Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 166 Price Reduction
Those boys who pretended to be businessmen went back to their shopkeepers and reported the letter, saying that the business had been negotiated.Shopkeeper Sun and the others were not satisfied with the price reported by the servants, but it was within an acceptable range.

So just wait for the agreed three days to pull the food.

In the backyard of Juxin Grain Shop, shopkeeper Sun was lying on a rocking chair under a big tree, and beside him were two beautiful women shaking fans, one on the left and the other on the right, and there were two small basins of ice on both sides of the rocking chair.

The chair was rocking back and forth regularly, shopkeeper Sun hummed leisurely and emphasized listening to the servant's report.

"Hmph, it's only tens of thousands of taels of silver. I'm afraid I won't be able to earn it back when I buy those grains and resell them to the state capital.'"

"Are you sure you have bought all their food?"

The boy in brocade clothes looked rather nondescript and quickly replied: "Master, don't worry, I've bought all of them, even the ones in their shop, there is not a single one left."

Shopkeeper Sun was very happy, and with a wave of his big hand, he rewarded the servants with silver, "Hahaha, yes, reward!"

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Qin Jin rented a Zhuangzi three days ago, and Jiang Zhiyue also filled the Zhuangzi with grain.

As soon as the three days came, the three traveling merchants who had negotiated with Qin Jin brought a large number of people to pull the cart, and followed Qin Jin to the village in the suburbs to pick up grain.

The Taiping Grain Shop in the town also temporarily put up a temporary closure sign outside.

Feng San and Feng Si guarded the door, watching them carry bags of grain to the carts, and write down the quantity.The Zhuangzi was lively for a while, and there were figures carrying grain back and forth.

After they loaded the grain into the carts they brought and handed over the money, the sky was completely dark, and the yard was lit with lanterns to see things clearly.

Holding a stack of banknotes in his hand, Qin Jin said with a smile on his face: "It's getting late now, if you don't have a place to stay, I can let you stay for one night in this village."

When those people cast their gazes, Qin Jin continued with a smile: "The price is negotiable."

The smiles that were about to rise from the corners of those people's mouths remained awkwardly stuck at the corners of their mouths, and they turned their heads again and said, "No need, we have our own place to go."

"Okay, I won't keep everyone, everyone, go slowly."

Qin Jin raised the bank notes in his hand and waved them off to see them off.

Everyone was attracted by the thick stack of banknotes in his hand, and left with gritted teeth.

When everyone left, Qin Jin held the banknote in his hand and said happily, "Let's go back to the town and have a good meal with that guy from Shangshufang and Mrs. Jiang."

The Mrs. Jiang mentioned in Qin's entrance was Jiang Yuchao. After packing up the house in the town, Jiang Yuchao moved here with a few boys who were still studying in the school in the town and Ming Yuanqing.

In addition, Mr. Bai also came here with Jiang Dalang, Jiang Erlang, Jiang Sanlang and Wang Hao brothers.A small hall was set up in the house, specially for Mr. Bai to give lectures to Jiang Dalang and the others.

Huang Ji's body has recovered, so they let their family come to the town.

Although the sky has completely darkened now, the curfew time has not yet arrived. Nearly two hours are enough for them to find a restaurant to have a good meal.

Feng San and Feng Si happily blew out all the lights on the village, closed the door and followed Qin Jin to the town.

Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver came into the account at once, and the three of them were very happy.

Feng Si retorted and said: "It's more tiring to fool them to buy food these days than to be a waiter in a shop."

Feng San and Feng Si were all soldiers under King An in the past, and they did straight things, but now they have to go round and round to fool those people, which really takes a lot of brains for them.

Not only Qin Jin and the others were happy today, but also those who guarded the back hill of Guhuai Village.

Thinking that the time had come, Jiang Zhiyue used the grain shop as an excuse to ask Li Wen to take a lot of brothers to avoid the crowds and pull a lot of grain up the mountain.

Li Wen knew that Jiang Zhiyue had a way to find food, and that he and his master had opened grain shops in the town and other places, so he had no doubts and called for someone to bring food to help the brothers improve their food.

Along with the grain, there are some vegetables and meat.Things were pulled into the camp, and everyone cheered for a while. "Master got rich? How did you get so much food?"

One of them took out a handful of grain and rubbed it in his hands, and said in surprise, "This grain is so good."

Li Wen gave him a punch with a smile, and said: "You are thinking of the wrong person, this is what Miss Jiang sent us." Jiang Zhiyue asked him to take someone to fetch the food, which means it was given by Miss Jiang .

Li Wen felt that his idea was right, and he smiled and asked everyone to carry rice and flour into the room where the grain was stored, but there was too much food, so he had to free up another room for food.

Li Wen looked at the two carts full of meat, and ordered: "Arrange the cook to cook the meat tonight, and send it to the brothers at the mine when it's done. It's hot now, and it should go bad after two days."

Everyone cheered again and said they would like to thank Jiang Zhiyue.

Jiang Zhiyue also went up the mountain with her just now, but she went to the forge in the camp as soon as she arrived.

Walking outside the forging workshop, Jiang Zhiyue heard the sound of ping-pong-pong knocking. The forging weapons in the forging workshop were in full swing, using ores mined from the mine.

Jiang Zhiyue pushed the door and went in, and the heat wave came over. Several old craftsmen who were instructing saw Jiang Zhiyue coming, and hurriedly invited him in.

"Girl is here, come and take a look at our batch of weapons."

Jiang Zhiyue accepted the long knife handed over with a smile, flipped the palm of her hand, and spun the handle smoothly twice.

The forge was full of high-temperature furnaces one after another, Jiang Zhiyue went outside and swung the knife in his hand a few times.

"good."

Several old craftsmen laughed, as if Jiang Zhiyue's simple two-word evaluation was a great affirmation of them.

Jiang Zhiyue weighed the heavy sword in his hand, and asked, "How much have you done?"

The old craftsman replied: "There are more than five hundred of them, and in a month or so, these boys in the camp will have one."

Jiang Zhiyue took the knife and went back into the house to see the other weapons they made.

In addition to knives, they also forged many exquisite crossbows and spears.

Jiang Zhiyue wandered around the camp before going down the mountain, every time Jiang Zhiyue walked for a short distance, she could find people stationed on patrol.

Originally there was only one camp on the mountain, and the guards were not so strict.

Now that there is an additional mine being mined, Li Wen sent people to patrol it every day.

Although no common people would come here in the deep mountains, Jiang Zhiyue reminded him that there is nothing wrong with being careful in everything, and asked him to send people to guard him day and night.

If someone really broke in, they would be lured away quietly.

And that night, those who bought all the grain from the Taiping grain shop as traveling merchants pulled a team of carts around the outside of the city and then went to shopkeeper Sun and others' Zhuangzi.

Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Du looked at the high-quality grain brought back by their subordinates, and finally felt less pain after losing tens of thousands of taels of silver.

When the food was brought back to Shopkeeper Sun's village, Shopkeeper Sun was in the house and having trouble with his aunt who had come in.

Hearing that the food had been brought back, he couldn't bear to leave Mei Jiaoniang in his arms, and went to the yard with the disheveled new aunt in his arms.

After confirming that all the grains were correct, shopkeeper Sun laughed and said, "Tomorrow, we will sell these grains in our own shop, and the price must be higher than the best quality grains in the store!"

"Hmph, I think those people can't buy food and don't come here, what else can we do."

On the second day, when people in the town wanted to go to the Taiping Grain Shop to buy grain, they rarely found a proofing sign hanging on the door of the Taiping Grain Shop.

It doesn't matter if it's only for one day, but for several days in a row, the same sign is hung outside the Taiping Grain Shop, and there is no movement at all.

Those who have no food in their homes can only go to other grain shops to buy grain.

As a result, they found the same grain as the Taiping Grain Store in their store.

It's just that the price is much higher than the price at Taiping Grain Shop.

The boy at the grain shop looked at the helpless people who came to buy grain, and he didn't look any good. He almost had the four big characters "I love to buy or not" carved on his forehead.

But the people who came to this place to buy grain were all exhausted of grain at home, even if they were dissatisfied, they could only buy it, but in their hearts they hoped that the Taiping Grain Store would open soon, so as to extinguish the arrogance of these people

During the few days when the Taiping Grain Shop was closed, people kept discovering that the other three grain shops in the town had sold grain from the Taiping Grain Shop, and the prices were all ridiculously high.

Rumors began to circulate in the town that the shopkeeper of the Taiping Grain Shop had not kept his word.

It was rumored that the shopkeeper of the Taiping Grain Shop did not keep the promise when it opened and found a buyer with a higher price, so he was unwilling to sell grain to the people in the town.

Since it's a rumor, some people believe it and some don't.

But the Taiping Grain Shop has not opened for seven consecutive days, and those who don't want to believe it are slowly wavering.

Just when the rumors became more and more popular, the Taiping Grain Shop opened again, and there were full of grains inside, which naturally made the rumors self-defeating.

And after the grain shop reopened, the price of each grain was actually a penny lower than the original price.

The people who knew the news were happy, but the shopkeepers of the other three grain shops were not happy.

The price of the same grain in Taiping Grain Shop is so much lower than other grain shops, even a fool knows how to choose.

The three storekeepers all believed that Taiping Grain Store had no grain in stock, but now not only is there grain, but the price has also been reduced!
They were so miserable that they couldn't tell, and they had no reason to go to the Taiping Grain Shop to question them.

The shopkeeper, who was full of anger and had nowhere to vent his anger, could only spread the fire on those boys who pretended to be traveling merchants and went to the Taiping Grain Shop to buy grain.

"A bunch of waste, didn't you say that you saw the food being emptied with your own eyes, what's going on now!" The boy who was kicked away was miserable, kneeling on the ground with tears and nose streaming.

"Master, the little ones really watched the food being emptied with their own eyes, even those in the grain shop in the town were not spared."

Seeing that shopkeeper Sun's huge body was about to hit him again, the boy hurriedly said: "Maybe there is more than that much grain in the Taiping Grain Shop."

(End of this chapter)