The young man never expected that the little girl in front of him would refute him.
He frowned and said unhappily, "Does my shopkeeper know what this has to do with you?"
Chen Xinli chuckled: "So, your shopkeeper doesn't know?"
Seeing the young man getting a little frustrated and speechless, Chen Xinli said dimly, "So, it's you who deliberately raised prices to cause public outrage?"
"What public outrage?"
The boy looked a little anxious!
"It seems that you don't understand, young man. According to the laws of our dynasty, if a merchant deliberately raises prices, he will be severely punished, and the lightest punishment is beating."
As Chen Xinli spoke, she looked at the young man, whose face had turned slightly pale, and said with a smile, "In serious cases, he will face imprisonment!"
Seeing that the young man was already a little scared: "You...you are talking nonsense!"
Chen Xinli didn't care about the boy's reaction. She turned around and looked at the women who hadn't left yet and said, "Aunties, this store owner is obviously raising prices on purpose. We can go to the county government and sue this boy!"
Several women and men looked at each other. They were all ordinary people and did not dare to go against the grain store so blatantly.
But seeing that what the little girl in front of him said seemed to make sense, he did not go far away.
After all, there is no harm in watching the excitement, and there is no shortage of spectators in any era.
This is exactly the effect Chen Xinli wants.
These people surrounded the grain store, but the grain store refused to sell them grain, and they were angry!
The young man looked at the crowd walking away and then walked back, still talking in a low voice.
"This guy is so heartless! He's going to raise the price tomorrow. Do you think it's easy for us to earn money after working so hard? It's just a short while, and tomorrow we'll have to pay several more cents!"
"Who said it wasn't?" said an old man with a dark face, showing his white teeth.
"This guy doesn't look like a good guy. I wonder if he's a relative of the shopkeeper. I remember the guy named Li Shan was quite nice! He always chatted with us with a smile!"
An old lady thought about it and told the truth.
"That's right, we really should send him to be spanked!"
The young man was speechless and wanted to close the door, but was blocked by two men.
"You...you, how dare you! Our shopkeeper has someone behind him, the county magistrate. If you offend our shopkeeper, you will never be able to buy food again."
The guy said loudly and stepped back guiltily.
Seeing that he was still stubborn, Chen Xinli immediately added fuel to the fire: "Oh? So the county magistrate is behind you? But County Magistrate Zhang is a good official. Why would he openly support price gouging? Doesn't the county magistrate want to be an official anymore?"
"You, young man, must not wrongly accuse our County Magistrate Zhang!"
"That's right. A few days ago, the county magistrate visited my mother's village. Seeing that my mother couldn't carry the firewood, he offered to ask for help. The county magistrate is a good man."
The people around were talking about it and expressing their dissatisfaction with the young man's wrong accusation of the county magistrate.
"Yes, it seems that the county magistrate is not the one behind your grain store. We have to ask County Magistrate Zhang to investigate and give him justice," Chen Xinli added quietly.
"Yes, let's go to the county government office now. Damn it, this grain store doesn't want us to survive!"
A man took the initiative to speak a leading word.
Chen Xinli looked over in surprise and found that it was the man who was spitting.
When the man saw Chen Xinli looking at him, he stretched his head out a little embarrassedly.
"Let's go, let's go, let's go!"
The boy's face turned from pale to blue, and then from blue to pale. Today, he finally understood what "public outrage" meant.
Seeing that the situation was getting more and more intense, and a lot of people gathered around to watch, the grain store owner could no longer hold back and ran out to support the situation!
The person behind the grain store was the younger brother of County Magistrate Zhang's concubine. Seeing that the clerk had caused so much trouble for the master, Manager Lu had to hurriedly put down the account book in his hand and ran out.
"Sorry, sorry, our shop is run with integrity, and Tong Sao has no future. In fact, it is the foreign merchants who are suppressing the price. Our purchase price is rising, and there is really nothing we can do!"
The shopkeeper looked apologetic, thinking that this talk would impress everyone.
But even ordinary people dare not believe him when faced with the price increases in recent days.
Seeing that everyone's expression did not change.
The shopkeeper continued, "It's true that there's a daily quota for grain sales, and today's quota has indeed been sold out. I'd like to ask our boss for another batch of aged rice to sell to everyone. It'll be five cents cheaper than the current price. How about that?"
Chen Xinli decided to quit while she was ahead.
As an ordinary citizen, she understands that the competition between those with resources and those without resources is nothing more than whether they are willing to lose face.
As for the grain stores, they are the ones with resources and they care more about their own face.
In fact, Chen Xinli had no idea about the laws of the time and was just deceiving the boy, but it was enough.
Because as the party without resources, you are the weak one. It is useless for the weak to directly reason with such people, and they don’t want to listen to your reason.
However, as a modern person who has lived in the 21st century, Chen Xinli only needs to use her own advantages to dig out the hidden problems in the other party to get what she wants.
So, seeing everyone looking at them, father and daughter, Chen Xinli said happily, "Of course."
She wished this so that she could buy more rice.
When the time comes, you can mix new rice and old rice together to cook rice, and you won’t be able to taste any difference.
If worst comes to worst, you can grind it into rice flour and make pastries.
As for whether or not to tell the county magistrate about this little thing, Chen Xinli planned to wait a little longer.
Shen Fugui looked at his daughter who had just been speaking very logically, but now she was acting like a child again.
There was nothing I could do. After the fairy taught me, my daughter seemed to have become smarter.
It made him seem tongue-tied.
Shen Fugui was a little anxious. He didn't even display one tenth of his usual fighting power today.
It seems that I need to learn more from my daughter in the future.
After buying fifty kilograms of old rice, Chen Xinli and her father wanted to leave.
But they saw that the woman and man who had just been unfriendly to them were walking towards them, as if they wanted to apologize.
After saying goodbye in a hurry and telling everyone not to worry about it, they hurried to buy sweet potato starch, brown sugar and honey.
Shen Fugui watched his daughter spending money like water and was unable to react for a moment.
But thinking that my daughter must have her own judgment, I didn't say anything.
When leaving the grocery store and preparing to carry the food on his back, Chen Xinli said anxiously: "Dad, Doctor Liang said that you can't do this kind of work anymore. Your legs are more important!"
"It's okay, Ali, Dad can carry it."
Chen Xinli understood that his father was the type of patient that doctors disliked the most, the one who would not listen to anything.
There was no choice but to ask the servant to transport the food to a street corner.
Seeing that there was no one around, he waved his hand and put all the food and other items into the space.
The two were about to go to the butcher's shop when they suddenly heard a child crying.
"Little girl, you are so dishonest, don't worry, I will naturally love you well!"
The little girl shrank into the corner in fear, and watched in horror as the man in front of her began to take off his pants!
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