Food families in the Chaotic Continent are expensive to begin with, and they are constantly fighting all day long. The ordinary people are unarmed and seem to have disappeared from this continent. Most of the rice grains currently are produced by some sects, and only those with enough strength can ensure

Rice grains are produced smoothly.

The price of food in Fengta County is not high at 40 cents per catty, which is several times lower than the Nanzhuo country that Fang Zhuo went to before. But if it were placed in other places, the price would be a bit high!

Fang Zhuo made some inquiries and successfully negotiated with several rice and grain stores for delivery and payment. When the first load of grain was delivered to the inn, the shopkeeper of Gufeng Inn guessed the clue, "This young hero

, if there are still more, we can’t put them in the small courtyard, so why don’t you put them in the warehouse of my inn, and you won’t be charged for depositing them, but if you are interested, young hero, we can cooperate!”

Fang Zhuang had just directed the carriage to place a cart of food in the small courtyard. Just as he was about to go out, he was stopped by the innkeeper. He looked at the innkeeper in front of him and asked, "May I ask how we can cooperate?"

"Young hero, give Zhang some time to burn the incense, and I guarantee that you will receive satisfactory cooperation!" After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he pulled Fang Zhuo away and walked aside.

The shopkeeper didn't want others to hear him, so he walked away and checked around to see if there was no one around before whispering the truth. It turned out that the shopkeeper was not the owner of Gufeng Inn. Now that Fang Zhuo had money, he naturally wanted to take the opportunity to make some money, but he

You can't do it openly. You buy food yourself and sell it to the inn at a high price. If the innkeeper finds out, doesn't he want to kill him?

For less than a stick of incense, Fang Zhuo reached a cooperation with the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper offered a thousand taels, which was regarded as a shareholding. Since Fang Zhuo and others were guests staying at the Gufeng Inn, if possible, when the Liang family was booming, they would pay a slightly lower price.

Sell ​​it to the inn for a small price. In this way, the shopkeeper can be regarded as finding a preferential food source for the inn. If the owner of the inn cares about it in the future, he should be the one with merit. The condition for doing this is to give Fang Zhuo and others

Provide room fee reduction and exemption. As for the extent of the reduction, it will depend on the increase in food prices.

Fang Zhuo has never liked ink. Anyway, the money is either paid for rent or sold to the inn at a cheaper price. It can't be much less. What's more, with such a big customer as the inn purchasing food, do you have to worry about not selling the rice? This also reduces the cost.

Risk is a key point in trading.

After receiving an extra thousand taels of silver, Fang Zhuan went out to purchase a few more times. The reason for buying grain was not to eat, but to make wine! With that said, when he heard that the delivery place was Gufeng Inn, those

The grain dealer didn't think much of it and even lowered the price slightly later.

It was not until after noon that all the 40,000 kilograms of grain were stored in the inn's warehouse.

The rice grains Fang Zhuan purchased came from only a dozen rice grain shops in Fengta County. After such purchases, the inventories of various grain merchants were reduced. Gradually, some people realized it and boldly bought the rice grains.

The price of rice grains increased by 10%.

As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for the people. The grain merchants in Fengta County collectively raised their prices at the same time. This situation, combined with the closed county, made all the people panic. However, the grain merchants implemented purchase restrictions. There was a lot of grain, but

Each person can only buy ten kilograms at a time, so as to prevent him from encountering a wealthy man like Fang Zhuan again.

With such price increases and purchase restrictions, not to mention the people were a little panicked. Even the arson thief took advantage of the opportunity. Perhaps the arson thief wanted to leave the county quickly and escape. That night, he actually took away a large amount of food stored in Fengta County.

The granary was burned! Not only that, in the middle of the night, when everyone was busy putting out the fire, and the county town was in chaos, the warehouses of nine more grain merchants also caught fire.

Overnight, Fengta County lost most of its rice and grain. The ruling forces in Fengta County originally had stockpiled enough grain to feed the entire county for three months. Now all of it was destroyed by the fire, and the price of grain suddenly became

Two taels of silver per pound!

We just harvested rice yesterday, and today the price has skyrocketed. The innkeeper came to tell us the good news. Fang Zhuo had a sad look on his face. Is this good news? This is bad news!

The activity of Fang Zhuo harvesting rice grains was not small in the county town. Hundreds of carriages were transporting it back and forth. This sudden fire burned down the granary. If you don't doubt that Fang Zhuo is the arsonist, you must also suspect that he is an accomplice!

"This...this...what should I do?" After hearing Fang Zhuan's analysis, the shopkeeper was in a panic.

In the small courtyard where Fang Zhuo lived, he was quiet for a while and said, "Don't worry, surround me with the rice storage area and make it a courtyard! The tighter the fence, the better! Then find me some things.

What are you looking for? I'll give you a list later! You need to ask someone to fence the wall first!" Fang Zhuo thought of a countermeasure and gave the order to the shopkeeper.

Seeing that Fang Zhuo was full of confidence, the shopkeeper had no choice but to follow the instructions first.

What is Fang Zhuo going to do? Of course he is serious about making wine. If he is really making wine, whoever suspects that he is an accomplice of the arsonist will really have a broken head.

However, Zhuo is an outsider in brewing, but he also participated in the establishment of the winery along the mountain. When the tools were procured from the earth and assembled, he knew a little about the general process. The wine-making tools given to the shopkeeper were all made in ancient times.

Containers found.

The innkeeper was afraid of troubles. Under his supervision, the construction of the fence was much faster. The yard was nailed up with wooden boards horizontally and vertically. Fang Zhuo also contributed iron nails in order to speed up the process. The innkeeper thought it was

It was a hidden weapon. It wasn’t until Fang Zhuan nailed two wooden boards with a hammer that the shopkeeper called it a divine weapon!

Carpenters in ancient times used wood products to join together, with one convex and one concave to make the entire structure good. The technique of applying iron nails to furniture or wood products did not exist before Fang Zhuo's arrival. Therefore, in Fang Zhuo's iron

Under the supervision of Ding and the shopkeeper, the innkeepers worked hard. One day, they built a large yard around the entrance of the inn's warehouse. The courtyard wall was three meters high. At night, the shopkeeper also urged the carpenters hired to work harder.

Put out a piece of roof to prevent rain.

After the courtyard wall was built, Fang Zhuan began to direct a few agile waiters to make wine. No matter whether there was no wine brewed here, the appearance of the wine was always displayed. Fang Zhuan naturally went back to prepare some finished rice wine, pretending that it was brewed here.

If it comes out, no one will doubt it.

Fang Zhuo was busy working in the inn's warehouse for two days. Two days later, as Fang Zhuo expected, several grain merchants who were on fire led dozens of disciples from the Five Pagodas to come to question them.

"Who are you?" Of course the innkeeper had to pretend to be stupid. In fact, he was still a little nervous when he spoke.

"Stop talking! Is there anyone here who bought rice grains a few days ago?" A sturdy man who looked to be in his forties had stern eyes and a fierce look on his face. He almost lifted the shopkeeper off the ground with one hand.

Woke up.

"Yes! Yes!" The shopkeeper revealed his true feelings. He was already afraid of trouble, so he answered the question tremblingly.

"Lead the way! I want to catch the arsonist!" The sturdy man indeed had... well-developed limbs and a simple mind.

The shopkeeper continued to play dumb, "The arson thief? How could this thief be here? I think you must have made a mistake!"

"Stop blabbering and lead the way! The person who bought the rice grain is not an arsonist but also an accomplice of the arsonist! You will know after arresting him! If you don't lead the way, I will definitely punish you together!" The sturdy man called himself an elder, so he

He is the elder of the Five Pagodas. The new master has not yet arrived. The fire in Fengta County has been full of twists and turns. I wonder if he can still hold the position of elder in the future.

Of course, those are all things for later. In fact, the shopkeeper and this sturdy man are known to each other. Fengta County is not big, but Gufeng Inn is famous. Being the shopkeeper here is considered to be half a public figure. He was scolded at the moment.

He led the way without saying much, but halfway through, the sturdy man waved his hand and stopped, "Wait! What's this place like?!"

Brewing involves steaming and steaming, and naturally there is a strange smell in the air, but those who know how to brew will know it as soon as they smell it.

A man dressed as a disciple walked forward quickly and said, "Elder Bao, this is the smell of wine. I have brewed some wine in my family, and I am very familiar with this taste!"

"Wine-making?! Is it really wine-making?" The sturdy man was called Elder Bao by his disciples. From this, Fang Zhuo got to know this man, because Fang Zhuo had just rested and happened to be at the gate of the wine-making house, looking fifty meters away.

A group of people came and stopped at the door to wait. Naturally, people would not be allowed to enter easily in a brewing place. Otherwise, what kind of 'ancestral tradition' would there be?

Elder Bao thought for a while and said, "Even if it's really wine making, I still have to go and have a look! Why make wine at this time!" After that, he waved his hand and asked people to continue walking.

At the door, Fang Zhuo was still standing there. When he saw the innkeeper leading the way and nine rice and grain shop keepers behind him, he clasped his hands and saluted each one, pretending not to know, and jokingly said to the innkeeper: "

Shopkeeper, why are you in such a hurry? This brewing does not take place every day. If you are in a hurry, you can only eat some wine at this time! Look, you have brought so many people here, how can you share it with so many people?

?”

Elder Bao didn't wait for the shopkeeper's answer, stepped forward and stood in front of the shopkeeper, and shouted at Fang Zhuo: "Who are you!"

Fang Zhuo pretended to be stunned by the yelling, and hesitated for a moment before asking the others: "Zhuo below! Do you dare to do this for me?"

Elder Bao was in a hurry to catch the arson thief, but he had no time to write here, "This is the elder of the Five Pagodas, surnamed Bao! I would like to ask you if you bought rice the day before yesterday!"

"Collect it, collect a lot, these nine are only half of the grain merchants! Shopkeeper, why don't you call the other ten grain merchants together, so as not to say that we are driving up grain prices, let them all see clearly, we are indeed

You are here to make wine, so as not to misunderstand!" After saying a few words to Elder Bao, he complained to the innkeeper behind Elder Bao.

The innkeeper knew that Fang Zhuan was euphemistically expressing the idea of ​​making wine, so he pointed to Elder Bao in front of him with a troubled expression.

Elder Bao also felt the innkeeper’s pointing behind him. He pretended not to know and coughed twice: “Ahem! I’m here to ask you! Why are you making wine at this time! And you’re still making wine in a rented inn! So...

This scene, I have never heard of!”

Fang Zhuo was pretending to make wine, and naturally he had already thought of the answers to the questions asked by others, and acting was like a professional actor to Fang Zhuo. At this moment, he pretended to be innocent and said aggrievedly: "I am helpless.

Ah, originally I only planned to stay here for a day or two. I was used to living in a quiet small courtyard. I thought I would leave in a day or two. The price is higher and the stay is comfortable. But as a result, a fire made it impossible to get out of the city gate.

Yes, I have lived in this expensive courtyard for a long time, and the cost is not low. If you ask me to go to an ordinary guest room, it will be noisy and I can't sleep. You say, I can't sleep and I still have to pay for the room, no matter how cheap it is

Wouldn't it be a waste of money? So, I had to think of a way to do some business and earn some money to pay for the room. Speaking of this, I was lucky. Fortunately, when I collected the grain, the granary hadn't caught on fire yet.

The price is quite fair. If I buy rice grains at this time, haha, the wine I brew will be extremely expensive!"

After being told by Fang Zhuan, Elder Bao stroked his beard and remained silent. After thinking about it, he felt that there was no loophole, so the clues to catch the arson thief were broken again. Just when he was about to say goodbye and leave, the nine families behind him

The grain merchant came over, and Fang Zhuo's words were impeccable, so naturally they couldn't convict him. If they couldn't convict him, they wouldn't be able to get back any of their losses.

In such a situation, as a businessman, his mind is very active. Fang Zhuo bought the rice for forty cents, and now they want to recover the loss. While Fang Zhuo's wine has just started to be brewed, I believe there is still a lot of rice.

They were storing it, so they decided to buy it back at a slightly higher price.

"Young hero, you are a chivalrous and righteous person at first glance. I am a small grain merchant who only makes a little money all year round. The arsonist burned all our family's savings for several years with a fire. Please forgive me, young hero."

How about showing mercy and letting me take back some rice?"

After one grain merchant finished speaking, the other grain merchants also talked about the same thing. At this time, Elder Bao understood that the report from these grain merchants was not to catch the arsonist, but to use him.

Recover some rice grain so that they can sell it when the grain price is high and recover some losses.

"You people with ulterior motives! Bah! It's useless for Fei to think that you are all good people, and you actually used this elder to catch thieves! You almost caught an innocent person by mistake! You are guilty!" Elder Bao gave a sharp shout, which was regarded as a rescue for Fang Zhuo.

.

The sound of guilt made the nine grain merchants frightened and immediately knelt down, "Elder, we are also confused and confused for a moment, so we are like this. I beg the elder to let me go, I promise I will never dare to do it again!"

Another noisy begging for mercy filled the world. Fang Zhuo was freed from suspicion, but the grain in the warehouse could not really make wine. Now people outside could not eat enough, so the wine was produced and sold to the people.

Who is going? So, he stepped forward to plead for mercy for the nine grain merchants, "Elder, these people are also in great trouble. Please consider that their property has been burned down, so spare them for now!"

Hearing this, Elder Bao was obviously startled. He stared at Fang Zhuan with disbelief for a few breaths before asking: "You... don't care about them? They reported you as an arsonist! The crime of frame-up is absolutely unacceptable.

It’s not a small crime! These guys are obsessed with profit. If you give them rice at a low price, they will still sell it at a high price!”
To be continued...