Because of the drought, this year's harvest has been greatly reduced, but it is much better than the people imagined.

The new crops that the yamen let them plant are much better than the previous ones, most of them are drought tolerant, and even if there is a lack of water in the fields, they can grow a little better than the ones they planted before.

In a year like this, everyone is very satisfied that so many things can be recovered.

The days will definitely be tighter than last year, but if you can get by, you don't believe that God doesn't let people live, and the next year's situation will not be worse than this year, right? As long as you survive this year, you won't have to worry about next year.

The people steadily took back the crops in the field to their homes, and Tiankuo and Siqi also breathed a sigh of relief, at least they didn't have to worry about what happened when the crops were still in the field.

The problem they had been worried about before still happened, Tiankuo's letter was useless, the imperial court was gradually reducing the strength of the border guards, and three teams had been withdrawn, and it was not known what would happen next.

When the crops are about to mature in the ground, the sky is wide but the eyes are red, I am afraid that something will happen at this juncture, the Mongolian people have always been unwilling to honestly farm the land, when the contradiction was very deep in the past, almost every year to come to grab food, this year, they have been very dry here, I heard that the drought in Mongolia is even more severe, in such a year, they are willing to farm and can not grow any good things, can not always eat cattle and sheep? He who always needs some food to get by.

In addition, some of the border guards have withdrawn, so I am afraid that they will take advantage of this time to come and grab food, in that case, the officials in the county government will not be able to stop it, and I don't know how many casualties will be caused.

So during that time, Tiankuo couldn't sleep almost every night, thinking about it all the time, and even wondered if he needed to ask Chen Qiuchi to bring someone over to help.

But this is a risky move, if you do this, this matter will not end so easily, he is an official of the imperial court, openly befriending the bandits, although it is to protect the local people, but if this matter is troubled, it will not end well, before people knew that he had dealings with Chen Qiuchi, and he almost made trouble, and then somehow, but he was rewarded, anyway, this kind of thing should not happen again.

Moreover, these troops are withdrawn, maybe they want to exterminate the bandits, and now Chen Qiuchi may be too busy to take care of himself, how can he make trouble for him again?

Just because of this matter in his heart, Tiankuo was very worried for a while, and now the grain was collected at home, and he took a breath, but he was tense all the time, and suddenly relaxed, but he fell ill, and let Dr. Chen come to see it twice before he gradually got better.

The common people took back the grain to their homes, but God still didn't rain, the land was still so dry, the people still had a big problem with water, and this yamen couldn't help much, so the people everywhere had to figure out their own way.

Even these people in the county town don't have water to eat, so they have to go outside and pick it up themselves.

Aunt Zhou and Aunt Liu often go out to buy things, and they have begun to talk about it in the past few days when they come back, and the price of everything has begun to rise, and the price of many things has doubled, but this is also normal.

On this day, Aunt Liu came back from shopping for vegetables, and Siqi was playing with a few dogs in the yard, so she muttered, "There are many people selling grain in the vegetable market today, and the price is really not low, madam, potatoes are sold for ten cents a catty." ”

Siqi was originally holding a wooden stick and was teasing the dog, but when he heard this, he immediately frowned, and hurriedly asked, "Did anyone take the potatoes to the county seat to sell?" ”

Aunt Liu nodded, "I had it a few days ago, and there are still a lot of them, and when I was shopping there today, an uncle next to me sold more than 200 catties, and it was sold for ten cents a catty, and the price was really not low." ”

Siqi felt that this matter should not be so ignored, and hurriedly asked Aunt Liu some things, only to learn from her that the vegetable market has more people selling grain in these days, selling everything, last year harvested a lot of potatoes, everyone ate very happy, but because every household has it, there is really no one to sell it in the county, even if it is to sell, it is relatively small, no one will ever take a few hundred catties to sell, let alone buy those things home, such a posture is really not right.

Siqi thought about it in her heart for a while, remembered it, and when Tiankuo came back in the evening, she told Tiankuo, and Tiankuo also realized the crux of this matter, and hurriedly said, "Let's go to the market tomorrow to see what it's like, if the people start to sell the grain in it, then we must stop it." ”

Siqi nodded, "I think so too, let's go and see it tomorrow." ”

I didn't sleep well this night, and early the next morning, they changed into plain clothes, and prepared to go to the vegetable market to shop, but Da Hei had to follow, Si Qi was afraid of scaring others, and told it for a long time to let it stay at home, and Da Hei reluctantly went back, even with his tail between his legs.

Siqi is really angry and funny, he is a dog, and he even plays a little character, like a child.

Siqi didn't let Zhou Hao and Zhou Xing follow, there were only two people, she and Tiankuo, and there were many people in this county who had seen them, so they also changed their clothes today, and they simply covered it up.

When I got to the vegetable market, it was much more lively than before, it was really the same as what Aunt Liu said, there were all kinds of things sold, these things were produced in the ground, it is estimated that some people have more land at home, although the year is not good this year, but there is still that look, as long as the family eats enough, the rest can be taken out and sold, taking advantage of the high price at this time, you can sell a lot of silver, this price must have been deliberately raised by someone, otherwise everyone would not be so active.

That is, in the past few days, I haven't heard Aunt Liu and them talk about it before, Siqi and Tiankuo thought at the same time, someone must be behind this matter, wanting to buy a large amount of grain from Lu County, as for whether to resell it and sell it at a higher price, or just because of need, this is not known for the time being.

But this year's New Year, there is a problem here, and I really don't dare to come casually, Tiankuo was alert, and Siqi walked around for a while, understood the situation, and hurried back to the house, ready to find Wang Tianlai to discuss with Wang Tianxiang.