Chapter 59 Black Heart


    The carriage swayed all the way and turned into Chongyuanfang Street.


    As the lights were on, there were still many small vendors shouting about their business on both sides of the street.


    When passing by Chen Ji Mipu''s door, a noise and crying sound came.


    A woman fell to the ground with an empty rice bag and cried loudly, "This day is really a waste of life! The rice price has risen from seven ces to nine ces and twelve ces, and now it has risen to fifteen ces. It''s really forcing the living to die!"


    "I only earn thirty cents a day when I work at the wharf. The family is hungry for feeding, and the price of rice has risen so much, how can our family survive?"


    "Yes, is Boss Chen here? It can''t rise so much. The price of rice doubled compared to the price three months ago! How can you not give people a way out!"


    "Boss Chen, we want to see Boss Chen."


    "Where is the time for the boss to see you?" The guy took a bamboo stick with "Fifteen liters/liter" and inserted it into the rice bucket, hanging his eyes to everyone, "I love to buy it or not. But I am ugly in front of it. Our boss said that the price of this rice will increase after one tenth of a year!"


    "There is no way to do this. There is a flood in Qingzhou, Qizhou, and the hungry people are still waiting outside our Weizhou Prefecture! There is no grain in that area, and there are only so many rice on the market! The more you sell, the less you sell it! Only three stone rice is sold today! If you don''t buy it, don''t block the way."


    "You can''t buy rice when you go to another house. Just our Chenji rice shop, the old brand of Weizhou City, has so much rice to store for you to choose from."


    Yu Linlang lifted the curtain and looked out, and saw a large group of people surrounding Chen Ji Mipu’s door crying and shouting so sad.


    Jiujin came over and gritted his teeth and cursed, "The profitable businessman will make money from the national crisis."


    "Let''s go." Yu Linlang lowered her eyes and lowered her car curtain.


    Chen Ji Mipu Miss Chen Xinlian walked over here as a crowd.


    She shook the veil in her hand and twisted her head in a row, "What are you doing at this door? She is stinking here, so you can''t let people go in."


    The guy immediately changed his face by 180 degrees, smiled flatteringly, leaned forward, lowered his head and bowed, "Miss, please come inside, please come inside. Let''s go and don''t block the way. Haven''t you seen our lady come?"


    "Hmph, a group of local bullies, they still squeezed into this annoying thing without money." Chen Xinlian glanced at the civilians around him with contempt, his eyes almost hanging from the sky.


    "My man, I only have thirteen cents. My child is almost ill. I just want to eat hot rice. I''ll sell me one liter, just one liter!" At this time, a man with a dirty beggar rushed out of the crowd and hit Chen Xinlian''s arm.


    Chen Xinlian let out a sharp scream as if she was causing someone to squeeze the neck...


    The girl beside her also screamed, stepped forward and patted and rubbed her lady with a clean veil, and cursed viciously, "Dad, Dad, Dad, Mom, walk so unhappy? You''re going to die!"


    The beggar man''s eyes were red and his apology was repeated, but he refused to shrink back and still stubbornly wanted to go forward to buy rice.


    "Go roll!" The guy cursed angrily, "Blind dog, dare to hit the young lady of our Jinzun Yugui. Don''t say that you don''t have enough money, even if you come over with a wealth of thousands of dollars, my Chen Ji rice shop will not sell you a grain of rice! Get out!"


    The man knelt on the thick hard stone floor with red eyes, gritted his teeth and kowtowed three times in a row, and said with tears in his eyes, "Miss, Caomin is a rough man, who has been rushing for no reason, please forgive me. My child is about to die of illness. Please sell me a liter of rice so that I can cook some hot rice for my child."


    Chen Xinlian swept the fragrant handkerchief in her hand, and a sarcastic smile appeared on her gorgeous little face, "We are rice shops, not charity halls. If we don''t have enough money, we still want to buy rice. Let''s go wherever we are cool! A group of local bullies are smelly." Everyone around saw this dignified man kneeling in the street, not only did he fail to gain sympathy and even caused Miss Chen to mock him like this, and he couldn''t help but point anger.


    Miss Chen was angry when she saw it and scolded, "Why are you all standing there? Why don''t you drive them all away for me? I won''t sell rice today and tomorrow! It''s closed."


    "Yes, Miss!" The mipu guys rushed forward with a fierce ruthless attitude to drive away the crying people, and kicked the beggar man to the ground while pushing, and punched him.


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    Jiujin returned to his house and was still angry at Chen Ji''s rice price increase.


    "It''s amazing that one family is dominant. We should let our Suji rice spread all over the country to see if they are still awesome in Chenji rice shop."


    "Didn''t you go to the Chengnan Warehouse to see the medicine porridge? Why did you come back angry?" Baliang walked out with a smile after packing the inner room.


    "Don''t mention it, I''m really angry with the Chen Ji rice shop. The rice price has risen from seven cents to fifteen cents, and I say that it will rise after 10 % of the year, so that people won''t live."


    Baliang was surprised, "So high?"


    "Yes! Tell me if this Chen Ji rice shop is black or not. I think they can change their name to Weizhou City''s No. 1 Black Heart Rice Shop!"


    "If it increases after one tenth, wouldn''t it cost 16 or seventeen cents?" Baliang took the copper basin and came to Yu Linlang to clean his hands. "Girl, let''s transport rice and grain from the south. With the transportation cost, it is not necessary that the price is so high."


    Yu Linlang cleaned his hands, took the towel and wiped it, nodded, "Well, black-hearted rice shop, stockpiling goods."


    "It''s okay, I''ve sent a letter to my elder brother and asked him to transport a few more batches of rice and grain." Yu Linlang narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Let Chen Ji rice shop smash the rice into his hands, and he can''t even get it out at that time! Wouldn''t that be fun?"


    "You are so bad, girl..."


    The three of them were talking and making fun of each other, and Mrs. Hu knocked on the door again, "Girl, the third girl."


    Baliang pulled open the door of the room with a tiger''s face, "So what''s wrong?"


    Mrs. Hu rushed into the door with a bit of amusing feeling, and put her hands together and bowed, "Oh, Miss Linlang, a good thing is a good thing. Today, the master finally has time to go home for a meal, and the old lady said that everyone would gather together. It was also the last reunion dinner before the eldest lady got married."


    Counting the days, it is indeed getting closer and closer to Yu Qiuping’s wedding.


    Yu Linlang frowned.


    Mrs. Hu was quite smart. He could tell at a glance that Miss Yu didn''t want to go, so he quickly persuaded, "The master is very busy this year. At this time of the past year, the yamen was almost sealed and rested. But now the girl also knows that the demon murder case has not been completed. It is said that the yamen has been looking for the families of various victims recently. The master is also waiting for the court''s urgent report to see what to do later."


    "Oh, you said this year is quite uncomfortable." Mrs. Hu secretly glanced at Miss Yu, "I finally got back to have a free time. How could the girl be missing after having a reunion dinner?"


    Yu Linlang''s eyes were sunny.


    I went there every time and ended up having a bad time. For Yulinlang, it doesn’t matter whether she eats or not.


    (This chapter ends)