Female Master: Why doesn’t my wife love me yet?

Chapter 209: It’s happening, it’s happening

"The rice here is the best." The man said proudly.

"Also, sir, you may not know that most people now choose to buy rice from us."

"Oh, really? Why?" Gu Qingyuan pretended to be puzzled and asked the man.

The man said smugly, "Everyone knows that something happened at the Qi Family Grain Store. Someone bought rice there and got sick. Such a big store, and they didn't even check their rice properly. Luckily, no one is hurt."

Gu Qingyuan smiled without saying anything and continued looking at the rice in Ma’s Grain Store.

Seeing that she seemed to be selecting, the man introduced the rice to her: "Sir, look at this kind of rice. It's thin and long. It's called fragrant rice. It tastes even more fragrant than ordinary rice. We usually eat this kind of rice at home. If it weren't for our connection, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else."

"It looks different from ordinary rice."

"And today's special price, only five cents a pound."

Five cents, the price is relatively low.

After all, it usually sells for half a tael of silver per stone.

The purpose of Ma's Grain Store was to first throw dirty water on Qi's Grain Store, and then attract people with low prices.

When the Qijia Grain Store could no longer hold on and went bankrupt, they took the opportunity to raise the price.

At that time, they were the only grain store, so even if the people had any objections, they could only buy rice from them.

Gu Qingyuan said with embarrassment: "Five cents a pound, that's still quite expensive. I used to go to the Qi Family Grain Store, but I could buy a pound of rice for three cents."

Of course, she was talking nonsense, but the man in front of her clearly believed her and quickly said, "We can sell it to you for three cents a pound, but you have to help us promote it when you go back."

"no problem."

Gu Qingyuan bought two hundred kilograms of rice in one go. When Chunfen saw that she bought so much, the corners of his mouth twitched.

"Master, we still have rice at home, why did you buy so much?"

Moreover, the young master carried it back himself.

"You'll know then."

Something happened to the Qi family, and Qi Ziyao was worried, so he stayed at the Qi family.

In the following days, Gu Qingyuan found several people who had previously said that they had problems with the rice they bought from Qi's house.

They were obviously a little flustered after seeing Gu Qingyuan.

"I heard that you guys had stomachaches after eating the rice you bought at Qi's Grain Store some time ago, right?"

"So what? The Qi family relies on their wealth and power to bully us helpless people. Their rice is not clean either. I don't know how many people have stomachaches after eating it."

"You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want." Gu Qingyuan said with a chuckle.

Then, she looked at the people and said to one of them, "Your name is Zhang Mao. You have three children at home and you make money by doing hard labor for others."

"Your name is Liu Yu, and your family is in the blacksmith business."

"Your name is Jiang Qing, and you work as a helper in a restaurant."

"..."

One by one, Gu Qingyuan told them their information.

"Just now you said that other people would also have stomachaches after eating Qi's rice, but why haven't I heard of that? Or is it that your stomachs are special and you can't eat Qi's rice?"

"It's the Qi family's rice that's unclean. What does this have to do with us?" Zhang Mao said dissatisfiedly.

"Don't worry. Whether it's clean or not is one thing. I want to know why, after you testified against the Qi family, you guys have been spending so much more lavishly lately, and even frequently hang out at the Drunken Red Mansion."

Zuihonglou is the largest brothel in the capital, with many young prostitutes.

Considering their family circumstances, such a large expense is unaffordable for ordinary families.

But they were willing to spend it and even went to the casino.

Seeing that they were speechless, Gu Qingyuan asked again: "Who gave you this money?"

Several women immediately became anxious.

"What money? Don't talk nonsense."

"We'll know if it's nonsense later. Come, take them to the government office."

At Gu Qingyuan's command, several people from the Gu family appeared, held down the women, and escorted them to the government office as instructed by Gu Qingyuan.

In the past few days, Gu Qingyuan has been secretly investigating them and had already discovered something was wrong.

It seems that the Ma family must have given them a lot of money in order to get them to cause trouble at the Qi family grain store.

Then, Gu Qingyuan held another banquet and deliberately brought up the matter of Ma’s Grain Store.

"What? You can buy a pound of rice for three cents?"

“It’s so cheap, is it true?”

Gu Qingyuan smiled and said, "The rice you all eat today is the rice I bought from Ma's Grain Store. When I bought it, it was only three cents per pound."

For a moment, everyone rushed to grab rice.

The Ma family's original plan was to bring down the Qi family step by step, and then deliberately buy out the Qi family's rice at a low price when their rice could not be sold.

But they never expected that so many people in the capital would suddenly come to snatch their rice.

The original intention of lowering the price was to compete with the Qi family, but with so many people coming to buy the low-priced rice, they lost everything.

At the same time, several women from the government office could not withstand the pressure and honestly confessed that they had accepted money from Ma's Grain Store and deliberately framed the Qi family.

Afterwards, the authorities brought Ma's people over, and they told everything before they were tortured.

Only then did the people realize that Ma’s grain behavior was so despicable in order to overthrow the Qi family.

Then, Gu Qingyuan took out the rice from the Ma family and the Qi family for comparison.

Ma's rice was old and bitter, while Qi's was carefully selected. Any rice of lower quality would be discarded and made into porridge to be distributed to homeless people who had no food to eat.

As a result, the reputation of Qijia Grain Store reached a new level.

Ma's grain store closed hastily, and people continued to go to Qi's house to buy rice.

Mother Qi looked at Gu Qingyuan and said, "It's really thanks to you."

"I'm also surprised that you guys would actually give porridge to the homeless."

Qi's mother smiled and said, "Every winter, we see many homeless people starving to death. It would be better to give them this lower quality rice to eat."

The Qi family's affairs came to a temporary end. This not only made the Qi family famous, but also let everyone know that the Gu family would support the Qi family.

The Qi family grain store has returned to its former bustle.

Another month has passed.

"Young Master, Concubine Ji is about to give birth!"

Gu Qingyuan had just returned home when she heard Chunfen's somewhat anxious voice.

She hurried over but was stopped outside.

In the room, Ji Mingzhao's suppressed cries of pain were heard, which made people's hearts writhe.

Duke Wen has been directing Ji Mingzhao, "Breathe in, exhale, okay, that's it..."

Gu Qingyuan walked back and forth outside, silently praying for Ji Mingzhao.

Wen Shubai held her hand and said, "Mr. Ji will be fine."

"Well, I hope so."

Gu Qingyuan leaned on him and found that Wen Shubai's belly was slowly bulging.

This is her first child. Gu Qingyuan only hopes that the child can be born soon and stop torturing Ji Mingzhao. She feels uncomfortable hearing this voice.

From day to night, until a baby's cry is heard.

"Born, born!"