Ning Yue listened and walked, but never spoke, stopped to rest at noon, and prepared to eat, she saw clearly that in a big family like the Hu family, everyone in the family could only pull half of the cake or a nest, and then each person drank two sips of water, Ning They finally arrived at a city.

It's just that the city gate was full of people, and the boss of the Hu family was sent out to inquire about the news, Ning Yue only saw that he squeezed into the crowd with his old nose, inquired for a long time, and then shouted several times with the officials on the city gate, and then squeezed out with great difficulty.

When they came back, they were all salted fish.

"The official has a very hard tone, if you want to pass by Fancheng, you must pay two taels of silver per person, and those who don't pay can only be diverted, so it will take at least three more days for us to go to the capital."

Although Mrs. Hu spoke rudely, she was a brain, she only thought about it for a while and then said, "If we can buy some food from the city to replenish it, it is not impossible to pay two taels of silver." ”

"Mother, what do you want? I inquired just now, this Fancheng is no different from other places, most of the people in the city have fled, and the rest of the officials just want to earn a fortune and then flee.

But if there is food and water in the city, who will go?

And even if there were, how could we afford it? ”

Drought together, the price of grain is tumbling, the most exaggerated time, grain can rise dozens of times, want to go to the city to buy grain? It was pure dreaming.

Now he is only looking forward to taking advantage of the fact that he still has some food in his hand, and hurries to a place where there is no drought, as long as there is water, even if he goes up the mountain to dig grass roots, he will not starve to death.

Mrs. Hu stopped talking, what the eldest son said was not unreasonable, but there were also a lot of problems when changing paths.

Fancheng is the only way from Huanyang County to the capital, if you don't go from here, you can only change the route to the east and go to Longshang, but who can guarantee that Longshang can enter the city?

After thinking about it for a long time, the old lady gritted her teeth, "Let's go from Fancheng, we can save a day is a day, we can go a little earlier for a while, ask the remaining families in the village, if they don't go, if they don't go, then we can only part ways!" ”

Boss Hu immediately sighed and went to find a few others.

In the end, a few families decided to change the route, and the least of those families also had thirteen or fourteen people, and after such a city, they would have to go out of their family's savings, and even if they got to the place where they settled in the future, they couldn't live this day, so it was better to take a detour, anyway, they had a lot of food left, and it would be no problem to hold on for a few more days.

With a decision, Mrs. Hu did not delay and took out the silver she had hidden.

She also has brains, as soon as she saw that the weather was not good, she sold the land to the landlord in the village in the spring, and sold more than 30 acres of land for more than 200 taels of silver, and there were two families in the village who had a good relationship with her family and also sold the land.

Mrs. Hu's family was originally doing well in the village, and with the money from the sale of land in the past, as long as they persisted, they should have no problem arriving in the capital.

The official shouted at the top of the wall, and he could enter the city when the money was ready.

Ning Yue also obediently exchanged the two silver hairpins from the grocery store for the qualification, at this time, a basket was thrown on the wall, and Boss Hu hurriedly carried his mother into the basket, and the big man on the city gate pulled the person up with a few rubs.

After tossing for a while, all the talents of this group entered the city.

As Boss Hu said, Fancheng is very depressed, there are not many people on the street at all, many shops are closed, and even if there are open shops, the expensive things cannot be bought at all.

As for the grain store, they really found an open one, there were seven or eight five big and three thick men standing at the door, there were only a few cloth bags in the store, there were at most five or six catties of grain in it, and there was a wooden sign next to it, which said the price, Boss Hu was literate, he stepped forward and took a look, and then stayed in place.

Mrs. Hu hurriedly said: "You are talking, what is written on that sign?" ”

Hu Lao Avenue: "Eighty wen a pound of rice, seventy wen for millet, forty-seven wen for black flour, and sixty wen for cornmeal." ”

Everyone was shocked, "Why is this grain growing in price again?" ”

Before the drought, the rice was only seven or eight wen a catty, two wen for black flour, four wen for cornmeal, and three wen for sorghum rice.

After only ten days on the road, the price of food has risen to a point they don't recognize!

The guy in the shop crooked his mouth and looked at the group of refugees outside with a disdainful expression, "When is this happening, are you still waiting to buy a few pennies a pound of rice?" Today's grain is at this price, tomorrow maybe it will rise again, love to buy or not, don't buy it and leave, don't stop us from doing business! ”

Mrs. Hu and her party were driven away by a guy and their faces were ugly, but the sensible old lady still took out the money to buy fifty catties of black noodles.

The guy took out a big bag from the back of the store and weighed out fifty catties of black noodles and handed it to Mrs. Hu, and several other households also gritted their teeth and bought some black noodles, they really had to grit their teeth, they were ordinary farmers, and there were not many items in the family.

But if they don't replenish food, they can't go into the city to replenish supplies in the future, or if the price of rice rises again and they can't afford it, then they can only wait to starve to death!

Life is such a fuck!

It's a dilemma, but you quickly find out that you don't even have a choice!

How cruel!

When they came out of Fancheng, everyone's mood was obviously not too high, and a few children didn't know how to look at them, so they actually made a fuss, and Mrs. Hu suddenly went crazy, and the scolding words resounded throughout the official road.

The fathers and mothers of several children can't wait to plug the mouths of the dead children, everyone is in a bad mood, can't the cubs look at their faces?

The next thing was a silent rush until, when it was already dark.

The crowd began to look for a place to live tonight, but unfortunately, they walked too fast today, and missed the village, so they could only take shelter in the woods.

Ning Yue put the burden aside and rested against the trunk of the tree, feeling that both feet were blistered again, but she couldn't burn a basin of hot water to burn her feet comfortably like she did yesterday, this is in ancient times, if a woman's feet were seen by others, she would lose her innocence.

The shit has lost its innocence!

took out a water bladder filled with spiritual spring water, took two large sips, and soon, the exhaustion of the body slowly disappeared.

A fire had risen in the woods, and the women were already preparing dinner.

Mrs. Hu was already making noodles, planning to make all the black noodles she bought today into cakes, so that they could bring them, and it happened that they got a lot of water yesterday, which happened to be used for cooking.

Ning Yue can only learn from the same, otherwise, others will wonder, you didn't cook, where did the food you bought go, and where did you eat from?

After all, she only carried one baggage.