Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 351

Ye Xi immediately took Jin Ling to the path she mentioned.

Yan Wu frowned and asked the others to wait where they were while he followed.

Ye Xi found the warehouse as the old lady said. The door of the warehouse was open, but she did not go in. Instead, she found a hidden place and looked inside.

There was indeed an old lady busying around inside, and the rice that had been transported was placed in the four corners of the warehouse.

The rice against the wall is piled quite high, while the rice near the human activity area is much lower.

The old lady first took the rice from the low place and put it in the basin.

She first took some rice from the corner behind her, and then took most of the rice from the corner opposite.

The rice from both sides went into the same basin, and then she mixed the rice with her hands.

Ye Xi wasn't sure if she was always like this or just some of them, so she just stayed where she was and continued to observe.

After observing for a while, she found that she operated every pot in the same way, so she couldn't help but walked in with her people.

"Auntie Zhang, huh?"

The lady who was busy inside was startled and looked at the person who came.

Although he didn't know who the other person was, he felt that he should be a nobleman based on his clothes, so he answered carefully: "It's me, old slave. Who are you?"

Ye Xi thought about it and decided to use Wei Jue's name: "I am a businessman who followed Lord Wei to provide disaster relief. The food here was bought with my donated silver."

Hearing that it was related to the lord who came to provide disaster relief, Aunt Zhang hurriedly greeted him: "Hello, sir, why are you here?"

Ye Xi didn't beat around the bush: "Just now at the door, I saw you taking rice from two different rice bags and putting them in the same basin. I wonder why?"

I thought the other party would be embarrassed to be discovered, but after hearing it, he actually confessed calmly:

“Well, the main reason is that the rice on both sides is of different quality, and the good ones are relatively rare.

So I thought of mixing some good rice with the bad rice, so that everyone can at least have something good to eat."

The unexpected answer made Ye Xi a little confused for a moment, so... the one who did something wrong was not the old lady, but the person who bought the rice?

It turns out that the rice they brought was of poor quality?

She hurried forward to take a look. She also bought some rice and asked Wei Jue's people to deliver it over.

She has been running the business for many years, and her employees have their own system. After receiving her order to buy rice, they will go to purchase the rice.

Those sacks of rice actually all look pretty much the same.

When the people below were counting the rice, they habitually stamped a leaf-shaped red seal on the outside of the sack to show the seller which rice had been inspected and counted.

She also inspected the rice before it was delivered to Wei Jue, so she knew which rice was bought by her family.

She was looking for her family's rice in the warehouse. After so many days, the rice she donated might have been eaten up, but she still looked for it with the mentality that there might still be some.

"Miss, what are you looking for? Let me help you." Jin Ling stepped forward and asked.

"Looking for the rice donated by my family. Do you still remember the leaf stamp? Look for it."

Aunt Zhang was confused about her behavior. When she heard what she said to her maid, she suddenly interrupted:

"Your Excellency is looking for a leaf-shaped pattern on the sack, right?"

After hearing this, Ye Xi stopped and nodded: "Did you see it?"

Aunt Zhang pointed to the place where she had just taken the rice and said, "Here it is. This rice is good. These past few days I have been taking some and mixing it with the bad rice."