After rebirth, my wife just wants to be a widow

Stopping Chun Niang's apology, Shen Ruoyan smiled and patted her hand, "You have worked hard these days. We originally agreed to open a shop together from the beginning. Now that the shop is encountering difficulties, of course I am fully responsible."

Chun Niang suppressed the tears in her eyes.

Since leaving her original family, Chun Niang has undergone a radical change.

She and Shen Ruoyan opened a shop together. Through her own efforts, the food shop gradually developed. Now she is known as an enthusiastic and capable proprietress, but Chun Niang knows in her heart that she has always been the poor and helpless orphan.

Therefore, she is very kind, but also very cowardly.

She was not afraid of fair competition, but when faced with her opponent's deliberate suppression, Chun Niang suddenly panicked.

Now looking at Shen Ruoyan sitting in front of him, he finally has the stability to find his backbone.

After stabilizing her emotions, Chun Niang said: "The shop here has just started, so I try my best to keep an eye on everything. I will personally check the warehouse in the back room every day. I was fine last night, but I haven't gotten up yet today. , some people said they smelled a foul smell.

When I got up, I saw that all the fabrics in the warehouse had been stained with pig blood. These blood stains were difficult to clean. Even if they were washed and re-dyed, it would take too long and cost a lot more. If you sell it at the original price, you will lose a lot of money. "

Chun Niang rubbed her temples. The business strategy of small profits but quick turnover is indeed beneficial to both the shop and the people. However, because the profits are too low and their family background is not strong, as long as one link goes wrong, the entire The system will collapse.

Could she be like other shops, deliberately raising prices and selling materials at high prices?

This kind of profiteer who doesn't care about the life and death of others and makes money from people's hard-earned money was once the person she hated the most.

The cook didn't want to become like that.

"In recent days, this kind of thing has happened one after another in our shops all over Yizhou. A few days ago, one shop was secretly set on fire, and several sisters living in the shop were almost killed. Burned to death." Thinking of this incident, Chun Niang's voice sounded a bit sad, "I need to keep an eye on this place. I really can't leave, so I asked Brother Wei to handle it. I didn't expect that Brother Wei had just left a few days ago. This is what happened in our shop.”

"You are not to blame for Chun Niang's incident. If I am to blame, I have to blame those who used such dirty methods behind the scenes." Shen Ruoyan knew that Chun Niang was blaming herself, so she quickly changed the topic and asked, "I just heard them What is the president of the Chamber of Commerce? Who is this person? Is he the one who did these things? "

Chun Niang bit her lip and nodded vigorously, "I don't have clear evidence in my hand, but it's almost certain.

The so-called president of the Chamber of Commerce was originally a rich man here. Because his ancestors had been doing business for generations and accumulated a lot of wealth, many shops in this area were more or less related to his family.

Later, Xue Dafu, the former richest man in Yizhou, was arrested, which also caused great changes in the trading shops in Yizhou.

That person took the opportunity to organize a chamber of commerce, under the guise of communicating more with each other, but secretly he was uniting many shops to unify the selling prices.Joining them are shops that sell daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, and salt. If they can unite and raise prices together, then no matter how expensive it is, ordinary people will have to pay for it. "

Shen Ruoyan secretly pondered, it turns out that doing business is similar to officialdom.

When the tigers in the forest are gone, the jackals join forces and become the next demon to poison all living beings.

"Then no one raised any objections?" Shen Ruoyan didn't believe it. All bosses were as greedy as them, and there were always some people with good intentions.

Chun Niang sighed and explained: "At the beginning, some shops were not cooperative and were unwilling to deliberately increase prices.

We are all people who have experienced great disasters. We know that life is not easy, and we do not want to treat our compatriots like this.

However, those from the Chamber of Commerce deliberately suppressed these disobedient shops. Some shops were unable to continue doing business due to them. In the end, they either closed their shops or chose to join them.

Through this method, the Chamber of Commerce has become more and more powerful, controlling industries such as firewood, rice, oil and salt, and now it has extended its hands to our material industry. "

After listening to Chun Niang's story, Shen Ruoyan rubbed her fingers and thought for a while.

It seems that I really came to the right place this time.

She finally found out the reason for the sharp rise in prices. It turned out that the local gentry Lu Yan mentioned was the president of the Chamber of Commerce.

Now that she's here, she has to take a good look at this inhumane jackal.

After carefully asking Chun Niang some specific information about the president, Shen Ruoyan had a preliminary idea in her mind.

After discussing with Chun Niang, Shen Ruoyan did not choose to live in Chun Niang's yard. Instead, she took her people to find the largest inn in the city and stayed there.

At night, the bright moon was in the sky, and the breeze kept blowing in through the open windows.

After a busy day, I can finally have a good rest.

But every time at this time, Shen Ruoyan could not help but think of Lu Yan.

According to his speed, Lu Yan should have arrived at Zhoucheng.

Did he miss himself?

How would he explain to others that he was obviously going back to get married this time, but why was he the only one going back without seeing his new wife?

Thinking of this, Shen Ruoyan spread out the Four Treasures of the Study and wanted to write a letter to Lu Yan.

Before I could rub the ink a few times, I heard someone outside the door.

"Come in." Shen Ruoyan raised her head and said in a loud voice.

A man in black attire walked in holding a wooden box.

Seeing this familiar box, Shen Ruoyan's eyes suddenly lit up, and the smile on her face was a happiness that she didn't even notice.

"Is this sent by Lu Yan?" Shen Ruoyan asked.

The secret guard placed the wooden box on the table in front of Shen Ruoyan and nodded respectfully, "The young master asked Madam to open it by the window."

After saying that, without waiting for Shen Ruoyan to ask the reason, the secret guard quietly retreated.

After touching the texture on the surface of the wooden box, I didn't know what Lu Yan was trying to do, but he still obeyed his words, picked up the box, and walked to the window.

Pushing open the lid of the wooden box, little stars flew out from inside.

Shen Ruoyan's eyes widened.

If you look closely, you will see that they are fireflies.

Acting on his instinct, the little bug flew towards the darkness outside the window, lighting up beautiful fireflies in the night.

Shen Ruoyan looked at it for a while, until the fireflies flew away, and then she lowered her head and saw a letter lying quietly inside the box.