"This..." Wang Da wanted to speak, but when he thought of what his personal soldiers had told him, he held back.
Shaking his head, he said unhappily, "If you say it's okay, then it's okay. Don't ask around, or you'll lose your head!"
Seeing him like this, Lin Rui suddenly had an idea. He carefully approached him and asked, "Brother Wang, is there not enough food in the barracks?"
This question frightened Wang Da so much that he almost jumped up. He suddenly looked up at him in horror: "Don't talk nonsense!"
Seeing him like this, Lin Rui's suspicion turned into full force. He nodded understandingly and patted his lips: "Look at my mouth, it's full of nonsense!"
When he was about to leave, Wang Da, who had hesitated for a long time, put his arm around his shoulder and said, "Brother Lin, please stay for a moment."
Lin Rui turned around and looked at him: "Brother Wang, what else?"
Wang Da looked around carefully, then pulled Lin Rui back onto the carriage. He leaned close to Lin Rui's ear and whispered, "If, if that's really the case, do you have any good ideas?"
Lin Rui understood what he meant and asked, "How much do you need?"
They were both smart people, so they just spoke in code.
General Wang clenched his five fingers into a fist. Lin Rui's eyes widened slightly: "All?"
Isn't this just like fortune telling? Some people are lacking gold or water in the five elements, but he is directly lacking all five elements?
Wang Da sighed again: "Yes, the task assigned to us by the higher-ups is extremely serious. Even a good cook cannot cook without rice, let alone us firemen."
Lin Rui looked around: "Where are Brother Deng and Brother Xie?"
"I'm going to the grain store in Baituo Town to find some food!"
"Can I?"
"Of course not. Even if the food is enough, our money is not enough. For three thousand people, even if we calculate based on the minimum requirement of five taels of rice per person, how much silver will it cost!"
"So how much do you have now?" Lin Rui asked.
Wang Da was indignant: "Less than fifty taels!"
Wait, less than fifty taels? He had to prepare food for three thousand men in the Flying Tiger Battalion for less than fifty taels. Where on earth did he get the courage?
Wang Da noticed Lin Rui's strange expression and said sadly, "If I had used this money as I usually do, I would have been able to save up five taels of silver after paying for the vegetables. But now it's gone, everything is gone. Twenty of the fifty taels was actually paid out of my own pocket. Now I don't even care about the money anymore. I just hope I can get through this!"
The price of grain in Huangmoguan has stabilized, but there are many times when you cannot buy grain even if you have money. Few merchants are willing to come to the border area. Even under the supervision of the Xing family army, the grain prices are suppressed from rising wildly. Merchants also have countermeasures and conduct private transactions with limited time and quantity.
Lin Rui thought of the pile of bean dregs in the workshop and said, "I have a way to feed the soldiers."
Wang Da's eyes lit up: "Hurry up and tell me."
"My tofu workshop produces a lot of bean dregs every day. Bean dregs are a good thing. You can stir-fry them or add some salt and flour to make bean dregs cakes."
Now Wang Da doesn't care about how the bean dregs taste. He is only worried about whether the bean dregs can feed more than 3,000 soldiers in the Flying Tiger Camp at the border.
"Don't worry, I will." Lin Rui smiled confidently, because Wang Da had no idea that the daily output of bean dregs in the workshop was terrifying. Five pounds for one penny was not enough to buy it all, which was enough to show how huge the volume was.
When Deng Hui and Xie Yang each came back carrying a small bag of rice, they looked extremely depressed. They had really talked their heads off and used up all their face to buy these food, but it was far from enough for so many people in the barracks.
They thought they would see the same gloomy boss when they returned, but as soon as they appeared near the carriage, Wang Da immediately called them into the carriage: "Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
After coming up, he found a familiar person sitting there, but his figure was previously blocked by the basket: "Oh, aren't you Brother Lin? What a coincidence!"
Wang Da couldn't wait any longer: "Hey, stop chatting and get down to business."
"Business?"
"What's the matter?"
Xie Yang and Deng Hui were confused by what he said. They didn't understand why Wang Da could still laugh. Could it be that the food crisis had been resolved?
They are excited. It will be much easier once the food crisis is solved!
"Where are we going?" Deng Hui watched Wang Da driving the carriage carrying the three of them towards the shortcut that was not the one they took to return to the military camp.
It was Lin Rui who explained it to them with a smile: "Lin's Workshop."
"That place!" Lin's Workshop is a place that has become famous recently. The tofu, dried tofu and bean skin there are very popular. Merchants dealing in this kind of food can close their stalls in one morning or even two hours. Gradually, everyone knows that the soy products they eat must be produced by Lin's Workshop.
They had originally planned to buy some for the camp brothers to improve their meals. Last time, they made braised tofu with meat, and everyone almost finished the whole bowl. But before they could find Brother Lin to place an order, the camp encountered a delay in the delivery of food and fodder.
The men driving the horse-drawn carriage were moving very fast, and the three or four ox-drawn carts following behind them were soon left out of sight.
The carriage soon arrived at the entrance of Lin's workshop, but its way was blocked by various ox carts, horse carts and carts. These were all used to purchase goods for Lin's workshop.
Some people saw Wang Da and his men driving the carriage with such impunity that they frowned and said, "If you want to do business, you should queue up properly. Do you know what first come, first served means? If I tell the Lin family about your behavior, you will see whether the Lin Workshop will still be willing to cooperate with you!"
Wang Dagang stopped the car and was immediately scolded. However, he was in no mood to argue with him. He looked at Lin Rui anxiously and said, "Brother Lin, where is your bean dregs?"
Lin Rui covered his buttocks, which were nearly broken into pieces on the road, and got off the carriage. His expression was so sour: "Hiss!"
Deng Hui and Xie Yang were already used to this kind of bumpy ride, and they immediately took Lin Rui's arms, one on each side. "We don't have time, Brother Lin. Sorry for the inconvenience."
Wang Da also quickly asked, "Where's the bean dregs? Brother Lin, where are the bean dregs you mentioned?"
Lin Rui pointed to a fork in the road and said, "Go through here and you'll reach the back door of the Lin's workshop. I'll have someone from the clan open the door of the warehouse at the back for you. There's a lot of bean dregs piled up there."
The three of them quickly followed the route he had given them. As expected, they reached the back door and knocked on it. Someone immediately asked in alarm, "Who is it?"
Lin Rui said: "Wood, it's me."
The door opened to reveal a wooden boy's face: "Uncle, why are you back like this?"
Lin Rui: "I'm sitting in a carriage, come and help me!"
Mu Tou immediately did as he was told. Deng Hui and Xie Yang, relieved of their burden, immediately followed Wang Da to the warehouse Lin Rui pointed out. When the warehouse was opened and they saw a pile of bean dregs inside, they finally smiled: "It's done!"
Lin Rui also said: "This bean dregs itself is not valuable. If you need it, you can move it."
Wang Da shook his head: "That won't do. You treat us as brothers, how can we let you suffer any loss?" After that, he took out twenty taels of silver from his pocket. Lin Rui said he wanted nothing, but was finally persuaded by Deng Hui and Xie Yang to accept five taels of silver.
Therefore, the bean dregs in these two warehouses were half bought and half given away, and Wang Da and others also owed him a favor, which he thought was quite worth it.
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