Chapter 3 Food Prices
Gu Junruo glanced back at Han Mu, "Before we set off, the average rice in the grain shop in the capital was 14 wen and 1 bucket, and this is because it is April, which is the time when the green and yellow are not available, and it is usually cheaper, about 12 wen and 1 bucket." ”
Old man: "This lady is right, the rice we have here used to cost only ten yuan, and it is cheaper." ”
Chuzhou is located on the border of Zhou, Qi and Chen, close to Jiangling, where the water network is dense, the paddy fields are many and the land is fertile, before the world is not divided into three countries, it is also the land of fish and rice.
Even though there are occasional conflicts in the land now, rice here is still cheaper than outside.
Han Mu calculated the difference between them, frowned, and was a little angry: "This is a profiteer?" ”
Gu Junruo: "You ask clearly, it doesn't have to be a profiteer, and there are so many grain merchants, do you know who is traitorous and who is loyal?" ”
Han Mu: "It's all cooked in a pot, I don't believe anyone can escape, they are all profiteers!" ”
He turned his head and asked the old man, "Is there really no food in the county office?" ”
How does the old man know if there is one, but, "The officials in the county government are also hungry, it should be really gone." ”
Han Mu had a headache, squatted on the ground far away, knocked on the branch and said: "It's over, we don't have much money on us, we have entered the county seat, a group of people who are waiting to be fed, what do I use to support them?" ”
Gu Junruo walked up to him and glanced at him when he heard the words, "I thought you would think about going back to Beijing?" ”
Han Mu: "I want to go back, but can I go back?" ”
He said: "And it was not my Han family who escaped from the battle, since I became their county commander......
He paused and said, "At least until the next county order arrives, I can't leave them behind." ”
Gu Junruo's appreciation instantly disappeared by half, "Before the next county order?" ”
"That's right," Han Mu said as a matter of course: "Look at what has become of Yixian, the people have robbed their homes, do you think I can be their county commander?" ”
Without waiting for Gu Junruo to speak, Han Mu replied directly: "Of course you can't. ”
Gu Junruo choked.
"Even if I am punished to go to the garrison, it is better than being a county order, I am not the material for governing the place," Han Mu said: "When I enter the county seat, I will write a book, and let the court send another county order over, I better not trouble them." ”
Gu Junruo said slowly: "You came to Yixian County after making a mistake, do you think Your Majesty will agree, and the Jiang family will agree?" ”
"But I can't make a county order." Han Mu is very self-aware.
"What they want is that you can't do well," Gu Junruo said: "If you can't do well, they will have an excuse to deal with you." ”
"Because of Jiang Huai's leg, you have been punished from the capital to Yixian, and if you don't do it well, let alone the soldiers, I'm afraid that you won't even have an official body."
Han Mu said: "No, no, I don't want to be an official yet." ”
Gu Junruo: "It will also affect my father-in-law and eldest brother, doesn't it matter?" ”
Han Mu frowned, "Jiang Huai's leg is so expensive?" Isn't it just a fracture, I'm afraid that I won't be able to jump around in two months. ”
Gu Junruo said indifferently: "Whose child is distressed, obviously Yongping Hou feels very sorry for his son." ”
Han Mu was so angry that he spun around in circles, and finally stood still in front of Gu Junruo, pointed at her and asked, "Then what do you say?" ”
"Do a good job of the county order of Yixian County," Gu Junruo raised his head and looked at him seriously, "Make meritorious service, go back to Beijing openly, this will not only slap them in the face, but also give us the face of the Han family." ”
Han Mu glanced at her strangely, "You're hot, aren't you?" Do you think I look like a person who can do a good job in a county? ”
He knew himself very clearly, "Originally, if Yixian County was an ordinary county seat, it would be remote, and I would be able to do a good job of a county order if I followed the rules, but now there is not even food here, and we didn't bring much money when we came out, I was the county commander, let alone feed so many people, I couldn't even support myself." ”
Gu Junruo, "I'll help you." ”
Han Mu looked at her in surprise.
Gu Junruo looked at him calmly, "What, don't believe me?" ”
"Not really, the number one talented woman in the capital, she is also a little talented, but she uses a knife to kill chickens?" Han Mu actually wanted to talk to her seriously, but he didn't have a chance, and since he was in a hurry today, he simply asked openly, "Do you really plan to marry me and be with me for the rest of your life?" ”
Gu Junruo, "Didn't your family come to the door to ask to marry me?" ”
Han Mu's face was slightly red, and he said a little twisted: "Yes, but I didn't expect you to agree at the time, I thought ...... "You look down on me."
And he still went to propose marriage with Jiang Huai, that Jiang Huai is known as a talented man, he thought that Gu Junruo would choose Jiang Huai instead of him.
Gu Junruo didn't want to continue the topic, so he changed the topic and said, "So do you want to go back to the capital openly?" ”
She said: "Manage Yixian well, make a difference in your career, and promote back to Beijing is the best way, of course, if you want to escape, you can also write a letter to explain your incompetence, but in this way, the face of our Han family will be trampled on the ground in the future, and my father-in-law and eldest brother will have no face when they go out to see colleagues in the future." ”
"Okay, okay, don't provoke me," Han Mu squatted on the ground and thought for a while, then looked up at her, "Do you really have the ability to manage Yixian well?" ”
He said: "It's too late to regret now, we can slowly enter the city, so we will write back to Beijing and ask Your Majesty to send another county order, and then I will be punished." ”
Han Mu pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, isn't it better to do this, it's my business to punish alone, you can go back to Beijing and continue to be your own daughter......
"Does it matter if you get beaten?" Seeing Han Mu looking at her in surprise, Gu Junruo's face turned cold again, and he said calmly: "Husband and wife, now in the eyes of outsiders, we are husband and wife, if you are humiliated, then I am humiliated." ”
She said: "Although I have no experience in managing county affairs, when my grandfather was alive, I often read official documents to him, and I have seen him deal with the excerpts that come up from all over the country, and I can barely understand some of them." And who is born with it? When you get to the county office, you just have to start over. ”
Han Mu looked at her fixedly, and after a while, he clenched his fists and said, "Okay, we're done!" ”
He turned his head to look at the grandparents and grandchildren who were snuggled together under the tree, and frowned, "Then what now?" Put them in jail too? ”
Gu Junruo said: "Now go and explore the affairs of Yi County with them first, don't let them know that you are the county commander, we can decide what to do next after we know it." ”
Han Mu muttered, "What else is there to ask?" Isn't it just that there is no food, no money, and the people are hungry? Can you still ask again? ”
Gu Junruo glanced at him, turned around and walked towards the old man, she took out a steamed bun, divided it into two, gave them two ancestors and grandchildren, one and a half, squatted on the side and talked to him, "I was busy before, but I forgot to ask, the old man's surname?" ”