It was already evening, but Suizhou City suddenly became lively. Many people ran out of their homes and headed straight for the south of the city as yesterday.

Just because of a news spread all over the city again: "The food shop of the Shen family has opened again. Today's grain price has dropped a little more than yesterday. The rice dumplings have dropped to 18 ounces. Everyone, go and buy it."

You should know that for a while ago, the price of grain in the city was so high that it was shocking. The rice buckets of rice in other grain shops exceeded 30 cents, which made many families unable to afford it after the disaster. Yesterday, the Shen family opened a shop again, and the bid for 20 cents was enough to be conscientious. Today, it actually reduced two cents, which naturally attracted countless people in the city to rush out of their houses and rush to buy grain.

Even if there was still some food at home, I had to take this opportunity to store more. So less than half an hour later, the news came out. Not only did the people in Nancheng bring in various containers to buy food, but people from other parties rushed over after hearing the news.

There was a long queue in Shenjia Grain Store, which had a small storefront, and the three layers inside and outside could flood the shop. The shopkeepers and staff inside were very busy at this time. While skillfully collecting money for food, they kept shouting: "Don't squeeze, don't rob, today's food supply is enough! My master said that we will transfer food from other places next, which will definitely allow our Suizhou villagers to eat. And as long as the food is in place, the price can be reduced, just worry."

These words naturally attracted cheers from the grain buyers. The people in the city were quite convinced by the words of the Shen family, especially the Shen Dashanren. Therefore, the order in front of the shop was getting better and better, and no one was scrambling to crowd around. Even if there were two strange premises for selling grain in the shop, people agreed happily.

Mao Saner just kept her temper and lined up in the queue and slowly moved forward until it was dark. It was finally his turn. After entering the store, he shouted directly: "Give me fifty kilograms of white rice and thirty kilograms of noodles..."

"I'm sorry, our store has rules this time, each person can only buy five kilograms of grain per day." The guy in front of him said with a smile.

"What a breaking rule? I have money to buy grain, why can't I buy more?" Mao Saner immediately glared at her eyes. As a result, his anger did not panic on the other party. The mate still smiled and said, "This is the rules of our shop. If you don't want to abide by it, the grain will naturally not be sold to you. You can just do it."

Seeing that the other party was tough, Mao Saner was even more annoyed. Just as the attack broke out, he immediately shouted in the back: "Hey Mao Saner, you came here to make trouble again. Can you make trouble in Shen Shan's shop? If you don't have the money to buy it, get out of here, otherwise we will be careful of us beating you!"

"That's right, if you don't buy it, get out of here, don't block our way!" Some people shouted loudly at the same time, and several men even rolled up their sleeves and looked at Mao Saner with their eyebrows and eyes.

Mao Saner is just a dilapidated house in the city. She seems arrogant on weekdays and bullies women and children. Once she is targeted by these many adult men, she will immediately become soft and can only hum and retreat: "That's five kilograms... This is silver..."

"I'll beg you for your gratitude. Our store only charges copper coins but not cash. You have also seen that we are so busy here that we don't have time to weigh silver and make changes, so we'll ask for a coupon, which is a total of ninety cents." But the guy didn't accept his money and then gave this statement.

Mao Saner was completely stunned this time. He had only a small inlay of silver on his body and had no copper coins. He wanted to object again, but there were several pairs of dissatisfied eyes staring at him behind him, and someone was urging him to get out of here. Finally, he had no choice but to spit out and turn away.

Well, after more than an hour, I couldn't even buy a grain of food. However, everyone else could take out copper coins according to the rules and buy grain smoothly. Originally, nowadays, the people, especially ordinary people, have mostly copper coins on their hands, but people generally don't use more valuable silver, so the rules of the grain shop naturally have no effect on others.

But this made Mao San'er suffer, and he made him curse all the way. After walking helplessly for more than half an hour, he arrived in front of an extraordinary garden in the east of the city.

This garden is one of the best residential buildings in Suizhou, and even covers a wider area than the Shen family courtyard, and its pavilions are more grand. It is the main courtyard of the Liang family in Suizhou City that is comparable to the Shen family. However, the people living in it at this time were not the Liang family, but wealthy businessmen from Xiangfan, Wuchang and other places. With their status and wanting to borrow someone to live in the Liang family's garden, Liang Qianmo, the head of the Liang family, would only welcome him. On the same day, he moved the whole family to the courtyard outside the city to live, and vacated the entire home.

And such a famous garden in Suizhou, which still lives in the great wealthy places, today let a city of dilapidated people enter freely, through the hall and directly to the middle hall of the three-enter courtyard.

This is Mao Saner's second trip to Liangyuan. Compared to the previous one, he looked around and gained insight, but today he became much more honest. He only followed the servant in. When he came to the front door of the hall, he bowed his head and lowered his hands, and didn't even dare to say the first half of his words.

In the hall, there were sounds of silk and bamboo. Several of the most famous singers in Suizhou City were singing a small song in the tune. In the opposite seat, two men were playing chess, while the other two were half leaning on the side listening to the song while playing beats, making them very leisurely.

It was not until the servant who brought people in came forward and reported to one of the chess players that he did not turn around, but waved his hand to the door, signaling Mao Saner to come in and speak. Mao Saner was also very well-behaved, and hurriedly stepped forward to the other side and whispered: "Master Hu..."

Hu Guanjue still didn't look back, and his eyes were staring at the chessboard in front of him. He pondered for a while before he fell down. Then he slowly said, "Have you bought food?"

"No...non..." Mao Saner twisted uneasy again as she said this.

"I heard that the Shen family still opened the door to sell food today. Yesterday, I asked you to pay more attention to it. Why? You came back and wanted to ask for rewards after you didn't get it done?"

The understatement made Mao Saner feel panic, and his knees weakened and he knelt down. He quickly explained: "Master Hu, Master Hu, you must be a little unwilling to work hard. It's because their rules are too nonsense..." As he said that, he told the rules that only sell five kilograms of grain shops, and only collect copper coins but not cashiers.

After saying this, both the two playing chess and the two who were listening to music on the other side turned their heads instantly and looked at him carefully. The youngest young man in the brocade uniform said, "What you said is true?"

"The villain dares not deceive you. This is all my personal experience and hearing. So... I didn't buy food."

"Well, was there anything different about the Shen family before?" Hu Guanjue suddenly asked again.

"A different place? Today, another customer went to his house. It seemed like the merchants from Guang'an County." Mao Saner was not only staring at the grain shop outside, but also the movements of the Shen family were also under his attention.

As soon as this was said, the few people understood the whole story, and then smiled again: "So that's it. Forget it, you go back now and continue to stare at us."

"Yes, the younger one must get the job done, then the money..." Mao Saner breathed a sigh of relief, then she thought of the money used to buy food in her arms, and asked tentatively.

"I'll reward you." Hu Guanju waved his hand with amused look, and the young man took out another ingot of silver from his sleeve and threw it over: "I'll reward you too. If you finish the errand, you will get more rewards."

"Yes, yes, thank you, my uncles..." Mao Saner was overjoyed and thanked her repeatedly. He picked up the silver on the ground and quickly stepped out. He made a profit now. He had never done such a quick job before.

It was not until he left that several people waved their hands again and sent out the singers, then looked at each other and saw the solemn expression on each other's faces.

"It seems that Shen Tian really intends to fight us head-on! He actually suppressed the price of grain again. What is his purpose?" Hu Guanjue snorted.

"Isn't this obvious? He wants to make the food in our hands not to be sold." Young man Cai Zhili sneered, "But he underestimated us too much. Do you really think that the little food in the Shen family's warehouse can compete with us? Don't lose all his family's assets then!"

"If it were just his family, we would naturally be able to deal with it easily. The key now is the people coming from Guang'an. The food they held was enough for millions of stones, which was more than what we were about to ship to." Hu Guanjue frowned again.

"Don't anyone of them want to vote for us? As long as you use a little trick, you will naturally be used for me!" Fan Changyue, another smart-looking man, smiled.

"With that being said, this is a trouble after all. And the longer the time goes on, the more unfavorable it is for us. Not to mention anything else, the comfort and search commander from the capital is not something we can deal with. And if we really ask those above to take action, we won't get much benefit in the end."

The three of them said one by one, and they felt that the game in front of them was a bit tricky. Finally, they looked at the 400-year-old man who had never spoken and had a fat figure: "Zhiyi, why don't you say a word?"
Chapter completed!