Chapter 54: The Sorrow of the Town
There are a lot of butcher shops in Weizhou.
Li Kou stood at the door of a row of butcher shops and took a closer look, there were those selling pork, some selling mutton, and sure enough, there were no beef shops, but there were more rabbit meat and the like, and there were also signs with "game".
He didn't love wild meat, and he never thought that eating in the wild would be so superior.
What's more, there are many viruses in wild meat, and if you are not careful, there will be a lot of trouble.
The good thing is that the ancient game is cleaner than the modern one.
Li Kou took a closer look, a row of more than ten large and small butcher shops, five or seven pigs hung outside the big one, only one board for the small one, and a small house at the back, but the small butcher shops also operate cooked food, and the emphasis is on the fact that the raw and cooked cases are separated, and the small economy is not very strong enough to attract customers at the door, both the winter is not alive and the early spring is lazy, and there are one or two butcher shops, which are actually run by women with thick waists and round arms.
Li Kou was about to find a cleaner butcher shop to ask the price, when he suddenly heard a woman in black pants laughing: "Why is Zheng Tu listless and tossing with your mother-in-law all night?" ”
What are these words? The essence is so simple!
Li Kou looked at it busily, and a listless man came out of the big butcher shop next to him, no more than seven feet tall, and his weight was afraid to be two hundred pounds higher, and his walking was a little cumbersome, and his outer eight characters were very similar to crabs.
That's Zheng Tu?
Isn't it the Zheng Tu that Lu Ti provoked?
Li Kou took a closer look and saw that it was a vicious person, although his face was slightly haggard, but the horizontal flesh made the idlers dare not approach, he opened his mind in the cold weather, and put a thick cloth like a towel on his shoulder, and was sharpening on the stone with a boning knife in his hand.
That Zheng Tu snorted and said viciously: "Sister-in-law Zhang is so unhappy, she sprinkles salt on the sprinkler family." ”
The eldest sister-in-law smiled and said: "You pig killer, you said that your mother-in-law is fierce, you look at her well-looking, and you regret it now if you don't listen to our persuasion?" This mother-in-law should be a baby, you haven't seen a baby for a few years, you just spread Zheng Turou to the largest in Weizhou, what is it worth? ”
She seemed to be kind enough to say, "You call me a sister-in-law, and I should help you too." Now that you're rich, why don't you ......"
She smiled and pointed around, and said in a low voice: "There are many people who can have babies, and they pay three or five thousand dollars a month, so why are you afraid of buying a house outside the house to raise one?" A man should have the spirit of a man. ”
Zheng Tu couldn't help but turn pale and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't hurt me, after so many years of visiting the streets, the Sprinkle family has never treated anyone badly, and the lack of catties and taels has never been done - are you afraid of this?" ”
As soon as she said this, even Zhang's sister-in-law turned pale, and couldn't help sighing and scolding: "The good ones in the Wang family's grain store are not raised by their own mothers, and the Ma Niangzi runs the grain store well, the Wang family is full, and we who are suffering are also full." This is good, yesterday the Wang family's pickled goods seized the power, and today they said that the price of wheat bran will rise, and the price increase is just that, they also want to run a butcher shop, and they will clearly not let us live. ”
The small economy in the butcher shop next to him also scolded: "The family of the straight lady thief is making goods, and it is obvious that they want to rob our business." ”
Another strong woman scolded: "What are you robbing our business, it is obviously to rob the business of selling pork to the Western Army, those guys are too small in ability and have great ambitions." ”
Li Kou's heart moved when he heard this, he didn't expect the Wang family to be so impatient.
Maybe even the grain bank wants to grab the meat business without sorting out the clue?
Suddenly, he thought of a possibility in his heart, it is said that Wang's grain store should not be in such a hurry.
That old man Wang is not a good stubble, and he is afraid that he has at least some vision.
So why is it so quick to rob the city's pork business?
I'm afraid that I want to take advantage of the opportunity to seize the channel, or simply use the bulk pork business to launder money?
Li Kou couldn't help but think about the actions of the gang of people.
Since ancient times, the government and businessmen have colluded, but I am afraid that evil deeds are indispensable.
He stood in front of the butcher shop and just thought, but Zheng Tu was upset when he saw it, and couldn't help but shout: "You kid, standing at the door of the Sprinkle shop, don't buy, don't speak, what are you looking at?" ”
Li Koutong looked at the group of pork dealers, and said after a while: "I just don't understand, since everyone knows that Miss Ma is the operator of the Wang family's grain store, how can those businessmen who look like people not know?" ”
"What's the use, Ma Niangzi has no money on hand, how can those merchants give her food." Zheng Tu said stupidly, "At this time in previous years, those landed lords ran to Weizhou, begging Ma Niangzi to collect their wheat, and those who sold wheat bran also broke the door of the grain store. ”
Li Kou smiled before he said, "How did I hear that Miss Ma got a glass cup worth millions......"
"Really?" Zheng Tu hurriedly asked, "How do you know?" ”
There was a meat buyer who said with a smile: "This is Li Dalang, who has just returned to his hometown, and in the lobby of the Envoy's Mansion, he poked the face of the Wang family and reprimanded him, he naturally knows the recent situation of Ma Niangzi." ”
Li Kou arched his hand to the man and said, "Not bad." ”
Zheng Tu put down the knife in his hand and hurriedly lifted the bench out, smiled amiably, and hurriedly wiped a stool with his greasy sleeve, and said with a smile: "I don't know it's a character, please take a seat." He shouted inside, "Come out quickly, what does Li Dalang want, you wait carefully." ”
Then he asked, "What do you want?" ”
Li Kou said: "You need half a pig, you need a good pig's head, you need to have pig ears that have been soaked in boiling water and cold water, and you need half of the pork chops, one hind leg, and you have to pick up more lean meat." ”
Zheng Tu was shocked: "What do you want to do so much? ”
Li Kou said: "Ma Niangzi saw that I had nowhere to go, so she entrusted me to buy some meat, and I was about to open a noodle shop, and I would use more meat in three or five days." Can you collect flying money here? ”
Zheng Tu rubbed his hands and said: "It's not difficult, the library is open, just send someone to change it - according to you, Ma Niangzi is not in the grain store?" ”
"I don't know this, I won't know until later." Li Kou looked at Zheng Tu twice, and said, "I don't want you to spare a few pennies, but I will solve you one of your two things now, and you want to give me a good pork for you." ”
Zheng Tu's face collapsed and he smiled bitterly and said, "What did Li Dalang say, isn't it to entertain the family?" One of the two things on the minds of the Sprinkle family is the heir, who is nearly forty years old, and has nothing to do with his knees, so he is naturally very anxious, and he has invited many doctors to see no use. ”
Li Kou said in his heart, that's because you only care about teaching your mother-in-law to take medicine.
"This matter is easy to say, but I will talk about it later, if you believe in me, it will not be difficult to solve it if you look for me in three or five days." Li Kou said, "However, it's best for both of you to come, if you are ashamed, then you don't need it." There is also the wheat bran that feeds the pigs, this is not difficult, although the horse girl does not have such a big channel now, but her means I believe, these days, she is going to open a glass cup conference, in an instant millions of dollars in hand, will be able to support the wheat bran channel you want, this matter you have discussed, only send someone to find her, I see that she is in a good mood, I think it is away from the bitter sea of the Wang family, and my heart is very free. ”
A group of people gathered around, Zheng Tu was not as vicious as the book said, he squatted down at the door first, and looked at Li Kou with his eyes, both suspicious and a little moved.
It would be best if this man really had such great ability, but could he be trusted for what he said?