Du Wanchun turned around and pointed at the "Zhoujia Fragrant Rice" at the door and asked, "Is your Zhoujia Fragrant Rice the rice from the Zhoujia Rice Shop in Cheng'an County?"
The shopkeeper squinted his eyes and smiled: "Yes, it's rice from the Zhou family. Their family originally ran an incense shop business, but now they have a rice shop business, and the rice they sell is even more fragrant than spices."
It's an exaggeration to say it's more fragrant than spices, but rice is indeed very fragrant.
Du Wanchun asked slowly: "How much does your family's rice cost per dou?"
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "This rice is good, as many people who have bought it in Cheng'an County know, so the price is naturally much more expensive than ordinary rice, about two hundred coins per dou."
"Two hundred coins?" Madam Wu on the side exclaimed in surprise.
Du Wanchun's face also darkened. The Zhou family usually sold rice for one hundred cents per dou, but here it was only two hundred cents per dou. This was treating the common people like cattle.
She smiled and said: "Shopkeeper, I heard that in Cheng'an County it's only 100 cents per dou, how come it becomes 200 cents per dou here?"
When the shopkeeper saw what she said, he stopped smiling and said sternly: "Girl, if you think it's expensive, don't buy it. Let's go!"
Du Wanchun turned around, walked over to the rice, grabbed a handful and asked, "This kind of rice can only be sold for seventy or eighty cents per dou at most, but you have exceeded the price by so much."
"What kind of rice? If you don't want to buy it, get out of here!" the shopkeeper said fiercely to them.
Little Mianmian, who was sleeping in Zhou Ruiyuan's arms, opened his eyes slightly when he heard the sound.
He quickly wrapped the child in his arms and said to the shopkeeper in a cold voice: "Shopkeeper, the rice you have is just inferior rice. It is not rice from Zhoujia Rice Shop at all."
The shopkeeper snorted coldly and said, "It's not true if you say it's not. Have you eaten it or something? If you've eaten it, bring me the rice you bought and let me see. Let's see if it's true."
As he spoke, he deliberately raised his eyebrows and said mockingly: "People like you can't even afford two hundred cents a dou of rice. It's obvious that you've never tasted real Zhoujia fragrant rice. You just caught me thinking about it in my shop." You want to extort our money."
Zhou Ruiyuan lifted his steps and walked to the shopkeeper's side.
He was two heads taller than the shopkeeper, and it was very oppressive to stand next to him.
The shopkeeper was startled, "What do you want to do?!"
Zhou Ruiyuan handed the child to Du Wanchun and said coldly: "Shopkeeper, you said this is Zhou family fragrant rice, but our Zhou family has never sold rice to you."
"Your Zhou family?" The shopkeeper was startled.
Zhou Ruiyuan walked into the rice shop and said slowly: "We are the shopkeepers of the Zhou family rice shop. Can we not know whether this is our rice?"
The shopkeeper was shocked, and his face turned pale for a moment. After a while, he quickly came back to his senses and said: "It turns out to be the shopkeeper of the Zhou family. I am blind. Don't blame us if you, sir, have a lot."
Zhou Ruiyuan snorted coldly and said, "You didn't know what I said just now. Shopkeeper, you are passing off inferior goods as good ones. If I report this matter to Magistrate Zheng, your rice shop will no longer have to do business."
The shopkeeper lowered his head, hesitated for a moment and said, "Shopkeeper Zhou, don't worry, I'm not trying to pass off shoddy stuff."
"Who is that?" Du Wanchun came over and asked.
The shopkeeper glanced outside and said slowly: "It's the Yu family."
"Yu family?" Du Wanchun and Zhou Ruiyuan asked in unison.
Madam Wu came over quickly and said, "I know the Yu family. They are wealthy businessmen in Qingzhou Prefecture. In Qingzhou Prefecture, apart from the Fang family, the Yu family is the richest."
"That's right." The shopkeeper responded, "This rice shop is opened by his boss. I'm just helping to look around the shop. If you want to talk to me, just go to Mr. Yu."
"Master Yu..." Du Wanchun muttered in his heart.
She heard Master Fang mention this person before. When he first opened the rice store, Master Fang told him to be careful about this Master Yu.
Master Yu took advantage of the fact that he had people in the capital and occupied the rice markets in more than 20 counties in Qingzhou Prefecture.
The shopkeeper continued: "Master Yu forced me to sell like this, and I had no choice. I also said at the time that it would be bad if the Zhou family found out. Who knew that he slapped the table hard and said that his cousin was Princess, I dare not not do it.”
Du Wanchun's eyes gradually turned cold, and he looked in the direction of Yu Mansion, unwilling to leave.
