Chapter 169: Don't Make Knives
Shang Mingyuan's face flushed, Lin Yubin also understood, and couldn't help frowning: "Big cousin, your family is not short of money, why bother to do such a thing?" β
Shang Mingyuan bit his lip and didn't speak, timidly glanced at Lin Qingwan's solemn face, and left in a whisper. β’9β’7β’Smallβ’ Say Π©ΡΡΡ.
"Uncle, how is it, has Aunt Lin agreed?" Steward Zhao stepped forward with a smile and asked.
Shang Mingyuan was so angry that he pushed the person away, brushed his sleeves and said: "What do you promise, isn't there enough food to collect, and I will leave for southern Xinjiang tomorrow." β
Steward Zhao's eyes widened, "Where is this, uncle, the autumn harvest is coming, we can harvest another wave." Do you think how many big grain merchants are willing to leave Jiangnan now? And the southern Xinjiang has not yet reached the point where food prices are soaring, and now is not the time. β
"The master said that if you start now, you will start now, is it you who is in charge, or am I in charge?"
Steward Zhao choked, lowered his head and stepped back: "Naturally, you are in charge, uncle." β
Shang Mingyuan snorted and walked away.
Picking up gold hurriedly trotted to follow, but he was also puzzled, "Uncle, were you scolded by Aunt Lin?" β
Shang Mingyuan rolled his eyes at him.
Although the uncle's temper is not as good as the second master, he rarely loses his temper, so when he saw that he was not angry with him like he was at Steward Zhao, he became bolder, and said with a smile: "I guess it is, but why does Aunt Lin scold you, isn't the price you gave quite high?" β
"Ye is kind, but what can people do if they don't recognize him?" Shang Mingjie gritted his teeth and said: "Don't mention this matter in the future, let's transport the grain to southern Xinjiang first, and whoever is willing to do it in the future will do it." β
"We are grain bought with real money, why do we lack virtue?" Pick up gold and stare at it.
Shang Mingyuan patted him on the head, "You have to be ordered to understand something, can you understand it?" β
He smiled flatteringly: "As long as the uncle is willing to say, the little one has to understand if he doesn't understand." β
Shang Mingyuan snorted coldly and didn't speak, but his mood was much better.
The master and servant got into the carriage and left, leaving Steward Zhao behind.
Steward Zhao caught up from behind and couldn't help but spit on the ground.
Do you really think you can be the master of your own house?
It's just because the second wife is reciting Buddha in the Buddha hall, otherwise what would he do?
The carriage galloped away, raising a cloud of dust, and when the wind blew again, the dust directly covered the face of Shang Mingjie, who was opening his mouth wide to say hello.
Waiting for the carriage to pass, Shang Mingjie wiped his face and stared blankly at the back of the car for a long time, didn't the eldest brother come to look for him?
Why didn't you run away before you saw him?
"Second Master Shang, let's go quickly, it's not too early, and your eldest brother is probably still waiting at home." The long-term worker who was in charge of calling Shang Mingjie couldn't help but urge when he saw him in a daze.
Shang Mingjie was embarrassed, shook his hand with a smile and said, "My eldest brother has already left, you go back first, and I will go back to help Uncle Chen." β
Then he turned around and went back to the field.
Changgong's mouth opened wide, Mu Mu turned his head to look at the carriage that had long disappeared on the road, and then looked at Shang Mingjie, who was wearing a short shirt, wearing a straw hat, and his trouser leg was pulled up, and silently swallowed back the question.
If he hadn't seen a lot of Second Master Shang's dress, he wouldn't have recognized him in front of him based on the impression he had left before.
Shang Mingjie didn't take this matter to heart, but Shang Mingyuan's heart was blocked after coming back to his senses, saying that he was here to pick up his younger brother, but he ran away before he saw his face, as if he deliberately found an excuse to talk about business.
He couldn't help but be angry and pick up gold, kicked the person to the side, and scolded: "Master, I don't remember anything, forget it, you don't remember either?" I left without even seeing the second master, how can I explain to the old lady when I turn around? β
Picking up gold was full of grievances, but he didn't dare to scream, he bowed his head and confessed: "It's all a small mistake, or you kick me out of the car, and I will crawl back to find the second master?" β
Shang Mingyuan glanced at him and said, "Get out, wait for you to climb back and come back, it's dark." β
He thought for a while and said, "When I go back, I said that the second master didn't want to come back, and the Lin family was very polite to him, so I didn't insist on bringing him back, you should be careful, don't say anything about leaking your mouth." β
"Don't worry, you must not say that you will leak your mouth."
Picking up the gold cautiously, he pinched his leg and said: "Uncle, even if you can't buy food from Aunt Lin, don't worry, we can buy it from others, there are still a lot of retail investors who have food in their hands now, and our prices are high, and most of them are sold." β
"What do you know," Shang Mingyuan glanced at him and said, "Although you want to make money, you can't make any money." β
Shang Mingyuan snorted twice, if he knew that the money would kill people, he would not be so active.
Isn't that unknowing?
He came to Lin Qingwan, firstly, to get grain from her, and secondly, to pull her to make a fortune together.
After all, she has a lot of food in her hands, so it is better to sell it while the price of grain is high now, and there may not be such a price in a while.
Don't say anything, leave it until next year, this year's good market may not be there next year.
Not to mention anything else, he knows that the current grain price is also deliberately raised, and the Jiangnan side is okay, there is the control of the imperial court, and the summer harvest is bumper again, so the rise is not too outrageous.
The area in southern Xinjiang has been pulled to a price a day, and it is impossible to control it at all.
He just wanted to make money in Southern Xinjiang, but he didn't expect that some people's hearts were too big, not only wanting to take advantage of the pass of subduing the Southern Han Dynasty to make money from the people, but also wanting to squeeze out those small grain merchants and hollow out their families.
If it weren't for Aunt Lin's sudden tantrum, he would still be a knife now.
Shang Mingyuan made up his mind not to get involved in this matter anymore, and when he went back, he told Mrs. Shang that he would leave for the south the next day.
Mrs. Shang also felt that it was too risky for the family's money to be pressed on food, and she had borrowed so much money from outside in order to buy food, so now she didn't dare to sleep every night, for fear that something would happen to this batch of food.
So Shang Mingyuan agreed to mention it.
Second Mrs. Shang still wanted to make more money, so she persuaded tactfully: "Why be in such a hurry, I heard from your second uncle that the price of grain outside is still rising, and those big grain merchants have not gone south, so it is better for us to collect it for a few more days." β
She smiled: "Otherwise, when you come back from southern Xinjiang, the grain will be collected by those grain merchants." β
Shang Mingyuan bowed his head and said respectfully: "Second aunt doesn't know, the family's money has been invested now, and she has borrowed a large amount of money, such a large batch of food is pressed in her hands, and my nephew can't even sleep well at night." β
This can be regarded as talking to the heart of Mrs. Shang, she bowed her head again and again, and before she could speak, Mrs. Shang had already smiled and said, "You are too careful, there is your uncle in southern Xinjiang." β
Old Madam Shang's face fell, and she looked at Second Mrs. Shang inquiringly and said, "Why are you so tired of your uncle?" He is doing serious things, it is not good to make him worry too much about Mingyuan, it is good that he can tell his subordinates, I think Mingyuan's decision is very good, it is good to leave as soon as possible and get rid of the food as soon as possible. β
Mrs. Shang Er closed her mouth tightly and didn't speak, although she has less time to go to the Buddha Hall now, the housekeeping power is still in the hands of Shang Mingyuan and his wife.
So she didn't want to offend Mrs. Shang at this time, so as not to be arranged with a large number of Buddhist scriptures.
Mrs. Shang did not object, and Mrs. Shang strongly agreed, and the matter was decided.
Shang Mingyuan asked someone to send a letter to Lin Qingwan, asking if there was anything he needed to bring from southern Xinjiang?
The letter happened to fall into Lin Yubin's hand, and when she sent it to her aunt, she couldn't help but laugh and said: "Yesterday, my eldest cousin's face was so ugly, I thought he would never come again, but who knew that the letter was sent one night later." β
Lin Qingwan smiled: "He is shrewd and knows what is good for him." β
This is one of the reasons why she has always been willing to mention him from time to time.
Lin Yubin also slowly figured out her aunt's different attitudes towards the Shang family.
Grandmother, aunt is clearly flattering, no matter what the old man says, she can respond without touching the bottom line, but what to do The aunt will still do, and she is not influenced by the old man.
For the second aunt, the aunt is almost fighting, although they have a good attitude towards each other, but everyone smells the smell of gunpowder between them.
For the eldest cousin and eldest cousin-in-law, as long as people are in front of her, she can mention it.
As for Shang Mingjie, Lin Yubin glanced at her aunt carefully, she always felt that her aunt's attitude towards her second cousin was very strange, sometimes she hated iron and steel, but she didn't take care of her eldest cousin like she did, she felt that her aunt was watching from the sidelines, if the second cousin did something wrong, she wouldn't mention the other party like she did to her eldest cousin, but would look at it coldly.
But she is very concerned about her second cousin, like what he does in Zhuangzi, someone comes to report every day, and she cares more than she cares about her.
Lin Yubin didn't know that Lin Qingwan was now staring at Shang Mingjie with the eyes of a mother-in-law and a critical son-in-law.
Shang Mingjie had better not make a big mistake, if he made a mistake, Lin Qingwan would immediately kick the other party out of the candidate list.
Lin Yubin didn't know what her aunt was thinking, but she had always been sensitive and observant, and she had a faint feeling, so she couldn't help but secretly mention Shang Mingjie, "It's best for the second cousin to think twice about doing things, so as not to regret making mistakes." β
Shang Mingjie's tanned face showed a smile, and he smiled sparsely: "Cousin, don't worry." β
Lin Yubin couldn't bear to look at it directly, what a shrewd person, why did he look so stupid after being tanned?
After Shang Mingyuan left, food prices continued to rise, but the increase was very small, but no matter how small, it was also a big deal for the people.
Many peasant households began to rush to harvest rice, just to catch up with this tide of price increases, and a large number of autumn grains entered the market, and the price reduction not only did not fall, but rose sharply for a while.
Even if she has never speculated in stocks, she has heard of stock speculation, Lin Qingwan's face became more and more solemn, and she couldn't help but go to Zhou Tingshi.
When they arrived at the gate of the Assassin's Mansion, they happened to meet Lu Su coming out of the Assassin's Mansion, and the two of them had admired each other's names for a long time, but it was the first time they met.
Both sides were stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but smile at each other and salute each other.
Lu Su stood on the steps and said with a smile: "I have long admired the name of the county lord, I have always wanted to meet but I didn't have the opportunity to see it, but I didn't expect it to be so coincidental today." β
Lin Qingwan also stood on the wheel and said with a smile: "Lin is the same, he has always wanted to meet Mr. Lu, but he has never had the opportunity, but today is fate." β