In the bazaar, the shops that were hurriedly built on both sides are closely connected, all kinds of flags are waving in the wind, and at each door, there is the boss Xiao Er who is attentive to the store to solicit customers. The bustling crowd rubbed shoulders one after another, the shouts and shouts, and the greetings of relatives and friends filled the ears.

The white dragon horse followed behind Lu Shi, on the dirty and uneven streets, was squeezed around, followed the master to look around, but for a while, he was greedy and ate other people's rape potatoes, and as a result, Lu Shi had no money to pay the embarrassment.

It was Zheng Hongda who was following him to relieve Lu Shi's embarrassment, and the old businessman smiled bitterly and took out two coins in his arms to pay the bill. When the old farmer saw the two money-making, although his mouth kept delaying, his hand had already quickly held the money-making in his arms, for fear of flying.

Now, the foreign trade of the base area is showing a one-sided deficit, and a large amount of silver has begun to flow out, and the entire base area has almost returned to the era of barter in the primitive society, so every big money is a rare thing.

At this time, a villager carrying a few rabbits to sell saw that the old man had received two large sums of money, and his eyes lit up, and he stepped forward to talk to the old farmer, hoping that the old farmer would buy his rabbits.

"This uncle, look at how fat my rabbit is, the color of the coat is good, you take it home, as long as you process it a little, keep the meat for yourself to eat or sell it to the team, and keep the fur and sew it with a jacket, which is much lighter and warmer than the old sheepskin jacket."

The old farmer lifted the two ears of a rabbit, looked at it carefully for a long time, and saw that the rabbit was jumping around, slowly becoming obedient in his hands, and nodded with satisfaction, "Young man, it's a pity that such a good rabbit is killed, my family is missing a few breeding rabbits, then I will ask for it, how many potatoes to change." ”

As soon as he heard that the potatoes were exchanged, the man was not happy at the time, and hurriedly reminded the old man, "I have a lot of potatoes, and I don't have to go up the mountain to cut the grass and feed the rabbits, don't you see that you have two money, and I don't covet anything else, just your two money, I will sell this rabbit to you, you take it back to be a seed, almost two months a litter, not more, at the end of the year you will become a big rabbit breeder, maybe King Chuang will also give you a pennant." Saying this, he smiled at Lu Shi and asked Lu Shi for help: "Is it King Chuang?" ”

Lu Shi nodded in agreement, although he was suspected of being used, he was still very happy in his heart. I really hope this deal will come to fruition.

When the old man heard that he wanted the two pennies in his arms, his flesh hurt at the time, but seeing that there was the face of King Chuang, he couldn't save Lu Shi's face, so he gritted his teeth and said: "Or a penny, plus two bags of potatoes." Seeing what the man was going to say, he hurriedly raised the price again: "That's it, five bags of potatoes." Then he looked at King Chuang, and added: "It's all for the sake of King Chuang's face." ”

Lu Shi smiled secretly, it seems that his face is not small. This rabbit is only worth a maximum of two hundred wen. Two pennies don't go anywhere at all, but five bags of potatoes should be worth at least that. Now, rabbits are raised in large quantities in the base area, and it is more than enough to supply the army, but they are still buying and storing meat for the winter, and according to the market price, each rabbit is equal to thirty catties of wheat, and the synthetic copper coin should be two hundred Wen, this rabbit has a good coat color, low age, two hundred and fifty to three hundred Wen is no problem, it seems that this old man still really wants to buy it, and the price given is already reasonable. The reason why it is said that the copper coin should be 500 Wen, or as mentioned above, in this base area, copper coins are very scarce, and everything can only be measured by grain.

In fact, the old man really fell in love with this breeding rabbit, and when he saw that the man turned around to leave, he was in a hurry, so he grabbed the man's rabbit legs, stomped his feet and said, "Otherwise, I'll give you ten bags of potatoes, how about fifteen bags?" ”

Lu Shi was very surprised, the price was a bit high, but looking at the man who still wanted to leave, the old man resolutely refused to let go, and looked at Lu Shi with his eyes, but said to the man in his mouth: "Twenty bags of potatoes, that's all, okay?" ”

Lu Shi couldn't look at it, although he couldn't use his majesty to buy and sell, but he couldn't see such a greedy guy, in Lu Shi's opinion, how could these twenty bags of potatoes be worth a hundred catties of wheat, it would be almost more than seven hundred yuan, and then look at the old man's pleading eyes, he hurriedly stepped forward and smiled at the man and said: "This big brother, be kind and content, twenty bags of potatoes, a lot, you can give this rabbit to this uncle, for my sake, how about it?" ”

When the man saw Lu Shi talking, he was no longer embarrassed to leave, so he had no choice but to hand the rabbit to the old man, his face was full of bitterness, and he muttered: "Since King Chuang said it, then I can only give it to you." ”

The old man was full of joy, carefully stuffed the rabbit into the bag beside him, and then bowed to Lu Shi again and again, making Lu Shi feel uncomfortable.

After thanking Lu Shi, the old man hurriedly pointed out the bag of potatoes in front of the man, which looked extremely casual, and the man took the old man's penny with a bitter face, waved his hand and said: "I have a lot of potatoes in my house, and I don't want you so much, so I will take you a bag." As he spoke, he strode away with a bag of potatoes.

Lu Shi was stunned, pointed to the man carrying a bag of potatoes, disappeared into the bustling crowd, was speechless, turned his head and asked the old man: "Uncle, why is that man willing to leave hundreds of potatoes behind?" Is it because you're afraid of me? I-"

When the old man heard Lu Shi's valuation, he looked at Lu Shi in surprise, and said with a wry smile for a long time: "King Chuang, how can these twenty bags of potatoes be worth hundreds of Wen, and they are worth twenty or thirty Wen when they are full, and someone has to ask for it, if you can't meet the homeless people to buy it, then you can't buy it at all, the old man pushed him in the morning, and he bought more than a dozen Wen, look, it is late and you can't buy it, so you have to lose it." ”

"What? What the? This precious potato is worth twenty or thirty yuan? Are you still going to throw it away in vain? "Now Lu Shi is really blind, isn't everyone short of food? Why are potatoes so cheap?

Look at the businessman Zheng Hongda who is following him, Zheng Hongda only has a wry smile.

Seeing that Lu Shi was confused, the old man thought that King Chuang was reproached, so he hurriedly bowed and accompanied him, and then remembered that this King Chuang was not his son and nephew, but the king who controlled five or six hundred thousand people.

Lu Shi hurriedly supported each other with both hands, and said that he didn't dare to say that he didn't dare at the same time, and asked at the same time: "Uncle, isn't there a shortage of food during this great drought, and it is said that this potato should be extremely precious, but why has it become like dung?" ”

After carefully examining King Chuang's expression, but he didn't blame himself, the old man relaxed again and explained to Lu Shi. "King Chuang, at the beginning of spring, you sent a large number of potato seeds, and explained the advantages of this crop with high yield and drought tolerance, so that everyone was so happy that they couldn't sleep, this must be a divine object taken down by King Chuang in the sky, so take care of the cultivation, for fear that a bad one will spoil this fairy seed."

Look at Lu Shi smiled bitterly, but he didn't get angry, swallowed his saliva and continued: "Like my family, a total of four people, according to the rules of the field of sixteen acres, deducting two acres of miscellaneous grains, the rest are planted with this potato, although the world is drought, but there is a flying car handed over by King Chuang, which is watered day and night, more careful than serving children, seeing the seedlings breaking the ground, day by day and rising wildly, everyone is happy and does not know what to do." Like my wife, I beckoned the child to watch all day and night, for fear that something would go wrong, until the seedlings withered and yellowed, and the harvest season you said was not relieved. ”

Lu Shi was very moved, and the simplicity of the people was all here. "How's the harvest?"

At the mention of the harvest, the old man's face was full of excitement at that time, and he was still excited when he talked about the scene on the day of the hoe and harvest.

At that time, the village chief said that everyone can harvest potatoes, so the whole village of all ages, young and old, the ground is black and pressed are all people, in order to be worthy of the gods, the village chief also specially invited the original old patriarch in the village to do the ceremony, and so the grand ceremony is over, in everyone's worried eyes, the village chief waved the hoe and the first planed down, a pickaxe down, so that the whole village was amazed, with the head turned out is a dozen snow-white potatoes of all sizes and sizes, the big one is as big as a child's head, and the small one is as big as a person's fist, The old patriarch hurriedly took out the weighing rod on his waist, put the largest one in the tray and weighed it, and all the people stretched their necks and asked, "Old man, how much, how much?" ”

The old patriarch trembled his lips for a long time and shouted: "One catty (16 taels) is still high." ”

Boom, the crowd exploded, just under this seedling, the biggest is one catty, and that is not five or six catties? How much does this acre get? So what are you waiting for, hurry up and pick up the potatoes. So, the crowd dispersed, waving their heads and rushing to their fields, the men sweating and plowing the ground in front, and the women and children frantically picking up in the back, everyone was close to madness, or had gone madness.

There is no way not to make people crazy, this acre of land is thousands of catties of output, this is an unprecedented harvest, which means that this spring famine is no more, which means that there will be no hunger in the future, which means that there will be eternal wealth in the future.

The joy of harvest is the most moving, when this old man moved all the potatoes to his home, roughly calculated, there were forty or fifty thousand catties, oh my God, what is that number? That's enough food for a family to eat for ten years, looking at the mountains of grain, the old man climbed up directly at that time, and refused to come down again, the old lady was also crying and wiping her tears, calculating in her heart that she should marry her son and let her daughter marry out decently.

But, after the joy is over, the trouble comes, first of all, the problem of stacking, so many potatoes, there is no place in the nest at all, can only be piled in the yard, besides, it is not false to eat for ten years, but who do you see keep ten years of food? Leaving a year's share of rations, and leaving enough seeds, the old man decided to buy it.

As a result, I was completely disappointed, the ground was full of potatoes, and I couldn't buy them at all, and the things that couldn't be sold were not worth anything at all, or didn't call for money, so I was in this situation.

"If measured according to the standard of silver money, the people can only pay 100 wen for one mu of potatoes, which is the price of ten catties of wheat." Zheng Hongda said to Lu Shi: "And you collect 100 catties of wheat per mu, that is 700 yuan, that is to say, the money you collect is seven times the output of the land, now it is good, the people are full, but the people are even poorer, and the poor don't even have the money to buy some salt, let alone anything else." This is the grain cheapness hurting the peasants. ”

Lu Shi was stunned for a long time, looking at the bustling people, looking at the overwhelming potatoes, Lu Shi was suffering in this sea of potatoes.