The hand grabbing Gu Feng's sleeve trembled, Su Jiu'er naturally knew the strength of the riot, even if Gu Feng could have three heads and six arms, he would definitely not be the opponent of so many people.

"That, Brother Gu." The thin little Liuzi who was standing on the side squeezed in and smiled flatteringly, "We're here to buy food." ”

Buying food?

Only then did Su Jiu'er react, daring that they were holding wooden sticks to carry food, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

Gu Feng glanced at everyone and said with some embarrassment, "But now each household can only buy a maximum of ten catties." ”

The smile on Xiao Liuzi's face froze on his face, he was stunned, and asked in a daze, "Brother Gu, why can you only buy ten catties?" ”

Ten catties is too little for them, and they have a family of more than a dozen people, even if they are frugal, this bit of rice is not enough.

"You came late, and most of the food was bought." Gu Feng said calmly, held Su Jiu'er's hand with his backhand, and comforted her wordlessly, "There are only five stones left in my house, and they will be gone after they are sold." ”

When everyone heard that the grain had been bought, they were dumbfounded, and Xiao Liuzi stepped forward in wonder, "Can you only buy so little?" ”

In the month of the year ago, since the attack of the Huns, there is not much food in the hands of the villagers.

In the past, they did not have much food in their hands, so they saved some food, and when the harvest came next autumn, they had just enough food to eat.

But this year's situation is different, as early as when the mangs were planted, the grain in their hands had almost eaten.

Fortunately, it was still very hot at that time, and there were still some wild vegetables scattered on the mountain, although there were few of them, and they could cook wild vegetable soup to drink.

But this day is getting colder and colder, and when the autumn wind blows, the grass and trees on this mountain wither, and the wild vegetables are basically gone.

When it's cold, people have to eat more to keep their bodies warm.

The people in the village thought that Gu Feng and his family had a lot of grain last time, so they thought about buying it later, and if Gu Feng couldn't sell it, they would sell it cheaply.

After waiting for several months, the price of grain in the town rose gradually, but the grain in Gu Feng's house was still at the original price.

They are thinking about buying more food to go home, so that they don't have to worry about it all winter.

After thousands of calculations, they never expected that someone would buy the Gu family's grain.

"There are a lot of shops in the town that sell grain," Gu Feng's face was calm, and he said unhurriedly, "You don't have to worry about running out of food to eat." ”

Xiao Liuzi stood at the front, glanced at the villagers behind him, his brows were twisted, and he looked at Gu Feng with a sad face, "Can't you sell more?" ”

Su Jiu'er saw those villagers looking at Gu Feng expectantly, and couldn't help but lower her eyes.

Gu Feng is too kind-hearted, he wants more people to be able to eat.

Ten catties of grain can last for a while, and can wait until the government distributes food, Su Jiu'er pursed her thin lips into a line and smiled faintly.

"Each household can only buy ten catties." Gu Feng didn't bother to explain to those people, "If you want to buy it, you can arrange it now, and if you don't want to buy it, please go back." ”

The crowd began to line up with a shout.

Although it can only be bought for ten catties, it is much cheaper to buy it in Gu Feng's house than the grain in the rice shop in the town.

As soon as the people in the village heard that Gu Feng only sold ten catties per household, they couldn't wait to come and queue up to buy it, they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to buy food.

As the sun grew, Su Jiu'er followed Mama Zhu and the two of them to start making lunch.

When it was almost time for lunch, Gu Feng sold all the five stones of grain in the courtyard.

There are still many families who have not bought food, and they wander in disappointment and stand in the courtyard of the Gu family, stretching out their heads to look at the warehouse, hoping to see the grain from inside.

Gu Feng had already moved the five stones of grain to the bed in the kitchen room, and there was nothing in the warehouse.

The meal was ready, Su Jiu'er watched everyone gather around Gu Feng, begging Gu Feng to sell them food one by one, cleared his throat, and said loudly, "Everyone, please go back." ”

Hearing Su Jiu'er say this, everyone looked back at her weakly, and some couldn't help asking, "Is there really no food?" ”

"As you can see, the warehouses are sold out." Su Jiu'er looked at everyone with a smile on the corner of her lips, and her voice was crisp, "I'm really sorry, you're late." ”

The smell of food came from the kitchen, and everyone glanced at the kitchen, and left the Gu family in despair, regretting that they didn't come to buy food earlier, and now they can't buy food even if they want to.

Waiting for everyone to leave, Su Jiu'er hurriedly closed the courtyard door, and saw Gu Feng washing his hands, and smiled, "Xianggong, it's time to eat." ”

"Yes." Gu Feng glanced at the copper plate in the basket on the stone table and smiled, "I made a lot of money today." ”

Su Jiu'er looked at the copper plates, shook his head a little helplessly, and thought about going back to the money village to exchange for broken silver.

After eating, Gu Feng went up the mountain with a bow and arrow, saying that he was practicing arrows.

After sending Gu Feng away, Su Jiu'er was originally going to close the far door, but after thinking about it, she opened the courtyard door and sat in the courtyard with a needlework basket to do embroidery.

Mama Zhu finally put the two children to sleep, so that she had time to do needlework.

Mama Zhu sat on the stone bench next to Su Jiu'er, inadvertently glanced at the cloth in Su Jiu'er's hand, her black pupils shrank suddenly, and she hurriedly restrained the surprise on her face, and said with a chuckle, "Madame, this embroidery is really beautiful." ”

"It's just speculation." Su Jiu'er stitched a few stitches, raised her eyes and glanced outside the courtyard gate, her brows furrowed slightly, and she was a little hesitant in her heart.

Should she stand by or take the initiative?

Luo Nian is a person who loves money, and she can do anything for silver.

Now that Luo Nian has been in the village for a long time, he has figured out the situation in this village.

If nothing else, Luo Nian will come over in the next two days.

Su Jiu'er felt that if she looked for her, Luo Nian would definitely suspect that she had ulterior motives.

Su Jiu'er looked at the clothes on her body that were too plain, and felt that Luo Nian might not be able to see that her family had money, so she hurriedly put the things in her hand into the sewing basket, got up and walked towards the house.

There was no need to change clothes on his body, Su Jiu'er took off the wooden hairpin on his head, replaced it with a silver hairpin, looked at the small box on the dresser, and took out the pearl earrings and put them on his ears.

Su Jiu'er sat in front of the dresser, looking at herself in the mirror, the corners of her lips slowly hooked.

"Madam, someone wants to buy food!" Mama Zhu's loud voice came from outside the door.

The corners of Su Jiu'er's lips were slightly hooked, she got up and walked towards the courtyard, and was about to open her mouth to refuse, when she saw Luo Nian standing at the gate of the courtyard hesitantly.

Sure enough, it still came.

Su Jiu'er pretended not to care, put her hands in front of her, her white wrists exposed, and she had a shining silver bracelet on her hand.

Luo Nian's gaze quickly swept over Su Jiu'er's body, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and then he pretended to be pitiful and innocent, "Mrs. Gu, I don't know if you still have food in your family?" ”

"It's really unfortunate that the grain was sold out in the morning." Su Jiu'er smiled, the pearl earrings in her ears shook, reflecting her clean little face even fairer, and slowly walked in front of Luo Nian, a trace of confusion flashed on her face, "The girl looks at her eyes and ......."

"My house is in the north, and I fled from the famine." Luo Nian's sad eyes drooped down, and he looked pitiful.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mention this." Su Jiu'er stepped forward and grabbed Luo Nian's arm and pulled her into the courtyard.

"It's fine." Luo Nian hurriedly shook his head, tears flashing in his eyes, "I just remembered that my father and mother also left a few days ago, leaving me alone......"

At the end, Luo Nian's voice choked.

Helping Luo Nian to sit at the stone table, Su Jiu'er went back to the same place, looking at the tears in Luo Nian's eyes, she only felt that her tears were no different from crocodile tears, pretending.

I hated Luo Nian in my heart, but I couldn't show it on my face, Su Jiu'er held Luo Nian's hand intimately and said with empathy, "It's okay, you're still alive." ”

Luo Nian lowered his eyes slightly and choked up, "Fortunately, the little sixth brother saved me, if it wasn't for the little sixth brother, I might have been dead a long time ago." ”

"Your father and mother definitely want you to live well, don't be too sad." Su Jiu'er comforted softly, and looked at Luo Nian hesitantly, "I always feel as if I have seen a girl before, and I have a feeling of déjà vu with her." ”

Luo Nian sniffed hard and smiled bitterly.

"Mama Zhu, go to the kitchen and put two catties of rice for this girl." Although Su Jiu'er kept looking at Luo Nian, her words were said to Mama Zhu.

Looking at Luo Nian's happy appearance, Su Jiu'er knew that Luo Nian had already begun to take the bait.

People, as long as they have weaknesses, are easy to exploit.

Mama Zhu hesitantly put down the needlework, got up and walked towards the kitchen.

"Mrs. Gu, isn't this a good thing?" Luo Nian looked at Su Jiu'er with teary eyes, and sniffed vigorously, "Your family doesn't have much food." ”

"Hey." Su Jiu'er sighed melancholy and said softly, "If it doesn't work, we are spending money to buy it, now the grain in the town is too expensive, last time I heard someone say that the old grain was sold for fifty wen a catty." ”

Luo Nian was so shocked that his jaw was about to fall, his mouth opened into a circle, and his eyes fell on the silver hairpin on Su Jiu'er's head, thinking in his heart that the silver hairpin could be exchanged for a lot of food.

Even the ground of the Gu family is covered with bluestone bricks, Luo Nian remembers that Xiao Liuzi said that only the Gu family is the richest in their village, and Gu Feng can exchange a pig for a dozen taels of silver when hunting.

Luo Nian didn't have any money at all, she came here today just to see if the Gu family was really that rich.

Although Xiao Liuzi saved her, their family has no money, and even the rice jar has bottomed out.

Luo Nian knew that if there was no rice left in their house, she would definitely be kicked out, and before being kicked out again, she would have to find a good home, so that she didn't have to worry about having nowhere to go.

Luo Nian never thought that Mrs. Gu would be a soft persimmon, wearing gold and silver, for fear that others would not know that she was rich.

If she can go to Gu Feng's bed, then she won't have to worry about food and clothing in the future, thinking of this, Luo Nian's heart has blossomed, but she still pretends to be pitiful on her face to win Su Jiu'er's sympathy.