Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 215: Entertaining Guests with a Warm House, Buying Cattle and Horses (8)_1

Chapter 215: Chapter 215: Entertaining Guests with a Warm House, Buying Cattle and Horses (8)_1

Mo Yan didn’t understand how to pick them, so after listening to Lizhong’s praise of the two oxen, he let him decide.

When Lizhong heard this, he started to haggle with the cattle trader, "Young brother, I can see you are an honest person, but fifteen taels for one head is too expensive. I think ten taels is about right."

"Big brother, these two oxen are the best in my house. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have taken a liking to them at first glance, right? Fifteen taels for one head really isn’t expensive. If you don’t believe me, go ask around at other places, you definitely won’t find a cheaper price."

Seeing that these two wanted to buy both oxen, the cattle trader was overjoyed, but at ten taels a head, he wouldn’t make much profit.

Lizhong knew that pushing for ten taels was a bit harsh, but two oxen certainly weren’t worth thirty taels. He couldn’t let Mo Yan be the one getting a bad deal.

After a back-and-forth negotiation, the cattle trader clenched his teeth and finally agreed to a deal for twenty-five taels of silver.

Mo Yan paid the silver promptly, and Lizhong happily took the lead rope from the cattle trader’s hand, preparing to go with Mo Yan to look at horses at the horse market. However, to their surprise, the two-and-a-half-year-old Da Huang refused to move, bellowing "moo moo" and simply wouldn’t budge.

"What’s the matter? Can it be that he’s grown attached to you?" Lizhong jokingly asked the cattle trader.

The cattle trader, also getting anxious, picked up the whip in his hand and gave the ox a lash. Since the ox had already been sold, he didn’t dare to lash too fiercely, but even after several strikes, the ox still wouldn’t move, instead digging its hooves in and backing up.

Now Lizhong was getting anxious too. He could ask the cattle trader to refund the silver and not buy the ox, but it really was a good ox, and it might be hard to find another one as good on the street; he was reluctant to give it up.

Watching the two men, one pulling with all his might and the other still pushing the ox’s rear, Mo Yan found it somewhat comical. She held back her laughter and circled around Da Huang to take a closer look.

When she caught a glimpse under the belly of the ox, she had an idea and said to the cattle trader, who was still persistently pushing the ox’s rear:

"Where’s the calf of this ox? Bring it here and try."

Upon hearing this, the cattle trader understood Mo Yan’s intention. He hurried into the house, and soon he led out a calf that reached his waist.

Seeing the calf, Da Huang broke free from Lizhong and ran toward the calf. It stuck out its tongue, incessantly licking the calf, and made "moo moo" noises, the sound unbelievably gentle.

The little calf responded with "moo moo" sounds as well, playfully rubbing against its mother’s neck, its naive eyes brimming with affection.

Watching this tender scene of maternal love, all three of them felt emotional and couldn’t bear to break the bond between them.

The calf was only five or six months old. Mo Yan thought for a moment and said to the cattle trader, "I want to buy this calf as well, how much silver do you need?"

The cattle trader was taken aback, then realizing that the lady couldn’t bear to separate the mother and child, he said with a smile, "The calf isn’t worth much, three taels of silver will do, miss."

Lizhong looked at Mo Yan and then at the mother and child nestled together. He did not object but was surprised that the cattle trader only asked for three taels of silver.

You must know that even if the calf couldn’t plow the land right away, as soon as it was a year old it would be no problem, and usually, you couldn’t buy one without five or six taels of silver.

Mo Yan, unaware of this, just felt that buying the calf was much more cost-effective than buying an adult ox, so she handed over the three taels of silver to him.

The cattle trader took the silver and handed the calf’s lead rope to Lizhong, "The calf is still young and its nostrils haven’t fully developed, so you can’t put a nose ring on it just yet. Wait until it gets a bit bigger before you do that!"

At that moment, the rope was only looped around the neck of the calf. Should the calf resist, even an adult would have to exert a lot of force to handle it.

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