Zhu Nao

"How could the flood destroy the embankment?" Li Shen couldn't believe it, "Didn't the new embankment be built at the end of last year?!"

The aunt sighed sadly: "This year, there is enough rain. It rained heavily for several days, and the river swelled so much that the new embankment was washed away!"

"It's raining a little bit," Li Shen almost bit his tongue, "but why..." Summer is the rainy season, and every year it rains heavily every day.But this year's rain is not the most, especially last year when the river embankment was newly built, so it should not be said.

The aunt waved her hand, not wanting to talk to him, and went home with a few bags of rice, ready to put down her things and rush to buy food for disaster relief.

The playboys who laughed at Zhu Nao just now were all at a loss.

At this time, Li Shen was still stubborn: "How is it possible...how could such a thing happen! Could it be that Zhu Nao deliberately spread rumors in the city in order to raise the price of food?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not answering his words.

After a while, Zhang Xiang spoke first: "I remember some things at home, let's go first!" Without waiting for everyone to ask, he buried his head in the rain and ran towards home.

Several other people also reacted one after another.Langzhou City is far away from the river, and the flood will not rush into the city.But once the Xia flood broke out, thousands of acres of fertile land would inevitably be destroyed, and a large number of people would be displaced.In a few days, Langzhou City will also be affected, and there will be a shortage of food and supplies.At that time, it is not a question of how much money can buy food, but that even if you have money, you may not be able to buy food.

"I have something to do at home, I'll go back first."

"Ah, my stomach hurts! I'll go back and rest first."

The fox friends and dog friends sneaked away one after another, and they were gone in a flash.In the heavy rain, Li Shen was the only one left standing there stupidly, watching the people in the city rush to the market like crazy to buy supplies.

Not long after, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, and rushed into the crowd to grab food together.

Just as the aunt said, the heavy rain caused the river to surge, the river mouth burst its embankment, and the flood rushed into the plain, destroying thousands of acres of fertile land.This Langzhou City is tens of miles away from the river port. Although the flood did not rush into Langzhou City, the prices in Langzhou City are also soaring day by day.

When the market opened early in the morning, the price of rice was [-] yuan per bucket; when the market closed at dusk, the price of rice had risen to [-] yuan per bucket; It was looted and emptied.

Originally, natural disasters and man-made disasters are often good opportunities for merchants to make a fortune.They have a lot of money in their hands, so they can take the opportunity to hoard supplies and drive up prices.But at this time, when they wanted to stockpile grain, they were all dumbfounded: the surplus grain in the city had already been exhausted by Zhu Nao, so how could it be their turn?

So Zhu Nao once again became a hot topic of discussion after dinner.

In the teahouse, a dude resentfully said: "Then Zhu Nao can predict the future, right? Otherwise, he can always calculate so accurately? He can even calculate the bankrupt incident of the river mouth a few months in advance..."

"Bah!" Li Shen spat, "What a prophet, he just got lucky!"

"Is there such shit luck in the world?" Another person sneered, "Then why didn't you come across it?"

They were chatting when they suddenly saw Zhang Xiang leading a young man into the teahouse.When everyone saw Zhang Xiang, they hurriedly called him over.

"Why did you come? I've been waiting for you for a long time." Li Shen complained while looking at the man Zhang Xiang brought.I saw that the man was wearing short sackcloth, he was short but very strong.Looking at this dress, it looks like a porter for others.Li Shen showed a disgusted expression and asked, "Who is this person?"

Zhang Xiang pretended to be mysterious and said, "Guess what? It took me a lot of effort to find him."

Li Shen disdains: "You bring a flower girl, we are still interested in playing guessing games with you. You bring a big man, tell us to guess what? Guess who has the longest dick, you or him?"

His obscenities made everyone laugh.

Zhang Xiang was ashamed and annoyed, his face collapsed, and he said: "It seems that you don't want to know about Zhu Nao anymore."

Everyone was shocked and stopped laughing.Zhang Xiang waved his hands and wanted to leave, but was stopped, he was coaxed with good and bad words, and finally he calmed down.

One of them said with a smile: "My good brother, don't take Joe, just tell me quickly. Who is this person? What does he know?"

Zhang Xiang then said leisurely: "Do you remember that some time ago, Zhu Nao went out of the city to buy goods. He was supposed to go for a month, but he came back in half a month?"

"Remember! After he came back, he closed the pharmacy and started hoarding food." One person hurriedly said, "Now that I think about it, something must have happened to him on the road that made him know in advance that the river embankment would collapse!"

"This man is the porter who traveled with Zhu Nao that time." Zhang Xiang said triumphantly, "It took me a lot of effort to find him. Just ask him if you have any questions."

The crowd was shocked, and hurriedly offered a chair for the porter to sit down, served him tea, fanned him, and asked him about his experience of going out of the city with Zhu Nao.

The porter had benefited from Zhang Xiang, and after drinking two sips of tea, he confessed honestly.

"We had been driving for seven or eight days that day, and we took a mountain road in Loushan. The road was steep and narrow, and only one car and horse could pass at a time, so we had to be very careful. We walked more than half of the way. At Shichen, as he was about to finish walking that section of the mountain road, a group of officers and soldiers, with chariots and horses, came to meet us. The two groups of us were blocked there, and neither could we make it through, nor could they. Farther away, they should turn back and let us go, but that team of officers and soldiers is very domineering, insisting that we let us turn back..." Speaking of this, the porter was full of indignation, "Do you think those officers and soldiers are too unreasonable? They It only takes half a cup of tea to go out, and an hour is not enough for us to turn around and come back! The mountain road is so difficult to walk, and it is not easy for us to go all the way. Not to mention the time delay, the animals pulling the cart can't move..."

Those playboys listened to him chattering nonsense, but never got to the point, they were so anxious and embarrassed to rush.Li Shen still couldn't listen anymore, and couldn't help but said: "Okay, okay, what's the point with a bunch of soldiers and bandits? You hurry up and talk about it, what happened later?"

The porter was interrupted by him, paused, and said: "We wanted to argue with those officers and soldiers. The owner probably told us to turn around because he was afraid of offending the officers and soldiers—" After a few words, he couldn't help complaining. "Those soldiers and bandits will only show off to our common people. Once they encounter bandits, they will run faster than anyone else! ——No way, we can only go back down the mountain and let the officers and soldiers pass. When the officers and soldiers are gone, we plan to Continue on our way. It was late at that time, and if we didn’t hurry up, we wouldn’t be able to reach the next town before dark. But the owner said, let’s not go any further, we’ve already turned around anyway, so let’s just go back and forget about it.”

He said he was thirsty, picked up his teacup and took another big gulp.When he put down the cup, all the people on the table looked at him eagerly.

Porter: "..."

Everyone: "..."

Porter: "..."

A table of people stared at each other for a while, Li Shen said inexplicably: "And then?! Why didn't you say anything?"

"Then?" The porter scratched his head, "Our boss told us to go back, so we went back."

Everyone: "…………"

"No, no," Li Shen confused him, "Where did Zhu Nao tell you to go back?"

"Go back to Langzhou. Later, we didn't go to buy goods, so we went back to Langzhou directly."

Li Kun and the others were dumbfounded.What they wanted to know was why Zhu Nao suddenly returned to Langzhou. As a result, the porter accused the officers and soldiers of being domineering and unreasonable, and said a lot of nonsense, but missed the real point in one sentence.What do you mean by "I have turned around anyway, so I just go back and forget it"? ?Is this human? ?

Li Shen was anxious to scratch the wall: "Why on earth did he let you go back?!"

The porter also looked puzzled: "I don't know either! It's so good, I've been driving for several days, and it's almost here, why do you suddenly let us go back? Didn't the boss make those officers and soldiers confused?"

Everyone: "..."

Li Shen suspected that the porter was pretending to be crazy and teasing them, so he slapped the table and stood up angrily, pointing at the porter's nose: "You..."

Several people around him hurriedly pushed him down, trying to persuade him to calm down.Li Shen thought that the porter did it on purpose, but others didn't think so.They all know Zhu Nao, this kind of thing that makes Zhang Er scratching his head is indeed like Zhu Nao's doing, and they can't blame the porter.

Zhu Nao suddenly changed his mind, it must have something to do with that group of officers and soldiers.Maybe something happened, but the porter didn't notice.So if you want to figure it out, you have to start with these officers and soldiers.Zhang Xiang thought for a while and asked, "Do you know what the officers and soldiers you met in the valley did?"

The porter thought for a while, and then replied: "I remember that the truck they transported the cargo contained a lot of stones, haystacks, and some tools...it seemed to be going to build fortifications."

A man named Wang Xi on the table was taken aback for a moment, as if he had thought of something, he hurriedly asked, "Do you know where that team of officers and soldiers is going?"

The porter said honestly, "I seem to have heard that they are going to Yuzhou."

Hearing the word "Yuzhou", Wang Xi's eyes lit up, and he said, "Sure enough! I understand!"

The others were still at a loss, and turned their attention to Wang Xi one after another: "What do you understand?"

Wang Xi said: "Do you know that in the beginning of spring, a section of the river embankment near Yuzhou collapsed?"

Some people nodded, some shook their heads.The distance between Langzhou and Yuzhou is only tens of miles, but there are mountains blocking each other.Some people are well-informed and know the news long ago; some people don't care about current affairs, so they haven't heard of it.

"Some time ago, a guest from my family came from Yuzhou. He said that there was a heavy rain at the beginning of spring this year, and the river was flooded, which washed away a section of the embankment over there. Later, the government sent people to repair it. That day Zhu Nao met Yes, most likely they are the officers and soldiers who went to Yuzhou to repair the embankment." Wang Xi frowned and thought for a moment, then said: "Could it be that, what did those officers and soldiers say to Zhu Nao that Zhu Nao knew in advance that the flood would burst the embankment? "

Everyone thought so.

Only the porter patted his head foolishly: "If those officers and soldiers knew that the embankment would collapse, why didn't they fix it?"

Everyone was taken aback again.The porter's words reminded them that the officers and soldiers really shouldn't know about the fact that the flood will burst the embankment.How can they be sure what will happen a few months later?Secondly, there are a lot of people talking about it, if this kind of thing really happened, it should have been spread by now, it doesn't make sense that only Zhu Nao knows about it.

Since it wasn't what the officers and soldiers said, it was Zhu Nao who discovered something.

After a while, Zhang Xiang showed a wry smile: "According to what the porter said, when they were on their way that day, they ran into a group of officers and soldiers repairing the river embankment in Yuzhou... As long as Zhu Nao knew what these officers and soldiers were going to do, I would You can probably guess what he was thinking."

Li Shen hurriedly asked: "How do you say?"

Zhang Xiang said slowly: "Think about it, the river embankment was only built last year, and this year should be the strongest time. However, the spring rain in Yuzhou and the high tide washed away the new embankment... Big, can it be big enough to pass the summer rain? The spring tide can rise to surpass the summer flood? Since the levee can't even hold back the spring water, it is no surprise that it was washed away by the summer flood?"

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but gritted his teeth: "Those dog officials have kept the river embankment so vulnerable! The Baili Long Embankment was built at one time, and Yuzhou collapsed this spring. Fortunately, the water in spring is not strong enough. Gao, it didn’t cause a catastrophe. What about other places? After Xia Hong came, everything collapsed... This is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster! Zhu Nao must have figured this out a long time ago, so he started stockpiling grain early.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.Now the imperial court has long been rotten and maggots, and the local government has acted recklessly, extorting and extorting.And all of them present, no matter their family circumstances are good or bad, they are all common people in this world, who can escape?Thinking of this, their eyes were dimmed and their heads were downcast.

Li Shen suddenly kicked the leg of the table angrily.Everyone thought that he was dissatisfied with the world, but they didn't expect that when he opened his mouth, he would still scold Jun Nao: "I said, how did Jun Nao know how to stockpile food, and when he got here, it really was his shit luck! He went out to buy something , to be able to encounter such a good thing...God is really annoying!"

Everyone was speechless.Several of their families are businessmen, and they are also jealous and jealous of Zhu Nao who suddenly became rich.On weekdays when Li Shen scolded Zhu Nao, they would all agree with him.But this time, when Li Shen said that Zhu Nao was lucky, it was hard for them to agree.

Some of them already knew about the collapse of the dam in Yuzhou in the spring, but how many of them thought that the rainy season in summer would cause the flood to burst?Even if they thought about it, how many of them would have the courage to sell all the businesses they were doing right, and make a desperate gamble?Not only was there no one among them, but there was no second Zhu Nao in the whole Langzhou city.

Thinking of this, several people were overshadowed, and several people were worried.

"That Zhu Nao is really..." Wang Xi frowned and said, "The so-called strong dragon does not overwhelm the local snake. He is a foreigner, he has only been here for a few years, and he has run out of us who have been rooted here for generations. It's a joke."

The others nodded approvingly.What happened this time made them secretly admire Jun Nao, but it also aggravated their jealousy towards Jun Nao.If there is no Zhu Nao, these merchants will definitely hoard supplies wantonly, taking advantage of natural disasters and man-made disasters to make a good fortune.But now, there is no room for them to flex their muscles.

A businessman seeks profit, and the one who takes profit is the enemy.

Several people looked at me and I looked at you, and soon reached a tacit consensus: Zhu Nao can no longer be allowed to act recklessly in Langzhou City!