Chapter 688: Treading the Snow and Looking for Plum Blossoms
After all the "idle people and others" were finished, Jia Yun finally couldn't help but speak: "Why does the second uncle have to collect all the grain in their hands, if the imperial court doesn't fight, although our family needs a lot of food for winemaking, it won't need so much." ”
After Jia Yun raised the sect, he should have called Jia Qing "Father". At first, he also called it that, and Jia Qing also tried to accept it with the mentality of "Xi Delin'er", but every time he felt weird, especially once in front of his sisters, Jia Yun called him his father, and the funny appearance of the sisters made people embarrassed. Then Xiangyun said: "Brother Yun, what should you call Sister Bao?" Push everyone's laughter to a climax.
In view of this, Jia Qing still asked Jia Yun to call him second uncle as before, which suddenly became a lot smoother and more natural.
Jia Qing didn't answer Jia Yun's words, but said to Shen Congcheng: "What does the old brother think?" ”
Shen Congcheng suddenly laughed: "Look at what my brother means, if I want to sell the grain in my hand, my brother is willing to eat it?" The number in my hands is far from comparable to that of several of them......"
Shen Congcheng was originally a big cloth merchant with huge family assets. Over the years, relying on the name of "Shen's soap, the first soap in the world", combined with his own cloth business, the family assets have gathered, but it is faster than Ning Guofu......
Of course, this is because Jia Qing's winery restaurant is still in its infancy.
Jia Qing said with a smile: "With the relationship between my brother and me, they have all bought it, if my brother also wants to sell, I will naturally buy it." However, I really don't have that much cash now, so I have to make a slip. ”
Shen Congcheng glanced at Jia Qing twice, but said with a smile: "I don't sell it." I'm going to go back and open two rice shops and sell them slowly, the price is much higher than yours. ”
Jia Qing glanced at him seriously and said, "In this way, then thank you brother for trusting!" ”
If it weren't for the low price, when would he have to sell his hundreds of thousands of stone grain?
Jia Qing understood that maybe he trusted Jia Qing, and since Jia Qing dared to continue to hoard grain, he was not afraid. Perhaps, he is unwilling to "fall into the well", for fear of bringing more pressure to himself.
Whatever it is, in short, it's affection. It's a friendship created by so many years of good cooperation.
Shen Congcheng also left.
"Tell Chaochao, let him call all the workers back, our winery, there is no need to stop for the time being, and go all out to open the cellar to make wine!"
Remember, though, to use stale grains first. ”
"Yes."
Although Jia Yun obeyed the order, the doubts in her eyes had not completely disappeared.
He had just calculated for Jia, and with the 420,000 stone of grain from the five grain merchants and nearly 200,000 stone of grain from the Xue family today, Jia Qing had an extra 600,000 stone of grain under his name at once.
plus Ning Guofu's own hoarding, it is far more than one million stones......
If this is all made into wine, Jia Yun can't imagine how much it will be. Besides, the winery can't eat so much food.
"Young Master Yun doesn't have to worry, the second master's move is probably determined, and the price of grain will not go down.
Perhaps, it won't be long before these grain merchants who help the second master hoard grain for free should cry.
However, I can't guess why the second master is so sure. ”
Yang Xu pondered for a long time, but he really didn't understand Jia Qing's intentions. But he knew that Jia Qing was definitely not stupid, so he had no choice but to say this to Jia Yun.
"No, no, no, I'm not sure." Jia Qing said so.
"The reason why I agreed to collect their grain is that I really feel that the price of grain this time can't be lowered at all, because I don't believe that the Ice Bear Kingdom really wants to marry us forever. Second, I need food, a lot of food. Grain is just something that makes money in the hands of merchants, but in my hands they are of great use!
However, I may not be able to hit either of these points. After all, I am not a god, and it is impossible to predict the future.
But I can take a gamble!
If I lose the bet, it's a big deal that I sell the grain I can't use, and I will lose hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at most, and I still have this bit of courage.
But if the bet is won, then the value is not hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. ”
Jia Yun and Yang Xu were shocked.
The admiration for Jia Qing in my heart is like a mountain, and I can't stop looking up.
Looking at the world, who can not put hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in their eyes? The loss of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver is called "mere courage"?
Neither could the emperor!
……
A winter snow arrived as scheduled.
"I've seen my aunt and grandmother."
"Did the second uncle get up?"
"Up."
Ling'er strode into Ning'an Hall.
"Sister Peifeng......"
"Hmph."
Pei Feng didn't appreciate someone's gentle words, snorted coldly, and went out of the house.
This woman is so shameless, she betrayed the second master, and now she dares to come to Ning'an Hall at any time. The second master can bear it, but she can't bear it.
Later, Xianluan also came out with the utensils after cleaning and gargling for Jia, and when he saw this scene, he said: "Auntie, don't be like her, she is the ...... temper"
"I know, I won't mind...... The second uncle is in there, right? ”
"Yes."
Ling'er nodded, led her maid, and entered the door of Jia Qing's bedroom.
Jia Qing sat on the bed and put on his shoes, looked up at her, and said lightly, "What are you doing here?" ”
"The concubine came to greet the second uncle, and by the way, I stewed a cup of chicken soup for the second uncle, and asked the second uncle to taste it......"
Jia Qing frowned slightly, and then said: "If you have this thought, you might as well put it on Rong'er, how did I hear that he recently brought a Qinglou woman back?" ”
"The second uncle is talking about Chunmei, she is also a hard-working woman, her parents died when she was a child, and she was sold into the Yixiang Courtyard.
Rong'er took a fancy to her, so I found someone to redeem her body and took her to live in the yard. I asked Sister Keqing about this, and she agreed. ”
"That's it, who asked you this!" Jia Qing said impatiently.
This woman, he really can't understand! Since she chose Jia Rong, how could Jia Qing stop it?
Therefore, when Jia Rong took her to kneel in front of her and begged Jia Qing to give her to him, Jia Qing agreed.
Then, she became the only aunt and grandmother in Ningguo Mansion today.
Auntie and grandmother are the masters.
However, now she comes over on time every day to ask for this, and she sends this and that every once in a while, I don't know if she is so caring to Jia Rong!
But Jia Qing was reluctant to delve into it. He didn't want to get too involved with this woman.
A woman who had previously claimed to like him and would do anything to get his attention, turned around and was able to throw herself into the arms of another man, and this man was also his nephew. Such a woman, Jia Qing can't understand it, can't guess it, so he can only stay away.
As long as she doesn't threaten him with Qin Keqing's affairs, that's fine.
Jia Qing raised his legs and walked out of the door.
went to the backyard, accompanied a group of delicate and heroic female guards to exchange feelings, and escaped when the green bead appeared......
Lu Zhu is so terrible, when she sees him, she remembers her task and "practices" Jia Qing to the death, so that Jia Qing can't grow any extra flesh on his body!
Jia's mother said that he looked white and chubby when he was a child, why did he grow longer, the longer he looked, the more blessed he was not Jia Baoyu?
Stepping into the Grand View Garden, I saw that the garden was white.
This year's snow came a little late, and this is the first heavy snowfall of the year.
After crossing the mountain yin road, I actually saw that the gate of the Ku Cui Nunnery, which had not been opened for many years, was actually open, and inside the courtyard wall, the girls with red willow green, fat and thin flowers gathered together, obviously doing activities.
Jia Qing smiled slightly, this day, stepping on the snow to find plum blossoms is indeed an elegant and happy thing. So climb the ladder and get ready to see what they're doing.
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