Blessed woman in the farm gate

Chapter 161

It is easier to live in the suburbs and those with farmland at home, but it is a bit more difficult in the city.

Some wealthy families hoarded rice at high prices and bought it arbitrarily, and soon there was less and less grain in the market. Those who went to the street to see it and wandered outside were all looking for ways to get grain, and most of them were sad.

"My lord, please do me a favor, let me buy some food! My father and mother haven't eaten food for two days, and my wife is still in confinement, and there is no milk for her hunger. My lord, you have pity on us Bar!"

A skinny young man was dressed in shabby clothes, and there were even a few footprints on it. It was estimated that someone had punched out the rice somewhere. At this moment, he knelt on his knees, looking earnestly at the fat old man in front of him.

The begged person was dressed luxuriously, and he was Zhao Fu, the largest rice merchant in the city. He got the news before the rebels besieged the city, and then bought rice in a big way, filling the storehouse with the grain accumulated at home.

Zhao Fu tugged at his beard: "If you want to buy rice, of course you can. Just bring the money."

Immediately, the young man's bright eyes showed hope. With trembling fingers, he took out a small dirty purse from his chest: "My lord, I brought money." He opened the purse and handed it to the In front of Zhao Fu.Zhao Fu hooked the rope of the money bag with his fingers, and looked inside: "Two taels of silver?"

The young man nodded again and again: "Yes, two taels of silver, my lord, this is already our family's entire possessions, we don't buy too much, just ten catties of grain, just enough to last us through this period of time!" If two taels of silver were placed on weekdays, you can buy more than 100 catties of grain, which is definitely not much, but now the young man only wants ten catties of grain, which is enough to show that there is really no way.

After Zhao Fu heard this, his small eyes widened a bit: "Ten catties of grain? Why don't you grab it? Do you know how expensive grain is now? You want ten catties of grain. Just dream, I'll give you at most Four taels a catty!"

Four taels a catty?This is not enough for the whole family to survive this time!This is all his belongings!The young man's face was full of pleading: "Master, please do me a favor, give me more, my whole family's money is here, if there is no food to eat people will starve to death! I have an old man I have a baby, my daughter-in-law is still in confinement, she is already so hungry that she has no energy!"

Zhao Fu frowned fiercely, and threw the money bag at the young man's face: "What the hell are you calling me here? If you don't buy it, get out, if you want to buy it, it's a catty and a half at most! Think about it yourself!"

When the young man raised his head, there was already a red mark on his face, and his eyes were full of hatred.Zhao Fu was taken aback, and the dogs behind him were already fiercely blocking him: "What do you want to do?" He said, raising his fist like a sandbag.With hatred, the young man put away the money bag and left.

Only then did Zhao Fu heave a sigh of relief. It was really scary just now. He thought that poor fellow was going to rush up to beat people.When Zhao Fu returned to his firm, there was already a person waiting inside.The shopkeeper of the firm rushed out to greet him: "Master, go and have a look, you are sitting in the tea room!"

"What did you say inconsequentially? Can't you tell who is here? Go back if you can't speak. I don't want to raise another waste." The shopkeeper wiped his sweat and was the owner of the Li's House in the east of the city. coming! " Zhao Fu's pace stopped for a moment: "Li's business... Li Fuyue?"The little girl? The shopkeeper nodded again and again. Zhao Fu snorted coldly: "It is said that colleagues are enemies. She is not at home to guard her family's food. What is she going to do in my Zhao's house?"I want to see what tricks she's up to! "

While speaking, he had already arrived at the tea room, and the expression on Zhao Fu's face also changed: "Oh, Boss Li, why do you have time to visit my place today? You must know that Boss Li is famous for not having nothing to do. Three Treasures Hall."

The contented woman in the teahouse is Li Fuyue.Li Fuyue smiled lightly: "Mr. Zhao Dashan's joke is too serious, right? It seems that the little girl is a scourge that seeks only wealth." Of course, I hope that Boss Li will come to the door from time to time, after all, Boss Li has such a beautiful face, which makes me feel a lot of comfort, but I don’t know why Boss Li came to the door?"

These words were obviously frivolous teasing, Chuntao who was following Li Fuyue's eyes were almost rounded, but was stopped by Li Fuyue, Li Fuyue smiled indifferently: "It is true that I have something to do when I come to the door today."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Zhao Fu narrowed his eyes. In fact, he is not a person with any ability of his own. It is all thanks to the savings of his ancestors. Although he is not good at business, it does not mean that he is a purebred fool. He is also Those who have heard of Li Fuyue's record, it is not easy for a woman to gain a foothold in Panming City in just three or four years. Number.

Li Fuyue picked up the Baiyuci teacup, didn't eat it, just played with it in her hands: "What I'm asking for is very simple. I want Boss Zhao to transfer the food stored in the warehouse to me." His hair exploded, but fortunately the shopkeeper was holding him tightly, so he didn't explode directly, Zhao Fu gritted his teeth and sneered: "I'm doing business, if the price is right, I will sell it naturally, I don't know what price Boss Li will offer to buy me Food in the warehouse?"

"I know that Boss Zhao has accumulated more than 1000 stones of grain in his warehouse." That's more than 12 catties.

Zhao Fu was shocked, how did this bitch know?

Li Fuyue said again: "I will pay two thousand and one hundred taels."

Zhao Fu immediately wanted to be furious, but after thinking about it, it shouldn't be so outrageous. Although more than 2000 taels is a lot of money, it is the average price in the past. At most, it is a little more expensive, and it is not as high as the cost of buying food. Wanting to buy such a large amount of food at such a special time is simply a dream!Could it be that Li Fuyue meant...

Zhao Fu probed suspiciously: "Is it gold?"

Li Fuyue gave him a strange look, with a smirk on her lips: "Boss Zhao is joking with me? Of course it's Baiyin."

silver?In just two sentences, Zhao Fu successfully experienced several states of doubt, sluggishness, and rage.Now even the shopkeeper felt that Li Fuyue was no longer capable of being a human being. At this time, with more than 2000 taels of silver, he wanted to buy 12 catties of grain. Isn't this a dream?Back then, Zhao Fu spent more than 6000 taels of silver buying grain everywhere!
Zhao Fu stretched out his hand and pointed straight at Li Fuyue's face, almost poking him: "Get lost! I'm not short of your money!"

Li Fuyue was not frightened by Zhao Fu's anger at all, but asked: "Boss Zhao disagrees?"

Zhao Fu didn't want to talk anymore.

Li Fuyue nodded to herself: "I see, Chuntao, let's go." Chuntao followed Li Fuyue closely, fearing that the enraged Zhao Fu would beat Li Fuyue up.

After Li Fuyue and Chuntao left, Zhao Fu walked around the teahouse frantically for several times, then lifted a chair and threw it to the side: "I'm so mad, what does this bitch mean? Could it be?" Doing business, this is deliberately trying to scare me! I'm so mad! Who do you look down on!"

The shopkeeper wiped his sweat and said, "Master, don't drop things. If you break something, it's still your loss. Why bother?" That chair cost tens of taels of silver!

Only then did Zhao Fu stop, and the tea room was already in a mess. Zhao Fu gasped heavily: "Shopkeeper, you read a lot of books, tell me, what does this bitch mean? I came here specially, could it be Just talking bullshit?"

The shopkeeper said: "I haven't dealt with Li Fuyue directly before, but now it seems that she is not a very powerful person, not to mention what she wants to do with so much food, just say that her business style is not good, what? There are people who do business like this, and we keep a large sum of money and don’t turn it into a profit, so why go to lose money and ask her for 2000 taels of silver?"

These words reached Zhao Fu's heart, he just felt that Li Fuyue was really not good: "I see, this is the owner of Li's family firm, it's just an embroidered pillow, and there is nothing in it! It looks good. What kind of skill? Doing business is not based on face! If Li Fuyue still wants to come in the future, just use the excuse that I'm not here, lest I get angry when I see her!"

"Yes, yes, I wrote it down." The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly.

It's just that in the next few days, Li Fuyue never came to Zhao's House again, and even planned to walk half a street in front of the door, which made the shopkeeper a little confused. Does Li Fuyue want food or not? Food?
Forget it, anyway, the boss is not willing to take care of this matter, why is he joining in the fun!The most important thing to pay attention to now is how to keep the food in the warehouse. If the victims of the disaster make a scene, it will be bad!Ever since, the matter of Li Fuyue was forgotten.

On the other hand, Li Fuyue's side was lively, let's go back to the day when Li Fuyue came to Zhao's firm.Although Chuntao followed Li Fuyue and listened to the whole conversation, she was still a little confused. In order not to lose face and momentum when she was at Zhao's House, Chuntao held back and didn't ask Li Fuyue, but now she has walked out After a while, Chuntao couldn't bear it anymore.

"Miss San, since you want to buy the rice in Zhao's storehouse, why don't you offer a higher price?" She was busy with Li Fuyue's business, and gained some knowledge. She knew the current market price of rice. 2000 taels of silver is indeed a lot of money, but in the eyes of the richest man in Panming City like Zhao Fu, it is nothing. It is simply impossible to use this money to buy all the rice in Zhao's warehouse matter.

Li Fuyue just smiled when she heard Chuntao's words, and said, "Chuntao, just think about it, is it possible to buy 2000 catties of grain with these 12 taels of silver?"

Chuntao swallowed her saliva and said: "Miss, Chuntao is just a girl and doesn't understand these things, but what Chuntao has to say... If it was possible in the past, it was an ordinary market price, but in the present, then Not likely."

Li Fuyue nodded approvingly: "Very well, let's think about it next, why do I have to make this trip even though I know it's impossible? Do I do something I know is impossible? Isn't it a waste of time?"

Chuntao couldn't understand these things. She blinked her eyes and racked her brains for a long time but couldn't think of a reason. Finally, Chuntao had a troubled face: "Miss, Chuntao really can't figure it out, you Just tell Chuntao the answer."

Li Fuyue smiled mysteriously: "Actually, it's very simple, but you can't tell it now, and you will know soon." Chuntao blinked curiously.

Speaking of Zhao Fu, after the incident of Li Fuyue, Zhao Fu raised the already high price of rice, making people even more miserable, and there were several incidents where victims of disasters ran to Zhao's house at night Zhao Fu stepped up his patrols for picking up grains outside the warehouse. When he encountered such a person, he would be beaten and kicked. How could those victims who were not full of food have the strength to compare with these specially hired big men? A farce.

But after the beginning of spring, as the weather warmed up, the price of grain miraculously showed a downward trend.Zhao Fu realized that something was wrong when no one came to buy his food.

Zhao Fu frowned so much that he could kill a fly: "What's the matter, the price of rice has been lowered a lot, why is there still no one to buy it? Is this group of people willing to starve to death and refuse to spend money? Something is wrong Bar!"

The shopkeeper didn't understand either, and was wiping his sweat with his sleeves: "Maybe... Maybe it's just that no one came today, just wait." The white rice is in front of him, why is no one tempted!

At this time, the boy sent by the shopkeeper to check the news came in: "Boss, Dongjia, no wonder no one came to buy anything today! The Li family in the east of the city is opening a warehouse to release grain, and they are cooking porridge for free for the people in the city! Now There is a long queue over there, people who go there have ready-made porridge to drink, and women and children can take some home, if this continues..."

What he wanted to say was that with free ready-made porridge, who would want to spend a lot of money to buy rice, but seeing Zhao Fu's extremely ugly expression, he swallowed these words.

"Li Fuyue, Li Fuyue! It's that stinky bitch again," Zhao Fu paced around angrily, "Why don't we make money together, and don't care what those untouchables do! Why does this person always come to confront me!" The shopkeeper also said. Then I became anxious, Li Fuyue is indeed a person who can't do business, how could he just give it away for nothing!
But Zhao Fu has always been an uninitiated person, if he also panicked, wouldn't he be defeated in one fell swoop?The shopkeeper forcibly cheered himself up and said: "Boss, don't worry. Now that the food is in our hands, it means that we are in the upper hand. Although Li Fuyue's free food distribution can scare us for a while, but in the long run, the foundation of the Li family will be lost." We have been exhausted, but we still have food in our hands, no matter how we think about it, we are better than others!"

Zhao Fuguo is really an idiot without his own opinions. He was almost blown away by Li Fuyue's behavior just now, but after hearing what the shopkeeper said, he feels that's the same thing again. Run, Li Fuyue loves to pretend to be a good person, so let her pretend!It's time for her to cry!

Such an idea, however, suffered a disastrous defeat after the beginning of spring. After the beginning of spring, the high rice price miraculously dropped.

(End of this chapter)