In just a few days, there are two more pairs of chopsticks in the steamed bun shop, which adds a bit of excitement.

The girl who reads poetry and books and the young man who is strong in martial arts, one is soliciting guests in front of the hall, and the other is in the backyard, which makes the auspicious day a little leisurely.

"Have I fulfilled my life aspirations?" Ji Ri looked at the two who were busy, and only felt that the various things they experienced half a year ago were like a dream.

Chen Qian wiped the fine sweat on her head and asked, "What are your ideals?" ”

"It's just that there are steamed buns to eat every meal!" Ji Ri replied as a matter of course.

Chen Qian sneered and said happily: "Learn literature and martial arts well, and the goods will be with the emperor's family." Wouldn't it be a pity that you didn't go to the test to gain fame? ”

Ji Ri shook his head and said: "The officialdom is chaotic, there are too many rules in the open and in the dark, why should I get involved in this trip?" ”

Chen Qian said: "My father has been a private school teacher for more than ten years, and there are ten or eight Jinshi under his hands, and there are countless people. If they're as ambitious as you are, that's the end of it. ”

Ji Riqi said: "In this case, how could your father die so lonely? ”

The smile on Chen Qian's face suddenly froze, and she lowered her head to do things silently and stopped answering.

Ji Ri felt speechless and was about to apologize, Wang Xiaohu opened the curtain from the backyard and said, "The flour can be seen, I have to carry some back." ”

"Okay, you look at the shop, I'll go next door to find Shopkeeper Liu to chat for a while."

No matter what the year is, it is not easy to influence the business of Liubiju. Even if you don't buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, firewood and rice are not something that everyone can dodge. And the more famine there is, the more people rush to buy it.

Ji Ri saw that the goods in Liubi Curie were less than half, and said: "Shopkeeper Liu, I want to say hello to you, the business is good!" ”

"Where does the joy come from? The old guys in Changping and Jianxing all laughed at me, but the price didn't rise, and it looked like the year was over, how could I explain it to the above! Liu Xi cried and complained.

If the price of grain and oil begins to rise, even those who are closed to the news will know that the mountain rain is coming, or even has come.

"Don't dare to compete for the highest, don't worry about the baht. Shopkeeper Liu, have you forgotten your couplet a few days ago? ”

One sentence blocked Liu Xi's resentment, but it couldn't stop his depression: "Isn't it that I don't care!" The cheap grain in the treasury is only fifty stones, and people in a city eat horses and chew horses, and I am afraid that they will not even be able to survive the New Year. The price of food will rise during the Chinese New Year, do I still want to live in the six musts? ”

Ji Ri pondered for a moment and said, "Now that a bucket of rice is one hundred wen, you have risen to one hundred and fifty wen, is it considered high?" ”

Liu Xi looked embarrassed and said, "Gao ...... It's not high, Jianxing's side is already 280 Wen a bucket. ”

"Why is it so high, it's tripled!" Ji Ri was taken aback by this number.

"It's not just us who have displaced people in Houze City, not to mention that Jianxing is closer to Muye," Liu Xi couldn't help but roll his eyes, "It's not only Shanyang that has displaced people, and Muye is not lightly affected." ”

Ji Ri frowned and asked: "But how can the price of food in Jianxing be so high, Wang Xiaohu in my shop, is the guy you said for a meal of twenty steamed buns went there to pick up food a few days ago, it is said that there should be no shortage of food?" ”

Liu Xi said helplessly: "Brother, you were born a few years late, and I haven't seen you escape from the famine." Anyway, it's definitely not an exaggeration to say that there is a lot of sorrow all over the country. ”

The famine is mentioned in the history books, but it is only a few hasty strokes. As recorded in the history of the Song Dynasty: "In the first year of Jianyan, there was a great hunger in Bianjing. Three hundred dollars per liter of rice, hundreds of dollars for a mouse, and people eat algae and locust leaves. Dao is hungry, and there is no remainder of the bones. ”

Although Ji Ri had a slight impression when he read through the history of the Song Dynasty, he could not have imagined that Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, would be like this.

"Will they eat their children?"

Liu Xi opened his mouth and held back for a long time before saying, "Then you have to ask them." ”

That's what it would.

Seeing that the auspicious day was silent, Liu Xi comforted: "Don't worry, now that the world is peaceful and prosperous, the government is helping the victims, and it is far from that." ”

Ji Ri smiled bitterly: "I just thought that I had steamed buns to eat every meal, why did I feel precarious all of a sudden?" ”

The two chatted a few more words, and Liu Xi asked the guy to help carry a stone of flour and a bucket of millet to the steamed bun shop, and the new homeless people on the side of the road surrounded him.

"Sir, reward us with food, I'm really hungry!"

Ji Ri wondered: "Turn left in front of the porridge shed of the government, cross three streets and turn right again, why don't you go?" ”

One of the beggars replied, "Somehow the porridge shed today has turned into rice soup today with a bowl of rice porridge that was originally half a bowl of rice." I can count how many grains of rice there are under the white soup, and I can't quench my hunger! ”

Only five days later, the porridge shed of the government became a soup shed. Ji Ri clenched his hands tightly, wanting to scold the street but didn't know where to start.

When the words came to his lips, they finally became charity: "You wait a while, I'll go get a few steamed buns, and pad them first." If not, go to Yongning. ”

A few people took the steamed buns, thanked them for their thousands of kindnesses, and opened their mouths to bite if they didn't know the number of etiquette, and finally dispersed.

Just when Ji Ri was upset, a thin figure stepped over the threshold.

"I want steamed buns to wait outside."

The man smiled and said, "Brother Ji, don't come unharmed." ”

Who else can have a sharp voice, only Zhang Jingfang is alone.

Only then did he raise his head, Zhang Jingfang was dressed as a beggar, his face was smeared with black ash, and with his original figure, he was more like a homeless than a homeless.

"I'm sorry, Sanye Zhang. The little brother was a little bored, so he didn't see you. Reluctantly arched his hand, and said politely without being salty, Ji Ri began to look at the ceiling in a daze again.

Zhang Jingfang sneered: "When Lao Qin comes, he will have open steamed buns to eat, and I don't even have to drink cold water when I come." Anyway, there is no place to stay here, there is a place to stay here! ”

"No." The auspicious day is still listless.

Zhang Jingfang, who used to be a scoundrel, had already cultivated the temperament of hob meat, and the two words of light and fluttering made him stop.

"Since my brother doesn't send it, why am I embarrassed to go? I came here today because I have a good thing to tell you! Zhang Jingfang's deliberately raised voice became more and more shrill.

Ji Ri said: "Forget it, what good can you have, but I just want me to make a stumbling block for others." ”

That Zhang Jingfang looked like a self-cooked, opened the lid of the pot and picked up a steamed bun in his hand, and then put it in his mouth after it was a little cold.

"This thing really still has to be eaten just out of the pot. Don't worry, this matter is not a big matter, it is just to send you a letter. The grain of Jianxing County has entered the money village, do you know whose pocket the money went to? ”

"Gan Linbei, who else but him is so bothered?"

Zhang Jingfang said with a smile: "I knew you couldn't guess, the money went to Changping County!" ”

Ji Ri nodded and said: "That's right, Shoujin is going to Changping to find a master to do it after all, and it saves so much of a while." ”

"You can think about it. Okay, now that you know, bring me a stone of rice noodles and get ready to go back to the mountains. ”

Ji Ri exclaimed: "One stone? You rob, even if you give you so much food, you can't move it! ”

Zhang Jingfang scooped a scoop of water from the water tank and poured it down, wiped his mouth and said, "There is a surplus of grain in exchange for ten stones of Shoujin, and you refuse to give it?" ”

Ji Ri was helpless, took Zhang Jingfang to the backyard, and pointed out to him the flour that had just been moved from Liubiju.

"It seems like a lot. We won't panic if you have food here, let's have three buckets first, enough for us to eat for a few days. Also, how to make steamed buns, let's talk about it as well. ”

Picked up three cloth bags and handed them to Zhang Jingfang, went to the front hall on an auspicious day to open the lid of the pot, waited for the heat to dissipate, and said: "Take bamboo to weave such a cage drawer, knead the dough into a ball, and steam it in the pot for a quarter of an hour." ”

sent Zhang Jingfang away, but Ji Ri couldn't sit still. The porridge shed and the grain price of Jianxing are faintly revealing the taste of conspiracy, if it is really to fill Ganlin's pocket with the granary of Huoze, such a situation will not be acceptable in any case.

Thinking of the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the tailor of Changping took a few jujube cakes in the store before leaving, and the auspicious day suddenly came to mind.

"Xiaohu, come with me to Longtan Tiger's Den, are you sure?"

Wang Xiaohu exclaimed: "I eat a few steamed buns from you and call me like this?" ”

Talking about the cause and effect and his own speculation, Wang Xiaohu gradually calmed down, and his right hand couldn't help but clench the spear.

"That's it, I want the steamed bun shop to open, and I have to deal with these homeless people. If the price of grain rises in Houze, then I will naturally not be able to eat my steamed buns. There was some concern in his words, but the auspicious day remained calm.

Wang Xiaohu was a little uncertain and said: "It doesn't matter if you go, but I may not be able to keep you coming." Changping has a six-way overlord gun, I went to the gym a few years ago, and I lost a move. ”

"Overlord guns? Is it the Chai family's gunnery? ”

"It's the Chai family! Why, you even know about this Liuhe Overlord gun? Wang Xiaohu was a little surprised.

Ji Ri couldn't help but laugh dumbly. That day, Chai Rong went to sit in his shop before leaving, in addition to asking Guan Yunchang's middle joint, he ordered himself not to use Zhou Cang's name to do bad things in the name of Guan Gong, and by the way, he greeted him and welcomed him to Chai Mansion as a guest.

"Then I'll rest assured, let's pack up some soft and go."

On the auspicious day, Chen Qian asked Chen Qian to help pack two changes of clothes, and went to make jujube cakes with noodles by herself, leaving Wang Xiaohu alone in the dark.

"Who is this auspicious day, how can even the head of the Chai family have dealt with it?"

It's just that the auspicious day didn't say anything, and he didn't want to ask much, so he also went to pack his bags and prepare to go.

"Where are you going?" Chen Qian handed the burden to Ji Ri and asked casually.

Ji Ri wiped the sweat on his head and said, "Go to Changping and do great things!" ”

With just six words, Chen Qian stopped talking.

After steaming the jujube cake and letting it cool, Ji Ri took a bag and tied it up, and then tied it to the six-foot-long stepping spear.

"Chen Qian, see if my mother woke up, and if she didn't wake up, tell her that I went out to do something and will come back in a few days."

Ji Ri took Chen Qian away, took out Shoujin from under the bed board in his bedroom, stuffed it into a thin soft bag, picked up the gun, and walked away with Wang Xiaohu.