"Sister-in-law An Ning, this is what you don't know, those grain merchants are very well-informed, they have people in the court, they know how much grain there is in various places, and they probably know how much surplus grain there is in the treasury!"

"So, if you just release the news that you have raised enough food, they will also know that it is fake news?" An Ning put down the kettle and got up.

Huzi scratched the back of his head, looking embarrassed, "This method Brother Xue has already thought about it, and when he released the news to the outside world, he said that Brother Hu had raised enough food and was on his way back, and those grain merchants were afraid that the grain would be smashed in their hands after they knew it, and they would definitely immediately get rid of the grain in their hands, but the problem is here, these grain merchants are very proficient in news, and we can't make it difficult for us to block the news, so ......."

After a while, he thought for a moment and said, "Actually, this method is not impossible. ”

"Huh?" Xue Qingshan, who had been pondering, immediately raised his head and looked at An Ning expectantly.

"It's just that the risk is a bit big, and it's hard to lose my wife and lose my soldiers!" An Ning said.

"Sister-in-law An Ning, what do you say? Could it be a real lockdown? But those grain merchants in our city must also know what we want to do, it's useless to seal it! ”

"No, the city is definitely going to be sealed, but the news doesn't need to be disseminated......."

An Ning explained his thoughts to Xue Qingshan and Huzi in detail, Xue Qingshan's originally frowning brows gradually relaxed, Huzi's eyes slowly lit up, and finally Xue Qingshan clapped,

"That's it!"

With an idea, Xue Qingshan was in a good mood, Xiaoxi gave An Ning a hand, An Ning personally cooked, made a few specialty dishes, and Xue Qingshan and Huzi ate and drank at the same time. Huzi had a good amount of wine, and in the end, Xue Qingshan drank Huzi and was still in good spirits.

An Ning was most afraid that Xue Qingshan would get drunk, and she couldn't help a person as strong as a mountain, so it was Huzi who helped carry Xue Qingshan into the bedroom. While wiping Xue Qingshan's body, An Ning asked Xiaoxi to help arrange Huzi's accommodation.

Huzi often came over to eat when he was resting, and he often rested here at Xue Qingshan, so Anning usually left a special room for Huzi, and it was not difficult to clean up, just sweep the dust.

Without further ado, the next day Xue Qingshan ordered the city to be sealed, and the grain merchants in Wucheng heard that Xue Qingshan ordered the city to be sealed, and immediately gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

"Hmph, he Xue Qingshan must be trying to cut off our contact with various places, so as to spread some confusing news and make us mess up!" The grain merchant led by him stood with his hands in his hands, and he was confident.

"Yes, what if the city is sealed, we have a way to contact the outside, he Xue Qingshan thinks he can trap us?" Someone chimed in.

"Yes, that's right, we don't need to pay attention to him, he Xue Qingshan can't buy food, let's just wait to see him sing a one-man show alone!"

"Yes, that's right, let's just wait to see a good show!" Other grain merchants responded one after another, these merchants not only operated the grain business, but also operated other industries, almost controlling the economic lifeline of Wucheng, they were not afraid of Xue Qingshan, after all, the people did not fight with the officials, they just relied on the fact that Wucheng was now in the recovery period, and could not withstand the turmoil, knowing that Xue Qingshan would not easily move them.

So after a moment of panic, the grain merchants once again regained their composure.

In the next few days, Xue Qingshan still went to the major grain merchants in Wucheng every day to buy grain, but this time he was obviously not so serious, people closed the door and didn't see him for a while and left, and he was not in a hurry to play ball with him, and he would follow the trend and kick a few times.

Xue Qingshan's nonchalant attitude is really puzzling, these grain merchants are still waiting for Xue Qingshan to release the news, saying that they have raised enough food, but in the past few days, they have sent people out to inquire a few times, and there is no news about raising grain on the market.

On the contrary, Xue Qingshan, like a convention, has to come and go once a day, and he doesn't care if he returns without success, or he cares a lot on the surface, but in fact it seems to be a formality. The grain merchants are puzzled, why are you locking down the city if you don't spread the news?

The market has been quiet and terrible these days, and there is no news coming out, and the grain merchants who are waiting to watch the show feel a little worried in their hearts, and they always feel like the calm before the storm.

While these grain merchants were scratching their ears and cheeks, a spy said that a convoy of carts and horses had left the city in the middle of the night last night.

"Out of town?" The grain merchant led by him frowned, he couldn't even fly out of the city these days, why did anyone still go out of the city?

The spy said, "The little ones counted, there must be hundreds of people, wearing ordinary cloth shirts, pulling empty cars, and the group of people is very rich, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate have not stopped them." ”

"Pulling an empty car?" The grain merchants were shocked, at this time, the third watch pulled the empty car out of the city in the middle of the night?

"Can you see who they are?" Although the grain merchant led by him asked, he seemed to have an answer in his heart.

The spy was just a messenger, and was surrounded by grain merchants and forced to ask, sweating on the top of his head, "It's too dark, the villain doesn't dare to get too close, only to see the cloth shirts they are all wearing, wearing turbans, maybe the people in the city have run out of food and sneaked out of the city to find food?" ”

"Useless stuff!" The grain merchant at the head kicked the spies in the stomach, "Go and find out for me again!" ”

The spy was kicked and fell to the ground and rolled around a few times, got up and kowtowed and ran out.

The grain merchants looked at the gray back of the spies, and a terrible conjecture came out of their hearts.

"Could it be that Xue Qingshan sealed the city because he wanted to lock up the news that he had already raised food?"

Everyone was breathless, how could so many people go out of the city to find food at once, how could ordinary people have carriages, and how could the officers and soldiers guarding the city let them out? There is only one answer, these people are the soldiers under Xue Qingshan!

Once the seeds of doubt are planted in the heart, they are infinitely expanded. Wucheng is still quiet, as if there are no people who go out of the city every night, and Xue Qingshan still comes to the door every day. The grain merchants were in a hurry, but none of the people who went out of the city to inquire about the news came back, they really underestimated Xue Qingshan!

At this time, the people sent to monitor Xue Qingshan's camp came with news, saying that Xue Qingshan secretly sent someone to count the grain and grass of the army and the camp......

In the past few days, Xue Qingshan went to those grain merchants again, and the grain merchants no longer avoided them, and they talked with Xue Qingshan enthusiastically, wanting to get words out of his mouth, but Xue Qingshan didn't want to talk to them now, and when he saw that they were unwilling to sell grain, he left immediately.......

The grain merchants fell into a kind of unknown fear, scurrying around like headless flies, and the grain merchants, who already had a thinner family, could not sit still and wanted to get rid of the grain. Under the deterrence of the grain merchant led by him, he did not act for the time being, but his heart was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

Xue Qingshan saw that the time was almost up, and it was time to close the net. So the grain merchants in Wucheng finally received the news from outside the city at this time. Countless spies were released, and only one came back, and he was still dying, but this news was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The news is that Hu Dafu is already on the way back with hundreds of truckloads of grain, and he will arrive in Wucheng in less than ten days!

The grain people have no time to care about where Hu Dafu raised the grain, and now they should worry about what to do with the grain piled up in their warehouses!

So on the second day, many small grain shops in Wucheng opened their doors early in the morning, and the price of grain returned to the previous price.

Once someone starts, others can no longer sit still, they open the door one after another, the price is lower than before, from the street to the end of the street, the rice grain store business is more and more popular, the price is lower than the other, the grain merchants are afraid that their own grain will not be able to sell and smash their own hands.

After the previous experience, the people of Wucheng did not understand what the grain merchants were making trouble now, but they thought that it was always right to buy more grain, so they came out to buy grain one after another.

However, retail alone can no longer solve the urgent need, Rao has been sold for three days, and only half of it has been sold, the grain merchants are in a hurry, and Hu Dafu will return to the city in less than ten days, and their grain will not be able to be sold at that time.

At this moment, they thought of Xue Qingshan, he was the only one who could digest so much food at once, but now that Xue Qingshan had raised food, he was definitely not in a hurry to buy it again, and the grain merchants were worried.

The flowers and plants planted by An Ning have taken root, and An Ning doesn't need to care about them anymore now, let them grow wildly. The women here have more or less planted a few gardens of vegetables or a few acres of land, all of which are allocated by the battalion.

An Ning also has it, but Xue Qingshan doesn't let her plant, so now when every household goes to the ground to plant, An Ning can only read books in the yard and bask in the sun, which is really idle.

When Xue Qingshan entered the courtyard, what he saw was An Ning lazily basking in the sun like a cat, followed by Huzi.

An Ning stood up from the recliner with a slightly red face, at this time, Sister-in-law Hu and they are probably back from the ground, and it is really unreasonable that she is still basking in the sun.

Xiaoxi brought the tea to greet the guests, and before he could sit down, Huzi couldn't wait to speak.

"Sister-in-law An Ning, you are really too godly, do you know how many grain merchants are queuing up to beg us to buy grain now?"

Those grain merchants knew that only Xue Qingshan had the ability to buy their surplus grain in one go, and they secretly asked Xue Qingshan to sell grain, for fear that others would take the lead, and the grain merchants wanted to get rid of it quickly, and the price was less than half of the market.

Xue Qingshan was silent, and every household bought some, after all, some time ago, he counted the surplus food of the camp, and it was indeed not much, so it didn't matter if he prepared more now. At this time, the merchants are still glad that they got rid of it quickly, and it is estimated that they will not be able to cry when Hu Dafu comes back tomorrow.

At the beginning, Xue Qingshan's strategy was to block the city gate, and released news in the city that Hu Dafu had raised enough food and was on his way back, and asked the soldiers in the battalion to organize carriages and horses to pretend to transport food, but Xue Qingshan knew that the feasibility of the strategy was not high, so he did not implement it.

And An Ning's strategy is only a slight change in Xue Qingshan's strategy, one is not to take the initiative to release the news of raising enough food, let the grain merchants take the initiative to guess, and take the initiative to listen to the news, the other is to go to the merchants' houses to buy grain step by step, no need to really buy, just make a show, so that the merchants really believe that Xue Qingshan has raised grain, and going to buy grain every day is just to paralyze them.

Seeing that Huzi was so happy, An Ning knew that the food matter had been resolved, so he also put his mind at ease. She just said this strategy casually, but she didn't expect Xue Qingshan to really implement it, and it was successful.

"Sister-in-law An Ning, why are you so sure that those merchants will believe that spy?"

The spies released by the merchants were locked up by Xue Qingshan early in the morning, and after being hungry for a few days, they were easily bought.