"Sixty-two thousand catties of corn, thirty-eight thousand six hundred catties of soybeans, and rice..."

Zhao's rice shop, the old shopkeeper who is over the age of six, is fiddling with the abacus to calculate the accounts, calculating yesterday's income.

It's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked.

In the middle of yesterday, the residents of the town, together with the victims with a little spare money, bought nearly 100,000 catties of grain from Zhao's rice store in one go.

In Jiuquan Town, there are a total of eleven grain stores, except for the two grain stores of the Wang family, which are not open, the others have made a lot of money, not to mention 500,000 catties of grain.

"Tonggui, how are the victims outside the town?"

Fiddling with the abacus, the shopkeeper asked without raising his head.

The fellow, who was called Tonggui, nodded and stood aside, and replied: "Shopkeeper, I have already seen it, compared to yesterday, there are tens of thousands of victims today. ”

"That's a good thing!"

The shopkeeper pressed the abacus in his hand and said with a smile: "Even if it is a disaster victim, there must be a few copper plates in your hand, right?" Gather sand into a tower, today's business is not necessarily worse than yesterday, by the way, let you go to the town to spread the news, saying that the price of food is going to rise, did you tell the villagers? ”

"I said, I said, but the shopkeeper, do we really want to raise the price? With the current price of food, many villagers can't afford to eat it, let alone the disaster victims outside. While Tonggui spoke, he paid attention to the shopkeeper's face.

The shopkeeper sneered and said disapprerovingly: "Why don't you go up, there are more people and less food, and whoever doesn't go up is a fool." Besides, didn't I let you go out on the wind, the clever ones already know how to store grain, stupid, starve them to death, what are fools doing alive. ”

"The shopkeeper, the shopkeeper, the Wang family's housekeeper Liu Quan came, saying that his young master had something to say to everyone, let us send someone to the Wang family's rice warehouse."

A guy ran in from outside the door, panting.

"What do you mean?"

The shopkeeper looked strange and asked, "Who did the young master of the Wang family invite?" ”

The man replied: "I invited a lot of people, the shopkeepers of various shops in the town, and some famous villagers, by the way, even the villages below also sent people, and I saw that Master Liu of Sanwangzhuang was also invited." ”

"Weird, what is this Wang family going to do? In the past few days, the price of the grain store in the town has increased, and the door of his Wang family's grain store is closed, and he doesn't even do business. Now with great fanfare, the gentry from the town and various villages are being invited, what is this for? ”

The old shopkeeper couldn't think of it, so he waved his hand and said, "Go and inform the master, and call two more guys to come over with me." ”

At the same time, in different places, similar things were happening everywhere.

The three major families are all invited by the housekeepers of the Wang family, and the gentry and shops below are to let the guys in the family go to people.

An hour later, thousands of people were already surrounded in front of the Wang family's rice warehouse.

Everyone looked up and saw that the characters with heads and faces in Jiuquan Town were all here, and in addition, there were small landlords in various villages, and it seemed that there was no shortage of them.

"Boss Wei, I don't know why the Wang family invited us here with great fanfare?"

"It's hard to say, but it looks like something big is happening."

"Big deal? Not necessarily, if it was a big event, we should be at the gate of the ancestral hall, but you see that the three elders didn't come at all. ”

"Yes, the three elders haven't come, it shouldn't be a big deal, let's take a look for the time being."

The people below were talking, and the people standing in front were all people with heads and faces, and the people in the back were the townspeople who came to see the excitement.

After waiting for a while, seeing that the people were almost all together, Wang Xu climbed the high platform and said, "Uncles and uncles, fellow villagers, Wang Xu is polite here." This time, I called everyone over, not for anything else, for the victims outside the town. The victims are gathering more and more, and it is not a way to go on like this, the old men in the county don't want to take care of it, but my Wang family can't look at it. ”

"What do you mean, what is the Wang family going to do?"

"Something is wrong, this little young master of the Wang family, he doesn't want to meddle in the affairs of the victims, right?"

"It's not so unwise, the old men in the county, they are helpless in the face of these victims, and they are so panicked that even the city gates are closed, what can he do with a little kid?"

Listening to the discussion below, Wang Xu stood on the high platform and slapped his slap gently: "Everyone be quiet and listen to me finish speaking." ”

The discussion gradually subsided, and everyone was not giving Wang Xu face, but to the Wang family, and they also wanted to hear what he had to say.

Wang Xu didn't talk nonsense, his eyes looked around the crowd, and said: "The victims are also people, the old men in the county don't care, but my Wang family can't sit idly by." Today, my Wang family will pretend to be a big head, how much food everyone has in their hands, how much my Wang family wants, and my Wang family wants to help the victims! ”

"What, relief for the victims!" The old shopkeeper of the Zhao family's rice shop looked at him dumbfounded.

"Crazy, this young master of the Wang family is crazy, does he know how many victims are outside, and how many victims are coming?" Boss Zhou of the oil mill also said to the people around him.

"What the hell is the Wang family, calling us here and letting a half-grown man who talks nonsense come out, do you look down on us or take the wrong medicine?" Boss Jiang of the grocery store looked dissatisfied.

"Young Master Wang, is what you said true?"

In the midst of doubts, a different voice suddenly came.

Wang Xu was stunned, and said to Liu Quan beside him: "This is what you invited?" ”

"No, I asked Boss Wei of the cloth shop to be the trustee, I don't know this person!" Liu Quan also looked inexplicable, and glanced at Boss Wei in the crowd, and Boss Wei also shook his head in confusion.

"Whose child is this, looking at the face!"

"It seems to be the Ning family, what is Zhang Qing, he is said to be the son of the boss of the Ning family, and now he is called Ning Qing, and he has already recognized his ancestors and returned to his ancestors."

"The boss of the Ning family, didn't he run away from home thirty years ago and came back?"

"It doesn't seem to be, the boss of the Ning family died outside, so he came back with a half-sized boy and a little girl."

Listening to the discussion of the villagers, Wang Xu looked at this person named Zhang Qing, no, it should be called Ning Qing.

Ning Qing looked seventeen or eighteen years old, followed by a little girl of thirteen or fourteen, unlike people in the countryside who would subconsciously dodge when they met the gaze of others, he looked at Wang Xu with his head held high, and his eyes were very clear.

The Ning family, Wang Xu is no stranger.

The reason why he is not a stranger is not that the Ning family is rich, but that on the day he met the blood demon, the middle-aged man who borrowed money from him was the Ning family.

A few decades ago, the Ning family was also a squire in Jiuquan Town, and the family had more than 100 acres of land, which was more than enough than the top.

The good times didn't last long, as the second elder of the Ning family drowned in the river, the eldest who caused the drowned of the second brother ran away from home, and the old couple of the Ning family went crazy to find it, and the days slowly fell.

The family business passed to the third child of the Ning family, and there were ten acres of land left, and a serious illness in the spring of this year made the Ning family's daughter-in-law infected with the cold, and the ten acres of land were also mortgaged to the Wang family.

"You didn't arrange him?"

Wang Xu glanced at Liu Quan again, Liu Quan shook his head slightly, and did not speak.

"Interesting, Wumao with his own dry food!"

Wang Xu was happy, the boss Wei he hired didn't speak, and this Ning Qing, who brought his own dry food, rushed up instead.

Looking at the meaning of the people around him, he was still very interested in Ning Qing's statement, and they all wanted to know if the Wang family wanted to play for real.

"This folk's words are to the point, the Wang family wants disaster relief, is it really disaster relief, will it give up halfway? Now, on behalf of the Wang family, Wang Xu, the young master of the Wang family, I will tell you personally that we have prepared 50 million catties of grain, and we will not keep any of these grains, and we will all give relief to the victims! ”

Seeing that the people below were all in disbelief, Wang Xu turned his head to look at Liu Quan: "Open a position!" ”

"Open a position!"

Under Liu Quan's big drink, the granary was opened.

As far as the eye can see, it is densely packed with grain, not only the granary is full, but even the ground is piled up, and the townspeople who see it are exclaiming.

"I ask everyone to supervise, all the food in this is for the relief of the victims, and my Wang family will not sell a load! In addition, everyone is welcome to sell grain to the Wang family, as much grain as there is, my Wang family will want as much grain, and the grain bought will be used for disaster relief, disaster relief, starting tonight. ”

With Wang Xu's words, everyone present was dumbfounded.

I don't know if it was the first one to start clapping, and soon, warm applause rang out from all directions.

In the crowd, several bosses of the rice shop gathered together, looked at Wang Xu with a smile on his face, and muttered: "The Wang family is finished, even if there are no 50 million catties of grain here, there are still 20 million catties, and now the Wang family's family is hollowed out." ”

"Yes, it's definitely over, and Jinshan Yinshan can't stop such a mess."

"What are we going to do?"

"Sell the grain to the Wang family, doesn't he sell him as much as he wants."

"No, if we add up, there are at least 20 million catties of grain, can the Wang family afford it?"

"Why can't you afford it, the Wang family has so many fields, it is a rice shop and a restaurant, and the young master of the Wang family still has a great Confucian as a teacher, so he can pay off his debts."

"Wouldn't it be too ruthless to do this, this is pushing the Wang family into the fire pit!"

"You don't like it?"

"Hey, I like it..."