Chu Ping led Chu Li through the crowd of spectators and walked straight to the river. After walking a short distance, he felt that this was a bit slow. He didn't know why his cousin had to let him take Chu Li with him!
"Ali, my cousin, run as fast as you can and get there first. You can walk slowly behind and I'll come back to pick you up later, okay?"
Chu Li looked a little embarrassed, but for a moment he shook his head firmly!
"Then you wait here for your cousin, or go home by yourself first?"
"Brother asked me to go with my cousin!"
Chu Ping scratched his hair and looked at Chu Li, who was suddenly very stubborn. He didn't know what was wrong with this child!
"Cousin, let's go quickly. My brother and sister-in-law are still waiting at home!" Chu Li said, pulling Chu Ping's sleeve and walking forward.
"Alas!" Chu Ping sighed, resigned himself to his fate, picked up Chu Li and ran to the river!
Along the way, many people in Kaoshan Village saw Chu Ping running wildly with a child.
When crossing the bridge, the ladies washing clothes by the river also said: "Boy of the Chu family, please slow down, don't let your child fall into the water again!"
"Oh, the Feng family is really evil. Look how anxious the Chu family is!"
The aunt next to her, while tapping her clothes, said, "If you ask me, this Chu family is quite good-tempered. If I were to kill them, I wouldn't be able to let them go."
The aunt who had just shouted to Chu Ping sighed: "Oh, what can we do if we don't let him go? We can't really call in helpers and beat them up!"
Chu Ping carried Chu Li across the river, and was still quite far away from Shen's house. When he reached a path with woods on both sides, Chu Li suddenly struggled and asked his cousin to put him down.
"Cousin, I'll go by myself!"
"Ali, be obedient. We'll be there in a moment. My cousin will let you down when we get there!"
Chu Li continued to struggle: "Cousin, please put me down quickly. Brother, let me tell you something!"
Chu Ping had no choice but to put Chu Li down: "What did my cousin want you to tell me?"
"Brother said, don't alert the Shen family's father-in-law and uncles and aunts, just quietly invite the Shen family's eldest brother to come over."
Chu Ping was very puzzled when he heard this. Could it be that his cousin was afraid of scaring the elders of the Shen family: "But didn't I just say..."
"Brother said my sister-in-law is fine."
Is it going to be fine so soon? Could it be that...the cousin-in-law is just faking it? Chu Ping wiped the sweat from his forehead and scratched his head: "Then why didn't you tell your cousin earlier? This whole journey has made me anxious!"
Chu Li looked at his cousin seriously: "Brother said that I need to find a place without people before I can tell my cousin."
Come on, there is no need to be too anxious now, so he took Chu Li and continued walking towards the Shen family yard.
In the Chu family's wing, Shen Luzhu was lying on the kang, standing up from time to time and looking out, sighing slightly in her heart. All the people joining in the fun had dispersed, and her cold-faced husband was nowhere to be seen.
I'm afraid I'm really angry this time!
Just now, Chu Yi carried her into the house without letting Chu Li and Xiu Xiu follow him. He put her on the kang and checked her body. After finding that there were no other injuries except the nail of her little finger, she turned around and went out.
With a cold face, Shen Luzhu said nothing during the whole process no matter how coquettishly and cutely he acted!
Shen Luzhu was lying on the kang, worrying, when she heard someone entering the yard. The footsteps were getting closer and closer. She could hear several people coming towards her house. She didn't know who it was, so she quickly closed her eyes and continued to lie down. Pretending to be unconscious there.
"This way."
It was her cold-faced husband Chu Yi, and she didn't know who she brought into the house. Shen Luzhu could only feel that the person was getting closer and closer, and finally stood beside her!
"Stop pretending and get up."
"Brother!" Shen Luzhu opened her eyes suddenly and saw her eldest brother Shen Chuanbai standing by the kang, looking down at her!
Shen Chuanbai watched his sister slowly sit up from the kang, and after a brief inspection, he saw that there was nothing serious except for her arm being a little sore due to excessive exertion and a split nail.
Shen Chuanbai nodded to Chu Yi who was standing aside, then poked Shen Luzhu on the forehead with his hand, and taught him a lesson: "You are quite capable, and you have learned how to fight!"
On the way here, Chu Ping and Chu Li had already told Shen Chuanbai everything. Just in the courtyard, Chu Yi also told Shen Luzhu's condition. He had checked his wife and found no serious injuries, but he was still not at ease. That's why I bothered Shen Chuanbai to make this trip.
Shen Luzhu was taught a lesson by his brother. He pursed his lips and looked at Chu Yi. Seeing that Chu Yi was still expressionless, as if he was keeping strangers away, the more he looked at him, the angrier he became!
He glared at Chu Yi, then turned his head with a big movement, hum! You are just joking and bringing your parents to see you, how stingy!
Chu Yi raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at his wife's crouching neck, as if she was angry even on the back of her head, and suddenly felt helpless.
Shen Chuanbai almost laughed out loud at his sister's fluent movements, but as a eldest brother, he had to protect him: "Ayi, don't be the same as her. Since it's nothing serious, I'll go back first. , when Ah Li and the others came to find me, they said that someone in the shop accidentally hurt his hand and had been out for too long, so I should be suspicious."
"Brother is leaving now? But my arms are still sore!" Shen Luzhu also knew that her brother couldn't stay here longer, but she and Chu Yi were still angry. It was so embarrassing to be alone!
"You lack exercise and exert too much force."
"What should we do?"
"Just go out and fight a few more and practice."
Shen Luzhu stared at his eldest brother with wide eyes, actually letting his own sister fight and exercise! No more love!
Shen Chuanbai ignored his sister's resentful eyes, turned around and opened the door, and walked out with Chu Yi. After walking far away, he said to Chu Yi: "Although Lu Zhu is a bit squeamish, she is the most reasonable when she is young. She is just still in her emotions. For a moment, she didn't understand that you were worried about her. After a while, she will be on her own. Just think about it clearly, brother-in-law, just work harder and be more patient."
"No, I didn't take care of her."
"It's not your fault. Don't give it away. Let her put a hot towel on Lu Zhu's arm and rub it gently. I'll come back to her in two days to take a look. It's nothing serious. Don't worry."
"Okay, thank you, brother."
After almost half a stick of incense, the door to the east wing was pushed open again. Chu Yi brought a basin of hot water into the room, placed the basin on the shelf next to the dressing table, threw a handkerchief in, and tried it. The water temperature is still a bit hot.
Looking at Chu Yi's back, Shen Luzhu also knew that it must be what happened today that scared Chu Yi, but... think about it, I have a lot of people, so I don't care about him!
"Chu Yi, how could you do this?"
Chu Yi, who was twisting the handkerchief, made a move. He really shouldn't show off to his wife: "Azhu, I..."
"Playing with buttonholes and complaining to parents about fights is a big taboo!"
Um? Chu Yi turned around suddenly, and Shen Luzhu was looking at him with pursed lips and a look of disapproval. Chu Yi sighed inaudibly, stepped forward with a hot handkerchief, took off his wife's sleeves, and massaged her with hot compresses.
"Azhu, you getting hurt... is also a taboo for me."
Shen Luzhu's eyes were red, and he didn't care about the wet handkerchief on his arm. Shen Luzhu reached out and hugged Chu Yi, leaning his head gently on his arms: "I'm sorry for making you worry. I shouldn't have fought, let alone brought him Together with Xiu Xiu, I was too impulsive."
Chu Yi hugged the person in his arms and kissed her forehead deeply: "I'm not good either."
If he doesn't have a child, A-Zhu will have to bear a lot of unwarranted charges. It's because his previous thoughts were too simple and too selfish.
After being closed for two days, the paper money shop opened as usual. Seeing that Shen Luzhu was fine and the couple reconciled as before, all the relatives and friends breathed a sigh of relief.
After Feng Laizi's family came to apologize, the matter was settled. At this time, the news of the Hu's shop in Wufang Village selling yellow paper for only fifteen cents and throwing free money for ten cents had already spread to everyone. Everyone knows it!
Not only did the Hu family deliberately keep the price very low, but they also spread rumors that this was the normal price and that the Chu family shop had raised the price to sell it to everyone!
Shen Luzhu was really puzzled by this. Paper money was sold in this way in the whole town, and the purchase price was also clear. It was fourteen cents for yellow paper and twelve cents for wasted money. Selling it like the Hu family did was to make a profit at a loss, even if It's just soliciting customers, but there's no such thing as soliciting!
What's more, the rumors are spreading like this in his family. Although it has really hit his family, can he just continue to suffer like this and never change back?
"Cousin, why don't we sell it a little cheaper? There have been fewer people buying burnt paper recently. Many of them have been tricked into buying yellow burnt paper at Hu's house. They also said that they would rather not buy new ones than come to the gangsters. Give me money for my dear shop!"
When Chu Ping wasn't burning paper these days, he would wander around various villages to get information, but the results he got were not very optimistic.
"I have discussed this matter with your cousin-in-law, and we cannot lower the price."
"Why? If this continues, won't the Hu family snatch everyone away?"
Chu Yi asked Chu Ping calmly: "How much? Is it the same as the Hu family? If they lower it again in the future, will we follow?"
Chu Ping thought about it for a while. If the reduction is less, it will still be more expensive than the Hu family, which is equivalent to no reduction. If the reduction is too much, it will be lower than the purchase price. It is a loss and can only be the same as the Hu family: "The one with the surname Hu can still do it." Lower again?”
"Will!"
Shen Luzhu also explained: "This is probably their purpose, to deliberately lower the price to the purchase price, and then spread the word about what is available and what is not available, just to force us to lower the price. When we lower the price, they will lower it again. If we don't follow, before The price reduction will be in vain, so we can only follow it, and we will only lose more and more, and eventually be dragged down!"
"But……"
"Moreover, if we lower the price now, doesn't it actually confirm that the rumors they spread are true? No one will think that we are doing business at a loss. Everyone will only think that we really raised the price and had to lower it. Then the Hu family will be good people, and we will really become evil-hearted people!"
Chu Ping grimaced: "What should we do now? Just watch and do nothing?"
"That's right, do nothing and just watch. This is like being immobile when the enemy moves, and remaining unchanged in response to all changes!"
Shen Luzhu and Chu Yi's guess was absolutely correct. Huang Liang asked Hu Shun to lower the price, and ordered the idle men to go around saying that the Chu family had raised the price, with the idea that the Chu family would also lower the price, which would bring them down!
Even if the Chu family no longer follows the price, as long as they lower the price, people can spread the news again. The Chu family has indeed raised the price. The news that they have to lower the price now, even if it cannot bring down the situation, may not happen in the future. There will be people going to buy goods again. The Chu family is Yihuang, and this business is not all their own!
Huang Liang stayed in the room behind the shop, smoking his pipe leisurely, and humming a few songs from time to time: "Humph..."
As soon as Hu Shun entered the house, what he saw was this scene, and he couldn't help but complain a little in his heart. He had been busy working in front all day, buying goods and arranging the work of the idle men. His cousin was better off, either drinking tea or Smokers are so unhappy.
What is most difficult for him to accept is that he has worked hard for so long. Except for making some money in the first few days of opening, he has been losing money and making money. Now he doesn't know how much he has lost. His cousin also has The mood is humming here!
"Cousin, how long are we going to sell at a loss like this? We do a lot of takeout all day long, but the more we sell, the more we lose! In addition to the money paid to those idle men, our business is still What’s the point!”
Huang Liang put down the cigarette pouch in his hand and rolled his eyes at Hu Shun: "What the hell do you know? Just finish the things I told you to do honestly. There's so much nonsense!"
If Lin Ji's path hadn't worked, why would he have spent so much money on it and used this method to injure the enemy by one thousand and lose eight hundred to himself!
Huang Liang went to the workshops on the outskirts of the town several times, but he didn't even see the owner. He also found Lin Ji's funeral shop in the town, but other than the people burning paper and throwing money in vain, they said they had never seen it before. , came back and asked the people who were watching, and found out that it was all done by the Chu family themselves. They really underestimated them!
Thinking of this matter, Huang Liang became even more angry. Hu Shun was really stupid. He didn't even ask about such an important matter. Otherwise, why had it been delayed for so many days!
"Let me ask you, is there any movement at the Chu family?"
"There is no movement at the Chu family right now, the price is still the same!"
"No hurry, just wait!"
