Chapter 407: Chapter 396: Taking Advantage

"Three trees!" Zhou Dalang frowned, "Isn't that a bit too much?"

"He only asks for eight hundred copper coins for his labor," Old Zhou also felt it was a lot, but that was the price he had managed to haggle after much effort, muttering, "This ox cart is almost as expensive as half an ox."

Previously, they only needed to plow the fields, and the plowing tools could be carried by hand, so it was okay not having an ox cart, and their own ox had an easier time.

But now it was time to harvest the wheat, and of course, it would be better to have an ox cart.

An ox cart could last many years, and if there were no accidents, its lifespan could be even longer than that of an ox; from the wheels to the body, everything was made of wood, so it was not at all cheap.

Usually, hiring a carpenter from Dali Village to make an ox cart, in addition to two trees, would cost around one thousand copper coins in labor. The main reason was that building an ox cart took a considerable amount of time.