianguo drove the carriage to Liujia Village.
He discovered that driving a horse-drawn carriage wasn't actually that difficult. As long as you watched the road carefully, made sure the horse didn't stray off course, and went slowly on bumpy roads, you'd be fine.
However, when the carriage was still 200 meters from home,
Liu Jianguo saw a large group of people gathered at the gate of his house from afar, and there seemed to be several unfamiliar figures among them.
It seems to be from the next village?
They were all pulling sleds loaded with straw.
"They all look like they're here to sell straw. But why are they all blocking the gate and not going in...?" Liu Jianguo wondered.
Suddenly, a possibility occurred to him: Li Xiangyang had already collected enough straw, which was why his father wouldn't let them in.
Just as he was about to drive the carriage over to find out what was going on, he saw his ex-girlfriend's father, Wang Youde, in the crowd: "Why is he here too?"
Liu Jianguo's face immediately fell.
Countless unpleasant memories flooded my mind.
He only recently learned from a friend that Wang Youde had played a lot of tricks in the reason he broke up with Wang Youde's daughter.
They looked down on him because his family was poor, and because he and his father were considered unambitious farmers...
The carriage stopped, and Li Xiangyang woke up.
The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was Liu Jianguo's unhappy face: "Jianguo, what did you do?"
"Brother-in-law, you go ahead first. I'm going out for a walk and I'll be back later."
"Um......?"
"My ex-boyfriend's father, Wang Youde, is also at my doorstep. I guess he's here to sell straw too." Liu Jianguo pointed to a middle-aged man in a gray-blue cotton coat not far away and said, "That's the man."
"Your ex-girlfriend?" Li Xiangyang brushed the dry grass off his clothes. "You mean that girl from the Wang family, right?"
Liu Jianguo nodded, holding his breath, and said nothing more.
"Then you shouldn't leave even more. He had the nerve to come all the way to see you, but you're too embarrassed to see him?"
Li Xiangyang could understand Liu Jianguo's feelings at that moment.
It's simply that she feels rejected by her ex-partner, and since she hasn't made anything of herself yet, she's embarrassed to meet her ex-partner's family.
I feel like I'm being watched so closely!
"Here, take this money. You can just be generous and buy all the straw they sell, and pay them on the spot."
"No, brother-in-law, my father didn't let them in because he'd already collected all the items you said you wanted to collect."
"It's okay, I don't think they brought much over. I'll take an extra thousand or two kilograms of straw."
As Li Xiangyang spoke, he opened another burlap sack on the carriage, took out the pheasant he had processed the night before, and put it on the sled along with the 50 jin of rice he had just bought.
He then said, "Jianguo, bring out everything you bought and put it here."
Liu Jianguo was not clear about what Li Xiangyang wanted to do, but he did as he was told. He felt that Li Xiangyang must have his reasons for asking him to do this.
And it will definitely have an unexpected effect.
After Li Xiangyang finished everything, Liu Jianguo, with a heart full of trepidation, slowly drove the carriage towards the Liu family compound.
As he approached, someone recognized him and exclaimed, "Liu Guangyao's son is back!"
The crowd quickly gathered around.
Although Liu Jianguo didn't know what was going on, with Xiang Yang there, he wasn't intimidated at all. He mustered his courage and shouted, "What are you doing?"
"What are you doing? You people from the Liu family have the nerve to ask us what we're doing?"
"Yeah, you Liu family members have the nerve to ask us what we want?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Jianguo immediately became displeased: "If you have something to say, say it; if not, get lost." She pointed at one of the ringleaders and said something fierce.
At this moment, Li Xiangyang also stood up from the carriage.
His tall stature of 1.75 meters, coupled with the fact that he was standing on a carriage looking down from above, created a very imposing presence.
Those who had just been making a fuss immediately fell silent and quietly retreated to the back of the crowd.
The people didn't actually intend to fight; they joined in the commotion only so they could sell the straw to the Liu family.
After a moment of silence,
A middle-aged man couldn't help but stand up and said to Liu Jianguo with a wronged expression:
"You're Liu Guangyao's son, right?! We all heard your family collects straw, so we brought it all the way from the next village to sell. But your father said he wouldn't collect it anymore, and that he'd wait for you to come back before we could decide!"
"Just for this?" Li Xiangyang frowned and sat back down in the carriage. "I thought it was something important, the founding of the nation."
"Hmm," Liu Jianguo agreed, and immediately said, "If you want to sell straw, line up and come one by one."
Hearing that Old Liu's family was going to collect straw again, everyone laughed, and soon a line of about ten meters long formed.
Wang Youde also took the opportunity to hide in the middle.
He didn't want to come at first, but his wife kept nagging him at home, saying that other people's straw that they didn't want was taken to the Liu family to exchange for money, while his family's straw could only be used as firewood.
Wang Youde had been talking to himself so much that he was practically sick of it, and he had no choice but to swallow his pride and go with his neighbor to bring over straw to sell.
"Old Wang, this Liu family kid looks alright!" Liu Qingquan, who was standing behind Wang Youde, gently nudged Wang Youde's back and whispered.
Liu Qingquan and Wang Youde were neighbors.
Previously, Wang Youde forced his daughter to break up with Liu Jianguo and then date a guy who was learning to drive a truck.
Wang Youde had boasted to him.
At that time, Wang Youde was very proud, saying that he had found a good marriage for his daughter, and that Liu Jianguo was terrible, cowardly, dull, and useless, etc.
But judging from Liu Jianguo's performance just now, it doesn't seem to be like that.
"What he does is none of my business," Wang Youde still tried to argue. "Besides, he's just collecting straw, what great future can he have?"
At best, we can only provide him with enough to eat and drink; will we be able to buy him grain, oil, rice, and flour?
"Not necessarily," Liu Qingquan said, his eyes fixed on the large pile of things behind Liu Jianguo's carriage.
"Old Wang, look at what's in the back of the Liu family's carriage!"