If you put aside the 90 catties of rice that you already have at home, you can count it according to the food that three people have hoarded for ten months.

Forty-five catties of rice per month, ten months is four hundred and fifty catties of rice.

For every catty of rice, it costs 4,500 wen, that is, four taels of silver.

Song Huan came to the rice shop and directly said that he wanted to order 450 catties of rice grain.

The shopkeeper looked at Song Huan suspiciously with a little guard, and asked, "What do you want so much food for?" ”

Song Huan sighed in his heart, and said with a smile, "Isn't this a small business at home?" So I want to prepare in advance. ”

Although Xiao Er didn't believe it, he didn't say anything, bowed his head and said, "Each person is limited to fifty catties a day, you can do it yourself." ”

Song Huan only felt that the situation was estimated to be worse than he imagined.

In the past, there was no restriction on the purchase of grain.

Now there is a situation where the purchase of rice shops is restricted, either the price will fluctuate greater, and the rice shops can obtain greater benefits, or the grain in the granary has not kept up.

Although he didn't want to think too badly, Song Huan's intuition told him that this was the first situation.

Although the purchase was restricted, Song Huan still wanted to buy it, and immediately rushed home to put the food away after checking out.

When I came out, I went to another rice shop to buy it, and the same limit was 50 catties.

There are only three rice shops in the county, and Song Huan only bought 150 catties of rice after a busy day.

In this way, she had to buy it for two more days in a row to make up 450 catties of rice.

Song Huan saw the three big bags of rice in the kitchen and felt that it was still not enough.

In case the price changes again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, if her money can't keep up, she will have to replace the rice with something else.

Thinking so, she went to the bazaar.

When she was visiting the market, she saw soybeans, which were picked by the villagers and sold in the county.

One pound and five wen, Song Huan directly wrapped his soybeans.

One hundred catties of soybeans cost five hundred wen.

Then Song Huan bought star anise, salt, koji, and sauce.

Because of Song Huan's hunting, salt is indispensable for the Song family, and Song Huan plans to prepare five catties of salt, thirty wen per catty of salt, and five catties of salt is one hundred and fifty wen.

Then I bought 120 pieces of sauce, a pack of koji and 10 pieces, and two packs of star anise and 6 pieces.

Koji is used to dispose of tofu residues.

She knows a recipe for using koji to treat tofu residues, which are dried with smoke in winter, and the dried tofu residues can be stored for a year or even longer, and can be eaten as long as they are smoked without spoiling.

This can be said to be Song Huan's hole card.

As long as there is food that lasts for a long time, they can survive this disaster.

As a result, she has already spent 2,136 yuan today.

When he came back, Song Huan told the bandit leader the news, although it was just his own guess, and he couldn't do it accurately.

But she said it, and it was up to him whether the other party believed it or not.

She just wants to be worthy of her heart.

The bandit leader didn't disbelieve it, on the contrary, because of Song Huan's words, he figured out some things, but he was more sure of something.

The stalagmite village collects the road fee, and whoever passes through that road can understand it clearly as long as they inquire about it.

Recently, the people below also told him that the number of outsiders coming and going to Luxian County has suddenly increased.

It is precisely because he is relatively well-informed in this regard that he has been troubled all the time.

Why are there so many strangers all of a sudden? And out of Lu County, a large amount of grain will be pulled.

Occasionally, one or two batches are normal, but in recent days, every five or six days, six or seven days, a batch of grain will be shipped to outside the county, which is very abnormal.

Now after Song Huan's reminder, he figured it out, these people definitely have something to do with the current rise in food prices.

Song Huan frowned and asked, "When did this matter start?" ”

The bandit leader recalled the situation and said, "It's been about two or three months. At first, it was only one or two trips every half a month, and last month, there was basically one trip every five days, and there were about four or five cars per trip, and the time span became more and more intensive. ”

Song Huan was secretly happy in his heart, it seemed that he was about the same time as the few people who went to Big Banyan Village.

"Can the owner of the village find out who they are? What's going on out there? Was there a natural or man-made disaster? Song Huan wanted to make it clear what he wanted to know most about this reason.

Man-made disasters are controllable, but natural disasters are uncontrollable.

If you know the cause of the matter, you will be able to judge the matter more clearly, and you will be able to make more detailed plans for the future.

The bandit leader was asked by Song Huan like this, and he also felt that this matter had to be investigated clearly, he still had a village of people to support, this matter was not small, and it could not be sloppy.

Then he said to Song Huan, "Qingqing will stay with you for a few days, and I will go back and let people inquire about the news, if you need to find me for something, you will let the princess in my courtyard go to the village to find me." ”

Song Huan saw the bandit leader who was leaving quickly, and he only felt as if there was a flame in his heart, and he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

At this time, the disadvantages of message lag can be revealed.

The reason why a person can judge things correctly is that the information he collects is relatively comprehensive and timely.

Now they don't even know why it's happening.

One aspect, she guessed, was that those people were profitable and unwilling to speak out, and that was the reason why these people who bought food out.

They are racing against time, seizing the time to hoard food, and making a fortune.

Another reason is that the government and the court are reluctant to leak the news, causing panic among people in other places.

But can concealing the news stabilize the hearts of the people?

On the one hand, they must be psychologically prepared to tighten their belts and live in the coming year, and on the other hand, they are looking forward to it, maybe only for a short time, they still have hope.

In the face of this unknown situation, the imperial court is like a blunt knife, grinding the flesh of the people.

Song Huan slapped the cranky thoughts in his head, everything was just his own speculation, and he couldn't take it too seriously.

But even after comforting himself like this, Song Huan's mood was still heavy, and his appetite was halved.

Qingqing knew that her father was not sad when he returned to the village, anyway, her father would be back soon, and she was very happy to sleep with her sister.

Because Brother himself had also experienced Sister going away, he felt that Qingqing would be as sad as he was.

learned that Qingqing was leaving his father for the first time, and he had been following Qingqing and accompanying her, afraid that she would be as sad and want to cry as she was at the beginning.

Although Qingqing didn't know why her brother was so clingy to herself, she was happy to be clinging to her brother.

Because she is younger than her brother's age and has no foundation for studying, her class is Ding, not the same class as her brother.

During the day, they can only see each other during breaks, so although they are both in school, they don't spend as much time together as they do at home.

Now she is the happiest to see her brother sticking to her side and playing with her, after all, the purpose of her first school is to be with her brother?

Song Huan looked at the carefree two children, thinking that it would be good if he was also a child, he didn't have to think too much, he didn't have to worry too much.

But this thought also flashed through him, if he was about the same age as his brother at this time, it would be a bigger trouble.

It is difficult to have the ability to protect yourself.

Although Song Huan was worried, it was indeed just his own conjecture, before the matter really came, it was all false, and he was thinking nonsense.

Although man-made disasters and natural disasters continue in this era, for now, this area of Luxian is safe, at most it is only implicated, as long as it survives the most difficult period, it should slowly get better.