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Chapter 42 Am I not like someone who shares wealth?

"Junior Junior Sister knows that I am not this kind of person."

"I don't know now."

"Young junior sister doesn't believe me?"

A certain girl who foolishly went to the rice shop to ask the price every day, and occasionally she would be happy for a few days when the price of rice dropped a little, shook her head:

"If I hadn't heard about it in Dongshi, I wouldn't have known you had let go of the food restriction order."

Ouyang Rong said seriously: "I didn't fill my pockets, money is not important to me, justice is important to me."

"Your justice is to allow food prices to rise arbitrarily?" Xie Lingjiang took a deep breath, "If you do this, you are not as good as the Liu family who runs a porridge shed."

Ouyang Rong frowned, "The porridge shed opened by the Liu family... I don't know whether my junior sister really doesn't know or not."

"Don't worry about whether I know it or not, I just believe what I see now." Xie Lingjiang turned his head away, pursed his lips, and after a while, he said, "At least he can put on a show, what about Ouyang Lianghan?"

Ouyang Rong was slightly taken aback, looked at the young junior sister who seemed to be angry for a while, and asked:
"Junior Sister knows that what I do is definitely for the benefit of the people of Longcheng in the end...then why do I still say these angry words to hurt people?"

"Who is angry? Let's not talk about what you want to do by letting go of food prices. I... I'm not as smart as you in this regard, so I can't figure it out for a while."

Xie Lingjiang turned his head and glared at him angrily:
"But Ouyang Lianghan, every time you have a plan, you don't discuss it with others in advance, and you don't want to talk about it. Are we... Companions, am I still your aide?"

"Forehead……"

Ouyang Rong could vaguely understand some women's brain circuits, but he only understood a little bit, as if he had connected the seven orifices to the six orifices, but he didn't understand anything.

"Why don't I discuss it with you now." He sneered.

In fact, if Junior Sister doesn't mention it, someone really forgot that he has an aide.What, the little junior sister turned out to be an aide?Isn't she in charge of force, the staff is in charge of intelligence...

"no need!"

Xie Lingjiang raised his white chin, and categorically refused:
"You don't need to say, I'm not that stupid, I'll think about it myself... But, Ouyang Lianghan, have you ever thought about how many people in Longcheng will be affected by the current increase in food prices in the short term? Maybe this will become overwhelming. The last straw for a certain family."

Ouyang Rong was silent for a while, this was a question he had been silently avoiding in his mind for the past few days, so he kept urging himself to act quickly and ruthlessly.

He said seriously: "The disaster relief camp outside the city has been providing food on the line of food and clothing."

Xie Lingjiang looked at the young magistrate silently for a while, who seemed to be showing some fatigue suddenly, she sniffed, turned and left.

Today, she is dressed in red, and she comes and goes quickly.

Same as temper.

"Little sister."

Ouyang Rong suddenly shouted at the fiery red figure.

"In fact, sometimes, justice has a price." He felt lost.

Xie Lingjiang stopped.

"I disagree."

The woman stubbornly left.

……

"Thank you, sister, is there something on your mind?"

After the dinner in the Su residence, on the Huajing alleyway back to the residence, Su Gu'er was holding a small lantern and asked without looking back.

Xie Lingjiang glanced at her graceful back with her long skirt dragging the floor.

"Sister Su doesn't eat well, why stare at me?"

"Sister Xie's mood is written all over her face, so it's naturally conspicuous."

Xie Lingjiang asked: "Sister Su, do you know that sometimes what you say is quite annoying."

Su Gu'er was not annoyed, turned his back to Xie Lingjiang's back, 'Yun Tan' nodded lightly:
"But I'm telling the truth."

Xie Lingjiang was silent.

Su Gu'er asked, "Is it related to your elder brother?"

In fact, Xie Lingjiang didn't get along very well with this young girl from the Su family. Perhaps it was because of the natural arrogance between outstanding women. The two often had ideological disputes before, but later they simply stopped arguing. After all, living under the same roof, try to talk about compatible topics.

However, Aunt Su's family is a very hospitable person. She treats Xie Lingjiang just like her own daughter. Xie Lingjiang, whose mother died young, feels warm in her heart. Aunt Su's family has just told her to spend time with her when she has time. Su Gu'er, who has few friends, talks.

Xie Lingjiang walked away quietly for a while, and then spoke a little angrily about the senior brother letting go of the food price.

But what she never expected was that after hearing this, Su Gu'er nodded and asserted:

"This son is talented and has a sense of ethics. Sister Xie doesn't need to worry about the price of food."

Xie Lingjiang was speechless immediately, "Didn't Sister Su say that my senior brother was arrogant a few days ago?"

Caishou, who was following the second daughter, also had a small face of surprise, and looked at her own lady in a daze... Well, Miss, didn't you say that the new county magistrate was a hypocrite last time?

The young lady of the Xie family is a newcomer, maybe she doesn't know it, but Caishou knows that her own lady always likes to criticize people in private, and she has always been very accurate in judging people. The people or times that have been in contact with the Su family in the past, the master and the elder The young master will always ask the young lady for her comments and opinions at dinner.

So on the surface, outsiders only know that the young lady is a spoiled young girl of the Su family, but they don't know that the young lady has the right to make suggestions and even make decisions about many matters in the Su family.

It's very strange, but it still happened. The master of the Su family and the eldest young master didn't seem to think that there was anything wrong with women interfering in family affairs, but they were quite convinced...

Facing Xie Lingjiang's doubts behind him, Su Bao'er's face remained normal: "He can indeed be arrogant."

Back in the water pavilion courtyard, they said good night to each other, and the two girls separated.

Su Gu'er returned to the boudoir, did not wash up immediately, but turned around and walked to the desk, studied ink and laid paper, brushed up her long sleeves, and showed a small white hand with pink nails and fluffy fingers, and took out a A slender brush.

She tilted her head and stared at Mei Lin outside the Xuan window, and lightly tapped the white chin of this oval face with the end of the pen.

"Colorful Ribbon."

she called out.

"Miss, what's the matter?"

"Send me a message to my father and brother."

Su Gu'er lowered her eyes and put her pen down, her pink lips parted slightly: "Don't send someone down, go to the county government in person in these two days..."

In the study room, the lady who bowed her head and wrote carefully instructed, and the little maid with a bun face nodded and tried to write it down, then scratched her head with her small hands and went out to deliver the message.

The study room was quiet again, and the girl with plum blossom makeup between her eyebrows had already put down her pen and gone back to her room for spring sleep. On the rice paper that shed ink casually on the desk, there was still ink on it: September [-]th, or jumped in the abyss, there is no blame.

This is the ninety-fourth line of the first hexagram Qian hexagram in "Zhouyi".If Ouyang Rong, who "knows a little bit" about everything, happened to be here, he would be able to understand some general ideas:
The dragon may be trapped in the abyss, but its strength has been accumulated. It only needs to move forward or backward according to the situation, and there will be nothing wrong. You can try...to take a step forward.

It's just that I don't know if it's written to the young county magistrate, or to this Su mansion.

……

Su Gu'er didn't really believe in fate at first, but later she believed in it, and even specialized in the metaphysics of I Ching.

Tonight, she dreamed of the warning that the Taoist fortune teller gave her after helping her:

"His Royal Highness has long eyes and a phoenix neck. He is the most noble person, but he is still short of a noble person who is destined to meet."

"Where is the nobleman, how can I find him?"

"This person is a potential dragon in the Yuan, and he came out with the bright moon. He will be an official in this county and then resign, and he will write a fu about resigning from the official and retiring. Both the bright moon and the poem will be presented to His Highness in the end. At that time, His Highness can Soar for nine days, but remember, in addition to sharing adversity, this person must also share wealth in order to stabilize His Highness's fate."

She frowned and said coldly: "I don't look like someone who shares wealth and honor?"

The fortune teller lowered his eyebrows: "I don't know."

……

There is a gossip that spreads all over the grain shops in the commercial streets of Longcheng County:
There is not enough food for the county government.

There are rumors that Jiangzhou is short of food. In order to please the Supervisor Shen, the new magistrate of Ouyang borrowed a lot of food reserves from the disaster relief camp to Jiangzhou. The soldiers of Zhechong Mansion who left Longcheng recently, It is to transport food back to the business.

But right now, market vendors have also discovered that a group of suspected yamen people are collecting grain at high prices.

I don't know if this news is true or not, but the Longcheng County Government has never refuted the rumors, which is very suspicious, because if it is false, you must refute the rumors, and if it is true, you must refute the rumors even more. As for not refusing the rumors, then Isn't it just broken by default?
It is not possible to deliberately increase the price of food, right?Even if it was intentional, the grain merchants would do their tricks.

Anyway, on the second day, the price of rice in Dongshi City, Longcheng County shot up into the sky like fireworks. At the most exaggerated time, three price tags were inserted in the rice bag of a certain rice shop in Dongshi City.

The news of the skyrocketing food prices caused some joy and some sorrow, but it hasn’t caused too much trouble. Another thing right now is that the people and merchants in the city are full of enthusiasm, and that is the Dragon Boat Festival in a few days. Dragon Boat Festival.

The old pier of Penglangdu, which had not been repaired for a long time, was refurbished and expanded by more than half with the help of several wealthy water transport businessmen in the county government and the city. After the completion, the new county magistrate came to celebrate the ribbon-cutting in person.

And now the expanded new ferry has ushered in an endless stream of foreign ships.

News of the Dragon Boat Festival in Longcheng County has spread throughout Yunmengze in the upstream and many counties and prefectures in the Yangtze River downstream. Many wealthy officials and businessmen came here with their wives and belts to participate in the only Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangzhou.

However, the tourists who came down from these tall and luxurious ships at the pier were not all from Jiangzhou who were unable to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival due to the flood in their hometown, and there were also some wealthy businessmen from other states among them...

Under the sun at noon, a strange merchant ship with the word "King" written on its hull was docking slowly in Peng Langdu. The strange thing was that the merchant ship stopped for a while, let down a few people, and then sailed away soon after.

Among the few people who got off the boat, a short young man walked in the front, and there were a few servants behind him who seemed to be guards.

"I love this place."

The short young man was wearing a soft horned headband, a round-neck gown with narrow sleeves, a black leather belt around his waist, and black boots. He was standing at a bustling ferry crossing, with his hands on his hips, and after taking a deep breath, he smiled and said:
"The ferry is convenient, the water transportation is developed, and the city tax is cheap... You can smell it, it smells like silver."

A follower behind him couldn't help but said: "Young shopkeeper, aren't we going to Hongzhou? Why did we stop here in Jiangzhou?"

Shopkeeper Wang Shao said with a smile: "I'll go wherever I can make money, let's go, go to the street and see if it's true as rumored."

The attendants behind were puzzled, but after shopkeeper Wang Shao took them to visit the grain store in Dongshi and returned, all of these attendants couldn't stop talking:

"Damn it, what kind of place is this Longcheng County where the king and I live? Food is so expensive? Nineteen dollars a bucket? Are the people living here so rich? More than the nobles in Hongzhou City?"

"Normal. The flood in Jiangzhou has caused a lot of trouble in Jiangnan Road recently. Haven't you heard of it? It's normal for food prices to be higher during disasters."

"It's not so exaggerated to be more expensive. Compared with our company's food price, it has doubled directly. Compared with colleagues in Longcheng County, our company is simply doing charity subsidies. It's too bad."

Shopkeeper Wang Shao listened to the discussions of the attendants behind him with a smile, and didn't say anything, but he quite agreed with the saying "If you don't make a lot of money, you will lose money".

As a collateral child of the family, although he couldn't study in a private school, he liked to wander outside since he was a child. He had some business savvy. Later, he traveled around with the shopkeepers of the family business, and developed a sensitive sense of smell for various news.

Today's disembarkation via Longcheng was a decision made yesterday after catching some news.

After another round of shopping, the shopkeeper Wang Shao said slowly: "And you see, this county is so lively that it doesn't look like it just after the flood. There are no refugees on the street, and few beggars. It looks like the Dragon Boat Festival will be held in a few days.”

One of the attendants was eager to ask: "Young shopkeeper, let's go back to transport grain and sell it right away?"

"It feels a little weird... don't worry, let's take a look."

Shopkeeper Wang Shao thought for a while, then shook his head.

After strolling around for a few times and inquiring about the situation of local officials and wealthy businessmen, everyone was going to find an inn to rest and have a meal, and came to a prosperous restaurant in the downtown area.

Shopkeeper Wang Shao had sharp eyes, caught a glimpse of a familiar silhouette, was stunned for a moment, and blurted out: "Sister Xie?"

At the gate of Yuanming Building, Xie Lingjiang, who was about to enter, paused, turned around and saw a group of short young people.

"You know me? Wait, you are..." She frowned and thought, vaguely remembering a certain acquaintance at the Wang Xie party in Wuyi Lane, Jinling, but she still couldn't remember the name, mainly because there were too many children of the two families, dazzling There are only a few, for example, she, if called according to the ranking, should be Xie Shiqiniang.

Xie Lingjiang looked apologetic, and asked politely: "Sorry, Brother Shi, your name is..."

Shopkeeper Wang Shao introduced himself very familiarly:

"Sister Xie, younger brother Wang Caozhi, you probably don't remember my younger brother, but I am very familiar with sister Xie. The elders in the family talk about it every day, often saying that none of the Wang family men is as good at reading as the Xie family girl. We boys are a bit ashamed, but I'm fine, the main reason is that I like to see the faces of those brothers who are studying hahaha."

Xie Lingjiang was expressionless, as if he was in a bad mood right now, and he wasn't being amused. Wang Caozhi coughed twice, and was a little embarrassed, but he was thick-skinned and changed the subject with ease:

"Why is Sister Xie's family here?"

"Yeah, why am I here?" Xie Lingjiang nodded and asked himself.

Since the "argument" that day, a certain brother hasn't looked for her for seven days. She didn't look for him, and he didn't look for her. I don't know what he's been up to lately. The staff forgot... Well done, Ouyang Lianghan.

A certain junior sister thought.

(End of this chapter)