Zhou Laosi looked like an honest farmer, and his son looked like he was the kind of honest child.

When Zhou Lao'an heard that he wanted to negotiate the price first, he didn't think much about it, so he first negotiated the price of charcoal with Li Shaoan.

"Brother Zhou, I didn't buy much, just one thousand pounds. I wonder what the price is here?"

"One cent, five per pound."

“So expensive?”

Li Shaoan couldn't help but frown. Before coming, he also had some understanding of the current price of charcoal. It was basically 1 cent 2 cents per pound, but when he got here, he actually cost 1 cent 5 cents.

A thousand pounds of charcoal cost about twelve snake-skin bags full of floors, which just fills the tricycle. At 15 cents, a car costs 150 yuan, which is thirty yuan more expensive than buying it elsewhere.

This is just the money of a three-wheeler. If the quantity is larger, tens of thousands of pounds, it will cost hundreds of dollars more.

No wonder Zhao Xuemei had to fight with Chen Yanshi. No one could accept such a huge loss.

Zhou Laosi said enthusiastically: "Boss, let's go see the charcoal now. As long as you nod, I will fight the charcoal onto the car."

Li Shaoan shook his head and said, "I won't buy it anymore. The price is too expensive, it's much more expensive than other villages. If you don't buy it, you won't buy it anymore."

After saying that, Li Shaoan pulled Zhao Xuemei and was about to push the door. Seeing this, Zhou Laosi hurriedly caught up and advised: "Boss, it's easy to discuss the price, don't rush to leave first."

"Brother Zhou, it's not me who said you, your charcoal is so expensive, and a bag of charcoal will cost three yuan more than others. No one can afford it if you change it."

"well……"

Zhou Laosi beat his chest and stamped his feet, his expression on his face was very complicated. He saw a financial owner coming to his house, thinking that he could sell the charcoal at home to exchange for some money for the New Year. However, the price was indeed too high, which scared the financial owner away.

It's a cold day, and the New Year will be celebrated in just a few months. Who doesn't want to spend more money on the New Year at hand? However, this price not only makes Li Shaoan helpless, but also makes Zhou Laosi feel helpless.

Li Shaoan's eyes fell on the little boy next to the stove, and saw him wearing a large-sized dress and a pair of yellow cloth rubber shoes on his feet.

"Brother Zhou, how many children are in your family?"

"Three, the older ones are studying in technical secondary school outside. This is the third one. He is studying in elementary school in the village and will go to the town to study in junior high school next year."

When Zhou Laosi talked about this, there was a bitterness between his eyebrows. The three children had to go to school, and tuition and living expenses alone accounted for the majority of the family's expenses every year. Before the children read the books, the family was in poverty for a long time.

"Why didn't you see the dick?"

As soon as Li Shaoan finished speaking, a girl walked in at the door. She looked about thirteen years old. She was not tall, with a little dark skin, and two red balls on her cheeks, which was a bit like the plateau red color on the faces of children in the plateau area.

The little girl's skin is not very good, because she has no moisturizer, and her face is covered with cracked lines, which has a lot of dead skin.

On the child's back, he was carrying a bamboo basket, filled with fresh pig grass.

Zhou Laosi nodded at the girl who entered the door and said, "Here, this is my second girl. I went to the sweet potato field on the mountain to make pig grass early this morning."

Seeing that this little girl was young and wanted to help her family with farm work, Li Shaoan felt a little distressed.

Looking at her feet again, it made people's hearts suddenly jumped. I saw that the little girl was wearing a pair of straw sandals on her feet, and her feet were cold red!

In such cold weather, the little girl was wearing only a pair of straw sandals on her feet. This kind of shoes was not warm at all. The old shoes were a little better, and the new shoes were very hard to beat the feet, and the blood blisters that could be made of just wearing them.

Seeing this scene, Li Shaoan felt very uncomfortable. Judging from the conditions of Zhou Laosi's family, he should have needed this charcoal sale, but he had to seize the price and refused to give in. It seems that this is not as simple as he sees on the surface.

"Brother Zhou, why is your girl still wearing a pair of straw sandals in this winter?"

"Oh... I don't want to do it either. The whole family is counting on selling this batch of charcoal for money." Zhou Laosi said in a nearly begging voice: "Boss, why don't you pity our family and buy the charcoal."

Li Shaoan didn't say anything, Zhao Xuemei stood quietly beside him, and the two of them did not express their opinions on Zhou Laosi's affairs.

"Brother Zhou, it's not that I won't help you, but business is business. The price here is so much higher than others. Why should I be the sucker?"

Pity is mercy. Li Shaoan doesn’t mind buying two new pairs of shoes for Zhou Laosi’s daughter and children, but he would definitely not agree to spend more money on charcoal. These are two things.

Seeing that Li Shaoan and Zhao Xuemei were still leaving, the business that was about to be ruined, Zhou Laosi was so angry that he gritted his teeth and whispered: "It's all the blame for the one who can't die well!"

Li Shaoan heard Zhou Laosi's low voice verbally and turned around and asked, "Brother Zhou, who did you just say?"

Zhou Laosi quickly explained: "Boss, I'm not talking about you, I'm scolding the big families in our village!"

"Oh? What's going on?" Li Shaoan raised his eyebrows.

Zhou Laosi sighed: "Forget it, it's okay to tell you this." So he told the reason for it.

Hongyan Village has always had a tradition of burning charcoal. Every winter, every household can make a fortune by burning charcoal.

However, this year, the temperature is lower than before. Seeing that the weather is getting colder, many of the big farmers in Hongyan Village have had bad intentions and feel that selling charcoal at the original price is too little, so they join forces to raise the price. No one in the village who sells charcoal is allowed to sell it privately at the lowest price.

This move seemed to increase his own profits, but after the price actually increased, the villagers were stunned. Those who came to the village to buy charcoal were no longer there, and bags of burned charcoal could only be stored at home to accumulate dust.

It is rare for someone to come to the village to buy charcoal, and they are scared away by high prices like Li Shaoan.

So both sides were so stiff that the villagers in Hongyan Village refused to sell them cheaply, so naturally the people outside would not come to the village to buy charcoal.

"Brother Zhou, this rule is dead, and people live, why don't you sell it to me cheaper?"

"I also want to sell the charcoal. If they know that I have sold you with a price cut, I will be scolded by someone in the village in the future."

Li Shaoan said angrily: "What's the reason! No one is allowed to sell things!"

Zhou Laosi said helplessly: "You are outside and don't understand the situation in our village. When those big families unite, they will say whatever they say. We poor families have no right to speak."

"Do you know Chen Yanshi?" Li Shaoan asked.
Chapter completed!