Chapter 354： Female champion VS dandy 19 ┃ strong woman Zhuang Xiaohui (1/2)

Why is Zhuang Xiaohui so obsessed that the price of cotton cannot be reduced? Because she was reborn, she knew that this winter would be the coldest winter in a hundred years. The heavy snowfall fell for two months, crushing many houses and freezing many people to death.

Even more frightening is that every following winter will be as cold as this year.

Therefore, the price of cotton cloth and cotton will gradually rise, becoming a luxury that most ordinary people cannot afford.

In order to keep out the cold, people can only stuff straw and reeds into their clothes, and these things are becoming less and less.

The colder it gets, the more expensive things get to help them get through, and it's a vicious circle.

Once, Zhuang Xiaohui accompanied Yu Yuxian's mother to cook porridge outside the city. As soon as the stall was set up, a group of scrawny, scrawny people rushed up with blood and tears in their cloudy eyes.

"Save us! Save us!" They stretched out their hands so thin that there was only one skin left, and let out a helpless cry.

Yu Yuxian's mother screamed in fright and fainted. Zhuang Xiaohui had to suppress her fear and send her back to the city. She passed a dilapidated temple and saw many people huddled together, so she shouted, "Porridge ahead!"

However, the servant who was in charge of escorting them stopped and said, "Young lady, please stop shouting, they are all frozen to death."

So many people, hundreds of them, were frozen to death. Zhuang Xiaohui was so frightened at the time that she shed two lines of tears when she regained her senses.

But Jiading said disapprovingly: "Don't be afraid, every night, hundreds of people will freeze to death outside. You'll get used to watching it."

How did it become a habit to freeze so many people to death every day? At that time, Zhuang Xiaohui was in so much pain that she could hardly breathe.

But she is powerless to change anything, because the weather is not something that humans can control.

But the price of food, cotton, cotton, charcoal and other materials, humans can.

However, the human heart is such a dark thing. In order to make money, the colder the weather, the more hoarding the merchants are. They monopolized food, cotton jackets, cotton cloth, charcoal and other essential items, constantly driving up prices and making huge profits.

In such a situation, the poor people have completely become victims.

Zhuang Xiaohui will never forget the tragic state of the dead bodies lying in the white snow, which is the real purgatory on earth.

She guessed that the reborn brother would invent these machines and let himself start a cotton spinning factory, the purpose should be to save the poor people.

But his own factory is only a drop in the bucket for the entire Dayan, and his brother's wish should be difficult to achieve.

Zhuang Xiaohui shook her head and let out a long sigh.

Seeing that Liu Yunzhai was about to arrive, she hurriedly braced herself and stepped out of the carriage. A burly man who was lent to her by her sister-in-law had just stretched out his hand to help her when she jumped down on her own, without even using the bench.

The skirt embroidered with auspicious clouds bloomed like flowers, emitting a faint fragrance, which made the big man's face red. He quickly retracted his hand, lowered his head, and stepped aside silently.

Zhuang Xiaohui glanced at him, only to find it interesting that this man like an iron tower would be shy.

But she didn't think too much about the business.

She raised her head and looked upstairs, and found that several men from the chamber of commerce were lying on the railings on the second floor looking down at her, with a wretched smile on their faces, obviously not holding back any good farts.

Zhuang Xiaohui's face turned gloomy immediately, she stroked the hem of her skirt, straightened her waist and strode in.

These people in the Chamber of Commerce are all hypocrites, their stomachs are full of black water, but on the surface they pretend to be virtuous, and they are not comparable to those beggars who are inferior to beasts in their previous lives. Confronting these people head-on, Zhuang Xiaohui did not feel that her life would be in danger.

She is not even afraid of animals, so how can she be afraid of such a small scene?

Zhuang Xiaohui walked upstairs step by step, her posture high and straight.

Looking at her sassy back, the burly man's eyes secretly smiled.

Yu Yuxian also chatted and drank with a group of people from the chamber of commerce on the second floor, and talked eloquently. From time to time, she looked towards the stairs, imagining that Zhuang Xiaohui was so frightened by such a big scene that her face turned pale.

A girl who has not left the cabinet is coerced by so many men at the same time, will she cry and beg for mercy?

Thinking of this, Yu Yuxian showed pity in his eyes, but his heart was filled with a strong sense of superiority. Although she is a woman, she was raised by her mother as a man. Her talent, bearing, and conduct are naturally different from ordinary women.

Putting away that trace of pity, Yu Yuxian showed a disgusted expression again.

She now knew that the shop opposite Zhuang Li's house was actually opened by Zhuang Li's younger sister, Zhuang Xiaohui. The two brothers and sisters lost their mother since they were young, and they are not liked by their father. No wonder their upbringing is so poor.

Zhuang Xiaohui really had no brains. In order to attract customers, she sold cotton cloth so cheaply that Yu Yuxian's shop had no business for more than half a month, and it seemed that it was about to be unsustainable.

Yu Yuxian has been in the officialdom all the year round and rarely manages the family property. After her father passed away, her mother did not have the talent in this area, so many of her family's shops were at a loss. The only shop that made money was this cotton cloth seller.

Yu Yuxian couldn't let it fall without saying anything, otherwise dozens of people in the family wouldn't be able to eat.

That's why she was invited to come to deal with Zhuang Xiaohui together today. She believed that Zhuang Xiaohui should have lost a lot of money in the past two weeks, and the other party should compromise with just a little pressure.