Reborn Nongmen's little lucky wife

Chapter 113

The third grandpa said: "It snowed heavily during the Chinese New Year, and the drought has eased. Recently, the price of rice, flour, and cotton has been falling. Why are soybeans rising instead?"

Seeing this, Gu Jinli didn't understand anything. She said to shopkeeper Tao: "Shopkeeper, this farmer sells soybeans to your grain shop. The most expensive one is five yuan and two catties. When it's cheap, it's two yuan. There is money for a catty, three Wen for two catties, and you want us five Wen for a catty, which is really sky-high, and the price increase is not such a way."

She smiled, with disdain in her smile, and said: "Could it be that you see us buying soybeans every day, and your grain store is the only one in this town, and you want to bite off a bite of our meat?"

I must have seen them buying soybeans every day, guessed that the tofu was made of soybeans, and saw that their tofu business was so good, so they wanted to increase the price.

Gu Jinli's guess was correct. Shopkeeper Tao just guessed that their tofu was made of soybeans, and seeing that their business was booming, he wanted to raise the price so that he could make a fortune.

The Gu family came to the grain store to buy soybeans every day, and they had to buy three hundred catties each time. This was an extra two Wen per catty, and he could earn an extra six hundred Wen a day, which was more than half a tael.

But shopkeeper Tao is a face-saving person, he can raise the price, but if Gu Jinli exposes him, then he will feel uncomfortable.

Shopkeeper Tao gave Gu Jinli an unfriendly look, then turned to look at the third grandfather, and said, "Master Gu, you come to buy soybeans from us every day, and I can't cheat anyone. The price of soybeans has indeed risen. If you If you don’t believe me, you can go to the grain shops in other towns and ask.”

The third grandfather's face was very ugly, and the meaning of the second part of the shopkeeper Tao's sentence was already very clear, that is, relying on his only one grain store in Qingfu Town, he wanted to bite off a bite of their meat.

But if they don't buy soybeans here, where else can they buy them?

Seeing that the third grandpa didn't speak, shopkeeper Tao knew that he was in trouble, so he immediately shook his head and said to the third grandpa, "Mr. Gu, it's not been a day or two since your family set up a stall in the town. You should know that our family is the only one in this town." Grain shop, your family will open a stall tomorrow, if you can't buy beans, will your stall still be able to sell?"

Shopkeeper Tao's originally pretty face was extremely ugly at the moment, and even the upturned beard had an air of villainy.

The third grandfather was furious at Shopkeeper Tao's words, which was clearly a threat.

Father Luo was also very angry, pointing at Shopkeeper Tao and said: "Shopkeeper, opening the door to do business is about long-term, if you do this, you will ruin your reputation."

Shopkeeper Tao is not afraid, the Gu family is just a disaster victim fleeing famine, so what if he bullies and bullies?

What's more, shopkeeper Zeng said that the Gu family offended the county magistrate, if he can make the Gu family suffer, the magistrate will be happy.

"Nowadays, soybeans are at such a price. If you want to buy them, you can buy them, and if you don't buy them, you can leave." Shopkeeper Tao knew that Gu's family wanted to make tofu, so he decided to eat them.

It's a pity that Gu Jinli responded with a sentence: "You should keep these soybeans to get moldy, we won't buy them!"

"Third Grandpa, let's go." Gu Jinli walked out of the grain shop first.

The third grandpa and the others saw that she had already spoken out, so they had no choice but to follow her and leave.

When the group returned to the tofu stall, Mrs. Chu saw that their expressions were not good, and they did not come back with the soybeans, so she hurriedly asked, "What's the matter? Where are the soybeans? Why didn't you buy them?"

Father Luo said: "The shopkeeper Tao in the grain shop raised the price of soybeans to five cents a catty. It was obvious that he wanted to cheat us, so we didn't buy them."

"Five cents a catty, isn't shopkeeper Tao crazy?" Mrs. Chu was startled. Soybeans are the most common thing, and they can be grown anywhere.And because it is rough and difficult to cook, the price has always been low. At the most expensive time, it was only four Wen a catty. These five Wen a catty of soybeans are really expensive.

Aunt Tian looked worried: "If I didn't buy soybeans, what will I do the day after tomorrow?"

Now that it's cold, they make the tofu one day in advance, but the tofu at home is only enough to sell for one day, and it will be gone when it is sold out tomorrow.

Gu Jinli said: "Let's go home and collect beans. These soybeans are coarse grains in every household. We collect them for three Wen. There must be a lot of them that we want to sell."

She didn't believe it, without Shopkeeper Tao's grain store, she still couldn't buy soybeans?

The third grandfather nodded: "This is a way, let's go, let's go home and collect the beans."

Before leaving, Gu Jinli yelled at the market: "Uncles and aunts, our Gu's tofu stand collects soybeans for three Wen a catty. If you have soybeans, you can bring them tomorrow. We will take as much as you want."

There were many farmers selling agricultural products in the market where they set up their stalls. Hearing this, they asked one after another: "Little girl of the Gu family, do you really want to collect soybeans? Three pennies per catty?"

Gu Jinli nodded: "That's right, three Wen a catty, our Gu family's stall is here, if you sell it, bring it tomorrow."

A man who was selling soybeans hurriedly said, "Don't worry about tomorrow. I have two bags of soybeans here, weighing sixty catties. If you pay three Wen a catty, I will sell you soybeans right now."

His mother-in-law gave birth to a son, but the family was poor and had no money to buy eggs, so she wanted to sell the family's soybeans, buy a basket of eggs and go back to the mother-in-law for confinement.But the price offered by the grain shop was too low, only three Wen for two catties, he was reluctant to sell it, so he picked it here, hoping to get a good price.Unexpectedly, this good price really came.

The man brought soybeans to Gu's tofu stand, untied the sack, and showed them the soybeans inside: "They are all good beans, dried in the sun, and not moldy."

Father Luo picked up two handfuls of soybeans, looked at them, put a few more in his mouth, and crunched them into pieces. After tasting the taste, he said to Grandpa Third, "Uncle San, his soybeans are pretty good, let's buy them."

The third grandfather also looked at the two bags of soybeans, nodded and said, "Okay, let's buy it."

Sixty catties of soybeans, three Wen coins per catty, and the third grandpa counted 180 big coins for him.

The man took the money, put it carefully into the purse, and thanked the third grandfather with a smile: "Thank you, old man, you have helped my family a lot."

Father Luo poured two sacks of soybeans into the basket and returned the sacks to the man, who took the bags and left.

After this business was completed, everyone around knew that they were really collecting soybeans, and they all said, "Master Gu, I also have soybeans at home, and I'll bring them to you tomorrow."

"Old man of the Gu family, I also have soybeans at home. I'll bring them to you tomorrow, and they cost three Wen per catty."

The third grandfather said: "Okay, three Wen a catty, don't worry, I won't lower your price."

After a while, a group of people left the town and walked towards Dafeng Village.

They walked very slowly today. Every time they passed a village, Father Luo and Mrs. Chu went to the village to talk about harvesting soybeans.

When they returned to Dafeng Village, they had collected [-] catties of soybeans, and the dozen or so villages they passed by all knew that their Gu family wanted to collect soybeans.

(End of this chapter)