Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 140 Buying Food
Because of the heavy snowfall, Heishan Town looked very deserted, and many shops on both sides of the street were still closed.

Fortunately, the Zhang family brothers were not here to go to the market. The two of them had a very clear purpose. After entering the city, they drove directly to a rice noodle shop in the town and stopped.

Zhang Dafei asked Er Fei to go down first, and then parked the cart by himself.

The door of the rice noodle shop was open, and there was only one boy inside. Zhang Dafei still recognized him, because his family's food was sold here before, "Little brother, why are you alone, where is the shop owner?" Zhang Dafei As soon as Fei entered the shop, he smiled and greeted the boy inside.

"Oh, it's Brother Zhang. The boss went to the county to deliver food, so he left the villain to look after the house. Brother Zhang, what are you doing here today?" The boy was sitting behind the counter when he heard someone greet him. , Turning around, I saw Zhang Dafei who came to sell grain before, no wonder the young man had an impression of him, because his family sold too much grain before.

Zhang Dafei smiled foolishly, "Hehe, the food at home is not enough right now, let's buy some more food."

"Oh, that's it, Brother Zhang, then you have to buy more, this year is going to be hard." Seeing that there was no one around, the boy quickly ran out, then stood on tiptoe and moved close to Zhang Dafei's ear. Said to Zhang Dafei in a low voice.

"Huh? What does this mean?" After Zhang Dafei heard this, he turned his head and exchanged glances with the bewildered Er Fei, and then looked blankly at the boy beside him.

The little guy looked at their bewildered faces, and patiently explained to the two of them, "I heard that other places are not peaceful recently. Because of the heavy snow, there is not enough food at home."

After the little guy finished speaking, he turned his head and thought that what he said was not serious, and then added, "Brother Zhang, I will not hide it from you, the reason why the shopkeeper went to the county to deliver food this time is because the price of food in the county has risen again." Now, it’s much better than before.” The young man sighed, and the two brothers Zhang Dafei said with serious expressions.

Er Fei glanced at the little boy beside him, smiled and then murmured to the elder brother in a low voice, "Brother, do you want us to look elsewhere?" Er Fei thought to himself, there is such a rice noodle shop in Heishan Town. So this little guy lied to them?Er Fei was a little worried.

Zhang Dafei shook his head with a serious face, "No." Zhang Dafei didn't agree with his mother to sell all the food when he sold the food before, but unfortunately his mother didn't listen and sold it directly. Zhang Dafei was curious, now that he heard what the shop assistant said, thinking about it, he understood what happened years ago.

Er Fei wanted to open his mouth to speak again, but Zhang Dafei stretched out his hand to stop him. Er Fei opened the corner of his mouth, but finally shut up.

Because Zhang Dafei is more than ten years older than Er Fei, and there is a brother who died young, so to Er Fei, Zhang Dafei is more like a father. Although Er Fei can ignore Zhang Li, but he does not care about it. Dare to confront Zhang Dafei head-on, there is no way, who made him beat up by his elder brother a lot when he was a child.

Zhang Dafei didn't know that his younger brother was bowing his head to reconsider him. He wanted to understand the food matter before, so he said to the boy next to him, "I'm sorry."

Hearing Zhang Dafei's words, the little fellow is smart, and quickly smiled and led Zhang Dafei aside to open the rice noodle bag, "Brother Zhang, this is the newly harvested rice this year. Look, all of them are half-full in color." , the grains are round." The little guy dutifully introduced the rice on the side, Zhang Dafei reached out to touch it, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Okay, that's it, let's install it directly." Zhang Dafei finished speaking with a look of embarrassment, and called Er Fei to the side, ready to move grain from the warehouse and load it into the truck.

"Brother Zhang, do you still use other grains?" The boy opened a few more bags, but the rice inside was not as good as before, the grains were shriveled, and it was even more painful to touch.I'm afraid I'll have a stomachache.

After Zhang Dafei looked at it, he lowered his head and thought for a while, nodded and said, "Take some." Their family couldn't buy all the good grains, because the price of good rice was too high, and if they bought them all, they wouldn't be able to afford them.

The two accompanied their buddies to the warehouse. Not all the food they bought was expensive, and there were some cheap ones, and they would eat them when they returned home.

Because of the rise in food prices, the two didn't have as much food as before when they didn't come back, but fortunately, they can get over it after a while.

The two went there in the morning and came back with half a cart of grain in the afternoon. Wang Cuifeng worried that the grain would be passed by Mrs. Zhang and Li, so she locked the grain in the warehouse.

Mrs. Gu bumped into Mrs. Gu about buying grain at the old Zhang's family. After Mrs. Gu came back, she casually chatted with Yang Weimin. After listening to it, I feel good, after all, their family has enough food.Facing the direction of Zhang's courtyard, Nu Nuzui said, "Hmph, only that idiot sells food, it's all right now, it costs more money."

"Mother, don't we need to buy some for our family?" Yang Weimin didn't know how much food was left at home, because of Gu's words, thinking about the current day, I'm afraid it will be a while at night when he lives.

Mrs. Yang and Li looked back at Yang Weimin, waved her hand and said, "No, the food at home is enough for the early rice harvest." Because Mrs. Yang and Li thought a lot, so last year, Mrs. Yang and Li basically did not sell any grain, and now there is still half of it in the warehouse As for the rice, in previous years, the food would be eaten until the beginning of spring, and then I would go to the town to buy some until the first season of rice came out, but this year, I have no plans to do so.

"Then..." Yang Weimin was worried, and wanted to ask, but was coaxed out by the impatient Yang Li, "Hurry up and go to work, the firewood at home is not enough, hurry up and go out"

"...Eh..." Yang Weimin paused, but walked out obediently.

Seeing her dull-witted eldest son leave, Mrs. Yang Li started to think about it, and her face was a little serious. Yes, those who don’t have enough food will have to buy food. When the time comes... Mrs. Yang is not worried about not having enough food for her family. To eat, she is afraid that the price of food will be too high at that time, if ordinary farmers can't afford it, it will be a famine...

Mrs. Yang and Li were worried, but the villagers in Yangjia Village were not stupid. Except for a few families who sold their food, most of them stayed at home, so they didn't think they would be hungry.

With the example of the old Zhang family, several families in the village also went to the town to buy grain, and when they came back, they all said that the price of grain had risen again. These news spread quickly, and within a few days, the whole Yangzhou Everyone in Jia Village knows that the price of grain has risen again. Those who had grain in their homes before were all rejoicing, while those who sold their grain because of the increase in grain prices were all beating their chests and complaining that they had sold it too early.

But this has become a fact, even if you regret it, it's useless, life still has to move forward.

After some time, the rumors of buying grain like this in the village gradually disappeared, because those who were short of grain in the village had already bought grain, and it was not difficult to survive. The villages close to Yangjia Village were left. There was no bad news either.

When Chunqiu thought that all this was coming to an end, her father Yang Weibo brought another piece of bad news from Heishan Town. Qingshan Town, which is close to Heishan Town, began to suffer from famine.

(End of this chapter)