With this person's words, Shu Yan vaguely heard two acquaintances.

Cheng San glanced over here, and he whispered: "Godmother, every time we take the most dangerous road, tell me what is the reason for this?" ”

Shu Yan was too hungry to do it, she didn't bother to answer Cheng San's question, so she said to a few people: "Can I borrow a bowl of water to drink?" ”

The man asked him to go into the house and fetch two bowls of water and handed them to three people.

The water was turbid and tasted extremely bitter, Zhang Shengzi's face was bad for a while, and the man hurriedly explained: "There is saline-alkali land everywhere, and it is already very deep well water, and the good wells are all stained by the rich households in the east of the city, and we ordinary people can't get water." “

Shu Yan was suddenly a little annoyed when he heard this.

"There was no riot, and the skins of those old men were stripped away?"

Shu Yan's words were really too violent, and Rao is Zhang Shengzi also looked down at her.

The man's jaw shrank in fright.

"Who dares to provoke them."

However, Cheng San gave Shu Yan a bit of science, Most of the rich families basically have their own private soldiers, and this was fashionable in the early years of this dynasty and was not allowed to do so, and later the dog emperor was short of money and opened an opening to discuss the crime and donate.

The world is not so peaceful, so many families have raised many private soldiers, who are well fed and used, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the regular army.

The civilians are starving, but if they besiege them, they will die.

After listening to this, Shu Yan couldn't help but sigh a little, this court is already like this, it's no wonder that the world is not chaotic.

Shu Yan continued to ask, "Then is there anyone in charge in this city?" “

The man said: "It's General Sun, he is the son-in-law of the Sun family in this city, it's amazing, you guys go quickly, it's getting dark, there are more villains on the road." ”

Everyone has already spoken, and Shu Yan and the others are naturally inconvenient to stay.

The three of them went out of the door, and there was a gust of wind outside, It was early summer, but there was a little chill in the wind.

Zhang Shengzi turned his head to look at the locked door.

"These families have the vision and know how to store the army in advance, but our rich and noble families in Hangzhou only know how to store gold and silver treasures in their homes."

When Zhang Shengzi said this, he looked at Shu Yan, there was a little suspicion in his eyes, and Shu Yan coughed lightly.

"How can it be so simple, then the king of Han has started from here, and he may not really be willing to leave these big clans to garrison troops, let's go and investigate first, and always get some dry food, my hungry road is unstable."

Shu Yan always complained that it was difficult for him to lose weight in his previous life, but he really reached the age when he couldn't eat enough, and no matter how easy he was, people with fat physique could lose weight like a bolt of lightning.

The wind and sand blew through Shu Yan's sleeves, and she felt that she had lost weight again.

The men walked for half an hour, from the dwellings of ordinary people to the eastern part of the city, which is indeed different, and there are still open shops on the streets, but there are very few places to sell food, and even if they do, they can't afford to pay for it.

Finally found a hotel, Zhang Shengzi took the lead and walked in, he was born with a burly face, and his face was really fierce.

Shu Yan said: "Boss, give us something to eat, we're really hungry all the way." ”

When the boss saw the outfits of Shu Yan and the others, he said, "Now there is only wine and food in this store, but there is really no food." ”

Zhang Shengzi naturally didn't believe it, he slapped the boss away, and ran to the kitchen by himself, but saw a half-old child steaming things, Zhang Shengzi opened the steamer to take a look, but saw that it was Guanyin soil steaming inside.

When the boy saw them like this, his face was frightened.

Zhang Shengzi walked out of the door with a gloomy face, and when he saw the boss's bitter gourd face, he said, "Then bring me a jar of wine to quench your thirst." ”

The boss hurriedly went to move the wine, and the boss brought the wine up, muttering to himself: "If you knew that this year was so difficult, you wouldn't have wasted grain and wine last year." “

Zhang Shengzi opened the wine jar, poured four glasses of wine each, Shu Yan took a sip, only felt uncomfortable, but he was hungry and thirsty, and he didn't know what happened to the children outside the city.

Although I had a little to eat, it didn't last long.

Shu Yan asked, "Boss, do you know where to buy food?" ”

The boss sighed and said: "Yes, the Sun family's grain shop, 50,000 copper coins a pound of flour." ”

Shu Yan was stunned for a moment, 50,000 copper coins, that copper coins that can't pull a carriage, can only be two meals of food?!

The boss sighed and said, "What do you pay for?" ”

The corners of Shu Yan's mouth twitched slightly, and she took out the copper money left by her wife from her arms and put it on the table.

After the boss saw the copper coin, he was immediately a little embarrassed, and he pulled Shu Yan to a room to take a look.

"So many copper coins? This ......"

The boss said with a sad face: "What the White Lotus Sect Han King said is good, it is true that everyone pays money, but this person can't buy anything, and I don't know how many people in the city are starving to death...... It's the Sun family, who earns a lot of money. ”

Shu Yan looked at the room full of copper coins, and was suddenly helpless.

Yes, they were still puzzled before why the White Lotus Sect and the Han King made their fortune so quickly, and the joint authorship was over-issuing currency, the local productivity was already insufficient, and the goods from outside could not be transported in, so it led to the complete collapse of the local economy.

After drinking, several people walked out into the street with their full stomachs, and walked towards the place according to the direction shown to them by the boss.

After walking a few steps, he saw a long procession winding towards him.

Each of them carried sacks of money on their backs, and even carried something resembling a silver ticket in their hands, and at the front was a grain store.

Cheng San ran fast with Shu Yan on his back and jumped directly to the front.

Shu Yan took a closer look and found that the grain was piled up tall in the grain store, and he was about to look forward, but was scolded by more than a dozen private soldiers guarding the side.

"Looking for death? Go back to the queue. ”

At this time, it was the turn of an old man to buy food, he took out a stack of banknotes from his arms, and said tremblingly: "This is what the White Lotus Niang Niang rewarded me before...... A piece of paper is worth 10,000 dollars......"

The private soldier kicked the man down.

"Only copper coins count, your broken paper is not worth anything at all."

The old man lay on the ground and said, "Please, I have a newborn child at home1"

The soldier drew his sword and slashed at the old man.

Shu Yan glanced at Zhang Shengzi, who was already on top, and she whispered, "Cut him for me!" ”

Zhang Shengzi took out an axe from behind and cut the private soldier in two with an axe, blood gushed out, and Shu Yan shouted loudly: "The food here is originally everyone's land!" Damn the big dogs! ”

Shu Yan jumped down from Cheng San, Xu is two taels of wine and stomach, the whole person was excited, she took out the crutches behind her back and shot at the person in front.

This was a live ammunition, and the private soldier in front of him was immediately exhausted.

(End of chapter)