Chapter 57 Famine
Li Xiaoqi exhaled angrily twice, simply didn't look at him and ignored him, only turned his head to look at Shopkeeper Sun and asked, "What are the plans of Yan Fuyin and Master Song?" ”
"Yan Mansion Yin has to go back to Taiping Mansion to wait for his crimes, and he can't help if he doesn't plan to fight, what do you think, Lao Song is ready to go home to retire." Shopkeeper Sun sighed softly and replied sadly.
"Well," Li Xiaoqi lowered his head and thought for a long time, then turned his head to look at Wei Shuisheng and discussed: "Brother Shuisheng, speaking of Master Song, he is also implicated by us, and his family doesn't seem to be rich, I want to give him more silver, so as not to let him have food and clothing in his old age, what do you say?" ”
"Well, you can do it." Wei Shuisheng replied in a deep voice.
"How much silver do you have?" Li Xiaoqi turned his head to look at Shopkeeper Sun and asked, Shopkeeper Sun hurriedly took the burden next to him and pushed it to Li Xiaoyi: "The house was sold for a total of five hundred and eighty taels of silver, and one hundred and thirty taels were given to Master Song, and the running water in the shop was one hundred and forty-three taels, all here." ”
Li Xiaoqi lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then pushed the burden to the shopkeeper Sun and explained: "Here I will add another seven taels of silver later, enough six hundred taels, and I will give it to Master Song tomorrow." Li Xiaoqi said, turned around and took the burden he brought, opened it and took out a few small gold cakes, Lu Feng stared at the gold cakes in Li Xiaoyi's hand with a painful heart, these gold cakes used to be his things.
"This is forty taels, you bring it, tomorrow you and Yan Fuyin will go to Taiping Mansion together, find a suitable shop, the Taiping Mansion tea shop is not easy to open, just open a small tea shop, it is also called Wisteria House, no matter how much money you make, don't care about anything else, first stand still and then say, after the New Year, I will send Fifth Brother Zhao over to help you." Li Xiaoqi explained carefully, Shopkeeper Sun was stunned, glanced at Wei Shuisheng, and nodded: "The fifth master thinks long-term, I know, don't worry." As he spoke, he took the golden cake and put it into his baggage, and after a few more words, he took his leave and went back.
Li Zonggui didn't follow him again, according to the original statement, when he arrived in Tang County, he should also go to his relatives.
"What now? What else do you have to do? Yes? Go to Zhengcheng again, but I don't even have a place to stay! Lu Feng looked at Li Xiaoyi, and said with a gloating smile, Li Xiaoqi put his fingers on his chin, tilted him for a while, suddenly laughed, and said slowly: "Your favor, I want it now, I want to know what deal Beiping and Wu Guo have made, and you will be limited to three days." ”
Lu Feng stared at Li Xiaoqi with wide eyes, Li Zonggui laughed out loud, turned his head to look at Wei Shuisheng, and was about to speak, Wei Shuisheng stretched out his hand and flicked Li Xiaoyi's forehead: "Don't make fun of him, how can he inquire about the law?" ”
Li Xiaoqi smiled and didn't answer, just stared at Lu Feng and waited for him to speak, Lu Feng smiled awkwardly: "Xiao Wu, change it?" ”
"That's okay, you are the hero of the Shangqing Gate, I have always looked up to you, your favor, naturally it is also very valuable, since this is the case, it seems that I was wrong before, you are a favor, that's it, this favor is like that, this person, naturally, it's •••••• like that, alas, it seems that I have to bother to find more work for you, in order to be worth the thousand taels of gold, this person is not worth much, so I have to work more, there is no way!" Li Xiaoqi shook his head and sighed, Wei Shuisheng choked on a sip of tea in his throat, coughing in a muffled voice, while looking at Li Xiaoqi and then at Lu Feng, forget it, he still stopped talking, Lu Feng is also a slippery master who loves to cause trouble, and it is too peaceful to be pressed by Xiaomi.
Li Zonggui laughed so much that he couldn't speak, and stretched out his hand to pat Lu Feng to express his deep sympathy, Lu Feng looked at Li Xiaoqi angrily, and said with hatred: "Don't change it, that's it!" I think who will dare to marry a girl like you in the future?! You can't get married! ”
"If you can't get married, you can't get married, I have a brother and a dowry, it's good to buy a few in the future, but if you don't have enough success like you, it's useless!" Li Xiaoqi looked Lu Feng up and down, pouted and said, Wei Shuisheng really coughed this time, raised his hand and patted Li Xiaoyi's head heavily and reprimanded: "What are you talking about?!" You this, this! Wei Shuisheng couldn't go on, turned his head to look at Li Zonggui, who was already laughing on the bed, and frowned: "Don't laugh, tomorrow you go to a bookstore, buy a few books on women's fourth and women's books and come back to Xiao Yi to learn!" ”
Lu Feng looked at Li Xiaomi, who was silent, and wanted to say a few words to laugh, but when he thought about the job he had just received, he swallowed it back when he got to his mouth, and begged this girl, forget it, bear with it, bear with it for a while.
"Xiao Wu, what you said, you said, where is the most convenient place to inquire?" Lu Feng looked at Li Xiaoqi and asked politely, Li Xiaoqi looked at him, and replied seriously: "I know this matter best, but there are only four people, Mr. Liang and their second prince in Beiping Kingdom, Lord Fang and Prime Minister Lin Cheng of Wu Kingdom, the four of them, they can ask anyone casually." ”
Lu Feng's chest hurt because of Li Xiaoyi's words, and he was speechless, Wei Shuisheng helped Lu Feng speak: "Xiaoqi, if you have a way, mention him, don't be embarrassed for him." ”
Li Xiaoqi turned his head to look at Lu Feng: "Brother Shui Sheng has spoken for you, okay, you can just pour me a cup of tea." ”
Lu Feng reluctantly stood up, poured a cup of tea and handed it to Li Xiaoyi, Li Xiaoqi took the tea and drank a few sips, looked at Lu Feng and said, "Lord Fang and the others have negotiated, Prime Minister Lin Cheng just came, what are you doing?" For this kind of thing, there must be a document, and Prime Minister Lin Cheng came to draw a name. ”
Lu Feng jumped up, nodded at Li Xiaoyi, and patted his head again, such a simple thing, he didn't expect it, what's so difficult about it? Wouldn't it be better to touch Prime Minister Lin's tent at night and turn it out to see? ! It's all about making this little girl dizzy!
The next day, early in the morning, Lu Feng set off to the south to chase Prime Minister Lin's team, Li Xiaoqi and Wei Shuisheng, Li Zonggui walked around Tang County for a day, Zheng Cheng can not enter again, the closest to Beacon Mountain, is this Tang County, buy grain, buy cloth, buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, inquire about the news or something, all get this Tang County, the three of them looked at it carefully for a day, stayed for another night, and set off early the next morning to rush back to Beacon Mountain.
The next day, Lu Feng rushed back, the agreement between Wu and Beiping was simple, there were few articles, Zhengcheng returned to Wu, and allowed Beiping to borrow Zhengcheng for a year, and Wu provided 30,000 quintals of military rations for the Beiping army every month, and cut it diplomatically at the north gate of Zhengcheng on the first day of each month.
Li Xiaoqi was stunned when he heard this, it seems that Beiping Guo wants to use Zhengcheng to attack Liang Guo on both sides, so Beiping is bent on swallowing Liang Guo, as for whether Wu Guo will send troops or not, they actually don't care, Wu Guo even promised to provide food every month! According to her calculations, not to mention the supply of food, she is asking for a sum of money to buy a road from Peking National University, but I am afraid that they will have to agree! At this time, Beiping Kingdom must not be able to fight with Wu State again, these bastards have made a loss-making business again!
These have nothing to do with Beacon Mountain, Li Xiaoqi turned his mind for a while, and he left it behind, this monthly supply of 30,000 quintals of grain, where does this grain come from? Now it's winter, this is the northland, a year to harvest, until next year's wheat harvest, there is still half a year, it seems that the price of grain will rise!
Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng thought the same as Li Xiaoyi, 30,000 quintals a month is not a small amount, and the south is fighting with South Vietnam, and the Chizhou area has become a battlefield, and this harvest can not be counted on, the Taiping Mansion was in a severe drought last year, and the extra money and grain are naturally pressed out of the people, Li Zongliang hurriedly arranged for people to buy grain in Zhengcheng and Tang County, and there is not much grain on the mountain.
But in the end, they knew it late, Zheng Cheng didn't mention it, after Yan Fu Yin left, Lord Fang stayed and served as Fu Yin, this city is rationed according to the head of the day, the lively grain market in the past is simply closed, Tang County is still the same lively, but the price of grain is the same every day, the government comes forward, Tang County has a household registration, according to the head, two catties of parity grain per person per day is limited, and the side, if you want more, you have to go to the market.
After seven or eight days of busy work on Beacon Mountain, he was unable to buy back a few catties of grain, so Li Zongliang had to arrange more people to go into the mountains every day to hunt, pickle and dry meat, eat more meat and eat less rice and noodles.
Li Xiaoqi and Li Zonggui carefully calculated, the grain stock on the mountain will last until the end of spring tomorrow, and when summer comes, there will be more food coming out of the field, and the rice grain from the south should also come over, and this famine may be over.
But the situation is much worse than Li Xiaoqi they expected, this 30,000 quintals of grain per month, it seems that all of them are drawn from several nearby counties, the north is not rich, and it is close to the end of the year, in the cold weather, the tax collectors and officials have all gone to the countryside, according to the township, according to the head of the grain, Zheng Cheng did not mention it, because of the clear field, it was already a hundred miles of uninhabited, and now next to Zhengcheng Tang County, He County and other counties, also because of this forced expropriation, everywhere is in chaos.
The Spring Festival has not arrived, and there are gradually new people who help the old and the young, carts and backpacks, and groups of refugees fleeing from the famine, but this time it is not to the south, to the Taiping Mansion, there are checkpoints everywhere in the south, there is no road guide, and it is not allowed to go south, so I have to go north, flee to Beiping, and the people who are guarding Zhengcheng open their eyes and close their eyes, and do not care about the people who fled to Beiping in groups, and the Beiping army is even more simply, and a road is withdrawn, and there are even guidelines along the road, a picture of warmly welcoming the people of Wu to Beiping.
Li Xiaoqi and Lu Feng, Li Zonggui followed, strange but also relieved, to the south, to the New Year, along the way the counties to whitewash the peace, this gang called Huazi in the past is not good-looking, one to affect the county, the other to spend money relief, naturally no one is willing to let them go, to Beiping, Beiping is famous for the vast and sparsely populated, lack of people is not short of land, naturally wish that the more people come, the better, besides, the people who fled are the people of Wu State, the people of Beiping are almsgiving, it is conducive to increasing the pride of the people of Beiping. Lu Feng was amused by Li Xiaoyi's analysis, and what this little girl said made some sense.