"Master Chen, are you serious?"
Liu Jinyu and Xiao Liuzi's jaws almost dropped to the ground.
They thought that Chen Xuan was deliberately teasing Liao Qing by saying he wanted to rent himself out.
But now Chen Xuan looks so serious, it doesn’t seem like he’s joking at all!
Both of them thought it was outrageous. How could they play it like this?
Liao Qing's face was as ugly as it could be.
Rented Chen Xuan?
What a joke, I have a grudge against you, and I rent you and have you staring at me every day, how can I take revenge on you?
What's more, the rental of one thousand and two taels of silver a day is simply a sky-high price that is outrageous!
In the end, Liao Qing left alone.
Although he tried his best to take Old Yang away, Chen Xuan would never give him this opportunity.
As soon as they returned to the Liao family, the Liao family's servants cried out: "Master, our rice shop is almost emptied!"
Liao Qing felt so sad inside. He had gone through so much deception and schemes to finally get so much rice just to make a fortune.
As a result, now, all of them have been used to help Chen Xuan!
"Chen Xuan, I will never coexist with you!"
After saying that, he immediately asked someone to prepare a sedan chair and go to the prefect's mansion. He wanted to borrow someone from the prefect's mansion!
Courtyard.
"Liu Jinyu, go to the city and tell the people there that we sell grain here at the normal price of one tael of silver for one dan of rice."
Chen Xuan gave the order.
He has obtained so much rice now, he definitely cannot finish it all by himself.
What's more, the reason why Chen Xuan asked for so much food from the Liao family by almost robbing was not for himself, but for the people in the city.
Of course, Chen Xuan couldn't just give the rice to the people. Instead, he wanted them to buy it at a normal price so that they would know that there is no free lunch in the world.
"Yes, Master Chen!"
Liu Jinyu nodded and took a few people into the city to discuss how to spread the news.
"Xiao Liuzi, go set up a porridge distribution site so that those homeless refugees and beggars in the city who have no food to eat can come and eat porridge so that they won't starve to death."
Chen Xuan continued to give orders.
Whether in the city or outside the city, there are too many bankrupt poor people who have no place to live and are already emaciated by hunger.
These people have no money to buy food.
Chen Xuan couldn't just watch them starve to death.
Therefore, setting up a place for porridge distribution and letting them line up to get porridge twice a day can ensure that they will not starve to death.
"Sir, people are evil. If you do good things like this, what if the rich people deliberately don't buy rice and compete with the poor people for porridge? What will we do?"
Xu Ruolan asked with some concern.
Chen Xuan shook his head nonchalantly and said, "Those with money in their pockets don't care about this porridge. It can't fill their stomachs at all. It can only barely keep people from starving to death. They will still spend money to buy rice."
"If you encounter some people who really like to take advantage of small opportunities and would rather eat porridge even if they have money, then let them take advantage of small opportunities."
What else can Chen Xuan say when he has to snatch even a bowl of porridge from the poor?
Anyway, he has enough rice here, so he can eat as much as he wants without going poor.
Soon, the two pieces of news spread rapidly throughout the entire Barbarian City.
"Have you heard that there is a Chen's rice shop outside the city? The rice there is only one tael of silver per stone."
"In our Dagan Dynasty, one dan is one hundred jin of grain, and one liang of silver is one dan, so doesn't that mean one jin of rice is ten wen?"
"Is this true? Hasn't the price of rice been raised to 40 or 50 coins per pound? Is there still rice that costs 10 coins per pound?"
"Is this Chen's Rice Shop related to Chen Kun's Chen family?"
"How could it be related to Chen Kun's family? Chen Kun's rice is a few cents more expensive per pound than Liao's rice. They make money with no conscience!"
"Then why is the rice from Chen's Rice Shop so cheap? Is there something wrong with their rice?"
When price increases became the norm and food returned to its original price, people began to feel fearful and even questioned the reliability of food.
"Oh my god, you guys don't know what Chen's rice shop's rice is like, right? Their rice is absolutely safe and reliable!"
"How do you know it's safe? What if it's poisonous?"
"Poison? Impossible. Their rice is from the Liao family. I saw with my own eyes yesterday that all the rice from the Liao family rice shop was moved out of the city. It is said that Liao Qing had to pay 10,000 dan of rice as compensation in order to save his son!"
“Is this true or false?”
"Of course it's true. Didn't you see that Liao's rice shop is closed today?"
When the people learned the truth, they were all shocked.
The Liao family was robbed?
But then again, if even the prefect could be robbed, it seemed normal for the Liao family to be robbed as well.
"The owner of Chen's Rice Shop is the ruthless man who killed the captain at the city gate, beat Zhang Tianci, whipped Qin Hao, and captured Liao Jun alive. His name seems to be Chen Xuan!"
"Oh my god, it's actually him! The Liao family is really unlucky to have met him!"
“Why does he sell rice so cheaply?”
"Who knows? Maybe he is a good person. After all, what he has done in the past few days has made us ordinary people applaud and happy!"
The rice at Chen’s Rice Shop was cheap. This was the first piece of news that spread throughout the Barbarian City.
The second piece of news was that there was a soup kitchen outside the city gate, where each person could get two bowls of porridge every day.
Two bowls of porridge are definitely not enough to fill you up. In fact, let alone two bowls of porridge with only a few grains of rice, even two bowls full of rice will not fill you up.
But there was no way. There were too many beggars and refugees. If no one ate two bowls of rice a day, Chen Xuan would soon go bankrupt.
Besides, Chen Xuan deeply understood a truth, that is, it is okay to be a good person, but one cannot be too good, and there must be a bottom line!
As long as these refugees are not full, they will find ways to earn money to buy rice and create wealth through their labor.
Of course, there are some people who just eat and wait to die. If Chen Xuan really meets such people, there is nothing he can do.
There was a long queue at Chen’s Rice Shop, all of them were there to buy rice. After all, the rice here is cheap, so only the stupid ones would continue to buy from those unscrupulous rice shops in the city.
Of course, it is impossible for Chen Xuan to sell all the rice. He has a purchase limit, and one person can only buy two kilograms of rice a day.
This is to prevent some people from buying hundreds of kilograms at once and then selling them at a higher price. Wouldn't that make them scalpers? Chen Xuan would never allow this to happen!
In addition, there was a long queue at the soup kitchen, with ragged beggars queuing up to get porridge.
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