The disaster in Shandong became increasingly serious, with more and more victims finding it difficult to make a living. The once prosperous and stable city of Jinan also became increasingly turbulent, with robberies, murders and looting occurring from time to time.
Jiang Ranli and Jiang Fan are busy dealing with the affairs of various businesses every day, and are even busier with providing relief to disaster victims. At the same time, they have to guard against secret attacks from merchants headed by Xu Wanshan and others.
"Miss, someone tried to set fire to our Jishi Grain Store last night, but luckily they were discovered in time."
Wang Shaohui frowned. He was terrified when talking about what happened last night. If no one had discovered it, the Jishi Grain Store would have been burned to ashes.
In this year of severe drought, it doesn't matter if the Jishi Grain Store is burned down. The fire is very likely to spread to the shops on both sides. By then, the losses in Jinan City may not be limited to their Jishi Grain Store.
Jiang Ranli's pretty face turned cold. Xu Wanshan and the others were just trying to gain the upper hand verbally, but after they saw Yinlang and the Tenth Prince treating Jiang Fan coldly, they started to act more arrogantly.
Many people outside don’t know that the real owners of Jishi Grain Store are Jiang Ranli and Jiang Fan, but Xu Wanshan accidentally met Wang Shaohui who called her Miss Jiang Ranli, so he knew the inside story. This is why he brought people to Guanquan Pavilion to find Jiang Ranli to discuss making money together.
"Send more people to keep a close eye on it during this period. We must not let Xu Wanshan and others succeed. Afan and I will find a way to solve it. Brother Shaohui, thank you for your hard work."
Hearing this, Wang Shaohui looked at Jiang Ranli with some heartache, "Miss, I'm fine and don't feel tired. But you, how come you have lost so much weight in recent times?"
Wang Shaohui and Nanny Wang have taken care of Jiang Ranli since she was a child. In his heart, Jiang Ranli is both his master and his sister. He has seen how busy Jiang Ranli has been recently and feels anxious for her.
"I'm fine, don't worry."
Jiang Ranli smiled, then stood up and walked out. Outside, many people were rushing towards the Jishi Grain Store like crazy, scrambling to buy food.
Looking at those people, Jiang Ranli felt very uncomfortable.
Just as she was staring at the crowd rushing to buy food, suddenly a man's figure came into her sight. The man took advantage of no one's attention, picked up a bag of food and ran out.
"Brother Shaohui, stop him."
Wang Shaohui also saw what the man did and quickly led people to stop the man.
At this time, the man's theft had been noticed by everyone. People looked at him, some cursed, and some had flashing eyes, looking into the grain store.
Seeing this, Jiang Ranli signaled the owner of the grain store to call out everyone guarding the grain store. In this situation, it would be easy for someone to imitate that man. If a group of people rushed to rob the grain store, things would get out of control.
Because of what happened last night, Wang Shaohui arranged more than fifty people to guard the grain store. At this time, those people all appeared with sticks, and frightened the people whose eyes had flashed before so much that they dared not look around anymore.
The situation was under control. Jiang Ranli walked into the crowd and came to the man who was restrained by Wang Shaohui and others.
"Do you know what the crime of theft is?" Jiang Ranli looked at the man, his delicate face extremely cold.
The man held the food tightly and refused to let go. When he heard Jiang Ranli's voice, he spat at her with disdain and said, "Who the hell are you? What qualifications do you have to point fingers at me?"
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