Chapter 3314 on the road (supplement)

Bai Shan and Yin or several said: "We will stay here for three days, one is to worship ancestors, and the other is to visit relatives, so you can play by yourself first, meet in the city in three days, and then leave."

Yin or Yingxia went to visit the gods and Buddhas in the mountains with Longevity.

After another day's overland journey from Longzhou, they came to the water's edge.

Bai Shan ordered a boat with people half a year in advance, and the carriages, horses, people and goods directly boarded the boat and left.

Apart from the high price of the boat, there is nothing wrong with it.

Zhou Man prepared seasickness medicines and medicines in advance. Seasick people should take medicines, stick medicines, and stick medicines. They went all the way south along the Jialing River. The boat stopped halfway to replenish three times. Every time Bai Shan and the others disembarked with their children. , let them take a look at the outside world.

When they arrived in Longzhou, the carriages and horses disembarked. Liu Gui and the Zhou brothers watched the ship unloading together. Bai Shan and the others took their children into the city to go shopping.

Mrs. Liu's energy is not so good, and she doesn't want to toss to other places, so she waved her hand: "We will wait for you in the inn next to you, you can go, just don't go too far, come back early, tomorrow morning. I'm going back to Mianzhou."

Bai Shan responded a few times and left happily with the child in his arms.

"Longzhou, I've passed by a few times, but I haven't had a good time," Bai Shan asked Yin Or, "Would you like to stay to visit the famous mountains and scholars?"

Yin Or shook his head, "I'll go to Mianzhou with you first."

He smiled and said, "I also want to see what Qili Village is like."

A few people took their children to the restaurant to eat delicious food first, and then they started walking on the street.

After being on the boat for a long time, they always feel that people walking on the street are shaking, but the children seem to accept it well. They not only eat well, but also sleep well on the boat, and they are in better condition than adults.

Zhou Man bought a candy man for each of them. He turned his head and saw a lot of people in front of a grain store, so he glanced at it curiously.

Seeing this, Bai Shan asked a person who passed by, "Excuse me, Xiongtai, what is this grain shop doing?"

The man raised his head and glanced at Bai Shan, saw a pink-carved and jade-carved child in his arms, and smiled, "Lang Jun is from out of town, these days, our grain shops in Longzhou are all clearing up. As for rice, four cents per liter, many people came to buy it."

"Chen Mi?" Bai Shan was curious, "How long ago?"

"It's the year before, and there are even worse ones from the year before, but they're all freshly milled, so they taste a little bit worse."

Bai Shan glanced at Dae-gil.

Daji squeezed in and bought three cloth bags, each of which contained a few kilograms of rice.

Bai Shan and the others found a nearby teahouse to sit and wait. Bai Jingxing and Bai Ruoyu were at a time when cats and dogs hated, and they couldn't be idle for a moment, so they sat down and started to turn their butts to look around.

Mingda glanced at the two of them, and called in the man to say, "Can you have a snack? Serve the children some sweet-scented osmanthus cakes."

Trying to block their chattering mouths and their eager hands with food.

Daji came over with a cloth bag and opened it to show them, "Chen Mi is divided into three types, and the prices are three wen, four wen and five wen."

Zhou Man grabbed a handful, rubbed it and smelled it again, "It's a little smelly, but it's not heavy, and it hasn't been soaked in sulfur. It should have been released after being crushed. Well, there are small stones in it. ."

Bai Shan also looked at the other two bags of rice, and one bag was relatively broken. He chewed a few bites, but the taste was really bad, "This should be three cents a bucket. Although the taste is not good, the price is indeed very cheap."

Yin He recruited a friend and asked curiously, "Why is the grain shop here suddenly selling chen rice at a low price? Could it be this chen rice..."

"Don't get me wrong, guest, you are from out of town, right?"

Several people nodded.

The guy smiled and said, "This year's new grain is coming out, and it's a bumper harvest, so I put out the old grain ahead of time so that the warehouse can be opened. If I want to say that this old grain is not bad, it's just a little tasteless, but it's so cheap. Even a poor family can eat a few meals of dry food, is it better than drinking gruel? If it were me, I would be happy to buy it."

Bai Shan nodded and was about to continue to ask when the person at the next table sneered, "It's just a show."

Bai Shan looked over and saw that they were all dressed as scribes, apparently scholars, so he stopped the man and said, "Give two trays of snacks and a tray of meat on the next table, and put them on our account."

The guy who was originally unhappy and wanted to refute it, immediately went away happily.

The three people at the next table also heard it and turned their heads curiously.

Bai Shan got up and cupped hands with them: "Did Xiongtai just say that the grain shop has other secrets in selling rice?"

The three looked at them suspiciously, seeing that they were also gentle and elegant, and seemed to be scholars, and asked, "How many are?"

"Oh, we are scholars who returned home from other places, and we just stopped by Longzhou for a day," Bai Shan said with a smile, "We also passed many places along the way south, but it is rare to see a grain shop selling Chen rice with such a big fanfare. , Looking at the price, they are considered kind, but I don't think the three brothers agree very much."

"You can't look at the surface when you look at people, and it's the same thing when looking at things," said one person, "Don't look at him selling Chen Mi at a low price. It seems that he is benefiting the people, but looking at the consequences will tell you otherwise."

"Oh?" Bai Shan turned the chair in one direction and sat directly facing them, "I would like to hear more about it."

"Our harvest in Longzhou has been good in recent years. Although the spring was a little dry this year, the rain kept up with it later. Looking at the situation in the fields this year, it is a time for a bumper harvest," said one person, "It's a good year for a bumper harvest. In addition, new rice seeds are planted, and the yield is high, and the price of grain is cheaper year by year."

He smiled and said: "To be honest, when I grew up so big, it was the first time I saw that a bucket of rice could cost ten cents. You must know that when Yizhou was flooded, the price of rice in our Jiannan Road area was high for several years. If it is more than fifteen liters, it will fall back later, and it will also wander between twelve liters."

"Since the spread of new rice seeds four years ago, the price of grain has been decreasing year by year. Last year, the price of rice in the grain shop fluctuated between eight and nine cents. This year, the price may be even lower," the man said. When I got here, I sighed, "This is a good thing, but it's not all good. With low grain prices, the grain merchants earn less, so they desperately lowered the purchase price."

"They rush out the old rice before the new grain arrives, which can not only clear the warehouse, but also reduce the price of the new grain."

Bai Erlang: "You think too much, then you can't keep Chen Liang in the warehouse and become bad, right?"

Bai Shan stopped Bai Erlang's words and said to him: "Chen Liang has many uses. Generally, grain merchants have a way to deal with them, and they will not lose too much. It seems that selling directly to the people like this is actually ruining their own business. If They did so, showing they had other plans."

Bai Erlang was recently writing a book of words for businessmen and celebrities, and he put a little bit of his father's image in, so he said, "Maybe they just want to do good things? Don't think of people so badly."

Bai Shan shook his head and said: "Fourth brother would not do such a thing, businessmen seek profit, this is not to belittle them, it is their... nature, or responsibility, to find ways to earn more within the law Isn't it the nature of businessmen to have more money?"

A scribe slapped the table fiercely, and said happily, "That's what it means."

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