Lin smiled and beckoned to him: "Come closer."
Time obediently follows its own course.
Then a warm breath brushed against his ear: "The Qian family is in the rice business. I heard that the two rice shops in town are owned by them, and they also have a grain shop in the county town."
"Over the years, through collusion with the county magistrate and other officials, they have forcibly bought a lot of land near the town. I imagine they must have stockpiled a large amount of rice and grain. When the drought comes and the people have no rice to cook, the Qian family will definitely raise the price of grain several times over and make a fortune from the national crisis."
"Why don't we loot all the granaries in his town? That'll definitely make him feel worse than if we beat his precious son."
After Lin finished speaking, she stared intently at Shi Guang with her almond-shaped eyes.
"Sure!" Shi Guang readily agreed, quite tempted by his wife's suggestion.
He also felt that the Qian family had been committing crimes in the town for many years and had harmed countless poor people. Beating up that scoundrel was too lenient for the Qian family, but he couldn't go too far in public and make enemies for his own family.
Since open methods don't work, let's try covert ones.
The granary in Qianjia Town was right next to the Qian family's house.
After being cheated by his estate manager once, Mr. Qian bought the house next door and renovated it specifically to store grain, feeling that he could only feel at ease when the grain was under his own nose.
From then on, whenever the new grain harvest came from the village, the village leaders would transport the harvested grain here by mule carts and oxcarts and store it here.
In fact, the Qian family not only had grain shops in the county town, but also in several nearby towns, and the grain they sold was all transported from there.
The fact that a whole house was used specifically to store grain speaks volumes about the amount of grain stored inside.
The matter of the Qian family's granary was no secret.
First, the Qian family had been operating in the town for many years and were the veritable local tyrants. No ordinary person dared to mess with the Qian family, so the Qian family didn't bother to hide it.
Secondly, almost every two or three days, carts would come to haul away grain in front of the house, and over time, it became impossible to hide it.
But over the years, the Qian family's granary has been operating normally, and apart from a few servants who embezzled from it, nothing else has happened.
However, this peaceful situation is about to come to an end.
After Lin Momo and Shi Guang reached an agreement on causing trouble for the Qian family, they went out in the afternoon to conduct an on-site investigation of the Qian family's granary.
The next day, Shi Guang went out alone again.
The next morning, the two left the town again with their belongings, telling the Li family that they were going out for a while.
Before leaving, Shi Guang called Uncle Li into the hall, gave him a fifty-tael silver coin, and instructed him to store more grain, oil, and salt in the family's cellar, and not to make a fuss about it.
Although Uncle Li didn't understand why the young master gave such an order, he still solemnly agreed.
Lin Momo and Shi Guang rode in a carriage out of the town. They got off near the first village they encountered, paid the fare, and sent the carriage away.
Then, the two found a secluded and deserted place and entered the space.
First, they picked a batch of ripe vegetables from the garden, then collected some eggs, and then sat at the stone table in the courtyard, leisurely eating watermelon and nuts.
Lin Momo ate two slices of watermelon, then started cracking pine nuts, quite excited about their plans for the evening: "Shiguang, when are we going into town?"
"No rush, we'll go out in the evening. It's only a half-hour walk from here to town." Shi Guang put down the watermelon rind he had just finished eating, then suddenly seemed to remember something and asked, "How much food do you think you can still store in the space?"
After two days of secret observation, Shi Guang learned that the house where the Qian family stored grain, although not as large as the house where the Qian family lived, was still a large three-courtyard house, which, after renovation, could store tens of thousands of bushels of rice.
He was somewhat worried about whether the remaining space in the small building could hold so much food.
Lin thought for a moment before saying, "Currently, the empty spaces include the living rooms on the first and second floors, and the basement is also empty except for the ice cellar partitioned off. If all else fails, the rooftop can also be used, but I don't know if it will keep food fresh."
Yes, the space is still a bit small, which somewhat limits their performance.
Shi Guang laughed and said, "It doesn't matter whether it's kept fresh or not, as long as it's usable. Even if the grain is stored for two or three years, it won't spoil."
"Besides, we can't possibly eat all this grain. When natural disasters come, we can figure out how to distribute some of it. It's a way of taking from the people and using it for the people."
"Okay, whatever you say. But I still feel like there's not enough space."
Lin Momo said somewhat greedily, "It would be great if the space could be upgraded."
However, they have been working in the space for so long without any changes, so the possibility of upgrading is extremely small.
"Upgrading would be great, but if it can't be upgraded, it's fine too. This is enough for us. Let's install as much as we can tonight." Shi Guang was quite carefree.
Suddenly, Lin Momo thought of something, put down the chestnuts she was peeling, pulled the jade gourd from her neck, and examined it carefully.
After the two met in the mountains, the jade gourd returned to Lin Momo's hands and remained in her spatial storage.
"What are you looking at?"
Lin Momo stared intently at the jade pendant, and said with a whimsical thought, "If only there were a hidden space inside, we could each have one and store more things in it."
Upon closer inspection, she actually noticed something.
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