Chapter 18: Waiting for the Fish to Milk
Chestnut rice porridge, wowotou and wild vegetable soup.
And the corn porridge is really a drop in the ocean, you can see the bottom of the bowl at a glance, and you can count how many rice grains.
The black nest head is not slippery, and I can't tell what kind of noodles are steamed out.
Then there was the dark wild vegetable soup, which gave off a bitter taste that choked the nose.
Looking at the other two tables, it's the same three.
Liang Xiao is in the palace after crossing over, every day there are big fish and meat, and they are all cooked by the imperial kitchen, although the taste is not as good as the delicious food in the previous life, but it is better than low-level hanging rice.
Unexpectedly, the common people actually ate this kind of food.
Turned his head and glanced at Ling Niang and Hanazawa Ji.
Hua Zeji has a bitter face, from childhood to adulthood, he has been dressed in fine clothes and food, where have you ever seen this kind of food?
I haven't eaten for a day, and if I don't eat, I'm hungry.
Said hungrily.
"I'll just drink some chestnut rice porridge."
Ling Niang is also hungry.
A little embarrassed whispered.
"I want one."
Liang Xiao's Adam's apple squirmed, although he was also hungry, but he wanted to vomit when he looked at the food.
Gave Ling Niang an incredible look.
"Have you eaten these before?"
Ling Niang glanced at Liang Xiao with complicated eyes.
"Husband, are you joking? Our family can't afford to eat in a restaurant, and we will only eat such a meal during the Chinese New Year. ”
Liang Xiao almost fainted with a black line on his face.
If he crosses over, directly to the poor family, and lets him eat such meals every day, it is estimated that he will directly commit suicide.
Wowotou and wild vegetable soup are definitely not able to eat.
Liang Xiao, like Hua Zeji, also only needs corn porridge.
I asked Ling Niang for a copy of the old three, but I didn't expect Ling Niang to eat very deliciously.
The two Baiyi men next to him chatted while eating.
The young man said.
"Brother, it's the first time I've come to Nanliang, Nanliang is really poor!"
The older man said.
"The Southern Liang court is corrupt and incompetent, the perennial land indemnity increases taxes, and the people are so poor that they show their butts, look at it, if it goes on like this, it won't take three or five years, even if the Southern Liang does not lose the country, it will be eaten away by the Northern Liang."
Said the young man.
"Such a court deserves to perish, it's better to perish as soon as possible, if Beiliang comes to govern, our business will be better."
The older Gollum took a sip of porridge and smiled.
"It's a matter of time before they perish, I've been here for more than 20 years, there are fewer and fewer people in Nanliang, and the taxes are fiercer than tigers, up to the old people who can't do work, down to the newborn babies, paying taxes according to capitation, and they don't care about the lives of the people at all, so scared that the people don't dare to give birth."
Young Dao.
"I found that there were very few women in Nanliang, the streets were full of men, and I didn't see a few women in Nanliang at the end of the day."
"Beiliang also forced Nanliang to sign a contract, Beiliang men can go to Nanliang to marry a wife, marry a Han and marry a Han, dress and eat, the women of Nanliang see that the men of Beiliang are rich, so they all marry to Beiliang, Nanliang is about to become a single country, hehe, rich and powerful Nanliang people, always go to our tribe to find women, which also makes our tribe earn a lot of silver."
Liang Xiao listened to the cold sweat on his back.
He knew that the court was corrupt and incompetent, but he didn't expect that the situation was so serious, and if it continued like this, it would not take a year or two to be destroyed by Beiliang.
The economy is the foundation of the country, and there is an urgent need to reform the law, develop the economy, save Nanliang from danger, and save the people from fire and water.
But now that he is down, it is difficult for the mud bodhisattva to cross the river and protect himself, so how can he let the reform of the law be implemented?
Even if the emperor summons him back to the palace three years later and restores the crown prince, it is estimated that Nanliang has already perished by then.
Although the corn porridge was difficult to swallow, Hanazawa Ji was thirsty and hungry, so she drank three bowls.
Not to mention Liang Xiao, he is a martial artist with a big appetite, and he drank more than 10 bowls in one go, so he barely had a full water.
Xiao Er came over to settle the bill, and Liang Xiao was dumbfounded.
This corn porridge is frighteningly expensive, and the little bit of silver left on him is not enough at all.
Xiao Er saw that Liang Xiao's money was not enough, and immediately yelled at the store.
"Shopkeeper, here are a few people who eat white food."
With a rush of footsteps, a middle-aged man came out of it.
Hengmei glared at Liang Xiao, and then his eyes fell on Ling Niang and Hua Zeji.
"Boy, rush to me to eat white food, you don't inquire about who I am, the county lord is my uncle, today either you give the money, or leave these two women, otherwise ......"
Liang Xiao is on the run, but he doesn't want to get into a lawsuit, in that case it will be tantamount to throwing himself into the net.
I didn't know how to deal with it, and two more Beiliang Yagong (human traffickers) walked in, with a little girl from Nanliang behind them.
The little girl had a yellow face and thin muscles, and wore tattered clothes, which did not cover her body.
One of them, a bearded, fat-toothed man, was carrying a carp with an arrow shaft.
As soon as he entered the door, he shouted loudly and proudly.
"Shopkeeper, make this fish, and then bring it to you if you have something delicious."
When the shopkeeper saw the fish, his eyes lit up.
"This master, can you give me this fish, my mother-in-law is in confinement, she wants to feed the baby, and she is anxious to wait for the fish to milk."
"A silver tael or two, do you want it?" The fat tooth boy picked the fish and shook it in front of the shopkeeper.
Liang Xiao secretly said that a carp of less than a pound would cost a tael of silver, why don't you go and grab it?
"It's too expensive, can it be cheaper?" The shopkeeper said with a smiling face.
"Grass, don't eat it if it's too expensive, you Nanliang people also deserve to eat fish, phew!" Fat Tooth's common fish tail slapped the shopkeeper's face.
The shopkeeper was humiliated, but he didn't dare to make a sound, and he was like a grandson in front of the people of Beiliang.
"Okay, I'll let the two masters process the fish."
turned around and sprinkled all the anger on Liang Xiao.
"I can't afford to pay for dinner, leave these two women behind, you get out of here, otherwise you will be arrested and sent to the official."
The two men looked at each other.
The fat tooth man immediately swaggered forward.
"Shopkeeper, you're taking advantage of people's danger, isn't it just meal money? Lao Tzu gave. ”
The shopkeeper said with a smile on his face.
"This lord, I want to give these two women to the county lord as concubines, please make it convenient."
The fat tooth man raised his hand and it was a big slap.
Syllable!
"Through your mother's Nanliang dog, dare to scare the master with a broken county order, even if you are the emperor of Nanliang, Lao Tzu will not take it seriously, and if you dare to talk nonsense, you will burn down your small baba shop."
The shopkeeper covered his red face, his eyes were full of fear, and he didn't dare to say anything more.
The fat tooth male toe swaggered to the beam owl.
"You can't even pay for food, and you can't support these two mothers-in-law, make a price."
Liang Xiao was aroused by curiosity, and wanted to know how much silver these two big beauties were worth in their eyes.
"How much are you going to give?"
Ling Niang and Hua Ze Ji glanced at each other.
They were all full of astonishment and surprise, could this bastard really want to sell them?