Chapter 53: Fighting the Rat for Food

PS. Present the May Day update, don't hurry up to play after reading, remember to vote for the month first. From now on, you can enjoy double monthly passes for the 515 Fan Festival, and you can also take a look at other activities with red envelopes!

"Yes, who in our Puyang Town doesn't know that you are kind-hearted and kind-hearted, I heard that those who work in your stone dome have really got food......" The other patriarchs nodded one after another, especially the patriarch of the Li clan was the most active, and he almost said that he hoped that the Dai family would produce some food.

The Dai family took back the 55 acres of land, and even if they sold part of the autumn grain, the rest was not comparable to their families, after all, other people's families were tens or twenty people, and the Dai family's two rooms added up to only seven people, including four children.

In the end, there are many people talking, and Dai Xiangen, who is not good at words, was said to be poor, and he didn't find a chance to interject for a long time.

Hearing this, Dai Shuanglin was glad that the Sun family had returned the grain and silver with great fanfare at that time, and even asked Ge Dongyong to pretend to pull a few carts of grain to sell, otherwise these people would not know how to blush and let the Dai family provide food, and these people would be too worthy of the Dai family, which had just improved.

And the Sun family heard that the patriarch of the Li clan had been fanning the flames, so angry that he threw the basin in his hand on the dining table with a "bang", and the huge impact sound and the piercing sound of the porcelain basin when it rotated made everyone in the east room suddenly lose their momentum.

Dai Xiangen, who was sweating out of his head, took this opportunity to quickly say what was in his heart.

"If it was the first two years, it was naturally incumbent on me to wear a Xiangen if there was a problem in the township, but everyone also knows that my illness is two years, the family has no land and no silver, and I have no money to eat, drink, and Lazar, including my medical treatment and medicine, are all sewn out by the child's mother and Sister Hong, and the two women's families are no matter how capable they are, how many can they earn? So it's not that I'm wearing a chilling with the big guy, and the family owes a lot of money to the famine in the past two years, but what are these famines? It was lent to us by people when I was about to die, and I thanked them for their willingness to borrow silver, and I was even more grateful for their life-saving grace, so the first thing that came down to this grain, the child's mother went door to door and asked people whether they wanted grain or silver, and I paid back the grain at the price of previous years, and if I wanted silver, I dragged the grain out and sold it to repay the silver. Dai Xiangen said that there was an impassioned momentum in the depths of his love, which was really unexpected by everyone.

Several patriarchs were said to be red-faced, and who said secretly that Dai Xiangen was not good at words, ah? Is this what the Muna people can say? This is Ming Huanghuang accusing them of not saving these people when they see death that day!

So if you don't do bad things, you are not afraid of ghosts calling the door, Dai Shuanglin knew that this was Dai Xiangen's heartfelt thoughts, otherwise Dai Xiangen would not have been able to make up these words anyway, Dai Shuanglin was excited for her father's extraordinary performance.

And Sun's eyes lit up when she heard it, she had been married to Dai Xiangen for nearly 20 years, and this was the first time she had heard Dai Xiangen say so much in one breath.

"Hey, it's all poor days, but if we have a lot of money, we won't ...... at that time" The patriarch of the Zhang family really has a clear conscience, although he is the patriarch, he is no different from the ordinary people in the clan, they are all the kind of people who are poor to the end.

"Yes, yes" someone started, and a few people who were short of words hurriedly followed, striving to have a happy result.

Dai Xiangen's heart continued to be passionate at this time, and when he heard the words of the patriarch of the Zhang family, he thought it was true, so he sighed: "Yes, it's all poor days, if there is not so much famine waiting there, I won't sell a grain of grain this year...... The implication is that everyone is just as poor, you don't have a famine, but our family has a famine."

"Let's talk about the stone dome, there is no way to give food to the people who work, there is no silver at home, and the few copper plates left over from the sale of grain and famine are ready to be used for Sister Hong to make silver for the next year, you also know what the situation of the Ge family is......" Dai Xiangen made persistent efforts, he found out, if he didn't speak, these people could tell the dead to live, once he opened his mouth, these people would all wither.

"If you want me to say that you are blind in this matter, how can you tell the eldest girl in the family to a foreigner? Hey, then you can give a trick for this matter, our Zhang family has several families who can't get by, it's just a few days into winter...... "The head of the Zhang family directly let go, he didn't know about other people's families, but he was going to die of worry, those people in the clan came to his house every day to borrow grain, and he was not a landlord, where is the grain lent to others, this is not the daughter-in-law of the family is making a fuss to let him stop doing the thankless work of the patriarch."

Dai Xiangen squinted, he said everything about this, this family patriarch is still crooked, why did Sister Hong tell the Ge family that they don't know?

He figured out that these people were really bullying him, an honest man.

Dai Xiangen is a native of Puyang Town, he used to encounter a famine year, and he didn't see the pavilion chief or the landlord Lao Cai take out a grain of grain from home, at most, as the pavilion chief, he will go to the county seat a few more times, and the beautiful name is to tell the county lord about the situation, but in fact, no one knows if he doesn't say it.

"You all think the same way?" Dai Xiangen's eyes looked around, in the end, he had been a pavilion chief for a while, his eyes were unconsciously a little more shrewd and sharp, and everyone who saw it choked in their hearts, of course they thought so, but seeing that Dai Xiangen's expression would obviously offend people if he said it, he took the words back.

shocked everyone, Dai Xiangen sighed and waved his hand: "That's it, let's not talk about this today, let's go back." I'm not a god who can conjure food, and I'm not a god of wealth who can conjure up silver for no reason...... As for the rest, it can only be said that if the price of food continues to rise like this, the county adults will not ignore it......" When Dai Xiangen stared at everyone and said this, he suddenly experienced an unprecedented sense of pleasure.

Several patriarchs were obviously aware of Dai Xiangen's unhappiness, and knew that it was useless to say more, so they got up one after another to say goodbye, and the Sun family left for a long time to save face, and when they returned to the house, they praised Dai Xiangen, and Dai Xiangen was embarrassed.

The three siblings of the Dai family stood aside and giggled, not noticing Dai Xiangen's strange appearance.

After dinner, the north wind was blowing non-stop, and the family rested early after washing up in order to save lamp oil, Dai Xiangen lay in the quilt and couldn't sleep for a long time, he slowly recalled the kind of happiness that welled up in his heart during the day.

After entering the wax moon, sure enough, the government began to suppress the price of grain, starting with all the grain shops, but the people in the grain shop said that the grain was long gone, and it was taken away by unknown people at a high price.

The food from the entire county town to the state capital suddenly evaporated, so that the panic spread like a plague among the people, and many families in Puyang Town alone changed the habit of three meals a day to two meals a day or one meal, and those who had long run out of food began to look for rat holes everywhere and lived a life of competing with rats for food.

Competing with rats for food, this can be regarded as the experience accumulated by the older generation.

The more miserable everyone's life is, the more low-key people like the Dai family and the Gu family, who are a little more comfortable, after the two families discussed, they also lived two meals a day in order to hide people's eyes and ears, so angry that the pregnant woman Xiao Chen gritted her teeth and felt that she had been wronged.

And what makes everyone even more frightened is that it is said that there is a war in the south, it is said that their Qi country has been defeated, and it is said that the Qi country is retreating one after another.

[Thank you for your continued support, this time from the 515 Fan Festival of the Writer's Hall of Glory and the General Election of Works, I hope you can support it.] In addition, there are some red envelopes on the fan festival, get one and continue the subscription! 】