Chapter 72 Stunning (3rd update)
The old lady was already feeling suffocated by the weight of the stone in her heart.
The waiter's words made me feel flustered and desperate.
But suddenly hearing these words was like a ray of hope shining over me.
The old lady looked up in disbelief and saw a young girl walking out in the backlight, with bright eyes, white teeth, and dazzling brilliance.
The old lady was so amazed that she was speechless.
"Grandma, what do you think?"
The old lady suddenly came to her senses, excited and incredulous, she choked and said, "Girl, are you serious? Buy my noodles?"
She eagerly added, "This is real good noodles. There are no mixed grains. It's made from fine wheat. I grind it myself. It's real."
Jiang Zhiluo smiled gently and said, "Grandma, I know, I trust you. I just happened to be buying noodles, and I think your noodles are great. I'll buy them all for nineteen cents a pound."
"No, no, it's really too much. I can't use that much."
Their good noodles have never been sold so expensively.
Although the old lady said no, Jiang Zhiluo still planned to buy her fine noodles at 19 cents per pound.
"It's okay. I need to buy noodles anyway."
Jiang Zhiluo asked how many pounds it was, she knew the old lady must have weighed it before leaving.
She could make a rough estimate by herself.
The old lady brought two large sacks of noodles, weighing more than 100 kilograms in total. However, the old lady felt touched and aggrieved that the girl had helped her so much and paid her such a high price.
She underestimated the weight, "Just one hundred pounds."
Jiang Zhiluo knew there was more than that. She counted out two thousand coins and handed them to the old lady, "No need to change, this is all."
The waiter didn't even realize what was happening when he saw the little girl buying the old lady's noodles.
He naturally knew that it was the finest flour.
The waiter was furious and hurried out, pointing his finger at Jiang Zhiluo and saying, "How dare you steal our Songji Grain Store's business!"
Jiang Zhiluo folded her arms, raised her eyebrows and looked at the waiter coldly. With a cold glint in her eyes, she asked, "Are you trying to steal the business from Song's Grain Store?"
"You just chased the old lady out of the store."
"The old lady didn't intend to sell you any food. She walked out carrying a shoulder pole. Now she's not in your store, but right next to the store entrance."
"Why, are you guys at Songji Grain Store so overbearing that you even control the business at the door?"
"Why don't you say that the stalls at the door are all from your Songji Grain Store?"
The waiter didn't expect that such a little girl could be so eloquent.
"If it weren't for you, she would have sold the grain to our Songji for five cents."
Jiang Zhiluo had seen domineering people before, but she had never seen someone as domineering as this.
"Five cents! You used five cents to force the old lady to sell you the noodles, and then you turned around and sold them for nineteen cents. Why didn't you just rob her?"
"Don't think that this is Northern Province, where the emperor is far away and you can do whatever you want. You treat your Songji as a local emperor and want to arbitrarily control the people's grain trading."
The waiter never expected that such a trivial matter would be brought to the attention of the emperor.
His expression turned a little grim. “Do you know who we are?”
Jiang Zhiluo folded her arms and squinted lazily as she said, "You are blind and illiterate, yet you still ask others for help? You can't even read the plaque on your own store. Then let me tell you, you are Song's Grain Store."
The waiter's chest was heaving with anger, and he almost couldn't breathe.
He was arranged by his father to work in the grain store because he wanted to make a contribution and surpass his elder brother.
He usually looks down on everyone. In order to sell their crops, the farmers have to please him, and he is used to lowering the price.
Besides, their grain stores were all connected, so he did nothing wrong.
I never thought that today I would be so angry with a young girl that I almost fainted.
"We have connections with the county magistrate. You dare to offend our Song family? I think you are very bold."
The waiter, or to be more precise, the second young master of the Song family, was so angry that he pointed at Jiang Zhiluo with a threatening look.
Mrs. Cui was still in a daze and hadn't come to her senses.
Seeing someone trying to bully her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Cui immediately ran out to block Jiang Zhiluo and said, "How dare you bully my Zhiluo?"
"If you dare to do that, I'll tear you apart."
Madam Cui used to be the wife of a marquis, an elegant and noble old lady.
But after being exiled, in order to survive, he also learned some things from some women in the village.
In this place, if you are not strong, you will be bullied.
Seeing Mrs. Cui rushing out to protect her, Jiang Zhiluo felt warm in her heart.
Jiang Zhiluo pulled Madam Cui behind her and said, "Mom, I'm fine!"
If this person dares to take action, Jiang Zhiluo will naturally have countless ways to deal with him.
The old lady saw this scene and was afraid of getting the girl who helped her into trouble. "Girl, I can't get you into trouble."
Jiang Zhiluo patted the old lady's hand and comforted her, "We are doing business normally on the street. No one else can interfere. Don't be afraid. Even if the county magistrate comes, he will punish him."
Jiang Zhiluo was full of vigor from beginning to end, neither humble nor overbearing, and she suppressed the arrogance of the waiter.
…
No one noticed that the second floor of the bookstore was right across the street.
The window on the second floor of the bookstore was open, and several scholars saw the scene here.
Cui Hejin had just finished frying the last page of the book at noon and brought it over, and happened to see this scene.
His expression changed, and he calmly picked up a wooden stick by the window and stared at the actions of the waiter downstairs.
Some scholars watched, and some admired her: "Whose young lady is this? Her courage is admirable."
"She is as good as any man. She is a kind and pretty young lady."
"The Song family is so arrogant! A young master born out of wedlock dares to claim he has connections with the county magistrate."
"If Brother Jian were here, he would definitely not stand for this kind of thing."
"It's a pity that Brother Jian had his hand bones crushed by a carriage some time ago. He went to the provincial government to see a doctor and didn't see such a scene."
"Our county magistrate is a good and honest official. His wife even sold the shop she came with as a dowry to treat Brother Jian's hand."
"Do you think someone up there is deliberately targeting the Jian family? The county magistrate's daughter divorced someone for no apparent reason."
"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's go down and help that young lady so she doesn't get bullied."
Some of the scholars present came from wealthy families and naturally would not be afraid of the Song family.
Cui Hejin looked downstairs, a deep dark light flashed across his eyes, like a cold frost.
…
Jiang Zhiluo had clear ideas, and every word she said was enough to make the waiter furious.
The waiter made threats.
Just at this moment, a simple carriage passed by. Hearing the noise, Jian Yunyin lifted the curtain of the carriage and suddenly saw her savior.
She became excited instantly, and her originally dim eyes instantly brightened up.
She had just returned from the provincial government and was about to meet her benefactor, but she didn't expect to meet him here.
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