Pseudo master, she just wants to live

Chapter 96 Buying Food and Winter Clothes

"What are you talking about? War? What war?"

Chu Nan got up suddenly, because the hem of his clothes knocked over the cup on the tea table because of his violent movement, and the clear tea flowed all over the table.

Jia Ding's legs trembled and said: "Yesterday, it was spread all over the streets and alleys. It seems that some kind of spiritual soldiers came out and the world was in chaos. Our food store is still open."

"Spiritual soldiers come out, and the world is in chaos?"

"Young Lord, I heard that the spirit soldier is the earth demon we dug out from the ground of Xihe Village yesterday."

Chu Nan felt dizzy for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Find out where the news comes from as soon as possible."

"Yes."

……

Outside Chu's Grain Shop.

"Want to fight?!"

Fang Yao's eyes widened in disbelief. She came out of the Chu family's bank just now, and Chu Nan didn't talk to her about it.

"Fight, fight, fight?!" Gouwa and the others were so shocked that their faces turned pale.

A member of the Li family said: "Master, let's take out all the money quickly, buy food and escape!"

Fang Yao hesitated instead.

Although Chu Xihou's fiefdom is not large, he is a feudal lord by the imperial court and has thousands of private soldiers. If there is any war in the surrounding counties, it should be the Chu family who knows first.

Chu Nan just asked her if she wanted to stay in Zhenyang County, and it didn't look like she was deliberately playing tricks on her.

It is true that the people in the city are rushing to grab food.

Fang Yao felt uneasy, and was about to ask Yang Gao how he knew this, when there was a sudden commotion around him.

"Who, who passed it on?"

"I heard someone say that Laoshizi Lingbing, all of them will be thrown into prison!"

"Let's go! Everyone wants to rebel!"

Fang Yao and others turned their heads to look, and saw more than a dozen people who looked like civilians were tied up by soldiers with ropes on the street behind and escorted to other places.

Those people were dressed in different clothes, some looked like schoolboys and scholars in robes, and there were shopkeepers I saw in other rice shops just now.

Suddenly, a shopkeeper of the rice shop glanced this way, suddenly stretched out his arm, pointed in Fang Yao's direction and shouted: "That's the man! That's the man who told me!"

Fang Yao was still in a daze, thinking that she didn't say anything to the shopkeeper other than asking if there was any rice for sale.

Suddenly, Yang Gao in front of him turned around abruptly, pushed down several people one after another, and squeezed out behind him.

"He's going to run! Hurry up!"

Seeing a dozen soldiers chasing Yang Gao and disappearing into the alley at the end of the street, everyone looked confused.

Gou Wa Na Na asked: "Master... what should we do now..."

Fang Yao thought for a while and said: "There is something strange about this, let's take it easy and buy some first."

"Ah."

The 300 taels in her hand were a little short for the time being, so Fang Yao went back to Chu's bank to take the remaining 300 taels, and wanted to ask Chu Nan for some news about the war.

But the shopkeeper told her that Chu Nan had to leave urgently. As for what it was, the other party hesitated and refused to explain clearly.

Fang Yao simply asked him the truth, "Shopkeeper, I heard that there will be a war soon, is it true?"

The shopkeeper hastily yelled twice, and said softly: "Master, don't talk nonsense, the young master has already gone to investigate this matter, and before the results are known, talking nonsense will kill you!"

Fang Yao pursed her lips, knowing that if she asked again, there would be no result, so she simply took the money and left.

Along the way, the government and soldiers arrested many people. All the people in the city were panicked. The bustling market became cold in the blink of an eye. Both vendors and pedestrians hurried home with their heads bowed.

Fang Yao and his group were driving the bullock cart. Sitting in the cart, she noticed that people looked at them strangely from time to time.

The others were too nervous to make a sound.

"Master, someone seems to be following us... what should we do?" Gouwa, who was driving the car, said tremblingly.

Fang Yao clenched her hands tightly and said as calmly as possible: "Just do what you have to do."

Her calm voice reassured Gouwa and the others that they would do whatever the master asked them to do.

Several people drove the ox cart to the Chu family's grain shop again.

Because officers and soldiers arrested people, fewer people bought food, and the relatively cheap coarse grains basically disappeared, leaving only expensive rice and white noodles.

Fang Yao stared at the 50 taels of rice, her brows knit into knots.

The abnormal food increase should be related to the war that Yang Gao said, but the real situation of the war is confusing.

Storing food at this time may be taken advantage of. If nothing is prepared, I am afraid that there will be nothing at that time.

After thinking about it, Fang Yao decided to buy five tans of rice and three tans of white flour, adding up to almost a thousand catties of grain, which cost her 320 taels of silver.

It was the first time for the guys at the grain shop to see people buying rice and noodles with such a large sum, and they enthusiastically helped them carry the grain to the ox cart.

Fang Yao comforted herself while her heart was bleeding.

The money belongs to the Chu family, and the food belongs to the Chu family. If calculated, she got a thousand catties of food for nothing...

Thinking of it this way, her little heart felt better.

After buying rice and noodles, the group also bought some oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and sugar, and the prices of condiments also rose horribly.

In addition to these, Fang Yao originally wanted to buy some more meat and fish, but the vendors selling these on the road were nowhere to be seen, so they had no choice but to go to the West Market again.

Most of the west markets in Zhenyang County are for daily necessities. There are fewer active vendors here, and most of them are shops on both sides of the street.

Mostly because there is no food to buy in the West Market, the streets are still normal, although there are few pedestrians, many shops are still open.

When Fang Yao traveled here, it was still summer, and she was wearing Jiang's coarse linen clothes, which felt thick and hot.

But as the weather got cooler day by day, she found that the poor people in ancient times were really miserable.

It was only autumn now, and it wasn't very warm when the thin quilt was huddled together with Dabao and the others at night. After asking Mrs. Jiang, she realized that the quilt was not cotton at all, but reed catkins and straw.

Not only that, the winter clothes of all the villagers in Lijia Village have similar things inside.

The reed catkins neither block the wind nor keep warm, and the thin jacket made of it is a bit cool to wear at night in autumn. If it is winter and you have to go north, you will freeze to death!

So in addition to buying food, buying winter clothes has also become Fang Yao's top priority.

A group of people found the largest cloth shop in Zhenyang County. In addition to selling cloth, it also sold some furs and a small amount of ready-made clothes.

Before Fang Yao came here, she had inquired with Mrs. Jiang that there was very little cotton in Daxiang Country, and most of it was woven into cloth. If she wanted it, she could only buy it from farmers.

I went around the cloth store, but I didn't find any winter clothes filled with cotton.

Fortunately, the rabbit skins, pig skins, sheep skins, deer skins and dog skins in the shop are not expensive, so Fang Yao bought a lot in one go.

When all these things were stuffed into the bullock cart, there was no room for people to sit in the cart.

Looking at the stuff in the car, Gou Wa rejoiced and said, "Fortunately, this cart is pulled by two oxen. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to drag it back today."

Fang Yao calmly glanced at the few people who were watching them from afar, smiled and said, "Let's find a few more craftsmen, and then we can go back to eat."

A member of the Li family pointed to a shop not far ahead, "Master, there is a carpenter's shop over there."

Fang Yao sat next to Gouwa who was driving the car, and yelled, "Let's go!"

　The nasty wisdom tooth is hurting again, I want to smash it! ! ! ! !
　　
　
(End of this chapter)