Chapter 235 The most important thing is confidence
Qi Chongjin followed Ye Chuqiu out of the city, but Ye Chuqiu took him to a river outside the city.
The riverside was full of sand, and at first glance, there were no boats or boats. Qi Chongjin glanced at Ye Chuqiu and wondered what kind of medicine she was selling in her gourd. He frowned and asked, "Where is your food?"
"Isn't this all?"
Ye Chuqiu drew his hand towards the river and said.
"What?" Qi Chongjin thought he had said something wrong.
Ye Chuqiu said: "I don't have much food, but this does not prevent me from pretending to have more than a dozen carts of food. What the people want is confidence. As long as we set up branches in the city, ration food regularly, and sell it at low prices."
Grain, I think the common people will no longer be instigated by others if they have a way to survive... Moreover, we have been selling it for a long time, and those profiteers will naturally lower their prices when they see that there is no profit."
"You have a good idea."
Qi Chongjin's eyes lit up after hearing Ye Chuqiu's words, but then his eyes darkened again, "But... where will the next food come from?"
"It's simple. You don't mean that you have already bought the food, but it was just blocked on the road. As long as we delay for a while and wait for the food to arrive, the food shortage will naturally be solved."
"Then what if they fail to deliver it in time?" Qi Chongjin asked again.
"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. If it can take a day, it will be a day." Ye Chuqiu smiled slightly.
"I didn't expect you to come up with such an idea."
Qi Chongjin looked at Ye Chuqiu and was a little impressed with her. That was right. Anyway, he had no other choice now. He might as well do what she said. As for the future, that was a matter for the future.
"Don't look at me like that. I still don't know if my idea will come true. More importantly, the food issue must not be leaked."
Ye Chuqiu said with a serious expression: "We sell grain at low prices, which is equivalent to digging the roots of those grain merchants. They hoard it just to sell more money. After knowing that the Yamen has a lot of grain, they will definitely come to find out.
Therefore, this matter must be kept secret. You can only say that there are benevolent merchants from outside the city, but you must not let anyone know about it. It is filled with sand and soil."
"I understand this." Qi Chongjin nodded, looked at Ye Chuqiu, and smiled, "Since this idea is yours, then you must be the benevolent businessman."
Ye Chuqiu hesitated for a moment, then agreed, "No problem."
Her original purpose is to collect gratitude points. As long as she sells the food while collecting gratitude points, converts the gratitude points into wish points, and makes wishes to the system for food, her food will naturally come in a steady stream.
There are many valuable items in the system, and food is just the most common type. It is not worth much, and it probably won't cost her much wish value.
After coming up with the idea with Qi Chongjin, the two discussed the details again. At night, Ye Chuqiu held a lantern and took his family to the river to dig sand. At this time, Qi Chongjin had already sent many mule carts.
Arrived at the river.
They wrapped the sand in oil paper and put it into sacks, disguising it as grain.
Ye Chuqiu secretly put real grain on the top package of each cart. The first cart was also the grain she had prepared long ago.
After working all night, everyone was so tired that their backs ached. Li Youmei couldn't help but asked: "Sister-in-law, what are we going to do? Why do we need to pack sand?"
"Don't ask, it's a secret, it's all about making money." Ye Chuqiu replied.
"Can sand also make money?" Li Youmei was puzzled.
"Anyway, don't ask so many questions, and don't tell anyone about this matter. I brought you here to work because I trust you. Don't let me down. If this matter is leaked because of your big mouth, then
From now on, you will no longer be my sister-in-law."
Ye Chuqiu spoke seriously, and Li Youmei quickly covered her mouth with her hands, "I won't say it."
"Anyway, if there is any leakage about this matter, I will only ask you!"
After that, without giving Li Youmei a chance to speak, she waved them away and said, "Okay, you all can go back."
Li Youmei walked a few steps, but couldn't help but turn around and ask: "Sister-in-law, if we leave, what will you do with the sand?"
"Don't ask, someone will naturally come to take it."
Ye Chuqiu waved to them, signaling them to leave quickly, and he waited beside the mule cart. At this time, the sky was already showing the white color of fish belly, so while waiting, Ye Chuqiu took out the cosmetics and applied makeup on himself.
An old man puts on makeup and she looks twenty years older in an instant.
"Is this Mrs. Lin?"
It was not until dawn that the Yamen sent someone over. Ye Chuqiu had already filled in the traces of sand excavation and drove the mules to the official road. When she saw them, she asked, "They are the people sent by Mr. Qi."
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After receiving their confirmation, she raised her chin slightly and said with a haughty look, "Why are you here so late? Let's go."
The official who came to the river was a little curious. Could she drive all the mule carts here by herself? And the road was currently blocked. How did she transport the food? Is it really food?
All kinds of doubts lingered in everyone's mind, but seeing Ye Chuqiu's cold expression, they didn't dare to ask. They just helped her drive the mule cart to the Yamen.
As soon as the grain truck arrived at the Yamen, Qi Chongjin quickly walked out. The moment he saw Ye Chuqiu, he took a breath of cold air. Is this... is this still the Xiao Qiu she knew? Why has he aged so much?
Seeing Qi Chongjin's surprised look, Ye Chuqiu didn't smile at all. He just raised his eyes and glanced at him, "Why, Xiao Qi, you don't recognize me anymore?"
"Ah...poof..."
Qi Chongjin could still hold back, but Butler Nie on the side didn't laugh out loud, Xiao Qi? Is this a description of his county master?
Although Ye Chuqiu put on old man's makeup, people who knew her would naturally recognize her. Although Butler Nie was very curious about Ye Chuqiu's current appearance, the tone of Ye Chuqiu's address to County Magistrate Qi made him laugh even more.
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There were so many people at the moment, he didn't dare to laugh, he just held it in, his face looked extremely weird.
"What's wrong? Xiao Qi, I've traveled thousands of miles to relieve you of your crisis, so why don't you just let me stand here and have fun with you?"
"Yes, yes, it's my fault, please~"
Qi Chongjin raised his hand and flicked his sleeves. Seeing him like that, Ye Chuqiu was quite satisfied, but she said arrogantly: "That's it, I won't go in. Let someone build a shed quickly. I
Although I came here this time for your sake, but also because I am worried about the people here, so I won’t greet you too much."
"Mrs. Lin is thoughtful."
While Qi Chongjin was ordering the servants to do things, he glanced at Ye Chuqiu with his peripheral vision, wondering whether this girl was resenting the way he had treated her in the past? That's why he called himself Xiao Qi on purpose?
The strange thing is that he doesn't feel disgusted at all and is even happy to accompany her in acting.
The shelves were set up, most of the grain was transported to the warehouse, and a small amount of grain was taken to the back of the shelf, and Ye Chuqiu started selling it himself.
Each person is limited to buying half a liter of rice per day. This is not much food, but everyone will starve to death.
In order to get more gratitude points, Ye Chuqiu set the price of food very low. One liter of rice can be bought for two cents, and half a liter of rice only costs one cent. At this price, almost everyone can afford it.
This price naturally made the people very happy. In addition, in order to break the rumors of food shortage in the city, Qi Chongjin also asked people from the yamen to beat gongs to build momentum, and even had people promote it on the streets.
The officials looked at the gongs and drums and shouted loudly: "There is a new benevolent merchant in the city. A liter of rice is only sold for two cents. The place is next to the Yamen. Everyone, hurry up and buy it!"
They especially went to sell food at the entrances of those grain houses. For a while, although some of the people who heard the sound didn't quite believe it, more people went to queue up to buy grain with hesitation.
More and more people are buying food, and the gratitude value in Ye Chuqiu's system is also rising steadily.
Because those profiteers raised the price of food very high, Ye Chuqiu's food was more than ten times cheaper. Everyone was naturally very grateful to her, and the gratitude value everyone provided to her was naturally high.
Soon, people buying food formed a long queue. Seeing this, Qi Chongjin came over in casual clothes and asked: "Mrs. Lin, there are so many people buying food now. Do you want me to send someone to help you? Let everyone
How many more lines will there be?”
"Need not."
While Ye Chuqiu was busy, she motioned for him to come over and whispered in his ear: "You are stupid, there is only so much food. If everyone comes here at once, the food will be sold out quickly."
"Oh." Hearing this, Qi Chongjin nodded slightly, feeling that Ye Chuqiu's words were very reasonable, but soon he became worried again, "But according to this attitude, the food will not be sold for long, otherwise you will be slower.
A little? Otherwise, I’m afraid this little food won’t be distributed for long.”
Moreover, even he didn't know how much of these grain trucks were grain and how much was sand.