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“What kind of people are you bringing! Does she sincerely want to buy livestock?!” The old peddler cursed at Huang Hai with an angry face.
What could Huang Hai do? He had lived for more than 30 years, but this was the first time he had seen such a strange thing ah.
The old peddler huffed angrily and said, “23 taels! A penny less…… I won’t sell it!”
Su Xiaoxiao stretched out her small chubby hand, “5 taels.”
Old peddler: “……!!!”
Where is my knife!
Huang Hai looked at Liu Ping on the side, ‘just what kind of boss did you find ah? Are you sure you don’t regret it? It’s not too late to join me——”
Liu Ping’s forehead was also sweating with cold sweat ah.
As expected of the little bully of Xinghua Village, this price cut——
He was afraid that If Su Pangya could not get the price she wanted, she would directly hit people.
The old peddler was trembling all over and said, “Twen… Twenty taels!”
Su Xiaoxiao: “Five taels.”
The old peddler crossed his arms and pointed, “Five taels can only buy a donkey!”
Su Xiaoxiao loosened her hands and said, “Five taels can buy a cow in our village, what kind of donkey are you? Fairy donkey? I only want to buy it for five taels!”
The old peddler covered his old heart, ‘surnamed Huang ah, the next time you bring over this kind of customer again, I will definitely regard you as a stranger!’
Huang Hai cleared his throat, and smiled embarrassedly, “How about this, Uncle Yang, you can sell it to me, this mule, it’s……”
Before he could finish the words, Su Xiaoxiao’s chubby hand flipped over and said, “Ten taels!”
The old peddler was furious: “Fifteen taels!”
Huang Hai: I was going to say eighteen taels……
The old peddler regretted it after he said that, what did he just say? Fif, fifteen taels? He must be too angry and he became muddled by this girl, right?
Su Xiaoxiao chuckled and was ready to take out her purse.
But just at this moment, an unexpected thing happened.
The three little ones ran over with a whimper and grabbed her sleeve, “Mom.”
Huang Hai and the old peddler were dumbfounded.
This little girl’s son was already at this age?
The three little ones pulled her to another shed, the official’s stable.
The three little ones pointed to a newborn weak foal inside.
It was a premature foal, just born two days ago.
The mare was seriously injured and breathed her last shortly after giving birth.
The foal had nothing to eat and had been starving for two days, it couldn’t even stand up steadily.
If it continued like this, then it would starve to death in a few days.
A foal without a mare couldn’t survive, so the officers at the post station did not put in much effort to take care of it.
The three little ones looked at the foal that had lost its mother, and their eyes filled with deep sympathy.
“Do you want that pony?” Su Xiaoxiao asked.
The three little ones nodded their heads.
Su Xiaoxiao stroked their little heads.
They were only two and a half years old, so they barely understood anything.
Perhaps they even did not understand why they would feel such strong sympathy for this little orphaned horse.
The three little ones looked at the unattended pony without blinking.
Liu Ping whispered in a small voice, “No, there’s no need to spoil the children so much. Just buy two candies later to coax them.”
“Do you really want to take it home?” Su Xiaoxiao asked the three of them to make sure once again.
The three little ones nodded their heads earnestly.
The official horses at the post station were not for sale, even if it was just a foal.
But this foal was in a special situation, the mare had died and there was no other mare to feed it.
Huang Hai came forward to negotiate with the officers, “Even if you keep it, it will die too. Can you just treat it as dead?”
The officer said, “No, it’s against the rules.”
Huang Hai said, “If it’s dead, then will it follow the rules? Why are the governments doing this?”
In the end, Huang Hai found an old deputy station who owed him a favor before, and got him to sell it to Su Xiaoxiao at the price of a retired old horse.
It was true that he helped, but he covered his eyes and pretended not to see.
40 taels, to buy a newborn foal, that simply would die soon.
This was simply throwing money away ah!
Su Xiaoxiao asked Su Ergou to find some hay at the post station and spread it on the cart, then she carried the weak pony to it.
Since she bought the pony, she only had five taels of silver left.
She silently went to the old peddler’s stable and said, “That donkey, do you still sell it?”
The old peddler: “……”
“5 taels!”
Su Xiaoxiao emptied her purse and said, “I only have three taels left.”
A quarter of an hour later.
A group of six people left the horse market with a sickly little foal, and a skinny bony donkey.
Liu Ping really never dreamed that they could buy animals like this.
It completely deviated from the original plan!
Liu Ping drove the ox cart while embarrassedly comforting himself, “Don… Donkey is good ah, it eats less, has strong endurance, can transport the goods, and docile……”
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the ‘docile donkey’ beside him give a backward kick at the horse market’s sign violently!