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Chapter 9

Early in the morning.

The cat squatted in front of the simple stove made of three stones, holding a wooden spoon and stirring in the clay pot.

Two steps away, Chen Chu used a small knife to carve a wooden boiled sheep, and handed it to the tiger head who had been waiting by the side.

"How, do you like it?"

"Ah."

Hutou responded, and trotted to his sister, showing off his newly acquired toy to her.

"It's sunflower soup again." Chen Chu also walked over, seeing the green thick soup tumbling in the clay pot, he couldn't help but grimaced.

Since the three of them went up the mountain, Chen Chu was in charge of manual work such as building shacks and cultivating fields, and Mao'er was in charge of daily chores such as sewing, cooking and washing.

This is also the normal division of labor for most rural couples at this time.

"Spring is like this." The cat heard that Chen Chu didn't like sunflowers, and since food and clothing were within her scope of responsibility, she raised her face and explained to Chen Chu: "Now that they are green and yellow, these mallows are still good. Aunt Yang gave it to me. In autumn, when the wild fruits in the mountains are ripe, we will have more to eat.”

At the beginning, the little corn that Maoer brought from home had already been eaten. These days, thanks to the support of the villagers with a bowl of rice from the east and a handful of vegetables from the west, the three of them were not hungry.

However, everyone's food tanks have bottomed out, and it is not an option to continue like this.

Chen Chu thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow Yang Dalang is going to sell leather in the county town, let's go with them and buy some grain."

"Well, it's up to you to arrange."

The next day.

At two o'clock in the morning, before dawn, Chen Chu and Mao'er got up early.

This time, the cat learned to be smart by himself, and deliberately blackened his face with pot ashes before setting off.

It seems that she already understood why Chen Chu wanted to dirty her face last time.

At the beginning of the hour, Maoer entrusted the tiger head to Aunt Yang, and the group slowly descended the mountain.

In the fleeing village team, apart from Chen Chu and Zhao Mao'er, there were Yang Zhen, Yao's eldest son, and two other young men named Wu Kui and Peng Er.

On the two rickshaws, all kinds of leather and dried game were piled up. Several people pushed the carts and talked excitedly about buying a few feet of cloth for the wife or mother, and cutting a few catties of oily fat pork for the children to satisfy their hunger.

Tongshan County is a county under the jurisdiction of Tangzhou, and the county seat is [-] miles north of Qifengling.

Along the way, the scattered villages are not very lively, and occasionally you can see the ruins of shadowy buildings through the morning fog.

On the other hand, from time to time on the official road, one or two caravans composed of capable young and strong men come across.

According to Yang Zhen, after the disaster of Ding Wei seven years ago, the Jin people joined forces with the puppet Qi army to invade the south again in the second year.

On the boundary of Tangzhou, the local rebel army cooperated with the Zhou Dynasty garrison, and even fought back and forth with the Jin Qi coalition army.

But just when the two sides were inseparable, the frightened Emperor Chai Chong of the Zhou Dynasty proposed peace. Not only did he face the north, he called the emperor of Jin as his uncle, and the emperor of Qi as his brother. , Deng, Cai, Ying four states and Qi State, draw the Huai River as the boundary.

The north of Huai River is Qi, and the south of Huai River is Zhou.

Tongshan County is close to the Huai River, and Qifengling is only twenty miles away from the border between the two countries.

When Yang Zhen, who had been smiling all day long, said these things, there was still a sneering smile on the corner of his mouth.

After more than an hour, several people arrived in the county seat of Tongshan County.

The city walls in Tongshan County are neither lofty nor spectacular, and the city gates are low and narrow. Outside the gates stood three or five slack Han soldiers.

After entering the city, there are many flags and flags, and there are many pedestrians, it is actually a prosperous place.

"There were endless wars in the past few years, and the rich and gentry from the countryside moved into the city. Now there are at least [-] households in the city." Yang Zhen explained in this way, and then whispered: "Besides, Tongshan County is the city of Zhou and Qi. The place where the smuggling caravans of the two countries meet and trade is naturally much more lively."

"You know quite a lot." Chen Chu said.

Yang Dalang chuckled.

Afterwards, the group went to the cattle and horse market and sold the leather and game they brought.

"The price of grain has risen again, one thousand two hundred yuan for a rice stone, and one thousand four hundred yuan for a wheat stone." Wu Kui, who was traveling with him, said to Yang Zhen after asking the price from the grain store.

"Mother Jio, when the spring famine comes, these unscrupulous grain merchants will raise prices indiscriminately!" Yang Zhen cursed, squatting at the entrance of the grain store to count the money.

A total of more than 7000 yuan was earned from selling leather and game.

The money was able to buy more than 900 catties of grain last fall, but now it can only be exchanged for [-] catties. The eight households in the fleeing village plus Chen Chu's family have a total of more than [-] families.

Even if porridge is cooked with wild vegetables, each person needs at least three or two rations a day to satisfy their hunger.

In the two most difficult months of spring famine, [-] catties of grain was the bottom line.

"Brother Kui, Brother Peng, let's not make clothes for our family this time. All the money will be exchanged for rations, so take care of your stomach first."

Yang Zhen thought about it and made an arrangement.

Although Wu Kui and Peng Er were slightly disappointed, they both nodded and agreed.Yang Dalang is right, it is important to wrap your belly.

Chen Chu stood aside silently.

After so many days of getting along, he had already discovered something unusual about the fleeing village.

For example, there is a lame old man Xu in the village with his 12-year-old grandson.

There are only one old and one young in the family, and there is no production capacity at all.

But Chen Chu saw more than once that villagers from your family's Bansheng and his family's Sanhe delivered food to old man Xu.

Including Chen Chu and Mao'er, if not for the help from everyone, they would have been hungry a few days ago.

People in the world often say that "the old is the same as the old; the young and the young are the young of the people", which is probably reflected in this way.

"Is there a pawnshop in the city?" Chen Chu asked suddenly.

"Boss, be something."

Caiji Pawn Shop, Wang Chaofeng Wensheng standing in the cabinet glanced out through the fence, and saw a, no, a group of bumpkins standing outside the cabinet.

Wang Chaofeng picked up the goatee lightly, and his good professionalism still made him greet in a procedural way: "Guest officials, what do you want to be?"

Chen Chu reached out his hand to take out something from the waistband of his trousers, and there was a soft rattle.

"Be this!" Chen Chu aggressively slapped a piece of rag on the counter.

Wang Chaofeng frowned, thinking that this poor boy who didn't know where he came from was trying to make fun of him, and when he was about to call the buddy to drive them out, his eyes glanced over the 'cloth', and he couldn't help being stunned.
This piece of 'cloth' is neither brocade nor silk, like jade but not jade, it is so light and transparent that you can even see the wood grain on the counter through the 'cloth'.

Wang Chaofeng had never seen such a light and thin fabric, and he couldn't help reaching out to take a closer look, but he didn't want Chen Chu to pull it back.

"Boss, do you want to accept it?" Chen Chu stuffed the things back into his trouser waist.

"Dare to ask my little brother, what is this thing?" Zhao Chaofeng had been pawning for half his life, but he didn't know this thing.

"What?"

Chen Chu lightly tapped the table with his fingers, and said, "Bring a bowl of clear water."

"Hey, the old man lost his head in a hurry and neglected my little brother." Wang Chaofeng hastily apologized, turned his head and told the waiter: "Serve tea, quickly serve tea to the guests."

"It's not tea, it's clear water, cold water!" Chen Chu corrected.

Although Wang Chaofeng didn't know why, he did as Chen Chu said.

Don't pour, bring a bowl of clear water.

Chen Chu took out the rag from his waist again, held both ends of the 'rag' with both hands, and shook it vigorously, and the 'rag' bulged.

The 'rag' turned out to be a 'cloth bag'.

"See, this thing can wrap the wind."

Chen Chu immediately picked up the bowl of clear water, turned his wrist and poured it into the transparent 'cloth bag'.

The cloth bag was stretched into a round lump, and the clear crystal inside was so translucent that it didn't leak a single drop!
"Hey!" Wang Chaofeng exclaimed subconsciously.

Chen Chu walked up to Wang Chaofeng with the 'cloth bag', and said in a deep voice, "This is a treasure handed down from my family, unique in the world. It can hold water and be impermeable; it can hold the wind and it can't be broken by the wind. It is as light as nothing and tough. Such as leather, the name is "Water-proof and wind-wrapped Qiankun bag"

This water-proof and wind-wrapped Qiankun bag has a big red character 'hair' in the middle of the book!

There was a line of small characters under the word 'Fa', Wang Chaofeng hurriedly stepped forward, carefully identified it and read it out softly: "Dafa Convenience Plastic Bag"

good baby!
(End of this chapter)