Crossing the Qinghe Landlord gl

On the way back to Qinghe Village from the county government office, Xia Jiniang asked Zhang He if he had found anything in the documents for the conclusion of the case. It's all in her handwriting."

As for why Jiang Sheng wanted to find Zhang Yan, maybe Zhang Yan had something to do with Jiang Sheng, not necessarily the Liu family.

Zhang He used to not care about the affairs of the Zhang family, nor did he care about the Liu family, but now that she has become Zhang He, she has a sense of responsibility.Although Liu's affair with Jiang Sheng was selfish, but she was the one who gave birth to Zhang He and also the one who concealed her identity. There are some things that she may have the obligation to figure out.

So she asked the people in the yamen to find out what happened to Mrs. Liu in Leizhou, and the county magistrate smiled and promised to tell her as soon as there was news.The master book next to him wondered: "The Zhang family asked someone to inquire about it earlier."

Zhang He was startled, and the county magistrate hurriedly asked, "When did it happen?"

"Three or four months ago, Mrs. Liu of Zhang's family had some friendship with the county magistrate. She mentioned it to the county magistrate, and the county magistrate asked someone to inquire. But Leizhou is too far away, even if you inquire about something , and it has not been delivered in time." The master book said.

The county magistrate smiled and said to Zhang He: "I was not in office at that time, since the county magistrate has ordered someone to go, then..."

"Then don't bother the county magistrate." Zhang He smiled slightly.

"No trouble, once there is news, I will send someone to inform Mr. Zhang Family."

Xia Jiniang's doubts that had just been dispelled were revived again because of Liu's actions, and she asked uncertainly: "Erlang, what do you mean, Auntie sent someone to inquire about my young lady three or four months ago?"

She recalled that Liu Shi knew Zhang He's identity, but never exposed it, and she didn't know what was behind it.

"That's right!" Zhang He also couldn't figure it out. According to Liu Shi's attitude towards Liu Shi's case, she clearly hated Liu Shi very much, but why did she want to inquire about her?

"Maybe it's because of Erlang?" Xia Jiniang thought, "After all, it's your biological mother. If something happened to her and you committed a taboo without knowing it, I'm afraid you will get a bad name."

"It's possible." Zhang He nodded.

Xia Jiniang laughed and said, "How does Erlang know so little about his own affairs? It seems that Erlang used to be 'keep his ears off the window'!"

"As far as I'm concerned, only with your future family can we have family affairs." Zhang He said.

A warm current flowed through Xia Jiniang's heart, and she responded softly: "Me too."

Little Peanut sat on Xia Jiniang's lap and yelled "Yi Ya Yi Ya" again, Zhang He smiled and said: "Okay, there are you, there are also deer, and you are home!"

"buba~" Little Peanut was satisfied.

Xia Jiniang looked at them with a smile, thinking that such a day is really good.

The rainy and torrent-prone autumn has not yet passed, and the officials and people in Fuzhou are frightened by the next few rains. Fortunately, it is just a few ordinary autumn rains.Even so, the rice price in Fuzhou is still high but not falling, causing the common people to complain.

When the Fang family's carriage appeared at the door of Zhang He's house, Zhang He and Xia Jiniang were still very puzzled. Seeing a beautiful figure alighting from the carriage, they were even more surprised: "Little lady of the Fang family, why did you come to the humble house in person?"

Fang Ying smiled slightly, and took another look at the gate of Zhang He's house. Although it was not like most of the rich and powerful mansions in Fuzhou, the surrounding environment was very quiet.

In front of the door is not a dirt road in the countryside, but a stone road built with bluestone blocks of the same size, about fifteen feet long and two feet wide, with several dogwoods planted along the road.There are several long stone chairs under the dogwood. The environment is so good that some peddlers choose to make a living here.

Zhang He and Xia Jiniang seldom drive out these hawkers, so that every festival, there are always many people gathered here, which is very lively.

Fang Ying was invited to sit in, and not long after, Little Peanut's cry came from the room.Zhang He thought that Xia Jiniang and Fang Ying could chat better, so he asked her to entertain Fang Ying, while he went into the house to take care of Xiao Huasheng.

Fang Ying heard the crying of the baby in the house, and looked at Xia Jiniang in surprise: "I wonder why I haven't seen Mrs. Xia in the past ten months, so she gave birth to a child at home."

When the child was mentioned, her eyes darkened.

Xia Jiniang knew she had misunderstood, but she didn't explain, saying: "The child is still young and needs someone to take care of him, and we can't get away. I don't know why the lady of the Fang family came to the humble house today?"

Only then did Fang Ying say: "Today's visit is actually to discuss something important."

Fang Ying saw that Zhang He and Xia Jiniang had given Xia Luosi a way out, so she didn't say too many polite words to Xia Jiniang.It turns out that due to natural disasters, the price of rice in Fuzhou City has risen, and one of the raw materials for making rouge gouache is polished rice, which is also caught in a dilemma due to the rise in rice prices.

The Fang family's production of rouge powder has very high requirements for raw materials, and the production process is complicated, which requires a lot of cost.If the price of rice rises, their cost will inevitably be higher, which will inevitably affect the price of rouge and gouache.If the Fang family increases the price at will, it will easily lose their credibility, and Fang Ying is unwilling to see it anyway.

Therefore, the people of the Fang family looked for fine and affordable rice everywhere, but it was a pity that no matter whether it was a grain merchant in the city or a rich man in the suburbs, they had to pay several times the usual price to buy it.When the Fang family was about to compromise, Fang Ying accidentally heard that the rice purchased by their Fang family two years ago was actually bought by a grain merchant from Qinghe Village.

Although they are all polished rice, Fang's father found that the rice bought from a grain merchant two years ago has a better effect, and the rice noodles made are also very smooth.But the grain merchant later said that the rice could no longer be bought, after all it was given to the government, so Fang's father had no choice but to use ordinary polished rice.

After many inquiries, Fang Ying found out that Zhang He was the one who sold the polished rice to the grain merchants.

Xia Jiniang remembered that it was not long after she and Zhang He got married. Zhang He had a good harvest of mid-season rice, and the polished rice that had been screened after pounding and milling was sold to grain merchants except for the portion reserved for his own consumption.Later, because Shi Qing fell in love with Qinghe rice, Zhang He never sold large quantities of polished rice to grain merchants until now.

Xia Jiniang said: "Although Qinghe rice is abundant, the taste is no different from that of ordinary rice!" She has eaten Qinghe rice for so many years, but she has not noticed any difference.

Fang Ying smiled and said, "Even if it's our Fang family's illusion, I came here today to ask if you have polished rice for sale?"

Xia Jiniang paused for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "I'll let Erlang talk to you!"

Fang Ying nodded. In her opinion, Zhang He would indeed know more about the situation at home and be able to take charge.Xia Jiniang got up and went in to change Zhang He out. Zhang He was a little puzzled. After she came out, she listened to Fang Ying's explanation of her intention. She thought for a while and asked, "How much polished rice does the Fang family need?"

Fang Ying had figured it out a long time ago. The more than ten rouge shops in Fang's family needed about ten stones of polished rice a month in terms of the popularity of the rouge gouache that needed rice flour as raw material.And just in case, it is necessary to prepare a few stones of polished rice for emergency use.

"Twenty stone meters, is there any?" Fang Ying asked.

Zhang He thought for a while, and said, "Yes, it's just the price, seven hundred Wen a stone."

The rice price was the same as before, and Fang Ying's ability to bear it was between consistent and consistent five hundred cash, but she never thought that Zhang He would offer such an affordable price.She laughed and said, "Could it be that Master Zhang doesn't know what the price of rice in Fuzhou is like now? Even coarse rice costs five hundred cents a stone, and the price of polished rice is even two or three cents. You are several times less! "

"I know, they are the ones who can increase the price, and they are also the ones who speculate. Why should I join forces with them?"

Fang Ying said: "It is I who treat the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain."

"However, if it's your Fang family, I can sell it for six hundred pennies a stone."

Fang Ying said: "We won't take advantage of the cheap, but I have a heartfelt request."

"Please say."

"If we still want to buy your Qinghe rice in the future, can you reserve some for us?" Fang Ying said very tactfully, but Zhang He understood. If the Fang family thinks her rice is good, they want to establish a long-term rice in the future. cooperation relationship.Zhang He also knew that when her Qinghe rice harvest was bumper, not only the government would come to buy it, but people from other villages would also come to buy it, so she often announced to the public that she had no more grain left.

"Yes." Zhang He said.

Before Fang Ying left, she seemed to remember something, and said with a smile to Zhang He: "There is one more thing I haven't thanked Mr. Zhang Family!"

"What do you need to say thank you for?"

"Although it's nothing to the Zhang family, but to me, it's a solution to my hatred!" Fang Ying smiled slightly. Seeing that Zhang He was really at a loss, she said again, "I heard people Said that the Zhang family has been suppressing the business of the Huang family's second family with the Huang family's first family for more than half a year."

Zhang He realized that he was even more at a loss. The Zhang family and the Huang family joined hands to suppress the second room's business?What happened?

"Could it be that Mr. Zhang's family doesn't know about this?" Fang Ying was puzzled.

"I do not know."

"Then the Zhang family doesn't know about the separation of the Huang family?"

Zhang He shook his head. Ever since Zhou Canjun intentionally made things difficult for the Xia family and prevented them from seeing Xia Luosi, the Xia family and the Huang family had cut off contact, and she and Xia Jiniang had never heard of the Huang family.

Fang Ying considered that Zhang He and Xia Jiniang lived in Qinghe Village, and the news was indeed a little unclear, so she said, "Actually, the two houses of the Huang family have always had internal strife, but the second house has been favored by the mistress of the Huang family, so they have not been able to separate as expected. However, in the twelfth lunar month of last year, the Huang family split up, and the property and shop were divided equally..."

The head of the Huang family, Huang Lingyun, and his son felt unhappy about the separation. After all, it was their father and son who had been fortunate enough to revive the Huang family's tea business, but the results had to be shared equally with the second house.It's just that there are Zhou Canjun and Xia Hui behind the second room, they can only swallow their anger.

Later, the Zhang family introduced many traders from other places to Huang Lingyun. Naturally, these traders from other places did not come to compete with the Huang family for business. Instead, they could help the Huang family expand their sales in Fuzhou when the tea market was hit by foreign tea.

Because transporting tea from farther regions to other places will increase a lot of costs, and Fuzhou, which has a very good geographical environment, is like a hub, where traders from the north can buy tea from Fujian, and traders from Lingnan can also buy tea from here. Buy tea from the six states of Huainan.

Therefore, the state capitals along the Yangtze River are already tea distribution centers. In this case, local tea can also be pushed to the northern and southern state capitals.

The Huang family tried to expand the Huang family's tea business before, but they were unable to do so due to various reasons.But now with such a vendor, not only does the Huang family not need to transport the tea by themselves, which saves costs, but also takes this opportunity to improve their reputation.

It's not that the Huang family never thought of finding such vendors before, but these vendors only chose very famous teas, and they looked down on such teas.

The Huang family was also puzzled. The Zhang family's sphere of influence seemed to be only in the area of ​​Fuzhou. Why can they even contact the vendors in Huainan?Later they discovered that Liu's father is now the Jianghuai salt and iron transfer envoy, who is in charge of the exclusive taxation of salt, iron, tea, wine, etc. at the Jianghuai hub.

As long as the salt and iron transfer agent opens his mouth, or provides a little convenience, these traders will naturally become active, and it will not have any impact on taxation of salt and iron.

With this relationship, the tea business of Huang Lingyun and his son is getting better and better.Huang Lingzhi and his son were accused because they wanted to take a shortcut and use illegal means to suppress Huang Lingyun and his son. If Zhou hadn't joined the army, their father and son would have been put in the prison of the state capital long ago.

And the Zhang family won't suffer from it. In every transaction between the merchant and the Huang family, the Huang family will give the Zhang family one-twentieth of the commission.This amount of commission is not big for the Huang family, and the Zhang family does not need to get involved in their business.

The reason why Fang Ying knew about this was also because Xia Hui scolded the elder house angrily, and almost sued the elder house for being unfilial, which made everyone in Fuzhou know about it.

The author has something to say: Many friends are already close to the truth haha.