Xue Bolian was carefully inspecting these people's conditions this time, and he finally found a clue, he saw an acquaintance, who often sold things in this area, and used to go back to the sunset, but now it was just after the afternoon, and he had already begun to close the stall, not only today, but also these days, and looked at the peddler's face full of pain, as if he was melancholy for something.

Xue Bolian then walked over to inquire about the situation, "This uncle, don't you often go back until Shenshi?" It's still too early to be ruthless, why leave now? ”

The uncle only sighed deeply, "It's you, son, this business is not easy to do!" I want to change places. ”

"Why change places? Haven't you been here for twenty years? ”

"Today is not as good as before, when the second prince and the third prince were still there, they were able to barely support it, but this time, it was not an official from where ...... came from" As soon as he said this, he didn't dare to continue, looked around, and found that there was no one, so he said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "These people never spent a penny of silver taels, and directly stole all the rice and wine that I had managed to get. They actually robbed us of all the rice and wine we had worked so hard to buy, and they didn't give me silver taels, so we only relied on these to earn some silver taels, how should we live in the future?

And the people sent by the official were dressed like us, dressed like poor people, and they couldn't see what their identities were. ”

"And how do you see that?"

"Hey! In these years, who else can steal our rice and wine except those officials, not only small, but even this street is like this," he said and looked around, "Those officials are very fierce, and they asked me not to say it, if we want to say it, it will definitely be a dead end, and we are just to make a living, otherwise we won't sell these things, and now, how many people will dare to come out to sell things, it's better to stay away." ”

Xue Bolian was deep in thought, no wonder in the past two days, those hawkers seemed to have decreased a lot, maybe they all went farther away to sell, after all, these hawkers are not vegetarians, since it is not safe here, why always stay in one place? Now that the world is being rectified by those people, Xue Bolian asked again, "When did those officials come here?" ”

"It's been two hours past noon, and it's usually this time."

Xue Bolian also said "oh", only thinking that this little brother was really not easy, so he rewarded him with some silver taels, "You can take these silver taels and get some rice and wine to sell, you must be careful in the future." ”

"Huh? What's so embarrassing about this? ”

"It's not easy for you to do business, and you have to live in the future, after all, you still have to support your family."

"Thank you, thank you for this son." The vendor was grateful.

On weekdays, he saw that this son was very cold, but he didn't want that at this time, this son could actually give him some silver taels with great mercy, and he couldn't be grateful in his heart.

Xue Bo didn't even stay long before he continued to move forward, and if he went further, it would still be like now, if he wanted to buy something in the future, it would be difficult, even when the maid of the Xue Mansion went to buy the ingredients and came back, he reported to Luomei, "Today's ingredients, the slave maid only bought these back, and, I don't know what's going on, the price has risen a lot recently, and the hawkers are getting fewer and fewer, and the slave and maid still walked for a long time to buy it." ”

Luo Mei looked at it again and again, "No, Madame's recipe is more than that, is it so difficult to buy ingredients now?" ”

"Either it's extremely hard to buy, or it's too expensive, it's not easy to get anywhere now, even some restaurants have started to close early, and there are some inns or something, every time they start to close after noon, and they don't know what's going on."

After Xiao Zhuyu heard these words, she couldn't help frowning, she had been watching it for a long time during this time, and there was no place to chill it, if these ingredients were too hot, they would be extremely easy to spoil, so she also spent some silver taels to build an ice cellar in the backyard, which was extremely cold, and it was the best place to store food, but she didn't expect to hear what Luomei and another maid said, which made her hesitate, and the maid saw Xiao Zhuyu and immediately walked up," Madam. ”

"Can't you find any food on the whole street?"

"The slave and maid inquired, and every time it was noon, many hawkers began to rush to their homes one after another, and, recently, there were fewer and fewer hawkers on this street, and when they saw such a situation, they seemed to go to a far away place to sell, and they did not pay attention to these on weekdays, until the slave and maid went to inquire about it, and then they knew that every time those vendors passed the afternoon, there were officials who snatched what they were selling, and did not give them silver taels, they all felt that they could not live anymore, and it was better to move elsewhere to sell, Even some restaurants and inns are closed every time it is noon, and the early closing of the door naturally escapes such a catastrophe, but if it is not closed early, then those officials will rob the silver taels, or live here to pay the bills, etc., if they resist, they will kill innocents indiscriminately. ”

After Xiao Zhuyu heard this, her eyebrows almost wrinkled into the word "Sichuan", these problems, if they are once or twice, it is nothing, but the ingredients purchased in the past few days are getting less and less, and I don't know where the problem is, just these trivial things, Xiao Zhuyu did not report to Xue Bolian in time, and now the situation is getting more and more intense, even the people in Xue Mansion have almost no place to buy ingredients, not to mention those poor people.

Xue Bolian returned to the mansion, and Xiao Zhuyu immediately greeted Xue Bolian as soon as he saw him, "My lord, seeing you like this, presumably, you also know the seriousness." ”

"What? Can't we Xue Mansion buy ingredients? ”

Xiao Zhuyu sighed deeply: "Hi! That's for sure, in fact, some problems have been discovered in recent days, but the slave family has not talked to you about this matter. ”

"It turns out that you also know about some problems, but when did you find out about them?"

"The slave family only knew about it a few days ago."