In the next few days, as usual, Lou Yun has been eating, drinking and having fun, and the major shopkeepers have not been idle, they are all hoarding grain, in order to sell it at a good price from Lou Yun.

Lin Luoyao is no longer showing up, he is waiting for her grandfather's 300,000 taels of silver.

As for Murong Xuan, she worked hard, she was originally here to relax, but she did the most tiring work.

That is to use the intelligence network of the Flower Society to find the people who supply these merchants. Originally, Yan Feixue should have gone to this tiring job, but Yan Feixue has been accompanying Lou Yun for the past two days, eating, drinking, and playing, and she is almost in bed.

But Murong Xuan can't help it, who will let Yan Feixue let go of his body.

Yan Feixue's explanation for this is that otherwise, Murong Xuan will accompany Lou Yunxiao for her, and then she will do this tiring work.

Of course, Murong Xuan refused this, asking her to accompany a man like that, if she let her friends in the rivers and lakes know, she wouldn't want to mix in the rivers and lakes anymore, Yan Feixue is the sword of the Mercy Flower Society, although there are more people who have heard of her, but not many people know her. If she replaced the red dress, with her acting skills, no one would have thought that she was the rose of the Mercy Flower Society.

And Murong Xuan is different, she is the face of the Mercy Flower Society.

After all, the external affairs of the Mercy Flower Club are all discussed between her and Gongsun Dulan, if this is recognized, she will have no face, and the most important thing is her father's level. Maybe she's the second one to be beaten like that.

Murong Bai did that kind of thing, it's nothing, no matter how bad the impact is, it's not a big deal, after all, he is a man, and he is not a young man. The other young heroes are more attentive than him. The heads of those sect families have problems with their style like the sand of the Yellow River, and they are not inferior to him.

But Murong Xuan can't do it, she is a woman, if she accompanies a man like that, it will make Gusu Murong humiliated, and her father will probably beat her to death.

After all, Yan Feixue doesn't have any concept of family. She can't compare. So let's be a little more involved.

However, the girls of the Mercy Flower Club were a little confused about this matter, they had investigated all kinds of strange things before, but this time this matter was too small. Just go and investigate the sources of supply for a few merchants.

This kind of trivial matter was jointly commissioned by the two altar owners, Rose and Plum Blossom.

Naturally, they couldn't help but investigate, this matter was not a difficult matter, and they found out quickly.

Lin Luoyao was also very satisfied.

These people were supplied only by peddlers' pawns, who collected grain from the peasants and landlords and sold it to the merchants.

This time, Lou Yun was not as simple as having fun, but deliberately released a rumor in the market in Yangzhou, and he also had to buy a large number of grains. Just waiting for the money to arrive.

If he had said this seven or eight days ago, no one would have believed him, and they would only think that he was taking the opportunity to lower the price, but after these three times, all the grain merchants believed it.

However, this kind of rumor, if Lou Yun said it himself, the credibility was still not enough, so Yan Feixue revealed the news "unintentionally".

This time, Qiu Yuling's transformation also came in handy, and Qiu Yuling turned into all kinds of people walking around Yangzhou City.

She is spreading rumors, that is, the money shopkeeper "deliberately eats alone" to pit the rumor of the rice merchant. In addition, the money shopkeeper's house closed the door to thank customers, and then he himself disappeared, everyone believed this statement and said that he was not authentic.

But there are also those who say that he is smart and wise, and the reason given is that the shopping mall is like a battlefield, and those people listen to him stupidly, isn't that self-defeating.

This rumor is equivalent to slapping all grain merchants, especially the members of the Chamber of Commerce, in the face.

But this is also a helpless thing. After all, they also feel that they have been fooled by the money shopkeeper.

Without the stumbling block of the money shopkeeper, Lin Luoyao's plan is basically a flat race.

Merchants are actively stocking up on goods, and then waiting for Lou Yun to buy them.

However, this time, Lou Yun has been eating, drinking, and having fun with Yan Feixue and Sister Nangong Lishi. I don't care about anything, I don't ask anything, I don't go to buy food.

And so it went by five days again.

The weather is not very good these days.

It is said that spring rain is as expensive as oil, but for these merchants, it is not a good thing, because some warehouses may leak, and the grain stored in the warehouses will be damp. *

If it's wet, then no one wants it.

Lou Yun hasn't come to buy it yet, and these businessmen are like ants on a hot pot.

Compared with their anxiety, Lou Yun is much happier here.

It was raining, and they were in their rooms, with the windows open, drinking and admiring the rain.

Yan Feixue held the wine glass and said, "Lin girl, you are really interested, you actually called us here today to drink and enjoy the rain." ”

Lin Luoyao smiled: "Of course, God really helped me this time, in this case, someone will be in a hurry." Looking at it, it may rain for a few days. ”

Murong Xuan said: "Perhaps, the weather in this spring and summer is like a crying child, I can't tell when it will be a rain, and maybe it won't take a few hours for the rain to pass the sky." ”

Lou Yun said: "Luo Yao, I seem to understand what you mean now, you want to wait for the rain to come, and then go to lower the price with those merchants, and then lower the price, and then we will go to buy rice." ”

Lin Luoyao stretched out her hand and touched the wine glass with Lou Yun, and after drinking this glass of wine, she said, "That's right, that's what I planned." Now those people are much more anxious than we are. Next, we will set a price and collect all the rice and grain in their hands, so that we are done. ”

This helped them.

Lin Luoyao shook her wine glass and said, "By the way, Sister Murong, how did I do the things I told you?"

Murong Xuan said: "It's all done, and the merchants who supply them have basically been settled. ”

Lin Luoyao was a little curious, and she asked, "You didn't hurt them, did you?" ”

Murong Xuan smiled: "How could it be, it's just to let them go to the prison for a few days." ”

Lin Luoyao laughed when she heard this, and then said, "Then what kind of crime did Sister Murong give them?"

Murong Xuan thought of a reason that was ridiculous in that era, but it is normal now.

This reason is smuggling.

According to the Ming Law, salt, iron, and gunpowder are not allowed to be traded privately, but grain is indeed unrestricted.

The reason given by Murong Xuan was that they wanted to smuggle the grain outside the Guan, sell it to the Hu people, who had always been enemies of the imperial court, and then buy horses and other items from the hands of the Hu people, and return to the court to make huge profits.

Although the buying and selling of grain is not restricted, but this is expressly forbidden by the imperial court, if this is found out at the border pass, it is the crime of direct killing, the imperial court is strictly forbidden to export merchants, grain, salt, iron, and other materials. If so, it will be dealt with as a crime of collaborating with the enemy.

*Note: In ancient times, most of the storehouses were made of straw mats and firewood, and the storehouses of small merchants could not afford to use bricks and tiles. Therefore, when it rains, there will be more or less rain leakage and dampness.

(End of chapter)