Chapter 1098: Exactly what I wanted

Playing 'piaji' definitely has a certain technical content. Relying solely on strength is definitely useless.

Mainly because no matter how strong you are, what you hold in your hand is just a thin piece of paper.

Just like that, under Wang An's command, this child won the child who didn't listen to Wang An's command one after another, and one by one the 'piaji' went into this kid's hands.

After playing for a while, the kid who didn't listen to the command got anxious, pointed at his opponent and said:

"You're playing dirty, if you listen to him again, I won't play with you."

His opponent naturally wouldn't admit that it was because of Wang An's guidance that he could win, so he immediately retorted:

"I can win you even if I don't listen to him. If you can't play, just say you can't play."

Turning around, this kid said to Wang An:

"Big brother, don't give me advice, just watch if I can win him."

The child who didn't listen to the command and lost several 'piaji' also shouted at Wang An:

"If you dare to interfere again, do you believe I'll call my big brother to beat you?"

It could be seen that if it weren't for Wang An's tall and big appearance, and the kid thinking he wasn't Wang An's opponent, the kid would have made a move long ago.

It had to be said that Wang An was also quite annoying, because the children were playing well, but he had to be nosy and interfere.

However, the reason Wang An did this was because Wang An wanted to get close to these children.

One had to know that children in the countryside in this era, as long as they are free, they run around all day, and there is no corner of the village they can't reach.

Even if parents let them do work, it is generally to the meadow near the village, grazing cows, horses, or donkeys.

Several children or even more than ten children gather together, let the cows and horses graze by themselves, and then the children continue to play.

For example, climbing trees to dig bird nests, going down to the river to catch frogs and fish, or finding nests of 'big-eyed thieves' everywhere to catch them. Anyway, most of the time they are trying to find something to eat.

And the way of eating is also very simple, just one word, "burn," that's right, just burn, everything can be burned, and it can be eaten after being burned.

There is no help for it; children at this time are hungry, so they take the initiative to find snacks to eat.

And the reason why Wang An wants to get close to these ten-year-old children is because older children have to follow their parents to work in the fields, and children who are too young don't know anything, and asking them is useless.

So who in the village has a sick cow or horse, these ten-year-old children definitely know better than anyone, and asking them is definitely correct.

For this kid's verbal threat, Wang An obviously didn't take it to heart and asked the two children with a smile:

"Or you two wait a while before playing? A couple of days ago, the horse of the Sun family in our village got scared and ran away. I came here to look for the horse. Did you see a horse run into your village?"

Asking about the cow now is definitely a bit early, but after playing for so long and making the children anxious, Wang An felt it was about time, so he wanted to test the waters first.

After Wang An finished asking, the two children looked at each other and said almost in unison:

"No, no horse ran into our village, not in a year."

"Haven't heard of anyone having an extra horse, that horse probably didn't run to our village."

Immediately after, Wang An continued to ask:

"Then have you heard of anyone in your village wanting to sell horses or mules these days?"

The two children were startled for a moment, and then heard the child who won the 'piaji' say:

"Ruan Xiaobing's family wants to sell that two-year-old mule, it's just that their mule is not very honest and likes to kick."

Wang An pretended to ponder and nodded and asked:

"Does their mule know how to drive a shaft?"

Buying livestock in this era is mainly for work. If the mule or horse doesn't even know how to drive a shaft, it has to be trained. And wanting to train a mule or horse to learn to drive a shaft is about the same as training a mule or horse to ride, which really requires a lot of time and energy.

The child who won the 'piaji' immediately said:

"Definitely not, Ruan Xiaobing's father tried to let the mule drive the shaft and got kicked."

Wang An immediately changed the subject and asked:

"Then I don't want it, the whole raw one has to be tamed at home, and everyone is busy pulling land, where is the time to tame it!"

Wang An pretended to slap his thigh and said again:

"Then cows? Cows are also fine. Does your village have anyone wanting to sell cows? Say it in advance, I don't want small cows, and I don't want raw ones. They have to be able to drive shafts and pull carts. It's best if they are seven or eight years old, as they are in a hurry to pull land."

'Raw one' is a local dialect, referring to animals and people who have never done work or engaged in a certain job since birth.

However, if it refers to people, it carries a derogatory color.

Noticing the two children's pondering expressions, Wang An continued:

"Like this, if you two can find me a suitable cow, I'll give you two one yuan each, no, two yuan each, how about that?"

As he spoke, Wang An took out a stack of 'Great Unity' from his pocket, but after looking at it, he put it back, and took out another small stack of change from another pocket.

To be honest, the reason Wang An wanted to take out a stack of 'Great Unity' was not that he forgot which pocket the change and the whole money were in, but just wanted to show off deliberately to prove that he really wanted to sell a cow and not brag.

Ten-year-old children definitely can't resist the temptation of money. Don't ask Wang An how he knows, just ask because Wang An never takes money seriously.

The two children saw the stacks of 'Great Unity' and were naturally full of shock. In this era, seeing stacks of 'Great Unity' in the countryside is definitely a very difficult thing, let alone children, even adults have few opportunities to see it.

Only the child who lost the 'piaji' stared at the change in Wang An's hand and said:

"If we help you buy a good cow, will you really give us two yuan each?"

Wang An said very affirmatively:

"That's a must. A man's word is as good as gold. Like this, I'll give you two 50 cents each first. If the matter is done, I'll make up the 1.5 yuan for you two. If it's not done, I won't give it."

As he spoke, Wang An very quickly handed 50 cents to each of the two children.

Actually, the 50 cents Wang An gave was mainly to filter out families that don't raise cows.

Mainly because there are more than 300 households in this village. If Wang An and Wang Li ask every household, they will have to ask until the Year of the Monkey. The key is that many families don't raise cows, but raise mules, horses, and donkeys.

The child who lost the 'piaji' looked at the money with joy, looked at it, and carefully put it into his pocket, saying:

"The two of us will take you to ask those families with cows, so you don't have to doubt us."

What this child said was exactly what Wang An wanted!

(End of chapter)