Chapter 105: Burning the granary

Almost on the same day, the Qianji grain shop at the other end of the county also opened the door that had been closed for several days, and put out a large amount of grain and began to sell grain.

It's just that the price of each grain is more than two cents more expensive than Li Ji.

This is not difficult to understand.

Originally, the Qian family was willing to help Li Ji stabilize the grain price in Qingzhou, which was based on the relationship between the cotton plantations that had been cooperative, as well as the affection of Wang Qifang and Mrs. Wang.

If it weren't for Mrs. Wang's name as Mrs. Zhongyi, and if it weren't for Wang Qifang being a Confucian businessman with Tianzi No. 9, Master Qian might not be willing to help.

After all, in the Qian family, it is not the second young master Qian or the second young grandmother who is in charge, but the utilitarian old man Qian

However, although they did not help very much, they also played a considerable role.

You must know that Qingzhou is the base camp of the Qian family, and the Qian family has been operating here for hundreds of years, not to mention that the nouveau riche Zheng family does not dare to provoke, even the successive masters of Qingzhou Mansion have to give some face.

It can be said that the Qian family's participation in the battle pattern immediately underwent a huge change. The price of grain in the entire Qingzhou market was suddenly pulled down, from the sky-high price of 72 wen per bucket this morning, to the price before the price increase, which was 30 wen per bucket of grain.

At the same time, the same thing happened in Sea City.

Unlike Qingzhou, Haicheng is the base camp of the Li family, so Wang Qifang transported more and faster grain here than Qingzhou, and the price of grain was lower, only 26 Wen.

"Not enough, not enough, and continue to reduce prices"

After listening to the reply of his subordinates, Uncle Li Chang breathed a long sigh of relief, and then shook his head again, "The price will be reduced tomorrow, and the price of grain must be kept to the minimum." ”

Although they lost the first half of this food battle, with Wang Qifang's strong participation, their Li family won in the second half.

"Well, don't worry, sir, I understand."

Li Maoxiang nodded and agreed to his father's words, and then, as if he had thought of something, he smiled quite emotionally and said, "Oh, thanks to my cousin this time, if she hadn't bought Shi San's island on a whim, she wouldn't have been able to get the food that Shi San Young Master hid in vain, and she was really lucky to get so much food for nothing at once." If it weren't for these grains, our Li family wouldn't have turned defeat into victory so quickly. ”

Tsk, he really doesn't know what to say about this cousin, she's too lucky, right?

Hehe, fortunately, this news was only heard by their close relatives, and if it spreads and is known by Shi Sanshao's grandmother, she may regret vomiting blood.

"Well, Qi Niang did us a great favor this time."

Uncle Li Chang stroked his beard and said softly.

It's just in my heart, but I don't think so, lucky? Not necessarily, Qi Niang's journey has been smooth, and it is by no means a 'good luck' that can be explained.

There must be other reasons

……

The next day, the people of Qingzhou were still thinking about what Li Ji's shopkeeper said yesterday, and they didn't know if it was true, so they came to Li Ji's grain shop early in the morning to confirm the authenticity.

After a short while, hundreds of people gathered in front of Li Ji's door.

So much so that after Li Ji's young man removed the door panel, he was startled by the bustling crowd in front of the door.

The people in line, regardless of whether their behavior frightened people or not, saw that Li Ji's door finally opened, hurriedly squeezed forward, and asked anxiously, "Little brother, how much is the price of food today?" ”

"Eh, the price of food?" The young man was frightened, listened to the other party's words, and repeated it in a daze, then came back to his senses and said, "Didn't our shopkeeper say it yesterday, and today ordinary rice is twenty-five wen per bucket."

"Ah, it's really twenty-five, God, I knew I wouldn't have bought so much yesterday."

"No, I bought four buckets of rice yesterday, enough for our family to chew for a month."

"Oh, don't talk nonsense, since the price of grain has been reduced, let's buy it quickly, who knows what the price will be tomorrow?"

After listening to the young man's offer, there was a burst of discussion in the crowd.

However, everyone was still frightened by the rapid rise in grain prices a few days ago, and when they saw that the price of grain had finally fallen, they did not dare to have the illusion that the price would be reduced, so they hurriedly came forward to buy it.

Here, Li Ji's guys have already set up the guys selling grain, and the guys in the warehouse behind have also moved bags of sacks.

When the people lined up saw it, they hurriedly held copper coins and bags of noodles, and rushed to buy them.

For a while, the shouts of weighing in front of Li Ji's door and the shouts of the people converged, and the lively envy of the other shops around him.

Especially Zheng Ji on the other side, the sign at the door with the price of grain had already been taken off, and the windows for selling grain were all opened, and the young men were waiting for the piles of grain.

It's just that the front of the door is deserted, and there are no half people who buy food.

In the lobby, Zheng Sanyang stood at the door with a gloomy face, his two eyes flashing with burning light, staring at the opposite door.

"The owner, after counting yesterday, they sold at least three hundred stone of grain."

Shopkeeper Zheng didn't have yesterday's arrogance at this moment, he bowed down and stood beside Zheng Sanyang, and said in a low voice.

"Three hundred stones? You only counted Li Ji's, in addition to Li Ji, Qian Ji also sold grain yesterday, and the Qian family's grain shops were more than the Li family's, and they bought at least five or six hundred stones. ”

mentioned the Qian family, Zheng Sanyang's teeth itched.

As early as before the battle began, he specially visited the old man of the Qian family. As I said before, this time the Zheng and Li families will fight, and their Qian family will remain neutral and no one will help.

But I didn't expect it, but I didn't expect that in just a few days, the Qian family changed their hexagram and helped the Li family stabilize food prices with great fanfare.

, if it weren't for the help of the Qian family, the Li family would never have turned the situation around so quickly.

"Then, owner, what should we do, this grain?"

For two days in a row, not a single grain of grain has been sold, and if they still hold on to the sky-high price, I am afraid that their grain will rot in the warehouse.

"Since no one is coming to buy food, let's close the door first."

After thinking for a long time with his brows twisted, Zheng Sanyang waved his hand.

"Closed? Uh, yes, little obedience"

The shopkeeper Zheng was stunned for a moment, and was about to open his mouth to speak, when he raised his eyes and saw Zheng Sanyang's face, he was so frightened that he hurriedly swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, and nodded again and again in agreement.

"Besides, call those little thugs, I have something to tell them"

Hmph, do you think you can defeat me Zheng Sanyang in this way? Wait and see, I let you all remember what will happen if you dare to go against my Zheng family

Zheng Sanyang's eyes flashed with a fanatical light, and he secretly said ruthlessly in his heart.

"Yes, sir"

Shopkeeper Zheng has been with Zheng Sanyang for several years, this is the first time he has seen such a cold side of the master, although he doesn't know what the master called those gangsters to do, but it is definitely not a good thing.

In the evening, a few sneaky black shadows took advantage of the night to touch the dock.

"Boss, are we really, really going to do this?"

A dark and thin figure, holding an altar in his hand, looked at the quiet surroundings, and asked a little timidly.

"Of course we have to do it, Master Zheng said, after we finish this, he will give each of us a hundred taels of silver. One hundred taels, do you know how much it is? Kindness? It's enough for us to eat, drink, and have fun, and we have a surplus for a lifetime. ”

It was a tall figure who spoke, and he wiped the snot that came out of his nose vigorously, and said with a little excitement.

"But, but we are breaking the law, if we are caught by the old man, we will be killed."

When the thin black boy heard that he was paid a hundred taels of silver, his eyes lit up, but soon, he thought that he was very likely to be arrested if he did this.

Woo, no matter how much money you have, you have to have a life to spend it, right?

"Phew, we've done less trouble over the years? Anything you can take out is enough to go to jail. When we finish this work and take the reward, we will leave Qingzhou, oh no, leave Qidi, and at that time, even if someone knows that we did it, what can they do to us? ”

The tall man's mind is still relatively meticulous, and when he took this job, he thought of a way out.

However, the most important thing now is to get things done first.

Glancing coldly, he looked at the trembling black thin boy, and the tall man asked unhappily, "What, are you afraid?" Kindness? ”

The black thin boy listened to the long-lasting word 'En', and suddenly shuddered from being excited, damn, how could he forget, the boss usually hates soft-boned cowards the most, if he is disgusted by the boss, he will be cleaned up by his own boss before the old man finds him.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly shook his head, "No, I'm not afraid, boss, you say, what are we going to do?"

"It's like someone who messes with me, you come," the tall man hooked his fingers at the black-handed boy, and the two little heads came together, muttering for a while before parting.

A quarter of an hour later, under the guidance of the boss, the black thin boy came to the temporary warehouse of the dock with the jar, and after seeing that there was no one left and right, he squatted under the base of the wall, waiting for news from the boss.

After another quarter of an hour, the tall man came running out of breath and whispered, "That's right, this is it, hurry up and pour the oil."

The thin black boy agreed, pulled the plug from the jar, and bowed over and carefully poured the oil from the jar down the wall.

The tall man stood in the corner, staring carefully at the warehouse worker who was keeping vigil in front of the door, and the little man was sleeping soundly against the door, not even noticing the thief coming from the warehouse.

"Boss, it's all done"

After a while, the thin black boy ran back with the empty jar, squatted beside the tall man together, and whispered.

"Good"

The tall man took it out of his arms and felt out the fire fold, "Boom~~"

After a slight sound, the spark burst out, and he threw the fire fold into the wall of lard, only to see a "boom", and a huge warehouse was suddenly plunged into a raging fire.

At the same time the next day, a piece of news was thrown like a bomb into the county town that had just calmed down-

"It's a big deal, the grain stored in the dock by Li Ji has been burned, and we have no food in Qingzhou."

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