Infrastructure masters in the red building

Jia Fang was surprised and asked Shui Xian: "...No, you are the one who opened these three banks, right?"

If that's the case, what kind of "trench" is the person next to him?

"No," Shui Xian replied casually, "the value of the grain confiscated by the three banks far exceeded the money they lent. Half of the grain was sold to the official warehouse at a low price, and the other half was sent to the refugee camp on the East Road outside the city. There will be no loss in the bank, but no profit or loss."

"Believe in their three banks, when they hear this song now, they will feel that they are doing the right thing."

Shuixian made such predictions along with the people singing "multiplication, division, addition and subtraction, there is a sky above".

Jia Fang thinks about it too.

At this time, some people in the capital were already rushing to tell each other, and some people planned to pick up the stuff right away and queue up in front of the official warehouse—since it was cheap food, it was natural to buy it all at once.

There are also some people who heard the story of the "gold and silver rice" in detail, laughed and said: "'Tasting a hundred grains', 'Tasting a hundred grains', this is called hunting geese all day long, and the geese pecked their eyes. If he hadn't misidentified Jinyindao all of a sudden, we wouldn't have witnessed such a miracle today."

Some people also said: "The day that young master sent 'gold and silver rice' to Beijing is almost still in sight. Hahaha, who knew that guy was also a profiteer, this is really wicked..."

Before the words were finished, the person who spoke had his mouth covered: "Shut up! Haven't you heard? The young man who sent 'gold and silver rice' to Beijing that day is no profiteer, he is the incarnation of a Bodhisattva!"

"Yes, yes, without him, how could we have seen these big food companies have today?"

When Jia Fang heard someone mention Lin Ruhai, he immediately raised his ears and listened carefully.

"When you said that, I also remembered that the young man is young and handsome, and he really has a good appearance."

"Yes, do you remember that his companion, didn't he guide us to buy gouache at Rougefang?"

Now everyone remembered.

"exactly!"

"Isn't it just a Bodhisattva descending to earth?"

Jia Fang couldn't help laughing, thinking that it's a pity that Xiao Lin didn't come today - but it would be even worse if Xiao Lin was recognized.

He thought for a while, and said to Shui Xian beside him: "You are right, 'Bai Gu Chang' is indeed a good person."

In the whole plan, the most critical thing is this "Hundred Valley Taste" shopkeeper Shao.He accepted his role in this plan and lost the reputation he had accumulated for decades. Between the well-being of himself and the general public, he chose the latter.It is indeed worthy of respect.

From then on, there will be no "Hundred Valley Taste" in Beijing.

"Yes!" Shui Xian nodded, staring at Yu Qingxing in the distance, "Without him, we would have to fight head-to-head now, take out the last grain in our hands, and fight with the opposite side to lose both sides. With him , now it’s not a loss-making situation.”

Unexpectedly, there were voices at the end of the official road in the distance, Shui Xian looked around and saw a yellow umbrella cover, moving towards this side unsteadily, couldn't help frowning, and annoyance appeared in his eyes .He said, "Look, here comes the peach pickers."

Jia Fang poked his head, he had never seen the royal guards of honor before, and he had no idea what Shui Xian meant by "picking peaches".Jia Fang didn't know until he heard other people talking about it that it was the prince who came.

Jia Fang immediately understood where Shui Xian's annoyance came from.

Looking at the whole process of dealing with the drought this time, the prince's performance was really lackluster.From being indecisive and inactive at the beginning, to seeing that the situation was not right, he abruptly transferred the fourth prince to the East Road to set up a refugee camp. It made people feel that the crown prince was out of order and lacked determination.

But at this time, the food price crisis in Beijing is about to be resolved, and the people's emotions are at their highest.But the prince was suddenly so clever, came to pick up ready-made ones, and took all the credit for himself?

Jia Fang was also very depressed. Although he and Shui Xian had been working in secret all along and didn't need the gratitude of the people, but at the last moment, it was really uncomfortable to be picked away by someone who had already ripened the peaches.

The crown prince's shining canopy wobbled towards this side, and the common people shouted long live, and bowed down with great gratitude.

Neither Shui Xian nor Jia Fang wanted to stay in front of Yu Qingxing, so they both turned their hands behind their backs at the same time, turned and left, and retreated far away to the other side of the side street, looking over here.

It was the first time Jia Fang met the prince.From a distance, the prince was a little thin and his face was pale.Jia Fang thought of Jia She's evaluation of the prince - "better than the hands of a woman in the deep palace", which is quite appropriate.

It took a lot of effort for the prince and his guard of honor to pass through the dense crowd and arrive in front of Yu Qingxing.

The Tai students who had disappeared in the crowd appeared out of nowhere at this time, and saluted the prince one after another, calling them "students".The prince stretched out his hand to help them up one by one, as if to comfort them with gentle words.These imperial students stood with their chests and bellies raised, as if they were the ones who turned the tide and saved the common people.

Having seen the imperial student, the prince stood in front of Yu Qingxing, stretched out his hands and put them lightly in the air, as if he was about to speak.

At this time, tens of thousands of people who had heard the good news flocked to Yu Qingxing. Seeing the gesture of the prince, they knew that he was about to speak, and the huge open space in front of Yu Qingxing suddenly fell silent.

The prince's expression showed that he was very satisfied with this, he cleared his throat, ready to open his mouth to harvest the wave of public opinion in front of him.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the sky quickly darkened, and a gust of wind blew past. Everyone in front of Yu Qingxing was blinded by the flying sand and rocks.

Immediately afterwards, there was a thunder in the sky, and in an instant, the sky was like a bathtub with a leak, and the rain fell from the sky with a "splash", instantly drenching everyone in front of Yu Qingxing.

The prince standing on the steps of the food line was very embarrassed: the umbrella cover in his honor guard was completely for ceremonial decoration, and it had no purpose of keeping out the rain.The rain came so quickly that he even forgot to take shelter in the food store, and was soaked in a lot of rain in an instant. Surrounded by eunuchs and guards who had regained consciousness, he temporarily hid in Yu Qinghang to avoid the sudden rainstorm.

The people in the rain had a completely different mentality: at the moment when the rainstorm suddenly hit, they forgot about the matter of the grain line and the matter of the prince, and they only had one thing in their eyes—it was raining.

What a heavy rain.

There are dense rain curtains hanging between the sky and the earth, and the most sincere joy and joy in the world are staged between the rain curtains.God finally rained, God is willing to forgive the world, this drought will not continue after all?

From then on, there will be no more disasters and sufferings, and the days will return to the way they were before. Although life is full of various small hardships, there is always hope, so that people have the courage to live like this day by day.

Between the rain curtains, people waved their arms towards the sky, hugging each other wantonly, and some people caught the rainwater with both hands, drank it in one gulp without any psychological burden, and then took the arms of the people around them, regardless of their hair and clothes. All wet, just sing and dance in the rain, completely forget all your troubles at this moment, and enjoy the moment.

How could there be such a coincidence?

Just before the prince was about to speak before Yu Qing's trip and say a few words to win people's hearts, the rain poured down the capital and the prince's wishful thinking.

Jia Fang was drenched in the first instant of the rain.His long follower, Zhao Cheng, and Jia She borrowed his two nursing homes to search for a shelter from the rain, but they couldn't find it.

Jia Fang turned around, but saw Shui Xian holding an umbrella in his hand.In the water curtain hanging directly from the sky and the earth, this person is still out of the world, calm and stable.

Shui Xian said something to him, but the sound of rain and people around him was too noisy for him to hear clearly, so he had no choice but to take a few steps under Shui Xian's umbrella.

The umbrella moved towards Jia Fang's head.

Shui Xian's other shoulder was immediately drenched, and Jia Fang finally heard the other party's words clearly: "Maybe you pick a good time, and I'm not allowed to prepare in advance?"

Jia Fang couldn't bear the urge to laugh, so he laughed out loud.

When he came out of Rongguo Mansion in the morning, he paid attention to the foundation stone in front of the gate of Rongguo Mansion, and touched the water with his hands.

The folk proverb "Moon halo makes wind, base moistens rain" has worked for thousands of years, and Jia Fang is willing to bet on it again.

But when he was in the Wanqing Building earlier, he saw no signs of rain, so he suggested that Shuixian should go out later and wait until noon.

Everyone knows what happened after noon, the Shuntian Mansion seized the grain stores of several major grain stores, the crown prince ran out to pick peaches, and saw that the peaches were about to be obtained—God did it.

At this time, which common people dare not believe the saying "there is a sky above"?Everyone was thanking God, but no one knelt down to thank the prince again.

However, Jia Fang really does not have the function of weather forecasting. This coincidence in timing is absolutely purely coincidental.Maybe there is really a will of God in the dark.

The prince was sitting in Yu Qing Xing, but he was really depressed.

The yamen servants of Shuntian Mansion escorted the staff of the grain store, counted the inventory in an orderly manner, put a seal on the warehouse, asked the people from the bank to sign the bond, and prepared for the handover between the official warehouse and the grain store...

The crown prince condescended to sit in the storefront of the food store, except for the guard of honor he carried with him, there was not even a person serving tea and water in the store.

There was heavy rain outside the door, and from time to time, the voices of the people cheering and celebrating came in through the rain curtain, but the prince only felt that his enthusiasm was low: "How can it be so good that it just caught up with such a rain?"

When he heard the news, he immediately decided to rush over to intervene, which was considered wise and decisive, but just now he was about to bring back his hesitant and weak-hearted image a while ago, but it happened to be a heavy rain .

The Eunuch Xia Xia, who was in charge of the Eastern Palace next to him, comforted in a low voice: "Your Highness, the people outside are kneeling and thanking God..."

"It's all thanks to God for being daring, but I don't have any credit at all." The prince finally couldn't help complaining.

He was very depressed, this time, people from all directions were waiting to see his jokes, and the old man who was squatting in Li Palace outside the city naturally watched with cold eyes.

But he thought to himself that he did not do badly. The burden of supervising the country is so heavy, and he must consider all aspects, not to mention that there are some who deliberately oppose him.

Now seeing that the biggest problem was suddenly solved, he ran out to pick a peach, but why was he disturbed by the rain?

But eunuch Xia still had something to say: "The emperor is the son of heaven, and you are the heir apparent. Now that you are in charge of the country, it also represents God's will."

He leaned close to the prince's ear and whispered, "Thank God, the common people are all grateful to you!"

The prince knew that this was an unreasonable word, but he was very happy to hear it.Now that the crisis in the city has been resolved, the overall situation on the west road outside the city has been settled, with the fourth younger brother and Duke Rong sitting in charge of the east road, everything is safe.Such a catastrophe was successfully resolved, even if he didn't do anything practical, it was all due to him!

What's even more reassuring is that several major grain stores in the city suffered heavy losses due to the "gold and silver rice" incident, and they will no longer follow the old man. The new road tax policy he advocated before can be implemented in autumn as a matter of course up.

Thinking of this, the prince sighed comfortably, remembered something, and asked: "By the way, isn't the shopkeeper of Yu Qinghang who claims to be a 'Hundred Grain Taste'? It is said that it is this time that he contacted the major grain companies to drive up the price of grain." The culprit?"

Shopkeeper Shao is the culprit who brags about "gold and silver rice", but he is not the one who drives up the price of grain.But Eunuch Xia never disobeyed the prince's words, and nodded repeatedly: "There is such a number one person."

Only then did the prince think of it, and stretched out two fingers, as if throwing a command arrow: "Catch him quickly, so that I can torture him for the reason."

Even if the Crown Prince does not order this matter, the Yamen servants of Shuntian Mansion will still do it.

Immediately, someone ran over and reported to the prince: "Your Highness, the backyard of Yu Qingxing's shop has been completely sealed off. After a search, the shopkeeper of the shop was not found. Some staff claimed that he was still there earlier, but when the Tai student came, there was a commotion outside. People disappear."

The prince patted the table and said: "Chasing, go to sea to arrest the documents, so as to track down these villains."

The Yamen servants in Shuntian Mansion were not directly ordered by the prince, but at the moment it was to save face, as if they were ordered to leave.Anyway, this errand Shuntian Fu Yin will also confess, why not sell favors to the prince?

Shopkeeper Shao stayed alone for a long time in the last empty firewood room of the grain store.

He heard the cheers in the distance that could lift the roof of the food store to the sky, and he had nothing to worry about anymore.

The drama about "gold and silver rice" has come to an end, and it doesn't make much sense for him to "taste a hundred grains" in this world.The person who entrusted him with this matter earlier had sent all his family and children away, saying that they had sent them to a safe place, waiting to be reunited with him.

But he didn't want to appear in front of his family with such a face—he was willing to destroy the reputation accumulated over 40 years.But without the title of "Bai Gu Chang", Shao Bainian is nothing, and he can't do anything without grain... He doesn't want to spend the rest of his life as a "useless person" in front of his wife and children .

In addition, he did betray his boss and bully his colleagues.The world can certainly laugh at him as pedantic, but he does believe that if you lose faith, you will lose the foundation of being a human being.Shui Xian's kindness, he thought he probably wouldn't need it.

When shopkeeper Shao put his neck into the rope, he heard the sound of thunder in the distance. Before he had time to kick off the scorpion under his feet, he heard the sound of rain and smelled the smell of dust stirred up by the rain.

He believed that this gnawing drought was over and that he, too, could go away without any problems.

So he kicked off the stick and exhaled the last breath from his chest.

But before he completely lost consciousness, Shopkeeper Shao felt that his feet were on the ground again. He instinctively took a deep breath. took a bag.Someone picked him up and quietly carried him out of the shop.

——It was robbed?Who would rob a dying person like him.

Then someone put him in the car, and the ruts rumbled. "Bai Gu Taste" thought to himself: Is this going out of the city?

The car did not allow him to guess like this, and stopped after driving for a while, letting the patter of rain continuously knock on the curtain of the car.

I don't know how long it took, but the stationary car suddenly moved again, drove to the other side for a long time, and finally stopped.Someone held shopkeeper Shao's arm and helped him out of the car.

A clear young man's voice asked, "Are you okay?"

Shopkeeper Shao was originally more sad than dying, but after dying once and not dying, the desire to die was not so urgent.

"I'll take you to a place, you just need to let me pull you forward." The young man's hands were relatively thin, and there were no calluses on them.

"Actually...you really don't need to worry about Lao Shao's humble life." Shopkeeper Shao hesitated, resisting in his heart.

"What if I say that what I want to take you to is a fairyland?"

"Fairyland?" Shopkeeper Shao still hesitated, but he had to admit that he was curious.

"Yes, it's a fairyland. So you need to be separated from your family for a while, at least... a year. After a year, you should be able to arrange for your reunion." The young man spoke very convincingly, and Shopkeeper Shao was taken by him. Having said that, he involuntarily raised his foot and followed.

His feet are always flat, but there are subtle differences between what he hears in his ears and what he smells in his nose.At the beginning, there were some voices faintly, but it became extremely quiet after a while, shopkeeper Shao could only hear the breathing of himself and the person who led the way in front of him.

Suddenly I saw, suddenly enlightened, and I could hear human voices and birdsong in my ears.Shopkeeper Shao also smelled the aroma of rice blossoms that he was all too familiar with.The young man let go of his hand and said to him: "This is a fairyland, I believe you will get used to it soon."

"In addition, the people here don't know your origin. I think you don't want to bring your past identity and origin here, do you?"

Shopkeeper Shao was covered by the black cloth bag, still shook vigorously, and said: "From today on, I am not some shopkeeper Shao, I am just old Shao. Where I lived and what I did before, naturally I will write it off. Never mention it again."

The boy answered "Yes", and stretched out his hand to remove the black cloth bag on Old Shao's head.The dazzling sunlight made Lao Shao unable to open his eyes for a long time.When he opened his eyes completely, Lao Shao froze in place:

This... this is really a fairyland!