Chapter 449: Prices are skyrocketing
According to the guy, it has not rained in Los Angeles for more than three months, and even the water in the underground river has dried up.
Originally, the climate in Los Angeles was relatively arid, so everyone didn't take it too seriously at first, but this time the drought lasted longer than usual.
When the farmers in the fields died of drought, they realized that the situation was wrong, and many people came to the government, hoping that the people from the government would take people to find a water source to bring the water source over, but the government has not made a clear statement, and finally it was over, until now the well water in the city is going to run dry, and everyone has become panicked.
The family had a solid family and ran out early in the morning to avoid the disaster, and the rest were unable to leave.
When the man brought the noodles up, Su Ying found that the noodles were not pure washed white noodles, and a large bowl was only half filled.
"Childe, your noodles are here, you eat them while they're hot, and if you need anything, just make a small noise."
"Thank you."
Su Ying pushed the noodles to the eldest mother and asked her to eat, but the eldest mother repeatedly shirked it, until Su Ying said that if she didn't eat it, she would pour it out, and the eldest mother sat down with an embarrassed face.
In the interval between the eldest lady eating noodles, Su Ying took advantage of the vacancy of the thatched house to enter the space to test for malaria and the medicine for malaria out, although it is not completely certain that he is suffering from malaria, but in her opinion, it should be eight or nine without ten, and now the last step is needed.
Su Ying returned to the room and carried the eldest mother to test the child with a test strip, and the results came out quickly, and it was determined that it was malaria.
Su Ying took out the injection and injected it into the child, and fed him some nutrient solution, malaria is easy to treat if there is medicine, but this malnutrition needs a certain amount of time to recuperate.
"Childe, me, how is my grandson?"
"It's because I have malaria, and I haven't eaten anything for a long time, and my physical foundation is also very poor, so I will cure the malaria first, and the other problems will come slowly."
The eldest lady looked frightened, "Malaria! This, how is this good, my poor child, grandma is the only one of your relatives left, if you are gone, grandma will not live. ”
Su Ying listened to the cry of the eldest mother, and only felt that her head hurt.
"Auntie, you hear what I said clearly, I can cure this disease, don't cry first."
The eldest lady cried for a while, and looked at Su Ying in disbelief, she was completely panicked when she only heard the word malaria just now, in her cognition, if she had malaria, she would die, and now she heard Su Ying say that it could be cured, and she knelt down to her excitedly and kept kowtowing to her.
"Thank you so much, thank you, you are our savior, the old woman is your cow and horse."
"Let's get up first."
Su Ying pulled her to sit down on the stool, and saw that the noodles on the table had not moved, and the eldest lady was still willing to eat.
"Let's eat first, the noodles are all battered."
Su Ying was right, these fifty copper plates and a bowl of fine white noodles, the eldest lady is really willing to eat it!
"You eat, Childe, you eat, I, I eat pancakes, the pancakes you just gave."
Su Ying directly put the chopsticks in her hand, "You are not in good health, if something happens to you, who will take care of your grandson?" ”
The mother's cloudy eyes were red again, she couldn't die, otherwise the child would be too pitiful.
The eldest lady ate the noodles with tears, this clear soup is not delicious at all, but it is the best delicacy for the eldest lady who has been hungry for many days.
Su Ying didn't waste it, and the soup at the bottom of the bowl was all drunk for her.
"You take care of the children in the inn, I'll go out."
"Eh, Childe, you're busy, don't worry about us."
Su Yingen said goodbye and left the guest room, she wanted to go to the city to see what the situation was in the city now, if the city guards of Los Angeles really did nothing, she had to find a way to send the situation in Los Angeles to the capital.
Su Ying arrived at the lobby, and after directly asking the guy about the direction of the official mansion, he led the horse from the backyard and left.
The streets were empty, and it was not until the busiest main street in Los Angeles that the shops opened.
Su Ying stepped forward to take a look, and the door was opened by a grocery store, a pharmacy store, and a grain store, and the other shops were basically closed.
Su Ying walked to the front of the two shops and saw that the rice and noodles in the two shops were almost sold, and there were only some old rice that looked very bad.
"How much is this rice a pound?"
The shopkeeper sat on the chair with five fingers outstretched.
Su Ying frowned, "Five copper plates? ”
The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Childe, these five copper plates can only buy one catty of rice bran now, and this old rice now costs fifty copper plates a catty." ”
Su Ying's heart jumped, fifty copper plates a catty, this price is several times higher than that of new rice.
"What about white rice and white noodles? How much? ”
"No, it was out of stock earlier."
"It's only a few days back and forth from Los Angeles to the nearest West Side, so why don't you go to buy goods?"
"Hey, who said I didn't go, the rice shop in front of me ran out a few days ago."
The shopkeeper said that although the city guards the door and does not allow the victims to enter, the merchants who go out to buy goods can go out as long as they have a pass, after all, the merchants can also alleviate the supply and demand in the city by bringing the goods back.
"But who knows, this time the person never came back, yesterday his old lady in the family cried to clean up the things in the store, saying that when he came back, he met the victims and bandits, the things are gone, the people are gone, who dares to go, this money is to be earned with his life."
Su Ying knew too well, she had encountered this situation when she was fleeing from the famine, not to mention the bandits, but those hungry victims saw that the food was as ferocious as the bandits.
The goods from outside can't come in, and the things in the city are being consumed day by day, and it won't be long before the city gets worse and worse.
"What does the government say about this?"
The shopkeeper's face was disdainful, "What are you talking about?" He didn't say anything, hum, he couldn't starve him, it was the people who died, so he didn't care. ”
Su Ying didn't buy rice, but rode directly to the official mansion.
The street outside the official gate is also deserted, and there are only two officials guarding the door.
As soon as Su Ying turned over and dismounted, he saw a man wearing brocade walking out, he took out a purse from his body and stuffed it into the hands of the person behind him, "Please also ask the housekeeper to say a few kind words to the adult, what I told the adult is definitely beneficial to the whole of Los Angeles." ”
The housekeeper took the purse and said with a smile: "Master He, don't worry, my lord will give you an answer after thinking about this matter clearly." ”
"Eh, thank you very much."
Seeing off Master He, the housekeeper put away the purse and returned to the house.
Su Ying bypassed the small alley on the side, put the horse into the space, and then climbed over the courtyard wall.
As soon as she entered, she saw the butler walk through a bluestone path into a courtyard.
Su Ying looked at the eaves and climbed forward, calculated the position and lifted the tiles on the eaves, and saw the food on the table at a glance, it can be said that a table of eight immortals was full, but the dish did not move a few chopsticks.
"My lord, Master He is gone." The butler stood in the room facing the man sitting at the table.
"Well, this He Zhixin ghost has a lot of ideas, and he wants to make any money."
The housekeeper said: "Your Excellency, you have to think about it, there is indeed a lot of oil and water in this matter." ”
Lord Wei sighed, "It's not that this thing can't be done, but it must not be contaminated with this official, do you understand?" ”
"Don't worry, Master He is a smart man, he must know what to do."
(End of chapter)