As soon as the words fell, Shi Dachun ran in in a hurry, ignoring the mud on the shoes, pulling the dog and asking, "Little dog, what's going on?" ”

The dog was stunned and said, "What's going on?" What the hell are you asking? ”

Shi Dachun hurriedly explained: "The price of firewood outside has fallen sharply, and it has just fallen to four cents and one load in the East Market!" ”

Gou Erqi said: "Four pieces and one load? No way, the price is not as good as summer, but now it's winter! How can it be so cheap. ”

Shi Dachun hurriedly said: "That's right, so I came to look for you, I wonder if someone is deliberately lowering the price?" ”

The dog said: "Lower price? Who is so stupid, it is not easy to chop firewood in winter, where did he get so much firewood to reduce the price?

Besides, if the price is low, who will sell it! It's not hard enough to make money, it's not cost-effective! ”

Shi Dachun also thought hard with his head, and he couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time.

The dog suddenly thought of something and hurriedly asked, "Are there any new faces selling firewood in this East Market?" ”

Shi Dachun said: "No! ”

The dog was stunned for a moment and asked, "Then where did this wind come from?" ”

Shi Dachun shook his head.

As the saying goes, things in this world, especially man-made things, as long as you are patient and searching, you can always find some clues, and then follow the clues to investigate slowly, as long as you are careful, you can always reveal the truth of the mystery.

On the spot, the dog waved his hand to let a few people who had been holding back all morning run out, and specially told them to go to a few shops to see if there were any firewood sellers who had come to the city, and then told Wang Xiaoyi that beggars of all sizes would inquire about where this 'price reduction wind' blew from, and whoever found out first would reward whoever had eaten the hot cooking cakes.

In terms of inquiring about the news, except for the gang of officials in the yamen, there is really no one in this Yuchuan City who can be faster than the dogs, and the cost is low.

No, not half an hour after the people were dispersed, a dirty doll with snot hanging on his lips and sucking in it ran over panting.

When he arrived at the door, he didn't dare to come in, so he stood by the fence and shouted: "Dasha, Dasha!" Are you not at home? ”

The dog and Shi Dachun were drinking water in the house, and when they heard someone calling Dasha, they pushed the door and walked out and shouted to him: "Dasha has gone out to play, you go to the street to find it!" ”

The doll didn't leave for a while, and said through the door: "Then I'm looking for the dog!" ”

The dog said angrily: "The dog leftovers also ran out to play." ”

Seeing that he was still rubbing around at the door, he asked, "Why don't you run to them, why are you hanging around at the door?" ”

Xiaowa said: "It was Brother Xiaoyi who asked me to come over, saying that he could give me hot cooking cakes to eat." ”

Wang Xiaoyi? Could it be that this baby has heard the news?

The dog hurriedly opened the door and led the person in, and said to him in front of Shi Dachun: "Say, as long as the news is useful, I will give you a cake to eat!" ”

Xiaowa said happily: "There are five or six men this morning, each carrying a load of firewood from the west gate into the city, they don't go to the grass market to squat on the side of the street and start selling firewood, a load of firewood only sells for five cents, I was playing next to me, I heard them say that they came from a long way outside the city, so they should quickly sell it back, if someone can buy it all at once, four cents can also be." ”

"After a while, all their firewood was bought, you didn't see Brother Gou'er, these people have been gone for a long time, and the shopkeeper Zhou, who opened the restaurant, is still looking for them everywhere, saying that he wants to buy all their firewood at one time!"

After listening to him, the dog's head was sweating for a while, not how scary the content of the words was, and the dirty doll had a runny nose while talking, and seeing that the long snot was about to flow into his mouth, he snorted and returned to his nose.

The disgusting dog couldn't do it, so he quickly took out five cents and stuffed it into his hand to tell him to get out, and blew his nose again, and then he gave up.

"Brother Shi, do you think these people will still come?"

Shi Dachun took a sip of water and shook his head and said: "It's hard to say, listening to the meaning of this Xiaolang's words, these people seem to have come from far away, and they only sell a load of firewood for five cents, which is not cost-effective!" ”

"Besides, the price of firewood in the city is obviously ten cents a load, if you want to sell it quickly, you can sell it for eight cents, then there are fools who don't make money by putting it away!"

Hearing his analysis, the dog's head suddenly brightened up a lot, and he immediately tried to say: "Unless they are not here to sell firewood!" ”

Shi Dachun thought for a while and added: "It is not inevitable that they are farmers from the distant countryside, who come to the city to buy things and bring some firewood to sell by the way." ”

The two of them muttered for a long time and finally came to the conclusion, wait a few days to see, if these people no longer appear, forget it, if you find it again, you must follow, see who they are, as the saying goes, the strong dragon does not suppress the head of the snake, you outsiders, the rules and regulations to do business, actually dare to suppress the price of firewood at will, and the pressure is so ruthless that it is completely the rhythm of lifting the table so that the big guys have no food!

They are all poor people, you come in to do the same business, everyone will not say you, the big deal is to use some commercial means to compete normally, even if it is to reduce the price, as long as you can ensure small profits are still allowed, but you directly do it at a discount, not according to the market price at all, then you are the person who smashes the pot, the black sheep in business, and anyone who lives by this business has to unite against you.

Therefore, the price war is a competitive model, which is generally not allowed to be used until the last step, but once it is used, it is the extent that the head is broken and bleeding, and one party will not give up if it is not bankrupt.

After two days of peace and quiet, the price of firewood in the city has basically returned to the normal price of eight cents and a load, and every day I pick up two loads to sell in the market, and buy food in exchange for the copper money along the way, although the family is all children, but I can't hold my belly to eat, and there is nothing else to eat in winter, so I can only pay for dry food to eat.

On the way back, I actually met Wang Yong, this guy has never seen him since he became a groom official, as the saying goes, a day is not seen as if every other three autumns, several days do not see this Wang Yong as if he changed a person, not only the beard on the face is clean, the hair on the head is neatly tied, the dog also deliberately paid attention to the neck, sleeves and these places, did not see a dirty spot, presumably it is the reason why Sister-in-law Liu often washes him, with the Hun family This life is really different!

At that moment, the dog quipped: "Brother Wang, how does it feel to marry the Hun family?" ”

Wang Yong blushed and said, "Tired." ”

The dog frowned and said, "Tired? What is there to be tired of, there are people to cook the rice, someone to wash the clothes, what do you have to be tired, how diligent and diligent Sister-in-law Liu is, how can you be tired. ”

The king opened his mouth to say and stopped, and the dog sighed.

"I said Brother Wang, you have married a wife, why hasn't this problem changed, be careful to make Sister-in-law Liu angry and let you eat hehehehe......"

Wang Yong nodded and didn't say anything, and the dog didn't know what to say for a while, and when he saw him holding the net in his hand, he asked curiously: "Brother Wang, what are you doing with the net?" ”

Wang Yong said: "There are a lot of finches on the mountain, I will go and cast a net to catch two finches to eat!" ”

The dog pouted, the birds and finches had something to eat, and they were only two taels of meat, and it was better to catch a rabbit when there was time.

Speaking of rabbits, the dog quickly patted his head, a few days ago he promised to invite Liu Tou and a few of them to eat and drink, but these days they have forgotten everything, fortunately today I remembered.

Liu Sanlang of the dog day didn't give himself a reward, and Zhang Laohan's wine shop had no money to go to, so he could only make do with it at home like last time, anyway, it was the same for rough men there, and it was more convenient to go on the ground when he was drunk.

Thinking about it at the moment, he stared at Wang Yong and said shyly: "Brother Wang, do you have any extra net in your hand?" ”

Wang Yong said: "There is another one, do you want to use it?" ”

The dog nodded hurriedly: "The kid wants to go to the mountains and surf the net, and the rabbit fights the tooth sacrifice." ”

Wang Yong shook his head and said, "No, my net is also a thin net for sticking birds, and if you want to catch rabbits, you have to use a strong thick wire net." ”

The dog sighed and said to himself, why is it so difficult to eat meat.

Say goodbye to Wang Yong, wander around to Xicheng, meet Wang Xiaoyi who ran crazy on the street, and ran over without saying hello when he saw himself, carrying a wooden barrel.

When I arrived in the West Market, I bought two fat chickens on the street, and the price of everything rose in winter, and the two chickens cost the dog more than 90 yuan, and a few adult strong men couldn't just eat chickens, and went to the front of the Hu butcher's stall again, and the mutton of more than 100 yuan a pound could not be eaten, and the pork of 30 yuan a pound could still be bought by gritting his teeth.

Hu Butcher, a sturdy man in his thirties, was hanging half a fan of pork on his shoulders on an iron hook, and the dog stood still and shouted at him: "Master Hu! Busy with that! ”

Almost everyone feels that the butcher is not a ruthless person, who often sees blood when he kills pigs and dogs, and he who usually eats meat and drinks oil is fat and strong, and anyone who sees it has to shout a strong man.

Just looking at the appearance of the butcher in front of him, he is also worthy of a strong man, but that heart seems to have been exchanged with a rabbit.

Talking to people is always a feeling of weakness and powerlessness, passers-by fight are not afraid to look at it, do business that do not quarrel with guests, sometimes the two sides are angry and will compete, but this Hu butcher has never been, people's name, always give high, if you say that the meat is not fresh, immediately give you a new change, if you still want to find fault with people will lower your eyebrows and let you scold, and when you are tired of scolding, you will be weak and powerless to compensate you is not.

As soon as I went back and forth, the neighbors spread the word, saying that he was a gentleman's body and the heart of his daughter's family, and some people explained that Hu Butcher was patted away by a flower crutch when he was a child, which left a wound in his heart, so he was timid and afraid.

In any case, there are seven or eight stalls selling meat in the other three squares of Youchuan City, and only the Duhu butcher in Xicheng is the family. It's not that no one has come to open it, but they can't stand the customers not coming to the door, and they will move to other shops after coming and going.

But he said that this rabbit heart is a rabbit heart, and when the dog shouted like this, Butcher Hu almost shook half of the pork to the ground, but fortunately, he fished it back again.

Butcher Hu looked up and saw that it was a little baby, so he exhaled, his expression was obviously relaxed, and after the pork was hung up again, he turned around and asked the dog what he wanted?

The dog smiled and said, "Is there blood tofu?" ”

Hu Butcher nodded and said, "Yes, how many catties do you want?" ”

The dog gestured and said, "Come on such a big piece." ”

At a glance, Hu Butcher picked up the iron knife on the board, picked up the white cloth covering the basket next to him, took out a piece of blood tofu coagulated with pig blood, gently pulled out a piece according to the size of the dog, and put it on the scale next to him.

The dog nodded, and then said, "Cut ten catties of fat for a large piece of fat!" ”