In years of famine and drought, their village even rejected fatty meat.

Chapter 180 Earn More

"Is Gou Ge'er that powerful?"

Everyone looked at Chen Gou in surprise. In their memory, Chen Gou could probably be described in four words: carefree and irresponsible!

Of course, these four words are not derogatory, but rather describe Chen Gou's character.

Chen Gou was a lively and carefree person. He spent far more time playing than actually working on the farm. Because of this, Liu Jie had spanked him countless times. However, because Chen Gou was young and had a sweet tongue, the villagers didn't dislike him. They just couldn't help but think that Chen Gou wasn't cut out for farming.

Unexpectedly... the verbal skills that everyone usually considers useless actually played such a big role in this deal.

"That's right! Gou-ge'er knows how to talk."

"I saw Gou Ge'er haggling with those customers with my own eyes. If it weren't for Gou Ge'er, this chicken probably wouldn't have sold for so much money!"

"Yes! Gou Ge'er is really amazing!"

"..."

The other young men nodded in agreement. This time, selling chickens in the city was basically all done by Chen Gou alone. The rest of them were just doing manual labor!

Chen Sheng and Liu Jie looked at Chen Gou with satisfaction, feeling that their son had grown up.

As farmers who toiled in the fields, the two were always quite worried about Chen Gou's future, because it was obvious that Chen Gou was not willing to farm, and in this era, for ordinary people, farming was almost the only way to have enough to eat.

Fortunately... Chen Gou seems to have found his own path?

Chen Sheng glanced at the silver on the ground and asked Chen Gou, "Gou-ge'er, shouldn't this silver be used to distribute as dividends to the villagers?"

"I don't plan to distribute dividends for the time being."

Chen Gou, who had already made plans, replied, "This business is so easy to do, I plan to use this money to expand the business. When we go to the city, we will earn not just 11 taels of silver, but 20 taels, or even 40 or 50 taels!"

The eyes of the crowd, who were initially unhappy that Chen Gou wouldn't be receiving any dividends, immediately lit up.

"Gou-ge'er is right, we shouldn't be in such a hurry to get our dividends!"

Chen Jiang said, "We should take this money and bring more chickens next time we go to town to earn more money!"

"That's right!"

“Brother Jiang is right! We don’t need to rush to get our dividends!”

"We'll do whatever Gou Ge'er and Jiang Ge say."

"..."

Everyone echoed his sentiments. Whether it was the young and strong men in Chen Gou's team or their relatives, they all agreed with Chen Gou's approach without hesitation. They had already seen the profits in this business, so they were naturally not in a hurry to collect their share of the profits.

Instead of taking the dividends early, it would be better to let Chen Gou use the money to buy more chickens from Chen Dao and transport them into the city, and then earn more money!

"Don't worry, folks!"

Seeing that everyone had agreed, Chen Gou subconsciously began to make grand promises: "You trust me, and I will definitely not let you down. Just wait for me to make you rich! I'll make sure you all live like landlords, and marrying three or five concubines will be no problem at all!"

As soon as Chen Gou finished speaking, he felt a chill on his neck. He saw that all the women present, including his mother Liu Jie, were staring at him with murderous intent!

"Uh uh uh!"

Chen Gou quickly tried to cover for himself: "I was just joking, Mother and Aunts, please don't take it seriously!"

"okay!"

Chen Sheng waved his hand, resolving Chen Gou's life-threatening situation: "It's getting late, let's go back to the village!"

The group glanced at the setting sun, then turned and returned to the village.

"Father, mother."

After returning the donkey cart to the village chief, Chen Gou said to Liu Jie and Chen Sheng, "You two go back first, I'll go to Daoge'er's place first."

"We should go and tell Daoge'er the good news."

Chen Sheng nodded without saying anything more, then parted ways with Chen Gou and went home with Liu Jie first.

Chen Gou then walked towards Chen Dao's house, taking advantage of the light cast by the newly risen moon.

"Gou Ge'er?"

At Chen Dao's house, Chen Dao, who had just finished dinner and was stretching in the front yard, looked at Chen Gou who walked in and smiled, "Your trip to the city to sell goods should have gone quite smoothly today?"

Before Chen Gou set off, Chen Dao told him that since it was his first time doing business, if he couldn't sell the chickens, he could bring them back, and Chen Dao and Chen Dahui would be responsible for buying them back at the original price.

Judging from Chen Gou's empty hands, it's not hard to guess that his business in the city was going quite smoothly.

"very smooth."

Chen Gou replied with a beaming smile, "All 50 chickens we transported to the city have been sold! Thank you, Brother Dao!"

"All sold out?"

Chen Dao was somewhat surprised. He knew that yellow-feathered and white-feathered chickens sold well, but he did not expect them to sell so well. Including the time spent traveling, Chen Gou and his group probably did not even spend an afternoon selling their goods in the county town, yet they sold a full 50 chickens!

It seems that... although there are many people in this county who don't have enough to eat, there are also quite a few wealthy people!

"Yes! Brother Dao, you don't know, those white-feathered chickens and yellow-feathered chickens sell very well in the city..."

Chen Gou, gesturing wildly, recounted to Chen Dao his experience selling chickens in the city.

Chen Dao listened quietly, and after listening, he nodded: "Very good!"

After saying that, Chen Dao asked again, "Do you have any plans for this trip to the city?"

"idea?"

Chen Gou frowned involuntarily, and after thinking for a moment, said, "I have come to realize the importance of reading."

"Oh?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Chen Dao's eyes. He had only asked the question casually, but he hadn't expected Chen Gou to give such an answer.

"I discovered a problem while selling chickens!"

Chen Gou said, “None of the people in my team are literate or can do arithmetic. They can’t even calculate the profit from selling chickens. Fortunately, I learned some arithmetic from Mr. Li at school, otherwise I probably would have lost money while selling these chickens without even knowing it.”

These days, most ordinary people can't read many characters, let alone do arithmetic... they're even less capable of it!

For the people in Chen Gou's team, they calculated money one by one, which was only possible because Chen Gou had some arithmetic skills. Otherwise, figuring out their profit from this trip to the city would not have been an easy task.

That's why Chen Gou understood why Chen Dao wanted the village children to go to school, because without education, they wouldn't be able to do even the simplest business!

This strengthened Chen Gou's resolve to continue studying at the school. To be honest, Chen Gou didn't like reading, or rather, more than 99% of children in the world are indifferent to reading.

But now it's impossible not to study. If you don't study, you won't be able to read or do arithmetic. How can you continue this business and how can you get rich?

"It's good that you think that way!"

Chen Dao nodded with a smile, chatted with Chen Gou for a few more minutes, then saw Chen Gou out of the house before returning home to lie down and go to sleep.