Poor family farming: the sick and weak scholar's wife is very sturdy

Chapter 318 Outrageous Salt Price

"Hmph, what are you, you deserve to meet my shopkeeper?"

Saying that, Xiao Er stood up and roared at Lin Xiao, his tone full of disdain and contempt.

Lin Xiao smiled coldly when she heard the words, and turned to look at Xiaoer:

"Whether you deserve it or not is up to you to decide! Tell your shopkeeper, if you don't come out to see me today, then this salt...don't sell it!"

"Boy, what a big tone!"

At this moment, a bitter voice came from behind.

Lin Xiao turned his head and saw a gorgeously dressed young man coming from the crowd outside. He was tall and burly, staring at him with contemptuous eyes.

The few servants following behind him are also arrogant, looking at people with their nostrils with high eyes and low hands.

The clerk at the grain and oil shop immediately nodded and bowed to meet this person when he saw him:

"Shopkeeper, are you back?"

Treasurer? !
Lin Xiao raised her eyebrows slightly, it turned out that this guy is the shopkeeper of this dishonest grain and oil shop!
The shopkeeper ignored the waiter, just snorted coldly, and looked at Lin Xiao with malicious eyes.

At this time, the shop waiter leaned forward and added fuel to the shopkeeper and said:
"The shopkeeper, this guy is the one who took the lead in looking for trouble, and even threatened that the salt will not be sold to us in the future!"

After finishing speaking, he gave Lin Xiao another hard look.

Hearing what the waiter said, the shopkeeper was furious, pointed at Lin Xiao with his right hand and cursed:

"Little brat, how dare you threaten the grain and oil store in front of my young master? Come, show him some flair!"

After finishing speaking, he winked at the subordinates behind him.

After receiving the order, several servants immediately rolled up their sleeves, showing a fierce look, and surrounded Lin Xiao one after another.

One of the servants even pulled out the long sword from his waist and stabbed at Lin Xiao's chest.

However, at this moment, Lin Xiao suddenly moved. He kicked the boy in the abdomen, kicked him flying, and knocked him heavily to the ground.

Then, Lin Xiao spun around, punched out, and hit another boy on the temple.

The boy was punched flying and fell to the ground unconscious.

The last servant panicked when he saw this, and ran away.

Unfortunately, his speed is fast, but Lin Xiao is even faster!
A whip kick swept across, straight to the back of his heart.

The little servant was frightened out of his wits by this kick, and hurriedly avoided, but he didn't expect that it was still a step too late.

"Snapped!"

Lin Xiao slapped the boy on the left side of the face.

The boy's left face was instantly red and swollen.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xiao raised his right arm again, and lashed out with a whip kick.

"Crack!"

The sound of bones breaking sounded.

The boy's left arm was dislocated in an instant, and his whole face was twisted into a ball, screaming in pain.

Looking at the boy's appearance, the corners of Lin Xiao's mouth turned up slightly, and he snorted coldly:
"Vulnerable!"

These Turkic people seem to be strong, but they lack the nourishment of carbohydrates. They are all weak flesh. With a little trick, they will fall apart as soon as they are beaten.

The shopkeeper was stunned when he saw that Lin Xiao had dealt with his four subordinates in two or three moves, and rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

What was even more unbelievable was Xiyue who was standing by the side.

She originally thought that Lin Xiao was just an idiot who only relied on words to bluff people, but unexpectedly, Lin Xiao was so sharp and decisive when he really took action, so her attitude towards Lin Xiao changed a lot.

"Shopkeeper, what should we do? He, he destroyed all of us."

Seeing that his companion was deposed, the waiter in the shop immediately said to the shopkeeper with a mournful face.

The shopkeeper recovered from the shock after hearing the words.

He gritted his teeth and fixed his eyes on Lin Xiao, wishing he could eat Lin Xiao alive.

But looking at the boys lying on the ground moaning in pain, he had to be afraid of Lin Xiao's force value, so he couldn't help swallowing this bad breath, and said apologetically to Lin Xiao:

"Little brother, please ask Haihan if you offend me just now. I'm the shopkeeper. If there's anything you need, let's sit down and talk slowly, how about it?"

With that said, the shopkeeper made a gesture of invitation, signaling Lin Xiao to go to the inner hall of the shop to discuss matters.

Lin Xiao glanced at the obsequious shopkeeper, stepped forward, and followed the shopkeeper to the inner hall of the shop.

Xiyue and Yu Xilin followed closely behind.

After entering the door, the shopkeeper made tea himself, poured a cup of tea for Lin Xiao and others, and put it on the table.

Lin Xiao picked up the teacup, took a sip, then put down the cup, looked at the shopkeeper and asked:

"Why is the price of salt so ridiculously expensive?"

The shopkeeper was startled when he heard the words:
"this."

"Do you want to earn black-hearted money from the livelihood of ordinary people?"

Lin Xiao's tone was calm, but there was a strong chill, which made people feel cold all over.

Hearing this, the shopkeeper couldn't help but rubbed his hands in embarrassment:

"This man misunderstood. Although I also love money, I know that a gentleman loves money for a reason. It is because the purchase price of salt is suddenly ridiculously high, so I have to do this!"

"Oh?"

Lin Xiao stared at him suspiciously, she didn't believe what he said.

No matter how high the purchase price of table salt is, it can't be as high as a few hundred coppers per jar of salt, right?

"If you don't believe me, I'll show you the ledger!"

Seeing that Lin Xiao didn't believe it, the shopkeeper hurriedly asked the waiter to show Lin Xiao the account book in the store.

Lin Xiao took the account book and read it carefully. After reading it, Lin Xiao couldn't help frowning:

"How can the purchase price of salt be so high? It has reached the point of 230 copper plates for a jar of salt!"

Lin Xiao's tone was very surprised, and even vaguely questioned.

"Yeah, it suddenly increased. We used to have several grain and oil shops here, but because of the soaring salt price, we are the only one left to operate."

The shopkeeper carefully observed Lin Xiao's face while speaking, for fear that he might offend the other party by saying something wrong.

However, seeing Lin Xiao's face became more and more gloomy, the shopkeeper couldn't help but wonder, did he say something wrong?

"Can you show me your family?"

Lin Xiao said suddenly.

The shopkeeper was surprised: "Little brother, don't you want to do the salt business?"

"something wrong?"

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows and asked back.

"Don't dare, it's just that it's not that easy to start a salt business nowadays, you need a lot of money, because you don't know how much the price of salt will rise tomorrow!"

The shopkeeper quickly explained.

He really hoped that someone would come over to run the salt business with him. Although he had already tasted the sweetness of monopoly, he also knew what it meant to be a big tree attracting wind.

For example, these days, because of the skyrocketing salt price, he is often invited to drink tea by the government.

But if he didn't make it clear to Lin Xiao how powerful it was, what if he lost everything and blamed himself?
Therefore, the shopkeeper tried his best to dissuade Lin Xiao.

"I don't need to bother you about this, as long as you introduce your previous family for me."

Lin Xiao put down the teacup and stood up slowly, a strong sense of oppression instantly enveloped the shopkeeper's whole body, making the shopkeeper dare not move.

The shopkeeper felt oppressed, and beads of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead. He swallowed, and stammered:

"Okay, okay, I'll take you there right now, just in case you lose your money in the future...don't settle accounts with me"

With that said, the shopkeeper got up and took Lin Xiao and others out.

(End of this chapter)