112. Disasters
In Xingruo Garden, Mama Yang and Miaozhi looked at their young lady, who were either writing and painting in the study during this time, or thinking on the beauty couch.
They knew that their young lady wanted to draw a pattern of ready-to-wear clothes to sell, so they saved a lot of private money, so neither of them dared to bother.
On this day, Miaozhi took Baimei and Mo'er to the public middle school to get a copy and came back.
Miaozhi took the newly received Sankan money, and put it in the money box while saying that the things had been returned.
When Mama Yang, who was originally in the inner room, heard this, she ran to the main hall to check the arrangements one by one.
She took Rong Qiaoyan's newly assigned jewelry, clothes, hair oil, paste and other daily necessities, and let Bai Mei take them to the inner room, and let Miaozhi arrange them to be put away.
As soon as she turned her head again, she saw the charcoal in the basket, and she couldn't help frowning.
"Seeing that it's Layue, why is this white charcoal so much? Could it be that if we don't deduct clothes and jewelry, we can't deduct our carbon again? Mama Yang said calmly.
Since that Mama Tong left, Xing Ruoyuan has been deducted much less.
After his own lady was designated as a concubine, there were even fewer of them.
I can't say that there is no such thing at all, but it is not so obvious.
Now, it's starting to relapse again?
"Mama Yang, the housekeeper said that this year is a warm winter, so this charcoal can be used less. The amount of this charcoal has been reduced, not only our Xingruoyuan. ”
Bai Mei, who finished putting things out of the inner room, repeated the words of the housekeeper in a crisp voice while closing the curtain.
Mama Yang frowned, but she didn't say anything more.
Indeed, although winter started early this year, the weather was not as cold as in previous years.
If the eldest lady uses this as an excuse to reduce the number of people in the house, she really can't say anything.
Because the things had to be put into the inner room one by one, the thick cotton curtain was hung up, leaving only the thread curtain.
Rong Qiaoyan was in the inner room, and she could clearly hear the words outside.
Originally, when Mama Yang said that there was little charcoal, she was going to come out to appease Mama Yang, but she heard Bai Mei's reply.
Rong Qiaoyan's footsteps couldn't help but pause, and the hand that opened the curtain couldn't help but put it down.
She really had a mess, why did she forget about the big events next year?
Because of this year's warm winter, the crops in the fields will fail next year.
Originally, if it was just a bad harvest, it would not be so difficult.
After all, it's just a harvest season, and who doesn't have a grain stockpile?
It's just that next year will not just be a crop failure.
In the spring, there was a heavy snowstorm in the north. No one thought that after a long time, it would still snow so much.
The far north is better, anyway, you can only grow one season of grain a year, at most you plant it later, and harvest it later.
However, a little further south, there was the grain that was sown in the autumn, but it was miserable.
It's a warm winter, and it doesn't grow well, and it snows heavily when the seedlings are growing, which directly crushes the seedlings that grow.
For a while, when the harvest season came in May and June, there were almost no grains in the fields in the north.
It's a hard day!
Several prefectures and cities in the north reported disasters, so the emperor sent grain from the treasury to the north for disaster relief.
However, this calamity came one after another.
In the summer of June, there was a great flood in the south. Not only did tens of thousands of acres of fertile land be washed away, but many people's homes were also washed away.
For a time, the land was full of hunger, and the people who were displaced and fled everywhere were everywhere.
As a result, the grain in the treasury had to be paid to the army, sent to the north, and now it had to be sent to the south for disaster relief.
That's not enough, of course!
There was not enough food in the treasury, so I had to go to the private sector to buy it. As a result, food prices have risen sharply.
The prices of goods in the capital are already more expensive than other places, and the same is true for food.
And in this year of famine, the price of grain has risen even more violently.
On weekdays, it sells 30 wen a liter of refined white rice, but by that time, it has sold for more than 200 wen a liter.
Rao is so expensive, then you have to buy it.
You don't have to wear fancy clothes, you don't have to wear pearls, how can you not eat food and go hungry?
As a result, some large grain merchants hoarded grain and began to jointly raise prices.
After making a fuss for a while, the emperor finally became angry and killed a large number of people.
So, even if she was in the backyard of the deep house at the time, she heard about it.
Rong Qiaoyan remembered that although the house had its own Zhuangzi and granary at that time, she was also panicked for a while.
After all, no one knows how long this lack of food will last.
During that time, my grandfather and father were in a very bad mood because of the court.
Therefore, the second uncle, who was doing idle work on weekdays and often did not go to the yamen, was reprimanded after being seen by his grandfather.
This incident caused the second uncle to lose face very much, and also made the third sister take advantage of this incident to laugh at the fifth sister.
And they, the women in the backyard, also know the seriousness of this matter.
Therefore, if you talk about making money, what is better than hoarding grain and selling it for money?
But.......
Rong Qiaoyan thought of the miserable situation of starvation all over the ground in the year of the catastrophe that the sixth sister-in-law told her about in her previous life.
She thought of the people from Rongfu who went out to give porridge and came back in her previous life, and when she talked about the pitiful situation of the victims, she couldn't help but hesitate again.
The Jing Dynasty is going to suffer such a big disaster next year, and I know it, should I say it and let the court take precautions as soon as possible?
But who do you want to talk to?
Grandfather? Father?
They are completely dismissive of themselves. If you say it yourself, will they believe it?
If they ask how they know, what should they say?
If they can't give concrete evidence, they will definitely think that they are lying to confuse the public, right?
If you can't get it, she's going to be burned to death!
Rong Qiaoyan thought of the wild history she had seen before, and there was a person who was directly burned to death because of his evil words, and she couldn't help but shudder.
That's it, that's it!
I don't have anyone who trusts me and trusts me to talk about this.
Then you can only stock up on some food.
In the future, I will definitely not sell grain so expensive.
It's just, it's just, it's just a little money.
Rong Qiaoyan thought a little weakly.
But.....
Rong Qiaoyan's brows furrowed again.
It takes money to hoard food, and it takes a lot of money.
Now the money in my hand is less than two hundred taels, even if I buy food, I am afraid that I will not be able to hoard much, and it will not work at all.
So, I have to think of ways to make money.
Rong Qiaoyan sighed while thinking about how to make money.
She really longed for a big gold to fall from the sky, even if she stunted herself.
Unexpectedly, the heavens follow the wishes, although there is no gold, but the silver ticket is lost!
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