Early in the morning, people started selling in the market early, and the sellers started walking through the streets with their loaders.
The vendor selling buns and steamed buns has already steamed the hot food until it is fragrant.
"Boss, here are five meat buns."
"Okay, a total of six silver coins." The vendor smiled and handed it to the customer quickly.
"What? Wasn't it still five yuan yesterday? Why has the price increased today?" The customer refused to take it, with a dark face and was very unhappy.
"Hey, you don't know yet. The price of food is going to rise. I won't have to spend money to buy noodles and meat."
“Who said prices are going to go up?”
"Here, have you seen the people standing in front of the grain store, all waiting to open to buy grain? Do you still want my buns? If you don't buy them now, you might have to pay two cents each in a few days."
The hawker shook his head and said.
At this moment, in the Huajia Liang store, the shopkeeper was taking inventory. The boy looked out from the crack in the door and grinned: "Shopkeeper, our boss is really amazing. We only raised the price yesterday, but today so many people came.
They rob each other as if they don’t have any money.”
The shopkeeper stroked his beard and smiled: "What do you know? It's rare and valuable. The faster the price rises, the easier it is to be chased."
"Okay, get ready and prepare to open the door. There will be many people soon, so be smart and don't let others fish in troubled waters."
"Okay."
A few boys behind him were stacking bags of food high, for fear that they would be too busy to take care of them.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a shout from outside the door: "The store in the west of the city sells grain at a cheap price. It's half cheaper than other stores. Everyone, go and take a look."
"I just bought it. It's all good food. Hurry. If you miss it, you won't have the chance."
When Huajia's grain store opened, the shopkeeper fiddled with his abacus without raising his head: "Everyone who wants to buy grain will line up peacefully. No grabbing is allowed."
However, when he raised his head, he found that there were more than half fewer people than he had imagined.
The remaining dozen or so people stood there, looking at each other and staring at the clerks in the grain store.
"Do you want to buy food or not? If not, don't stand here and influence others." The boy said arrogantly.
The remaining people looked at each other and asked, "How about we go and have a look too?"
"Then let's go? Anyway, there is so much food here. If there is no food over there, it's still too late to come back."
With that said, they actually left together.
Gone?
The shopkeeper looked at the waiter: "What are these people here for?"
Soon, he knew the reason. News of the Chengxi Grain Store's promotion had spread throughout the city, and everyone rushed there, forming a long queue outside.
Not only Huajia, but also other grain stores that have not yet had time to raise prices are crowded at the door.
At the same time, not only the capital, but also Luoyang was like this.
For several days in a row, there were long queues at all the grain and rice shops opened by Hua Yanxi. On the other hand, other shops were so busy that they started to fight mosquitoes.
On the basis of Huajia's insistence on raising prices by 30%, other grain store owners began to lower prices by 10%, but business was still bleak.
Because you can get discount coupons when buying food, other industries under Hua Yanxi also followed suit. Others were jealous and followed the discount, but even after the discount, the price was the same as others.
But everyone has a mentality, that is, if I receive a coupon, it is more cost-effective than buying at other stores.
Invisibly, the market price was suppressed, and there was no upward trend for the time being.
When Hua Shao heard the news, his face darkened.
"Who the hell is this idiot who would do such a thing, lowering prices at such a critical moment? I think he is not a businessman, but a Bodhisattva who has come to save all sentient beings!"
"Who is it? Check it, check it for me. I want to see who this person is. He dares to go against me like this. How dare he play with me like this despite his rich family background!"
Hua Shao was jumping up and down in anger at home.
"Master, I don't think you should be so angry. He's probably just a fool. When he runs out of food, why don't we raise the price as usual?" the shopkeeper consoled him from the side.
"You know nothing! If he does this now, my other industries will have no excuse to raise prices!"
What's more important is that he has no money coming in. How is Hua Yanxi going to solve the problem? He really can't give her the store under his name!
"Where's Luoyang? How's the situation there?"
The shopkeeper swallowed his saliva and said in a hoarse voice: "It's the same situation over there in Luoyang. These stores use the same route, so it should be the same person."
"I didn't know it was the same person!"
The shopkeeper didn't dare to speak.
Hua Shao held his forehead and thought hard. Suddenly, a plan came to his mind.
"Come here, if you are like this, find someone..." Hua Shao said in the shopkeeper's ear.
The shopkeeper's eyes shone little by little. After Hua Shao finished speaking, he raised his thumb at him: "Master, this move is really good."
The shopkeeper immediately sent someone to make arrangements.
Hua Yanxi has been very busy these days, constantly patrolling various stores during the day. She attaches great importance to this price war.
On this day, she happened to be checking the remaining grain situation at the grain store, and heard bursts of noise coming from outside.
I heard that someone died after eating their rice, and the family members brought the body to ask for an explanation.
Hua Yanxi laughed when she heard this. She had heard of people dying of starvation, but never heard of people dying of lack of food.
With this familiar formula, you can tell at a glance that her cheap dad is up to something.
Hua Yanxi walked straight outside and saw that the people who had been queuing up to buy food were all surrounding the people on the ground, talking incessantly.
"Folks, please don't buy anything from this store. It's cheap but not good. My brother just ate their rice and got up this morning with vomiting and diarrhea. Then he went straight away with foaming at the mouth."
"That's right, who knows what they have in mind. They must be trying to harm people by selling it to us so cheaply."
The two men were holding sticks in their hands and talking passionately about their experiences.
"I remember him. He came to queue to buy rice yesterday and tried to jump in line and got into an argument with someone." Someone pointed out.
"Master, these people..."
"No need to say it, I already know it." Hua Yanxi said, standing in front of the man lying on the ground, looking at his face.
After a while, Hua Yanxi raised her head and looked at the two people standing in front of her.
"How do you know he got into trouble because he ate rice from our store and not because he ate something else?"
"Are you the store owner?" one of them asked.
"Um."
“There’s something wrong with the rice in your store!”
"What is your relationship with him?"
"He is my younger brother, and I am his eldest brother!" The eldest brother was tall and strong. The stick in his hand was still swinging in the air when he spoke, which looked a little scary.
"So, you want compensation?" Hua Yanxi raised her eyebrows.
Hearing that Hua Yanxi didn't attack, but instead asked for their request, the elder brother was obviously stunned and didn't react for a while.
"What do you mean! Can the compensation cover my brother's life?" Another person said angrily.