Feng Heming

Chapter 313 One Two Three Things

Even knowing that Pingrao was the place where the late emperor once served was useless, even Jiang Yuanxi and Jiang Boyong couldn't figure out what was wrong here.

Unable to bear the identity of the mysterious person under the mask, it is impossible to guess the real purpose of Li Zhongwen's trip.

In the end, the two brothers and sisters looked at each other, seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.

What can be done?There were too few clues, and Jiang Boyong's people didn't dare to follow Li Zhongwen's side. In the end, they just wanted to continue to see Li Zhongwen's subsequent whereabouts without losing their hands and not being exposed.

A few days later, Jiang Boyong brought the latest news.

"Li Zhongwen and his group sneaked back to Li's Biezhuang overnight, and the masked man was there too. There were fifteen of them when they came, but only twelve when they came back, and the remaining three disappeared."

Most of Jiang Boyong's men continued to follow Li Zhongwen and his party from a distance, and the remaining two stayed in Pingrao and continued to stare at them. However, they could not get close before, so they did not recognize all the people around Li Zhongwen. They had to be in the vast crowd Looking for three people who don't even remember their faces
Isn't this tossing around?
After two days of guarding, Jiang Boyong's people inquired secretly in Pingrao and found nothing new, so they had to leave Pingrao in the end.

Jiang Yuanxi only frowned, but Jiang Boyong was really sorry, and secretly regretted it. He always felt that Li Zhongwen's trip was very important, but unfortunately they couldn't find out what happened.

A few days later, Jiang Boyong brought another message to Jiang Yuanxi.

"Wu Niang, the price of rice in the counties and cities has risen!"

Jiang Boyong was talking about the major counties, not each county, and Jiang Yuanxi immediately became sensitive.

"How much has it increased?" Jiang Yuanxi squinted his eyes and asked.

"A bucket of rice has increased by five cents." Jiang Boyong told him to pay special attention to the price of grain when he first spread out the intelligence network. At that time, the price of rice rose, which made him not think too much.

Don't think that a bucket of rice that has increased by five cents seems less, this is the price increase of the major counties and cities, such a calculation is simply frightening.

"Could it be that the rumors passed by my grandfather finally made the people panic, so they rushed to save food?" Jiang Yuanxi frowned slightly.

As long as there is no bad harvest or natural or man-made disasters, the price of rice will generally not rise. Since it has risen, it means that many people are buying rice, and all major counties and cities have risen. Based on this calculation, it should be the price of the county. If the rice is in bad shape, you should rush to buy it.

Who would have thought that Jiang Boyong shook his head and denied it, "No, most of what my grandfather told people to spread was not believed. It wasn't the common people rushing to buy rice, it was the Gu family, to be precise, it was Gu Sanniang who sent people to buy rice at the rice store .”

Jiang Yuanxi was taken aback, "Gu Sanniang is collecting food?"

Because Gu's family is a merchant's family, Jiang Yuanxi's first reaction was: "Could it be that Gu Sanniang believed what her grandfather told him to let them out, so she started to stockpile food first, and if there is really a pest infestation, she will make disaster fortune?"

No wonder she thinks this way, but Gu Sanniang has made a lot of money by turning stones into gold several times.

However, Jiang Boyong knew that it was not what Wuniang thought, and it was more likely that Gu Yidan's purpose of Tunliang was the same as theirs, and they were all preparing for the future competition in the Central Plains.

Gu Yidan was rich and powerful, and she earned the money herself, and Jiang Yuanxi couldn't stop her from buying grain, but she was even more worried because it was almost July.

"How much food have we collected?" Li Zhengqing asked in a deep voice.

Li Zhongwen looked indifferent, "There are about three thousand stones."

Li Zhengqing was still not satisfied, "Continue to let people buy it, we have such a large sum of gold, silver and jewelry, we can afford as much food as we want."

Li Zhongwen paused, and said: "Father, it is not a good thing to seek skin from a tiger."

Li Zhengqing didn't take it seriously, "Why seek skin with a tiger? Even if it is a tiger, it is our Li family who is the tiger. He is alone, can he still fight against the Li family? The gold and silver are the conditions we have agreed a long time ago. He took us to find him. Let us avenge the treasure hidden by the late emperor, this is a deal!"

Li Zhengqing accentuated his tone.

Li Zhongwen looked straight back at him.

Li Zhengqing didn't want to continue this quarrel, lest his son quarrel with him like before, and asked instead: "Did anyone pay attention to the matter of collecting food?"

Li Zhongwen shook his head lightly, "With the Gu family at the front, we have assigned so many people to scatter and collect, we didn't notice us."

Li Zhengqing smiled disdainfully, "I don't know what that Gu Sanniang is thinking, but she started hoarding food without hiding it. Fortunately, she is in the lead, otherwise no matter how careful we are, I'm afraid we will get caught."

Li Zhongwen was silent.

Li Zhengqing waited and saw that his son had stopped talking, he was furious and waved his hands angrily, Li Zhongwen backed out without a word.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, on May [-]th, Danyang County ushered in a large convoy.

Jiang Yuanxi had already brought people to wait at the gate of the city.

The leader of the motorcade saw Jiang Yuanxi and the others at the city gate, raised his hands high, and the motorcade slowly stopped.

The leader got off his horse and said politely, "The little one has seen Wu Niangzi, Wu Lang Jun, Liu Lang Jun, Hu Lang Jun."

Jiang Yuanxi nodded slightly, "You escorted A Niang and the others all the way here, it's hard work, which carriage is A Niang in?"

Hearing what my daughter said, the door of the third carriage was opened, revealing Zheng Youniang's beautiful face.

"Five Niangs!"

Seeing her daughter whom she hadn't seen for nearly a year, Zheng Youniang's eyes got wet and she cried out.

Jiang Yuanxi looked happy, and walked to the carriage in a few strides, "Aniang, you're here!"

Zheng Youniang took Jiang Yuanxi's hand and got out of the carriage, looked at her from the beginning to the end, saw that she was twitching, and was a little taller than before, so she wiped the corners of her eyes, "You've lost weight, you've lost a lot of weight."

Jiang Yuanxi: "." He smiled awkwardly.

Zheng Youniang also knew that she was outside, she quickly wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and said, "Your grandmother and aunt are also here."

Jiang Yuanxi also saw his grandmother sitting in the carriage, and called out sweetly to the old man, "Grandma, Wu Niang misses you."

Mrs. Zheng smiled kindly at her, "Grandmother misses you too."

"Aniang, why don't you get in the carriage first, let's go back first, and then slowly catch up with Wu Niang when we get to the land? It's not good to always stop here." Jiang Boyong came up to greet and suggested.

Zheng Youniang nodded, got on the carriage again like a gentleman, and pulled Jiang Yuanxi up, and didn't even look at the scenery of Danyang County along the way, only caring about Jiang Yuanxi's life in the past year.

When they got to the government office, Zheng Youniang hadn't finished asking, so she had to follow Jiang Yuanxi into the government office to settle down first.

(End of this chapter)