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This year, spring in the imperial capital came exceptionally late. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the Spring Festival, there is a continuous inverted spring cold! It was snowing on the day of the sting, and people were still wearing cotton clothes.

It's not a big deal for big families to be cold and hot, and if the money is spent, even if the price of grain, vegetables and meat rises, they are not afraid, they should still eat and drink.

And in such weather, the life of ordinary people becomes extremely difficult!

There are still several large rooms of stone lettuce in the warehouse of the Taiping Bureau, at this time, there is a shortage of vegetables and vegetables, these stone ulva strange goods can live, and the merchants who have purchased the goods in the Taiping Bureau have come to inquire about the price.

According to the assumptions of these businessmen, the price of rotten cabbage and radish will double at this time every year, and it is normal for the price of Ulva to increase in shipments.

"We still have some Ulva in the warehouse, according to the price on the market, we can make a lot of money by sending out all the goods!" Liu Hualou pulled the abacus beads for a long time, and finally came up with a gratifying number, he gently pushed the abacus forward to Jin Niang: "Look! ”

Jin Niang didn't even raise her eyelids, and looked at the account books of the branch intently: "Liu Gongzi is still provincial, there are not as many people as he seems to ask, and we don't let go of the delivery." ”

These two people are like two generals, and Yue Xi takes them with him wherever he goes. It's all called by the 'secretary'.

"That's right." Liu Hualou pulled the abacus back again, reluctantly looked at the numbers on it, and he pulled the abacus beads back into place: "If you want to say that the price is not low, if I would have made a move." ”

"I can't make a fortune on this deal." Yue Xi walked in briskly from outside the house, apparently overhearing the conversation between the two. She was followed by Zheng Baocai and Chu Yingzhi.

"Look, I'll just say it." Jin Niang put the account book upside down on the table, got up and came over to take Yue Xi's cloak: "Let's not do this robbery while the fire is burning!" ”

"How is this a robbery? It's a go-to-go market. This year, the spring cold has been so long, and I see that the prices of many shops have increased. Liu Hualou also stood up, took a few clean teacups, and poured a cup of tea for Yue Xi: "Master, are you right?" ”

"Profiteers!" Yue Xi smiled and pointed to Liu Hualou and took the hot tea in his hand.

Liu Hualou smiled, knowing that she had no malicious intent when she spoke, he poured tea for Zheng Baocai and Chu Yingzhi respectively and beckoned them to sit down: "They all say that there is no business and no traitor, and the owner says that I am a profiteer, is it praising me?" ”

"I said you're stingy." Yue Xi held the teacup and covered his hands and did not sit down.

"Huh?" Liu Hualou was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, he didn't realize that he was stingy: "You haven't made a move on this batch of goods until now, isn't it to wait for a good price?" ”

"I didn't mean to stay and wait for the price to rise. It's that we didn't send all the goods at once. Yue Xi pulled a chair with one hand and put it on the side of the brazier to sit, letting the heat bake, she felt even colder: "Xiaoliu, do you say that there are more dignitaries and dignitaries in the world or more ordinary people?" ”

"Naturally, there are many people." Liu Hualou replied without thinking about it.

"Not bad." Yue Xi looked back at him and said, "Rich people don't calculate how much extra silver they spend on food every month, but ordinary people have to count a few pennies less on every meal." ”

"The Taiping Bureau is a long-term business, even if one day we are gone, the signboard of the Taiping Bureau must be a weighty gold-lettered signboard!"

"There are cars and horses in and out of every household of dignitaries, and there are still many ordinary people who travel in the cars of our Taiping Bureau. These people are our food and clothing parents, and it is their car money that feeds so many of our people up and down. ”

"The price of those Ulva in our warehouse is high, and the price of selling it to the common people is even higher. I'm waiting for those time-honored shops to come and ask for the price, they naturally have their reasons for buying and selling for a long time, and they must not do anything about asking for a price. Even if it rises, it will not be outrageous. Those traveling merchants are unreliable. ”

Liu Hualou nodded: "Do you mean that there are many ordinary people, and they are more important than those dignitaries?" ”

Yue Xi raised her eyebrows, this is a small action of Ying Su, she looks at it every day and learns unconsciously: "Let's open the door to do business, everyone who enters the door is a guest, which one doesn't matter?" As far as the matter is concerned, can the people who have meat in our warehouse see it? If the price rises, the pit will definitely be the common people. ”

Liu Hualou was silent.

For no reason, he suddenly remembered the scene of his first encounter with Yue Xi, when they didn't even say a few words and she said that she wanted to 'sleep', but she really slept in his 'spring breeze', and he watched her all night behind the curtain.

She slept lightly, and seemed to open her eyes at any moment, so he dared not peek at her, and she was still an unmarried girl at that time......

"Alas......" Liu Hualou sighed lightly.

"What are you sighing about?" Jin Niang lowered her voice and asked.

Liu Hualou was startled, afraid that the little careful thinking he was hiding would be seen through, and when he turned his head and saw Yue Xizheng talking to Chu Yingzhi, he put his heart back into his stomach, and said casually: "I just want to, if you don't know the price of firewood and rice, you have to be poor and calculate if you don't have money to live." ”

"That's right!" Yue Xi raised the empty cup in his hand in the direction where Liu Hualou and Jin Niang were sitting, and the two of them stood up at the same time, but Liu Hualou took a step faster and walked to Yue Xi's side first, took the teacup, and poured her another cup of tea.

Yue Xi nodded in thanks, and said, "Just hand over those Ulva to Xiao Liu to dispose of, and if someone comes to ask for the price, you can just say hello." After all, we have been storing it for a few months, and we have done a lot of it when it was put into storage. Don't sell at a loss. ”

When it was almost time to eat lunch, Yue Xi saw that the matter at hand was almost handled, so he got up and prepared to go back to Xixiang Village.

Zheng Baocai followed her with a smile on his face and sent Yue Xi out of the gate.

"It's fresh today!" Standing in front of the carriage, Yue Xihu looked at Zheng Baocai suspiciously: "Brother Zheng? ”

Yuexi is the big proprietor of the Taiping Bureau, and it has long been a common thing to come and go in, she will come and leave when she wants to come, and never let everyone send her, Zheng Baocai has nothing to do, and Yue Xi immediately became wary: "I'm not a guest, what does Brother Zheng send me for?" ”

"Hey, hey!" Zheng Baocai rubbed his hands and laughed a few times: "Brother didn't send you, brother thanked you!" ”

"Huh?" Yue Xi listened to the clouds, mountains and fogs, and didn't feel that he had done anything worthy of his gratitude recently.

"Go back quickly, you'll understand when you get home!" Zheng Baocai finished speaking a few times and then rushed up the steps, standing at the door of the Taiping Bureau, he said loudly: "Anyway, brother, I thanked you first, you can't refute my face!" ”

"What is this nonsense?" Yue Xi looked at it and shook his head, turned around to get into the car, Jin Niang had already gone over and lifted the curtain first: "Yo! When did you two get in? ”

Yue Xi looked into the carriage, the dog and the dog were sitting honestly in the car, and the little face was not much better than that of the flower!

"I said how did you become a father?!" Yue Xi laughed angrily when she saw the two dirty children, and she shouted at Zheng Baocai, who was standing on the steps and watching: "When I walked from where I did the festival, the two children were clean, and it has only been a few days?" It's a mud monkey again! ”

"Why don't I give you my son?" Zheng Baocai laughed scoundrelly: "I won't be a father, you will." Son, hurry up and call Dad! ”

"Daddy!" The two children saw that they had been taught in advance, and they immediately opened their mouths together.

"Yes, my son is yours, and I have nothing to do!" He waved his hand to himself Yue Xi and walked into the courtyard with his hands behind his back: "I'm going to eat, you guys should go back to eat quickly......"

"Brother Zheng, you gave me your son, wait for Uncle Zheng to find you to play with your life!" Yue Xi shouted at his back.

"Don't worry." Zheng Baocai's voice floated out of the courtyard: "It's my father's idea, saying that the children are not too young, it's time to learn something, and I can't learn well except for fighting and scolding, ......what can I do?"

"It's time to catch up with the strong buyer and seller......" Yue Xi shook his head at Jin Niang and smiled: "Let's go back too, the children are probably hungry too." ”

"Whoa." Jin Niang also responded with a smile, and as soon as the two got in the car, they frowned uniformly: "What does this smell like?" ”

"Dog, you haven't taken a bath in a while, have you?" As soon as Yue Xi got closer to the two dirty children, she understood that the inexplicable smell was coming from them, and she almost pinched her nose.

"My dad said, you don't need to take a shower when it's cold, it's not dirty!" The dog leaned on Yue Xi affectionately, looking closer than his father.

"......" Yue Xi sighed helplessly: "Go back and take a bath before eating...... I'm about to be smoked to death by your brothers......"

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The carriage parked at the gate of the Taiping Bureau walked away unhurriedly, and Zheng Baocai, who was hiding behind the door and peeking at it, walked out of it, he stared at the direction of the carriage and said to himself: "Daughter-in-law, how about your husband's trick?" The sons will not suffer any losses in the future with our brothers, and besides, this is not a few steps away from Xixiang Village, so I will go to see the two little bastards every once in a while, don't worry, I have a ...... in my heart."

Yue Xi brought the two children of the Zheng family back to Xixiang Village, and several women in the family were busy!

A few basins of hot water finally washed the two little boys out of their true colors, and Xia Ran looked at the clothes they had just changed into in the wooden basin and worried: "Why are you wearing so dirty?" I guess I can't wash it out......"

"I boiled another pot of water, and this pot of clothes has to be scalded with hot water, so that there are no lice and fleas." Yun Hua came over and whispered.

"This can't be burned, it's Sujin's material, and you can't wear it if it's hot." Xia Ran sighed, resigned herself to take a small bench and sat in front of the wooden basin: "Let's rub it a few more times with your hands, I looked at it when I took it off just now, and there are no lice......"

"Alas! How did this grandfather live, poor children with fathers and mothers...... "The two little masters are taking a nap, and Yunhua is fine at this time, so he also took his skirt and squatted down to help Xia Ran wash it together.

The dog who had changed into a new dress walked slowly with a small wooden comb in his hand, and he walked between the two women and squatted down quietly, quietly like an obedient good boy.

"Dog, how did I teach you the last time you came? Forgot all? When you see someone, you have to scream......" Kasumi said to the child in kind words.

Goudan looked up at her and raised the wooden comb in his hand: "Mother, comb my hair......"