Chapter 49: Is it enough? Not enough I’ll kill 3000 more pigs!
Chapter 49 Is it enough? Not enough I’ll kill 3000 more pigs!
Bang~
Bang!
Bang, bang, bang!
One by one, the ragged stragglers kneeled down in unison towards the He Mansion’s houseguests, some even kowtowing with a thud.
“No need to thank us.”
The house guards hurriedly helped the stragglers up and explained, “We’re also just getting paid to do our job, and the one who came up with this idea is Taoist Master Wang Xiu of the Three Clear Immortal Sect.”
“Of these three thousand pigs, two thousand were paid for by Taoist Master Wang Xiu, and the remaining one thousand were donated by my family member.”
“If you guys want to thank, you should also thank the two of them.”
After the family man’s explanation.
All the stragglers were in tears, some of them came from other nearby cities and had to migrate due to the flooding.
Some came from other frontiers ruled by other Immortal Sects, and because of the harsh oppression of the Immortal Sect disciples, their lives were really unsustainable, so they could only move far away from home.
There were also some.
They even escaped from the ‘human captivity’ within the Demon Clan’s sphere of influence, and after nine deaths, they finally came to Maple City.
Starving and bumping along the way, they had already lost most of their lives.
But nowadays.
After this bowl of steaming brown rice porridge went down, they felt like they had come back to life, and the feeling of being able to get down to eating was truly blissful.
Taoist Master Wang Xiu.
Mr. He.
These two names were held deeper in their minds than anything else.
……
The news traveled fast.
The news of the He Family’s relief efforts with ‘bran and brown rice porridge’ quickly spread throughout Maple City.
Initially.
Upon hearing that the He family was using the bran eaten by livestock to provide disaster relief, the people in the city were all cursing.
But.
After hearing that the He family ‘exchanged pork for brown rice, and at a 20% discount’, the curses disappeared, and all that remained was praise.
There were even suggestions for the He family to ‘add pork’, ‘3,000 pigs are enough for whoever eats them’, ‘for the next city to see, they’d think that we Maple City people can’t afford to exchange it’, and so on.
For a time.
The people of the whole city were moved by this, and bags of brown rice were transported towards the He family from thousands of homes.
In fact.
If this guy He Da Ren understood the concept of ‘futures’, with a little manipulation, he could take this opportunity to put a large amount of brown rice in the city into the coffers.
And then hoarded, causing a shortage of brown rice, raising the price of rice, and then sold at the right time.
In that case.
One in, one out, with a 20% discount on pork for grain, not only won’t lose money, there is even a profit.
Of course.
Wang Xiu is not going to teach him this kind of operation, after all, it is not a good way, do more of this kind of lack of virtue of the adulterer, easy to give birth to a son without an asshole.
However.
Even if you don’t understand this, but when 3000 heads of pork flooded into the Maple City market, the price of pork in the city is also bound to fall, it is really hard to say whether you can keep 80%.
Hmm.
In other words, those who traded brown rice for pork.
If they just want to have a good time, then all will be happy, but if they want to buy and sell.
Ahem.
Probably will lose even pants left!
……
Other side.
On the outskirts of the city where the displaced people gathered, the news of the He family handing out congee for disaster relief was also fermenting at a rapid pace.
After all.
For these stragglers, there is nothing more important than having enough to eat, before not going to the relief shed, purely because of the disappointment too many times, simply can not grab.
Waiting for relief porridge, it is better to go to the mountain to dig wild vegetables, nibble the bark of the grass roots to the real.
But now is different.
Brown rice porridge with some bran mixed in?
Bran is eaten by animals and will hurt their self-esteem?
Dignity is nothing! Not to mention that the brown rice porridge is mixed with bran, even if it is pure bran porridge, it is all good!
One time.
The whole area is boiling, more than a hundred thousand displaced people in the city toward the relief shed in a big way, look around the other people, all scared.
Good guy.
These guys are crazy?
So bad, brown rice porridge mixed with bran.
How can they drink it?
For a while.
Many of the Maple City families and scholars who had originally insisted that Wang Xiu and He Daren’s ‘bran chaff relief’ was degrading, had inexplicable emotions rising in their hearts.
Let every grain of disaster relief grain fall into the mouths of the stragglers, disaster victims, and starving people.
It seemed.
This is the correct way to open the disaster relief.
“Woohoo~”
“Finally I’m full, it’s the first time I’ve been full in these half a year, woooow~”
“Brother, brother, we finally don’t have to die.”
“Mother, do you see it in the sky? My sister and I finally made it to Maple City, and we can finally live.”
“The Three Clear Immortal Sect, Taoist Master Wang Xiu, and Mr. He, wooooooo~”
……
In front of the disaster relief shed, some people were in tears, some people were grateful, and some people wanted to kneel and kowtow, so no matter how much they tried to stop them, they couldn’t.
The human world is a hundred different things.
The most obvious.
On the high city tower, Wang Xiu and He Daren stood side by side.
The old butler’s figure lagged behind by half a step, following behind, “Everything is just as Taoist Master Wang said, the Taoist Master really anticipates things like a god, young master ……”
He Daren#: “Call me master!”
The old housekeeper nodded: “Okay young master, I have already calculated that according to the 100,000 stragglers rations, the brown rice plus bran chaff in our He family house stock can last half a month.”
“If we count the 3,000 pigs exchanged for brown rice, we should be able to exchange about 3 million pounds of brown rice, which will cover another three months.”
He Daren nodded his head and looked at the grateful and complimentary stragglers.
He only felt happy in his heart and muttered, “I didn’t realize that the feeling of being praised for doing good is so refreshing! Taoist Master Wang, why don’t we kill another 3000 pigs!”
Old Housekeeper: ????
Wang Xiu: ????
The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, Wang Xiu cried and laughed: “Don’t be impulsive, as the saying goes, if you are envious of the rice, you will be envious of the rice.”
“Nowadays.”
“These victims are drinking bran bran brown rice porridge and are grateful to you, that’s because you saved their lives.”
“However, when they recover their vitality, if you still supply the bran and chaff porridge, then they will no longer rise to the idea of earning a living on their own, and they will no longer be grateful.”
“Even, they will dislike the bran porridge that you give them as not good, and question why you don’t supply white rice porridge and white rice.”
He Daren froze, “How could this happen?”
The butler next to him was already old and well-read, nodding his head, “Young master, if you really keep providing brown rice porridge, this kind of thing will probably happen.”
He Daren scratched his head, “Then what should we do? It’s not right to give out congee, it’s not right not to give it out, we can’t just see it happen!”
“It’s simple, food for work.”
Wang Xiu laughed, “I’ve already reported to the sect, proposing an expansion at the north gate of Maple City, and incorporating those pieces of barren land in the north of the city, into Maple City.”
“The stragglers can build houses and reclaim the wasteland on those wastelands, thus becoming self-sufficient as soon as possible.”
“If you want to eat white rice and gnaw on big pig’s feet, you can.”
“Let them earn with their hands!”
Crap!
He Da Ren’s eyes lit up, “Wonderful wow, wonderful ~wow~!”
……
Nice guy.
This Taoist Master Wang was obviously younger than him, why was his brain so good?
Over a hundred thousand stragglers, a difficult problem for anyone.
So it’s solved just like that?
(End of chapter)