What else is there to say about Lu Xu?

He closed the stall early, and when he saw that Lu Yong couldn't sit still, he asked, "Are you still selling?" ”

Lu Yong was silent.

Lu Xu: "Either you sell me this piece of tofu, you can be busy with whatever you want." ”

Lu Yong was pleasantly surprised, stopped Lu Xu and didn't let him pay for it, but asked, "Brother Lu, I don't want money, can you give me food?" ”

Lu Xu was stunned: "Okay." ”

Then he asked: "I'll transport you thirty catties tomorrow, is it enough for emergencies?" ”

Lu Yong: "Thirty pounds? ”

He quickly calculated the price of thirty catties, blushed and shook his head, "My family doesn't have that much money." ”

Lu Xu: "It's okay, you can give as much as you want, it's not enough to cover the booth fee in the future." ”

Lu Yong's eyes were hot: "Thank you." ”

Lu Xu comforted him: "Don't worry, the government will definitely find a way." ”

Lu Yong and Lu Xu parted in Dongjie, he didn't go home, but also went outside the city to dig wild vegetables.

Lu Xu was not in a hurry to go home, he pushed the car and inquired about the price on East Street. Salt and grain are the weather vane, he can't ask about the price of grain, the price of salt can still be seen, and the price of salt today is 90 Wen, which has nearly doubled.

Shopkeeper: "Buy it early, it will go up tomorrow." ”

Lu Xu: "There is no shortage of salt, doubling for no reason?" ”

Shopkeeper: "The price of food has more than doubled." ”

Lu Xu was speechless, and he was extremely glad that he bought a large jar of salt before going home to harvest wheat.

If you ask about the oil again, it has also doubled.

Lu Xu scolded him crazy.

When he went to the money to exchange the money, he found that the oil and salt had not gone crazy, and there was still reason.

"Say it again, how much?"

"One tael of silver is two thousand seven hundred wen, today it is two thousand seven hundred wen, and tomorrow it may be three thousand wen."

Lu Xu pushed the cart and left.

If you don't change it, he has the strength, and he can push the copper coin home!

He still doesn't believe it, can prices keep rising, and money prices keep falling?

But reality soon slapped people, and in less than a month, the price of grain rose to 12,000 wen per stone, and the price of silver was even more crazy, wanting to exchange it for one tael of silver and 5,000 wen.

Lu Xu inquired about the price of food and salt every day, and the fritters rose to 30 wen a piece, and they were sold out before they entered East Street.

He never felt that it was so easy to make money, and he never felt that the copper coins in his hands were so empty.

After that, the price of his fritters was higher, but fewer people bought them, and Lu Xu had to reduce them from 600 a day to 300.

When he walked on the mountain road, he could see groups of Guanyang people digging wild vegetables along the mountain road, and some people followed him all the way to their village, wanting to buy food.

Not only Guanyang has no food, but also the villages.

The price of grain is too high, and the peasant households, who have never seen so much money in their lives, sell grain every day, and the more they sell it, the more they regret it, and the more they sell, the more panicked they become.

Those who have surplus food at home dare not sell it anymore.

Selling early is a loss.

The old man who followed him all the way squatted at the entrance of the village and sat until dark.

Li Zheng couldn't look at it, called the person to stay at home for the night, and sold a bag of miscellaneous grains to the other party, who was grateful to carry a heavy bag of grain, bent his waist and walked back along the mountain road. Lu Xu heard that the cart was catching up, and saw that his waist was about to break.

"Uncle, you can put me in the car, anyway, my car is half empty."

The old man thanked him, loaded the grains into Lu Xu's car, and asked him to push the cart anyway. Lu Xu had no choice but to let go and help together on the difficult sections.

The old man chatted with him: "How has your business been late?" ”

Lu Xu smiled bitterly: "Okay, the money you earn sounds similar, but it's different when you spend it." ”

If he replenishes oil and salt once, he will have liver pain once.

Lu Xu stared at the basket that was getting shorter and shorter, and complained: "What I do is the food of the common people, and now it's good, it's all a luxury." ”

The old man had never heard the word luxury, and he could understand the general idea, so he comforted Lu Xu optimistically: "As long as there is no war and there is food, life can still go on." ”

Lu Xu only smiled, he was not so optimistic.

He only brought 200 fritters and sold them until the morning market, and there were still a few left.

Lu Xu was disheartened and gave the fritters to the shopkeeper of the wine shop.

The liquor business is also very deserted.

The shopkeeper also asked Lu Xu to help him buy grain two or three times.

Seeing Lu Xu's head bowed, he only let out a long sigh and took a small jar of wine to Lu Xu.

Lu Xu was anxious, and he didn't want to bring his anxiety home, so he parked the cart halfway, moved the stones to fill the mountain road for a while, and was so tired that he couldn't move the cart home anymore.

Lu Xu poured the money into the jar, and his family's copper coins piled up more and more, but Lu Xu became more and more mournful. The younger brothers and sisters didn't know the changes in the county, so they only had more money, squatting on the side and watching Lu Xu pour money, their eyes shining.

Lu Xu couldn't help but laugh at their little money fans.

Layue asked, "Brother, can I take five to buy syrup?" ”

Lu Xu grabbed a handful and gave it to her: "Okay." ”

Layue had to hold so much money with both hands, her eyes lit up happily, she was greedy for a while, counted out five, put the others back, raised her head and asked Lu Xu: "When will my brother and merchant come?" ”

Lu Xu tugged at her pigtails, his poor silly sister, she didn't know that she couldn't buy syrup for five cents, "You save it first, and you can buy it when he comes." ”

Layue became happy, clutched the five copper coins tightly, and ran to put them under her pillow.

Lu Xu's eyes were full of love, and now his sister is so precious about these copper coins.

Lu Zhou is twice as old as Layue, he can already understand a lot of Lu Xu's emotions, and when Layue runs away, Lu Zhou asks, "Brother, why are you unhappy?" Isn't it bad to get more money? ”

Lu Xu didn't know how to explain to him, seeing that he asked seriously, he didn't fool the child, "Of course it's good to have more money, but now the money is worthless, you look at this big pot of money, in fact, it's ......" He drew a third of it, "It's actually only so high." ”

Lu Zhouxiao's brows furrowed.

Lu Xu thought about how to explain it to him in layman's terms, but Lu Zhou asked, "It turns out that a jar of money can be exchanged for a jar of salt, but now it can only be exchanged for such a high amount of salt?" ”

Lu Xu: ???

Lu Xu: !!

His lazy and lazy eyes sharpened, his brother, isn't he a little smart?

Lu Xu: "Yes, yes, yes!" Can you understand? ”

Lu Zhou: "It turned out that a bun cost five yuan, and then it cost ten yuan, but now the third grandmother doesn't charge money, as long as the food is changed, brother, has the money become bad?" Can't buy buns anymore? Why doesn't everyone want it anymore? ”

Lu Xu: "I can't understand this for a while. ”

Lu Zhou was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "Our family doesn't have enough food to eat, and other people's families don't have enough to eat?" Everyone sold it for money, why did they eat worse instead? ”

Lu Xu didn't know how much a normal ten-year-old child could understand, and with the only knowledge of economics he had, he couldn't figure it out, so he could only say simply, "Because less will be expensive, although we have a bumper harvest, but maybe there is a bad harvest elsewhere, we have to transport our grain to the place where the harvest fails." In this way, we have less food here, so it is expensive. ”

Lu Zhou: "But why is meat expensive?" ”

Lu Xu: "If you don't eat food, you will eat something else, so meat and vegetables will rise." ”

Lu Zhou: "What about the salt?" ”

Lu Xu scratched his head, yes, why is the salt also rising? And there is no shortage of salt! He shook his head, picked up the angry teacher's swaggering attitude and threw back the question, "Brother doesn't know, you are smarter than me, you think slowly, and then tell your brother when you grow up and figure it out." ”

Don't ask me, I won't, your brother is a scumbag, so that you have enough to eat, you have done your best, overloaded, spare your life!

Lu Zhou frowned and nodded, and agreed seriously, and then he comforted Lu Xu again: "My brother is also very smart. ”

I feel perfunctory, thank you, it turns out that your kid also thinks you're smarter than me!

Lu Xu grinded his teeth and fluttered at his head for a while, scattering all his hair before stopping.

The brothers worked together to push the money jar under the bed and hide it, and Lu Zhou dragged Lu Xu to come up with a new proposal: "Let's eat multigrains like before, and the corn and beans are also delicious." ”

With his ten-year-old little head, gathering all his observations and thoughts, Lu Zhou only knew that food was very expensive now, and their family had no food, "I can eat less." ”

Lu Xu was amused by his younger brother, "That's not good, you have to eat more to grow taller, you can only help me when you grow taller." ”

When Lu Zhou heard this, he was entangled again, he had already picked up firewood, cut grass, fed chickens, fed pigs, and did housework, but still couldn't help?

Lu Xu saw that he didn't know what to think about, so he sent Lu Zhou to play by himself, "With me, I can't be hungry for you, the child should have a child's appearance, play!" ”

Lu Xu went around the house twice, and then went to the field twice.

In a small vegetable patch behind their yard, cucumbers, eggplants, and all kinds of melons are growing strong, and the greens that have just been planted in the field have also begun to sprout, and the whole Lujia Village is still full of vitality.

Beans are growing, millet is growing, sorghum is growing, and rice is growing.

The mountains are clear, the water is pure, and Lu Xu slowly calmed down.

Whatever, he won't die of hunger anyway. Will it be worse than before?

Lu Xu figured it out, walked back with vigorous steps, he ran into Yan Junqi's house, rushed into Yan Junqi's study, and said happily: "Junqi, I plan to stop business first and go to the wasteland!" ”

The author has something to say:

Lu Xu: Don't ask, if you ask again, I'll be exposed, it's really difficult for parents.

Chapter 32 Instruments

"I was in too much of a hurry, I wanted to make money in a hurry, I was in a hurry to buy my family land back, and I wanted to do business in a store in Guanyang." Lu Xu pushed away the book that Yan Junqi spread out on the table, sat down in the old position, supported his chin with one hand, and spread out his small account book with the other, "Now the price of land is too expensive, I can't afford it, and the fritter business is not easy to do, I plan to open a few acres of barren land first, and after a while, I can grow some buckwheat, can you help me think about it?" ”

Lu Xu couldn't stop muttering, "I knew that my family's two acres of land would not grow vegetables but also millet." ”

Yan Junqi asked: "Don't sell fritters anymore?" ”

Lu Xu had some entanglements again.