There are few stars at night,

The mottled road was rugged and difficult to navigate, so Qi Anze and Qiao Xi struggled to push the car.

The owner of Sweet and Sour Fish sat proudly on the stool and waited for them to come over. It seemed that he had finished listening to the little beggar’s report.

"How about it, little lady, are you willing to admit defeat?"

Qi Anze looked defeated by reality, bowed his body and complimented,

"My little brother is too blind to see Mount Tai. I didn't expect my elder brother to be so powerful and to be on good terms with the official."

Upon hearing his compliment, the boss immediately raised his head, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, acting like a big brother.

"That's what I'm saying, brother, you have this skill, but are you afraid that you won't be able to make money?"

Qiao Xi was standing by, playing the role of the aggrieved young lady after being reprimanded by her husband. Listening to Qi Anze talking nonsense to the boss, she almost couldn't hold back her laughter and quickly turned her back to face the wall.

The boss’s wife didn’t know what was going on, so she comforted her with pity.

"Sister, men are just like that. They will take it out on women if they don't have the ability. Don't get carried away."

Qiao Xi touched the tears from her laughter, turned into a crying expression, and said aggrievedly, "I have been married to him for three years, and he has never been cruel to me."

The fat boss lady held her hand and walked to the river with an "I understand you" look.

"I know, it's the same with our family. Men, that's it. If you don't interfere with his affairs in the future, he will naturally have no reason to blame you.

When the time comes, warm him a pot of wine and say some thoughtful words, and the matter will be over, and he will still be grateful to you."

"Thank you, sister-in-law. Sister-in-law, you are such a good person." Josie said, holding her hand.

The woman touched her hand and said enviously,

"What a beautiful pair of hands. After working in this business for a long time, my hands are deformed. Look at my hands, they were beautiful before."

Qiao Xi looked at the wrinkled hand with some small cracks placed in front of him. He didn't know whether the other party was accidentally testing it or deliberately testing it.

Carefully touching the chapped face behind the disguise, he said,

"Sister-in-law, to tell you the truth, my family used to be very wealthy. If it hadn't been for this flood, we would have had enough food and clothing to grow old."

The woman patted her shoulder and comforted her, "Don't worry, don't be afraid. As long as you follow us, not only will you not be like this, but you can also make a lot of money."

Qiao Xi nodded obediently, looking frightened and endearing.

After returning to where I live,

Qiao Xi and Qi Anze combined the couple's conversations.

"Host, tell me, even if Boss Wu monopolizes the fish selling industry, it is not a business that can make a lot of money."

"Their original intention is not just a simple monopoly. If my guess is correct, they want to sell it to the government at a high price, so that the profit will be larger."

Qiao Xi: "But even if some people in the government are lining their own pockets, what about other people? Why don't they go to the streets? They sell them so cheaply on the streets, or just asking passers-by will expose the secrets."

"Remember what we saw on the first day?"

"A big shot is coming. Are the officers and soldiers driving away the vendors?"

After Qiao Xi finished speaking, he immediately realized that the place where things are sold here is fixed and very easy to control.

The big shots above can't see affordable food at all, and they can't see ordinary people buying affordable food either.

What a trick to hide the truth from the enemy!

"Then what should we do next?"

Qi Anze looked at the moon outside the window, and after a moment he uttered one word:

"wait!"

The next day,

"Brother, you are lucky. The boss above has chosen your craft. Congratulations, you are going to make a fortune." Boss Wu said with narrowed eyes.

"Thank you, Brother Wu, for the tip. We and I are very grateful, but I have a question."

Brother Wu glanced at him nervously, "What's the problem?"

"Can we continue to set up a stall? After all, the more we earn, the better."

"Okay, just prepare all the goods when the boss asks for them. I'll tell you about the rest later."

Boss Wu took their boss to the back door of an inconspicuous foreign house,

Qi Anze wanted to sneak in and see who the boss was, but stall owner Wu took his things and explained with a smile,

"Boss Xi Jing, please don't go in."

Qiao Xi rolled his eyes, immediately bent over and hugged his stomach, and said to the woman next to him, "Sister-in-law, I have a stomachache. I wonder where the latrine is?"

She had just observed that this house was in a remote location and there were no farmers around, so if she wanted to go to the hut, she had to go in.

Unexpectedly, the woman didn't want to listen to her at all. She held her waist and went to the grass next to her, "Don't worry, sister, I'll look out for you."

Qiao Xi: "..." I didn't want to do it, but you forced me to do it.

Then she pretended to be unsteady and pressed hard on the opponent's Zhigou point.

After waiting for a while, the woman also covered her stomach with a look of pain on her face, "Ouch, why does my stomach hurt so much?"

Stallkeeper Wu went over to help his wife, Qi Anze also stepped forward to help Qiao Xi, and said anxiously,

"Why don't you let your sister-in-law take her to a hut inside? She should be in need of it if she's like this."

Stall owner Wu thought carefully and asked several times not to run around before agreeing to take Qiao Xi inside.

While Qiao Xi was bending over, he did not forget to compare his hands to Qi Anze.

——

On the house,

The young man paced back and forth anxiously, "Sir, you must find a way to save my father."

The man sitting on the chair slowly drank tea,

"I told you that the Crown Prince was coming. It was your greed that caused these troubles. If I go to beg for mercy at this time, what will His Royal Highness think of me?"

"It was you who kept urging my father to pay, and he was negligent, which led to today's situation. If there are any mistakes, then they are all wrong."

"Bold."

The man roared so furiously that Josie almost rolled off the eaves with her feet.

After seeing the man's face clearly, she quickly returned to the latrine and straightened the woman who was hidden under the felt. Before she could relieve her acupoints, she heard stall owner Wu's voice.

After a while, she helped the person out of the hut after untying the sleeping acupuncture points.

"What's wrong with her? Why did she fall asleep even though she pooped?"

"I'm not very sure. We were afraid that others would see us, so we were talking inside and waiting for you to come back. But my sister-in-law suddenly fainted, and there was no one here, and I didn't dare to run around, so that's what happened."

Stallkeeper Wu looked at his smelly wife and did not pick her up. Instead, he pinched his nose and said to Qiao Xi, "Quickly leave."

After the three of them left the house, the woman slowly woke up.

After Qi Anze and Qiao Xi said goodbye to the couple, they turned and left.

…

"Did you see who the person inside was?"

Qiao Xi looked at the portraits in front of him, nodded and shook his head.

"I can see clearly, but there is no portrait of him here."

After changing the portraits several times, Josie finally found that person and jumped up excitedly.
Chapter completed!