"Are you going to sell all the grain in your house? Good heavens, what will you eat after that?"
"Let's just buy some to eat," Qiao Lian'er said. "They take up space, let's get rid of them first, and buy a little at a time."
The villagers could hardly believe it, because in everyone's impression, Qiao Lian'er was a smart and decisive person. They never expected that she would sell all the grain in her family. Wasn't she doing something stupid?
With so much grain, we sell it at the wholesale price, but buy it back at a higher price, so we end up losing money.
Moreover, how much space could three thousand catties of grain take up? Even if you piled the bags up, it would only fill a small corner of the yard.
"Lian'er is indeed too clever for his own good; he did something stupid."
After the Qiao family's carriage had gone far away, the villagers discussed it.
"I've heard that some people are very smart, but there are limits. Once they've used up their intelligence, they become just like ordinary people, or even worse."
"Yes, do you remember Lian'er from before? She was just an ordinary girl. Then, somehow, she suddenly became clever and made contributions to our Datian Village, and also made her family rich. I guess she completed her mission, and God took her brain back."
"But it shouldn't have come to this... Sigh, isn't it foolish of her to do something that loses money like this, and the Qiao family is still foolishly listening to her? Isn't this just following her recklessly? What if she squanders all the family's assets?"
When these discussions reached the Qiao family's ears, they pretended not to hear them. They were all neighbors, and people just didn't understand their behavior; they didn't mean any harm.
When Qiao Lian'er arrived in town, even more grain merchants surrounded her. Those who didn't have shops and sold grain from street stalls all waited there.
"Little girl, I'll take 100 jin."
"I'll take three hundred jin."
They jostled and pushed, eager to be the first to buy.
Seeing this scene, Qiao Lian'er deeply felt that if they were so eager to snatch up even the better seeds, what about the really good ones?
What if we take out what's in the space?
But now is not the time, because those above are watching the grain supply. If they find out she has good grain, her situation will become dangerous.
The impact of technology is so enormous. She only used a little pesticide to control pests a month before the harvest, and the rice yield increased and the grains became fuller, as if a thousand years of evolution had been shortened in an instant.
Leaving aside the disaster-stricken areas, even in ordinary planting areas, switching to the new crop will greatly increase yields. She can not only sell grain, but also rice seeds, and sell them nationwide. She might even be able to do business with neighboring countries.
Shen Laosi was among them, and after much effort, he squeezed to the front: "Leave me three hundred catties."
If other people came to buy, they would avoid selling to the Shen family if possible. The Qiao family was busy arranging for other buyers and ignored everyone else.
Even though the crops were originally grown on land belonging to the Shen family, and they had been treated with pesticides once, the harvest was still better than that from other fields belonging to the Shen family.
So, with everyone scrambling to buy, the newly arrived 1,000-plus kilograms of grain quickly sold out.
Shen Laosi left empty-handed, watching the others carry away the grain with a satisfied expression, his face full of resentment.
"That's outrageous! They're deliberately refusing to sell to me. What kind of logic is that?"
"That's right, we won't sell it to you. Who told you to have such bad intentions from the start? The Shen family is all utterly inhuman," Old Mrs. Qiao said disdainfully.
Qiao Lian'er drove the carriage away, too lazy to even give him a glance.
Thinking that the Shen family's rice business would be affected in the near future, Shen Laosi was so angry that he almost fell backward.
Fortunately, the Qiao family only had so little food, so it wouldn't cause him long-term suppression.
He was unaware that Qiao Lian'er was plotting to ruin the Shen family's shop once things were over in the north.
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