It's night, red sleeves are moving.
Xiao Chongjing and his men were drinking in the box, and when they were enjoying themselves, a man dressed as a businessman and built like a roly-poly knocked on the door of the box.
"Who?"
Vice General Wang stood up and opened the door.
When he saw it was a roly-poly, he burst into laughter and said, "Shopkeeper Qian, why are you here?"
"Come on, come on in..."
Without any explanation, he pulled Shopkeeper Qian in and came to Xiao Chongjing. He introduced with a smile, "General, look, this is Shopkeeper Qian. My mother passed away a while ago, and he helped me a lot."
"Where there."
Shopkeeper Qian quickly raised his hands with a smile, "Everyone here is a pillar of the country and the people who have fought on the battlefield. It is precisely because of you fighting bloody battles on the front line that ordinary people like me can have a stable life. For this What’s a favor, a little favor?”
As he spoke, he patted Vice General Wang's shoulder affectionately and smiled helplessly, "Vice General Wang, why do you care?"
"well said!"
Xiao Chongjing looked at Shopkeeper Qian with approval and smiled at everyone: "It seems that not all people in this world are blind."
"that is!"
Everyone echoed noisily, "The world always says that everything is inferior, only reading is good, but in fact, reading is useless! When someone is slashing with a big knife, you can't use a book to block it, right? Those civil servants who know how to do this all day long hide behind their backs. The scheming person must be our general to do the real thing!"
"Who says it isn't?"
Shopkeeper Qian sat down and quickly blended in with the crowd.
He agreed with a smile, "In my opinion, apart from forming cliques and eliminating dissidents, this scholar is not as good as our generals in other aspects. But it's a pity, those who work hard on the battlefield are always not as lovable as those who flatter others."
"well……"
Everyone sighed and drank without any taste.
"Okay, okay, stop whining all the time."
Xiao Chongjing smiled and appeased everyone, and then looked at the tumbler with affection, "Shopkeeper Qian, what kind of business do you do? Why do you feel so deeply about it?"
"I am in the grain business."
Shopkeeper Qian smiled bitterly, "You don't know, every time there is a natural or man-made disaster, we who sell food are always the first to suffer. For example, this summer, months of heavy rain destroyed many people's granaries... Alas, Good grain cannot be sold at a low price nowadays..."
"oh?"
Xiao Chongjing's heart moved.
But he didn't say anything. He waited until late at night after the wine had dissipated and everyone else had left, then he looked at Shopkeeper Qian with a smile and asked, "Shopkeeper Qian is not drunk?"
"I don't dare to get drunk."
"Why not?"
"General, you know very well..." Shopkeeper Qian said with a grimace, "The villain's grain is almost rotting in the warehouse. If we don't find a buyer quickly, I'm afraid the villain's family won't even be able to survive the new year... …”
"Hey, what do I care about your family?"
Xiao Chongjing took a sip of wine and looked at Shopkeeper Qian with a scrutinizing gaze, "Do you know what the crime is of substandard military rations? If you come to me, aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"
"Afraid."
Shopkeeper Qian put down his wine glass with a wry smile, "What the general doesn't know is that this villain actually owes a lot of money for collecting grain. If the grain cannot be sold within this year and the creditors come to the door, he will die..." I really had no other choice, so I remembered Vice General Wang... But don't worry, General, Vice General Wang doesn't know much..."
"okay."
Xiao Chongjing waved his hand impatiently, "I know who Vice General Wang is better than you."
"Yes, yes, yes." Shopkeeper Qian quickly apologized.
"How much do you plan to make from the food?" Xiao Chongjing looked at shopkeeper Qian after a moment of thought, "How bad is the food?"
"A villain doesn't expect to make a profit, just lose less."
Shopkeeper Qian said, holding up three trembling fingers and asking for a very low price.
"So low?"
Xiao Chongjing was shocked, "How bad is your food?"
"It's just a little bit moldy, nothing serious."
Shopkeeper Qian quickly explained, "I know this is not fair, so I don't dare to ask for more. As long as I can pay off the debt and collect enough money to travel back to my hometown..."
"You want to go back to your hometown?" Xiao Chongjing was confused, "You don't want to do business anymore?"
"No more."
Shopkeeper Qian sighed helplessly, "This villain has been doing business for so many years and worked diligently, but he ended up being compensated like this. If he keeps doing it, I'm afraid he will even have to pay for it with his life..."
"well……"
Xiao Chongjing sighed and comforted shopkeeper Qian.
Although I felt a little pity, I didn't persuade him to stay.
After all, the fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the better. He returned to his hometown voluntarily, which saved him from being worried...
…
Three days later, in the private room of the teahouse.
Xia He placed three things in front of Yin Xiaorou.
One was a deed for purchasing grain from Yingmen. It said one hundred thousand shi of grain and fifteen thousand taels of silver.
This is the normal price.
But on the last page of another grain store's account book, it was written that the shipment was 100,000 shi and 3,000 taels of silver.
This is the real price.
After comparing the two prices, everyone knows that there is definitely something fishy about this batch of grain.
Someone is definitely lining their pockets.
Putting down the deed and account book, Yin Xiaorou looked at the last thing on the table.
A handful of dull yellow rice.
She grabbed the rice and smelled it, and sure enough, there was a pungent musty smell...
"This won't kill anyone, right?" Yin Xiaorou frowned and looked at Xia He with some worry, "We just want to teach him a lesson. If it kills someone, I'm afraid we won't be able to stop it."
"Don't worry, it's just vomiting and diarrhea at most."
"That's good."
Yin Xiaorou was relieved.
Yin Xiaorou felt relieved as she carefully put the rice into her purse and put it away together with the deed and account book.
These things are not only Xiao Chongjing's handle, but also her life-saving talisman.
With these things, she could let go and make her next plan.
"What are you thinking about?" Xia He glanced at her curiously, took out two more porcelain bottles from his arms and handed them to her, "Here, what you want."
"How dare you put these two things together? Are you not afraid of death?"
Yin Xiaorou was startled and quickly took the porcelain bottle.
In this porcelain bottle is the bone powder of a viper unique to the northwest. One bottle is the bone meal of the female viper, and the other bottle is the bone meal of the male viper.
When the two bottles of bone powder were separated, there was only a slight phantom poison, which lasted for seven days and then dissipated.
But within these seven days, if the poisoned person touches a second bottle of powder, he will be severely poisoned.
It can range from madness to death from fear.
"Who are you going to use this thing against?" Xia He looked at Yin Xiaorou in confusion, "You don't want to kill that person, right?"
"Of course I want to kill him, but not now."
Yin Xiaorou glanced at Xia He helplessly, "Don't say that I don't have the chance to contact him. Even if I do, before Wen Yu becomes the prince, he can't die if anyone dies."
"Then who are you going to deal with? This thing is quite expensive. There's only so much left. Use it sparingly and don't use it on people who don't deserve it."
"Don't worry, it's definitely worth it."
