Chapter 32: Meat case
Lu Xiangge, who was teasing Lu Xiaowu as he learned to walk in the cabin, was stunned when he saw Aunt Ding bringing her granddaughter.
Yesterday, their family ate the sausages sent by Aunt Ding, and Lu Sheige heard about the history of the Ding family's fortune in Jiangjiaba.
Originally, the biggest business in the Jiangjiaba murder case was not the Ding family, but a family called Wu Da.
The Wu family's business is good, but there is no way to prevent that man named Wu Da from having a bad heart.
The murder case at Wuhan University was inherited from his father, and his father inherited it from the grandfather at Wuhan University. In Jiangjiaba, the Wu family's murder case was not only 180 years old, but also several decades old.
There are three other butcher shops in the town, two of which are related to the Wu family.
One was a cousin from Wuhan University, and the other was a cousin from Wuhan University. Only later, the Ding family was weak and weak, and the number of local murder cases was small.
Logically speaking, if the Ding family comes to sell meat, they can't compete with Wuhan University.
No one expected that just a few years after the Ding family sold meat in the town, the Wu family's meat case in Jiangjiaba would be withdrawn.
To blame, we can only blame Wuhan University for being dishonest in doing business.
Wuhan University is a person who likes to take advantage of small things. He often collects sick and dead pigs from the countryside and brings them to slaughter.
When people were poor, they didn't say that sick and dead pigs should not be eaten. Countryside people were not so particular about it. They would not be willing to throw away pigs even if they were sick and dead.
In order to make money, Wuhan University pretends to be inferior quality, but the price is always the same as that of fresh pork.
Wuhan University was still not satisfied with this. It was often short of a few pounds. If a guest dared to question a question, he would scold him for half a day.
If the questioning customer is not from the town, but a farmer from the countryside, and he rarely comes to the town to buy meat, he can just throw the meat in the other person's face.
Not only was the meat dirty, but the money had to be paid in full.
The country people are a little jealous of the townspeople. Wu Da is a man who kills pigs and sheep for business, and he still holds a sharp knife in his hand. On weekdays, no one would really make a fuss with him.
When Boss Ding came to Jiangjiaba to kill pigs and sell meat, he was chased and scolded by Wu Da at first. However, Aunt Ding's uncle was the chief of the town's pavilion, and Wu Da did not dare to cause too much trouble no matter how unruly he was.
Moreover, the Ding family's butchery shop is at the end of town, far away from the vegetable market in the center of the town. They are almost all doing gate business, which does not take away much business from the Wu family.
On weekdays, Wu Da always cursed and said bad things about the Ding family, but Boss Ding and his wife, Aunt Ding, always greeted people with smiles and never said a bad word about Wu Da.
Mrs. Ding is good-looking, she keeps the butcher table clean, and she has a clever mouth and is a good talker. No matter how small the business is, she can always give customers a nod and make them feel comfortable and satisfied with their meat purchase.
For seven or eight years, the four butchery businesses in Jiangjiaba were doing fairly well.
It’s not like no one has ever thought that if they set up a butcher case in town, they could always earn three melons and two dates.
However, no matter how many people flow into Jiangjiaba, there are already four murder cases. It is already difficult to get involved here again.
A few years ago, Wuhan University went to the countryside to collect dead pigs and sell them. It happened that the man from Zhuangzi who was selling dead pigs met him when he went to the Wuhan University stall to buy meat.
This person came to buy meat because he knew that the Wu family sold dead pork and wanted to get a bargain.
Who would have known that Wuhan University not only did not sell the pigs cheaply, but also lacked jinsaoliang. It was pointed out that the dead pigs were sold at such high prices even though the pigs were sold at such high prices. However, Wuhan University said that they were not forgiving.
This man was also a powerful man, and they had a quarrel in front of the murder case.
He said that his family was selling dead pork, and that his family was making shady money for being short of money.
It happened that there was a gathering in Jiangjiaba that day, and the meat case was surrounded by people on three floors inside and three outside.
Almost all the nearby villages that go to Jiangjiaba for the market know that the short, fat, and slender butcher at Wu Da is a black-hearted person.
Not only was the meat sold short, but the dead pork and live pigs were sold at the same price.
It is not easy for country people to raise pigs. Even if the pigs die, they are reluctant to bury them.
Either kill Zhuangzi and sell them at a cheaper price, or give them to these pig butchers at a cheaper price.
If you sell dead pork, everyone will accept it.
But the price of your dead pork is the same as the price of live pork, which is still less than the price, so everyone cannot accept it.
I bought your dead pork just to get a bargain, but instead of taking advantage of it, you took advantage of me. Who would want that?
Finally, Wu Da's blood surged, and he stabbed him with the butcher's knife in his hand.
No one was killed on the spot, and Wuhan University was also arrested on the spot.
There was only one brother in Wuhan University, so his family's murder case was empty. The other two relatives didn't want to reach out, but the Ding family took over.
The Ding family occupied the location of the Wu family's murder case, and their own murder case near the gate was not lost.
There are still four butcher shops in the town, but two of them belong to the Ding family.
This matter, while eating braised pork intestines yesterday, Lu Quan took advantage of the wine and gossiped about it at the table.
Everyone thinks that the Ding family is kind, kind and honest in business.
Good things come to good people.
Only Lu Sheige didn't think so.
The Ding family was able to get the Wu family's murder case first, and the other two families didn't hesitate. This shows that the Ding family is quite capable.
Wu Datu sells dead pigs cheaply not once or twice. It is such a coincidence that Master Zhuangzi who sells dead pigs happened to come to the meat counter to buy meat, and was shortchanged.
Most country people are honest. Even if they know that they have suffered a loss, as long as they make up for it at the time, they will not make a fuss about it and let the whole world know about it.
But for this man, when Wuhan University later provided him with the missing meat, he not only refused, but also said that Wuhan University was going too far in bullying others.
It was a market again, so things got a little big.
Wu Da was originally a butler of pigs and sheep, and he had a bad temper. He lost control in a moment of anger.
Lu Quan also heard that the man who died was a sick man who had less than two years to live. The sick man had an old man and a young man, and the family was in dire straits because of his illness.
After this man died, Wu University lost his life, and the Wu family also lost a large sum of money. Boss Ding was kind enough to send money to the family to help with the funeral arrangements.
Later, the deceased's family moved to another town and never came back.
On the surface, Wuhan University is unlucky. The death of a sick man in that family can be considered a benefit.
In fact, it was the Ding family that really benefited in the end.
Lu Shege also didn't expect that Aunt Ding would come to the boat.
What I didn't even expect was that because she sent a bowl of braised pork sausage to the Ding family, Aunt Ding came to the ship to discuss cooperation with her mother.
After sitting in the front cabin of the Lu family's boat, Aunt Ding and Qiu chatted for a long time. When they saw Lu Xiaoyu taking her granddaughter's hand to play on the deck, she smiled and turned to the topic.
"Sister Qiu, since I'm here, I won't say these kind words to you. I'm here this time because I want to do business with your family."
Aunt Ding's eyes had already glanced at the Lu family's small cabin several times when she entered. Although the Lu family's cabin was small, it was neatly tidied up.
In this Lu family, no matter adults or children, even if their clothes are shabby, they are all washed clean and patched neatly, which makes people look comfortable.
Even the hand that Qiu stretched out unintentionally looked rough, and there was no mud hidden between the nails like her neighbor's just now.
The adults are clean, the children are clean, and everything on and off the boat is also clean.
Although this family is poor, everything is neat, clean and comfortable.
Chapter completed!