Eating Lotus Root
Redakteur: Henyee Translations
When Old man Wang found out that his horse had disappeared, his heart tightened and he almost couldn't breathe.
He went to check around and indeed could not find any traces of the horse.
The villagers also said that they had never seen it before.
Everyone was busy harvesting. How could they have the time to care about a horse?
"This horse doesn't belong to our family!" This was what ached Old man Wang's heart the most. He had to compensate for losing someone else's horse.
Someone asked, "How much is this horse? I think it runs quite quickly."
"It costs at least 35 taels of silver!" When Old man Wang went to buy the donkey cart, he had asked about the horse and carriage.
An ordinary donkey cost two taels of silver, and the better ones cost nearly three taels.
According to the laws of the Great Chang Nation, ordinary people were allowed to buy ordinary horses. Ordinary horses were usually selected from warhorses or old horses.