Wife Kim An

Chapter 73

"What did your lord mean just now, asking me to give out some rice grains for free relief? Isn't this cutting off your own money!" Lin Yi put down his teacup, and said lightly, "In recent years, every time there is a disaster, on the surface it is the Lin family who pays a high price. Buying rice, in fact, behind the scenes, the adults are behind the scenes to fuel the flames and get a piece of the pie."

"It's just that Song Xiao is present, talk about it casually, let her leave as soon as possible. Could it be that you want her to stay here and listen to our conversation?" Zhixian squinted his eyes.

"My lord, this white face sings really well. Every time I sing a bad face, I don't know how to be resented by others." Lin Yi asked with a smile, "Don't you want to be a clean magistrate, don't you want to provide disaster relief? Why don't you report it to the imperial court. My lord wants rice, and when the court finds out, won't it be shipped for free? Isn't your lord always using this idea to make money secretly and to gain fame on the surface?"

"This time the flood came too fast." The county magistrate frowned: "Two months ago, the empress allocated funds for the disaster and asked me to rebuild the dam. Now that two months have not arrived, if this official reports the disaster again, the empress will investigate the disaster." I am afraid that the official's black hat will not be guaranteed. I can only hide it and solve the flood as soon as possible."

"So you don't want to cooperate with me to make money this time?" Lin Yi raised his eyebrows.

"I want to get my share back."

"It's gone." He spread his hands and said casually.

"What!" The magistrate exclaimed and stood up.

Lin Yi smiled and said, "I bought rice with all the money. According to the market price of 20 taels a catty, adults can take back dozens of bags!"

"You!" The magistrate slapped the table heavily, and said angrily, "Lin Yi, what the hell are you doing! I gave you more than that, and the interest rate has been at least dozens of times in the past few years!"

"My lord..." Lin Yi blew into her ear, "You have already stepped in, don't try to withdraw early. This time, the Lin family will definitely earn money!

If you want to show off, my lord, I don't mind exchanging your share for rice and giving it to the disaster victims for free!However, if the time is extended, a sum of money from wealthy businessmen and aristocratic families can be severely slaughtered.Aren't there several companies that have been contradicting you, my lord?When you are about to starve to death, you can see how they humbly beg you.Those who are not pleasing to the eye are also..."

Feng Yan smiled slightly, and gesticulated fiercely on the front of his neck with his slender fingers.

"Natural disasters... people are always missing unfortunately..."

Song Xiao walked on the road angrily, but Shen Junyi was not found, let alone the carriage.This is five hundred miles away from the city, and you may not be able to go back when you walk to Zishi.

"Hey, Miss Song, I'm so excited!"

Now she gets angry when she sees Lin Yi's unflattering smiling face, and seeing him open the curtains and lie comfortably on the cushion, which is a world of difference from her who is walking hard, she is even more angry , turned her head and walked quickly, but Lin Yi's carriage relentlessly kept side by side with her.

"Miss Song, it's a long way to go back, do you need Lin to see you all the way?" He smiled like a fox.

"No need." Song Xiao firmly refused, and quickened his pace.

With a "crash", it began to rain heavily.

"Oh, I'm soaked." Lin Yi mocked lightly, "Ms. Song really doesn't want to take a carriage?"

"Then Lin..."

"Wait!" Song Xiao was drenched, her thin unlined clothes were tightly attached to her body, she lowered her head, her black hair was moistly attached to her ears, she stretched her arms and pulled her in front of the carriage. , "Thank you, Mr. Lin."

Walking five hundred miles on a rainy day is a real pain!She can bend and stretch, what is she afraid of Lin Yi doing!
Just as Song Xiao got into the carriage, he sneezed twice impatiently.Lin Yi handed her the handkerchief, and she accepted it without thinking.

The two of them were silent, Song Xiao felt strange, Lin Yi was always sneering and sarcastic when facing her, at this moment, she was wet all over, it was another good opportunity, why was she suddenly quiet?
She decided to take the initiative.

"Mr. Lin, when did you start business?"

"Ten years old." Lin Yi's face sank slightly, but his smile did not fade, "Why are you asking this?"

"Ten years old, so amazing." Song Xiao praised.

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, and the smile on the corner of his mouth sank.The memory of his childhood was unbearable, and it was the only existence he wanted to erase.

When he was a child, he never understood why his mother always liked to take him out when she was in business, and always dressed him up like a porcelain doll, because he was not a direct son, and had many direct sisters before.

He likes the outside world, but he doesn't like the people outside.Those people always smiled strangely when they saw him, and wished to touch him for no reason, and he would look at his mother for help, but her mother was trying to win over business with flattery.

Later he understood that he was just a tool to make money for his mother.

"Miss Song doesn't need to pretend to praise me, just say what you want to say! There is no one else here."

Song Xiao put away his hypocritical smiling face, and said lightly: "The Lin family always buys grain before the Song family. It took a long time to buy all the grain around Yizhou and even the outer circle. How come there is only half a warehouse. You are a smart person , although Yizhou wants to make money, it is absolutely impossible for me to have no food in Nianchuan."

"So?" Lin Yi asked with a smile.

"Don't you feel sad when you come here today? They are homeless, penniless, and have no food to eat. In the face of natural disasters, can Mr. Lin provide some free rice relief?" Song Xiao recalled the scene just now. In addition to shock is sad.

"Song Xiao, what kind of tone are you talking to me?" Lin Yi laughed so hard that tears came out, he couldn't understand why Song Xiao would ask such a stupid question when he saw him now.

"free?!"

"Song Xiao, you are a businessman. What do businessmen care about? Benefits! Any benefits that can make money! Are you going to throw away these benefits now? If you donate food for disaster relief, not only will you not be able to benefit from the immediate benefits If you make a fortune, you will lose a lot.”

Song Xiao retorted: "Even if it's free, the Lin family has earned more than a thousand times more from rice grains. How can you say it's a big loss?! Don't you think that the money is earned with ulterior motives?"

"Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and merchants are always at the bottom. Although the Queen has ordered to pay attention to commerce in recent years, there are many officials who despise merchants. Because of the help of your Song family, you have opened up business from the north to the south, and you are still standing in Phoenix City. What if there was no one to help? Do you know how much the Lin family has suffered in this regard!"

Thinking of how helpless he was at that time, Lin Yi sneered and said, "You don't know, whenever the flood hits, those children from high-ranking aristocratic families will kneel down in humility one by one, begging you to sell rice. At that time, no matter how much money she had, What's the use? It's not the same fate as those disaster victims! So, a loss, a big loss. Without their performances, what fun is there in life!"

"However..." Lin Yi smiled, "Song Xiao, if you give up half of the Song family's property north of Phoenix City, I will promise you disaster relief. This deal is not bad!"

"You are dreaming! By then, you will not only have the Song family's property, but also your good reputation! Do you really think I am a fool?" Song Xiao suddenly jumped off the carriage when he saw the gate of Phoenix City , After standing firmly, he said coldly, "Differences of the way are not for mutual conspiracies, so there is no need to send each other off!"

"By the way." When Song Xiao jumped off the carriage, Lin Yi suddenly said, "Song Xiao, don't you care about Yang Family Village?"

Song Xiao paused and looked at him suspiciously.

"It is true that Yangjia Village is not flooded on the top of the mountain, but what about the refugees? If a large number of refugees flee to Nianchuan, they will definitely climb over the hillside and pass by Yangjia Village. You say, they will let Yangjiacun, which has food and fields Is it? If you’re really hungry, maybe you’ll go back and grab it.”

He chuckled: "Just like last time."

Song Xiao choked for breath and his throat was hoarse: "You instigated the refugee incident last time?!"

"The Song family sent people to rescue the grain store in Yizhou. If the Song family was smart, they would naturally buy rice from other places and transport it to Yizhou, and they must go through that road when going to Yizhou, so..." Lin Yi shrugged: "I Just tell them the good news, the hope of living."

"Lin Yi..." Song Xiao let out a long sigh of relief, and murmured, "You are really the same as before, using all means to achieve your goal, even if the other party is innocent..."

Just like, back then, I was used by you to foolishly love you...

"Don't miss Song know?" Lin Yi sneered, "profiteer, profiteer! It's always been the world's evaluation of businessmen. In order to achieve their own affairs, a businessman must use all the conditions that are beneficial to him. Since Miss Song If you are so benevolent and righteous, and willing to make contributions to the common people, why don’t you just give out your own rice tribute. Why, how many people in the Song family starved to death and how many refugees can be saved, it must be a good deal!”

"You!" Song Xiaoyu choked.

Lin Yiju looked at her condescendingly, and said coldly: "Song Xiao, sometimes I really doubt whether your Song family can survive in Dongmu if you are the head of the family! Soft-hearted, meddle in your own business, although sometimes you will play tricks Be smart and make some money, but such shortcomings will definitely cost you your life!"

After Lin Yi finished speaking, he left in a hurry.The carriage splashed water all over the ground and charged towards Song Xiao.

Lin Yi was right, she shouldn't care about these things, and she has no right to care about them.She is a businessman and should put her interests first.

Drenched in light rain, she walked slowly back to the Song Mansion.When passing by the alley, she saw a woman in Tsing Yi descending slowly holding a paper umbrella, and then reached out to support the person she knew best.

Shen Junyi walked down slowly, not the white clothes he wore when he went out in the morning, but a green one.The long gown echoed the woman in Tsing Yi, it was like couple clothes.

"The clothes from two years ago, I didn't expect Jun Yi to fit you well." Qing Shien said with a light smile.

"En." Shen Junyi responded lightly.The clothes I was wearing before were stained with blood, so I had to change them to avoid suspicion.It was inconvenient for him to get out of the carriage, so he asked his senior sister to buy one, but she brought his old clothes instead.

Song Xiao didn't know why he was hiding, but he was afraid of such an embarrassing scene where the three of them met.Now her hair is disheveled, her clothes are messy, and she is covered in water. She looks like a female ghost crawling out of the water, dirty and smelly.

And the other party, clean, beautiful, and generous, compared her severely.

She thought with low self-esteem, if she appeared at this time, not only would she lose face, but she would also lose face to Shen Junyi.

What's more, can she question Shen Junyi?As the head of the wife, do you want him to stay away from the woman?Want him to explain what just happened?Is she... qualified?
"Xiaoxiao, what's wrong with you? Why don't you hold an umbrella?" Shen Junyi, who had put away his things in his room, opened the door, and saw Song Xiao standing at the door, drenched in the rain.

He hurriedly opened an umbrella, welcomed Song Xiao into the room, prepared clothes for her, and prepared a hot bath.

"I'm going to look for you." Song Xiao lurked in the tub, muffled.Her body was completely cold, and the hot water at this time just stopped her from top to bottom icy cold.

Shen Junyi's heart skipped a beat, looking at the swaying figure of the woman on the screen, he felt nervous.

"But I can't find you..."

He breathed a sigh of relief.

"Jun Yi, where did you go today?"

"I went to Yige today, and..."

Shen Junyi reported a lot of locations, but there was no one Song Xiao wanted to hear.

Even if she couldn't see the other party, she could feel that he turned his head slightly, which was an unconscious movement when he was lying.Jun Yi, he would never lie.

She tilted her head and asked again: "Jun Yi, I heard from Susu that you went out in white this morning, why did you change into another?"

"It's raining, I just changed into clothes." Shen Junyi answered eloquently.

Song Xiao was silent for a while, and said softly: "The food reserves are ready, let's leave Nianchuan tomorrow. Say goodbye to grandma early, and we will return to Phoenix City as soon as possible... Mom must miss us...Jun Yi, actually... "The more she spoke, the more excited she became, and the more excited she became, the more she spoke.

"Xiaoxiao!" Shen Junyi interrupted suddenly, avoiding his eyes and said, "It's raining, and the journey is not very convenient, so we shouldn't leave in a hurry..."

"It's been raining in Nianchuan, so are we going to stay here forever?" Song Xiao walked out of the tub, wiped his body with a towel, and said with a chuckle, "Jun Yi, do you have something to hide from me? Do you want to stay here ?”

"No." Shen Junyi said, "We will leave tomorrow morning."

Song Xiao walked out from behind the screen wearing a thin underwear, and saw that Shen Junyi was already sitting on the bed.

"Xiaoxiao, I'm a little tired today, I want to go to bed early."

After hearing this, she walked over and hugged his waist, rubbed against him, and said softly, "Good night, Junyi."

Recently, she has been rubbing Shen Junyi's tofu before going to bed.In this way, it has almost become a habit.

She thought, if one day, there is no longer a warm body beside her, how cold it will be in winter a few months later...

This night, Song Xiao slept very soundly again.

She had a dream, the dream was hazy, and she forgot everything when she woke up in the morning.

The only thing she remembers is that someone said sorry to her, which was very light and low, but very familiar.

She opened her eyes in a panic, and met Shen Junyi's caring eyes: "Xiaoxiao, what's wrong with you?"

On August 21, the Luoshui River flooded the eighth village, and Yizhou City was crowded with people, food was in short supply, rice was hard to come by, and some refugees fled to Nianchuan.

On August 22, the river was raging.None of the people who went to repair the dam survived. The people of Yizhou panicked day and night. Many people fled to Nianchuan. However, when they fled to Nianchuan, they found that the bridge was washed away by the heavy rain, and they could not escape further.

Song Xiao stood in front of the bridge in a daze, wanting to cry without tears.

She felt that she had fallen into a net, she couldn't escape, she couldn't escape, she could only face everything that should happen.

"What a pity." She looked at Shen Junyi and said softly, "Let's go back to Nianchuan..."

(End of this chapter)