freenovelworld Chapter 460 I Can’t Lend It to You
Chapter 460 I Can’t Lend It to You
After hearing this, some of the people who responded at the beginning began to waver.
The living example is right in front of them. They don't want to lie on the kang all day long and have someone to serve them when they eat, drink, defecate and urinate. This is not a life for a human being. It is simply suffering.
Zhou Guo didn't say anything. After all, if she collected mushrooms in the village, the price would definitely be incomparable to what she could get if she sold them herself. It depended on whether they could accept it.
Someone looked at Zhou Guo and said with a smile: "Zhou Guo, you have two carriages at home, and the carriages go fast. When you go to sell, can you bring your aunt's mushrooms with you and sell them at the same time? This will save me from walking and won't bother you. You are going to sell mushrooms anyway."
When she said this, all the villagers present looked over and wanted her to bring their own pine mushrooms to sell.
Zhou Guo smiled and pointed at the group of people, saying, "Aunt, it's not that I don't agree to your request. Look, if I agree to your request, they will all have to ask me to agree. I only have two cars, which can't accommodate so many people. I can't just take you with me, right? Wouldn't that offend the whole village for you? Well, no, no, I won't do this, don't you agree?"
"Yes, that's right. I'll take everyone with me. Why are you the only one? You're not his relative!"
The woman rolled her eyes and said, "Well, don't you have two carriages at home? You only need one or two taels to go out, and you can lend me the other one for a few days, okay?"
Zhou Guo stretched out a finger and shook it, "Hmm~~ No, no, it's still the same problem. I only have one carriage, and I can't lend it to so many of you. Sorry, Auntie, I can't lend you this carriage!"
The woman got angry and said, "This is not okay, and that is not okay. So what do you think we should do? We can't let your family earn all the money, right?"
Zhou Guo put away the smile on his face and said, "I can't take back what I said. What do you mean that all the money was earned by our family? Am I stopping you from going to the city? Or am I stopping you from going up the mountain to pick mushrooms? The road is wide open, whoever wants to go can go. You don't have a car, so you can't blame me. After all, we are not related, and I don't owe you anything, right?"
Everyone nodded silently, looking at the man with some reproach. They were still asking for help from him, so how could they offend him now? "Erdou's family, this is indeed your fault. You can't blame them just because they don't lend you the car. They are right. There are so many of us. If she lends it to anyone, she will offend everyone. It's better not to lend it at all."
The woman snorted, turned around and left, saying, "I just don't believe it. Are you the only one in this village who has a car? No one else has one."
Yes, this reminded many people. Although the Zhou family was the only one with a horse carriage in the village, there were many families with ox carts, and many of them went out with the family.
Most of them stayed. They also understood that each family only had one car. Don’t they know how to use it? Don’t they know how to go to the provincial capital? Why would they lend it to you?
Zhou Guo did not try to keep them. She was worried that there would be endless troubles in doing business with such people. It would be better if they left and let them try out this path themselves to see if it was a good choice.
The rest of the people looked at Zhou Guo, and one of them said cleverly, "Zhou Guo, then you can give Auntie some advice. Let's sell some of these things so that I can make a set of thick clothes for each of the children in the family this winter. Otherwise, they will have to stay huddled on the kang all day this winter."
Others also asked her for advice. They all knew that this girl was smart. Since she didn't say anything absolutely impossible, there was room for maneuver. "We don't want to earn a lot, but a little is fine. These are picked from the mountains. It just took some effort, but it didn't cost us much money... Otherwise, I think you can buy the mushrooms from my house. You can pay a little, and it's yours. Can you take them to the capital to sell them yourself?"
As soon as this idea came out, other people's eyes lit up. They couldn't leave, and couldn't sell their products in the county. They were losing money, so any money they could make at this time was valuable.
The faces of the Li family members all showed joy.
Zhou Guo shook his head and said, "Aunts, there are so many families in the village, and you sell a pound of pine mushrooms for 70 or 80 cents. I don't have that much money. I can buy all your wild mushrooms. Besides, I don't plan to go out these few days. I don't have any other options. I'm sorry."
"Hey, who said it would cost seventy or eighty coins? Just give me this, twenty or thirty is fine. I'll sell it to you. It's up to you how much you want to sell it for in the city. We won't ask any more questions."
Zhou Guo still shook his head and refused to agree.
Seeing this, everyone didn't bother to argue any further, thinking that it would be a good idea to try their luck with those powerful guys just now.
After everyone left, Li and the others curiously asked her, "They themselves said they wanted to sell the mushrooms to us. Now that they have come to this point, why don't you agree? Don't you just want to collect their mushrooms to sell?"
Zhou Guo said, "Mom, besides selling to me, they also have another way to go, that is to borrow or rent a car. If that doesn't work, they can find someone who knows the way and take them to the city. There are many ways. I only give them so little money. Who would feel comfortable if they knew that I sold mushrooms for 150 coins per pound in the city? They might even hate us for cheating them and taking advantage of them."
At this point he shook his head and said, "We have to let them try and make their own way. Only when they fail can they know that we have a clear conscience when we earn this money, and we can be right."
The old man said: "We have to make them beg us for their bacteria, so that there will be no future troubles."
Zhou Guo smiled and nodded, "That's what I mean."
The Li family and their companions suddenly realized that the more they thought about it, the more it made sense. Otherwise, they would have thought that making money was so easy and they could make a lot of money just by taking a trip.
After eating, several people went to the mountains. Although they had to collect the food from the villagers, they had to pay for it. The more they picked up themselves, the less cost they would have. One hundred and fifty coins per catty, if they picked up ten catties a day, they would have one string of money, and five hundred coins. If they picked up twenty catties, they would have three strings of money!
Where can you find such a profitable business?
It happened that Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi were on break, so they also went into the mountains. Their minds were confused from reading so much, so it would be good to go for a walk in the mountains to clear their minds.
There are still not many people in the mountains today.
With the addition of Zhou wheat and Zhou rice, the family picked up much more than usual, five sacks in total, which weighed more than 100 kilograms.
The total amount of mushrooms for the trip to the city this time is only about 200 kilograms. Together with yesterday's, it would be enough for a trip to Yunzhou. But they sold out so many mushrooms in more than two hours. It's such a long journey, so they should bring more to make up for the bumpy journey.