Jiaxing book collection family in the prosperous period of more than 110, the successive dynasties, to the early Republic of China, most of the private library building has become the first batch of private libraries in China, but with the war of the Anti-Japanese War, most of the library buildings were destroyed in the fire, the survivors are less than one, and Jiang Guangyan for Yanfen Thatched Cottage, is more after several twists and turns, spent half a life of hard work.

Jiang is a Jiaxing family, the most famous is Jiang Baili (Qian Xuesen's father-in-law), was the principal of the Baoding Military Academy, the general of the National Revolutionary Army, the author of "On National Defense", the existence of Yanfen Thatched Cottage depends on the support of the clan, but not every bibliophile has a hard clan, the war is ruthless, and many books are destroyed.

Shiyuan, Deshu Building, Hairi Building, Xiangshan Pavilion...... These many famous buildings will be wiped out with the flames of war ten years later, but now, Jiang Shiguang still cherishes them.

Seeing that Huang Xuan listened seriously, the old man also became more and more energetic, until the time of the meal, he was still unsatisfied, seeing that the sun was setting, the third son couldn't help but walk in and said, "Dad, let's eat!" ”

Jiang Shiguang glanced at him hesitantly, only then did he find that the room had become dim, and he smiled at Huang Xuan with some embarrassment: "I didn't expect to talk about it for so long, I'm hungry." ”

"No, no." Huang Xuan was polite twice, and said to the third son of the Jiang family: "Trouble sister-in-law." ”

This third child is a Mu Na person, although he is only middle-aged, many years of farm work have worn out his temperament, I heard that Huang Xuan is a scholar, he waved his hand again and again excitedly, moved his lips, and just whispered: "Nothing, nothing ......"

Jiang Shiguang was also accustomed to his son's honesty, and sucked his shoes and said to Huang Xuan: "Let's go to dinner first, the Zhuang family, there is nothing to do, I have wronged you." ”

Huang Xuan was polite again, thanks to the fact that he was used to these at home, and he should review it again.

Zhejiang people's livelihood is rich, Jiang Shiguang has accumulated some small land for many years, there are five sons in the family, and there are shops in the town, so the life is quite good, there are fish and meat on the dinner table, there are as many as five or six plates, and Huang Xuan knows that the Republic of China is very different.

The third child silently poured food into his mouth, but Jiang Shiguang talked about sexuality, and after talking for a while, Huang Xuan took the opportunity to say: "I don't know what the price of food is now?" ”

When it came to food, Jiang Shiguang was obviously stunned for a moment, then sighed and put the chopsticks on the table.

In 1927, there was a general food shortage in the south of the Yangtze River, and there were more traders and landlords hoarding Juqi, from the perspective of later generations, many uprisings and riots that occurred this year were related to grain, and the Jiang family was even more aware of the shortage of food.

Without waiting for Huang Xuan to ask again, Jiang Shiguang sighed again and said: "A stone of brown rice was only three or four silver dollars a year ago, but now, someone sells a stone of rice for 17 yuan, and even we don't dare to act rashly when we store grain at home." ”

Huang Xuan sighed, he didn't understand much about people's livelihood and so on, and he didn't understand why farmers were also worried about the rise in grain prices, just silently counted the grain they brought, there are big and small stones, but even if you use 120 catties for a stone, 100 tons of grain have 1,600 stones, if you sell it at a middle price, it is 16,000 silver dollars, in 1927, it can be said that it is a huge amount of money, and you can even buy a sea vessel.

Lorraine quietly calculated an account for Huang Xuan, Huang Xuan snickered in his heart, at this moment Jiang Shiguang's interest in talking was weak, and he said goodbye and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, the sky was still bright, Huang Xuan found Jiang Yisheng early, and greeted Jiang Shiguang, and walked towards Yangpu Town, the third child of the Jiang family does not like to talk, but the Tao is very familiar, Huang Xuan talked with him all the way, and learned a lot of customs and customs nearby.

Although it is a small town, but the market is still prosperous, boats, boats, cars and horses one after another, back and forth, there are many shops in front of the blue curtain to solicit guests, Jiang Yisheng sent Huang Xuan here, he wanted to go home, Huang Xuan was willing to let him go, without waiting for him to open his mouth and said: "Third Brother Jiang, I am not familiar with the place here, or you wait for me for two days, wait for my family to come and then leave, otherwise, I am afraid that I will not even find a place to stay." ”

Jiang Yisheng is a real person, looking at Huang Xuan's appearance of only fifteen or sixteen years old, although he is already similar in size, but it seems really unreasonable to leave him alone in the town, so he thought for a long time and said: "Either I will send you to my eldest brother, he will live in the town." ”

"Don't be that busy." Huang Xuan smiled and said, "Let's take a walk around the neighborhood first, and then it's not too late to go to the hotel later, you can stay in the town today, and it's not too late to rush back early tomorrow morning." ”

Jiang Yi wanted to excuse himself, but before he could come up with a word, Huang Xuan had already rushed into the market first, and the honest man had to lower his head and follow in.

Rice cloth is a large transaction since ancient times, it is the best choice for Chinese businessmen in the past dynasties to pursue steady investment and stable profits, there are nearly ten rice shops in Lupu Town, and there are many landlords and businessmen who come and go, about the impact of the food shortage, the rice shop is far better than the nearby cloth shop and other shops.

Huang Xuan's family turned around, and walked to a shop called Xieqiao Rice Shop, which is medium-sized, but the work in the store is twice as much as other stores, and they all have jobs, busy and not in a hurry, most of the merchants who come and go are well-dressed, obviously not to buy a catty and a half catties of small households.

"The shopkeeper is not there?" Huang Xuan tapped the knuckle of his middle finger on the counter, which was the habit of his fourth uncle, and he borrowed it for the time being.

The guy behind the cabinet looked shrewd and capable, and the green tendons could be seen on his thin chin, and when he heard Huang Xuan's question, he stopped knocking on the plate and said, "The shopkeeper is ordering goods in the backyard, you can talk to me first if you have anything." That's it, he glanced at Jiang Yisheng behind Huang Xuan again, gave an order to the guy behind him, walked out from behind the counter, stretched out a hand to lead the way, and said, "Please come here, let's talk inside." ”

"Are you the second shopkeeper?" Seeing that this guy was very eye-catching, Huang Xuan asked more, and as he walked into the side room, Jiang Yisheng shook his head and almost exclaimed.

"The second shopkeeper went to Jiaxing Mansion." The guy denied it with a smile, served tea to Huang Xuan, and said, "You are from Beijing?" ”

"Nanjing." Huang Xuan knew that it was his Mandarin that caused the other party to have a misunderstanding, corrected it, and said: "I want to sell a batch of wheat to your account, I don't know if I want to?" ”

The guy smiled professionally, suppressed the curiosity in his heart, and said: "Although we are a rice shop, and the wheat is also harvested, I don't know how much?" ”

Huang Xuan smiled and stretched out a finger, which he learned from his mother, when he was a child, his mother said that he would reward him, and always stretched out a few fingers, and then Huang Xuan himself happily agreed, but when the real number appeared, the situation was completely different.

The guy was also bluffed by Huang Xuan, and he didn't know where this brother who went to Zhejiang rice shop to sell wheat came from, and then looked at the other party's face and clothes, and felt that he couldn't handle it, so he lowered his head and said: "Then please wait for a while, my shopkeeper will come soon." Then he said, "Dare to ask who you are?" ”

"Huang Xuan."

The shopkeeper of the diagonal bridge rice shop is a local in his fifties, surnamed Zhu, and one of the local surnames, he looked at Huang Xuan and Jiang Yisheng twice from the window, and still couldn't guess where the two came from, to say that it was the master and servant, but there was no servant who also drank tea with the master, to say that it was a relative, the appearance and temperament of the two were too bad, so considered, he smiled into the house, arched his hand and said: "I'm sorry, let the two of you wait for a long time." ”

Huang Xuan didn't stand up, sat there and accepted his salute, got up, moved up slightly, and sat down, and said, "The shopkeeper, please take a seat." ”

"Okay." Shopkeeper Zhu was not angry, chatted about his robe and sat down, refilled Huang Xuan's teacup with water, and said straight to the point: "I don't know how much wheat Mr. Huang wants to sell." ”

Jiang Yisheng sat there stunned, and before his mind could turn around, he saw Huang Xuan smile slightly, took a sip of tea and said, "It depends on how much wheat the shopkeeper can harvest." ”

"Oh?" Shopkeeper Zhu also smiled, looked down at the teacup, now is different from the past, doing food business, earning is the difference between the harvest year and the disaster year, do the big, Kenneng has other ways, but like their size of the shop, most of them are in the harvest year at a low price and a large number of purchases, hoarding in disaster years, but having said that, but the scale of funds is placed there, a year down, most of them are still doing business of buying low and selling high, the current market, brown rice can be sold for fifteen or sixteen yuan for one stone, and the local wheat is not produced, so the other party has transported a batch of wheat thousands of miles away, Naturally, he wanted to make a lot of money, thinking like this, he said tentatively: "This little brother is doing big business at a glance, although our shop is small, but the owner still has some strength, a few hundred stones is not a problem, if you are interested, we can make it bigger." ”

"Then let's take a hundred stones." Huang Xuan settled down, a hundred stones is only 10 tons, it is a big business for a small town shop, but it doesn't have any special ideas, people in a foreign land, it's better to be cautious.

The shopkeeper Zhu didn't know what to think, his face changed slightly, and he agreed, but Jiang Yisheng reacted stupidly, and asked Huang Xuan in a low voice: "Huang Xuan, you have so much food?" ”

Around Zhejiang, the water and soil are rich, and 100 stone grain is enough for a small landlord to go bankrupt, seeing that Huang Xuan's minutes have decided the ownership of the grain that is enough for the whole clan to eat for several years, he can't help but feel a little worried in his heart.

Huang Xuan smiled slightly, patted his palm comfortingly, and said to Shopkeeper Zhu: "If Shopkeeper Zhu has no other problems, please instruct the guys, prepare the dock and warehouse, and we will deliver it early tomorrow morning." ”

"No problem." Shopkeeper Zhu happily agreed, beckoned a guy to whisper, and then said, "I don't know when Mr. Huang's boat will arrive, I'll ask someone to take care of it." ”

Lupu is a small town, but in today's year, some people want to get a piece of the pie, and the shopkeeper Zhu is a little worried that Huang Xuan doesn't know the rules when he first arrives, and he is even more worried that his business will be given to Huang because of these things.

Huang Xuan naturally didn't know what he was thinking, but the food was still in the plane passage, as long as he took care of Lorraine, everything was OK, he chuckled twice in his heart, waved his hand and said: "Don't worry about this, as long as you find a good warehouse for us, my people will naturally handle it." ”

The unwarranted subordinates made the shopkeeper Zhu awe-inspired, and repeatedly said that it was troublesome, Huang Xuan only replied, and then withdrew and prepared to leave, at this time Jiang Yisheng was still in shock.

After Shi Shiran wandered around the town, Huang Xuanfang went to the wharf outside the town, and the two guys from the diagonal bridge rice shop waited there early, respectfully called "Boss Huang", and then took him to see the warehouse.

The warehouse is less than a mile away from the wharf, much smaller than the storage room Huang Xuan saw at home, basically a wooden structure, but there are already some modern materials used, the First World War is the heyday of China's national capital, the blowout outbreak did not stop until World War II, the prosperous wharf business is accompanied by this outbreak all the time, and the development of rice shops seems to be adapted to it.

When it comes to real business, Huang Xuan can't say that he knows at all, he just heard and saw some fur from home, but he can fool one or two, and he can't say whether the warehouse is good or bad at the moment, so he walked out of the warehouse with a vague "hmm" and said, "Is there a room in the warehouse?" I'm staying here tonight. ”

"Yes." A guy glanced at Huang Xuan strangely, he was still wearing a long shirt given by the old man Jiang Shiguang, a little nondescript, but the guy didn't dare to say more, and led Huang Xuan to the gatehouse of the care warehouse, even if he settled down.

"Sit down." As soon as the guy left, Huang Xuan sat on the bed tiredly, and he didn't care about the smelly bedding, Jiang Yisheng sat down indifferently, in his opinion, this room was much better than his own paste.

"Thanks to you today." Huang Xuan thanked Jiang Yisheng, swept the bed casually with his hand, and said, "When I sell the grain tomorrow, I will definitely thank you." ”

"No, you don't." Jiang Yisheng did not have the maturity of a middle-aged man, but with some cringe after maturity, he looked at the ceiling and said: "The food is also from your family, and I didn't help you anything, don't thank me." ”

Huang Xuan smiled, didn't speak again, the money hadn't arrived yet, there was no need to share the spoils nervously, and said two more words, the two of them fell asleep in a daze, today is really tired, only had time to tell Lorraine to put some grain in the warehouse, and the person fell asleep.