Fast travel to start the koi luck

Ning Yue listened and walked, but never spoke to her. When she walked to noon, she stopped to rest and prepare to eat. She could see clearly that in a big family like the Hu family, each person in the family could only share half of the pancake or half of the pancake. After a nest and two drinks of water each, Ning and the others finally arrived at a city.

But the city gate was crowded with people, and the boss of the Hu family was sent out to inquire about the news. Ning Yue saw him struggling to squeeze into the crowd, and after asking for a long time, he confronted the official at the city gate and shouted He swallowed his throat several times, and then struggled to squeeze it out.

When I came back, everyone was like a salted fish.

"The official has a very harsh tone. If you want to pass through Fancheng, each person must pay two taels of silver. Those who don't pay will have to change the route. In this way, it will take at least three more days for us to go to the capital."

Although Mrs. Hu spoke vulgarly, she was a wise person. She only thought about it for a while and then said: "If we can buy some food from the city to supplement it, it is not impossible to pay two taels of silver."

"Mom, what are you thinking about? I just inquired and found that Fancheng is no different from other places. Most of the people in the city have fled, and the remaining official officials just want to make a fortune before fleeing.

As long as there is food and water in the city, who will leave?

And even if there is, how can we afford it? "

During the drought, the price of food skyrocketed. In the most extreme cases, the price of food could rise dozens of times. Want to go to the city to buy food? That was just a dream.

Now he just hopes to rush to a place where there is no drought while there is still some food in hand. As long as there is water, he will not starve to death even if he digs grass roots in the mountains.

Old Mrs. Hu stopped talking. What her eldest son said was not unreasonable, but there were a lot of problems in changing the route.

Fancheng is the only way from Huanyang County to the capital. If you don't go from here, you can only change the route eastward to Longshang, but who can guarantee that you can enter the city from Longshang?

After thinking for a long time, the old lady gritted her teeth and said, "Let's go through Fancheng. If we can save a day, we can leave early. Ask the remaining families in the village if they can leave. If they don't leave, then what will happen?" We can only go our separate ways!"

Boss Hu immediately sighed and went to find another shop.

In the end, a few families decided to change their route. The smallest family had a family of thirteen or fourteen. After passing through such a city, all their family savings would be gone. Even if they arrived at the place where they would stay in the future, they would not be able to live like this, so why not After taking a detour, they had a lot of food left anyway, so it wouldn't be a problem to hold on for a few more days.

Having made the decision, Mrs. Hu didn't waste any time and took out the money she had hidden.

It was she who had the brains. When the weather turned bad, she sold the land to the landlord in the village at the beginning of the spring. She sold more than 30 acres of land for more than 200 taels of silver. Two families in the village who had a good relationship with her family also sold the land. Later, when it was time to flee the famine, someone in the village tried to sell their land, but no one bought it.

Mrs. Hu's family was originally living well in the village. With their previous savings and the money from selling the land, as long as they persisted, they should have no problem reaching the capital.

The officer shouted on the wall that he could enter the city as soon as the money was ready.

Ning Yue also obediently exchanged two silver hairpins from the grocery store for the passage. At this moment, a basket was thrown down from the wall. Boss Hu quickly took his mother into the basket, and the big man on the city gate rubbed her After a few moments of rubbing, the person was pulled up.

After struggling for a while, the group of people all entered the city.

As Mr. Hu said, Fancheng is very depressed. There are not many people on the streets. Many shops are closed. Even if there are open shops, the expensive things are simply unaffordable.

As for the grain store, they did find one that was open. There were seven or eight tall and thick men standing at the door. There were only a few cloth bags in the store, with at most five or six kilograms of grain in them, and a piece of wood next to it. The price was written on the sign. Boss Hu was literate. He took a step forward and took a look, then stayed where he was.

Old Mrs. Hu said anxiously: "You are talking, what does that sign say?"

Hu Laodaodao: "Rice costs 80 cents per catty, millet costs 70 cents, even black flour costs 47 cents, and cornmeal costs 60 cents."

Everyone was shocked, "Why has the price of this food increased again?"

Before the drought, rice was only seven or eight cents per catty, black flour was two cents, corn flour was four cents, and sorghum rice was three cents. Before they left home, black flour was twenty cents, rice was about forty cents, and sorghum rice was thirty-one or two cents.

They had only been on the road for more than ten days, and the price of food had risen to a level they didn't even recognize!

The shop clerk tilted his mouth and looked at the group of refugees outside with a disdainful expression, "What time of the day are you waiting to buy a pound of rice? The price of food is this today, and maybe it will be again tomorrow." It has to go up, whether you want to buy it or not, if you don’t want to buy it, leave quickly and don’t stop us from doing business!”

Old Mrs. Hu and her group looked ugly when they were chased away by a waiter. However, the sensible old lady still took out the money and bought fifty pounds of black noodles.

The clerk took out a big bag from the back of the store and weighed out fifty kilograms of black noodles and handed it to Mrs. Hu. Several other households also gritted their teeth and bought some black noodles. They really had to grit their teeth. They were ordinary farmers, and their families were They don't have much savings, and if they have to pay money to enter a city, they probably won't be able to go very far before they become real paupers.

But if they don’t replenish food, they won’t be able to go to the city to resupply in the future, or if the price of rice rises again and they can’t afford it, they will have no choice but to wait to starve to death!

Life is so fucked up!

It's clearly a dilemma, but you soon discover that you don't even have a chance to choose!

How cruel!

When we left Fancheng, everyone was obviously not in a high mood. The children of several families who did not know how to look at each other started to fight. Old Mrs. Hu suddenly became furious and her curse words resounded throughout the official hall.

The parents of several children wanted to gag the dead children. Everyone was in a bad mood. Can't the little cubs look at their faces?

Next, we walked in silence until the sky gradually darkened.

Everyone started looking for a place to stay tonight. Unfortunately, they were holding their breath and walked too fast today. They missed the village and could only stay in the woods.

Ning Yue put the bundle aside and rested against the tree trunk. She felt that her feet were blistered again, but she couldn't boil a basin of hot water and warm her feet comfortably like yesterday. In ancient times, if a woman's feet were If someone sees it, your innocence will be lost.

Bullshit lost his innocence!

He took out a water bag filled with spiritual spring water and took two big gulps. Soon, the physical fatigue slowly disappeared.

A fire has been lit in the woods, and the women are already preparing dinner.

Old Mrs. Hu is already making noodles, planning to make all the black noodles she bought today into pancakes so that she can take them with her. They happened to get a lot of water yesterday, which is perfect for cooking.

Ning Yue can only learn from others, otherwise, others will wonder, where did the food you bought go without cooking, and where did your food come from?

After all, she only carried one baggage.