SEC Chapter 158 Granary
Chapter 158 Granary
After completing the routine work, Song Chunlin found that he had not been home for several days. While it was still early, he decided to go home.
We rushed back home. Song Qin was cooking. Song Chunming and Song Chunxiao were sitting in the yard writing big characters. Zhou Ning was holding little Yuanyuan and feeding her. Little Yuanyuan can eat and defecate now, and can drink 100 ml of milk in one meal.
During the meal, Song Dazhuang couldn't help but condemn Song Chunlin's bad behavior of not being home all day. Song Chunlin knew he was in the wrong and could only pretend to be pitiful and admit his mistake.
Song Dazhuang didn't really want to blame him, but he was just a young man after all. In two years, he would be able to get married, but he was still running around outside all day. His family members naturally knew Song Chunlin's abilities, but outsiders didn't know. Besides, the world outside was so chaotic. If Song Chunlin went out and met a beggar one day, he might just kill the person.
Yes, what they are worried about now is not Song Chunlin’s safety, but the safety of the people who angered Song Chunlin.
Song Chunlin didn't expect that they would worry about this. After some contemplation, he found that their worries seemed to be correct...
Only Zhou Ning and Song Daha did not understand the Song family's concerns at all, and Fu Nian even spoke out to comfort everyone.
"Chunlin has always had his own ideas. He is brave and skilled. I think he will not suffer any loss."
Song Dahe snorted coldly: "Not only will he not suffer any loss, I think he might even make others suffer in return."
Song Chunlin, who had just made those aristocratic families suffer a loss, said, well, what his second uncle said was right.
After dinner, Song Dazhuang called someone to the study and asked him whether the recent haunting of the grain store in the capital was caused by Song Chunlin.
Song Chunlin thought about it and nodded: "I did it, Dad, has the price of grain dropped recently?"
Song Dazhuang: "Of course it has been reduced, and it has been reduced by a lot. Did you do this?"
Song Chunlin said proudly: "Of course, ahem, I didn't do it alone, I worked with others."
Song Dazhuang didn't expect that he actually had an accomplice, and his eyes widened immediately: "You found an accomplice? Who is it? Is it that Gu Fengyue?"
Song Chunlin felt that Song Dazhuang was gritting his teeth when he mentioned Gu Fengyue's name, and said, "No."
When Song Dazhuang heard that it was not Gu Fengyue, he felt relieved. However, Song Chunlin's words made his heart jump up again, and it almost jumped out of his throat.
Song Chunlin said: "I did it together with the emperor and the marquis."
When Song Dazhuang heard about the emperor and the marquis's mansion, his eyes almost popped out.
"What? Who did you say you did it with?"
Song Chunlin's ears were buzzing because of his loud voice. He couldn't help but pick his ears: "Dad, please keep your voice down. My ears are going deaf."
Song Dazhuang was almost scared to death by him, but this kid actually disliked his father's loud voice.
"Dad, why are you so surprised? This is not the first time we have cooperated with the court."
"No, how can it be the same?" Song Dazhuang said unhappily, "Who did you inherit this courage from? You are so bold. Tell me, what have you been doing in the capital? I have seen you go out early and come back late these days, and you even stay out all night."
Song Chunlin chuckled and told everything he had done in the capital, including, of course, the fact that he had stolen from the grain shops.
When Song Dazhuang heard that he had sold grain at a low price and made a large sum of money, the corners of his mouth could not help but twitch. When Song Chunlin said that he had stolen all the grain from the grain shops, the corners of his mouth twitched even more violently.
"Hehe, the output of my space has always been in a state of surplus. There is so much food piled up there, but I can't take it out to eat. Now, I have cleared a large area of space in my space, and I can stock up like crazy again."
Looking at his son's excited little face, Song Dazhuang found himself feeling speechless.
"I was wondering why the grain price dropped so quickly. In just three days, the grain price in Changping Town plummeted. Now it is a few cents lower than last year's price. If we didn't have a large amount of grain at home, I would have been tempted to bring back a truckload."
After knowing that the rice and flour were sold by his son, Song Dazhuang stopped asking questions and just told Song Chunlin to go out less, as it was already November and the market would soon open.
Song Chunlin said "OK" and ran into his room. Dabao was working diligently on the land. When he saw Song Chunlin coming, he excitedly came to him to get close to him. Since he discovered the correct way to use spiritual power, Dabao has been obsessed with "possessing" various tools, toys, and equipment. Later, Song Chunlin couldn't stand it anymore and simply picked a cotton doll from the pile of toys for it to "possess."
Dabao didn't like the cotton doll very much. He thought its head was too big and its arms and legs were too short. However, since Song Chunlin had chosen it, he would just "use" it reluctantly.
So at this moment in the space, a cotton doll wearing pumpkin overalls was burying its hands and feet in Song Chunlin's arms, rubbing against him frantically.
"Master, master, the grapes are ripe again. Shall we make wine?"
"Is it ripe? Have you collected them all?"
Dabao nodded frantically: "Collect it, collect it, collect it all, add up to about 40,000 to 50,000 kilograms."
There are actually so many grapes. Song Chunlin's eyes lit up. With so many grapes, let alone making wine, even if they are dried into raisins, there would be several thousand kilograms, right?
Speaking of raisins, Song Chunlin has never tried it. He touched his chin, looking at the mountain of grapes, thinking that if he didn't try to make some, he recalled the method of making raisins he saw on the Internet in his previous life. He certainly couldn't build a house, but he could still get enough sunlight. It happened that it was always daytime in the space, so he planned to make some racks, set them up at the foot of the mountain, and then hang the grapes on them to dry.
Song Chunlin did what he said. There were tools and materials in the space. He first took a few bundles of bamboo poles, dragged them to the foot of the mountain with a small forklift, found a flat open space, built a few simple racks, and then asked Dabao to transport the grapes over.
The space has a fresh-keeping function, and these grapes still look like they were just picked. Song Chunlin can smell the rich grape aroma when he holds them in his hands.
"Wow, it smells so good. What kind of variety is this, Dabao? It smells so good."
Dabao thought about it and said, "It seems to be called Rose or something, Dabao forgot."
Song Chunlin didn't care about it and just forgot about it.
"I wonder if it will still have the rose scent after drying." Song Chunlin ran around and hung several racks with grapes. He also remembered that they should not be hung too close and that a certain amount of space should be maintained for air circulation.
After everything was done, the grain in the space was ripe again, and Song Chunlin resigned himself to collecting the grain.
Because Song Chunlin helped stabilize grain prices, the conspiracy of the aristocratic families in the capital not only failed, but they were also frightened by what Song Chunlin did later.
Zhao Fei was a veteran and found that as long as he did not deliver grain to the grain shop, the thieves would not patronize his shop. Therefore, he gave up the idea of raising the price and lived a very quiet life.
On the other hand, ever since the head of the Li family was so angry at the thief that he fell ill, some of the business has been handed over to his son one after another. The head of the Li family is ruthless, but his son seems to be more docile. After learning that the thief who stole the grain shop is probably not a human, he acted cautiously, sometimes even too cautiously.
With the impact of the low-price grain shops, the Li family's grain shops also lowered their prices. However, the eldest son Li was still reluctant to sell the grain at a low price. The price was lowered, but compared with the grain price in the Marquis' Mansion, it was still much more expensive, and the quality was not as good as those grown in Song Chunlin's space.
In order to avoid greater losses, the head of the Li family had already closed half of the shops, and the remaining half is still struggling to survive.
Other noble families were not in the grain business, so their shops were closed and it did not have much impact on their families. But the Li family was different. As the largest grain merchant in the capital, closing half of their shops at once was like breaking their hands and feet. No wonder the head of the Li family was so angry that he fell ill.
As usual, Song Chunlin came to the capital city in the evening. He first used his mental power to scan and found that there was actually a shop selling rice and flour grown by himself. This was intolerable, so Song Chunlin went in without saying a word and robbed the other party's shop. After that, he found out that it was Li's shop.
Song Chunlin thought of what Gu Fengyue said, that the Li family was the largest grain merchant in the capital. Compared with the Li family, the grain shops of other families were just like playing house.
"Just playing house. I wonder how much food they have stored in their warehouses?"
Song Chunlin chuckled: "Since I'm here, it doesn't seem to be my style if I don't bring something back."
With his mental power covering the entire capital city, Song Chunlin found the Li family's warehouse without much effort. However, when he saw what was inside the warehouse, he was completely stunned.
The huge granary only holds one tenth of the grain. How much is one tenth? At most, more than 10,000 catties. This 10,000 catties may sound like a lot, but the Li family has many shops, all over the capital, large and small. If 10,000 catties is distributed, it will not cover that many miles.
"That's not right. Such a small amount of inventory is not worthy of the title of the number one grain merchant, right?" Song Chunlin was puzzled. He used his mental power to search the warehouses of other families and found that the grain reserves in these people's warehouses were only half at most.
In other words, if he had not stolen the food from these people, the food stored in their own warehouses would not have lasted long.
"No wonder they keep raising the price again and again. It turns out they really have no food." Song Chunlin scratched his head and then thought that it didn't seem right. This year is clearly a bumper year and the price of food is higher than last year. It is impossible for these people to really not collect any food at all. This is not in line with the temperament of this group of unscrupulous businessmen.
Song Chunlin instinctively felt that something was wrong. It had been wrong since the price increase. Now he found that there was not much grain in their warehouses. Things seemed even more wrong.
He paced back and forth in the empty warehouse. After walking around for several times, Song Chunlin decided not to hesitate and treat everyone equally. Then he waved his hand and collected all the remaining food in the warehouse.
This time he was taking over the warehouse, and the progress was very fast, and he got the job done in less than three hours.
The next morning, when the guys who came to transport grain opened the door of the warehouse, they were all dumbfounded.
The manager guarding the warehouse was so shocked that he ran around the emptied warehouse several times. However, no matter how many times he ran, there was nothing in the warehouse.
"Impossible!" The manager didn't believe it. "When I locked the door yesterday, there was clearly a batch of grain in the warehouse. How come after only one night, the grain is gone?"
The waiter next to him supported the steward who was almost unable to stand and reminded him in a trembling voice: "Steward, let's go report to the head of the family first. We can't afford to take the blame for losing so much food at once."
The manager was suddenly enlightened by his reminder. He almost climbed out of the warehouse using his hands and feet, and then ran to report to the head of the family in a hurry.
The head of the Li family was already seriously ill. When he heard that the thieves had even spared his warehouse, he became so angry that he vomited blood.
"Oh no, the master of the family is vomiting blood, someone come quickly!" The steward ran out in a panic to find a doctor, but he didn't see that his master was lying on the bed with his eyes rolled up.
When the doctor arrived, the head of the family was already breathing weakly. He immediately gave him an acupuncture. After the acupuncture, the head of the Li family woke up slowly. The doctor fed him a pill, and after taking the pill, the man regained consciousness completely.
Compared with the chaos in the Li family, in the Zhao Mansion, after Zhao Fei listened to the report from his subordinates, a smile of "as expected" appeared on his face. He waved his subordinates away and sat down on the chair somewhat dejectedly.
"Who are you and why did you come to us?"
Unlike the Li and Zhao families, the other noble families were furious when they found out their warehouses were robbed, and then they all went to the Jingzhao prefect together. The Jingzhao prefect, who had been unable to solve the case for a long time, smiled bitterly. Facing these people's urging and accusations, the Jingzhao prefect really wanted to resign. It was said that the Jingzhao prefect was bullied from both sides, and it was true. If he had known earlier, he would have donated more silver. It would have been better than being the Jingzhao prefect, being scolded by these noble families every day.
After finally sending the man away, the Jingzhao prefect wiped the sweat from his forehead and without even having time to drink a sip of water, he immediately rushed to the stolen warehouse to check. Although he had no hope of finding any clues, he still had to put on a good show.
The first family that the Jingzhao prefect visited was the Li family. The head of the Li family was so angry that he was critically ill, and it was his son who reported the matter to the authorities.
Looking at the empty granary, Jingzhao Prefecture Yin felt his eyes go dark. He asked in a trembling voice: "My Lord, may I ask about this granary? It shouldn't have been full before, right?"
The eldest son said with a sad face: "Of course, as soon as the grain this year came down, we went to the countryside to collect it. This granary is just one of them. It is the largest granary in our Li family. All the harvested grain is stored here."