When Shen Luzhu saw the other party's obvious aura of finding trouble, he immediately laughed, and then said loudly: "Yellow burnt paper, I won't sell it."
The old lady was stunned when she heard this. She obviously had not expected this situation. She rolled her eyes and sat down on the ground. Anyway, she was told to come and use big bills to buy paper money to cause trouble, so it should be the same. .
"Are you bullying my old lady? Why don't you sell me paper money? This is how your family does business? Come and see, you are bullying my old lady."
Song He was a little anxious when he saw this. Didn't this old lady make a false accusation? When did they bully her? But when he turned around, he saw his boss's wife Lao Shen on the ground, holding her shoulders as if watching a show. He could only worry on the side. .
Shen Luzhu specially waited for the old lady's cry to attract many onlookers, and then he pretended to be surprised and said: "Madam, why can't you just listen to what I have to say? It's not that we don't sell to you, it's really you The yellow burnt paper you want is sold out, so if you ask me how to buy it from you, aren’t you forcing it on others?”
When the old lady heard this, she struggled to stand up, pointed at the paper money on the shelf behind the counter and said: "You lied, I saw it, if you just put it there, you are bullying me, old lady!"
"Auntie, you are too impatient, and you don't listen carefully to what I have to say. I don't know, I thought you came here specifically to blackmail me. You are so eager to label me as a bully old lady. Those are indeed It’s yellow burnt paper, but it’s already been reserved for someone else. They paid the order fee, so how can I sell it to you again?”
When the onlookers saw this situation, they also tried to persuade the old lady: "It's not good to be so impatient at such an old age. You should be more relaxed."
"Yes, please listen carefully this time. It's not that they don't sell to you, but that they don't sell it. How can I still make money while doing business? Is it okay to bully you, an old lady?"
The old lady had just been stopped by someone across the street. The two men asked her to come over with the banknote and buy a knife of yellow paper to cause some trouble for the store. After the incident was completed, they would give her a tael of silver.
I thought it was a simple matter, but I didn't expect that the money would be so difficult to earn, but the two people were still watching from across the street. If they didn't buy a knife and paper money, wouldn't the one tael of silver have been wasted.
Then Ji Zhongshengzhi pointed to the other paper money and said: "Then I will buy other paper money, there must be others."
"Of course!"
Shen Luzhu said with a smile: "Just now, I made you unable to buy the yellow burning paper. How about this? Today I will give you a benefit by burning paper with my copper coins. If you buy ten knives, I will give you two knives as a gift."
How could this be possible? They asked her to buy a knife of burning paper. How could she pay for it if she bought too much?
After hearing this, the old lady shook her head repeatedly, slapped the banknote on the counter and said, "No, no, no, I can't use those, I just need a knife, please give me change quickly."
When Shen Luzhu heard the pretense, he said with confusion on his face: "The price I give you is almost as good as the price of my membership. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Even if you don't need so much now, you will need it soon." It's the twelfth lunar month, and these dozen knives may not be enough.
Or do you think it’s not cheap enough? How about this, if you buy it for twenty dollars, I will give you five dollars as a gift? "
When others heard that it was so suitable, even if it was a little too much, it would be fine to just buy it and keep it. This paper money is not like food that you like to spoil, but who knew that the old lady still shook her head and insisted on buying only one knife.
Song He also saw some clues at this time, and was about to expose the old lady, but Shen Luzhu reached out to stop her.
"Auntie, do you think twenty-five dollars is too much? How about this? How about you choose someone from the onlookers to buy with you? This way you don't waste this opportunity, and more people can benefit from it. Why not? Why not?"
The onlookers were originally just a little envious, and some were puzzled by the old lady's behavior. Now after hearing this, many people came forward and expressed their intention to buy with her.
The old lady was surrounded by many people, and it was obvious to the naked eye that she was getting more and more irritable. She waved away those who came to talk to her, shouting: "Get out of here, get out of here, get out of here, I'm going to It’s just a knife, your family’s grinding machine, will you sell it?”
Shen Luzhu couldn't help laughing in his heart, but he still pretended to be puzzled but considerate on his face.
He looked like: "Are you afraid that the twenty-five dollars won't be shared equally between the two of you? How about I bite the bullet and give you one more knife? It's always easy to split this time."
Now the onlookers who wanted to buy paper money together were furious when faced with the lady who still insisted on buying only one knife.
"You old lady are too stubborn. You said we could buy them together. Why didn't you listen?"
"No, you can't stand looking at such a huge bargain!"
The servants of the Yang family who were hiding across the street watched the old lady go in for a long time, but they didn't see her come out, nor did they see any of the shop assistants come out. Even if they didn't see the old lady coming out, why were there more and more people in Chu Ji? After much hesitation, they still decided Decided to step forward and take a look.
Before he even entered the shop, he was surrounded by those people's words about the old lady. He was so disturbed that he roughly understood the situation.
They guessed that Chu Ji had some activities, and these people wanted to buy together with the old lady, but they were still a little confused, and they had to do everything with this old lady.
Before he could think about it carefully, he was caught by Shen Luzhu at the counter. They were the two followers of Yang Fangsheng.
"Hey, aren't these the two grandsons of the third master of the Yang family? Why did you come to my shop today when you have time? Could it be that they are buying paper money for your grandpa?"
Shen Luzhu said this so loudly that the two people who originally just wanted to come over to inquire about the situation were immediately exposed to everyone's sight.
The old lady naturally saw it, and struggled to squeeze out of the crowd, pulling the two of them to help her. If she continued like this, her head would almost explode.
"Hey, it turns out that I'm not here for grandpa today, but with grandma."
The two followers didn't care about arguing with Shen Luzhu. At the moment, they just wanted to quickly complete the task assigned by Yang Fangsheng. Sooner or later, they would also let the Chu family know that if they offended them, the Yang family would have a hard time, so they directly pushed away the onlookers. : "Stop talking about those useless things, just buy a knife and burn paper, and your family will decide whether to buy it or not?"
Seeing that the person behind the scenes had already appeared, Shen Luzhu stopped adding fuel and jealousy, and reluctantly spread his hands to the onlookers: "There's nothing we can do about it, everyone, Song He can give this lady the copper coins to burn paper, but today I don’t know what’s going on, but the guests who came all morning are all rich people, and they all come with big bills. Now I have to exchange the change, and you have to wait for a while, aunt.”
After saying that, Shen Luzhu whispered a few words in Song He's ear, and then he saw someone nodded and ran back to the inner courtyard with the banknote.
Some of the onlookers saw that they couldn't follow and got a bargain, but some seemed to have seen some tricks and would not take advantage of anyone. If it was said that the family life was difficult and they could not buy too much paper money at one time, but But she came out with a fifty-tael silver note.
Some people even recognized the identities of the two followers and thought something seemed to be going on here, so they all stayed and planned to see what happened next.
As long as Song He was out, the Yang family's entourage used the excuse that the transaction had not yet been completed, blocking subsequent customers who wanted to buy paper money, and occupied the counter for as long as they wanted, refusing to give in at any cost.
Shen Luzhu wasn't upset, she just hugged her shoulders and leaned against them, as if the shop had nothing to do with her.
It was not until half an hour later that Song He drove his carriage back from outside, followed by two ox carts pulling goods. After stopping in front of the shop, Chu Yi jumped off the carriage, while Song He stayed outside. After calling to Gao Tongshan and the two coachmen, they unloaded all the sacks from the carriage and the bullock cart.
Chu Yi entered the shop, walked straight to his wife, nodded and said, "Everything has been changed."
It turned out that after Song He ran to the inner courtyard, he told Chu Yi all the causes and consequences as well as Shen Luzhu's arrangements.
Then Chu Yi took Song He to the bank where the young couple often went, and exchanged all the fifty-tael banknotes for copper plates one by one. Fifty-taels, a full exchange of five Ten thousand copper plates.
For large copper plates, one hundred pieces is exactly one pound, and fifty thousand pieces is a full five hundred pounds.
Fortunately, the copper plates in the bank were all in pieces of a thousand, and they were strung together. Just count to fifty coppers. In the end, it only took some effort when loading the car, otherwise they would not be able to come back when it got dark.
Seeing that several people outside had finished unloading the cart and the driver had driven away the ox cart, Song He took out thirty more copper coins from among them. Shen Luzhu then smiled and said, "The change has been changed and it's at the door." Besides, here are your copper coins and burning paper, please leave without giving them away."
The two followers of the Yang family walked to the sacks piled up in a hill outside. They looked at the copper plates inside and were dumbfounded. The change was too small, so how could they take it away with them? !
"From the Chu family! You, you are clearly cheating!"
Shen Luzhu almost laughed angrily at the two Yang family members: "You Yang family members have sent people to change the change all morning. I kindly helped you change more. How come you are still wrong?"
"You take care of me. You open the door to do business. If I come to buy, you have to sell. Your Chu family still has to pick the guests? Besides, how can your family give change like this? Ten taels, five taels of silver notes and silver ingots , I don’t believe you don’t have one!”
Shen Luzhu continued: "How dare we? Why don't you use fifty taels of silver notes to buy something worth thirty cents, and I'll sell it to you. But don't tell me, my family is still There is not even a small-denomination banknote or silver ingot. This morning, the change at home was all exchanged by people sent by your Yang family."
At this time, Song He had already walked back to the shop and handed the thirty coins to Shen Luzhu. Shen Luzhu weighed the copper in his hand and said, "Hey, it's quite heavy."
The two attendants were so angry that they walked back to the shop gnashing their teeth, slapped the copper coins and burned paper on the counter, and said with itching teeth: "I don't want to buy it, I want my money back!"
Unexpectedly, Shen Luzhu actually handed over the thirty copper coins in his hand: "If you don't want to buy it, don't buy it. We can't buy or sell by force, right? Thirty copper coins per knife, no more, no less. Return it to you."
Then, regardless of the angry faces of the two people, he turned to Chu Yi and said, "It's almost noon, let's go back. I'm hungry. Song He is also very tired today. The shop is closed at noon, so let's rest for a while."
"I don't want this. What we gave you is a fifty-tael banknote. Please return the banknote!"
Shen Luzhu looked at the other party in shock and said: "Are you dreaming? Didn't you take those fifty taels to the bank to exchange for change? But if you want to exchange it back for the original one, that's fine. The door is right there. Go to the bank yourself. Change it, Song He, Master Gao is closing the door to see away guests."
Gao Tongshan, who had been standing outside the door, heard this and entered the shop. He and Song He pushed the two of them out of the door.
Seeing this, Shen Luzhu added: "By the way, go back and ask your third master if the change is enough. If not, come back. Tomorrow I will ask the banker to set up a temporary business office directly in front of my door. , specifically to give change to your third master, how does your family think?"
