Chapter 219: Food Prices Are Soaring

Kuai Yong and they are not reluctant, to be honest, they even feel a lot more relieved about this. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info because there are many people who want to eat on this mountain, seeing that the submerged more than 500 acres of land is about to be harvested, not to mention the labor, even the grain that was sown at the beginning can not be recovered, and the losses are heavy. Although the people who enter the village are based on hard work, they don't have so much work for them to do at the moment. Although the two masters and the big butler treat them like ordinary Lan people, but sometimes they take special care of their own habits, but in Kuai Yong's hearts, there will always be the perception that they are foreigners, and this feeling is not obvious on weekdays, but when it comes to competing with Lan people, they will always be a little worried, and their alien identity will put them at a disadvantage at the beginning.

Previously, they were full of sympathy for these people who had taken refuge because when they saw them, it was as if they had seen themselves at the beginning. But if they have a better way out, it is naturally better to stay away than to stay in the Zhuangzi. Because looking at it like this, the flood does not know when it will recede, and the more outsiders stay in the Zhuangzi, the longer it will be, the more unfavorable it will be for them. What if these people are willing to become Zhuangzi?

Kuai Yong's inner thoughts, Song Chen and they don't know, after those people were accepted into Zhuangzi, they were all arranged by Liufu, and they only needed to do things in peace. Song Chen and Su Miao didn't mean to see these people, they were busy!

Yesterday, Song Chen and the others received a report from the side of Sword Orchid City, saying that there were many victims in Sword Orchid City, and although the government had specially divided the designated area for these people to live in, they didn't care about food. Most of the victims had come to the city with their food rations, and they had been given a place to live, and although they were squeezed into a few places, they were already very satisfied. After settling down, they began to plan for the future, and those who had more money in their hands began to plan to buy as much food as possible.

In addition to the habit of large families who already have farmland and have a reserve ration for one season before selling grain, some other businessmen and small households go to the grain store to buy grain every once in a while, so that they can save the place to store grain and eat newer grain at any time. The arrival of these victims reminded this group of people to hurry up and buy more food to prepare.

People from all sides were busy buying grain, and all of a sudden, there was a long queue at the door of the grain shops in the city, all of whom were scrambling to be afraid that they would not have to buy it when it was too late. The big families don't care about this, it's just a matter of spending more money, and the rations are guaranteed, so the business of the grain store is still very hot, but ordinary people can only sigh with hope. They calculated that if they exchanged all the money in their hands for food, they might not be able to last long, and anyway, they still had some food in their hands, and they would not be hungry for a while, so they had to wait and see if there would be any measures from the government government in the future.

In the past few days, many people who don't know the situation have poured into Feng'an grain stores to buy grain. When collecting grain before, Song Chen ordered to leave a warehouse of old grain in the warehouse and not to transport it away, but now those warehouses are full of grain, and Lin Shi also knew about this situation, so he wrote to ask him if he was going to open a warehouse to sell grain?

Song Chen replied to Lin Shi's side, asking him to hold his troops for the time being. Anyway, ordinary people are not willing to buy food for the time being, and the big families over there have money anyway, so let them have some blood.

After letting the carrier pigeon go, Song Chen and Su Miao asked people to find Liufu: "Liufu, did you say that you were going to send a group of people to Lily of the Valley City today?" ”

"Yes, the last one on the mountain." There were seventeen or eighteen people in this family, and there were many things to bring out from the flooded homes, and even people had to use four rafts to carry things, so they were ranked last.

The other four families have been sent over in two days, and Lukfook has already sent people to survey the official road of Lily of the Valley, which is not completely submerged, and it is still a third of the way from Lily of the Valley by land, and Zhuangzili will arrange a raft to send them to a place where there is no water, and then they will go on their own. Anyway, there is only half an hour's journey left, and it is almost close to the main city, and there are many people on the road who are also in a hurry, and there is no fear that there will be any bandits and other people who dare to block the road and rob, it is very safe.

"Miss Su and I are also planning to go to Lily of the Valley City tomorrow and leave early tomorrow morning. You help me prepare some hare and two deer steaks. Originally, if it was just Song Chen and Su Miao, it would have been faster for them to use light skills directly, but this time they planned to take Xiaobai with them, so they simply took the raft and walked the road ahead, and then brought the horses with them, so that after they arrived on land, they could switch to riding horses.

There are a total of eight rafts in the Zhuangzi, except for the four that were sent to the family today, the others are idle! Song Chen and Su Miao are going to travel, and they are still taking Xiaobai and two horses, so naturally they can't be crowded on a raft with other people.

So on the second day, at the fork at the foot of the mountain, when the four rafts went to the mountain on the right, and then another raft came down, and Song Chen and Su Miao took Xiaobai to take this raft and set off first in the direction of the left direction to Lily of the Valley City. Six Ford Yi arranged for Kuai Yong, who was the most skilled in supporting the raft, and another person to follow.

Xiaobai and the two horses were riding this kind of "boat" for the first time, and the horses were a little nervous, standing on the boat and not daring to move, and kept digging with their front hooves uneasily. Xiaobai is worthy of being the king of all beasts, not only is he not nervous, but he also seems very excited, he has been running back and forth on the raft, if it is not for his aversion to water, he may jump down and swim a few laps. After holding forward for more than twenty zhang, Song Chen and Su Miao both felt that it was too slow, not to mention that compared to their light skills, even compared to riding a horse, this speed was more than a star and a half slow, no wonder when they sent those people to Lily of the Valley City before, they could only run so much a day.

At this rate, by the time the raft reaches a place where there is no water, I am afraid it will be early afternoon. Song Chen and Su Miao glanced at each other, Su Miao nodded, and as soon as Song Chen used his internal strength, the raft moved forward quickly-

Kuai Yong and the others had just held up a pole to the end and were about to retract it, when they saw that the raft actually got up automatically without wind, as if something was pushing them forward, they stared at the water around them in astonishment, but found nothing. They looked at each other for a while, but quickly reacted again, and moved two steps forward to stand on the left and right sides of Song Chen and Su Miao, forming a posture of wings: "Song Gongzi, Miss Su, you lean towards the center, I don't know what is holding the raft under this water, it's dangerous!" ”

Su Miao looked at Kuai Yong and them as if they were facing a great enemy, and couldn't help covering her mouth: "It's okay, this raft is going too slowly like this, let's hurry up, let's hurry up...... Didn't you see that the raft was going the way we were going? ”

Kuai Yong They were too nervous after seeing the abnormal movement, and they really didn't pay much attention to it, and when Su Miao said this, they observed the film and remembered it, and found that it was indeed the case. If something lurked under the raft, as they had guessed earlier, it wouldn't have been so coincidental and consciously along the road, right? I just turned a corner! In this way, they believed Su Miao's words, and they couldn't help but be secretly surprised in their hearts. They were all soldiers before, and they all had some kung fu on their bodies, but they had never practiced internal force, and they had already admired Song Chen and Su Miao's often elusive light skills, but it was the first time that they knew that this internal force could still be used like this.

In this way, their speed was much faster, and after about half an hour, they had reached the land that was exposed to the water, but this was a few feet further than the direction of the city of Lily of the Valley that Kuai Yong and the others had walked before, which proved that the water level had been rising.

As soon as he reached land, the horse was refreshed. Song Chen and Su Miao rode horses, and after two quarters of an hour, they entered Lily of the Valley City. There are more people at the gate of the city than before, and the news that Lin Jiu reported back before was that many people in the city had rushed over, looking at the situation in front of them, there were still people who continued to enter the city, and it seemed that there were really a lot of people affected by the disaster. Thankfully, the gates are not closed, and you can even enter the city in line as before. After entering the city gate, I saw a table set up two feet away from the city gate, on which a figure who looked like a master was sorting out the papers on the table, and there was a person next to him shouting to the people who came into the city: "You need to arrange a residence to come here!" Come and register! ”

Some people passed, and after the master asked them one by one and registered the relevant information, he gave them a bamboo sign, and then someone else led them in one direction.

The government seems to be doing a good job in this regard, everything is in order.

Song Chen and Su Miao glanced at each other a few times, and then turned to the direction of Hengqing Hall. Along the way, there were two grain shops, and there were people lining up in each house, and the line was nearly thirty zhang long, and people continued to come one after another.

When she arrived in Hengqing City, Su Miao asked Lin Jiu: "Uncle Lin, didn't you say that the price of food in the city has risen very much recently?" Why are there still so many people queuing? ”

"There's no way." Lin Jiu sighed, "This is all artificially stir-fried." Since the first victims entered the city, there have been rumors that this season's grain harvest will fail and food prices will rise. The people of the city were not in the habit of stockpiling large quantities of grain, and as soon as they heard the news, they hurried to buy grain. But then it rose too much, and what used to be thirteen wen a pound of rice has now become twenty wen! However, seeing that the government has proper arrangements for the victims, the people feel that there may be relief food sent later, so they are temporarily stationary, and there are not many people who go to the grain store. Those who went to line up were some big families in the city! Because in addition to the price increase, these grain shops have also begun to sell reluctantly, and a person can only buy one catty of rice a day...... Those maids who can come out have been sent out, and although everyone can buy less, if there are more people, they can add up a lot! ”

"Then let them sell it first." Song Chen and Su Miao came in this time, originally to see if it was time for them to open a warehouse to sell grain, according to this situation, there is no need for this at present, "Uncle Lin, you let people pay attention, if the price of this grain rises again, you will let people go and let out some rumors, just say that there are still some grain prices in Feng'an Grain Store that have not had time to be shipped out, and they will be pulled back and sold in the shop later, and the price will be the previous thirteen Wen per catty." In this way, even if the people are stimulated by the long queues in those grain stores and can't help but want to join the queue to buy high-priced grain, they will stay on the sidelines for the time being because they still have a choice.

"We still have more than 300 acres of unflooded rice fields in Zhuangzi! The people in the Zhuangzi kept watch every day, saying that they would be able to harvest in about ten days. After this batch of rice is harvested, our Feng'an grain shop will open its doors to sell grain! ”

"I know." Lin Jiu responded. At this time, a guy came up and knocked on the door, and someone came from the provincial government, saying that there was something to discuss with Lin Jiu, Lin Jiu went out for a while, and when he came back, he said to Song Chen: "The herbs we prepared earlier are useful!" The people in the government said that they would buy it in large quantities, and after they cooked it, they took it out and distributed it to the people for free to prevent the outbreak of the epidemic. ”

"The government has done a good job in this regard." Song Chen praised it.

There are many things at the moment, and Lin Jiu is also busy, after Song Chen and Su Miao negotiated all the things they wanted to discuss, they left Hengqing Hall and took Xiaobai back to Lin Mansion.

Su Miao also needed to prepare some herbs, and the ones she was going to take back to Baiyun Villa were also going to be fried for the people in the Zhuangzi to drink. Back at the house, Su Miao entered the medicine warehouse to dispense medicine, Song Chen naturally followed, and it took the two of them half an hour to prepare all the things they needed.

When Su Miao heard the two words of the Cui family, she suddenly realized: "That's right!" Ah Chen, I always felt as if I had overlooked something, I don't know what happened to the land on the Cui family's side, the Zhuangzi we went to last time, the rice fields seem to be planted on the plains. "In fact, if it weren't for the consideration of the flood, Baiyun Mountain Villa would not have made terraces on the mountain, anyway, there is a lot of land in the plain, and there is no need to dig a beautiful green mountain piece by piece. Others are even less likely to do so.

The people who came were Cui Ping and Cui An: "I heard that many places outside the city have been flooded, you have nothing to do in Zhuangzi, right?" ”

"We're fine." Song Chen got straight to the point, "Are your rice fields also flooded?" ”

"Yes! We have also sighed in the past two days, your move of cultivating rice fields on the mountainside is really prescient! Cui Ping sighed. In this situation, although Baiyun Villa also has losses, they still have more than 200 acres of harvest after all, but at least they can ensure their own rations. Unlike them, the original land was only enough for their Cui family to use up and down for their own use, and now they have to go to the grain store outside to queue up.

"It's fine. The new grain is almost ready for harvest, and if you need it, we'll keep one for you! Su Miao said with a grin. Although Cui Ping and Cui An are straightforward personalities, they may never have tried to ask for someone, and seeing that they were difficult to speak, Su Miao simply picked out the words directly.

Cui Ping and Cui An really had this meaning when they came over this time, and when they heard Su Miao's words, they were relieved and hurriedly thanked them.