I was a hunter in ancient times

Chapter 44 Buying a Mule

   Zhou Du didn't sleep well that night.

Always half asleep and half awake to look around.

Shen Xi didn't come over to cling to him like in the past, but hugged the quilt tightly with his back to him, motionless.

Zhou Du noticed that he was a little angry, although he didn't quite understand what he was angry with, but his behavior was obviously throwing a temper tantrum.

Zhou Du rubbed his temples and felt a headache. Sure enough, children are children, and they tend to be awkward at every turn.

Fearing that he would be cold sleeping alone, Zhou Du kicked the bean bun who was sleeping soundly under his feet.

Doubao woke up with sleepy eyes, and looked at Zhou Du puzzled.

Zhou Du got up and grabbed its body and stuffed it into Shen Xi's arms.

As soon as Shen Xi, who was sleeping, touched the heat source close to his arms, he instinctively stretched out his hands to hug him.

"Wow."

Doubao was caught off guard and let out a small cry of pain as he struggled to escape from Shen Xi's embrace.

Zhou Du glared at it coldly.

It obediently shrank back, nestled in Shen Xi's arms with two wolf ears on it, opened its eyes and dared not move.

Satisfied, Zhou Du stroked its head, lay back in his own position with peace of mind, closed his eyes and continued to fall asleep.

Doubao was originally reluctant, but Zhou Du, who rarely praised it, praised it. It rubbed its head in Shen Xi's arms, lay down quietly, and closed its eyes.

A good night's sleep.

When Zhou Du woke up again, it was already bright outside the window, and the person sleeping beside him had long since disappeared.

He also didn't care to get up and get dressed, and went out to wash up.

The courtyards of the Meng Mansion are not much different from those of the Zhao Mansion, both are patio courtyards. It's just that Zhao's mansion has a lot of flowers and plants in the courtyard due to the fact that people live there all the year round, while Meng's mansion only has a few decorative trees in the courtyard because the owner's family is not often at home.

By this autumn day, the leaves of the trees had all fallen, making the Meng Mansion look a bit bleak.

Fortunately, the Meng Mansion is about to hold a wedding, and the servants of the Meng Mansion are busy early in the morning. There are a lot of red silk with happy words on the eaves, doors and windows, which casts a layer of joy on the whole Meng Mansion and dilutes the atmosphere. That deserted.

After Zhou Du washed up, he went straight to the kitchen.

I didn't see the busy Shen Xi in the kitchen, but I saw Shen Xi pushing the mill alone in the courtyard of the kitchen.

Meng Mansion's grinder is very big, while Shen Xi is thin and small, pushing it very hard, with beads of sweat on his forehead, I don't know how long he pushed it alone.

Zhou Du's eyes turned cold, and he walked over and asked, "Is there no servant in the Meng Mansion? You need to do this kind of thing."

Seeing Zhou Du stop, Shen Xi wiped his sweat with his sleeve, panting He explained: "There are not enough people to clean up in front, and they have all been called to help."

Zhou Du scanned the kitchen and did not see a servant, and his heart sank again.

Shen Xi thought of the bean buns that he woke up this morning to keep him warm, and seeing that Zhou Du was the owner of the bean buns, he decided not to be angry with Zhou Du last night.

Seeing that Zhou Du cared about him again, he said happily, "It's okay, the wedding banquet hasn't arrived yet. Didn't Steward Zhao say that Mr. Meng likes to pay attention to good words in everything? I just wanted to grind some fine flour and try it out." Let's make some wedding cakes and let him have a look first. The Meng Mansion has no master all year round, so there is a clumsy cook left. I don't think she can help much, so I let her go to the front to help too. "

Zhou Du's eyes fell on Shen Xi's face covered with sweat and smiling sweetly, feeling irritable in his heart, he said softly: "You can't die from exhaustion."

Shen Xi's smile instantly froze on his face, even though he had already I told myself many times that Zhou Du treated him very well except that his words were not pleasant to listen to, but every time I heard him speak, I still couldn't help but feel a tingle in my heart.

Zhou Du glanced at the loneliness on Shen Xi's face, looked at Mo Zi and asked, "How much more?"

Shen Xi breathed steadily, pointed to a bag of wheat next to him and said, "Not much, that's all."

Zhou Du looked Seeing that there was still half a bag of wheat left, he frowned slightly: "You can't use ready-made flour."

Shen Xi wiped off the sweat that kept falling, and said: "The flour on the market and the flour used by the Meng Mansion are not fine. If you want to do better, you have to keep grinding until the finest flour is the best."

Zhou Du didn't ask anything, kicked the bean bag beside his feet: "The weather is fine today, I brought Go out for a stroll with the bean buns, grind them slowly."

Shen Xi forced a smile: "Okay."

Zhou Du was about to leave the back door of the Meng Mansion with the bean buns, when Shen Xi suddenly said: "I left you breakfast, eat it. Let's go after dinner."

Zhou Du didn't turn his head back: "I don't have an appetite, I don't want to eat."

Shen Xi clenched his fists and punched Zhou Du's far away back a few times: "I don't want to eat anymore, Cheng Xian go!"

Zhou Du took the beanbags out of the Meng Mansion, and the Meng Mansion was not very far from the street where he bought it, just two streets away from the alley.

Zhou Du walked around the streets with beanbags, not limited to the street where he bought them, until he finished visiting every corner of Anyang Town.

Anyang Town is neither big nor small, and there are still five or six hundred households scattered here and there, so there are all kinds of shops selling in the town.

Zhou Du didn't waste any thought, so he found a place to sell livestock in the town.

Not far behind the vegetable market, the townspeople forbid them to get too close to the livestock because of their strong smell, so they set up a few simple sheds in the open space behind the vegetable market to facilitate trading. a resting place.

As soon as Zhou Du walked over, two people surrounded him: "Customer, but you want to buy livestock, my family is good, buy my family's.

" Right."

After one person finished speaking, the other person in the back became unhappy, insulted each other a few words, and then came back to face Zhou Du with a pleasant face and said, "Guest, don't listen to him, our livestock here are all the best. , what do you need, I will pick for you."

Naturally, the smell of the place where the livestock gather is not ordinary, Zhou Du approached, and unconsciously frowned, and took out a handkerchief from his bosom to cover it unhurriedly. Shutting his mouth and nose, lowering his eyebrows, he looked at the flattering peddler in front of him, but he didn't deliberately slander others, and said vaguely, "Just take a look."

When the peddler heard that Zhou Du was just looking at it, the peddler was instantly discouraged and returned. I sat and rested in my shed.

The peddler standing in front of Zhou Du had a good temper. Although he was a little disappointed, he still smiled at Zhou Du and said, "It's okay, even if you don't buy it, it's good to understand.

" What?"

"There are horses, mules, cows, and donkeys." The peddler took Zhou Du to several of his sheds, pointing to the animals one by one.

Zhou Du followed his fingers to look over, and asked: "How do you sell it?" The

peddler had never met a customer like Zhou Du who came up to ask the price, and smiled slightly: "It depends on what you buy. , Just like this cow, it has calves, young and strong cows, and old cows, and the price is different for each."

Zhou Du didn't like trouble, and said bluntly: "How many strong cows.

" That kind of labor is just right, and there are no diseases or disasters on the body, and there are strong cattle that can be used immediately when you buy them, thirty guan."

Zhou Du raised his eyebrows slightly, expensive.

This time without Zhou Du talking, the peddler took the initiative to say: "The customers think it is expensive, but there is a way. It is not easy for this cow to give birth, and it is even more difficult to raise it to such a large size after birth. Moreover, our Daqing farming cattle Rare, rare things are more expensive..."

Without the need for the peddler to repeat, Zhou Du already understood the fact that he couldn't afford cattle.

The peddler talked a lot, but Zhou Du didn't speak to him, and suddenly remembered that Zhou Du was just looking at it, but didn't want to buy it. He smiled awkwardly, and hurriedly changed the subject: "Actually, if you don't have much arable land at home, you don't need to buy cattle, but you can buy mules. Enough, this mule is a mating of a donkey and a horse, although it can't reproduce, it can run and hunchback, it can also be used in ordinary fields, and the price is not expensive."

Zhou Du waited for him to finish, then asked: " How much." The

peddler said: "The one born of a male donkey and a female horse is called a horse mule, and the one born between a male donkey and a female donkey is called a donkey mule. The horse mule is bigger and more capable than the donkey mule, and the price is more expensive. Left and right, donkeys and mules need about five strokes."

After hearing this, Zhou Du asked casually, "Can it grind?"

The peddler was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Of course it is possible, donkeys are used to grind mills, so of course their offspring are also fine."

Zhou Du nodded, and said without emotion: "Give me a horse and mule."

"Well," the peddler answered immediately, and was about to walk into the mule pen, then turned back to look at Zhou Du in surprise, and stumbled, "Guest guest, you mean you, you, you want to buy?" Zhou Du said

sharply. Eyebrows met him: "Did I say I wouldn't buy it?" The

peddler shook his head: "Not really."

But you didn't say you would buy it either!

Zhou Du raised his eyebrows, his expression slightly displeased. The peddler immediately walked into the mule pen tactfully, picked a mule for Zhou Du, and broke open its teeth to show Zhou Du: "Guest, you can see that its teeth are all new and have no wear and tear, and there are not many big teeth. It's a good blue and white mule."

Zhou Du would look at this at that time, then glanced at the gray-brown mule, which looked pleasing to the eye, nodded and said, "That's it." The

peddler happily led the mule away Come out, hand it to Zhou Du, and explain carefully, "Guest, a mule is more docile than a horse or a donkey. If you lead it, it will follow you."

Zhou Du tried it. If so, he gave the peddler six taels of silver without worrying about the price of a copper plate.

This made the peddler very happy, so he quickly found six hundred copper coins for Zhou Du: "Guest, silver is more expensive than copper coins. This is the change money for you. Besides, you don't need to take care of the mule when you buy it back. Occasionally Just feed it some bran..." The

peddler gave Zhou Du the money and babbled to Zhou Du about his experience in raising mules for a while before letting Zhou Du leave.

Seeing that the peddler sold the mule so quickly, the other person said to Zhou Du in a strange way: "Guest, his mules are not good, you should come and buy mine."

What he said made the peddler's cheeks flush with anger, and he was about to explain to Zhou Du.

Zhou Du glanced over with a cold look, and said to the man: "I love leisure and hate work, gossip, sooner or later it will be over."

After speaking, he didn't care how the man jumped in anger, and he led the mule and left.

The man chased up to ask Zhou Du to talk, but the bean bag behind Zhou Du jumped up, opened its mouth to reveal its only half-grown wolf teeth, and bit the man's face.

The man was so frightened that he ran away without looking back.

The bean bag landed victoriously, with its not-so-smart wolf tail, proudly catching up with Zhou Du.

When Zhou Du led the mule back to the Meng Mansion, Shen Xi happened to pour the last bit of wheat in the bag into the stone mill, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Zhou Du leading a mule back, and slightly parted his lips: "You bought it?"

Zhou Du didn't answer, he led the mule closer, saw the empty bag in Shen Xi's hand, raised his eyebrows, looked very gloomy, and said in a cold voice: "Didn't I tell you to grind it slowly?"

Shen Xi pinched it. With the bag empty, he froze in place at a loss, who would have known what Zhou Du meant.

He thought that Zhou Du thought he was slow, so he speeded up on purpose.

Seeing that Shen Xi's head was covered with sweat, and he didn't know what to do, Zhou Du lost his temper. He tied the mule to a post beside him, and said softly, "Forget it."

Shen Xi put down the bag in his hand, The smile came closer, and asked happily: "Did you buy this mule for me to grind?"

"No," Zhou Du turned his head to see his sweet smile, as if drinking honey, and denied, "Yes I bought it to show you how exhausted you are from grinding."

After finishing speaking, he caught a glimpse of Shen Xi's hand where there were a few scratches on the jaws of the grinder, and a few streaks of blood were oozing, his eyes darkened, and he pursed his lips and said: " How come you are not exhausted?"

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