Chapter 23

  This is a white horse, fully saddled, without a single stray hair on its body, from head to tail it's like a line. The mountain bandits have been doing this for so many years, but they've never seen such a fine horse.

  Gao Fei's jaw almost dropped to the ground, this white horse was exactly what he had wanted to rob but didn't succeed in doing so, unexpectedly Heiwa Zhai brought it out for auction, and the price was only worth... one stone of soybeans.

  To know, an ordinary mule can sell for five or six taels of silver, an ordinary horse sells for over ten taels, a warhorse at least twenty to thirty taels, and such a fine white horse as the one before us would fetch fifty to sixty taels.

  Many people are envious and think that if they really can't help it, they will snatch her away!

  "What's going on, thinking of eating for free? Ask Auntie Knife if she agrees?" Little White Wolf glanced at the crowd coldly and took out a piece of paper from his pocket: "It says here that it can be discounted by 80%, can it be used or not?"

  "Words must be followed by actions, and the old and young are not deceived. It is naturally useful." Huang San Yuan smiled and said: "Qin Man, return 20 kilograms of soybeans to Bai Dangjia."

  In this world, one stone is equivalent to one hundred catties. In fact, in underdeveloped places like Qingniu Mountain, people are still used to bartering, and grain is much more valuable than currency.

  So, the value of the white horse is far more than 80 kilograms of soybeans. I'm afraid even a saddle can't be bought. Little White Wolf took advantage of the situation and didn't linger here, flipped onto the horseback and said: "Sisters, let's go."

  Before leaving, she gave Cheng Daren a flirtatious glance from afar: "Thanks."

  Cheng Dairen's mind was shaken, staring at the departing figure of Xiao Bai Lang, unable to move his gaze. He muttered to himself: "Zhen Bai ah!"

  The scene of Little White Wolf has mobilized all the purchasing desires of the mountain bandits.

  "Hei Zi, where is that flyer of mine?!"

  "Uh... it seems I wiped my butt with it."

  "Damn it! How can you be so extravagant!"

  "You seem to have used it too."

  "Lao Ba, quickly return the flyer to me."

  "That's yours? It was obviously snatched by me."

  "We brothers partner up and take turns riding..."

  They are all poor people who have been used to living a hard life, and in their eyes, two tenths is not a small amount of food. Although many of them do not even know how to calculate two tenths.

  In this case, the second horse was shot to a very high price, but the second horse is still strong, and after careful calculation, it is still worth the money.

  It was actually arranged by Cheng Dali, first to start with a few good horses, to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm, as for those injured and thin horses, they were all matched in the middle.

  Seeing everything develop as he had thought, Cheng Dalai withdrew his gaze and asked Xu Shenji about the little white wolf on this side.

  According to Xu Shenji, before Xiaobai Lang went up the mountain, her family was a martial arts practitioner. From a young age, she had learned good martial arts and was skilled in using dual knives. In the village below, she had been engaged but her fiancé died before they got married. Later, she became a widow who married a memorial tablet. Therefore, Xiaobai Lang was viewed as an unlucky person, with everyone saying that she killed her husband. As a result, she suffered humiliation in her husband's family. One night, when her father-in-law tried to climb onto her bed, she stabbed him with one knife and escaped to Xinghua Ridge to become a bandit.

  "Are you saying that all the mountain bandits on Apricot Flower Ridge are women?" Cheng Da Lei sharply caught onto something.

  "The mountain bandits on Apricot Flower Mountain and the little white wolf had similar experiences, some were widows whose husbands had died, while others were abandoned by their husbands' families."

  "What, why didn't you tell me such an important message earlier?" Cheng Dalai said angrily. He did not expect that Qingniu Mountain had such a good place, and Cheng Dalai decided to get closer to Xinghua Ridge in the future, form a brotherly mountain stronghold, and watch each other's backs.

  "As for the matter of Apricot Flower Ridge, even the mountain bandits on Green Cow Mountain know about it. How is it that you, the great master, don't know?... Xu Shenji said: "It's not that there aren't people on Green Cow Mountain who want to make a move on Apricot Flower Ridge, but they all view men as fierce beasts. I advise the great master not to harbor such thoughts, for even if he does, it will be in vain."

  "I don't accept it, I refuse to accept it, you're doing this on purpose."

  At this moment, Gao Fei Bao suddenly shouted loudly on the other side. Cheng Da Lei turned his head and saw a blind horse standing beside Gao Fei Bao. He originally had one blind horse, now he had another one, left and right very symmetrical.

  "What's going on here?" Cheng Dalai walked over to ask. He didn't want to offend Feihu Village too much either, knowing it was a blind horse, why Huang San Yuan didn't stop Gao Feibao.

  "I've tried my best to stop him, but he's like a madman, recklessly increasing the price." Huang San Yuan was also speechless.

  "No way, this time doesn't count, you guys intentionally sold me a blind horse." Gao Feibao said.

  Gao Fei Bao was also mentally collapsing, just now seeing Huang San Yuan stop him, he still thought it was a good horse, the frog village hid and didn't sell, so he frantically raised the price, feeling very pleased with himself. But the result...

  Cheng Dalai also felt helpless, spreading his hands and saying: "We had already set the rules beforehand, everyone agreed to it. If the second master thinks it doesn't count, then no one counts..."

  "This is absolutely unacceptable!"

  "A man's word is like a spit and a nail, how can he go back on it?"

  "It can only be blamed on one's own bad luck."

  The horses auctioned off at the Hamao Inn this time were all strong and healthy first-class horses, and there weren't many that were truly injured or weak. So everyone was still very satisfied with today's auction results, now hearing Cheng Dairen say he wants to invalidate all the auctions, naturally no one is willing.

  It's hard to offend the masses, although the Flying Tiger Fortress has great power, it can't afford to antagonize so many people.

  "Give them food and let's go!" Gao Fei gave Cheng Daire a cold glance.

  Gao Fei Hu had already said that, so Gao Fei Bao didn't dare say anything else. He sullenly pulled out a note from his pocket: "Remember, give me an 80% discount."

  As the people who saw off Fei Hu's village left, Huang San Yuan smiled and said: "Everyone continues, continue."

  In short, the auction was conducted in a lively and harmonious atmosphere. Each mountain stronghold had some who bought one horse, others who bought two, and it wasn't just limited to buying with grain; weapons, armor, gold, silver, and jewels could all be used as payment. Anyway, Huang San saw many things and knew much, so after taking a look around, he could roughly estimate the value in grain.

  In the end, each horse was sold for about eight taels of silver, which is actually far lower than the market price. In other words, if the mountain stronghold really had money to buy horses at market price, they wouldn't need to buy from Heiwa Village.

  By evening, all the horses were sold out. After counting today's gains, a total of 76 horses were sold, and in exchange, they got 500 stones of grain, weapons, and some other things.

  One dan of grain is roughly equivalent to one hundred jin, so five hundred dan would be five million jin. For Ha Ma Zhai, this is simply an astronomical figure. It can be said that Ha Ma Zhai has never seen such a large amount of grain before. The granary is already full, and everywhere there are wheat, soybeans, black beans, millet, sorghum...

  Huang San Yuan and Lin Shao Yu were still considered to be worldly, but Xu Shen Ji, Xu Ling Er, and Qin Man were completely stunned by this scene, feeling as if they had fallen into a deep happiness.

  Cheng Dalai also suddenly realized one thing: war is indeed the fastest way to get rich. These 50,000 catties of grain, if planted, would take who knows how long to grow.

  Cheng Dali remembered that he still had one more chance to draw a prize, which was the system reward after defeating Han Xuan, but his face had been quite gloomy lately and he hadn't dared to draw yet.

  Today is a good weather, stars fill the sky, Cheng Dali decides to draw lots.