Thinking of how miserable his sister had been, Jiang Fan felt a surge of rage in his chest. He had originally been very curious about Yongzheng, the winner of the battle for the crown prince, but now, he just felt that the man was really insidious.
Jiang Mansion.
Jiang Ranli and Wu Yanqing were discussing the recent disaster in Shandong. They were both shocked to see Jiang Fan coming back in anger.
"Afan, what's wrong with you?" Jiang Ranli looked at Jiang Fan in confusion. This was the first time she saw him so angry in all the time she had known him.
Looking at Jiang Ranli, whose face looked a little haggard, Jiang Fan's eyes were full of heartache, "No, it's okay."
Because he didn't want to make Jiang Ranli and Wu Yanqing worry, and because he didn't want Jiang Ranli to be sad and upset about what happened three years ago, Jiang Fan finally chose to conceal it temporarily. No one knew better than him how Jiang Ranli had been through all these years. If she knew that the separation between her and Yinzhen in the past three years was caused by the person she was most grateful to, she would definitely be even more sad.
"Anything? Do you think Li'er and I are three-year-old children? What happened?" Wu Yanqing didn't know what was wrong with Jiang Fan, but he knew that he was definitely not okay. If he was okay, why would Jiang Fan come back with such anger?
"I'm really fine. It's just that those wealthy businessmen I met today were clamoring to raise prices, completely disregarding the lives of the people. Also, I made an appointment with them to gamble, but they didn't bring much silver, so I didn't even win much." Jiang Fan used what happened in the gambling house today as an excuse to stop Jiang Ranli and Wu Yanqing from asking further questions.
The reason why Jiang Fan appeared in the casino today was because he had an appointment with several wealthy businessmen in Shandong City. He hoped to discuss with them about unifying prices to prevent the people's lives from becoming even more miserable.
As a result, those fat, money-minded guys refused to agree to anything he said and threatened him to join in raising prices.
Jiang Fan was very angry about this, so later in the casino, he took all the money from those wealthy businessmen and only left them with a set of clothes.
Actually, apart from the ** businessman who still insisted on making a fortune from disasters, Jiang Fan also made some gains. He won at least 10,000 taels of silver from them. However, in order to make Jiang Ranli and Wu Yanqing believe his excuse, he did not tell the truth completely and only said that he did not win much.
"It was expected that they would disagree. There's nothing to be angry about. Besides, it doesn't matter whether you win a lot or a little. You won anyway. Even if you only won one or two taels of silver, it's enough to buy a few pounds of food to help the people," Jiang Ranli comforted Jiang Fan.
Wu Yanqing nodded repeatedly and said, "Li'er is right."
Seeing that he had a way out, Jiang Fan immediately said, "You are right, there is nothing to be angry about this, but I am angry at their attitude. They are all obsessed with money. I am not asking them to send the grain away, but just to maintain a stable price. But they all refuse to agree. Now in the grain stores under their names, the price of a pound of brown rice has risen to several strings of silver. I don't know when this disaster will be over. How can the people afford it?"
Hearing this, Jiang Ranli was shocked. In the past, a pound of brown rice cost only a dozen coins. He didn't expect that now that the disaster was not serious, the merchants had raised the price to several strings of silver per pound. Isn't this pushing the people into a desperate situation?
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