Huo Roufeng explained a few words to Zhang Shengping, and Zhang Shengping turned around and left.

As soon as he walked out of the courtyard, he met Lin Wensheng.

The two said hello, and Zhang Shengping said to Lin Wensheng: "I'm tired of managing Lin, I want Zhang Ting and Zhang Xuan to help me run some errands, do you think it's convenient?" ”

Zhang Ting and Zhang Xuan are Zhang Shengping's nephews, and they have been pretending to be Lin Wensheng's servants these days, following him in and out.

I heard that Zhang Shengping wanted to borrow these two brothers, how could Lin Wensheng be unwilling, Zhang Shengping is the person next to the ninth master, and although he is the old man of the Huo family, after all, he is far away in Wuxi, and he is far away from the ninth master, even if he is a clean person, he is not willing to follow the two eyes and ears around him, before it was to deal with Yang Gongzi, but now Yang Gongzi doesn't need him there, of course he wants to return Zhang Ting and Zhang Xuan.

As soon as he agreed, he happily went to see Huo Roufeng.

took out a booklet from his bosom and put it on the table beside Huo Roufeng: "Ninth Master, this is the number of families in Wuxi Rice City in the past three years, please take a look." ”

Huo Roufeng picked up the piece of Poria cake, opened the account book with her other hand, and read it word by word, line by line.

At the beginning, I still ate a bite of Poria cake from time to time, and when I looked at it, the Poria cake in my hand was put back into the box, and all my attention fell on this account book.

The needles in the house could be heard, and Lin Wensheng's eyes were blazing, looking at Huo Roufeng who was concentrating on reading the account book.

The figure of Master Huo appeared in front of his eyes again.

Outside, it is said that the Ninth Master is Master Huo's outer room, and those of them who have followed Master Huo are suspicious of this.

First, Master Huo is upright and never contaminated with women, although Mrs. Huo only gave birth to a daughter, Mrs. Huo, and Master Huo has never taken a concubine, let alone adopted an outer room. But on the other hand, they hoped that the Ninth Master was Master Huo's biological flesh and blood. Master Huo is such a good person, but he died young, if the ninth master is really Master Huo's own son, even if it is an outer room, Master Huo can smile Jiuquan.

At this time, Lin Wensheng rekindled hope in his heart, the ninth master may really be the blood and blood of Master Huo, he started to do things in an orderly manner at a young age, and Mrs. Huo may not be as good as him when she is a teenager.

Lin Wensheng's gaze at Huo Roufeng was softer and more sincere.

After a long time, Huo Roufeng raised his head and said to Lin Wensheng: "The year before last, the Wuxi rice market traded six million quintals for the whole year, and the Huo family accounted for two million quintals, and last year the transaction was five million quintals, and the Huo family accounted for one and a half million quintals...... And what about before? ”

Lin Wensheng sighed: "Although Wuxi Rice Market is not as good as Wuhu Rice Market, it has eight million quintals and nine million quintals. ”

"That is to say, since three years ago, the Wuxi rice market has plummeted? Three years ago......" Huo Roufeng was silent.

Three years ago, the emperor was in power.

Her mind passed like a white horse, and a thought gradually rose to her mind.

"The Zhao family lives in Wuxi, and the old lady Zhao is Zhishi, so is there anyone else in the Zhao family in Wuxi who is an official?" Huo Roufeng asked.

Of course, this is not a secret, when she was about to push Fu Mingyang in front of Zhanhuai, she had already found out the situation of the Zhao family in Wuxi.

Since the old lady Zhao of the Wuxi Zhao family became a scholar, although two men were lifted, none of them re-entered the path.

She asked again now, Lin Wensheng knew that what the Ninth Master wanted to know would never be what was on the surface.

He thought for a while and said: "No one in the Zhao family's branch in Wuxi has entered the office, but the current county magistrate Hu Si happens to be from Anhui, he is a son of a poor family, and the village where his hometown is located is less than a hundred miles away from the place where Mrs. Zhao was a parent official. But Hu Zhixian and the Zhao family rarely move around, that is, during the New Year's festival according to the old practice of the imperial court to send some rice, grain and fruits, which is regarded as a tribute to the officials, last year, Zhao Lao's 60th birthday, Hu Zhixian personally came to the door, sent a handwritten life, did not even drink a glass of wine, and got up to say goodbye. Many people in Wuxi City know about this matter, and they all say that Hu Zhixian does not understand human accidents, although Mrs. Zhao has been a master for many years, but after all, he is the uncle of the Queen Mother, and Hu Zhixian is too ignorant. ”

Lin Wensheng told the story, obviously paying attention to this matter for a long time.

Huo Roufeng nodded, what Hu Si did was too clean, so people couldn't catch any horses.

But the more clean and neat it is, the more Huo Roufeng feels that it is unlikely.

Between Hu Zhixian and Mrs. Zhao, there must be reasons why it is not enough for outsiders.

"Does my sister know about these things?" Huo Roufeng asked.

Lin Wensheng said: "In the first year when the eldest lady took over the Yongfeng, she asked the shopkeeper Cui to return to Hangzhou, just for the things in the account book. After the shopkeeper Cui returned from Hangzhou, he asked the people in the rice industry to be cautious in their words and deeds, and never mentioned the good or bad business anymore. ”

Huo Roufeng nodded and said to Lin Wensheng: "This account book is placed here for me, and I will take a closer look." ”

This matter is too strange, since the emperor came into power, the business of Wuxi rice market has been cold a lot, and I don't know how the business of Wuhu and Changsha rice market is.

The grain should also be collected in Wuxi and then transported to the capital, that is to say, in addition to the grain, the rest is really traded in the rice market, so in the past three years, there are not many merchants in Wuxi who can make money.

No wonder Zhanhuai was targeted when he walked down the street, and no wonder the Song family wanted to send two fifteen or sixteen-year-old nephews over.

Wuxi rice merchants looked at the scenery, but in fact, life was not easy.

When Zhanhuai was in Ningbo, he used the matter of rice and grain to make Ningbo Wei and Ningbo Yamen restless.

And the cause of that incident was that someone wanted to use the military rations to rectify the Zhan family.

Wuxi is not the territory of the Duke of Min, and I have not heard that there are people from the Duke of Min here, who came here pretending to be the children of merchants, and eight or nine times out of ten it is for the rice market.

This piece of fat, the Zhan family wants to divide a piece.

The more Huo Roufeng thought about it, the more energetic she became, and she suddenly found that she was very interested in this kind of thing.

In the past, my sister asked her to plan and let her read the account book, but she was not interested in it.

At this time, Huang Huasan, the old village chief of Meishuling, was kneeling in front of the yamen of Wuxi County with more than 20 villagers.

The torrential rain of that year fell for a few days and nights, many families in Meishuling were affected, worried that the house would fall and hit people, helpless, Huang Huasan commanded the villagers to leave the village, and thought of the old cave not far from Meishuling to take refuge.

But at this time, someone from the county yamen came and asked the young and strong men from Meishuling to work for the yamen.

These young and strong men are the pillars of the family, at this time, if they are not there, what will happen to the old and young women and children in the family?

Huang Huasan said all the good things, and finally the people of the yamen relented and left the village with only thirty people.

Unexpectedly, just half a day later, Chen Huan, the magistrate of the county, came to the village to check the disaster. Huang Huasan talked about those thirty people, but Chen Zhixian didn't know anything.

Only then did they know that the person who came before was not from the county government.

And those thirty people have never returned, and Chen Huan was also killed on the way back.

The villagers brought by Huang Huasan were all family members of those 30 people.