Chapter 70 Food Prices

In the dream, she was reborn thirteen years ago, using what she knew to change everything.

But when she wakes up from the dream, she will return to that small courtyard, guard the boxy sky, and live her ridiculous, pathetic and pitiful life.

Song Anning suddenly felt depressed.

Holly keenly sensed that something was wrong with her, but she didn't know why her own young lady was unhappy, so she picked up the small snack on the table and asked with a smile: "Miss, do you think this snack looks like a little rabbit?" ”

Song An looked at the piece of snack.

The dim sum was a glutinous rice cake, which was indeed kneaded into the shape of a rabbit, and two red eyes were decorated with carrots on it, and she couldn't help but laugh.

"Like, indeed."

Holly smiled: "This shop is really ingenious, although this thing is not very skilled, and the materials used are really ordinary, but because he made it into such a cute appearance, people can't help but be happy when they look at it, compared to those decent food, everyone naturally likes it more." ”

Song Anning nodded.

That's true.

She looked out the window again.

At this time, it was not early, the wife gradually emerged from the sky, and there were more and more people who came out to catch the market in the morning, Song Anning carefully observed, and found that although many people flocked to the grain store and oil store, the best business was those exquisite ready-to-wear shops, as well as gold and silver shops and jewelry shops.

She picked up her teacup and took a sip of tea.

The Dayuan Dynasty admires beauty, because it is influenced by the atmosphere of the Hu people, and loves extravagance, up to the dignitaries and dignitaries, down to the common people, no one is proud of the pursuit of exquisite luxury, pearls, gold and jade, gorgeous clothes and ornaments, which every ordinary family will buy, even the poorest tenant farmer's family, every New Year's festival will buy a hairpin or half a set of head noodles for their female dependents, to decorate themselves.

It was the Great Yuan Dynasty that slowly became a trend of luxury, and this trend became especially popular because the emperor and empress of the present day were fond of all kinds of rare treasures.

At first glance, it is a taste of peace and prosperity.

But Song Anning knew that within a few years, there would be turmoil in the Great Yuan Dynasty.

She didn't know the specific process of that turmoil, and the real outcome was unknown, because at that time she had already been angry with Jiang Hua and the Qin family.

But she knew that after the turmoil began, all extravagance was no longer prevalent, the people were struggling to make a living, and there were many complaints, and the dignitaries and nobles began to move to the south because of the invasion of the northern enemy......

Song Anning's parents and brothers died at the hands of those displaced people......

Thinking of this, her fingers clenching the cup slightly.

At this time, a figure downstairs caught her attention.

It's him?

How did he end up here?

Long Street.

Pei Qingyan was dressed plainly, his upper body was an old cyan short beat, his lower body was a pair of trousers, he did not wear a mask on his face, but showed his true face, walked into a rice shop and asked, "Shop, how is the price of rice recently?" ”

The shopkeeper of the store was settling accounts at the counter, and he didn't raise his head when he heard the words, "One hundred wen." ”

Pei Qingyan moved.

"A pound?"

"Hmm."

"Is there a deal?"

The shopkeeper finally looked up at him.

His eyes fell on his face, he was stunned at first, then looked at what he was wearing, and said speechlessly: "What discount can there be?" If you can afford it, you can buy it, if you can't afford it, go out, don't delay my business here. ”

Pei Qingyan was not angered by his attitude, but asked: "I came out for my lord's house to see, if I buy more, there will be a discount." ”

This time, the store hesitated.

But after thinking about it, he said again: "One stone is always money, if you buy ten stones, each stone can be discounted by ten yuan, and no matter how much I have, I can't make a profit." ”

Pei Qingyan frowned.

A few years ago, the finest rice, once it was only 800 wen, a little rough even four or five hundred wen could be bought, but now in just a few years, the price of rice has almost doubled?

He kept his face calm and said, "Then I'll take a look." ”

The shopkeeper ignored him.

Pei Qingyan went out and went to other shops.

Asked a few in a row, the price of rice is about the same, and then ask the reason for the price increase, it is too difficult to collect grain now, last year and the year before last two natural disasters in succession, the people's livelihood is difficult, the emperor recently requisitioned the people, to open the canal, repair the road, the strong men have been pulled to serve in the service, but there is no one to farm?

Just rely on the old and weak women and children in the family, how much land can be planted?

The grain harvest is not good, and seeing that it is the harvest season, but because there is no man in the family, they can only watch the grain rot in the ground, and even the pregnant woman and the three or four-year-old child have run to the field to grab the harvest, but they are no match for God, and it is not unreasonable for the price of this grain to rise again and again.

After Pei Qingyan inquired, he walked out of the store with a heavy face.

He remembered the few folds he had made some time ago.

Those few folds were clearly presented to the emperor, but as if they had never been presented, they all sank into the sea.

Those are all excerpts about people's livelihood.

As the commander of the embroidery department, he not only has the responsibility of supervising hundreds of officials and asking for the people's lives, but also observes the people of the world and reports the people's livelihood to the emperor in a timely manner, so as to avoid the possibility of turmoil.

However, he fulfilled all these duties one by one, but the emperor ignored them.

Don't......

Thinking of something, Pei Qingyan's face changed slightly, but he immediately shook his head.

No way.

Pei Qingyan, Pei Qingyan, what are you thinking?

His Majesty the Emperor is your own uncle, he raised you since childhood, do you still want to be disappointed in your uncle?

Thinking so, he clenched his fists and walked towards the carriage, ready to go back and rewrite the excerpt.

It must be that the previous excerpt was written incorrectly and failed to enter the eyes of my uncle.

Well, it must be.

This way.

Song Anning watched him walk out of the street and disappear from sight before turning around.

Odd.

It stands to reason that he is a key criminal wanted by the imperial court and the chaos of King Yong, and he should have already left Jizhou City at this time, and he should have fled for his life, why is he still wandering around the city?

Aren't you afraid of being arrested by the government?

Song Anning frowned.

And the other side.

Pei Qingyan got into the carriage only to find that he had just wandered around and lost a piece of jade pendant on his body.

Because he was dressed in disguise today, it was not easy to wear gold, silver and jade, so he hid the jade pendant that he wore close to his body on weekdays in his cuffs.

But I don't know if it fell off when I was distracted just now, or if it disappeared before, in short, the jade pendant is now gone.

His expression changed slightly.

The jade pendant was given to him by the emperor's uncle, the first is a reward, which cannot be lost, and the second is that the jade pendant carries a lot of his feelings, if it is lost, it is a pity.

So, Pei Qingyan stopped the carriage and went down again to find it.

At the same time, Song Anning walked to an alley.

"Hey, what is this?" Holly crouched down and picked up a piece of white jade on the ground.