As Ye Xiaotian expected, when they hurried to the grain store, the grain store clerk came out, hung a new grain price tag on the door with a "slap", and stared at them. At first glance, it looked like "Sorry, you are late".
"His grandma's, is there such a wicked way?" Zhang Hongyan and these young masters have never been in the kitchen or shopped since they were young. They are all second-generation ancestors who stretch out their clothes and open their mouths for food. There is also a linkage relationship.
Seeing the grain merchant sitting on the ground and raising the price, Zhang Hongyan said indignantly, "I haven't bought it yet, let's go, let's change to another grain store."
"Wait a minute!" Ye Xiaotian stopped him, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Zhang, there is no business without adultery, and those that are not adulterous have already closed down. There is no delay now, so let's buy it quickly. It won't be long before the price of food will go up." .”
Zhang Hongyan trusted Ye Xiaotian quite a bit, after hearing what he said, he hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "Then buy it! Buy it all as food, these profiteers, they really don't have assholes for giving birth to children!"
While cursing, Zhang Hongyan took out a money bag from his arms, handed it to a servant with some heartache, and said, "Hurry up, and exchange it all for food."
When Zhang Hongyan and others escorted the food back to the porridge shed, Xu Qiyun walked over waddlingly with Guan Xiaokun and Rui Qingxing, and laughed and said: "Why, seeing that there is not as much food as mine, you bought it all at once? You Do you think this will scare me? Hehe, if you want to fight with me, just wait and back away from here."
Qiao Zhenhua and Liu Junyang looked at each other, and couldn't help but burst out laughing. Their laughter stunned Xu Qiyun and the others. Guan Xiaokun asked nonchalantly, "You...what are you laughing at?"
Kuai Peng didn't want to say anything, but he really couldn't understand Xu Qiyun's complacent face. Besides, when they came back, the grain store had raised the price of grain by another 30%. The price of food has also doubled.
Kuai Peng then said: "Refugees have entered the city, rice villages have been hit by disasters, either way, it will cause a sharp increase in food prices, don't you know? Alas! Some people always regard themselves as the pillars of the country. They ridiculed us for being a bunch of dandies, but they didn't expect to understand the sufferings of the people better than us... "
Xu Qiyun's complexion changed drastically, and he was stunned for a moment. He could no longer care about Kuai Peng's sarcasm, and immediately shouted at Guan Xiaokun and Rui Qingxing: "Hurry up! Go buy rice! You two idiots..." Several people hurried away, behind Tang Xianzu and others The man burst out laughing.
Zhang Hongyan said happily, "My lord, I'm waiting for you to hold a banquet in the Chongyi Building!"
It was not until evening that Xu Qiyun brought Guan Xiaokun and Rui Qingxing back unhappily. Behind him was a servant pushing a cart of grain, which seemed to be about the same amount as what Zhang Hongyan and the others brought back earlier.
When Xu Qiyun and the others rushed to the nearby grain store, they encountered another increase in the price of grain. Unwilling to be slaughtered, they went further to find the grain store. This delay caused the price of grain to rise even higher. When they finally made a decision When they were determined to exchange all the money for grain, those grain merchants with a keen sense of smell began to limit purchases again.
In this way, they paid a high price and had to buy a little bit of grain from different grain stores, and then they snapped up a cart of grain and came back. Otherwise, based on the family background of the few of them, they are really much richer than Zhang Hongyan and others .
Seeing them coming back, Zhang Hongyan and the others couldn't help but sneer at them again, but after the ridicule, Zhang Hongyan also had no idea, and complained to Kuai Peng in a low voice: "Old Kuai, you just can't hold your breath. If you don't point out this matter, you will It doesn't matter if they are proud for a day, tomorrow they will buy less food, we will win, and now, the outcome is not yet known."
Kuai Peng felt that he was at a loss, touched his nose, hesitated and couldn't speak, Tang Xianzu rescued him and said: "Don't blame Lao Kuai, if it's just a day at night, it's just cheaper and those profiteers earn more. The profiteers who make a lot of money from refugees are really disgusting."
The reason why Zhang Hongyan gave porridge to the people was actually to compete with Xu Qiyun, not because he was really compassionate. Hearing what Tang Xianzu said, he said resentfully: "Those profiteers are certainly hateful, but if they are defeated by Xu Qiyun because of this Li, I've lost my face."
Tang Xianzu looked at the grain under the porridge shed and estimated it. According to the current supply situation, it is only enough for three and a half days, and the amount of grain under Xu Qiyun's shed is similar. People from both sides will go to the other side's shed to check from time to time. It is also impossible to make the rice porridge thinner.
Tang Xianzu frowned and thought for a moment, rolled his eyes, and said excitedly: "It's not the way to sit and eat like this, I have a good idea!"
Zhang Hongyan hurriedly asked, "What's a good idea?"
Tang Xianzu puffed up his chest and said triumphantly: "The fundraising performance!"
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In the evening, the porridge shed closed after serving porridge for the last time.
Tang Xianzu, Zhang Hongyan and others have already discussed the details of the fundraising performance at the foot of Jiming Mountain tomorrow, and Ye Xiaotian will naturally participate. He likes to listen to operas, but he has never imagined that one day he will be able to appear on stage, so he is also very interested.
Tang Xianzu was in contact with several drama clubs in Nanjing, where to borrow costumes, which repertoire to perform, who would play which role, everyone agreed one by one, and then they separately prepared to go. Tang Xianzu went to the drama club to borrow costumes, gongs and drums, etc. Ye Xiaotian asked Hua Yunfei, Mao Wenzhi, and Sister Sun to help out, and Zi and Elder Dong returned to the post house.
As soon as Ye Xiaotian entered the door, a postman came up to meet him, leaned forward and asked, "Lord Ye?"
Ye Xiaotian agreed, and the postman let out a joyous cry, and ran away like the wind as soon as he turned around. Ye Xiaotian is really puzzled, why is this postman so crazy, since you are waiting for me, you should tell me what happened, right
Ye Xiaotian and Elder Dong followed behind inexplicably, and when they arrived at their residence, they saw the postman coming out of the yard with a beam of joy and tinkling a dozen big coins, followed by two people, Ye Xiaotian took a look at the two Immediately stay there.
Xia Yingying didn't react like Ye Xiaotian, she had been waiting here for a day, and the tea had been changed four times, when she saw Ye Xiaotian, she couldn't help feeling sad and happy, and cheered "Brother Xiaotian", like a sucking swallow throwing herself into the forest, forgetting her feelings She threw herself into his arms and wept bitterly.
Li Xuancheng couldn't leave as quickly as the two of them. He had just come out of the yard at this time, and when he saw the girl he liked throwing herself into the arms of a young man and crying loudly, his face immediately became extremely ugly: "A girl so big, don't say yes!" Yi brother, even if he is a real brother, he shouldn't be so intimate again.
Li Xuancheng said to Zhan Ning'er displeasedly: "Miss Zhan, you said that man is Miss Xia's brother-in-law? Why do they..."
Zhan Ning'er saw Xia Yingying flung herself into Ye Xiaotian's arms, Ye Xiaotian patted her on the shoulder softly, comforted her softly, felt sour in her heart, and said, "It's the righteous brother, but you haven't heard of it, dry firewood is good for cooking, Is it easy to be a brother and a sister?"
When Li Xuancheng heard this, his face immediately turned dark.
"Brother Xiaotian, did you miss me these days when I went back to Hongfeng Lake?"
"Of course I do! At least two hundred times a day."
"It's only two hundred times, it's not enough, I want three hundred times!"
"I miss you two hundred times in the morning, two hundred times in the afternoon, and two hundred times in the evening..."
"Ouch..."
Both Zhan Ning'er and Li Xuan were vomited.
Xia Yingying was elated after hearing this, and felt that the pain of lovesickness and parting was all worth it. The Yidi girl's straightforward and innocent character is clearly reflected in her body. She doesn't care about Zhan Ning'er and Li Xuancheng next to her. She just cares about Ye Xiaotian asking Han Wennuan to act coquettishly and foolishly. Those soft arms were wrapped around Ye Xiaotian's neck and never took off. , was the courtyard gate that Ye Xiaotian half-dragged and half-carried into.
If Li Xuancheng had looked like Xia Yingying when she first met her, Li Xuancheng would have walked away with contempt and disdain, but after getting along with her for a day, Xia Yingying's Qingli, Jiaoqiao, like a spring in the mountains, like a white lotus on a snowy peak, is very different from that of a woman from the Central Plains. It has been deeply engraved in his heart, now that Yingying is so delicate and naive, he only hates that the man in her arms is not himself, so there is no doubt about it.
Seeing that there is only one Ye Xiaotian in Xia Yingying's eyes, Li Xuancheng regarded him as an ignorant piece of wood, and Li Xuancheng was jealous and hated. He gritted his teeth and bid them farewell.
But Xia Yingying was obsessed with Ye Xiaotian, and she didn't care about his departure at all. Ye Xiaotian couldn't get rid of Yingying, and couldn't get up to say goodbye to him, so he could only smile helplessly. When Ye Xiaotian mocked him, he secretly hated him.
Zhan Ning'er sent the stinky-faced Uncle Li Guo out of the post house with a wry smile, and when she returned to the room, Xia Yingying had changed from clinging to Ye Xiaotian's side to sitting on his lap, Zhan Ning'er's pretty face suddenly It also stinks, put his hands on his waist, and said angrily: "Are you enough, do you think I am a dead person?"
Ye Xiaotian was escorted all the way from Hu County to Nanjing City these days, he was a little tired, but he was still full of blood after a big nourishment before, Yingying suffered from lovesickness, and now reunited after a long absence, no longer caring about her reserved appearance , snuggled into his arms and entangled him for a while, his elastic and plump buttocks shook, Ye Xiaotian almost missed his shot, seeing Zhan Ning'er coming in, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief: "It can be regarded as a rescuer."
Ye Xiaotian quickly patted Yingying's lower back, signaling her to stand up, and Xia Yingying reluctantly walked away from him with her mouth pouting.
Ye Xiaotian shook his robe, stood up with his belly in his chest, and said to Zhan Ning'er: "It's been hard work for you." He had already heard Yingying tell her how to leave home, so he naturally wanted to thank Ning'er. But with this thank you, the close and distant relatives became clear, Zhan Ning'er felt sad, her nose was sore, and she nearly shed tears.
She was not the only one suffering from love, Li Xuancheng was sent out by Zhan Ning'er, and before he had time to exchange a few words, or even boarded the car, he hurried back, the uncle who was honored as a guest by Duke Wei's mansion , In the eyes of others, it is not as good as a little classic history.
Li Xuancheng boarded the car, glanced wistfully at a sprig of lingering flowers protruding from the post wall, and said bitterly to himself: "My dignified uncle is abandoned by her like a shoe! Such a young person is really annoying."
Thinking of her lovely appearance in a blink of an eye, with a smile, she couldn't help but move her heart, a little bit of annoyance melted away like a snow lion seeing fire, so she sighed sadly: "I put my heart on the bright moon, but who knows that the bright moon shines in the ditch …”