Houmen maidservant, she doesn't want to be in power

Chapter 86 Price Increase
Shi Jin originally thought that when the second master passed Xiangyang, he would leave in a hurry like other towns.

However, the second master only asked Shi Mo to park the carriage in one place and looked at the quiet and clumsy Sanjin courtyard, and went into the inner courtyard by himself.

Shi Jin trotted all the way to keep up.Although the sparrow in the courtyard named Qi Mansion is small, it has all internal organs.

Although there are very few servants inside, when passing through the courtyard, you can still see young men busy sweeping the courtyard and performing their duties.

Although Shi Jin didn't bother to take a closer look, he saw that there were many green pines and cypresses in the courtyard. Because of their age, these pines and cypresses were all in strange shapes, even in October, they still had a deep dark green with winding paths.

After entering the main room of the second entrance courtyard, a little maid who was only as tall as the general corner came up to serve tea.

The tea is good tea, the jasper fragrance that the second master likes to drink.He sat lazily on a large huanghuali wood chair, pointed to Shi Jin who was standing beside him, "Find some suitable home-made clothes for her."

The little servant girl backed away, although Shi Jin had doubts in her eyes, she didn't say anything.

After resting for a while, the little maid raised the curtain cage again and brought in the two clothes.

She was wearing a light blue jacket with a round collar and a rabbit fur collar, and a pair of jackets with a slanted waist and white flowers embroidered with four seasons.

With Er Ye's approval, Shi Jin took two pieces of clothes and went into the inner room to change them after the Eight Treasures Glazed Ladies collected wind and screens.

Because the house was not often inhabited, and it was not the season for burning charcoal fire, as soon as Shi Jin took off his clothes, his exposed skin felt slightly chilly.

Both clothes were a bit ostentatious, and the water-white one was more plain.She didn't care about choosing carefully, so she picked up the plain dress and put it on, paired with brown deerskin boots.Seeing that it was suitable, he was about to go out when he heard Shi Mo's announcement from outside.

Shi Jin paused, and paused when he was about to step out of the inner room, and turned to the blue, green and red three-color frosted glass window that separated the inside and outside.

The ones brought in by Shi Mo should be several shopkeepers, each of whom was so humble as to meet the second master before waiting for the second master to speak.

"What's the price of rice noodles in Xiangyang right now?" Second Master's voice was always lazy.

"Back to the second master, it has risen to seventy yuan a dou now." A middle-aged man with a big beard bowed back.

On weekdays, when the harvest is good, a bucket of rice costs no more than [-] Wen, and when the harvest is not good, it only costs more than [-] Wen.Now these seventy essays have surpassed previous years.

Another short and thin shopkeeper saw the owner asking, couldn't help admiring and said respectfully, "Second master has good eyesight, because the second master asked us to stockpile grain, now we have a lot of rice noodles in Xinglong Miji, if you sell it at this time , I'm afraid it will make a lot of money."

The other four or five shopkeepers also nodded in agreement.

Shi Jin clenched the veil in his hand.

After the excited voices of these shopkeepers subsided, the second master stared at a picture of a snow scene with two goals on the wall and said lazily, "It's only seventy renminbi, it's not enough."

His voice was quite firm, and the shopkeepers all exchanged expressions.

The first middle-aged shopkeeper with a big beard cupped his hands with some doubts, "Second Master thinks the price of rice is not high enough?"

In business, the most important thing is to be safe.Especially in the rice business, small profits but quick turnover, except in wartime or famine years, most of the rest of the time are very stable.

When they can catch up with the high food price, it is considered that God intends to let the second master make this fortune.But looking at the second master, he seemed dissatisfied?

You must know that the disaster is temporary. If the price of rice falls, you will be killed by a head-on at that time, and there is no place to buy regret medicine.

At that moment, the two older shopkeepers had the illusion that their hearts were insufficient.

Of course, the second master is their boss.Whatever the boss says, they can only do as the boss wants.However, the bearded man wanted to persuade him again.

Unexpectedly, the second master is successful. Although his voice is a bit cold, the meaning of his words is not to be questioned, "From tomorrow onwards, Xinglong Miji will continue to collect grain here, with more in and out and less in. Prices continue to go up.”

"Pa——" Accompanied by his words, there seemed to be the sound of something being kicked down in the inner room.

When Shi Jin accidentally kicked the dwarf next to him, he felt all kinds of feelings unspeakable.

I thought that the second master rushed to Nanyang Mansion for disaster relief, but I didn't want to, but it was just to drive up the price of rice?

If she stays in Haojing well and continues to be her maidservant of the Hou family, hearing this will only touch her heart, then that's fine.

However, seeing the yellow and emaciated faces of the victims on the road in the past two days, and some of them fell down on the road and never got up again, I couldn't help but feel suspenseful.

Because of their bright cars and horses, many mothers knelt on the side of the road, just begging to sell their children, big or small, to the second master.There were so many prostitutes, Shi Jin couldn't bear it in her heart, when the carriage sped past them, she saw despair in their eyes.

That despair was really engraved in her mind, she couldn't believe it, the second master was another culprit who pushed them into a deeper abyss...

The shopkeepers in the outer room also heard the movement inside, and each of them was puzzled, but saw that the second master ignored the movement, and only ordered them to say, "Not only do you want to collect rice at a high price, Qian Wansan, I have something else to ask You. You are more familiar with the chamber of commerce in Xiangyang than I am. Tomorrow, you and Wang Chang will go to the chairman of the chamber of commerce to discuss and discuss, and see if the chamber of commerce in Xiangyang can jointly hold some temple fairs. The days of the first month and the middle of the month come in rotation like one, three, five, two, four, six. The more important point is that it is lively and grand. Merchants value profits, and the money for the temple fair is recorded in our Xinglongmi account. Of course they have nothing to disagree with."

After he finished speaking, his throat felt a little thirsty, so he took another sip of tea.

The shopkeepers standing below all looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what to do.

"Second Master, even though you are our boss, you only act like this, isn't it too..." The bearded man wanted to ask if he was being too nonsense, but he didn't dare to say the words.

The second master knew what he was thinking, so he just rolled his eyelids lightly, and his eyes passed over these shopkeepers one by one.

His eyes were a little cold, and as soon as he licked blood with a knife, everyone's hearts tightened.

"You are all the shopkeepers I have carefully selected, and you have done very well in these years. I have seen all of these," he played with the tea cover in his hand, seemingly carelessly, but with a touch of knocking. "However, I am a person who does things as I like, even if I do business, I only do it according to my own heart. You guys, do you understand?"

What the master wants to do, the people below don't need to know, just follow suit.

These shopkeepers are all human beings, and they only wanted to play it safe.But seeing that the second master couldn't handle it with common sense, he had no choice but to do everything he could.

After explaining some details one by one, when Shi Mo saw his second master brought the tea bowl to his lips again, he knew that it meant to see off the guests.

He smiled and said to the shopkeepers, "All the shopkeepers can just swallow it in their stomachs about today's matter. If you let the master know who is obedient, then everyone will look bad."

Yin made a gesture of invitation with a smile again, and sent a group of shopkeepers who said "dare not" out.

After the main room was quiet, Shi Jin's heart relaxed slightly, and he listened to Second Master's calm voice, "Come out."

She pursed her lips and moved outside...

(End of this chapter)