Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 165
"Let's go, such a person is not worth making friends with you and my brothers."

"let's go!"

The door of the next room was slammed open, and then closed again.

The servant waiting outside saw his master come out with a bad face, so he hurriedly and carefully followed behind, not daring to take a breath.

Qin Jin, who was sitting alone, looked at the mess on the table, smiled and sighed, and drank the wine in the glass calmly.

After a while, he got up and called Feng Si, who was waiting outside the door, to go to Jiang Zhiyue's room next door.

Feng Si came out with Qin Jin, and Feng San had to watch the grain store.

Seeing Qin Jin and Feng four people come in, Jiang Zhiyue was not surprised at all, and smiled and let them take their seats.

Now that there were no outsiders, Feng Si was not polite anymore, and each found a seat and sat down.

Jiang Zhiyue propped her chin with her hand and asked, "How was the talk?"

Qin Jin shook his head helplessly and said with a smile: "Miss Jiang, isn't this asking knowingly?"

"The conversation didn't work out, and the popular ones waved their sleeves and left."

Jiang Zhiyue laughed aloud, she was not surprised by this result, she also listened to their conversation just now.

Qin Jin said with a smile: "Fortunately, Miss Jiang also ordered a table of dishes, otherwise I would be hungry for the meal at noon today."

Jiang Zhiyue smiled and said nothing, then the three of them ate quickly and went back to the grain store.

And the shopkeepers of the grain shops who returned to their homes were not in such a good mood.

Originally thought that they could find something useful by asking, but who knew that they tried hard and soft methods, but Qin Jin still refused to do so.

In the end, he didn't even find out who was behind him, let alone persuade him to change the price of food.

The three shopkeepers lost their temper when they got home, and the servants and maids at home did not dare to raise their voices to attract attention, fearing that they would be used as a punching bag.

When the anger subsided a little, only the close confidant stepped forward to say a few words of relief.

"Send someone down to investigate, where did this Taiping Grain Shop come from? I don't believe I can't find any clues!"

Naturally, nothing could be found out. Before the grain store opened, Ou Yangming sent someone to cover up any news that was unfavorable to Jiang Zhiyue.

At the end of the investigation, they only found some insignificant things.

Shopkeeper Sun of the fourth prince's grain shop angrily threw out all the teacups in his hand.

Cursed: "They are all a bunch of trash. The beggars on the street are more useful than you. I can't even find out any useful information. There is someone behind him. I can't think of this! Why don't you find out who is behind him? Who!"

The man kneeling at the bottom was also suffering unspeakably, he was just a boy who ran errands, how could he find out these things.

Of course, it wasn't his family who didn't find out about the situation. In dealing with the Taiping Grain Shop, the goals of the three Grain Shops were still very consistent.

In their eyes, the matter of Taiping Grain Shop was not qualified enough to be reported to the people above for their opinions.

If they can't even solve such a trivial matter, doesn't that mean they are useless?
Although Qin Jin bought off the people around them, he didn't let them act so quickly.

Only when those people hated him to the point of death, would they be even more irrational.

After waiting for a few days, the three shopkeepers looked at the grain shop that had not received any income for a long time, and the wrinkles on their foreheads could kill flies.

Just when they were distressed and resentful, a confidant next to shopkeeper Sun whispered in his ear and gave him an idea.

Shopkeeper Sun looked at his confidant Sun Cai who was almost sticking to his face, and asked, "What do you want to say?"

Sun Cai smirked and whispered: "If the shopkeeper is worried about this matter, the younger ones can come up with an idea."

Shopkeeper Sun was in a state of anxiety, with blisters on his mouth. Seeing that his confidant was still grumbling, he kicked his ass, and urged: "Say what you think, sell it!" What's the matter!"

"Hey, master, don't be annoyed, I'll just say it, little one."

Sun Cai leaned into Shopkeeper Sun's ear and talked for a while before stopping. Seeing Shopkeeper Sun's eyes getting brighter and brighter, Sun Cai knew that what he said reached his heart, and he felt relieved slowly. in one breath.

Being able to be a confidant in front of Shopkeeper Sun, Sun Cai would get a lot of rewards in normal times, but he accidentally became addicted to gambling a few days ago.

At first he won two hands, but he lost more and more as he went on. He originally wanted to win back his capital and then quit, but instead of winning back his capital, he lost more and more.

With this coming and going, the gambling addiction became more and more serious, and finally owed a high amount of gambling debts.

The man in the gambling shop said that if he didn't pay back the money, he would chop off his two hands.

As soon as he got scared, when he was helping shopkeeper Sun to pack things in the warehouse, he secretly exchanged some fakes in, took out the real ones and exchanged them for money to pay off his gambling debts.

This is not a big deal, the most terrible thing is that he has an affair with an aunt in shopkeeper Sun's courtyard, and somehow it gets out.

There are many aunts in the backyard of Shopkeeper Sun, and after a long time, there will be those who are unwilling to be lonely. When Sun Cai works in front of Shopkeeper Sun, it is inevitable that he will send some things to several aunts to run errands. up.

Although no one would believe this even if he said it out, but with Shopkeeper Sun's narrow-minded temperament, he would rather kill a hundred by mistake than let one go, and he would definitely be suspicious of him.

Now the aunt who is having an affair with Sun Cai is pregnant with a child, and the child may be his.

Sun Cai had originally thought about waiting for the aunt to give birth to a son, so he was planning to seek shopkeeper Sun's money and family business.

But after thousands of calculations, he never thought that all of his tricks would be investigated and used to threaten him.

He is still holding these handles in that person's hands. If he fails to complete the tasks assigned by that person, and if that person gets upset, he will cheer him up, and he will be finished.

And that person was the one that Jiang Zhiyue and Qin Jin arranged to send word to threaten him.

At this time, Jiang Zhiyue and Qin Jin were sitting opposite each other in the yard behind the Taiping Grain Shop.

Hearing the news from Shang Ziyan, Jiang Zhiyue waved him off.

Before letting him leave, he did not forget to give Shang Ziyan the antidote for the past half month.

Jiang Zhiyue waved the fan in her hand to relieve the heat, and said happily: "It's done, it depends on their next actions."

Qin Jin leaned back on the chair and said with admiration: "The little girl in Miss Jiang's family is amazing, she can pry out so many useful things from Sun Cai who is next to shopkeeper Sun, and even make him forget that he has seen ours. matter."

Jiang Zhiyue gave him a sideways glance and warned, "Don't try to trick her."

This time, he was able to ask so many questions from Sun Cai's mouth, but Ming Yuanqing's help was indispensable.

Jiang Zhiyue didn't forget that when Ming Yuanqing used her Gu to "interrogate" Sun Cai, the old fox Qin Jin looked like he saw Bao.

Qin Jin smiled and said: "I heard that under the pursuit of the previous dynasty, the Gu family has been extinct." As a result, Miss Jiang has a good ability to hide the 'jiao' in the golden house, and there are two boys who are good at Gu skills . "

Now some members of Jiang's family live in the town, and the house is only separated from the yard of the grain shop, so they have close contacts.

Qin Jin, an old fox, got information about Ming Yuanqing and Ming Yixi out of their mouths at some point.

Jiang Zhiyue avoided his question and asked, "How are the shops in the two neighboring towns and the county seat getting ready?"

Qin Jin replied: "Everything is ready, and the food has been pulled over and prepared for two months."

He was really curious about how Jiang Zhiyue's so-called friend got so much food, but he also knew that if he asked, he would be overstepping.

The two changed the subject and discussed about other grain shops and how to deal with the next three grain shops.

And the other side.

After getting Sun Cai's idea, shopkeeper Sun felt that his method was very feasible, and rewarded him with a few taels of silver when he was happy, and asked him to invite the other two shopkeepers over to Du's Grain Shop and Wang's Grain Shop.

Sun Cai happily took the silver that was rewarded to him and ordered two people to call for someone, while he himself went to the gambling house several streets away, played two games and lost all the silver that hadn't been warmed up before he was dejected come out.

Taking advantage of Shopkeeper Sun calling the shopkeepers of the other two houses to discuss matters, Sun Cai sneaked into Shopkeeper Sun's aunt's courtyard and had a heart-to-heart kiss.

The aunt saw Sun Cai coming over, looked left and right to see if there was no one, and quickly welcomed him in.

After a while, an indescribable sound came from the room, and the ears of the maids who were guarding from a long distance were all red.

In the flower hall in front of Shopkeeper Sun's house, three greasy-looking fat men were sitting in the flower hall to discuss matters.

Shopkeeper Sun looked at the other two shopkeepers, glanced at them each and said, "The reason why I invited the two brothers is because I thought of a way to deal with the Taiping Grain Shop. Are the two brothers interested in working with me?"

"Oh?"

The other two shopkeepers became interested, and they hated Taiping Grain Shop no less than shopkeeper Sun.

As soon as the Taiping grain shop came, they took away all their business in this town. Although they were not limited to this grain shop, it was absolutely impossible to make them bow their heads.

Moreover, there are quite a lot of people in the town, so taking down all the guests is not a small piece of fat. , how are they willing to let go.

Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Du hurriedly asked, "Shopkeeper Sun, please tell me what you can do. We will try our best to help."

Shopkeeper Sun raised his eyes and said confidently: "The Taiping Grain Shop is so arrogant that if we want to cut off our way of life, we don't have to show mercy to him and just empty his granary."

"Empty?" Shopkeeper Wang asked in confusion.

Shopkeeper Du also said: "Let's not say that we don't know where the granary of his Taiping Grain Store is. Even if we know so much grain, we can steal it out for him in that way."

Hearing shopkeeper Du talking about stealing, shopkeeper Sun gave him a contemptuous look.

He originally wanted to sarcastically, but when he thought of cooperating with him again, he softened his voice and explained: "This move is not stealing, we can buy his food."

Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Du were even more puzzled now. They bought grain from the opposite grain store because of their mental disorders.

Shopkeeper Sun saw that the two of them looked unmoved, and quickly explained: "The two brothers thought, this Taiping Grain Store is a newly opened store, how can it compare with us? Is the price of grain sold at a low level?"

"Think about it, both of you, if that kid has enough grain in his hand, can he just open a grain store in our small town, so I guess, he must not have much grain in his hand.

"Let's ask someone to pretend to be a passing businessman to buy food from their house. If we buy more food, it will be cheaper. When we buy all the food in his hands, the price of the food will be decided by us." The three are in our hands."

As shopkeeper Sun said, he clapped his hands and called two young servants to carry all the grain bought from the Taiping Grain Shop to the center of the flower hall, and opened his mouth for them to see.

"Look, the quality of his food is much better than the best food of ours. If the two of you don't want to follow me, you can only wait to be caught by this guy who comes out of nowhere. The Taiping Grain Shop has been suppressed so badly that it can’t be seen, let alone not making money, the master behind it will have to blame.”

After listening to shopkeeper Sun's words, shopkeeper Wang and shopkeeper Du fell silent.

Shopkeeper Sun didn't care about them, the old god was sipping tea, waiting for their consent.

Seeing that their expressions were shaken, shopkeeper Sun added another fire, and said, "Look at the quality of this grain. Even if we buy it at the price at the Taiping Grain Shop, it won't be a disadvantage. We will put it in our own grain shop then." Set aside a separate piece to sell these grains, and the price can be doubled."

"Or if we take this part of the grain to the state capital to sell, those dignitaries and dignitaries must be scrambling to buy it. There are pros and cons to it. I don't think I need to explain it to you one by one."

"When the Taiping Grain Shop can't produce any more grain to sell, let's spread the news that the Taiping Grain Shop is dishonest, so that they can't stay in this town any longer."

Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Du became more and more moved by what was said, and after looking at each other, they both saw determination in each other's eyes.

As soon as the two made a decision, they said they were willing to work with Shopkeeper Sun.

Even if there were not as many benefits as Shopkeeper Sun said, just the fact that Taiping Grain Shop was destroyed was very good for them.

The three of them discussed for a long time, and they left after discussing how much grain each person would buy from the Taiping grain shop.

The final decision was that no matter how much grain Taiping Grain Shop had in stock, Wang's Grain Shop and Du's Grain Shop would each buy [-]%, and the remaining [-]% would be settled by shopkeeper Sun.

They also determined that the Taiping Grain Shop would not have too much grain storage at all.

After the discussion, the three quickly arranged for people to disguise themselves as three groups of businessmen to go to the Taiping Grain Shop to discuss the price of grain.

Feng San and Feng Si were busy working in the grain store. One day they received three groups of businessmen who said they "came to buy a lot of grain because of their fame," and reported the matter to Qin Jin.

Qin Jin laughed secretly that Yu'er had finally bit the hook, and asked them to negotiate the price with the three groups according to the originally negotiated plan.

After several conversations, the parties settled on the grain price.

The Taiping Grain Shop sold the grain to them at a price of one penny per catty lower than when it was sold in bulk, and they would not agree to any less.

Those businessmen' gritted their teeth and agreed.

(End of this chapter)