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Chapter 84: Two cents of money to feed the whole family

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    Early the next morning, at around midnight, the doorways of rice shops and grain shops in the capital were all crowded with people.

    ¡°Everyone was anxiously waiting for the door to open to buy rice, but there was no sign of the door opening.

    Finally, a small wooden window opened, but the waiter just hung out a sign and closed it again.

    "No food today"

    These four characters are written on the sign.

    Some people who got up in line in the middle of the night couldn't accept this statement at all, and angrily knocked on the wooden boards of the shop.

    "Open the door! Open the door! There was so much rice and wheat flour yesterday, how could there be no more today?"

    "Yes! You are a profiteer!"

    "Sell the rice quickly, or we will break down the door!"

    "We are all neighbors, you can't be so shameless, right?"

    "Old Zhang, you, a guy who gave birth to a son without eyesight, are you so unkind to me?"

    Such scoldings occurred in every corner of the capital.

    I dare not say anything else in the capital, but spreading gossip is the best.

    Late last night, various news began to circulate, saying that there was a locust plague in Shandong, and that the locust plague was heading towards the Gyeonggi region.

    Anyone with some common sense in life knows what kind of disaster the locust plague is.

    In the future, there will be a saying that "wherever the X army goes, not a blade of grass grows." In fact, that emperor is derived from the word "locust", because when locusts go over, everything that can be eaten is eaten up, including grain and fruit trees.  There was no grass growing at all.

    Generally speaking, life in the Dakang Dynasty was good, but the three major disasters, locust plagues, floods, and droughts, still occurred frequently.

    People have some experience in preventing and controlling floods and droughts, but they still don¡¯t have much clue about biological disasters like locust plagues.

    Even if you try your best to hunt and kill them, the effect will still be very small when faced with countless locusts overwhelming the sky.

    People will feel powerless in front of locusts that can cover the sky and cover the sun.

    Moreover, the locusts that are killed will come out every time they are about to be harvested by the crops. They will not appear at other times. This makes people lament that they are really natural farmland.

    Although the people who farmed the fields were crying without tears, so were the people living in the capital.

    The locust plague will inevitably cause large-scale grain harvests. As a result, the prices of rice and wheat will rise significantly - regardless of whether the wheat has just been harvested, if the prices rise, they will rise together.

    "If the family does not prepare food in advance at this time, the money in hand will become worthless, and there will be no food to buy.

    That¡¯s why everyone comes early in the morning and queues up.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? off out to see a crowd of people gathered in front of the Midian Grain Shop, went up and asked, and they knew the result, so they also joined the queue.

    " As a result, everyone did not expect or had some prediction in their hearts. The owners of these rice shops and grain shops almost did not open their doors for business.

    Of course, do you think anyone has opened the door?

    have!

    But they were all small shops, and they had been selling all morning. After selling out all the inventory in the store, they closed the shop without mentioning the food that was still piled up in the warehouse outside the city.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? out of the thumbs up and called "boss generous".

    ¡°If they want to buy rice or grain in the future, they will definitely buy it from this store.

    People are not born to be heartless. If circumstances permit, do you think they would be willing to take care of good people, or would they be willing to take care of bad people?

    It¡¯s just like when you go to eat. Even if the newly opened store is cheaper, you can¡¯t help but go to the store you are familiar with.

    It's the same thing.

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    The Midian Grain Store no longer sells grain, but the large and small restaurants in the capital are still open for business as usual, and everything is as usual, with no price increase.

    Why?

    Because they only sell to customers on the day, the amount of food consumed is fixed and will not be exaggerated.

    Even if you want to increase the price, you have to wait and see what happens.

    If we don¡¯t open a shop for business, there will be so many cooks and servants, how will we calculate the various expenses?  It's better to open the door and do business, at least for one day.

    So today¡¯ssp;¡­¡­

    Standing in front of the window on the second floor, Xu Dongsheng was filled with emotions.

    He himself is an honest scholar, so he naturally has a bit of scholarly spirit.

    "Seeing Prince Yu's Mansion spending countless money and food to relieve the people, of course I was very moved.

    Zhan Shu, who was standing next to him, had a frown on his face, "My family only has ten thousand dan of food, so we have to keep one thousand dan for our own life-saving rations. How long can the remaining nine thousand dan be enough to feed millions of mouths? How long can it last for half a month?"  Can you hold it?"

    "It's not nine thousand stones. My sister said that since you have to do something, don't keep it. All of it has been moved here." Xu Dongsheng said, "Now the house only has a few dozen stones that were in the rice cellar before."

    Hearing this, Zhan Shu became even more sad, "Then I have to burn incense and pray to Buddha as soon as possible, and beg my uncle to buy the rice back as soon as possible, otherwise it will be terrible!"

    In fact, it was not just Xu Dongping who left the capital on a fast boat last night. Tian Rong, the housekeeper who had been busy all night, is now also leading people to search for food everywhere in the Gyeonggi area.

    "Don't worry, it's not that bad. I think Xiaoqi should have her own idea." Xu Dongsheng said thoughtfully.

    ¡°Yesterday, he thought Liu Mingqi was a child who was unreliable in doing things, but when he actually came here today and saw how happy the people were, his confidence in his nephew suddenly increased a lot.

    It¡¯s a pity that I am not qualified and cannot follow him into the palace.

    "Otherwise, you can go and listen to what exactly he wants to discuss with His Majesty the Emperor?"

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