Li Bo shouted: "Then what are you waiting for?! Silly big man, let's go, let's do what Brother Guo instructs." ”

Huang Xueheng saw the stupid big man and Li Bo hurrying out, and hurriedly said, "I'll catch the car." ”

Li Bo hurriedly said: "Don't bother my uncle, I won't buy the goods for the time being." ”

Huang Xueheng was stunned: "Don't buy goods, then you go out?"

The stupid big man muttered, "Let's go pretend to be pitiful." ”

Huang Xueheng stayed on the spot, and it wasn't until the stupid big man and Li Bo went out that he came to his senses: "Pretend to be pitiful -- what is this going on?

Brother Hao also went out and said with a smile: "That's how Brother Guo's business is done, Uncle Huang, you can take a good look." If someone wants to trap us, be careful to trap yourself. I'm back in Houlong Village, and the snow sugar business will be fine. ”

In the next two or three days, there was an extra spectacle in the county town of Yinxian County - two country boys begged to buy sugar everywhere, but everywhere they went, all the shops, hawkers and even outsiders had already learned of the "Jianghu Blockade Order" handed down by all families, and the price was increased by 30%!

It's useless for the poor two children to beg everywhere stupidly, and the one named Li Bo even knelt down on the street and cried, begging people to sell sugar at a reasonable price.

On this day, the county magistrate was promoted, dealt with a few official matters, and suddenly coughed: "This official recently heard that the villagers of Houlong Village were forcibly raised by the families to buy sugar, can you know?"

When the officials in the hall heard this, they had to say, which guy with a long tongue had stabbed this matter to the eldest master, but it was impossible to hide it, not to mention Yinxian, even the state capital had heard about it.

At that moment, there was a sticker and laughed: "This thing has become a joke, the villagers have spread falsehoods, and it has actually become selling sugar in Houlong Village, which can be increased by 30%, and some hawkers ran to Houlong Village to sell the candy, but it was blasted out." ”

The county magistrate snorted: "It's ridiculous, these sub-businessmen only have money in their eyes, and they are unscrupulous." ”

As soon as the county magistrate said this, several officials glanced at each other - behind this sugar turmoil, in fact, the families were making trouble, and it was impossible for the county magistrate not to know. In the past, although the county lord was a parent official, he was still very respectful in the face of the families, what is the matter now?-- yes, there was news in the capital a while ago - could it be that the county lord is ready to do something to the families?

These families are a terrible piece of fat!

It's just that just one county order is not enough to bring down the families, well, I want to come to the county master just to take the opportunity to knock and knock.

Immediately, a small official said: "My lord is right, this forced price increase really shouldn't be, those merchants don't do production, they all rely on buying and buying to earn ill-gotten gains, they should be genuine, Tong Su is not deceived, how can you raise prices, deceive others, really are people who forget their righteousness for profit, and they are really rich and unkind!"

The hall suddenly echoed the voice, there is humanity, those merchants should be summoned to come, and some people said, we need to find out whether those merchants have been instructed by people behind them, deliberately disrupting the market, if there is indeed something, it must be severely punished!

The more Huang Xueheng listened, the more frightened he became, how could he faintly have the intention of attacking the families? Although he had taken a bite of food from the families, he never thought of breaking them down, let alone being the enemy of the families -- such a thousand-year-old family was not something that a warden could provoke himself at all. But now it seems that someone with a heart wants to make a fuss about sugar and use it against the families, and he and Houlong Village have become guns!

If the families suddenly fall and are replaced by another family, it is unknown whether the other party is willing to share the profits of the sugar business with them.

Huang Xueheng immediately made a decision, coughed, came out of the crowd, and saluted the county master: "My lord, I know a thing or two about the dispute between Houlong Village and the sugar shop, I heard that there is a strange person in Houlong Village, who can make ordinary brown sugar into snow-like white sugar, called snow sugar." Houlong Village buys a large amount of brown sugar in order to make snow sugar for sale, but it is in competition with the shops that sell brown sugar today, and those shops join forces to raise the price of brown sugar, which is just an ordinary business to compete for profits, which is not a big deal. And as far as I know, those shops are only raising prices for Houlong Village, and ordinary people are still buying sugar at the original price, which is not a price hike. ”

The county magistrate raised his eyelids and glanced at Huang Xueheng, he knew in his heart that Huang Xueheng had not been able to come recently, and he actually took the path of the third prince, and Houlong Village also had some unclear relationship with him, and it was rumored that the method of accumulating fat and punctuation marks that made him famous was the first to circulate in Houlong Village.

What does this Huang Xueheng mean by defending the Zhu family at this time? Doesn't he know that he also has great benefits from the fall of the Zhu family? Wait, could it be that the third prince once revealed any rumors that asked Huang Xueheng not to move the Zhu family? Well, what he did was a little urgent, after all, there was no clear rumor from above, but he faintly said that before the crown prince ascended the throne, he should be restless.

The county magistrate cleared his throat, and said with a smile: "Huang Dian is familiar with the people's feelings, it is rare and rare, it's just that such businesses compete for each other's interests, it is not appropriate for the government to intervene, and just look at it." Huang Dian, it is your duty to maintain the stability of the market, you can be careful, if there is anything unbearable because of this matter, I am the only one who asks. ”

Huang Xueheng was secretly angry in his heart, this was to find himself, but the position of warden was indeed responsible for the safety and stability of the county, so he had to respond.

The county magistrate withdrew, and several officials who didn't know the inside story were still talking about sugar, and the lord smiled and said: "I don't know what that snow candy is, but it actually makes the families so aggressive." ”

A small official next to him said: "The left and right are just sugar, can it be better than rock sugar?" Those merchants are used to making some boo, and then Long Village competes with all families, but let the name of snow sugar go away, even my lady has heard about snow sugar, and told me to buy a pound to taste, but on the market, there is no so-called snow candy at all. ”

Lord Bo pointed at Huang Xueheng: "You are a fool, there is a good saying, far away in the sky, close in front of you, Lord Huang just said, it was the strange people of Houlong Village who made snow candy, why don't you ask him?"

Huang Xueheng was stunned for a moment, why did this come to his head again, and said busily: "I just heard that there is a snow candy, and I haven't seen it myself, but I think that if there is really snow candy, sooner or later it can be bought everywhere, after all, it is just sugar, not a valuable thing." ”

Huang Xueheng talked to his colleagues a few more words, found an excuse, and hurried home.

It just so happened that the stupid big man and Li Bo also came back from the street, and looking at the unkempt appearance of the two, they obviously ran into walls everywhere.

Huang Xueheng grabbed Li Bo: "Two virtuous nephews, you are back, listen to me, don't go around the street again, even the county magistrate knows about this sugar dispute today, and asked a few words in the hall, instructing me to properly handle this matter and make sure that the market is stable." ”

Li Bo wiped the tears on his face: "Really, even the county magistrate knows?"

Huang Xueheng sighed: "It's not. When he said that there were officials who inquired about the details of Snow Candy, Li Bo and the stupid big man glanced at each other quickly, and the stupid big man spoke straightforwardly, and said: "Sure enough, as Brother Guo expected, we pretended to be pitiful everywhere, although it attracted the ridicule of the world, but it also attracted people's attention to Snow Candy. ”

Huang Xueheng was stunned, raised his hand and pointed at Li Bo and the stupid big man: "What?!You two go to the street every day to buy sugar, is it deliberate?"

Li Bo smiled and took out a piece of ginger from his sleeve: "Uncle Huang, I really can't pretend to cry, so I have to rely on this ginger to cry, but my hard work with the stupid big man has not been in vain, and now the reputation of Snow Candy has spread, and even the lord in the yamen knows it, and now, it's time to close the net." ”

Huang Xueheng couldn't cry or laugh: "This is also Master Guo's idea--it's just that, let you mess around, it's just that the county master has already set his eyes on this matter, don't make too much trouble, otherwise even if I protect you, it won't be easy to clean up--this crime of disrupting the market can be big or small, and it really has to be sentenced severely, and it is light to flow three thousand miles." ”

Li Bo hurriedly said: "Uncle Huang, don't worry, we won't pretend to be pitiful on the street anymore, Brother Guo said that everyone has a raging fire of gossip burning in their hearts, as long as we light the fire, driven by curiosity, the rumors will spread more and more widely, and even beyond recognition." ”

That night, the people of the whole Yin county knew that the two country boys in Houlong Village couldn't fight the families after all, and bought brown sugar from the shops of the families at a price three percent higher than that of the families, and shipped them back to Houlong Village. It's just that the fat shopkeeper who delivered the candy out of the house, with his nose raised high, seemed to show the world - look, this is the end of being against all the families!

After a while, the fat shopkeeper hurried to Zhufu and reported to the eldest lady: "Madam, then the children of Houlong Village obediently paid thirty percent more than the price and bought all the rain-soaked brown sugar in the backlog of our docks." Hmph, these hillbillies also dare to fight with our sugar shops, seeing that they will lose their bottoms when the time comes, and the boat of brown sugar can't get rid of it in the county at all, so it can only be sold to remote mountain villages. ”

When the eldest lady heard the fat shopkeeper say foul words, she couldn't help frowning: "That's it, no matter what, outsiders are still squeezed into our family's sugar business, alas, thinking about it, it's really our unfilial descendants who have lost the face of our ancestors." ”