The entire Longtou Town is not very big. Zhang Rui followed the workers of Li's Mansion and arrived at Li's Mansion after a long circuit.
A typical courtyard with three entrances and three exits, a pair of stone lions at the door, and the word "Li Mansion" written on the eaves.
Under the leadership of the Li Mansion workers, Zhang Rui went directly to the front living room of Li Mansion.
The front living room is divided into primary and secondary seats. As soon as Zhang Rui entered the living room, he saw Pang Tong sitting on the second seat. Sitting on the master's seat was an angry figure with sword eyebrows and a middle-aged man wearing a brocade robe. He must be Li Decai.
As soon as Zhang Rui entered the room, he saluted the two people in the room and said, "I have seen Li Li, and shopkeeper Pang is also here!"
"Yes, Brother Six, aren't you coming back to discuss your purchase of grain with your boss?" Pang Tong also nodded to Zhang Liu and replied.
"Are you Sixth Brother? I heard from my butler Li Hun that when the bandits came into the village, you killed seven bandits by yourself. You are really a young hero." Li Decai, who was sitting there, looked at Zhang Ruihou as he sat there. said
"As the head of Datong Village, I was really ashamed that I did not help at all when the bandits entered the village. Fortunately, such a heroic young man appeared in our Datong Village and saved the villagers from this disaster. It is really a blessing. .You say so! Shopkeeper Pang."
"Yes, my boss. It's really a blessing. Congratulations to my boss and Datong Village." Pang Tong said, but in his mind, he thought: "I guess you want him to die immediately!"
"I heard Li Hun said that Sixth Brother is interested in buying grain?" At this time, Li Decai was looking at Zhang Rui and said
"Yes, Li Chang. If the price is right, I will buy some." Zhang Rui replied without saying a word.
Li Decai said with a somewhat angry questioning look: "Then what price do you think is appropriate?"
"I should have told shopkeeper Pang about this price." Zhang Rui said calmly.
"boom"
Li Decai slammed the table with teacups next to the host's seat and cursed angrily:
"Gouzi, do you want to buy food? Normally, the price of food is not so cheap. Are you trying to make a fool of yourself?"
"Master Li, how dare you, a villain? You don't have to sell it if you think you're going to suffer a loss in this transaction. I didn't force you to buy it. Don't you think so?" Zhang Rui looked at Li Decai with contempt and said.
Li Decai suddenly raised his voice: "Does this mean there is no need to discuss it?"
"No, we have to discuss it."
Hearing Zhang Rui's words, the anger on Li Decai's face suddenly disappeared.
"I decided to collect white rice for one tael per shi, yellow millet for 8 qian per shi, and soybeans for 5 qian per shi. I'll see if your mayor is willing to sell me, and take care of the people in the same village."
Zhang Rui, who was talking, ignored Li Decai at all, as if he didn't care whether he bought it or not. At this moment, Li Decai's face, which had already calmed down, immediately darkened. Seeing how Zhang Rui was getting angry, he roared loudly: "What do you mean, are you trying to force me to take action?"
He looked like he was about to pick up the teacup and smash it at it!
"Try?"
A very calm and cold voice came out
Li Decai saw Zhang Rui's cold eyes looking at him, and suddenly he felt as if the anger in his body had hit a glacier, and he immediately let go.
The six decapitated corpses brought back by Li Hun flashed in his mind, as well as the scars on Lei Bao's body and his dead expression. I heard from Li Hun that Zhang Rui failed to pass the fourth move when he killed Lei Bao.
Li Decai admitted that he had killed someone before, but compared with Zhang Rui, his decisiveness and ruthlessness were still incomparable. It is better not to offend such a ruthless character. There is no need to fight against such a poor and ruthless character. It is not cost-effective.
Anyway, Li Hun has already gone to Zhilian Mountain to move the bandits. I don’t believe he can stop dozens of bandits on his own. As long as he dies, the money will be my food or mine. How much the grain will be sold for is just a matter of imagination. As long as the money is in my hands, even if I sell it to you for five cents and one stone, you have to live to take it.
Li Decai took a sip from the teacup he picked up, and then put the teacup down. He said with a smile on his face
"Brother Six, I misunderstood. I want to sell you food, just at the price you said!"
When Pang Tongyi heard this, he immediately felt that he had heard wrongly. Doesn’t it mean that we can only pay the usual price? Didn't you mean to threaten him, and if that didn't work, let the thugs kill him? How come everything has changed, and so quickly. He sold his grain before he could react, and the price was still lower than before.
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"Shopkeeper Pang"
Li Decai called Pang Tong twice before Pang Tong reacted.
"Master, what are your orders?" Pang Tong stood up from his seat and saluted Li Decai and asked.
"Sell him the grain at Brother Six's price, and tell him the specific conditions." With that, Li Decai picked up the tea cup again and took another sip of tea.
"Brother Six, can you tell me why the price has been reduced again?" Pang Tong asked Zhang Rui in confusion about the sudden price increase of food.
"It's nothing. I just came to town and spent more than a hundred taels of silver. I'm short of some money, so I made up for it here when I bought food."
After listening to Zhang Rui's words, Pang Tong and Li Decai couldn't help but curse in their hearts. What the hell is this? You just spent the money, and you actually came here to make money from me. But who cares how infuriating a dying man is.
"Brother Six, this is what we mean here. You can buy grain, but you must buy more than five hundred taels of grain. And the grain you buy cannot be taken away from the Li family warehouse within a month to prevent you from taking it away. Just sell it.”
Pang Tong took out the abacus in his hand and said seriously to Zhang Rui
"If Brother Six doesn't agree, we won't sell grain."
"That's easy to say. Can you eat the food I bought for five hundred taels? Don't you have no food for me then." Zhang Rui asked in surprise.
"Ha ha……"
"Ha ha!"
After hearing Zhang Rui's question, Li Decai and Pang Tong couldn't help laughing.
"Brother Six is worried in vain. I, Li Decai, can be considered a grain merchant. I don't have much else, but I have plenty of grain. My granary in Datong Village alone stores nearly a thousand dan of grain, so let alone five hundred taels. I can afford more than a thousand taels of food."
"That's fine. Don't give me food when the time comes. I won't be polite. Also, after I buy food, I have to take away ten shi of white rice, ten shi of yellow millet and ten shi of beans." Zhang Rui is not polite. said
Regarding Zhang Rui's words, Pang Tong couldn't make the decision and had to look at Li Decai. Li Decai tapped his fingers lightly on the table, thought for a moment and then said
"Okay, I promise you."
"Okay, Li Li is so happy, so I, Zhang Liu, can no longer take advantage of me and act like a good boy. This is a five hundred tael of silver note." With that, Zhang Rui took out the silver note from his arms and waved it in his hand. continued
"I want to buy 350 shi of white rice, 100 shi of yellow millet, and 140 shi of soybeans."
Li Decai was surprised that Zhang Rui gave such a figure in such a short time. He said he could not calculate it. How can a person who has never read a book since he was a child do math like this? Li Decai expressed doubts and then looked at Pang Tong.
Pang Tong was holding the abacus in his hand and making calculations. Finally, there was a shocked expression on his face, and after nodding to Li Decai, he couldn't help but admire Zhang Rui.
"Brother Six is really good at math. He didn't make any mistakes in such a short period of time."
"Excuse me, I just learned a little bit." Zhang Rui said, but he couldn't help complaining in his heart. It was just a casual calculation of the nine-nine multiplication formula, what a big deal.
The two parties finally signed a contract, and Zhang Rui also paid five hundred taels of silver.
After Zhang Rui left, Li Decai suddenly felt that this time he might lose everything. Li Decai didn't know why he felt like this. Looking at Zhang Rui's leaving figure, I couldn't help but say:
"Disappointment is an illusion, otherwise a remarkable figure would really appear in our Datong Village."
