Chapter Seventy-Three: Soaring Food Prices
In mid-November, the fluttering snow covered the entire Yishui County in silver, white and quiet. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Not far from the town square of info Chengnan, a simple and elegant, exquisite wooden building is in the observation pavilion.
Zheng Qianqian leaned over and leaned lightly against the window, her eyes were like a light rain outside the window, as if covered with a faint layer of mist. Through the snow, you can see the silhouette of the majestic and majestic group of buildings. The pretty face that is no longer without makeup and with a touch of rouge is dyed with an indescribable sense of loneliness.
She was completely different from a few months ago when she was dressed in plain clothes, at this time she was covered in Luo clothes, her demeanor was light and delicate, and the faint charm of a young woman made her look a little graceful and luxurious. It's as if she was born to be in this kind of life, without the slightest sense of estrangement. Compared with before, it is even more coquettish, weak and coveted.
It's been almost a month since I heard from him. Zheng Qianqian's eyes looked at her stupidly, and she couldn't help but think of him a month ago, in this viewing pavilion that only he can use now, he was slightly drunk, but he pretended to be strong and took away his first night strongly.
As soon as she thought of her first night, Zheng Qianqian couldn't help but feel a burst of misery in her heart, and it was okay to be sold by her father, a bad gambler and drunkard, to a native of Yishui County as a wife. But after she got married, she realized that her husband was a tuberculosis ghost. Buying her as a wife is also for Chongxi, who wants to be happy but not Chongcheng, on the day of the wedding, the person will die. The unreasonable abuse of her mother-in-law's family and the disappearance of her alcoholic father have all resigned herself to her fate, and the so-called rich in-law's family is just an ordinary family in Yishui County, and the foundation has long been hollowed out in order to treat her son and buy money for her daughter-in-law.
At a young age, in order to make a living, she could only go out to do her old job and sell tofu flowers. But selling and selling, business is excellent, but now many people are just coming for her. For a while, the three aunts and six women who loved to have a quarrel began to chew the root of their tongues. As if it had to ruin her reputation. As a result, Zheng Qianqian became more and more indifferent, and almost never agreed to talk to anyone. But Rao is like this, after going back, the jealous mother-in-law will still beat and scold her often. But even so, she was reluctant to give Zheng Qianqian the hard-earned money she earned every day.
As the days passed, Zheng Qianqian didn't know that she would have to survive until that day. During this period, she encountered countless storms and butterflies, but fortunately, there was a person with a family background who saw her pitiful, so she let people take care of her, and then slowly established herself in the street stall.
It wasn't until he appeared for the second time that it completely changed her life. He's so tough, he's domineering, and he doesn't even reason with you. Like a robber, he dragged her away alive. also sent someone to use extremely strong means to get down this restaurant and let herself run it well, but then, after being drunk, he forcibly violated her.
Zheng Qianqian knew that she was not qualified to hate him, but at this time, she still had some hatred for him in her heart. But in my heart, I was faintly reluctant to give up on him. What she knows is that from the mouths of those dignitaries in the restaurant recently, she often hears the news of those talking about the topic. I know that Yishui County is not very peaceful today, and the bandits outside the city have a vague tendency to make trouble.
In short, he must have a headache and be very busy now, and it is no wonder that he has not come to his side for more than a month, and he must be working very hard now. Zheng Qianqian secretly helped him find a reason. When he is done with this, he will definitely come back to visit him.
From that night, after he took possession of her fiercely and domineeringly, he declared at that time that she was already his woman. But she has been at the bottom of her life for so long, and she clearly knows that with her background and status, she will never have the opportunity to be his wife justifiably.
is just a mistress he spends money on outside, and he can't be on the stage or see the light. Otherwise, it will definitely have a great negative impact on his reputation.
Mistress? Even if it is a mistress, she must be the best mistress, a mistress who will be of great help to him and of great use, so that he will often think of himself. Zheng Qianqian, you must be strong, she said to herself every night and night.
The 200,000 taels of silver he gave himself, because of the forbidden means, finally spent only 50,000 taels to buy this restaurant. It happened to be in the peak season again, and with her diligence and studiousness, she quickly adapted to the role of the hotel owner. If you don't understand something, you can learn little by little, even if it is every night and every night. In just over three months, she was almost reborn, not only relying on the more prosperous business of the restaurant, she saved a lot of money, but also learned a lot of things. And she originally had some foundation, the gambler father in the family was not down, and he was also a person with some status, no matter how she counted, she was a young lady, so she naturally had the opportunity to learn literacy.
What she had left behind for many years was picked up by her again. From the account room to the kitchen, everything is transparent to her. Maybe the account office dared to do some tricks at first, but after three months, no one in the entire restaurant could fool her.
Perhaps, she was born to be a piece of business material, and among the restaurants, especially the most high-end restaurant in Yishui County, the businessmen who come and go are all hands and eyes, and they are not rich or noble, and often between words, they will inadvertently reveal some news.
Recently, the buildings in Yishui County have been basically completed, and the residents have also lived in the houses they rebuilt with their own hands as they wished, but they have encountered banditry, the farmers have no intention of farming, and most of the fields outside the city are deserted, so during the autumn harvest season this year, the entire Yishui County has no harvest, resulting in a shortage of food in the city now.
Li Jin originally wanted to attack the Yunlong Village, take back the gold, silver, treasures and grain in the village and distribute them to the people, and spend this winter first.
Who knows, after capturing Yunlong Village, I found that this group of robbers didn't know where to send their property for a long time, and the cottage was cleaner than the little white face of Taishou Zhao Shuhe.
There is no grain stock in the whole county, and the people are in short supply of food, which makes people panic, and some unscrupulous businessmen take the opportunity to stock up on grain, which makes the grain prices in the vicinity of Yishui County soar and almost double.
In fact, Zheng Qianqian is also one of these unscrupulous businessmen. Not long after Li Jin helped her take down the restaurant, she vaguely heard that there was chaos outside the city, and I am afraid that this year will not be peaceful. And she linked to the reduction of grain production after the two major disasters last year and skyrocketed a lot, at that time just a flash of inspiration in her head, she felt that this year's food would definitely rise again, and at that time, there was just 150,000 silver taels left on hand, and he also sent another 200,000 taels, and then a restaurant for more than half a month of profits, a total of 400,000 silver taels.
After thinking about it one night, she decided to take a big gamble. In the middle of finding a restaurant, a few particularly smart and clever guys, together with the people he called to protect him, secretly found a few large warehouses on the edge of the county seat, and secretly desperately purchased grain. It's only been half a month, like a madman, he spent all 400,000 taels, and the purchase price was only high and low, but he received a total of 900,000 tons of grain.
However, I don't know if it's because of her crazy purchases, or because the price of food really began to rise, food prices began to rise slowly.
To this day, she has to sell her 900,000 quintals of grain, at least one million taels of silver, and many people want to come and eat this batch of grain, but she refuses, because she has received the news, as if he is also in urgent need of food, and he is worrying recently!