The truth of his guilt is understood when he listens to the story when he sleeps or is a little ginseng essence.

Now I can finally understand that my mother and Brother Gu Xing's good intentions of not letting her use the spiritual liquid casually are afraid of meeting someone like the Zhong family!

Whether it is forcible seizure or trying to cut meat with a soft knife, the ultimate goal is the same!

Sleep woke up in his heart, and for the next half a month, he used the excuse that his family was chaotic and wanted to go to the mountains to play, avoiding the Zhong family.

After Zhong Ningjun persisted for twenty days, he seemed to finally realize that he was not popular, and he never came back for the next few days.

At the same time as the liquor farm was built, the Rong family successfully handed over the second batch of 200 jars of liquor beer and ten cakes.

I slept at night and my grandmother hid in the quilt and counted the silver, only to find that after planing the ninety taels for building the wine field and the silver distributed to General Yan, there are now a full thousand taels at home!

One thousand taels!

In the past, this was a number that Mrs. Rong couldn't even think of!

Early the next morning, after discussing with the family, Mrs. Rong decided to take out 200 taels of silver for her eldest daughter-in-law to stock up on wheat for winemaking, and the other 300 taels to buy grain.

Regardless of whether it is coarse or fine grain, taking advantage of the good price of grain for the autumn harvest, it is always necessary to stock up on enough to eat until next spring.

After the discussion was over, the eldest daughter-in-law asked: "Mother, do we want to talk to the people in the village about hoarding grain?" ”

Mrs. Rong thought for a while and said: "More is better than less, Beiyong hasn't called yet, isn't it just to create panic for no reason, even if the people in the village believe us, it is difficult to keep a bad mouth and say it, besides, most of the people in this village have a few acres of land, and every household will have food after the autumn harvest, unlike our family who all have to buy, but I have to say that Chen's sister-in-law and Lu Meizi's family have a good relationship with our family. ”

Sleep agreed with grandma's words, and after breakfast, he took the tiger car and grandma to Chen's house, and quietly told Chen's sister-in-law about it.

The three Chen Dali brothers finished harvesting the food at home, and they were helping the Lu family harvest in the autumn these days, and Chen's sister-in-law listened to Mrs. Rong's words, and went to the Lu family without thinking about it, and called Chen Dali's brothers from the field and told them about hoarding grain.

Chen Dali now has great trust in the Rong family, and the Rong family has dealings with General Yan, so he did not hesitate to let Aunt Chen go to buy grain with the Rong family.

The Lu family also took out the silver borrowed from the Rong family.

When the autumn harvest was coming to an end at the end of September, the three families went to the town together and found several grain stores to inquire about the price of grain.

As a result, contrary to what the Rong family thought, the price of grain not only did not fall, but increased, and even last year's old grain rose by one to three cents each!

"Shopkeeper, you can't lie to us, after the autumn harvest in previous years, won't the price of old grain be reduced, why is the old grain still more expensive this year than in previous years, and the new grain has also risen so much?"

The shopkeeper was not in a hurry, and saw that the Rong family was dressed as a peasant family, so he looked like he loved to buy or not, and said: "This year is indeed different from previous years, but we can't help it, who made this year's grain sell so much, and the total amount of new grain collected is less than half of that of previous years, so that the entire grain store in Dingzhou is not available, and the price of grain is not expensive." ”

I didn't hear that this year's grain harvest was not good, even the few acres of land of the Chen family and the Lu family, and the grain harvested was enough to eat for more than half a year, not to mention the five or six rich villages in Anfu Village and Anxiang Village, almost every household has more than ten acres of fertile land, and most of the grain in the town comes from those villages.

So Mrs. Rong hurriedly asked: "This is not a disaster or a famine, why is there still less food?" We haven't heard of that. ”

The shopkeeper thought they were annoyed by the question, so he simply dropped a sentence: "Then you have to ask the Zhong family!" ”

Sleep: "??? ”

What does this have to do with the Zhong family?

The shopkeeper obviously wouldn't answer them, and said impatiently, "If you don't buy it, don't delay my business!" ”

Just as he was about to drive people away, a sneer suddenly came from behind.

Sleeping in her grandmother's arms and turning her head to look, yo, isn't this Meng Hongmei, who hasn't been back to the village for several months, dressed in silk and satin with a golden hairpin on her head, and she is obviously from the city.

"Isn't this a big family in Baizhang Village? You can afford hundreds of acres of mountainous land, and you still have to grow ginseng, but you can't even buy a few pennies of grain? ”

When Mrs. Rong heard this, she almost didn't roll her eyes to the sky!

How much hatred and resentment, if you catch it, you have to bite it, it's a mad dog!

Sister-in-law Chen has never seen Meng Hongmei's mother and daughter since she finished collecting the jam, although they are no longer in the village, but the legend has not disappeared, and when I saw Meng Hongmei's dress today, I felt that the rumors were true.

Meng Hongmei's daughter worked as an outer room for the town's staff, and she was pregnant, and now she has a house in the town, and she is afraid that she will never return to the village.

As for who it is, there are many rumors.

"The small families in our village, we can't break a penny in half, the price of food has risen, and it is natural to hesitate to buy it, unlike your Meng family, although the girl is not even a concubine, but she has become a city person with a net worth, and she is naturally more generous than us when she spends silver."

As soon as Sister-in-law Chen finished speaking, Meng Hongmei's face changed, and she raised her voice and shouted: "Who said that my daughter is not even a concubine!" She will soon become the head lady of the family! You who chew the root of your tongue behind your back will not die well! ”

"Yo, then it's not a lady now, it turns out that what the people in the village said is true!"

"You-"

"Oops! Do you buy food or not? If you don't buy it, you're still arguing in my store, and you're deliberately looking for me to be unlucky! The shopkeeper yelled, and quickly called the little guy to come and pick up people!

Meng Hongmei had just lost face and was angry, and when she saw that the shopkeeper didn't take her seriously, she immediately yelled back: "Who said I won't buy it!" Is that how you serve your customers in the store? Team up with a bunch of poor sour rednecks to bully the guests! ”

When the shopkeeper heard her say to buy food, his face became so fast, and he pointed to Mrs. Rong and told the little guys: "Get this group of hillbillies out of me!" What a bad luck! Madame, don't get me wrong, how can I drive the guests out when I open the door to do business, and don't worry about them countrymen, so as not to lose your identity, you see how much food you want, I'll give Madame Zhang Luo! ”

Mrs. Rong no longer planned to buy food in this store, and she didn't like to have a dispute with people like Meng Hongmei, so she slept out of the grain store without waiting for the little girl to make a move.

When I walked outside the store, I heard Meng Hongmei say proudly: "I want 500 catties of good white flour and 500 catties of good rice, plus 200 catties of new sorghum flour and cornmeal, and send them to this place for me." ”

After hearing this, he quickly pulled his grandmother's clothes and strongly said that something was wrong!