The daughter's chattering messages made Liu slightly flustered. Although she was already at a loss, she still tried to remain calm and pulled Zhu's mother aside to talk.
"Mother, something feels off about this rice shop."
Grandma Zhu also felt that the rice shop's prices were a bit strange. Normally, rice shops would only raise prices little by little, but this shop changed its prices several times within an hour, each time by tens of taels at a time.
"I also think this rice shop seems to be deliberately disrupting rice prices."
"What should we do? Should we go back now or continue queuing?"
Liu was already at a loss, after all, they were just two weak women, and they had no idea what to do in the face of such a large-scale operation.
Old Mrs. Zhu's expression hardened slightly, the gentleness and kindness in her eyes gradually faded, and a resolute look appeared on her face. "If Jiangyang City is in chaos, it may be detrimental to us as well. Since we are here, let's investigate thoroughly."
"Although we cannot change the final outcome, we must not act rashly before we leave Jiangyang City."
[Awesome! My milk! That's awesome! Wait here! XiXi is going to take care of these bad guys right now.]
Watch how Xixi fires her cannon and mows down these bad guys! Hahaha!
Zhu Xixi fully supported her grandmother's opinion, snuggled in her mother's arms, stretched out her little hands, and babbled for a hug.
[Mommy, Xixi needs to sleep. Quickly, put Xixi to sleep.]
Upon hearing the sound, Madam Liu looked down at her daughter and, seeing her babbling and reaching out her little hands, quickly took her out.
"Xixi, are you hungry? Or sleepy?"
Seeing this, Grandma Zhu also went over, touched Xixi's little belly, and said with a smile.
"Xixi's belly is bulging, she must be sleepy. Let's put her to sleep first."
Upon hearing this, Madam Liu immediately shook her arms and body, humming a little tune to lull her daughter to sleep.
While fanning her granddaughter, Grandma Zhu kept her eyes glued to the rice shop, observing it closely.
They actually discovered something strange about the rice shop. In the alley next to the rice shop, they saw some passersby behaving suspiciously.
People were going in and out of the alley, and when they came out, they still had some white particles on their shoulders.
In order to identify the white particles, after the people left, Grandma Zhu jogged to the alleyway, squatted down, and picked up the white particles.
After noticing her mother-in-law running towards the alley, Liu hurriedly followed, carrying her daughter, and asked in confusion, "Mother, what's all this? Rice?"
"Hmm, how come these people have rice on them? Why are they sneaking around in the alley? These people are tall and don't seem to be locals."
Grandma Zhu looked suspiciously into the alley following the direction of the rice. The more she looked, the more suspicious she felt there was something fishy about the alley.
"I'll go in and take a look. You wait for me at the alley entrance."
Liu was worried about her mother-in-law going into the alley alone, so she followed closely behind. "Mother, I'm worried about you going alone. I'll go with you."
"Alright, then you follow me from behind." Old Mrs. Zhu cautiously looked around, pulled Liu behind her, and sneaked into the depths of the alley.
With an uneasy expression, Liu gently placed her daughter back into the swaddling clothes, bent down to pick up a wooden stick from the ground, held it tightly in her hand, and followed her mother-in-law into the depths of the alley.
Zhu Xixi, who was already fast asleep, frantically waved her little hands and feet and swam towards the gate of the courtyard. Ever since the courtyard came into existence.
Every time she enters the space, she comes to this courtyard, and then enters the shelf space through the wooden door in the small house.
Zhu Xixi floated in mid-air, looking down at the goods piled on the ground, a look of disgust on her face.
Why hasn't Zhu Yanyan sorted out the goods yet? How is she supposed to find anything in this mess?
Zhu Xixi had other things to do when she entered the space this time. After glancing at the goods on the ground, she swam toward the hidden door.
She arrived in the white expanse and called out in a childish voice towards the gate.
"Let's get to work!"
The hidden doors slowly rose from the ground, lining up in a neat row.
Zhu Xixi looked at the gates that looked exactly the same as the ones in front of her, swam up to them, tilted her little head, and said in a childish voice.
"Xixi wants to find the gate leading to Jiang Family Rice Shop in Jiangyang City. Can you help Xixi find it?"
After the sound rang out, one of the doors in a row slowly opened, revealing a vast expanse of white inside.
As the white fog gradually dissipated, the world outside the gate gradually became clear.
Zhu Xixi excitedly arrived at the gate, nervously watching the shop assistants busily working inside the rice store warehouse.
To prevent the rice from falling into the wrong hands, she turned her small body around and swam toward the armory.
Once inside, she selected a crossbow that looked light but was actually quite heavy, and struggled to fly it toward the gate while holding it with both hands.
After several attempts, with her rosy cheeks, she finally arrived at the gate carrying the heavy crossbow bolts. Panting, she placed her feet on the bolts and pulled back with all her might.
She strained to pull back the bowstring, placed a sharp arrow in the middle, then pulled hard and released her grip.
The crossbow bolt shot out from the string, whooshed through the gate, and into the rice warehouse, piercing the worker's head and hitting a bag of rice.
The appearance of the arrow stunned the busy workers, who turned around blankly to look at the arrow stuck in the rice bag.
A moment later, the men all let out a thunderous scream of fright, dropped the rice sacks they were carrying, and fled in panic.
The rice warehouse was instantly empty. Seeing this, Zhu Xixi quickly stuck half her body out of the door and waved her little hand to put all the rice in the warehouse into her bracelet.
After taking all the rice, she quickly closed the gate, then floated in mid-air with her hands on her hips, laughing as she commanded the gate.
"Xixi, open the door to the rice shop quickly."
As soon as he finished speaking, another door slowly opened, and the sounds of the shopkeeper and his assistants bustling about, as well as the clamor of people scrambling to buy rice, could be heard.
Zhu Xi stretched her neck curiously, trying to find her grandmother and mother in the bustling crowd, but she couldn't find them anywhere.
The customers who were buying rice have discovered that the rice shop is selling moldy rice and are angrily looking for the shopkeeper to demand an explanation.
However, the owner of Jiang's rice shop adopted an indifferent attitude, hiding behind his employees and mocking the people who came to demand an explanation.
"In this day and age, it's good enough to have rice to eat, let alone complain about it being moldy. In short, this is the kind of rice we buy now. Take it or leave it."
The people had spent a lot of money to buy rice from the store, but now they had lost both their money and their goods. They were all excited and clamoring to exchange their rice for better quality rice.
However, they could not get close to Manager Jiang, because there were several tall guards standing on both sides of the gate, and no ordinary people dared to enter rashly to forcibly exchange rice.
Unable to find her grandmother and mother, Zhu Xixi had no choice but to secretly leave a few bags of rice in her bracelet.
Then, she quietly stretched her chubby little hand out the door, waved it, and shook out all the rice bags from the bracelet.
As her little hands trembled, bags of rice appeared out of thin air in the rice shop, one after another, piling up into a small mountain.
Not only that, but plump, round grains of rice were also flowing out of the rice bag. The people standing at the door were all excited when they saw that the rice shop had fresh rice.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Go in and grab the rice! Don't let these unscrupulous merchants succeed!"
As soon as the sound was heard, everyone rushed into the rice shop like madmen, and even the guards had to hold back the swarming crowd.
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