The concubine wants to farm: the alluring wife raises the emperor

Chapter 166

Xu Yuan snapped her fingers: "It's your fault. I'll give you a few bottles of something to make amends some other day." She hurried to avoid Wu Yao's revenge.

"Xu Yuan! You..."

Xu Yuan didn't hear the messy words later, she had already hid elsewhere.

Li Yin and her squatted together in a small corner behind the rockery, and the breathing of the two of them could be heard in the quiet surroundings.

"Daughter-in-law... I'm a little hot." He whispered.

Xu Yuan listened to the movement outside, and pulled him to stand up, but Wu Yao did not follow.

The two walked to the room together.

"Have you finished practicing the calligraphy I gave you today?" She felt itchy again, and pinched his face.

"Yeah!" He nodded, begging for praise.

"Not bad." She patted his cheek lightly, "I reward you... start taking medicine tomorrow."

She prepared the medicinal materials when she returned home in the evening, and started decocting them for him tomorrow.After all, he is incomplete without the memory of the past.

take medicine?Li Yin's eyes widened. Is this a reward?
"What?" She raised her eyebrows and looked at him.

He shook his head: "It's okay."

Xu Yuan went back to his room and gave him a final check-up, and went into the space while he was sleeping to prepare all the medicines before going to bed with peace of mind.

……

"Master, the newly opened grain store... There are still many people today, and there is still no business in our store." The shopkeeper of Shi Weitian looked ashamed, he did not expect that a new store could make such a big splash.

"It's just a gimmick made by a new store, so there's no need to be afraid." Zhao Yuanyi sat in the front seat and took a sip of tea.

"I sent someone to buy the grain from that store. The quality...is indeed a bit better than the best grain in our store, but the price is only a few pennies more expensive than ours..." the shopkeeper said. Looking at Zhao Yuanyi's face, the three grain stores could exist in Yonghua City for so long because of mutual checks and balances. As a result, this new existence that suddenly appeared seemed to break this balance.

"Oh?" He finally raised his eyes, "What is it?"

"The villain sent someone to inquire about it, but almost no one knew anything about it. They only said that it was a new store that popped up suddenly. Except for the one that was advertised, almost no one heard about it."

"Who are the people you sent?" He lowered his eyes, "I can't even ask about this!"

The shopkeeper's legs trembled. He has been with Zhao Yuanyi for so many years, and the deepest feeling is that this person's temper is becoming more and more volatile.

"It's just that this newcomer is very mysterious, and almost no news has been released."

"Get out!" He snapped.

The shopkeeper backed away tremblingly, not even daring to turn his head.

"Go and send someone to find out what's behind it." He put down his teacup, "Tomorrow, invite people from the other two grain stores out, and I want to see who is playing tricks here."

"Yes."

……

The next day, Xu Yuan sent all the prepared medicines to the kitchen of Sanxian Pavilion as promised, explained the method of decocting the medicines clearly, and watched Li Yin drink it once before leaving the door.

She didn't go to the grain shop yesterday, but according to what Xu Chi said, and the account books brought back by Chen Yan, it can be seen that the business is still very good.

But with such a limelight, I feel that the other three grain shops will not just let it go
She rubbed the corners of her eyes, it's better to go to the grain shop to have a look.

So she walked towards Chen Changning's store and turned to the direction of the grain store.

From afar, you can still see queues outside the store. I don't know how long the batch of grain that Li Dashu brought over will last according to the daily sales volume.

If it doesn't work, we have to go to the village to transport the grain again to ensure that the stock will not run out.

She went around and entered the grain store from the back door, Xu Chi was still leading people outside to maintain order, and Chen Yan sat at the table to keep accounts.

"How much food is left?" She walked to Chen Fan's side, and glanced at the ledger in front of him. It seemed that a lot was sold today.

"Ten stones." Chen Yan raised his head, "Five stones have been sold in the past few days, and the remaining food may not last for half a month."

According to this speed, there is no time for Li Dashu to fetch food and come back.

"Let's limit it." She rubbed her chin, "One stone a day." This way, we can fight for ten days, and we should be able to send back a batch of food if we hurry up.

"Okay." Chen Yan just had this intention, why can't the store close because of food shortage just after it opened?

Xu Yuan went out of the grain store and called Li Dashu in to discuss with him about transporting grain.

Li Dashu is in charge of the surplus food information of everyone in the village, and now that Xu Yuan wanted to see it, he took out his notebook to make statistics.

In fact, most of their food is still in the [-] mu of wasteland that Xu Yuan reclaimed, and the rest of the village's combined land is not as much as that [-] mu.

The [-] shi of grain produced by the one-hundred-acre land was the first to be transported, so almost none of the villagers' surplus grain had been moved.

"In this way, you first bring ten people back to the village at full speed, and bring back twenty shi of grain first." She glanced at the queue outside the door, "Let's start today."

The dozen or so people trained by Xu Chi have finally come in handy, and they can all show their effectiveness at this time.

However, in Xu Yuan's eyes, if there were only these people who transported food, it would definitely not be enough. Not to mention the limited amount of food delivered each time, we couldn't run in such an emergency every time, could we?Therefore, the number of people must be increased quickly.

"Brother, go to the market tomorrow to recruit more people, the more the better." She looked at Xu Chi and instructed, "Once you recruit people, train them for a few days and have some basic self-defense skills before sending them out to transport food."

"Okay!" Xu Chi replied loudly, and he also saw how urgent the situation in this store was.

"Yuanyuan, look at this situation, how long can it last?" Chen Yan stared at the long queue outside, mixed with joy and worry.

"I guess... it will take a long time." She didn't expect the three major grain shops to be so unable to keep customers. Once her shop opened, people who bought grain gathered here.

There is always a feeling in the dark...the three major grain workshops are coming to trouble her...

"Whose family owns that sedan chair outside?" Xu Yuan raised her chin and nodded at the soft sedan chair parked at the end of the street, and she had stayed there for a long time.

How do they know this?The two shook their heads in unison.

"Success, then I'll go first." Xu Yuan waved her hand, she tricked Li Yin to stay in Sanxian Pavilion today, and she didn't know if he would play his temper when he went back.

"Master, do you want to go over and have a look again?" The servant outside the sedan chair bowed and asked.

Zhao Yuanyi put down the car curtain: "No need, let's go."

He thought that the food shopkeeper was exaggerating, but he didn't expect to come to see it in person today, and it turned out to be the case.

This spring millet has more customers in one day than the combined total of their three grain workshops, which simply does not give them a chance to survive.

"Go to the Zuixiang Building." It seems that he made the right decision to talk to the other two grain workshops yesterday. We must discuss countermeasures, right?
(End of this chapter)