One-acre three-point land of the miracle doctor and peasant girl

Chapter 491 Raising Food Prices
"Ma'am, that Xie Xiaoying is really shameless." Qingmei Qingxing didn't even enter the side hall, but with their hearing, even in the tea room next door, they could clearly hear what was said in the side hall, which really gave them insight up.

It turns out that concubines are all like this. At this moment, they are a little glad that they are orphans. It is really better not to have such miserable sisters.

Hongxue nodded, and sighed deeply: "It's a pity, Xie Xiaoqing." That Xie Xiaoying will probably show up in Pingning City soon, and then find a way to go to the military camp.

"Why is the carriage going so slow?" Hongxue couldn't help asking when she felt the slow speed.

"Ma'am, there are people in front of you. They seem to be robbing food." Qingmei lifted the curtain of the car to look out, and replied.

At this time, the coachman also stopped the carriage. There were too many people in front of them, standing in a long row, everyone with cloth bags in their hands, and some people with basins, queuing up at the entrance of the grain store, waiting to buy grain.

"I'll go down and have a look." Hongxue frowned. He just got the news yesterday that the price of food has almost doubled today. When they came out, some people in the crowd were scolded by the people for jumping in line.

There is only so much grain in the grain store. If it is sold out today, the price will not be the same tomorrow. These common people sighed, regretting that they could not buy grain earlier.

"Qingmei, what's going on? Isn't the fire of war suppressed? Why are they all vying for food?" Hongxue frowned and asked, this is not right!
At this time, an old lady heard what she said, and replied enthusiastically: "Miss, you can tell that you belong to a wealthy family just by looking at your clothes. Our common people can only earn a few hundred dollars a month. There are old and young, and the family is rich. There are only a few catties of grain and rice, how can there be enough to eat! Looking at the situation, if the price is going to increase, it will be even more unaffordable!"

"Yeah, alas, our family is queuing up at another grain store, and I don't know if we can buy it."

When the people around mentioned the food stored at home, they all had sad faces and sighed.The news of Long'an's broken city has already spread everywhere. Although the Dashun border has been provoked by the small countries in the west in the past, they are very confident, but now even Nanling has joined in, and the situation is grim.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the brown rice and rough noodles are all sold out in our store now, only the polished rice and fine noodles are left. The polished rice is [-] cents a catty, and the fine flour is [-] cents!"

At the front of the crowd, a young man came out and beat the copper basin with a wooden stick to attract the attention of the people and announce the bad news.

"Ah? Polished rice used to cost thirteen coins, but now it costs twenty coins. Before fine noodles, it was only eight coins!"

Among the crowd, the voices of the common people were loud, whispering to each other, now Pingning is guarded by the Prince Regent himself, and the price has risen to the current price, if Long An can't get it for a long time, how can the common people live?A large family can only buy ten catties of fine noodles a month, and can only make noodle soup.

In this era, people are short of oil and water, so they have to eat more to be full. Now that the grain and rice are soaring, it is difficult for ordinary people to fill their stomachs.

"Think it over, everyone, if you don't buy it today, it may not be the same price tomorrow!"

The little guy continued to knock on the copper basin, and kept shouting from the crowd, "Our grain store is the cheapest in the vicinity. Go around and check around. The polished rice costs 22 cents!"

"Hey, let's buy some polished rice. At least you can make porridge and drink it. Just keep your water full. Dude, give me two catties!"

The uncle at the front lamented that he was unlucky. The people in front bought the last rough noodles, and they were all sold out at his place. After queuing for an hour, he couldn't go back empty-handed. Forty copper coins were given out, counted two or three times, and then reluctantly gave it to the man.

The people who came to line up were all nearby residents, begging for life in the market, and naturally they would not collect food if they had no land.Almost everyone started to rummage through their pockets, counting the coins, wondering how much grain and rice they could buy.

"Ma'am." Qingmei called out.

Many people heard that only polished rice and fine noodles have left, and the crowd has been shortened, and now the carriage can pass.

"En, go back to Pingning City." Hongxue always felt that this was wrong, but for a moment she couldn't think of what was wrong, so she turned around and sat back in the carriage, and ordered in a deep voice.

After dinner, it was just getting dark, Qing Xing took an early rest after serving Hong Xue to wash up.

Hongxue slept soundly, but her consciousness was still in a lucid state, and she felt movement on the roof, so she sat up quickly, opened the gauze curtain, and quickly put on the dress with one hand, with a few extra silver needles in her hand.

"Ma'am, it's me." Qingmei jumped down from the roof in a black dress and climbed through the window.

"How about it?"

"Those landlords with full granaries seized the opportunity of war and desperately spread rumors, saying that Pingning City would not be able to hold on." Qing Mei said angrily, "They even spread rumors that the prince was injured."

Hearing this, Hongxue narrowed her eyes dangerously and said, "Have you found out who was the first to spread the rumors?" There is always a leader in everything, and this case is no exception.

"Yes, it's the Shi family." Qingmei said softly.

"Sure enough, there is a problem with their family." Hongxue sneered, "Notify Du Fei to ask everyone to keep an eye on everyone in the Shi family. What happened on the battlefield recently? What happened to Chu Xu?"

"There is nothing wrong with the prince, but Hong Ran has dealt with many generals." Qingmei replied, "But the situation with Prince Chu seems not to be very good."

"Send me the detailed situation on their side as soon as possible. It's really impossible. I can only let Pengfei attack the city by force. It's just the people of Long'an..."

"Don't worry, ma'am, Madam Yao has already ordered us to arrange for the evacuation of our people in Long'an one after another. It should be almost done now, and those who stay in the city are only our people, and they all have the ability to protect themselves." Ome throws out a message.

Hearing this, Hongxue smiled slightly and said, "Okay." Then she looked at Qingmei's clothes and said, "Go down and rest first, and don't let anyone disturb me before dawn."

Because Hongxue often did this, it didn't arouse Qingmei's suspicion, so she agreed and walked outside.

However, Hongxue quickly went behind the screen, changed into night clothes, jumped out of the house, and started to rob those nearby.

Since those unscrupulous landlords wanted to make money from the war, they robbed them from house to house, and then opened a grain store by themselves, selling them to the common people at ordinary prices, thereby leading the price of grain to fall.

The first one is the largest grain merchant in Pingning City. I heard that their character is very poor. As long as they have money, they will disown their relatives. Now they are still yelling that if they don’t have money, they can hire someone to pay off their debts. There is that juicy yellow-flowered girl who is here to sleep with him. One night is enough, when the time comes, give a hundred catties of white rice, take advantage of the fire, and offer such a tempting condition.

(End of this chapter)