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Chapter 50 Little Martial Sister: Don't Rug Him
This resounding "good brother-in-law" almost made some people in the lobby of the county government turn blind and send him away.

Even Ouyang Rong almost failed.

But the most embarrassing person on the field should be a certain noble daughter of the Xie family hiding in the back hall.

As for Wang Caozhi himself, his old face was not red at all, and he was even spit out by Ouyang Rong. He silently raised his hand to wipe his face, his eyes were still affectionate, and after shouting the word brother-in-law, the more he shouted, the more smoothly he spoke.

Originally, Ouyang Rong also arranged for Xie Lingjiang to have a "scene role" in the lobby scene of being kind and filial to the people. This was what he had promised before, and he wanted to take her to play together.

So at the end of this lobby scene, a certain female teacher will come out and shout a few deafening lines, and even if necessary, she, who is as jealous as an enemy, can even reprimand the senior brother for being a dog official who protects profiteers... Then there was another tug.

It's just that right now, this unexpected "brother-in-law" directly made a hot-faced woman in the back hall too embarrassed to show her face.

Wang Caozhi is shameless, but she is thin-skinned and needs face.

It's very strange to think about it, the female master who is jealous and hateful has an affair with the dog official who protects the profiteers in private, she is reprimanded by the holy light in front of the person, what happened behind the person, the picture is unimaginable...

Anyway, this "brother-in-law" disturbed the plan a little bit, but Ouyang Rong and Yan Liulang acted accordingly, quickly finished the lobby show, roughly discussed the plan of grain inspection, and invited this group of grain merchants with happy and worried faces out.

Watching Yan Liulang lead everyone out, the young county magistrate lowered his head and patted his sleeves, chuckled, turned around and walked to the back hall, opened the door, and saw the figure of the little junior sister sitting sideways on the railing under the funnel-shaped patio of the back house, raising his head. Hand sprinkle fish feed fish.

Xie Lingjiang looked normal.

Ouyang Rong approached.

"It's no wonder your brother likes to eat sweet dumplings, it's like honey has been smeared on your little mouth."

"what about me?"

"It looks salty, but it's actually sweet, with a knife mouth and a bean curd heart."

Xie Lingjiang curled his mouth and hid it again, "Brother doesn't look like he eats salty rice dumplings."

Ouyang Rong smiled and changed the subject.

"How should I say, do you want to change the order and let your younger brother come first?"

"Because I called you brother-in-law?" Xie Lingjiang asked without looking back.

"No." Ouyang Rong shook his head, "Because whether you change it or not, the result is the same."

Xie Lingjiang didn't look sideways, bit his lip and said, "Put him at the back."

"Row."

She sprinkled another handful of fish feed, and said calmly: "He is yelling nonsense, don't take it too seriously."

"Oh."

Or because the elder brother responded too quickly and straightforwardly, the younger junior sister was momentarily at a loss for words, and the atmosphere around the courtyard was momentarily cold.

Ouyang Rong didn't seem to notice anything wrong, he turned around and waved his hands:

"Go back to eat." The action was clean and neat, and he did not forget to remind before going out: "You fish, don't pollute the water by throwing too much."

"..." Xie Lingjiang.

There was only one person left beside the courtyard in the back hall. She turned her head and looked at the empty lobby slightly.

After a while, the woman lifted the fish feeding box, as if she wanted to sprinkle it all into the brother's fish pond, stopped in the air, put down the fish feeding box, and left with a stern face.

She has plenty to eat.

Just don't rub him.

……

The order of food inspection came out.

Shopkeeper Ma and Shopkeeper Li's stockpiled grains were inspected at the same time, but the former was allocated more people, and Wang Caozhi and other grain merchants were still queuing behind.

In fact, the price of grain in Longcheng is still very high at the moment, and the embargo official document from Jiangzhou on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival only caused the price of grain in the market to drop a little.

Eighteen coins a bucket.

Still profiteering.

Obviously, foreign grain merchants are still trying their best to support the market, and many gentry and landowners are also watching the changes.

In Longcheng County, the merchants who stockpiled grain had different attitudes. Some were fighting for time to escape, while others were expecting the price of grain to remain stable.

Therefore, shopkeeper Ma was not in a hurry to leave Dragon City immediately, and he was not in a hurry to transport all the food out.

The shrewdness of the merchants made him want to get the customs clearance permit to transport grain first, and transport some of the grain out of Longcheng first, so as to control the warehouse. The loss among the merchants is the smallest.

If the price of grain has been stable and we can continue to cut leeks, then we can transport the grain back according to the situation. Anyway, water transportation is convenient, as long as the door is not locked, the warehouse manager of the horse can be as flexible as his moral guidelines.

As for Shopkeeper Ma's compliments in front of the young county magistrate and the family favors behind the promises, they were actually just superficial talk, and he would forget about it when he left Longcheng. It depends on the situation, and he is very flexible.

In fact, as the white gloves of the powerful, the horse shopkeeper does not have that much power to speak. In this era, the status of merchants is not high, and they must rely on the powerful and use tiger skin as a banner.

This afternoon, shopkeeper Ma got another piece of good news.

Yan Liulang led his men to check his first granary at the pier, which was about a thousand shi of grain.

Shopkeeper Ma learned from the county government office that he could obtain a customs certificate in advance and transport away the clean grain that had been inspected first.

Shopkeeper Ma smiled with Chinese characters on his face, and under the expressionless eyes of his fellow grain merchants, he took the customs clearance documents for two tank ships from the smiling Ouyang county magistrate.

After another courteous promise, the young county magistrate not only sent out the gift from the shopkeeper of the horse, but also sent the county magistrate to accompany him to Penglangdu, to help organize local porters and boatmen, so that his grain could be transported on board as soon as possible. drive away!
As expected, the magistrate of Ouyang County did what he said, and he didn't get in the way at all. As long as the grain was checked, the procedures from Longcheng County Yamen to Penglangdu were smooth.

Shopkeeper Ma was quite satisfied, and had a good impression of the young county magistrate, but then he thought about it again, his food was originally innocent, but it was just the court's bluff, and the county magistrate should serve like this, and he suddenly felt unreasonable few……

Penglangdu in the sunset.

The horse shopkeeper stood on the steps with his sleeves rolled up, smiling as he watched bags of grain being carried onto the boat by shirtless porters.

He was quite satisfied with the low labor force caused by the disaster in Longcheng, and he could save a lot of money.

Although only one thousand shi of grain has been counted so far, which is not much compared to the total grain storage left by the horse shopkeeper in the wharf granary, it is still fully loaded with two medium-sized tank ships.

Seeing many fellow grain merchants watching silently nearby, Shopkeeper Ma walked over with a smile, and greeted Wang Caozhi and others, who smiled reluctantly and didn't even respond.

A group of grain merchants chatted for a few words, but the small circle that once united to sell grain together no longer had the tacit understanding before, and soon became cold.

Shopkeeper Ma didn't care about this at all, and casually suggested: "Would you like to have a dinner together later?"

Right now, the first batch of grain is only being transported away, and most of the grain is still in Longcheng. He will not leave with the boat tonight, and the price of grain in Longcheng has not dropped yet.

Wang Caozhi and other grain merchants looked at each other, each finding an excuse to shirk.

The horse shopkeeper smiled disapprovingly. At this moment, a small steward ran over: "Master, the two tank boats are full, but it's time for dinner. Do you want to let the boatmen have a meal before leaving?"

The shopkeeper of the horse said with a straight face:

"What kind of food do you want to eat? Take the wages and take the workers to eat, right? How can there be such a good thing, let them sail away quickly, don't dawdle, or they will only pay half of the wages!"

The steward nodded and bowed to urge the boat to leave.

Not long after, two tank boats broke through the orange-yellow sunset river and slowly left the pier.

At this time, the setting sun also fell below the horizon at the end of the river, and the night came quietly, covering Gudu.

Shopkeeper Ma stood on a high platform by the bank, squinting his eyes to see him off.The other grain merchants saw the solitary shadows of the two tank boats on the river that had left smoothly, their faces were a little complicated, and they sighed and prepared to leave.

Out of the corner of his eye, shopkeeper Ma caught sight of his colleagues in the grain merchant who were leaving, with their hands on their sleeves, playing a ditty, chased after them, and called to stop them.

"Brothers, wait for me."

Wang Caozhi and others turned around.

The horse shopkeeper took their arms with a familiar expression, and shook his head: "Hey, you don't need to be sad, after a few days your food will be inspected, and you will be able to transport it away..."

Wang Caozhi was taken aback for a moment, and murmured: "Horse... Ma Treasurer."

The horse shopkeeper with his back to the ferry said with a smile: "What's the matter, but you want to have a drink with me again?"

"No...not...you...like..."

"What about me?" Shopkeeper Ma touched his face and asked curiously.

However, he soon realized that under the dark night, Wang Caozhi and several grain merchants around him were staring at his back with dazed expressions, and the red sun on the river seemed to be reflected in their eyes.

Hey, isn't the sun setting? Why is there still the sun?

The shopkeeper turned around curiously.

Then, in the eyes of this tall, middle-aged grain merchant, two red suns also appeared... No, not two red suns, but two flames dancing on the river under the night in the distance.

Dajiang, two water boats turned into fire boats.

Shopkeeper Ma was still in a daze, and Wang Caozhi, who had been watching for a while, opened his mouth and spit out the words: "It seems...you are out of food."

"...???" Someone slammed to the ground.

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