Jiang Xingchen cooked the meal, and when he returned to the house, the old man was clutching his hair tightly, looking like he was thinking about it.

On the other side, Mei'er was so tidy, smiling, and very relaxed.

"Arch pawn!" the old man hesitated for a long time and said weakly.

"Are you all right, old man?" Mei'er didn't move, but asked.

"Let's go...... Let's go!" the old man's tone was extremely unconfident.

"Are you really walking?" asked Mei'er again, her eyes bent into crescents.

"Of course let's go!" the old man blew his beard and glared angrily, and he couldn't help but laugh when he saw it.

"Then you can't regret chess, my brother said that there is no regret in chess, a true gentleman, you have regretted dozens of steps just now!"

"Dozens of steps!" The corners of Jiang Xingchen's mouth grinned, and the hand holding the plate trembled: "This old man ......"

"What kind of gentleman is not a gentleman, will my words not be counted, ancestor?" the old man blushed a little when Mei'er said it, and shouted a little angrily.

"Okay!" Mei'er smiled and took a step.

"Uh!" the old man was dumbfounded: "Where did her horse jump from......"

At this time, Jiang Xingchen said: "Don't go down, let's eat first!"

As if he had met a savior, like a child, the old man stretched out his hand and pulled on the chessboard, and said loudly: "Ancestor, I'm hungry, this plate doesn't count, I'll play it after eating!"

Mei'er, Xin'er, and Jiang Xingchen were speechless for a moment, and it was ...... to be able to play to such an extent.

Shaking their heads, Mei'er and Xin'er no longer paid attention to the old man, and ran over to help Jiang Xingchen tidy up the table and serve food.

When eating, the old man still looked sullen, his eyes were always empty, and he would unconsciously muttered while chewing steamed buns: "Where did that horse jump from......"

"Hey!" Jiang Xingchen sighed, and said secretly in his heart: "I knew I wouldn't play chess, the old man is obsessed with the rhythm, and the typical hand smell is addicted, even eating like this, where will I go out to find wild pheasant eggs and come back!"

After eating, the old man wanted to continue, but Mei'er didn't play with him, and playing chess with the stinky chess basket was really no fun.

The old man's hands were itchy and uncomfortable, but he could only watch Jiang Xingchen sit in his place again.

Starting again, Jiang Xingchen found that Mei'er's chess was a big step ahead of the first, and it was not easy for him to win chess casually like before.

"This girl, she learns things so fast, backgammon is like this, and even chess is the same!" Mei'er's cleverness made him feel amazed.

The old man showed the consistent characteristics of the stinky chess basket: a mouth!

"Boy, you've crossed the river...... The car sinks to the bottom, hurry up, and see through the general...... Vault, you're vaulting!"

"Old man, don't pin your legs!" Xin'er whispered to the side.

"Oops!" the old man shook his body from the blow, and finally blushed and stopped talking......

In the next two days, the snow was falling heavily, and the temperature dropped again, Jiang Xingchen estimated that it would be at least more than 30 degrees below zero, and it was already the coldest time of the year.

In such weather, no one went out, and the whole village was at home, guarding the warm kang.

The old man didn't go anywhere, he asked Jiang Xingchen to make another pair of chess, and ran to the earth-shattering mercenary group with the chessboard all day long. Mei'er can't go down, I'll find a newbie!

Therefore, in the evening of the next day, Han Xiaowu found Jiang Xingchen, and tears were about to flow down when he spoke.

"Sir, you can take care of the old man, he pulls us to play chess all day long...... It's nothing to say, but his chess stinks...... We can't win yet, and as soon as we win, he will play tricks, and if he doesn't regret his moves, he will flip the chessboard...... Sometimes our players play chess by themselves, and this old man is next to him, and he is more anxious than us, so he can't go without leaving...... I can't live this day......"

The corners of Jiang Xingchen's mouth twitched constantly, forcing Han Xiaowu to say this kind of thing even for a few days, what a lot of resentment this has caused the old man!

However, before he could go to the old man, Du Rushan, who had been out for three days, came back.

"Sir, we ran all over the three surrounding towns, and we didn't buy any food at all......," Du Rushan's expression was unusually solemn when he reported.

"No food!" Jiang Xingchen was stunned for a moment, and his expression sank.

"We inquired, the snow fell too much, and it was cloudy for a month! They all said that this was a once-in-a-century disaster, and it would definitely affect next year's spring ploughing...... That is, next year's grain production will definitely be reduced......"

Jiang Xingchen's eyes narrowed, and he said, "Is someone hoarding food?"

"Yes!" Du Rushan nodded and said: "Two days ago, the news of the once-in-a-century catastrophe came out of Hongyuan City, and people began to rush to buy grain, causing the price of grain to skyrocket...... The prices of salt, oil, meat, etc., are rising, and even charcoal has tripled its original size!"

"Artificial!" Jiang Xingchen immediately thought of this possibility, the instability of grain prices would cause panic, how could Dingbei Hou not try his best to control grain prices, so it was certain that someone did this on purpose.

After a deep sigh, Jiang Xingchen exhaled and asked, "Have you bought the charcoal back, what about the other necessities?"

"I bought a lot of charcoal, and I bought everything else...... But the cost is a bit big!"

"It's okay! money doesn't matter, just buy something, it's hard work, you go and rest first!"

"Yes!" Du Rushan nodded, bowed and retreated.

Jiang Xingchen sat alone in the room, contemplating his eyes, and after a while, he started to write a letter, and then found Mei'er.

"Brother, I want to use the letter bird again!" Mei'er hesitated, the temperature was too low now, and the letter bird was not suitable for long-distance flights. However, seeing her brother's expression, she knew that the matter was urgent and hurriedly brought the bird cage over.

When the pink letter bird braved the wind and snow to rise to the sky, in Hongyuan City, Dingbei Hou was also worried about the matter of food.

In the face of a harsh winter that has not been seen in a century, he has long feared that such a thing will happen, and someone has indeed said so before, so he has been trying his best to stabilize food prices and avoid causing panic.

But the news broke out so suddenly, almost instantly, it spread all over the streets and alleys, and spread to all towns in the territory, and there was no time to react.

And then he found out that almost just a moment before the news broke out, many foreign shili suddenly appeared and rushed to buy food, and then the major families in the territory rushed to buy, causing this food crisis.

Now, although he has united several great nobles to move out the stock of grain and sell it to the commoners at a reasonable price, it is still unable to meet the demand, panic has arisen, and there are countless people waiting in line every day to buy food.

"There must be someone behind this matter, you'd better not be found out by me!" The foreign shili suddenly attacked, and snatched up most of the grain on the market, so that the territory is now seriously short of food, and the stock is not enough at all! If the nobles and the rich are allowed to hand over the hoarded grain, it can be alleviated, but then I am afraid that it will cause another panic.

"Where are you going to get food?" Dingbei Hou paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back.

At this time, a report from his subordinates came from outside the door: "Master Hou, Qi Yue led the young master of the Wang family in Linshui City to ask to see!"

"Young Master of the Wang family, among those people who have been pestering to buy secret recipes, it seems that he is the only one...... I remember that he also specifically asked Grand Duke Qi Yue to write to me, what is he doing here, is it ......?"

The thought flashed in his mind, and the Marquis of Dingbei instructed his subordinates to let the young master of the Wang family come in.

"Master Hou, take the liberty to come to the door, and look ......" The young master of the Wang family was full of smiles, and he couldn't see the depression of the previous paragraph.

"Don't talk nonsense, what's the matter!" Dingbei Hou waved his hand to interrupt him and said bluntly. You are a junior, what do you have to do with me.

The young master of the Wang family was stunned, the corners of his mouth twitched, and a smile appeared: "I see that the business of the major restaurants in Hongyuan City is not good, presumably because of the lack of food, so I came to talk to the Hou Ye about a business......"

"How much grain do you have?" asked Dingbei Hou.

"Hehe!" The young master of the Wang family showed a smug look in his eyes again, and said: "At least ensure that the two major restaurants and bun shops are enough, if there is no food, your reputation as a food city may ...... My conditions are also very simple......"

"You go and talk to Mo Hongxian about this!" Dingbeihou waved his hand again to interrupt him, and said lightly: "Send off!"

Just kidding, you have enough food for a restaurant and a bun shop, what can you talk to me about? What Lao Tzu needs most now is to stabilize the panic in the hearts of civilians.

"Uh!" The young master of the Wang family was stunned in place, his face was flushed, he thought that he had food, and he would definitely have the upper hand this time, but he didn't think that Dingbei Hou would not dump him at all.

"This, Master Hou, can Mo Hongxian call the shots?" The young master of the Wang family had to ask again, the last time he sold the secret recipe, but it was the board that Dingbei Hou patted.

"Yes!" Dingbeihou only said one word, then he didn't want to say more, and turned his back. He's annoyed enough now, how can he still have the heart to talk to him about this.

"Okay, then I'll go find Mo Hongxian!" The young master of the Wang family said something full of anger, turned his head and left, now that you are short of food, you are still so bullish.

Dingbei Hou turned around, looked at the back of the young master of the Wang family, and snorted coldly. He knew that the other party was a member of the rush to buy grain, but there was no way, you can't forcibly grab back the grain that others bought, and the nobles in your own territory are rushing to buy and hoard grain.

"I'll settle accounts with you afterwards!" Dingbei Hou said secretly in his heart, his gaze retracted, and he continued to ponder the solution.

This heavy snow has affected most of the empire, and the surrounding territories must also be short of food! Moreover, the heavy snow has closed the roads, and it is okay to travel lightly, but it is difficult to transport a large amount of grain! Even if there is grain in other territories, it will be too late to transport it here!

When Dingbei Hou was thinking about it, the development of things was indeed as he expected, and the same news broke out in several surrounding territories and the areas with the most snowstorms, and the cheap grain on the market was quickly bought out.

In the harsh winter that has not been encountered in a century, the grain production will be reduced next year, such news spreads everywhere, and the sensation caused by Jiang Xingchen and the old man's overcoming of terminal illness was quickly drowned.

[bookid=3149033,bookname="The Great Family"]

Twenty years ago, the Lin family was plotted and fell!

Twenty years later, Lin He, who walked out of the mountains, has a stunt!

I thought I was like duckweed and had no background, but I didn't want to be a descendant of the declining Lin family!

In order to revive the glory of the family, Lin He did not hesitate to devote himself to the rolling red dust and struggle for survival!

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