Volume 1 The Wind Rises

Author: go to drunk people

Volume 1 The Wind Rises

Cui's Grain Shop, the shopkeeper who was originally looking gloomy now has a look of pride on his face.

Any problem that can be solved is not a problem.

"Have all the notices been posted?" Shopkeeper Cui, who was sitting in the back hall of the shop, heating the charcoal stove, asked while making tea.

The clerk at the grain store said with a smile: "It has been posted. There is a commotion outside right now. The people are even clamoring to go to the county government to ask for the reason."

"Let them make noise for a while longer. The bigger the noise, the better." Shopkeeper Cui said with a smile. After that, he continued to make his own tea.

The waiter smiled and chatted for a few words, then looked at the charcoal stove.

It's really cold today, and there's no better way to keep warm. It would be nice to hide out in a house with a charcoal stove.

At this time, all the grain merchants in the city posted notices at the same time, and their meaning was the same, that is, from today on, they would reduce grain sales again.

This news, like thunder, woke up this originally peaceful small town.

Regardless of whether there is food at home or not, people are arranged to queue up to buy food. They don’t even care about how much they can buy, at least they have to buy it first.

Although there is some harvest this year, it is not enough for every household. It is enough to make a living for the whole family. In addition, in recent years, many families have sold their fields in order to survive.

These successive restrictions on the sale of food made them feel fearful.

People who have never been hungry or experienced successive years of famine may find it difficult to understand how they feel at this time.

And among them, some radical and bold guys directly grabbed the clerks at the grain store and asked them why they did this.

This is not a good sign...

At this time, in a restaurant diagonally opposite the Cui Family Food Store, Huang Song looked at the chaotic scene in front of the Cui Family Food Store and said with a smile: "It turns out he had this idea."

They must be very concerned about what happened last night.

No matter what choice they made, they all wanted to know the outcome.

This is very strange, as if I don't know the outcome and there is a stone in my heart that I can't let go of.

Of course they knew what the Yang, Li, and Wang families did today.

Combined with the reaction of the Cui family, everything is self-evident.

"I think it's a big business, isn't it just asking us to help buy food?" the businessman surnamed Yang sneered.

Of course, if you buy a lot, it can be considered a big deal. If the Cui family does this, it is probably not a problem to make a 20% or 30% profit.

After all, in their opinion, a person with status like Li Chengqian would not mind such a small gain.

What do these people value? It’s face!

"But if the Cui family does this, I'm afraid something will happen." Someone said.

Indeed, Jingyang has experienced famine for too long, and everyone is hungry and scared. The Cui family's actions can easily cause panic among the people.

"What do you care about us?" The businessman surnamed Yang has completely let himself go since he was almost frightened to death yesterday.

He finally understood that he couldn't get involved in the struggles of these people. Since he couldn't get involved, he might as well move to a small bench and watch the show, euphemistically called it - sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers!

As long as his mind is relaxed, he is the kind of person who just enjoys the excitement and is not afraid of big troubles.

Let's fight, one fight to the death counts as one, two fight to the death counts as a pair, that's a good thing!

Huang Song was calmer than him and thought more. He thought about it and said, "It's okay, our magistrate will not just watch something like this happen.

No matter how much trouble the Cui family makes, the first priority must be to keep the position of the county magistrate. If the commotion really becomes big and serious, our county magistrate will feel uncomfortable."

"So, that young man can really defeat the Cui family this time?" the businessman surnamed Yang asked.

Although he is in a good state of mind now, he would be happy if the Cui family could suffer. Of course, he would also be happy even if Li Chengqian suffered. Anyway, in his heart, neither side is a good thing.

It’s fine if you don’t do business, but you just like to use your family background to get involved. What the hell is that?

Cui Hao thought for a while and said: "That's not necessarily the case. It's hard to say. It depends on how the Cui family prepares for it.

Don't tell me, these two sides are really ruthless. One of them is trying to gather people to make a sea of ​​sand, while the other is directly cutting off the supply of goods, so that you can't even catch any sand."

"To put it this way, if we hadn't left yesterday and all seven of us had taken action together, wouldn't it be possible for that young man to succeed?" Someone asked again.

When he said this, everyone was stunned.

Yes, seven of their families came yesterday.

As a result, because they were timid, there are now only three families left.

"What a bullshit thing." The businessman surnamed Yang immediately said, "Li Qinjian and the others have their brains kicked by a donkey. Who is the Cui family? A thousand-year-old noble family! What can that young man do to fight with them? I don't know that young man.

What kind of ecstasy soup was poured into them, and these guys really acted like fools and rushed forward with their heads down.

You see, after that young man leaves, see how the Cui family deals with them!"

Although he wanted to see the Cui family in trouble, when it came to what happened last night, he immediately changed his stance. Doesn't it make him look very shameless to say so?

Huang Song smiled but didn't say anything.

He also thinks this is true.

There is no point in fighting the Cui family over an unknown outsider.

No matter how profitable this business is, it's not worth it.

However, how do they know how big this business is!

At this moment, Shopkeeper Cui heard someone said that there was going to be a fight outside, so he slowly walked out.

As soon as he came out, the rough man who was originally carrying the grain store clerk also let go.

Not to mention the great power of the Cui family, the fact that Jingyang has been able to survive these years without a few deaths is because the Cui family has been able to transport food here every year.

Even though some of them sold the few acres of land they had left to the Cui family, they still remembered the Cui family.

In this day and age, everyone really takes kindness seriously!

"Fellow folks, listen to me. If you think I'm wrong, even if you guys smash my store, I won't even complain." As soon as he came out, Shopkeeper Cui stood in front of the grain store.

Said loudly.

Everyone is still willing to listen to what he has to say.

After all, many people in Jingyang have barely made a living relying on the grain shop he ran over the years.

Besides, since this is what people say, it doesn’t hurt to listen.

"Shopkeeper Cui, please tell me if you have anything to say."

…

For a while, many people asked Shopkeeper Cui to explain in detail why all this happened.

Of course, I don’t know if there is any drag involved.

"We don't want this either. Really, as you fellow villagers also know, during the most difficult time of the year, when everyone had no food in their stomachs, our grain store had never lowered the grain distribution rate twice in a row within a few days.

Sell ​​more."

"Shopkeeper Cui is right."

"That's right, when the famine was at its worst, we could all buy food."

"Yes, but why is this happening today?"

Everyone responded one after another.

After all, this is yes.

"There is no way. Some businessmen have evil intentions. They are secretly stockpiling grain and want to sell it to other places. But this is our food in Jingyang. They have sold the grain to other places. What should we, the people of Jingyang, do?

So, out of desperation, we had no choice but to take this step."

Shopkeeper Cui's voice was very loud, even Huang Song and others sitting opposite could hear roughly what he said.

After Shopkeeper Cui finished speaking, everyone immediately cursed: "I know, I saw people from the Yang family coming to buy food this morning. It's just these black-hearted businessmen who have been doing it for a long time!"

"And the Li family!"

"And the Wang family!"

For a time, the crowd was excited.

To be honest, they are not afraid of who has the food, as long as they can see it. To put it bluntly, they are really about to starve to death. You can at least let me know where to grab it, right?

If the food is transported to other places, we will really have to wait for death, and there will be no hope at all!

"Shop Manager Cui, you have to do this, we support you!"

"Yes, yes, yes, don't let those evil businessmen take away our food in Jingyang!"

"That's right!"

On the opposite side, Huang Song and others were shocked when they heard this. The Cui family is really ruthless!

This is driving people to death!

"It's a good thing we left yesterday." The businessman surnamed Yang said with some fear, "otherwise, these guys would have wanted to skin us."

At this point, he actually laughed. Yang Lin and the others were in bad luck!

PS: I'm speechless. I just finished writing and was about to set up automatic updates, but my hand slipped...
Chapter completed!