Chapter 109: Teaching Nephew a Lesson
Chen Xinli turned around and found that the person who came was the merchant they met when they were selling goods in Zhongnan Town.
The merchant's eyes were burning. Seeing the cart behind Shen Fuyou piled high with fruit, he immediately asked, "Did you come here specifically to sell fruit?"
Thinking of the twenty taels of silver she had earned from the merchants, Chen Xinli immediately smiled and said, "Yes, uncle, but we didn't..."
The little girl replied happily, but stopped talking halfway through.
"May I ask, what happened to you?"
The merchant hurriedly asked.
Then, following Chen Xinli's gaze, he looked behind him and saw a young servant in blue clothes leaning his head towards them.
"Hey, isn't that Lao Jiu's?" The merchant started to ramble, "Did you offend him? That child is just a little narrow-minded because he was raised by my second brother..."
"Uncle, do you know Master Jiu?" Chen Xinli understood the meaning of the merchant's words.
"Oh! What Jiu Ye? He is my useless nephew who is in charge of the local market. He is just a child, but now he becomes an official and he becomes pretentious." The merchant explained.
"In that case...we'll take our leave!"
Chen Xinli said this and asked her second uncle and others to pull the cart away.
I really didn't expect that this merchant was actually a family member of Mr. Jiu.
Although the other party was criticizing Mr. Jiu verbally, he was actually trying to protect him.
They were unfamiliar with the place, and if the merchant colluded with his nephew to force them to buy or sell, they would really have no place to seek justice.
Chen Xinli looked at the merchant with scrutiny, then hurried away with her brothers.
"Hey, hey, little girl," the merchant shouted as he ran beside her. "Why are you running so fast? I'm not a cannibal. I've already said my nephew is useless. What's going on? Did he bully you?"
The merchants stopped the carts and wouldn't let them go, as if to support them.
"Aren't you and your cousin a family?" The little girl frowned and spoke unkindly.
"Oh, little girl, he is just my nephew, how can he manage the business of our two families?" The merchant was quite old, and after running a few steps, he became out of breath.
"After all, we've dealt with each other before, so you can trust me!"
Hearing the merchant's promise, Chen Xinli couldn't help rolling her eyes in her heart: How can I be at ease? The mayor is obviously a bully. Are you planning to bully others too?
Ordinary people doing business are most afraid of people like that.
Moreover, they were prisoners exiled here and settled there. They had no clan and no one to rely on. They were even worse than ordinary people. If they encountered unreasonable officials, they could only consider themselves unlucky.
The merchants felt relieved when they saw people stop.
Just now, he deliberately fell behind by a few steps and caught a glimpse of the orange-yellow area covered by the brown cloth. There were probably many more incense caps.
I didn't expect that they would transport the fruit here.
The merchant suddenly felt a surge of emotion in his heart.
His name was Han Yuan and his family ran a cloth business.
Some time ago, he went to the north to deliver goods.
When he stopped in Zhongnan Town, the fruit he accidentally bought from Shen Xinli made him look very proud in front of the prefect. A few days later, the prefect sent someone to inform him that he had joined the local chamber of commerce.
I heard that it was because the prefect presented this item to the King of Shu.
After eating the mangoes that were bigger than an adult's palm and the peaches that were as big as an adult's fist, the King of Shu exclaimed that this was a good omen. He immediately rushed the fruits, repackaged them, and sent them to the capital to present to the Queen Mother.
Han Yuan got such a great bargain when selling fruit, so he was naturally very grateful to Chen Xinli and others.
I originally wanted to go to Zhongnan Town to find the girl and her family to purchase more goods.
Halfway through the journey, they heard that the Rong people had tasted the sweetness of robbing the northern land and were now planning to move south. A large number of Rong troops had already gathered at the foot of the Yueling Mountains.
Merchants traveling from south to north no longer dared to risk going north.
Those northern barbarians kill without blinking an eye.
After hearing this, Han Yuan had no choice but to return in disappointment.
However, thanks to the prefect's announcement, he had opened up several new supply channels through the Chamber of Commerce in the provincial capital, and his cloth business was naturally able to take off even further.
It was just a coincidence that I returned home today. I didn’t expect to meet Chen Xinli again, so I was naturally overjoyed.
"He didn't bully us, he just didn't want us to sell goods in this market."
Chen Xinli replied sullenly.
"Hey, what's going on? People don't even recognize each other. This is what they call 'no friendship without fighting'." The merchant couldn't help but curse a few times, then said, "Don't worry, I'll tell my cousin when I get home."
"Oh, that's great, uncle, can you still make the decision for us?"
Chen Xinli joked.
Han Yuan sighed and smiled, "Of course. I didn't expect you to be so aggressive. I see you still have quite a lot of goods in your car. Could you sell them to me?"
As they were talking, they heard someone coming forward and bowing.
"Uncle, why are you still here, making my family wait?"
It turned out to be the red-nosed Mr. Jiu who appeared out of nowhere.
He was seen greeting the merchants while glaring at Chen Xinli and others with a malicious look.
"You little bastard, why are you yelling?" Han Yuan slapped him on the head.
He glanced at Han Xiaojiu with disdain and scolded, "How much horse urine have you been coaxed into drinking recently? Look at your nose. I guess no girl will be able to look down on you in the future."
"uncle!"
Mr. Jiu, the man with the red nose, looked at his uncle with resentment. He wanted to say that he was just young, but he couldn't say anything for a long time.
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