Chapter 239: Clearing out the Food
Since we can't buy vegetables or fish, let's just buy some rice and flour! Yangmingshan is lush with vegetation, so there must be plenty of wild animals. If you really want to eat meat, you can go hunting in the mountains. There are always more solutions than suffering!
Lin Xiaoyue turned around and went to the largest grain store in Yangming Town - Fengshou Grain Store.
"I want to discuss a business deal with your boss. Please ask your boss to come over!" Lin Xiaoyue said with a smile, standing in front of the counter.
Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper smoothed the tangled abacus in his hand and asked, "What do you want from our boss? If you want to buy grain, just tell me directly! My last name is Jin, and you can call me Shopkeeper Jin."
Lin Xiaoyue raised her eyebrows and asked, "Can you make the decision?"
Shopkeeper Jin looked at Lin Xiaoyue. This girl was just an ordinary girl, so why was she so arrogant? Could she be a businessman?
"In Yangming Town, no matter how big the house is or how far away it is, I can arrange it!" said Manager Jin with a smile.
Lin Xiaoyue burst out laughing. It turned out that the shopkeeper thought she wanted to keep it for herself.
So, Lin Xiaoyue quickly explained, "Shopkeeper Jin, you misunderstood. A lot of refugees have come to the city today, and I want to buy some more food to help them. I want all the food you have in your store! Just name a price!"
Shopkeeper Jin was stunned for a moment. He had never expected this girl to be so rich! He had been a shopkeeper his entire life. Could it be that he had made a mistake in choosing someone?
"I also know about what happened to the refugees today. It's okay to provide relief for one or two days, but if you provide relief every day, it will cost a lot of money! Miss, don't be so kind-hearted. In the end, you will not only empty your wallet but also be scolded by those refugees." Manager Jin advised earnestly.
Lin Xiaoyue said firmly, "Don't worry about that. Just tell me how much food you have in your store and how much it will cost."
Seeing Lin Xiaoyue's confident expression, Shopkeeper Jin said, "So that's how it is. Wait a minute, I'll go to the backyard to look for our boss."
With that, Shopkeeper Jin went straight to the backyard.
Lin Xiaoyue felt from the expression on Shopkeeper Jin's face that it was still uncertain whether she could buy food.
It's just that the grain store is open for business. I'm buying a lot of grain with money and not on credit. The shopkeeper should be happy. Why does he have such an awkward expression?
Just as Lin Xiaoyue was complaining in her heart, Manager Jin came back from the backyard.
Shopkeeper Jin bowed apologetically to Lin Xiaoyue and said, "I'm sorry, young lady. The boss just counted the food in the backyard warehouse and there's not much left. He plans to keep it for himself. You should ask someone else!"
Lin Xiaoyue's anger was rising, and she was no longer polite. "Shopkeeper Jin, isn't the reason you open a shop to do business? Are you planning to raise the prices? Just tell me directly!"
The apology on Shopkeeper Jin's face instantly disappeared, and he began to drive people away without any courtesy, saying, "Go away! I said no, it means no!"
Lin Xiaoyue was not as strong as a man, and was pushed out of the store by Manager Jin in an instant. Lin Xiaoyue rubbed her sore arms and narrowed her eyes dangerously. It was understandable that ordinary people were unwilling to do so, but such a big store actually said that there was not much stock left. There must be something fishy here!
So, Lin Xiaoyue walked directly into the alley next to the Fengshou Grain Shop. There was almost no one passing by here. Lin Xiaoyue directly activated the space and entered the backyard of the Fengshou Grain Shop in stealth.
The backyard is very large, with three courtyards. The first courtyard leads to the spacious main hall, which is used for receiving guests. On the left side of the main hall is the study, in which sits a middle-aged man with an average appearance, but his eyes and brows reveal the shrewdness and ruthlessness unique to businessmen!
Lin Xiaoyue guessed that this person was probably the boss that Manager Jin mentioned!
But it doesn't matter. She didn't come in this time to reason with the boss. For unreasonable people, she would use even more unreasonable methods!
Lin Xiaoyue walked through the main hall and went directly into the second courtyard. There were four courtyards here. Lin Xiaoyue went in and took a look at each of them. The courtyard on the east side had the best location and the largest area. It should be where the wife of the main house lived. The others were small and simple, probably for the concubines.
There was nothing else in the second courtyard except for a few courtyards where family members lived, so Lin Xiaoyue went to the third courtyard. She didn't believe that she couldn't find the place where Fengshou Grain Store hid the grain!
Sure enough, in the third courtyard, Lin Xiaoyue found the secret!
There were three rooms in the third courtyard. The food in one room was gone, and there were fallen rice grains on the ground. Although there was food in the other room, there was not much. On the surface, it was exactly the same as what Manager Jin said!
But Lin Xiaoyue just didn't believe it, so she went to the third room, which was a Buddhist temple.
After entering the Buddhist hall, Lin Xiaoyue touched the entire room, and then when she moved the Buddha statue on the table, a white wall behind the Buddha statue moved!
Is the food hidden here?
Lin Xiaoyue excitedly entered the room behind the white wall. Inside was a spacious secret room, about the size of three rooms, filled to the brim with rice and flour. This amount of food would last until next spring. With this, Brother Liang wouldn't have to carry the food back from the bamboo courtyard. Who knew what would happen next? It was a good idea to store more food!
Shopkeeper Jin actually lied and said that the stock was almost out. Did they want to see the refugees die? Besides, it wasn't like he was taking it for free!
The more Lin Xiaoyue thought about it, the angrier she became. She simply ordered the space to collect all the food in the secret room. Then, after she walked out of the secret room, she went to a room next to the Buddhist hall and collected all the food in there as well!
However, after moving the grain, Lin Xiaoyue was still not satisfied. After leaving the Fengshou Grain Store, she went to every restaurant in Yangming Town.
Generally speaking, there are rats in restaurant kitchens because that's where the most food is eaten!
She suppressed her nausea, caught all the mice she could into cloth bags, and then carried two large bags full of mice to the third courtyard of the Fengshou Grain Shop.
Because in Lin Xiaoyue's heart, Shopkeeper Jin and the owner of Fengshou Grain Shop were just like these rats, greedy, disgusting, and hateful, and everyone wanted to kill them! So she wanted to use these rats to disgust those two people to death!
Rats are really powerful. Although Lin Xiaoyue was running at the fastest speed, the two cloth bags were still scratched by the rats. However, because all the rats were crowded together, not many escaped.
Returning to the secret room behind the white wall of the Buddhist hall, Lin Xiaoyue put two-thirds of the mice in. Then, before the mice could escape, she left the secret room and closed the door.
Next, she carried the remaining one-third of the mice to a room next to the Buddhist hall, where a little bit of food had been stored just now. Now it was even cleaner than the white walls of the room!
After Lin Xiaoyue locked the remaining mice in the room, she left Fengshou Grain Shop happily!
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