Qin Xiu [comprehensive martial arts + sword three]

After making a verbal agreement with Hua Ruling, Long Wan started to arrange the next meeting.

More than 100 horses, even if they are all foals, take up a lot of space, not to mention that the foals produced in the game are not much smaller than mature horses. Generally speaking, it takes three years for a newborn foal to grow up. But the ones she caught in games and gangs are almost as big as adult horses, and it takes only one year to grow up. If there are a hundred such foals released, there is no big place where they can't fit. of.

So renting a place like a warehouse becomes imminent.

Just do it when you think of it. Today, Long Wan changed into the men's clothing that she hadn't worn for a long time, and changed her appearance into the appearance of the young boy back then. She didn't take anyone else with her. She summoned another green horse that was not so eye-catching. Chi Cong, ride it to the pier.

Daqi has well-developed waterways, and there is a Grand Canal built outside the capital, which is convenient for the transportation of materials and merchants traveling from south to north, so this pier is also extremely prosperous.

Long Wan stayed on the pier for most of the day, inquired a lot about the rented warehouse here, and finally rented a warehouse of a suitable size in a place far away from the ship docking, so there was less traffic and it was considered hidden. It is rented by its owner to horse dealers and other livestock dealers all year round, so the interior layout is very suitable for housing livestock, which is just what Long Wan likes.

Because it is a bit far away from the place where the ship docks, the price is much lower than the warehouse near the port, but because the warehouse is very large, the rent is not low, it costs hundreds of taels of silver a month, and Another deposit is required, but fortunately, this amount of money is only two gold for Long Wan.

Dragons and snakes are mixed here at the pier, and many people rent warehouses to store goods that are somewhat shady, so when renting, no one needs to show identification such as road guides, just sign the contract and press the fingerprint.

After bidding farewell to the warehouse owner who had been inquiring about her cargo, Long Wan left the warehouse and went to the berth of the ship at the pier.

When she inquired about the news earlier, she found that a ship was unloading goods such as pasture, so she wanted to ask the owners of those goods if they could sell some pasture to her.

Although Long Wan planted two-thirds of the guild's farmland with sweet elephant grass and emperor bamboo grass, which can be harvested in a day or two, but the harvest of the guild's farmland is extremely limited, and only one seed can be planted on a piece of land at a time. Said that there are only a few emperor bamboo grasses that can be harvested, and the output of all the fields combined is barely enough to feed the ten or so horses she raises in the sunset pasture to test the effect of the pasture.

However, she later discovered that this restriction was actually only for the various seeds produced by the gang, if they were replaced with seeds bought outside.As much as a piece of land of the same size outside can plant, she can plant as much in the gang, but the growth rate is much slower than the seeds produced by the gang.

But even so, the plants that can only grow in a year outside are planted in the gang's farmland, and they can still grow within a month.

Because the output in the guild is too little, in fact, Long Wan also thought about finding someone to buy the forage seeds here, instead of the emperor bamboo grass seeds produced by the guild, and plant them in the guild's farmland. Although the growth is slower, pay attention to it. Little by little, she replaced the crops in the farmland, and finally she could still get enough horse grass to feed the horses.

After raising Tayan at home, Uncle Xu would buy some fresh forage from time to time, but Tayan, who was raised by the imperial bamboo grass, didn't even bother to touch it, so Long Wan had to put away the forage and take it away. Give it a try for the other horses in the ranch.

For the experiment, she raised all the horses she could catch in the ranch, from the third-level floating cloud to the fifteenth-level red rabbit, but the horses below the tenth level were all foals, and the tenth-level horses were all foals. Those above the level are mature horses. Some of these mature horses are mounts that she has bound in the mount pen, and the other part is that she has raised them in the game but has not found a buyer for a while, or bought them. The family ordered the goods but never asked her to trade, and Long Wan was worried that after the sale, the buyer would just come to the door and affect her reputation, so the leftovers were so fragmented, and several high-end horses were left behind. It has never been released in the package.

Closer to home, when Long Wan used the forage bought outside to feed these horses, she found that the lower the level of horses, the more acceptable the forage was, but the speed at which the horses grew after eating the forage was obvious. Not to mention that the growth rate of horse grass produced by eating games is slower, and it will also affect the attributes of mature horses-this is the conclusion she reached after trying to raise a few low-level horses with the domestication system.

Moreover, if the horses are fed with the horse grass produced in the game, the horse's satiety will be as high as in the game, and they can even go without eating for a few days before the satiety drops to a certain level, but if they are fed with the grass bought outside, their It takes three meals a day to fill their stomachs, so it takes a lot of time just to feed them, which is really not worth the candle for Long Wan.

So in the end, Long Wan gave up the idea of ​​planting other pastures, and continued to plant sweet elephant grass and imperial bamboo grass produced by the system.

Fortunately, when she is planting these two kinds of horse grass now, she can collect seeds with the same effect as those produced by the system on mature horse grass. Otherwise, at the price of tens of gold per seed from the gang seed merchant, she will go bankrupt sooner or later .

Back to the topic, in order to allow Hua Ruling to inspect the goods and prevent her secrets from being discovered, Long Wan now has to get a hundred horses out of the gang and put them outside, and may even let them be rented. They will stay in the warehouse for a few days, so no matter what, they must prepare enough forage to eat, so as not to starve to death.

When Long Wan passed by, the cargo on that ship was almost unloaded. Long Wan asked the talent to find the owner of the cargo and discuss with him about buying fodder.

Beforehand, Long Wan had inquired about the price of grass in the capital from Uncle Xu, in order to prevent her from being ripped off by someone who didn't know the price when she bought something, but the owner of this batch of grass told her embarrassingly after knowing her intention of coming. , His batch of goods has already been ordered by someone. Although he can give her some more, the price is a bit expensive.

Long Wan asked him the price, and the forage merchant quoted a price, which was [-]% more expensive than the forage on the market.

This is obviously because she is so young that the lion opened her mouth. The market price is [-]%, so she might as well go directly to the place where the cattle are sold in Dongshi to buy fodder.

Long Wan didn't want to talk to him about such a person, and didn't care that the man told her to go back and talk later, so she turned around and rode to the east of the city.

The East Market where the execution ground is set up is much messier than the West Market, especially there is a large piece of land not far from the entrance and exit of the East Market. It is dedicated to buying and selling all kinds of livestock, and you can smell it from far away. Therefore, compared to the West Market where there are many high-ranking officials and dignitaries, there are more ordinary civilians in the East Market.

Long Wan didn't want to go this trip because she knew from Uncle Xu that the environment here is not good, and because it was convenient, she thought about finding someone to buy fodder directly at the pier, but she didn't expect to meet a greedy master, so she held back In one breath, he ran to Dongshi.

Resisting the desire to turn around and leave, Long Wan led Lv Chicong into the livestock market, and soon found a shop selling fodder, negotiated the price with the owner of the shop, and paid another sum of money. He sent someone to deliver.

"When will the young master want the goods?"

The boss who made a big business smiled very sincerely. Long Wan once ordered enough fodder for a hundred horses to eat for half a month. This amount of fodder was only the imperial army and some big horse merchants. Will buy, but how can such a business be run with such a small capital like him, and Long Wan is generous, so the price he gives is only [-]% lower than the market price, which is not much compared to those colleagues he heard who traded with the imperial court. At the price of profit, he really made a lot of money.

Therefore, the owner who sells forage will naturally not show any expression other than a smile to this young customer.

Long Wan asked him: "I'm in a hurry, how long will it take you to get ready?"

The boss wondered: "You want a lot of goods, and there are not so many goods in the small shop at the moment, and it will take five or six days at the earliest."

Long Wan thought for a while and said, "Then take a look at how many goods are in the store, send them to me first, and send the rest slowly." Anyway, it's just pretending, waiting for the first batch of fodder to be delivered. She can release all the horses first, and let Hua Ruling inspect the goods. If the negotiation goes well, maybe the other party will send someone to take over directly, so that she doesn't have to ask follow-up feeding questions. The family will never be hungry for them.

Seeing what she said, the boss was not happy, and quickly nodded and said: "Young master, please wait a moment, I will let the guys count and send it to you."

"Then I'll go around the neighborhood. Call me when you're done." She had to lead the way later, so she couldn't go first.

As soon as the boss heard this, he asked her: "It's a bit messy here, young master, do you need to find someone who knows the way to guide you?"

It is good to have someone who is familiar with this place lead the way, Long Wan nodded and thanked.