The villain is far from my CP!

The street where the largest Fangshi in the eastern capital is located is called Xishui Street.

Because of the need to maintain the "city appearance" at the foot of the emperor, there are not many small merchants and hawkers on the street during the day, but there are many shops with regular standards.

However, a shop named "Huangliang Yimeng" closed its doors early and put up a closing sign.

As the name of the store says, this is a grain store, the owner's surname is Meng, and the main special rice grain is the golden rice produced in the Huainan area.

The husk of this rice is golden when it is ripe, so it is called golden rice.

But Meng Yi closed the shop early today, and the icy autumn wind blew over, making his heart feel cold.

He felt that the time-honored brand left by his ancestors might be destroyed in his hands.

The reason why Huang Liang Yimeng was able to monopolize the golden rice market in Dongdu was due to the relationship he had established in Jiangdu County for generations, such as Yan's family, the largest grain merchant in Jiangdu.

Although the Meng family has no direct relationship with the Yan family, they are family friends with a grain merchant of the Yan family faction.A few days ago, the grain merchant told him that the price of grain in Jiangdu had skyrocketed, and that even japonica rice like golden rice was being bought aggressively, and asked him if he wanted to get a piece of it.

Hearing the exorbitant price of grain in Jiangdu, greed and ambition filled his heart.Although there are suspicions of making money from natural disasters, but if you have money, you don't make a bastard. Anyway, the disaster victims have the court to support them.

Furthermore, even if the imperial court can't handle it, those untouchables died early, so why should they stay in the world and suffer.

He had a fit of gambling and sent all the silver in his hand to Jiangdu. Later, when he heard that all the polished round-grained rice had been sold at a high price, he couldn't help but borrowed usury money and continued to invest in it, seeking huge profits.

But who knows, more than a month ago, the group of grain merchants from Feiyan's faction in Jiangdu suddenly started to sell a large amount of grain out of compassion, as if they had eaten Guanyin fruit, and they had no intention of reluctance to sell them.

The price of grain in Jiangdu fell unexpectedly. Although the brown rice that the common people chewed was the hardest hit, the japonica rice did not escape the disaster, and fell far below the purchase price when he invested it.

Jiangdu Yan's family and its factions were severely damaged, and he——

In a word, the trousers were lost.

Now let's not say that the usury is not enough, and even the purchase of grain stores has become a problem.

Meng Yi's eyes were dull and his steps were vain.

Those wealthy households who dare to issue loan sharks have their own backgrounds, and he can't deny it, and he doesn't dare to deny it.

If it is not paid within five days, the shop will definitely not be kept.

No, it's not just the shop, he borrowed so much, it might not be enough to fill the Meng family's house!

The more Meng Yi thought about it, the more desperate he became, but the surroundings were still very noisy.

He raised his eyes sullenly, and found that he had unknowingly walked to the east gate of Fangshi.

The bulletin board outside the east gate was crowded with people for some reason.

There was an inexplicable movement in his heart, and he squeezed over to look at it with great effort, and then——his heart beat violently.

It turned out to be silver...

It turned out to be silver!

And there is no need for collateral, and the daily interest rate is only [-]%!

Meng Yi held his breath for a moment.

Is this God thinking that his life should not be terminated? !

He read the notice several times over and over again, especially where the daily interest rate was one cent.

Confirming that he was not dreaming, he took a deep breath, hurriedly hailed a carriage on the side of the road, and ran to the Qi mansion mentioned in the notice.

The location of the Qi Mansion is already on the edge of the outer city, and it took half an hour to arrive.

Fortunately, the Qi family boy was very easy to deal with, and the procedures were extremely simple. He left a rubbing version of the title deed of his shop, proving that the shop was indeed his, and was questioned about some business matters, and was told that he could up.

If the main family thinks it can be borrowed, the Qi family will personally send the money to the grain shop and sign the contract on the spot.

From the beginning to the end, there was no mention of collateral at all, not at all!

Meng Yiqiang suppressed his excitement, nodded slightly, and left pretending to be profound.

In his opinion, Huangliang Yimeng is a time-honored brand, and there is no sign of this crisis, so there is no need to worry about being found out by the Qi family. In fact, the shop has already been emptied.

Meng Yi happily returned to the inner city, not even noticing that such a big pie fell from the sky, but few people brought a basin to pick it up.

Soon, the sun set to the west, and the day finally passed.

In the side hall of Qi Mansion, Bai Qiao leaned on the armchair and yawned, then raised his hand to call for the servant.

"Go and remove the notice outside Fangshi." She ordered.

The man took the order and left quickly, and the girl stretched again.

She really didn't expect that the business environment in Dongdu was so good that only a dozen shops came to her in a whole day.

Qi Changting and Qi Tonghe were not here, and Bai Xiao also had her own work to do, so she was the only one who came to "supervise" the Qi family today.

There is no servant girl in the Qi residence, and another young servant brought her a new cup of tea, carefully looking at the little girl brought by the head of the house.

The first time he looked over, he felt that this girl was really pretty, but she also had a fairy air that could be seen from a distance and not be played with.

But after getting along for most of the day, this girl is actually very casual and easy to get along with.

He couldn't help but asked: "Is it true that we reject all of them without sending someone to check? That's a per cent, and it's worth three per cent after a month."

The girl thanked him for the tea, turned her head to look over, and smiled like a flower, "But these people don't even plan to pay back the principal, let alone the three-point interest?"

The boy frowned, "How does the girl know that they don't plan to pay it back? Since they dare to accept it, they naturally think they can pay it back."

"That's not necessarily the case." Bai Qiao smiled and glanced at the boy, "You also know that the three-point profit is quite a lot, and it may be higher than the normal business profits of merchants. Why do people come to suffer this loss? Even if they really want to suffer, Anyway, think about it and come again, how could you come to the door in a hurry the first day?"

"So there is another possibility. They knew that they would not pay back, so naturally they don't care about the high yield."

Meng Yi came out from the Qi Mansion, and the carriage was still waiting there.

He got into the car, but his heart beat faster, almost knocking out.

It was so easy.

To be honest, when he came to borrow money, he was very upset, and his legs were even weak.

——Because he didn't intend to pay back the Qi family's money at all.

If he can make a fortune from the Qi family, he will go away directly.

But just now when he rushed to the Qi mansion, seeing the streets and alleys getting more and more remote, he looked down on the Qi family even more, so he stood under the eaves of the door, and when he saw the dilapidated plaque, his contempt floated to the extreme.

The Qi family, he has never heard of its name in Dongdu for so many years, plus he actually lives on the edge of the outer city, presumably there is no foundation in Dongdu city, even if he took the money and ran away, no one would do anything for the Qi family Hunt him down.

Seeing that he ran away, the loan sharks would definitely use the shop and the house to offset the money. Although it might not be enough, it would not be too bad.If the other person is still there, the creditor will definitely not let him go, but if he runs away, the other party may not bother to go after him for the remaining tail.

perfect.

This is really a long drought and rain, silver carbon in the snow!

Meng Yi laughed so hard that the corners of his mouth could not be suppressed, he wished he could scream up to the sky, and planned to quickly write a letter to the officials related to the Dongdu government to find a fake identity document and prepare to run away.

But at this moment, the Qi family, who he regarded as being taken advantage of by him, had already sorted out all the results of today's battle, and asked Bai Qiao to bring them back to the Qianfang Cabinet.

The reason why Baiqiao emphasized that he could not borrow money in the name of Qianfang was because he was afraid that the name of Qianfang would make the few merchants who deposit silver in Qianfang panic, thinking that Qianfang was doing ridiculous things with their money.

Qi's mansion is not far from Qianfang, and it takes only a quarter of an hour to arrive.

Bai Qiao went back to the house and carefully checked the messages left by the shopkeepers.

Not only about the shop itself, but more importantly, other shops with which they have business dealings.

After all, the Qi family will not really lend money to these problematic shops, so when these shops are completely closed, the merchants who have business dealings with them will also be implicated, so when the party starts to release money in earnest in the future, these related merchants should also avoid open.

In this way, a large sum of money for screening and investigation can be saved.

The pages were turned slowly, and soon, a grain shop named Huangliang Yimeng caught her attention.

The girl raised her eyebrows slightly.

She has heard of this grain store before, and it is a time-honored brand in the east, how did it get to such a point?

She turned another page and looked at business transactions.

Then he couldn't help covering his forehead and laughing.

When she was in Jiangdu back then, in order to raise food for Qi Changting, she also knew a little about the faction of grain merchants in Jiangdu.

The shopkeeper Meng said that he had business dealings with the Yan family, the largest grain merchant in Jiangdu, probably because he wanted to make money for himself, but he didn't know that she came from Jiangdu and knew everything about the situation there.

The plan to raise food for Qi Changting was to deceive the grain merchants of the Yan family faction to subsidize other retail investors in Jiangdu.

It's a pity that she left in a hurry at that time, and didn't catch up with the price of grain to appreciate her own achievements. She didn't expect to be able to watch the excitement in Dongdu.

Thinking of this, Baiqiao couldn't help but click his tongue.

She doesn't know why the other shops that came to borrow money today have nowhere to go, but the reason why this Meng's loss must be because they wanted to make ill-gotten gains in the first place.

A hundred causes will have results.

She felt that this retribution was not enough.

A sly light flashed in the girl's eyes, and she took out a quill from the brocade box beside it, which was stained with ink, and was about to write when there was a knock on the door.

"Miss, Mr. Qi is here." It was Yue Lan's voice.

Bai Qiao's eyes lit up, saying that Cao Cao Cao Cao has arrived.

When he came, it would save her to start writing again, and just tell him directly.

Qi Changting had a busy day today. Although he had returned to his life with Emperor Huisheng before, he still needed to discuss the specific situation with the Ministry of Industry.

As well as explaining to the Ministry of Households that the special contract signed with merchants in the six counties of Huainan, the principal must be repaid on schedule.

The household department is Qi Jingmin's world, so it is conceivable that this trip is not going well.

Although there was a contract, it was already a certainty, but Huang Sheng still took the contract to find faults everywhere.

How much did Qi Jingmin blame him for this incident?

Now that he has finally met the culprit, how can he be willing to handle it lightly.

And Qi Changting just listened quietly, tapping the folding fan lightly in his hand.

Until Huang Sheng breathed out, he still didn't stop.

A thin layer of sweat gradually appeared on Huang Sheng's forehead.

He always felt that something had changed when the Third Prince came back this time.

He clearly smiled all the time as before, and he could have smiled kindly before, but now it always makes people feel dangerous.

Even more dangerous than Qi Jingmin.

Qi Jingmin's smile hides the knife and can feel the presence of the knife, but when this highness smiles, there is no trace of the knife, but there are ghostly shadows.

"Has your lord finished?" the man asked him with a smile.

But before he could answer, the man spoke again, "I wrote it all down."

"Father is also very troubled by these expenses, I will definitely report everything my lord said."

The young man said with a smile.

Huang Sheng felt a chill in his heart.

He was just looking for faults, if there were so many flaws in the contract, he would tell the emperor about it when Jiangdu's copy entered Dongdu.

Now that the major event has been decided, he pushes back and forth. Doesn't it make the emperor feel that he didn't put his heart into it?

Or maybe he was incompetent and couldn't afford money, so he planned to use these words to force the emperor to reduce the expenses in the palace.

This is an old example.

During the first emperor's time, the treasury could not make ends meet, and the Ministry of Household Affairs used this method to imply that the first emperor was extravagant.

The first emperor accepted advice impartially, which made a good story in history books.

——If the Minister of the Household Department hadn't been killed by bandits on his way to officialdom the next year.

Huang Sheng changed his words immediately, and praised the deed, laughing uglier than crying.

Qi Changting listened to him boasting about two cups of tea, and finally stood up contentedly.

He glanced at the clock in the room, and it was almost the same hour.

After getting into the carriage, He Cheng asked him if he was going back home as usual.

The air was silent for a moment.

"Go and do it." He said calmly.

In the past, Qi Changting tried his best to avoid going to Qianfang, and Qi Tonghe came to look for him secretly, but now...

"Cough," the young man coughed, and explained: "Miss Bai seems to have some complaints about my idling all day long, so I still have to go to hell."

He Cheng hummed vaguely.

Good one is not doing business properly.

In short, half an hour later, Qi Changting and Bai Qiao sat face to face at the familiar short square table in the backyard.

Seeing the gleam in the girl's eyes, he knew she had some bad intentions.

"Young Master, look here." Baiqiao spread out a map of the city, pointing to the shop marked "Huang Liang Yi Meng", "This shop is going to die soon, we can take this opportunity to sell it!"

Otherwise, the geographical location of Qianfang is really awkward!

Moreover, Bai Qiao could guess what shopkeeper Meng was planning with his toes.

But if she coaxed the shopkeeper to buy the shop in advance, and the Qi family didn't lend him any silver at that time, what would he use to repay the goddamn usury?

Huangliang Yimeng's location is indeed very good, almost in the middle of Fangshi, the most prosperous place.

Qi Changting passed those four characters with his fingers, and was speechless for a while.

His gaze was fixed on a cabinet shop marked "Shenghe" not far from the grain shop.

The location of the cabinet shop is really the center of the whole market, where the stars are holding the moon.

And the person behind Sheng He is Qi Jingmin.

Bai Qiao waited for Qi Changting's reply.

This business is sure to make money, so there is nothing to hesitate. She was about to ask again, but the young man finally raised his head, and there seemed to be ripples in his bright black eyes.

For some reason, the words stuck in her throat, and she stared blankly at those eyes.

If she was asked to find an adjective for that ripple...

gentle.

Like the spring breeze blowing over the Xiting Lake outside the eastern capital, it is so beautiful.

Without the shrewdness of a businessman at all, the young man just looked at her with soft eyebrows and smiled.

"Good," he said.

Bai Qiao was stunned for a moment, since the two of them got so close under the ginkgo tree yesterday, she always felt something was wrong.

——Have you fallen in love with that kid?

Bai Xiao's words echoed in his ears at every turn.

Of course she can't fall in love with the male lead!

However, it seems that at that moment, the paper person in front of him, apart from the red mole that marks the identity of the hero, gradually acquired a gender and a face.

He has become a real person, who can smile at her, praise her, and...

He would hug her and fly over the roofs and walls.

Hot air rushed to his cheeks, and Bai Qiao took a step back.

Really, she is crazy!

The author has something to say:

Qi Changting: Xiao Qiaoer asked me to nod every day, I'm afraid she missed me.

Bai Qiao: ... No, it's just for cp.