Xiangling came out of the "Su Xiang Jinxiu", ran to the bookstore again, gritted her teeth, and bought a set of the cheapest four treasures of the study, but still spent two taels of silver, which frightened Xiangling's heart, and finally knew why the children of poor families couldn't afford to study.

I left the bookstore, went to the grocery store, and bought five straw mats; I went to the grain store and bought 50 catties of white flour and a few bags of wheat bran.

On the street, I met a donkey meat seller, bought a large piece of donkey meat, and prepared to go home and make dumplings stuffed with donkey meat to eat.

The meat oil at home has bottomed out again, and Xiangling heard from He's that there are vegetable oil sellers, so she decided to buy some today.

There is only one household selling oil in Lin'an City, which is Sheng's Oil Mill, which sells sesame oil and rapeseed oil, located in the suburbs of Dongcheng, and Xiangling found it after a little inquiry.

Maybe it's the monopoly of the industry, or maybe it's huge, and even the guys at Sheng's Oil Mill have an unsatisfactory attitude towards customers.

Regardless of whether the other party has power or not, Xiangling just wanted to buy oil, and inquired about the oil price, and Xiangling, who originally wanted to buy soybean oil, silently chose a slightly cheaper rapeseed oil after listening to the price. Rao is like this, it is still twenty wen a catty, Xiangling was ruthless and bought two jars.

There was still a new quilt on the car, Xiangling was afraid that the quilt would be soiled by oil, so he rearranged the things with his feet and left a place for Xiangling on the wheel.

The two had just tied the rope when they suddenly heard a cry in front of the oil mill.

It's noisy, as if they're talking about "tofu recipes" and "soybeans" and the like.

And the voice of the person who said this was very familiar.

Walking to the oil mill, several oil mill boys were working together to push a man and a woman out and fall heavily to the ground.

A middle-aged man who looked like a steward kicked the man on the ground in the back of the waist without understanding his hatred, pointed at the man's nose and scolded: "Don't mess around! It is written in black and white, Liang Chengbang's mortgage, the guarantor of the Hu family, your Liang family is not allowed to sell tofu in the future. ”

Xiangling was startled, and hurriedly bent down to help the fallen woman up, and said in surprise: "Second aunt, why are you here?" ”

When Jiang Erlan saw Xiangling, as if she had seen a life-saving straw, she cried: "Xiangling, the second aunt can't live anymore!" Liang Chengbang, who killed a thousand knives, had the body carried back yesterday morning, saying that he had died of an overdose of Wushisan, and his daughter-in-law also hanged herself!! ”

Jiang Erlanzi pointed to the man who looked like a steward and said with annoyance: "This person from the Sheng family came to the door with a note, saying that Liang Chengbang bet the tofu recipe to them before his death, in black and white, and sold Hu Dong, who was scattered five stones, was not allowed to sell tofu in the future, Liang Chengbang is already dead, who knows if it was the charge he drew before his death, or if someone forced him to press it after his death......."

The man who was pointed at the nose was angry again, and he was about to kick Jiang Erlanzi with his upper foot, Xiangling instinctively blocked it with his body, and took a strong kick on his buttocks, and was kicked angrily, holding the dagger in his sleeve with his hand, his eyes glared at the man, and decided that if the man dared to kick again, she would unceremoniously stab the dagger on the man's foot, so that he would not be an adult for the rest of his life.

The steward saw Xiangling glaring at him fiercely, and became even more angry, raising his hand to slap him, but before he could hit him, Liang Chengguo had already rushed over, slapped Jiang in the face, and said angrily: "Slut, don't shut up yet!" What do you two women know? If the recipe is sold, it is sold, how can there be a reason to take and sit back?! We are not here to ask for a prescription today, we are here to ask the Sheng steward to buy soybeans. ”

Liang Chengguo knelt in front of Steward Sheng with a smile, and bowed down and said: "Steward Sheng, please help me to pass on Master Sheng, just say that the new soybeans in our village have come down, and there must be more than 100,000 catties, please ask him to raise the price up, the five cents are too low, I can't explain to the villagers......."

Liang Chengguo's voice was hoarse, his eyes were red, and he wanted to give Steward Sheng a flattering smile, but because he had never made such an expression, his face stiffened, and he looked indescribably embarrassed.

Steward Sheng spat at Liang Chengguo and scolded: "It's good for Master Sheng to give you five cents, but it's too bad to ask for food?!" If Master Sheng doesn't accept it, you just wait to throw the beans on the street. ”

Steward Sheng pointed his finger at Chu Xiangling and scolded: "Little girl! In the future, if you dare to stare at the grandfather again, the grandfather will gouge out your eyeballs and step on the ball! ”

Xiangling wanted to stand up, but was dragged by Jiang Erlan and Liang Chengguo.

Steward Sheng glared at Liang Chengguo again: "Go back and tell your villagers, give you ten days, beat the soybeans into beans, dry them to save some money, and go to the village to collect beans after ten days. ”

Steward Sheng left domineeringly, leaving behind Xiangling, as well as the lost Jiang Erlanzi and Liang Chengguo.

Xiangling helped the two of them into the Liang family's donkey cart, and the three of them sat in one, and let Foot Force Zhang drive one alone and run out of the city together.

Xiangling asked Liang Chengguo suspiciously: "Second uncle, the Sheng family cheated that you couldn't sell tofu, and indirectly killed your eldest brother, why do you still sell soybeans to the Sheng family?" Isn't it okay to sell to other tofu shops? ”

Liang Chengguo sighed and said, "Xiangling, you have to live." There are more than ten tofu factories in Lin'an City, all of which have been calculated by the Sheng family, and only the Sheng family is left to sell tofu; Our beans are grown for our own tofu factory to make tofu, and we can't make tofu, so we can only sell it to the Sheng family. ”

"It's just that the whole city sells tofu and calculates that the whole city sells tofu, and the Sheng family can afford to spend so much money?" Xiangling Fox said suspiciously.

In order to monopolize the tofu market, calculate everyone's recipes, but there are still people in other counties who sell tofu, and he won't let people in Daqi sell tofu, right?

Liang Chengguo sighed and said: "I heard the eldest brother say, it seems that the Sheng family is developing soybean oil!" The oil output is not high, and a lot of soybeans have been damaged, and their purpose should be to harvest all the soybeans in Lin'an City at a low price to make up for the original loss. ”

Xiangling suddenly realized that buying tofu was a means, disrupting and manipulating the soybean market, and reducing the price of soybeans was the goal.

"But can we sell it to a neighboring county?" Xiangling asked.

Liang Chengguo sighed and said: "Grain, medicinal materials, horses and other important materials cross cities and regions, and there must be customs clearance documents from the county government, how can ordinary people get them?" Besides, this way into the city to collect money, out of the city to collect money, people eat horses and chew, a lot of money. ”

The Sheng family took a fancy to this, so they had the courage to short the market and profit from it.

Xiangling remembered her own bean paste, eat it, send it, there is not much left, and she will continue to make a lot when she goes home, and the soybeans used can not be in a few, if you are fortunate to cooperate with restaurants and restaurants, the sales volume is even more immeasurable.

Xiangling asked in a deep voice, "Second aunt, how many soybeans did your family make this year?" ”

Jiang Erlan snapped her fingers and replied, "If it was just my own family, your second aunt and I wouldn't be so angry." The people of the entire Wangxing Village, because the Liang family has a tofu factory, have gathered more than 100,000 catties together. I heard that our family can't make tofu, and the Sheng family only buys it for five cents a catty, and the villagers block the door every day like crazy, otherwise they will hang themselves at the door of our house. ”

Jiang Erlan was angry as she spoke, she was so angry that she beat Liang Chengguo twice, tears fell down her eyes, and she scolded Liang Chengguo while crying: "The old Sheng family is bad, and your eldest brother and sister-in-law are not things!" Hu Dong hooked up with him to suck five stones, and he sucked it? Can the poor afford to throw it? He kicked his legs to death, and his daughter-in-law also hanged himself, throwing down three children, the old and the young, how can we live in the future, it is better to die early and live early! ”

The more Jiang Erlan thought about it, the more she didn't have a seam in her heart, and she was about to jump off the donkey cart as soon as she leaned over, but she was hugged by Xiangling.

Xiangling said eagerly: "Second aunt, don't be impulsive, I want your soybeans!" ”

"What? You want? Liang Chengguo couldn't even bother with the donkey cart, sat on the board, and looked at Xiangling in surprise.

Xiangling said embarrassedly: "Let's go back to my house first." ”

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