In all these days, Ye Wuhua and other Pingjiang County family heads have never seen the state-owned grain depots transporting food into the city from other places.
In the past few days, they had advertised a daily limit on how much food they could purchase, but in actual practice this was not the case.
As long as there is money coming in, they can still sell the food.
At first, Ye Wuhua and the others didn't realize this, so they went crazy when buying food.
They only noticed this now after the price of grain in state-owned grain stores plummeted.
"Where did they get so much food?"
"They must be bluffing by lowering food prices like this! They must have no food, so they use this price reduction to undermine our confidence!"
Ye Wuhua analyzed the current situation seriously, and Wang Defa and Li Xiuliang, who were sleeping dragons and phoenixes, also supported Ye Wuhua.
"Master Ye's analysis is correct. They must have run out of food, so they deliberately lowered the price to twenty cents per pound!"
Wang Defa said regretfully: "Yes, it's a pity that we don't have any cash now, otherwise we would be able to use the last fig leaf of the next week's county magistrate!"
After listening to this analysis, other family heads also felt that it was very reasonable.
Li Xiuliang, the head of the Li family, suddenly came up with a plan and said to everyone: "How about we mortgage our ancestral home and borrow some money from Boss Yang. Anyway, our food has been transported to Pingyang City and Jing'an City to sell. By then, At most, I’ll just pay back some interest to Boss Yang!”
This time, Wang Defa and Ye Wuhua hesitated, while the heads of small families nearby were making noises.
"Yes, yes, let's borrow some more money from Boss Yang. Wouldn't it be great if we used the money to take off the county magistrate's pants that week!"
Wang Defa and Ye Wuhua couldn't stand the crowd's booing, so they could only agree to this approach.
I just don't know why, Ye Hua always feels panicked.
Zhou Yi is still kind-hearted. Originally he just used a trick to take over the land from their major families.
But I don't expect these families to be so stupid that they even thought about adding leverage to buy the bottom when the "stock" fell to the limit.
It's hard to persuade the damn ghost with good intentions. Since the major families are looking for death, the kind and compassionate Master Zhou has nothing to do with them.
Zhou Yi immediately asked Yang Xiu to lend them money and agreed on daily interest.
On the surface, this daily interest rate is very low, but it is compound interest calculation.
At the end of a month, that would be much higher than the loan sharks in the underworld who were always out and about.
Calculating time, Qian Xiaohao will be able to grab the food shipped by major families to Jing'an City in a few days.
The reason why Zhou Yi didn't snatch the food away from the big families as soon as it was shipped out was to give them some time to fantasize.
In Yangjiao Mountain, more than a thousand soldiers led by Qian Xiaohao were lurking in the mountains early, looking eagerly, waiting for the arrival of the grain transport team.
After noon, just as Qian Xiaohao's team was hiding in the shade of a tree to rest and have a meal, a man who looked like a soldier hurried over.
"Coming, coming, sir, they are bringing food!"
Upon hearing this, Qian Xiaohao stuffed the food in his hand into his mouth and swallowed it.
"Gather the brothers and ask them to put on a tube of masks and raise the flag. Let's go down the mountain to collect food!"
Ever since the evil thief Li Feiyu was recruited to Pingliang County as the county magistrate, the surrounding areas of Pingjiang County had been calm and there was no danger. Therefore, the teams transporting grain from the major families were laughing and joking along the way.
But when they were walking on the tree-lined path of Yangjiao Mountain, a large number of people suddenly rushed out from both sides of the mountain forest!
Each of these people wore masks that were very similar to the team of "Li Feiyu" who robbed their village last time.
It's just that the masks this team wore were painted with a large cake pattern, while the team last time wore masks with nine large cake patterns.
Although the masks were different, anyone with a discerning eye knew that they had met Li Feiyu's team.
Ye Jianrong, the leader of the grain transport team, exclaimed: "Damn it, isn't Li Feiyu arrogant when he is the magistrate of Pingliang County? Why did he suddenly appear here!"
A member of the Wang family pointed to the fluttering bloody flag and said: "Shopkeeper Ye, look at that flag. Last time it was the word 'Li', but this time it is the word 'Li'!"
"Those who are strict and have no experience in writing, to put it bluntly, aren't they all robbers!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Qian Xiaohao, wearing a mask, rode out and shouted: "I opened this road and planted this tree. If you want to live this life, I will leave money to buy the road."
"Everyone who knows anything, please be obedient. We only seek wealth, not life!"
"If anyone is disobedient..."
Before Qian Xiaohao finished speaking, he was really not afraid of death and pulled out a long knife from the grain truck and wanted to go head-to-head with these gangsters.
He was handsome for only three seconds. As soon as the man drew out his long knife, he was hit by an arrow in the knee.
Qian Xiaohao pointed to this living example and said: "If there is anyone who is disobedient and wants to stand out, just like him. Now everyone, please stand to the left of the grain truck."
After grabbing the food, Qian Xiaohao did not forget to thank the people who transported the food: "Everyone, please help us, the head of the Li family, to thank the three heads of the Ye family, the Wang family, and the Li family for sending the food!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the other families looked at the Ye, Wang, and Li families.
Everyone couldn't help but think of the previous robbery by "Li Feiyu". It was these three families who opened the door to their home without even resisting.
At that time, the three of them had already colluded with the bandit "Li Feiyu". This time they sent food to Jing'an City, and they must have revealed the news to the bandit.
Ye Jianrong, the shopkeeper of the Ye family, quickly explained: "Don't believe those thieves' plans to sow discord. Our three families have nothing to do with these thieves! Our own food has also been robbed!"
Qian Xiaohao added another blow and said: "Don't worry, Shopkeeper Ye, the food of Ye, Wang, and Li families will be returned in full in a few days. We will divide the food of other families equally."
Now, the leaders of Ye, Wang, and Li's family in transporting grain were really hard to argue with!
The man who had been hit by an arrow in the knee rushed up angrily and wanted to punch Ye Jianrong, but he accidentally fell in front of Ye Jianrong.
The punch that was supposed to hit Ye Jianrong's face actually hit Ye Jianrong's knee due to his unstable center of gravity and fall.
Seeing this, people from other families also beat up the Ye, Wang, and Li families nearby.
For a moment, these people who were originally harmonious suddenly fell into a fight.
At this time, Qian Xiaohao also took advantage of them to make a mess of themselves and quickly led a large army to drag away all the food.
On the way to Pingyang City and passing through Pingliang County, another group of people also encountered another group of bandits, and similar things were happening in another place.
