Another day of sunshine, and the air was scorching. The sun shines on the road, and the dust raised by the horses is visible. Xu Yougui walked to the cone square with one hand on crutches, one foot deep and one foot shallow, which was a market specializing in selling grain. There was a bag of copper coins in his hand, which was the activity fund given by Mr. Dai. Weighing the weight is only about 70 words, "No matter how you look at it, it's a rhythm that will starve to death!" ”。

Bypassing the roads and neighborhoods, there were many people dressed up like him, all of whom were poor, and went to buy rice with the savings of a few days or even a month.

Nowadays, those who have the money to buy rice from rice shops are already city residents with good conditions. No matter how miserable it is, such as the displaced people outside the city, not to mention the money to buy rice, I am afraid that they will not even have the strength to enter the city.

Despite this, there are still many people lined up in front of the rice shop. One by one, they waited pitifully, and waited for the rice shop to open the door, so that they could go in and buy the grain. The elderly and children of the family will not go hungry.

Watch as hours pass. More and more people gathered, and the rice shop that should have been open was still locked.

The atmosphere became more and more solemn.

But after all, it's just a small people, and no one wants to cause trouble when they can't survive.

Fortunately, after waiting for a while, the door opened.

Several rice shop workers stood at the door carrying a wooden sign, pointing to the big characters on it and reading: "From now on, wheat will be 127 yuan per stone, and rice will be 221 yuan per stone." Start queuing up to buy now, no noise, no looting! ”

"Oh my God! Why is it rising again! This still doesn't let people live! ”

"Wasn't it less than one or two yesterday, and it's only been a day, how can it grow so fast?"

"I heard that the governor of Hunan didn't want to fill the holes in the four prefectures of Su, Song, Chang, and Zhen, so he directly intercepted the grain route and cut off the supply!"

"Daddy, what can I do! Where to raise all this money! Not a day late! What a day! ”

"Mother! I'm hungry! ”

……

There was a wail at the door of the rice shop, and everyone stared at the wooden board, and then looked at the scarce copper plate in their hands, where could they get it together, and even most people didn't even have a tael of silver!

The big red characters were like the judgment drawn by the red pen, and they were drawn into the underworld.

After a year of hard work, selling children and girls can't get a mouthful of life-saving food, how can people not be sad, angry, and desperate.

The work of the rice shop may have seen a lot of such situations, and there was no sympathy and pity at all. just sneered, and then shouted: "What are you arguing about!" No matter how noisy you are, no one will want to buy rice! If you want to buy it, you will line up, and if you don't buy it, you will get out. As you all know, Hunan has cut off the supply of grain. This grain is sold for one day less, and Master Luo is kind-hearted, otherwise this rice shop will not open at all today! ”

Another guy also coaxed on the side: "Even if you don't look at what year it is now, you want to eat cheap?" Okay, go to the porridge tent outside the city and line up to see if the water over there can fill your stomach! Hahaha! ”

If the heart is really good, even if it is not a parity of grain, it should not be sold at a high price of two taels and one yuan, which was originally only one hundred and twenty catties per stone, with a total price of five or six hundred wen and four to six cents of silver.

Where is this selling grain, it is simply cannibalism. Dare to raise the price of grain like this, to say that this "Luo Dashan man" and other local gentry do not have the protection of the governor behind them, how dare they be so arrogant and make a fortune in the country.

But if there is really no one to produce food, they all sit and wait for the grain to rise to sky-high prices, and these people will suffer.

Therefore, everyone swallowed their anger and obediently lined up to buy, and did not dare to say anything.

Xu Yougui knew that the fire in everyone's hearts had already sprouted, and as long as an opportunity was provided, it would sweep like a prairie fire.

But what will the opportunity be?

……

"What a chance! It's a pity, it's a pity. ”

On the high-rise building opposite the rice shop, Ye Tianxiang put his hands on the edge of the window, and the folding fan in his hand swayed at will.

He saw everything downstairs in his eyes, and said pity in his mouth, but his tone was extraordinarily frivolous. The narrow peach blossom eyes flowed, "Hey, isn't that our Mr. Xu?" ”

The old man beside him also saw Xu Yougui and smiled slightly: "Don't worry, the opportunity has been arranged." Just, did we help him? ”

"Help him? No, it's to help us, and it's also to help Brother Jiu. Hehe...... I just don't know if our children will be unhappy if they find out. ”

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During this night, several masked men in black broke into a farmhouse, and all they could hear were cries inside, and soon they were silent.

The next morning, the family next door came to invite them to buy rice at the rice shop as usual. Knocking on the door for a long time, there was no movement, and there seemed to be a sour and rotten gas escaping from the door. In a panic, he kicked open the door.

The family of four all lay on the ground, with different faces, struggling, sad, desperate, alone without hatred, and without a life.

Screaming and going to find the village Baoli Masa, he summoned him for an examination, and he was determined to have committed suicide by taking medicine, and the medicine he took was used to kill rats in the field.

As for the cause of death, although everyone does not speak, they all have speculation. It wasn't him, the rice bowl had been out of food for a long time, and there were still coins scattered on the table, which must have been overwhelmed by the soaring price of rice in the past few days. When a farmer found out that he could not afford to buy a litre of rice for several days, he committed suicide in grief.

All of this has been said.

After the news came out, in addition to the sadness, the resentment that had been suppressed in the hearts of the people could no longer be endured.

First, a few civilians carried the corpses of this family of four, and the others picked up hoes and rushed to the rice shop, and then there were more and more people accompanying them, and hundreds of people surrounded Boss Luo's rice shop and asked for an explanation, but they were insulted by the rice shop.

This completely angered everyone, and with a roar, the leaders rushed into the rice shop, pulled Boss Luo is beating, and snatched all the grain stored in the rice shop.

When the government heard the news, the emotional people took the opportunity to surround the officials and forced them to open their warehouses to release grain.

"Calm down! Please calm down! Opening a warehouse and releasing grain, the government has been doing it all the time! The porridge outside the city has not been broken for a day. Why don't you go to the porridge and queue up and make trouble here? Ignoring the law? ”

"Dog officer! Don't lie! Where there is food in that porridge poop, it is all clear water! The leader of the strong man shouted, followed by Xu Yougui and others.

As soon as he saw someone making trouble, he mixed in, and he was not idle all the way, fanning the flames beside him. However, the force value is not enough, and when the fight is carried out, he can only hide in the rear, and when it is time to play tricks, he quickly pops his head, for fear that these croppers who can't read a few big characters will be fooled by those slippery officials. If this goes back, it will be even more difficult to stir it up again.

"This strong man, you can't say that. This soup kitchen in Jiangning Mansion will persist through the entire dry season, not only to supply Jiangning Prefecture, but also to the displaced people from the surrounding counties and counties who will gather here. If each bowl is sufficient, it won't last until now. ”

"This ......"

"My lord, you are shirking your responsibilities by saying this. Everyone knows that Jiangnan is rich, Suhu is familiar with the world, and it should be quite abundant for so many years to close positions. Besides, the other four mansions are not without soup porridge and grain, listen to what you mean, are these four mansions Jiangning a mansion not being able to provide for it? What's more, the imperial court ordered Cao Yun to transport the relief grain brought from the north to fill the seven-fold seven-masted ship, could it be that these grains disappeared out of thin air! ”

"That's right! Your government doesn't want to deceive people! ”

The governor of Suzhou frowned and looked at the "disaster victim" in front of him, confused in his heart, this person looked like a disaster victim, but he spoke in a straightforward manner, in a clear manner, like a scholar.

But now the crowd is angry, and although there is no time to consider the origin of this person, the governor understands that these leaders cannot let go. So I had a plan.

"That being the case, this official will open a position tomorrow. Wait for the day to retreat quickly. ”

Xu Yougui's lines that were pressed in his stomach were nowhere to be released, he really didn't expect that this governor didn't even struggle, and said that he would release grain.

Dai Duo once told him that today's long liquidation is just a decoration. Not to mention grain, not even Chen Gu. It was empty enough to run horses, and I didn't know what the governor would take to put grain.

But this sentence worked very well, and the crowd immediately cheered. This person's heart was scattered, and Xu Yougui had nothing to do for the time being.

Holding his chest and looking at the old god in the governor's house, he thought: "It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, see how you put the grain tomorrow......"