peasant girl allure

Chapter 178 There are no tigers in the mountains
The emperor is in a very good mood recently, and he has never been in such a good mood since he took the throne!

Empty treasury?A large gold mine was delivered to him.

Years of droughts or floods have occurred in various places, and food harvests have been lost?Rice with a yield of one thousand catties per mu appeared!In the future, three years' worth of grain will be produced in one year!

Bad omen?In the blink of an eye, lucky stars will shine!

And all of this is inseparable from the Shengpinghou family.

"I heard that the Marquis Shengping's family is going back to their hometown for the New Year?" the emperor asked Shangguan Xuanyi in the early court.

"Go back to father, I heard that I will leave the day after tomorrow to go back."

I really can't bear them to leave, the emperor thought to himself.

All civil and military officials looked at each other, it's nothing for a Hou Ye who has no real power to return to his hometown for the New Year, how could this deserve the emperor's attention, and he was still mentioning it early.

"The Shengpinghou's family has made great contributions to this disaster. What do you think should be rewarded to Shengpinghou?"

Want to reward the Marquis of Shengping again?All the ministers looked at me, and I looked at you, and they all had this meaning: Didn’t your family donate anything during the earthquake in Qingping County?Why did the emperor only promote the Pinghou family? !

"The Marquis of Shengping is the Lord Marquis granted by the emperor. He enjoys the court's honor as the imperial court. It is also right to do something for the people, and the money and materials donated by all of us are taken for granted. They should not be rewarded by the emperor." Prime Minister You came out replied.

"Hmm." How could the emperor not understand what he meant, he wanted to say that if you want to reward, you should also reward together, and you can't treat one more than another.

I accidentally inflicted some hatred on Hou Shengping.

Yi'er said that Marquis Shengping and County Lord Rui'an didn't want people to know that she was the one who said the earthquake.

He can understand that a family without roots really needs to keep a low profile when acting in this tangled imperial capital.

Shengping Hou's family is transparent, so if he doesn't want to be in the limelight, he will help him.

He hasn't rewarded them for the gold mine yet, and he can't reward them for the earthquake either, so remember to wait until next time.

The emperor just hummed and talked about other political affairs.

Seeing the emperor like this, all the officials in the hall thought that the emperor deliberately proposed to reward Sheng Pinghou, but in fact, the drunkard's intention was not to drink, and the real purpose was not to reward them, so that they could open their mouths.

They missed a great opportunity!
The emperor's mind is really too unpredictable!Baiguan thought.

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The weather was fine this day, and Xiao'er's family could finally go home!

This time, half of the journey was by water, which saved a lot of time.

It happened to be in the evening when I returned home, and Xiao'er's family started to deal with housework, shop, and Zhuangzi's affairs early the next morning after they had a rest.

Mrs. Liu took care of the housework, and Shen Chengyao went to the field and Zhuangzi early in the morning to check the planting of winter wheat.

Xiao'er asked the housekeeper to notify the shopkeepers of each shop to report the situation in the shop this month.

First, the shopkeeper of the Four Seasons Restaurant in the town came, and after reporting the business situation, he said something.

"Uncle Shen and Young Master Shen often come to the restaurant to eat." The shopkeeper said that he was also a little worried about this, and he didn't know if it was right for him to do so.

Xiao'er took a sip of tea and motioned him to continue.

"The first time they came to eat, they didn't give any money, and then when they came to eat the next day, I asked the uncle to give yesterday's money before serving the food. The uncle and the others..." The shopkeeper is a little hard to say, Shen Chengguang is after all Isn't he the big brother of the boss?

"Are you scolding? Are you scolding badly?" Xiao'er knew the reason for his hesitation and directly said it for him.

Seeing Xiao'er's normal look, the shopkeeper didn't feel nervous anymore.

"No, after that, I came to eat almost every other day or two. I asked the guy to cash out the money, and he cursed at the restaurant."

"Have you received the money?"

"Yes." He only served food after receiving money, so he scolded.

But he didn't dare not to accept it. One of the staff rules is that no one is allowed to eat without money, including the boss and several young masters and misses.

The account and money must match, otherwise, whoever is responsible will be deducted from his monthly silver.

"Well done, it doesn't matter if he scolds or not when he comes, he will serve the food after paying the money." Come to eat every day, scold every day, want to blackmail their house and ruin the business of the shop?It's true that people are all dead, right and wrong are irrelevant, and people's hearts can be seen over time.

Whoever runs a shop will have relatives who come to eat every day and refuse to give money, and they will scold him for taking money!I don't owe him anything!
People come to eat every day, and the restaurant is still closed!
"But it's not good for the shop's business if he always acts like this."

"Is the shop's business bad?"

"It's gone now. At the beginning, he scolded in the lobby, and the guests complained that it was too noisy. Later, we arranged him in the most remote private room."

"Then it's over! Don't worry, he won't be scolding for long. He can be regarded as a regular source of customers now, and the one who gives the money is the uncle, just treat him well." She didn't believe that he would be willing to give the money to come to her restaurant for dinner all the time. .

After reporting the work, Xiao'er gave the prepared annual gift and bonus to the shopkeeper, and he left with a big smile on his face, bringing the rich annual gift and 50 taels of bonus.

Then the shopkeeper came up to report that everything went well.

The last manager mentioned that when he signed a contract with the people in the village on the supply of vegetables for the next year, more than a dozen families asked for an extra two cents per catty of vegetables.

"Why do they want to add more words?"

"They said that Uncle Shen's grocery store will also accept vegetables next year, and they will charge one penny more per catty than our store. If our store doesn't add two pennies, they won't sell them to us. They also said..." the shopkeeper Some dare not speak.

"Xie Bo, but it's okay." It's Shen Chengguang again, she wants to see how much trouble he can cause because their family is not at home!

"It is also said that our shop charges their vegetables at a low price, but sells them at a sky-high price. We earn money by sucking their blood and eating their meat. They ask for an extra two cents per catty, which is not enough. .”

"What do you think, Uncle Xie?" Xiao'er asked calmly.

Alas, there are no tigers in the mountains, and all monkeys want to be kings.

"Personally, I don't think it can be added. There are many people who can grow vegetables in this world, and there is no shortage of more than a dozen of them. Their vegetables are getting worse and worse, and there are a lot of rotten leaves hidden in the middle of each bundle. , yellow leaves."

Originally, the dishes received did not make much money, so it was even more of a loss.

"Then, has the shopkeeper found a suitable vegetable farmer?"

"Not yet, but these days, who in the village can't grow vegetables? If we spread the news to other villages, many people will definitely come to our door."

"Indeed!" Xiao'er nodded, "The reason why I wanted to accept food from the villagers was to help the villagers live a better life, otherwise a supermarket in the town would be able to provide food for my own village. Now Since they think my family is sucking their blood and sweat, then forget it, these dozen families will remember it well, and will never sign a contract with them again."

The shopkeeper nodded. Those people are not worthy of pity. To be honest, missing their boss must be the biggest loss in their life.

(End of this chapter)