The fifth brother was too lazy to answer Ding Youwang. This was not the main point he wanted to talk about. What the eldest brother asked seemed too stupid to him. His family had become rich and had to hire others, so would he still be ordered around by others?

"What do you mean by twice? Lao Wu said that our family is going to be rich soon. Let's listen to Lao Wu." Liu glared at her husband in dissatisfaction and urged Lao Wu to speak quickly. She was eager to know what good news it was.

"Yes, five, tell me quickly, why are you going to get rich?" Meng poured the sesame seeds and crumbs caught in her palm into her mouth and asked urgently.

"Dad, you sit down first." Lao Wu helped Old Ding to sit at the table, took Old Ding's pipe and lit it for him himself, then straightened up, cleared his throat and said, "There's a big deal right now, it's a sure win, and the profit is three times the original. It all depends on whether Dad and Mom want to make some money!"

"Don't keep us in suspense, tell us quickly." Liu was the first to urge.

"Is it about the government buying grain at a high price?" When the eldest brother heard about the triple interest, he glanced at him and secretly regretted that he had forgotten about this matter when he came back.

Of course, he didn't think his father and mother would agree to do this.

Lao Wu hadn't expected that the eldest brother had also heard about this. Hearing about it was even better, as it meant it was certain to succeed. How could government affairs not succeed? He told Lao Dingtou and Mrs. Meng everything about the matter.

"We have some surplus food at home, and if we go to my uncle's village to collect some, we can collect a hundred taels of food, which will be three hundred taels in total!"

He knew that his father and mother had the hundred taels of silver given by Ding Youtian, and he tried his best to encourage them to take out the money to do this business.

Old Ding was smoking silently. The eldest brother came back and said that Ding Youtian had bought a house in the town. After hearing this, he felt like his heart was blocked and he was feeling very uncomfortable.

But he couldn't make up his mind to take out a hundred taels to buy food, and he couldn't help but glance at Meng.

Meng, who was leaning on the bed, was so excited that she almost cried when she saw Old Ding looking at her. She was finally favored and relied upon by the old man again. She was about to sit up straight, but she remembered the doctor's instructions and leaned back without moving.

"His father, what a capable man! Think about it, grain is nothing else. You buy it and you're worried about not being able to sell it. People have to eat no matter what the season is, and you can get three times the price if you resell it. If you hold onto money and don't touch it, even if you hold onto it for ten or eight years, or even a lifetime, it's still the same amount. It's not going to produce offspring. Think about it, isn't that the truth?"

Old Ding thought about it and realized that wasn't the way it worked. Besides, even if he couldn't sell the grain for triple the price, double would be fine. At worst, he could keep it for himself and eat it. At most, he'd lose money on the shipping costs. But if the deal was successful, he'd be making tons of money, and he was excited.

He rolled his pipe, gnashed his teeth, and stamped his foot. "Fuck him! The brave ones will die of overeating, and the timid ones will die of starvation! I can't believe it. I'm his father, but he can make a fortune, but I can't!"

Having made up their minds, the father and his sons split up and went around buying food with the silver.

Over there, Ding Pingshun couldn't wait any longer and was hurrying to the village. After lunch, he secretly went to the dock and saw with his own eyes that shiploads of food were shipped out. He was so anxious that he stopped selling vegetables and turned back with his load on his shoulder.

"What? You want to use all the money in the family to buy grain?" Chang was called out by him, and her eyes widened after hearing his plan.

"How can such a good thing happen? Triple the grain purchase. I'm afraid the county magistrate has been touched by a ghost. This sounds evil to me. Why don't I go ask Sister Jian for advice?"

"What are you doing? She's already the mother of several kids. She's the fourth child. Why are you still calling her "sister"? "

"Hey, isn't it Tian who always calls her that? I've gotten used to it too." Chang took off the bib wrapped around her waist and used it to brush the dust off Ding Pingshun. After a few pats, she raised her eyebrows and said, "I heard you sounded very impatient just now, but you dare not do that. Our family can have the life we ​​have today, and you can go anywhere you want. Who do you rely on? Don't forget your roots!"

"Oh, who's forgotten their roots? Let's put it this way. I'm discussing the purchase and sale of grain with you. This is really... Oh, anyway, this kind of thing doesn't come along every year. If you miss it, you'll never get it again!"

"Okay, since you're back, go back first. It's not too late to talk to you in the evening when I finish work and come back. I'm busy right now, so I can't say much to you. Go back."

Ding Pingshun had no choice but to go back first.

"Wait!" Chang called him again, "Jian, the fourth brother's family killed a wild boar today and gave us a bowl of pig's blood. Take it back and add some pickled cabbage to make soup tonight. It's delicious."

She went to get the bowl of pig blood that Jian Ning had given her, handed it to him, told him how Jian Ning had made it, and gave him a few more instructions before turning around and going back to the old house.

Ding Pingshun took a look at the coagulated pig blood and threw it into the vegetable basket. It wasn't pork, so what was so rare about it!

Chang turned around and told Jian Ning about the high price of grain from the government. Jian Ning was stunned and asked her where it was. She didn't know either, and Ding Pingshun didn't say.

"It's triple the price after just one sale. Is this money really that easy to make?" she asked Jian Ning.

"Even if this really happened, it was the first one to take the initiative. It's hard to say what will happen to the rest. This can't be done."

Jian Ning recalled a similar experience by Fan Zhongyan during the Song Dynasty. During famine years, he bought grain at high prices, then suddenly stopped buying after merchants from all over the country had shipped all the grain to his region. The merchants had no choice but to lower their prices to dispose of the grain, or else they would have to pay for shipping it back. Furthermore, every extra day of storage at the dock would incur an additional day's labor costs. It would be a huge loss!

She recalled the day when Qin Yifan came to see Ding Youtian, and suspected that Ding Youtian had discussed a plan with him. She looked up and saw Ding Youtian coming from the backyard with the tutor.

Ding Youtian led the tutor to the cellar in the backyard, and then took a look at the stable built by Mr. Ding Sanye and his men. Seeing Jian Ning looking at him, he stopped and asked, "Madam, is there something wrong?"

Jian Ning glanced at Chang, who smiled and said, "Brother, this is what happened..." She repeated what Ding Pingshun had said to her, "Brother, Sister Jian said this can't be done, is that true?"

"Where does this happen? Is it in Baiya County?" the Grand Tutor asked with a frown.

Chang shook her head, she didn't know either.

Ding Youtian first glanced at Jian Ning with admiration in his eyes. After nodding slightly, he said to Chang: "Go back and tell Brother Pingshun to focus on selling vegetables and stop worrying about other things."

Jian Ning had an idea in her mind. The high price of grain was really caused by him and Qin Yifan. Great, his brain is almost catching up with Fan Zhongyan. Could she have married a great writer?

No, it wasn’t her who got married, it was her original body Jian Xiu Gu who got married.

How could she have such a thought? Thinking that he was her... Jane Ning's face flushed and she turned away embarrassedly.