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Luo Lingwei looked around to see that there were still customers eating. She was afraid of alarming these customers. Thus, he led Zhao Hu into the room. The few of them sat in the room. Zhao Hu looked around to make sure there were no problems before opening the purple sandalwood box. Luo Lingwei raised her eyes to look inside and found a gold token inside this purple sandalwood box. On it were written the words' Mystic Night 'and' Messenger '.

Next to the box was a three-foot-long sword with a green edge. On the scabbard of the sword was carved a fierce looking Xie Zhi. Luo Lingwei took the golden token and placed it in her pocket, and then ordered Zhang Long to wrap this treasured sword in a cloth so that it could be wrapped around his body. The group of people left the inn and headed outside of Fengyang City. The few of them did not know where Luo Lingwei was going, but they did not dare to ask her, so they could only follow her.

In this box, Wu Song arranged for the steward to lead a few trustworthy young men to bring back the one million silver taels. He immediately took a portion of it as the money to buy food and arranged for some people to go to the other counties to buy food. A few days ago, Luo Lingwei had also told Ye Lianhe about the calamity that had befallen several areas near Fengyang County. However, for some reason, Ye Lianhe did not send his men to provide disaster relief. Instead, he had his subordinates secretly organize a few grain merchants to bring food to the nearby counties of Fengyang City to sell. Therefore, the people who went to buy food had not gone far before they bought food. Thus, he returned in just four to five days.

However, he had come back at the right time, and the food in the mansion was almost exhausted. Like these victims, Wu Song only dared to eat a bowl of porridge every day. He had no choice. Every time he sent someone to buy food, these grain merchants would find excuses to avoid him. No matter what, they refused to sell him the food.

However, at least the people who bought the food had all returned. In order to avoid chaos, Wu Song left the food on the boat and let the victims line up to collect it.

Some of the victims wanted to run away as soon as they got the food, but before they could turn around, they were caught by a few strong servants beside Wu Song and thrown aside.

In this side chamber, Wu Song followed Luo Lingwei's instructions and arranged for people to register and become tenants. At the same time, he also arranged for people who were in good health to build dams and canals. Everything seemed to be in order, and the current Phoenix City was no longer as chaotic as it was before. Everyone could see that there was hope for survival. When many merchants heard that food was being sold here, they all came to get their own food. According to Luo Lingwei's instructions, anyone who bought grains would sell them at a price that was twenty percent higher than their usual price. Wu Song followed Luo Lingwei's instructions, and anyone who bought grains would sell them at a price that was twenty percent higher than their usual price.

As expected, within two to three days, the two ships of food that Wu Song had brought from the outside were exhausted. When the news reached the ears of the grain merchants, they were overjoyed. In his heart, he thought that Wu Song was still an inexperienced young master. He had no experience in business either. In just a few days of effort, all the food that these people bought to help the victims was gone. Currently, each of these grain merchants had at least a thousand catties of grain stored in their hands. In total, they had at least sixty to seventy thousand catties of grain. Just as the people in the city were panicking, they began to raise their prices. A pound of grain rose from two catties to two and a half.

However, before they could be happy, Wu Song's ship that was buying grain came again. This time, three ships came. Altogether, they weighed about a hundred thousand catties of grain. Originally, even with the 1 million silver taels that Luo Lingwei had given them, Wu Song could only buy 30,000 Jin of grain. However, thanks to these local grain merchants, even if Wu Song sold them some of the grain at a high price, in order to control the market price, they could only think of ways to buy Wu Song's grains.

However, like this, he was tricked. This time, when they stood at the side of the street and saw the ship parked at the dock, they were all dumbfounded. Coincidentally, at this time, the chef from the Wu Residence walked past them. He smiled at them and greeted them, ”Masters, are you going to buy food for my Young Master? ”You have to hurry, or it'll be gone in a moment.”

When they heard what the chef had said, they rolled their eyes in anger, especially Manager Li. Amongst these grain merchants, he had the richest family background, hence he also had the most grain in the village. He had a total of 20,000 to 30,000 catties of grain and thought that he would be able to make a huge profit.

”Chief Li, what should we do?”