Food prices have halved from their peak, and the disappointment of food taxes has been washed away by a huge surprise.

Families lined up to sell food.

I regretted all the things I had sold before.

Six thousand!

The third aunt's eyes are about to pop out, sell a few stones of grain, and she will be able to scrape together enough money to buy cattle! But when she saw Lu Xu, she became embarrassed again.

Just said that she wanted to leave the wheat to Lu Xu, and she also asked the old four families not to sell it together, how could she sell it when she heard the price of grain?

Lu Xu was still in great shock.

One stone of Daqi is one hundred and twenty catties, one stone is six thousand wen, and one catty is fifty wen, this is wheat! Unbran wheat!

How much does the noodles have to sell?

Will the price of oil and salt follow?

How can his fritters be priced?

He was full of calculations, but he didn't understand the oral arithmetic, and he wanted to go to Yan Junqi's house to get the scratch paper addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and then let Yan Junqi help him think about it. He was pondering, and when he turned his head, he saw the third aunt staring blankly at the crowd in line.

Lu Xu blurted out: "Third aunt, aren't you selling?" ”

The third aunt's family has a lot of wheat, such a high price!

But the more he asked, the hotter the third aunt's face became.

She gritted her teeth and clenched her hands, and said, "Not for sale!" Let's grind it ourselves, and if we say keep it, we keep it. ”

She glanced at the crowd again, and saw that others were holding baskets with money, "I'll ask your fourth aunt to go, you can rest assured that Xuwa, my family will definitely keep it for you!" ”

didn't wait for Lu Xu to say anything, and the third aunt ran home as if she was being chased by a dog, for fear that she would regret it after taking a second look.

Lu Xu: "......"

Lu Wen, who was still snorting and panting: "......"

He was too speechless, glanced at Lu Xu sadly, raised his feet and ran after the third aunt, shouting as he ran: "Mother, do you want to buy cows?" ”

Lu Xu: "......"

The third aunt won't complain if she wants to sell him!

This afternoon, the village was the same as the New Year, buying and selling grain, noisy and shouting, and became jubilant again, and Lu Xu's cart was borrowed several times.

At this time, others don't envy him for selling snails to make money, but it's pitiful, Lu Xu's family has no food!

Lu Xu asked the second baby mother who came to borrow the cart, "Auntie, do you ask why the merchant bought grain at such a high price?" ”

The imperial court has just collected the land tax, is it possible that there is still a shortage of military rations?

The second baby mother smiled happily: "I heard that there was a famine in the south, and the grain and grass of the imperial court were transported to the north to fight, and there was no food!" ”

Lu Xu was surprised: "South? Where to the south? ”

Erwa Niang: "Whatever!" Anyway, it's not where we love it here! The boat is almost full, I have to hurry, Manniang, I'm leaving, I'll send you back in a while! ”

Yuan Manniang heard the movement and came out of the house and sent the second baby out of the house.

Lu Rui didn't hear the excitement for a few days, held back for a few days, and today he went crazy personally, and he didn't take a nap at noon, and ran to the barnish floor with his rattle, and he was crazy to play, rolling in the dirt, and accidentally peed on his pants, and was caught by Yuan Manniang to change clothes.

Layue helped Lu Rui change his clothes and led him to the courtyard.

Layue asked, "Brother, don't we sell wheat?" ”

Layue is still young, she has picked up ears of wheat for more than ten days, and she doesn't know that those are not theirs, Lu Xu rubbed her little head and teased her: "Don't sell it, our family will keep it for Layue to eat." ”

Layue giggled, Lu Rui also laughed, he threw himself on Lu Xu's lap and rubbed his head around, and jumped out with his head up: "Brother." ”

Lu Xu picked him up: "Hey, scream again." ”

Lu Rui laughed for a long time before rubbing his neck and calling him: "Brother." He stretched out his hand and pointed upward, "High!" ”

He also knew that he would be summoned to lift him high!

Lu Xu lifted him high according to his wish, Lu Rui giggled endlessly, and his messy mood was cured when he laughed at Lu Xu: "The whole family counts you naughty, who peed your pants?" ”

Lu Rui laughed.

He couldn't say everything, but his mind had already grown and understood, and he knew that he was talking about him!

After teasing his younger brother Lu Xu, he began to prepare for the things to be used to sell fritters tomorrow, no matter what happened outside, life would continue as usual, his family had no land, and the price of food rose wildly, Lu Xu faintly felt a little uneasy.

Early the next morning, Lu Xu entered the city and went to the grain store first.

I haven't been here for more than ten days, and Lu Xu inexplicably has a bottomless feeling, as if Guanyang County is unfamiliar. There weren't many pedestrians on the street, it was quieter than usual, and the pedestrians looked more nervous than usual. Lu Xu noticed that there were fewer people selling fruits and vegetables in the city than in the past, and it seemed that there were fewer fishing boats on the dock than usual.

He pushed the cart to the grain store and was shocked to find that the grain store was closed!

The lady of the shoe shop next to her happened to come out to sprinkle and sweep, and when she saw him standing in front of the grain shop in a daze, she said, "Buy grain?" It's long gone, you have to come early. ”

Lu Xu: "Didn't you just harvest the summer grain?" Gone so early? ”

"Summer grain?" The eldest lady laughed "hey", she smiled bitterly and complained, "Where is there any summer grain?" If I hadn't lived close by, I wouldn't have even been able to buy old grain! ”

Lu Xu was confused and pushed the cart away, and the East Street morning market was still familiar to him, although there were fewer stalls than usual, it was still much more lively than elsewhere.

As soon as he entered the morning market, he saw Lu Yong sitting in a daze in his old position, with white and tender tofu in the basket in front of him.

Lu Xu smiled: "Why did you sell tofu?" ”

Lu Yong hurriedly raised his head when he heard this, and said in surprise: "Brother Lu, you're back!" ”

He jumped up to help Lu Xu set up the cart: "Many people have asked when you will come back." ”

Lu Xu: "Isn't this coming back?" ”

He saw that Lu Yong's small basket only had a small piece of tofu, and wondered, "Zongzi is not easy to sell?" ”

Lu Yong couldn't say anything: "It's not easy to sell, it's not sellable!" ”

Lu Xu: "What do you mean?" ”

Lu Yong: "I can't buy rice!" ”

Lu Xu: "Can't buy rice?" ”

Lu Yong complained endlessly like pouring beans into a bamboo tube: "It's not just rice, you can't buy any grain!" My mother went to the grain store every morning before dawn to line up, and she could buy five catties of old grain at a time, if it weren't for my father to load and unload the ships and buy some grain in the countryside, our family would have starved to death. ”

Lu Xu was shocked.

How is it possible, this year's Guanyang is a bumper harvest, where has the grain gone?

Lu Yong didn't know his questions.

The whole family didn't know.

In previous years, every household in the county was waiting for the summer to buy new grain, and even many families did not have grain in stock at this time, so they waited for the grain to be spread with new grain. As a result, the new grain did not come, but the grain shop was closed. Not to mention the new wheat, even the old grain has been robbed!

Lu Yongfu said: "Now the county has to exchange food for food. ”

Lu Xu didn't pay attention to it before, but after he said this, he found that even the farmers in Dongshi who sold melons, fruits and vegetables were unwilling to ask for money, but were willing to ask for grain.

Lu Xu asked: "How much is the price of grain now?" ”

Lu Yong shook his head: "I don't know, I have sixty or seventy words." ”

Isn't that going to cost 8,000 wen a stone?!

Lu Xu gritted his teeth, no wonder some merchants brought money to the village yesterday to collect grain, and they still used the depreciated copper coins!

Lu Yong sighed: "My father went to the countryside with the boat to transport grain, and his salary was one pound of wheat a day. ”

Lu Xu: "Can you eat it?" ”

Lu Yong shook his head: "It's not enough." ”

His mother and his sister had already gone out of the city with someone to dig wild vegetables, if he hadn't agreed to help Lu Xu occupy the stall, he would have gone to the dock to transport goods or go out of the city to dig wild vegetables.

Lu Yong held on to hope and asked, "Brother Lu, have you sold all the wheat?" ”

Lu Xu: "My family has two acres of land, and I haven't sold it." Yesterday, a merchant went to the village to collect grain, 6,000 yuan and 1 stone. ”

Lu Yong: "...... So cheap? ”

Lu Xu didn't know what to say.

Only ten days ago, the market price of a stone of wheat was less than 4,000 yuan, and the summer harvest not only failed to collect the grain price, but also raised the grain price, what is the matter?!

Before Lu Xu's basket lid was lifted, a regular customer saw him, and the usually steady lady trotted over across the small half street and asked him: "Xiao Lu, do you have food at home?" To sell or not to sell? ”

Lu Xu shook his head and explained as he had just said.

The eldest lady patted her leg when she heard this, "These merchants who kill a thousand knives!" You go back today and let your villagers don't sell it cheaply, pull it to the county, and everyone rushes to ask for it with one stone! ”

Lu Xu nodded with affection: "No one thought that the price of food would rise like this." ”

The eldest lady complained: "Can I say it." How do you sell these fritters today? ”

Lu Xu thought for a while: "Twenty wen one." ”

The eldest lady was a little distressed, and asked again: "Can you collect copper coins?" ”

Lu Xu looked at the entire East Street, he also wanted food, but how to transport it back after he collected the grain was a trouble, what if the shortage of food was only temporary? When the merchants transported the grain from various villages to Guanyang, the price of grain was always going to fall, so he gritted his teeth: "Collect." ”

Auntie: "Bring me fifty." ”

Lu Xu: "......"

How worthless is their Daqi official money now?!

Chapter 31: The Problem Is Too Difficult

Lu Xu sold it in less than half an hour, and the fritters were sold out.

Because he collects money, he is willing to collect copper money, and the guests buy baskets and baskets.

Lu Xu sold hemp, suspecting that these people were using fried dough sticks as grain storage because they couldn't buy grain. In the back, he had to remind: "It's hot, the fritters are not durable, do you want to buy a lot?" ”

The other party: "It's out of the way, I have a lot of family." ”