Dali Temple Conspiracy Records

Chapter 87

"Si Zhi! I'm telling you it's simple, do you know—huh?"

Bai Sanxiu ran into the courtyard, just about to tell what he had just seen, but when he saw Li Quan's attire, he stopped in surprise.

"Are you... a fortune teller?"

He was wearing an old Daoist gown he got from somewhere, a Zhuangzi scarf on his head, and a streamer leaning against the wall next to it, with a big letter written on it, "Let Heaven Know Your Fate, So Don't Worry."This outfit, what is it if it’s not a hexagram master?
"Well. Come."

He waved at her, Bai Sanxiu went over as he said, Li Quan told her to put down the things in her hands, first touched her head, and then looked carefully at her hands, before she had time to be shy, she saw him counting with his fingers , and said slowly and leisurely: "Heaven's marriage is destined to grow old, it seems that there is no need to worry about it. The spring is clear to play with fish and swim in the water. Hurry up and hook the silk string. Congratulations to this girl, she has a good marriage destined by God."

"puff!"

It turned out that he was looking at her bones.Bai Sanxiu was amused by his pretentiousness, Li Quan also laughed and said, "How?"

"It's really like that! I didn't expect Si Zhi to be able to act like this, and I remember the words."

"The more you see it, the better it will be."

Bai Sanxiu thought about it too.As the saying goes, there are thirty old Mingjing, fifty young Jinshi, Li Yu, a 19-year-old high school Jinshi, can fool a little bit of rhetoric of quack warlocks, and it is not easy to catch.But she still walked around him curiously, "Do you really want to go out and set up a stall?"

She naturally helped him tidy up his clothes, because she lowered her head, not knowing that Li Guan was also looking down at her, his eyes darkened.

"It's convenient to inquire about the news. What did you want to say just now?" He asked softly.

"I just now..." She was no more brainy than Li Quan, and would forget things if she interrupted them. After thinking for a while, she remembered what she was going to say when she entered the door. "Oh! I mean, you don't know how expensive that rice is, it's outrageous!"

Li Quan didn't seem surprised, "How much?"

"In a normal year, the price of rice is about ten Wen per bucket. This year, Chang'an is more expensive, and it costs [-] Wen. I didn't expect that it would cost fifteen Wen in Pinglu County. They also told me that it is cheap. If you don't buy it, you have to pay for it." It’s up. There’s also a kind of high-quality round-grained rice that costs [-] yuan, and the store told me it’s very popular, so I don’t believe it.”

"Yeah." Li Yan helped her bring things into the house, and asked, "Do you still remember what I told you, why the price of food is high this year?"

"Remember. One is that there was little rain last year, and this year's winter wheat harvest was mediocre; the other is that this year's rain is too heavy and waterlogged, and the early rice harvest is not good. Then, the grain produced in Guanzhong itself is not enough to feed us, and we have to rely on grain from the Jianghuai River. You said However, this Pinglu is an important transit point for water transport on the Yellow River, so I thought it would be cheaper here!"

There are 83 rains in the wheat harvest, which means that if there is a good rain in August, October, and March, it will ensure a bumper harvest of wheat. However, in the second half of last year, there was little rain and dryness, which affected this year's harvest.This year, not only was there a lot of rain in Guanzhong and mountain torrents, but also spring floods and summer floods in the south of the Yangtze River. Although there were no particularly serious floods, the rice and wheat production in the Jianghuai area has also been greatly reduced.

"Chang'an put the grain in the Changping warehouse to stabilize prices. Besides, after all, it is under the feet of the emperor, and many people will restrain themselves. Although Pinglu is the only place for grain transportation, the official warehouse cannot contain large rats. People who work hard to transport grain, You may not be able to eat it."

"Is your business trip this time related to water transportation?"

Li Quan smiled slightly, as if applauding her, and then returned to seriousness: "Sicang Zuo in Pinglu County was murdered to death, and the murderer was a water laborer."

(End of this chapter)