Chapter 123: Rising Food Prices
"Okay, your surname is Shu! At that time, my aunt, how good was my aunt's name, and she was rich? Is this body also hard? That's what you really are, right? Hehe, I'm blind! ”
"What are you doing? You crazy! ”
The village chief walked out angrily, and pulled Chen Taohua, who was glaring at Shu Qingai, angrily, and scolded!
Chen Taohua scolded the truth back! She is now aggrieved to death! In front of so many people in the village, his own man defended another woman and yelled at him!
Shu Qingai didn't want to be regarded as an enemy by this Chen Taohua's unreasonableness, so she interrupted the village chief and continued to scold Chen Taohua.
"Village Chief, I'm not here to trouble her today. I just want to tell her that I, Shu Qingai, also have a temper, and people also respect each other, for example, you are the village chief, you are a good village chief, do practical things for the people in the village, think about the people in the village, I respect you! But what about her? I used to call her an aunt, and that was to see that she was sensible, but now she blames me for your daughter's marriage, and blames me for not teaching her well? persecuted your daughter's marriage, am I really wronged? ”
"Then Chen Taohua, let me ask you, the master in the private school has to teach so many students every year, is it that the students who are not admitted to the show have to blame the master for not teaching them? Can you be reasonable? ”
Chen Taohua sneered: "Hehe? I'm unreasonable? Then was my Lili's marriage robbed by your sister-in-law? You don't have a backache when you stand here and talk, you let me be reasonable! You Shu family, I don't think there is a good thing! ”
Shu Qingai is not angry, she just thinks that people like Chen Taohua are shouting about themselves in the village all day long, and she has to wash her name today, otherwise she will have to let her go down!
"I can't help it if you want to think like that, I told the reason, it's you who mess around like this, if you think you put your daughter with so many other women,"
"Shu Niangzi, don't talk about it, you should give me a face today, okay?"
The village chief listened to Shu Qingai's words that were about to speak, and he became anxious. After all, Chen Lili was sent to the Qian Mansion, and it would be disgraceful to pick up with so many girls for a man, if this matter spread in the village, then their family Lili really didn't want to marry a good family in the future. ”
Shu Qingai didn't plan to say it, she knew that the village chief would stop her, no, along this step, she wanted Chen Taohua to be arrogant in front of her in the future!
"Okay, I'll give you face to the village chief today, and I won't worry about her today. It just so happens that there are a lot of villagers watching the excitement now, so I'll tell you about my visit to the village chief. ”
Seeing that Shu Qingai was relieved, Chen Taohua's frightened face turned pale with fright, and then slowly regained her normal color, snorted coldly, and turned around directly to close the courtyard door with a "bang", and also locked the village chief outside.
Shu Qingai was sarcastic, just like this, she really didn't have any challenges!
It's just that what Shu Qingai doesn't know is that in the future, because of Chen Taohua's mother and daughter, she will be disgusted several times.
When the village chief saw Chen Taohua enter, as long as he stopped stirring up trouble, the heart hanging in his heart also fell.
"Shu Niangzi, what are you doing today, just say that as the head of a village, I should help the passers-by in the village."
The village chief thought that this time Shu Qingai wanted everyone to make money, so he said generously.
"Today, the young owner of Chunfeng Lou sent me news, he just came back from the capital, there is a group of people who have been affected by the drought, and the crowd has come to Pingyang, I don't know if I will come to our mountain, I just want to tell you, prepare your heart first. After all, those victims have no food to eat in their hometowns, and if they come to us to grab our food, these people will be in our village, and they will be far away from the government, so everyone will have to unite at that time. ”
"Huh! Who are you? Isn't your heart too wide! The mayor of the town and the village have not received the letter, do you think that you are a big family and have a little prestige in our Xinghua Village, so you are happy to spread rumors and make everyone panic? ”
Cheng Niangzi stood in the crowd, unhurried and coldly mocked. Shu Qingai glanced at her and sneered.
"Okay, I'll remember your words today, don't let everyone help when the time comes!"
Li Chun saw that his daughter-in-law began to break her mouth again! Who doesn't know that now Shu Qingai also has a bit of prestige in this village, not long ago, the village earned a few hundred taels from her, and this mother-in-law wants to be the enemy of the people in the village in the future!
"You dead mother-in-law, if you talk nonsense, believe it or not, I'll divorce you! Shu Niangzi, you don't have the same general knowledge as such an uninformed mother-in-law, we all know that you are for everyone's good, so let's go back and prepare. ”
The village chief looked at Shu Qingai solemnly, he only came back from the town today, and he didn't hear Li Zheng mention this matter to the town mayor. It's just that the price of food in the town has been billed several times, so there must be some basis for this.
He looked really good, and only after Li Chun finished speaking did he open his mouth to receive: "If this thing is true, everyone must prepare well when they go back, and the grain should be hidden!" It's time to find a way back! I'm coming back from the town today, the brown rice has risen to 20 wen a catty, some time ago Shu Niangzi also reminded everyone to stock up on grain, and if you haven't tun yet, hurry up to the town to procure it, don't even have rations this winter. ”
When everyone heard this, they suddenly sighed! The crowd exploded immediately!
Some exclaimed that their families had not yet stockpiled food! Some people sighed that they were fortunate to listen to the words of the village chief and made some money from Shu Qingai, so they all went to buy food.
For a while, the crowd was in chaos, thinking that the brown rice used to be only four or five wen a catty, but now it has risen to twenty wen, and it is about to catch up with the price of rice and white noodles! Everyone hurried back and counted their food.
Some families are reluctant to carry the money in their pockets, and at this time they can't help but take out the money and hurry to the town.
After hearing the rumors, all the people from ten miles and eight villages rushed to the town to buy grain, and when the people of Xinghua Village came back from the town, they all sighed.
In the morning, the village chief said that the brown rice was 20 wen a catty, and when they rushed there, it had already risen to 30 wen a catty, and they were going to be robbed madly!
The family with little money came back with a small bag of grain, and their faces were full of sadness.
It's already September, and this year's weather is too weird, even the river in Xinghua Village, there is only one or two feet of water left in it, Shu Qingai looks at this day, and he is also sad.
She has this food, but she doesn't even have water, so how can she get by?
The holy water in the space can never be taken out, and besides, the holy water is also limited and cannot solve the problem of so many people wanting to drink water.
Leaning on the old acacia tree outside the gate of the yard, Shu Qingai sighed.
"I don't think the water in your yard has decreased much, so why don't you save it first."
Ling'er's voice sounded, and Shu Qingai sighed helplessly, "This water will deteriorate after a long time, and when the time comes, you won't get sick if you drink it, I'm afraid you will only die faster." ”
Suddenly, Shu Qingai's brain flashed, she didn't read so many time-traveling novels in vain, at this time, making water into ice cubes and stacking it, the shelf life was greatly extended.
Thinking about it, Shu Qingai immediately found Qingyou, she knows martial arts, and it will be safe and fast in Pingyang County.
Qingyou took the silver ticket and left, because the only carriage in the family had been congratulated and driven away, Shu Qingai asked her to go to the town to buy a horse and ride it by herself.
She asked for a large amount of saltpeter, and she was afraid that Dr. Zhao's medical officer roots would not be enough, so she simply asked Qingyou to ride a fast horse to Pingyang County to procure.
Here in Pingyang County, the villagers and Mrs. Wu and her party arrived at the gate of the city, and they needed to be checked when they entered the city, and when they saw the four corpses lying on the carriage, the guards guarding the city immediately wanted to take down Mrs. Wu and her people.
"What are you doing, this is Mrs. Zhixian!"
Xiaoying stepped forward to protect Mrs. Wu, and angrily shouted at the few guards in front of her.
The guards looked at each other a few times, and suddenly burst out laughing!
"It's not that we haven't seen this county lady, this little lady wants to pretend to be the county lady, and you have to know what the county lady looks like first! You don't know what you are fooling us? Mrs. Zhixian has a big waist and a round cake face, and at first glance, she looks like a forty or fifty-year-old woman, this little lady is so beautiful, we still believe it when she says it is the daughter of Mrs. Zhixian. ”
Xiaoying was furious when she heard this! Just as she was about to yell back, Mrs. Wu stopped her.
Mrs. Wu just listened to the evaluation of herself by a few guards, and she was also very angry in her heart, angry that she didn't care about her body so much in the past, she was an old woman in the eyes of others, think about the youth of a woman's life, how much can she have? I really wasted all those years.
Fortunately, she met Shu Qingai, and it was Shu Qingai who made her find the pride of being a woman again.
"A few officials, I am indeed Wu Yuan's wife, I have been away from Pingyang for a few days, this is not to lose weight, you don't recognize it for a while, and I don't blame you, but the people in the carriage, presumably you look at the clothes on their bodies, you can see that they are not good people, we were attacked last night, fortunately we were rescued by good Samaritans passing by, because the city gate was closed, we only went to a nearby village to borrow a night, so it also affected two families in that village, someone set fire in the middle of the night, presumably also rushed to me, That's why I brought these corpses back today, and I want to find out, if we were villains, we wouldn't have stabbed them and brought them back. ”
When several guards guarding the door heard this, they looked at Mrs. Wu for a while, and saw that although this person was young and beautiful, the momentum of the official wife still existed.
After a few people discussed, they let them in, and finally sent two guards to accompany them, wanting to see if they really returned to the county government.
After a few people entered smoothly, several villagers looked at each other! looked at Mrs. Wu's face with astonishment!
"We all have eyes and don't know Tarzan! It turned out to be Mrs. Wu! ”
Mrs. Wu smiled kindly at a few people, but there was no arrogance at all, and it made several men rise to a high level of this county lady!
"You don't need to be restrained, this time thanks to everyone's help, when you get to the court later, I have to ask you to state last night's events."
Several men nodded in response, and they were not afraid to enter the yamen, after all, the wife of the county magistrate was still here.
When they arrived at the county office, the two guards guarding the door directly stepped forward and whispered a few words to the catcher who was standing guard at the gate of the county office, and the deputy shop quickly looked the young and beautiful Mrs. Wu up and down!
frowned, why didn't you recognize it, this is their county magistrate's wife.
"Wang Er, what's wrong with you, I don't even know my aunt and grandmother anymore, don't you hurry up and salute when you see your wife, what kind of eyes are you looking at?"
Xiaoying stepped forward a few steps and reprimanded the little Wang Eryi bitterly.
Wang Er's eyes lit up in an instant, and he looked at Xiaoying and then at the young and beautiful woman, with a look of surprise!