Fu Yanting jumped off the carriage as well. "I met this Wang Family Oil Mill owner a few times when I was doing business in Mobei."
Chu Chenyin frowned, "Could it be another person like Lord Xu?"
Fu Yanting shook his head. "That's not the case. He is a kind person and not a treacherous person."
Just as he finished speaking, the door of the oil mill opened, and a waiter poked his head out and asked, "Are you two here to buy oil?"
Chu Chenyin replied, "Yes, I wonder if your shopkeeper is at home?"
"Please wait a moment, I will go into the house and inform the shopkeeper." After saying this, the young man quickly retracted his head.
Not long after, the shopkeeper of the Wang family came out in person. When he saw Fu Yanting, he was startled and saluted quickly, saying, "It turns out to be General Fu!"
Fu Yanting approached him and said, "Forget it. I'm not a general anymore."
The shopkeeper of the Wang family is tall and thin, with a pair of big eyes, and looks a bit like a scholar.
When he stood up, he happened to see Chu Chenyin next to Fu Yanting, "Who is this?"
Fu Yanting turned his head to look at Chu Chenyin and replied, "This is my wife. I happened to come with her to buy oil from Shopkeeper Wang today."
Shopkeeper Wang's face lit up with joy. "What kind of oil do you want to buy? We have tea oil, rapeseed oil, lard, butter, mutton fat, and sesame oil."
Chu Chenyin frowned and smiled slowly, "I want all this oil."
Shopkeeper Wang was stunned for a moment, then asked, "How much do you need?"
Chu Chenyin narrowed his eyes slightly and asked seriously, "How many do you have?"
Shopkeeper Wang didn't know how to answer her, so he pointed into the house and said, "Madam, please follow me inside to take a look."
Chu Chenyin nodded and smiled, "Thank you very much, Manager Wang."
Shopkeeper Wang brought Chu Chenyin and Fu Yanting to the oil mill.
The inside is divided into a kitchen for pressing and refining oil and a warehouse for storing oil.
Chu Chenyin followed him to the warehouse, and as the door of the warehouse was opened, a smell of oil wafted towards them.
She raised her eyes slightly and looked carefully, and saw all kinds of oils placed in the huge warehouse.
Oils like rapeseed oil, tea oil, and sesame oil are all packed in tall oil cans, while lard, butter, and mutton fat are refined into pastes and packed in wide ceramic basins.
There were about seventy or eighty oil cans and at least a hundred ceramic basins piled all over the room.
At first glance, I was a little shocked.
Chu Chenyin asked in confusion, "Manager Wang, why do you have so much refined oil stored in your warehouse?"
Shopkeeper Wang said, "A wealthy businessman in the capital ordered a large batch of oil from me. Unfortunately, his family was separated in the fire a few days ago, so he can no longer buy this batch of oil from me."
He sighed and said, "It's a time of turmoil right now. The oil is piled up here and we can't sell it even if we want to."
In Dayong State, the price of oil is equivalent to the price of meat. Now, there is drought in many places inside and outside Youzhou City, so naturally no one can afford to buy the oil.
They would rather spend a lot of money to buy rice and noodles to fill their stomachs than buy a pound of oil.
Although the oil couldn't be sold, it was a good thing for Chu Chenyin. She smiled and said, "Manager Wang, I'll buy all the oil you have here."
"You bought all of it?" Shopkeeper Wang looked at Chu Chenyin in surprise and said in disbelief, "Madam, are you really going to buy all of the oil here?"
Chu Chenyin nodded, "But, I don't know how much money it will cost to buy this oil."
Shopkeeper Wang's face was full of joy, and he said excitedly, "Madam, don't worry, my oil is not expensive, and it can't be sold anyway. If the general and his wife want it, just give me 100 taels of silver."
Such a large amount of oil should be worth at least two or three hundred taels of silver. Manager Wang offered to pay only one hundred taels of silver, which he considered as a half-sale and half-giveaway.
Chu Chenyin did not bargain with him and said, "Okay, then one hundred taels of silver, I want all this oil."
Shopkeeper Wang smiled and pointed to the oil can beside him and said, "Madam, do you want us to deliver this oil to your house?"
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