85_85797 Chapter 9 Calculation and Profit

Zhuang 13 held his hand and saluted, and replied gently: "Thank you, mother." ”

Although Zhuang Shisan's tone was light, he knew that his son was Mo Ruo's mother, and Zhuang's mother saw that her son was very happy in her heart. This made her a little dislike Ji Ji, who had not yet met.

Seeing her son go out, Zhuang's mother closed her eyes and listened to the Buddhist scriptures for a while, and said, "Go, go and meet the orphan girl." ”

Since the serious illness two months ago, Ji Ji has a lot of inexplicable knowledge in her mind. Ji Ji thought that she had to make people feel that it was natural for her to have this knowledge, so she would bury herself in the pile of books, or piano, chess, calligraphy and painting whenever she had time.

On this day, Ji Ji was reading, and suddenly, there was a commotion outside the manor.

Just when Ji Ji stood up puzzled, a rush of footsteps came, but it was the gate of her manor that was forcibly broken into, and several high-spirited maidservants came in a majestic manner surrounded by a woman in a gorgeous suit.

They came to Ji Ji, raised their heads and said, "You are Ji Ji?" ”

Ji Ji stood up and said in surprise: "I am." She frowned and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The maids didn't reply to her words, but just said, "Ji Ji, our lady wants to see you, come forward to see you." After that, Ji Ji was dragged by them to Zhuang's mother.

Seeing Mother Zhuang, who was carrying a delicate chin and always glancing at people from the corner of her eye, Ji Ji sneered in her heart.

She had long thought that they would meet one day, but she didn't expect that this day would come quite early.

At this time, a maid shouted: "What are you still doing with this sister-in-law?" This is Mrs. Zhuang! ”

Of course I know it's Mrs. Zhuang! Ji Ji thought coldly, that year, when she saw Mrs. Zhuang for the first time, she was kicked out without saying a word, and the moment she turned around, the teacup she had drunk was thrown in front of her by Mrs. Zhuang, and the couch she had sat on burned behind her...... Mrs. Zhuang said that she is not even worthy of being Zhuang Thirteen's concubine!

I don't know why I have so many more memories, Ji Ji is a god, and she snubbed Mrs. Zhuang more and more.

A flash of anger flashed in Mrs. Zhuang's eyes, she looked Ji Ji up and down for a while, and said lightly, "Are you Ji Ji?" ”

Ji Ji didn't salute either, and said, "Yes." In a blink of an eye, Ji Ji asked, "Who is Madame?" Breaking into other people's houses in broad daylight like this, aren't you afraid of other people's words? ”

"Speech?" Mrs. Zhuang chuckled, she glanced at the old manor, and said contemptuously: "Even you are my son's plaything, what kind of thing is your broken house?" ”

Mrs. Zhuang took a few steps with the support of the maidservant, and while looking at Xiao Zhuangzi, she continued: "Mrs. Ben is in this place in Jing County, and she has always come and gone whenever she wants, and no one dares to stand in front of me like this for many years. That's it, for the sake of you giving Thirteen a good idea, Mrs. Ben will let you go once. Otherwise, just your disrespect is worth Mrs. Ben's help, and she will sell you to a distant place as a slave! ”

In this era, because of the perennial war, there are big loopholes in the demographic statistics, all kinds of darkness emerge in an endless stream, and the slave trade also comes into being! There were many harsh small landowners, tenant farmers who gave them labor, almost all of them slaves. And those slaves, some of whom were turned into the desperate of the freedmen, and some of whom were sold!

Ji Ji's face turned purple all of a sudden, and she remembered that Uncle Li beside her, just to protect herself, had offended this poisonous woman and was sold into slavery by her!

Seeing that Ji Ji was so angry that her whole body was trembling, but she couldn't say a word, Mrs. Zhuang glanced at her contemptuously, turned her head arrogantly, and got into the carriage with a snort.

It wasn't until Mrs. Zhuang left that Ji Ji let out a breath of turbidity, she suddenly chuckled, turned to the stunned servants left and right and asked, "Is there any news from Sun Fu and the others?" ”

A maid hurriedly replied: "Some have, I wrote just now, Sun Fu said, the situation in Qushui County is as expected by the girl, all the big families are afraid of the military disaster, and they have thrown away the shop, those shops, Pingsuli is so expensive that people dare not think about it, now a cart of grain can be exchanged for a storefront, our boatload of grain, a total of five storefronts, he also said, at the latest twenty days, they will be done everything, can come back." ”

The other side.

Zhuang Shisan was planning a lot, and he didn't care about resting, so he took ten boatloads of grain and drove towards Qushui County again.

The situation in Qushui County is as Zhuang Mu said, although the wind is tight, but the Northern Wei Dynasty has not been in the city. Moreover, at this time, the price of grain in Qushui County has risen five times compared with ordinary food.

Zhuang 13 was overjoyed.

People are like that, huge profits are in front of them, and the most sober people will get carried away. Zhuang Shisan knew to stop not long ago, but now he sees that the people of the Northern Wei Dynasty are nowhere to be seen, and the price of grain in Qushui County is still rising. He thought that the grain around Qushui County was already in his hands, and as long as he didn't release grain, the price of this grain would have to rise again.

Holding down his heart that was beating wildly with excitement, Zhuang Shisan thought, after this time, the entire Jingzhou will know about the huge wealth Zhuang's family.

In a blink of an eye, he thought again, Auntie has helped me so much, after I go back, I have to buy her some dowry in private, so that she can enter my door, and she will not be a wife in the future, and no one will dare to bully her.

But just when Zhuang Shisan was secretly proud, on this day, a news that shocked him spread all over Qushui County.

The Northern Wei soldiers retreated!

Those Northern Wei soldiers who were wandering outside Jingzhou and had not yet made a formal attack on Qushui County, and they didn't know what kind of letter they had, so they simply withdrew!

The Northern Wei soldiers retreated, Qushui County returned to normal overnight, and people no longer had to worry about food and grass! In just an hour, the rising grain prices in Qushui County plummeted!

Under the ups and downs, Zhuang Shisan stubbornly carried the urge to vomit blood, gritted his teeth and calculated where to transfer these grains in order to earn back the cost. Suddenly, the county guard of Jingzhou, the county commander of Qushui, and several high-ranking officials with great prestige suddenly sent soldiers to search for major grain merchants. It turned out that these officials hated the profiteers for raising the price of grain, and they came to settle accounts after the autumn!

This liquidation is even on the head of Zhuang Thirteen.

The officers and soldiers came like wolves, not only did they search all the food he hid, but if it weren't for Zhuang Shisan's intercession in Qushui County, he himself would have almost been killed by the government as a model of profiteers.

Although he saved his life, Zhuang Thirteen's ten boats of grain were finally gone.

After the news of Zhuang Shisan was transmitted back to Jing County, Zhuang's mother vomited a few mouthfuls of blood and passed out.

Zhuang's mother fainted, it was a full three days, and when she woke up, the Zhuang Mansion was gone, and the Zhuang Mansion, which was originally a first-class family in Jing County, and could even go further to the state city, suddenly became a second-rate. This is also because although the Zhuang family folded all the cash into it, they still have thousands of acres of land, more than a dozen shops, and a few estates.

Zhuang 13 also came back, and the family judged afterwards that Zhuang 13 was young, and the second was that he had stopped in time, besides, he was not the one who used the treasury to buy food, speaking of which, he was just a shopkeeper who walked for his mother, so the family did not punish Zhuang 13. But his mother, the invincible Zhuang Nan, was deprived of the right to be a housekeeper and demoted to a concubine.

And in this turmoil, Ji Ji did not arouse the hatred of the Zhuang family, after all, the information she provided was not wrong, and the defeat of the Zhuang family was due to the lack of greed of the Zhuang Zhou family.

When the news reached Ji Ji's ears, Ji Ji was entering the Jingzhou City Gate with her nurse's third daughter, Zheng Mi'er. Hearing Zheng Mi'er and others chatting about the tragic change of the Zhuang family, Ji Ji thought to herself, the Zhuang Nan clan, who is invincible and sells people into slaves at every turn, must have a very wonderful expression when he himself became a concubine who could be sold at will.

At this time, Ji Ji was in a happy mood, because Sun Fu and others, who also went to Qushui County, came back half a month ago. They brought Ji Ji five deeds for the paving of the best streets in Qushui County.

The shop located on the main street of Qushui County is more than one worthy of the existing two in Jing County! After such a month or two, Ji Ji added a beautiful sum to her dowry, not only was she happy, but Uncle Sun Fuli and others were also happy to laugh when they met people, and they were so happy.

Ji Ji was still thinking about the five shops she had earned, and when she was overjoyed, Zheng Mi's dreamy voice came, "Ah, if I can see Xie Shibalang this time, it will really be unshaken." ”

Her best friend, Wu Shiyuehuan, teased crisply, "Hehe, I'm afraid that after you met Xie Eighteen, you also had the same lovesickness as those people, but regretted your life." ”

Zheng Mi took a sip of her, but couldn't help asking, "That Xie Lang, is he really so handsome and extraordinary?" She turned her head and shouted at Ji Lang, "Auntie, I heard that you have met Xie Lang, tell me, what does he look like?" ”

As soon as Zheng Mi's words came out, the five or six girls who were traveling with him looked at Ji Ji together. These people had heard that Ji Ji and Xie Lang had met, so they forcibly dragged Ji Ji to Jingzhou City together.

At the eyes of the women, Ji Ji smiled, and she said: "She is indeed handsome, and her bearing is also extraordinary. ”

"That's it?" Zheng Mi shouted in surprise, "Everyone said that Xie Eighteen came to Jingzhou in January, and Jingzhou City entered spring in January, and the streets were full of flowers, and everyone was obsessed...... How can it come from your mouth, it seems that Xie Lang is no different from the children of the family next to him? ”

"There is a difference." Ji Ji smiled again, she turned to the women, and said half-seriously and half-warningly: "That Xie Eighteen is handsome, but he is a merry man, there are countless good men in this world, but Xie Eighteen is the least worthy of infatuation." ”

She added in her heart: the least should be obsessed. So she added: "He actually looks like that, I pretend to be a man, and he is much more handsome than him." ”

But when Ji Ji said these words freely, there was silence around her, and then, an uncontrollable laughter came from behind her, "That's it, Xie Shibai is really nothing!" Even if it's a thing, it's a thing that looks even more girly than my sister-in-law! Hahaha, what this sister-in-law said makes me like it very much! Come on, come on, we get acquainted. ”。