But when people opened the lid of the porridge bucket, they saw the steaming white mist and smelled the rich rice aroma of the porridge water. Only then did these people who had narrowly escaped death feel that they were still alive.
They subconsciously wanted to squeeze in, and Aunt Du said loudly, "Don't be anxious, everyone. Come one by one. There is enough porridge today for everyone to share."
After hearing Aunt Du's words, the group of people stopped pushing.
Seeing that these victims had solved their problems, Jiang Nianjiao planned to drive back.
But after the carriage and horses were halfway down the road, thinking about what she had seen today, she couldn't help but said to the groom outside the carriage, "Let's drive to the Dongshi Rice and Grain Store first."
After listening to Jiang Nianjiao's words, the groom had no choice but to drive to Dongshi.
At this time, the East Market was even more noisy, but what was different from the usual noise was that in the past, the crowd was mostly evenly distributed and overcrowded.
However, the noisy crowd today was concentrated in front of certain shops, and the noise and anger of the crowd outside could be heard.
After Jiang Nianjiao got off the carriage, she discovered that among them was the rice and grain shop she had previously run.
She wanted to go in, but the perimeter of the rice and grain shop was only blocked by people.
They were shouting something, and Jiang Nianjiao couldn't hear clearly even though she was standing on the outermost edge. She couldn't help but ask the person on the outermost edge, "What's the situation now?"
The man didn't think much about it. When someone asked, he immediately told Jiang Nianjiao what happened to them with indignation.
"We know that prices in the capital have always been expensive. A bucket of rice costs 700 Wen. But with this famine at the moment, the price of rice is even more expensive. Even if it is two to three hundred Wen more expensive, it is still affordable. It's just that this time these rice When grain stores raise their prices, they more than double their prices. Why are they raising their prices? This is obviously fatal!"
"If it weren't for the fact that there was no rice to cook today, we wouldn't be able to come here and cause trouble."
After hearing this, Jiang Nianjiao finally understood the current situation.
Therefore, she only asked Cuiqiao to loudly call the name of Sun Dequan, the owner of the rice and grain shop.
Sun Dequan, who had originally been looking for a group of people to block the door and not let him in, couldn't help but get a little angry when he heard someone calling his name directly.
The waiters below also looked at the boss's face. When they saw Sun Dequan's face turned dark, they just shouted, "What are your names! It's not ours that's raising prices now. If you're not satisfied, go to other places." Buy it locally! You really think we are doing charity here."
"What's wrong with doing charity? If Sun Dequan doesn't come over to see the master now, our master will just replace the shopkeeper of this rice and grain shop."
After hearing this, Sun Dequan realized that something was wrong. He quickly asked the store clerk to disperse the crowd.
Then when he saw Jiang Nianjiao and his party, Sun Dequan couldn't help but his face turned pale. "Master, it's freezing cold. What are you doing in the store?"
When they heard that the big boss of the rice and grain shop was coming, the crowd who had been stunned for a moment started to make noise again.
Jiang Nianjiao said with a cold face, "If I don't come, will you be allowed to do whatever you want? Why don't you just raise the price to the sky?"
After he finished speaking, Sun Dequan wiped the cold sweat from his neck.
However, he still defended himself and said, "Master, this is the price everywhere, and we have all agreed upon it."
Jiang Nianjiao did not pay attention to Sun Dequan immediately. She only said to the people around her, "Don't be excited. Our rice and grain shop is still selling rice and grain at the previous price. However, it is inevitable that other families will not be able to buy surplus grain in the past two or three days, so we here For the time being, the purchase limit is only three meters per person. If everyone agrees, they will line up one by one. If they don’t agree, they will buy elsewhere."
After hearing what Jiang Nianjiao said and seeing that the waiters and Sun Dequan in the store did not dare to say a word, they knew that the owner of the rice store was probably coming.
Therefore, the originally noisy crowd stopped making trouble. After thanking Jiang Nianjiao, they quickly lined up the queue, and then Jiang Nianjiao just ordered the shop assistants to go to work quickly.
The guys were obviously still a little reluctant.
However, after Sun Dequan only winked at them, they had to restart work.
Naturally, Sun Dequan followed Jiang Nianjiao into the rice field.
In the grain store.
As soon as Jiang Nianjiao sat down in the inner room, she asked Sun Dequan, "Why is Boss Sun looking so sad now?"
When Sun Dequan saw Jiang Nianjiao asking, he could only sigh and said, "Master, we are not saying that charity is not good, but this kind of business has always been done without women. How much less will we make from this move. "
"What's more, this price increase was negotiated by several of our rice stores to raise prices together. Now other stores are still selling at that price. We don't know how many colleagues we will offend if we withdraw at this time."
When Jiang Nianjiao heard this, she said, "No one can make all the money in the world. Even if we make money, we have to divide what we can make and what we can't. Now the imperial court is discussing disaster relief matters, and various governments are also vigorously providing disaster relief. We are driving up the price of rice at this time. If we do it well, we will only make money for a while, but it will ruin our reputation. If we do not do it well, it will be a crime of beheading! Do you want to make a profit for two or three days? The beheading money, or the long-term peace money?”
After listening to Jiang Nianjiao's words, Sun Dequan finally came to his senses. He no longer just complained about Jiang Nianjiao.
He only said softly, "Master still has a long-term view."
Although Sun Dequan was a little greedy, he did make a lot of money for Jiang Nianjiao over the years, so Jiang Nianjiao had no intention of punishing Sun Dequan. .
Anyway, Sun Dequan is also a smart man. If he wants to remind himself this time, he may not make today's mistake again in the future.
After Sun Dequan figured this out, he said to Jiang Nianjiao, "Is Madam here just to mention this little matter?"
Jiang Nianjiao shook her head and said, "Of course not. I heard that the disaster was more serious in the west of the city, so I thought it would be great if you could send a few bags of rice to the nearby porridge factory. matter."
When Sun Dequan heard this, he only chuckled, "Don't worry, madam, we have already sent the rice and grain."
After hearing this, Jiang Nianjiao nodded, and she went out not long after.
I didn't expect her to go out, but the sound of arguing started to sound outside the already quiet rice and grain store. I heard the woman's sharp voice saying, "We are not eating for ourselves. We are buying some rice to go to the west of the city to provide relief. What can we do with enough rice?" ! I don’t care! You have to ask your shopkeeper to come out quickly! It’s not like we don’t have money.”
Hearing this, Sun Dequan had no choice but to rush over to explain. Jiang Nianjiao also felt that Sun Dequan could handle the matter well, so she planned to leave.
The young woman who didn't want to come with the quarrelsome girl suddenly called out to Jiang Nian, "But Princess Jin?"
When Jiang Nianjiao heard someone calling her, she turned around. At this time, the woman and the girl were only wearing long curtain hats. Through the long gauze, she did not recognize who these two people were for a moment.
It wasn't until the woman opened the curtain and saw the other party's shrewd and beautiful face that Jiang Nianjiao recognized the other party.
Isn't this person Chen Changnian's second sister-in-law? As soon as she saw her coming, Jiang Nianjiao subconsciously thought that the person next to Sister-in-law Chen was Chen Changnian.
She just smiled and said, "Hello, second sister-in-law."
Then she asked another woman, "But Ah Qian is here too?"
Hearing Jiang Nianjiao's words, the woman just impatiently opened the curtain, "I'm not her! My name is Song Chuchu."
After saying this, Song Chuchu's eyes met Jiang Nianjiao's. In this brief moment, she had to admit that she felt a sense of surprise in this beautiful woman.
"Song Chuchu? Could it be that he is a relative of the second sister-in-law?" Jiang Nianjiao said with a smile.
The second sister-in-law of the Chen family also shook her head and said, "She is not a relative of mine. This girl was brought back by our third child."
Hearing this, Jiang Nianjiao just said, "What? Brother Jinghuai is back too?"
"Yes, he has been back a long time ago, but he is also a little busy these days, but he hasn't visited the girl yet." Second Sister-in-law Chen only smiled and replied.
There was still a long queue at the back, so Jiang Nianjiao naturally couldn't bring the Chen family's second sister-in-law here to greet her, so she just signaled Sun Dequan to go do other things, while she herself said to the Chen family's second sister-in-law, "Second sister-in-law, we still Let’s go inside and talk?”
The second sister-in-law of the Chen family also nodded when she heard this.
Then the three of them entered the inner hall and it was easier to talk. She looked at Song Chuchu and said, "This Miss Chuchu,
I just heard what you said. You want to buy some rice from me, right? "
Song Chuchu nodded, "Yes, we plan to donate some rice to the porridge factory. But I didn't expect that your store doesn't even do door-to-door business. I don't know when the rice will be sold." "
Jiang Nianjiao chuckled softly when she heard this, "Girl, I'm really sorry. I gave the order to limit the sale of rice to three buckets per person. My original intention was that if we were the only ones selling rice at the original price, the latecomers might not be able to buy it." It’s not enough to eat rice. In order to prevent people from crazy buying, I took this strategy. After all, the lives of the people in the west of the city are their lives, and the lives of the people in the east of the city are also their lives.”
After hearing this, Song Chuchu couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
After Jiang Nianjiao stated her thoughts, she said to Second Sister-in-law Chen, "But since it is Second Sister-in-law who has spoken, I naturally have to think of a solution for you."
After saying this, she let Sun Dequan come in. She only asked in a low voice, "Shopkeeper Sun, do we have any extra food now?"
As soon as Shopkeeper Sun heard this, he immediately frowned, "Madam, since you just said that the rice will be sold at the original price, the people who were queuing up in front of other rice and grain shops have also come to us. Now we have stock here." I’m afraid I won’t even be able to survive the day with food.”
After hearing this, the second sister-in-law of the Chen family naturally didn't want to trouble Jiang Nianjiao anymore. She could only say, "Since the situation is like this with the princess, I'd better go elsewhere and take a look."
After she finished speaking, she just pulled Song Chuchu and left the rice and grain shop.
