A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

Chapter 200 Should I buy food?

"And they said they would only stay in the town for three days this time. The grain they brought was to be sent to the county town for sale. If you want to buy it, you have to hurry up, otherwise you won't be able to buy it if they leave. Cheap and good food”

"By the way, I know everyone is murmuring in their hearts, so I grabbed some of the grain they sold. You can take a look."

As he spoke, Yu Dahai pulled out a cloth bag from his arms, only the size of a palm, containing grain.

"This...this is what you eat..."

The village chief looked at it and his eyes widened in shock.

"Yes, my lady has always eaten his food. This is fine food, and there is basically not much coarse food mixed in it. This thirty cents per pound is a good thing, but it is a piece of pie in the sky. If you buy it, If so, don’t miss it.”

"Okay, I understand, why bother you to make this trip?"

"It's okay, I have to worry about the little piglet."

Yu Dahai sat for a while and saw that it was getting late, then he said goodbye and went back.

The rest is the village chief's business.

After he left, the village chief's wife came out of the back room.

"Miss Xia and the others want to raise pigs?"

She went to work in the fields during the day and was not at home. It was only at night that she heard about this.

"You woman, why do you listen to everything?" The village chief frowned.

"What can't I listen to? I have contributed a lot to Miss Xia being able to stay. If I hadn't made it happen, you would have driven her away. How could you still earn so much money?"

"I hear that. Not only does she want to raise pigs, but she also seems to have a grain merchant she knows who can help everyone buy grain?"

The village chief's wife had known that he had such a temper, so she was not angry, but asked about other things.

The village chief couldn't do anything to her, so he told her about buying grain.

Although the village chief's wife is illiterate and is very concerned about right and wrong, she is very decent.

She was also kind-hearted. She had felt something inappropriate about Bai Xia growing radishes before. But the people in the village were really having a hard time, and she was afraid of offending the whole village, so she didn't try to persuade her.

After hearing what the village chief said, she couldn't help but move her hand, push the village chief, and cursed in a low voice: "Why is your brain so hard to use? You don't care how his food is, and don't care about other people's food." If you can't afford it, just ask someone to inform them. Those who want to buy will buy it naturally. Those who don't want to buy will have no food to eat, so they can't blame us."

"In recent days, I see that the big guys in the village have still earned hundreds of pennies. If Miss Xia wants to raise pigs, how big of a pigsty will she build?"

"So big?" Seeing the village chief gesture, the village chief's wife couldn't help exclaiming, thinking about it in her heart, and couldn't help but said: "Isn't this capable of raising dozens of pigs?"

"It's not"

The two looked at each other, and their understanding of Bai Xia's wealth increased.

"In that case, let's buy grain." The village chief's wife gritted her teeth and went back to her room to dig out all the money she had at home, which amounted to five taels or seven.

He took the seven coins back into his arms and handed the other five taels to the village chief.

"The family has a large population and the food is not enough. It is a rare opportunity. I believe Miss Xia, the food from the grain merchant should be of the best quality."

The village chief's wife felt a little sad because this was the money she had finally saved.

But thinking about the food at home and the hungry and emaciated children, I still became heartbroken.

"This...isn't this too much? Five taels of silver can buy more than 100 kilograms of grain."

The village chief even pulled a strand of his beard off. He was really frightened by his wife.

That's all their belongings.

"Anyway, if you buy food, you won't starve to death."

"We have a big family at home"

After saying this, the village chief's wife was a little worried. Winter is coming after autumn, and it's time for the children at home to make cotton-padded clothes.

Otherwise, people will freeze to death!
"Cheng" "Call the bosses over and ask them to go to the village. I will personally go to the patriarch's house."

It wasn't until his family decided to buy food that the village chief notified the villagers.

If it weren't for this, when I came to inform people, they would retort, "Hey, do you want to buy food?"He can't just refuse to buy it, right?If you don't even buy it yourself, but instead ask others to buy it, what kind of intentions do you have?

Now that I’ve decided to buy it, there’s not much to say.

Every household in the village came to the door.

Food is in short supply. It’s not like we haven’t been to the town before, but there isn’t much food in stock in the town. Many times we went to the town with money, but we didn’t buy any food, and even had it stolen.

The family is in trouble.

After everyone heard that they could buy food, they all didn't believe it.

But thinking about Bai Xia's grandeur, I thought maybe I could believe it.

They are all poor, but precisely because of their poverty, they dare not act rashly.

The village chief and his two sons visited various families. In the end, only the patriarch's family believed this and sent their eldest son to buy food with the village chief.

The other families each paid thirty coins and asked the village chief to bring food back.

Thinking that the grain merchant would stay for three days, the village chief and others would buy grain and check the situation first.

"That's it. The village chief wanted to borrow our carriage. I thought that the grain he was hauling wasn't much, so that would be fine. But the attitude of the villagers meant that they wouldn't spend all their money to buy grain at once."

Yu Dahai sat in the yard, and Bai Xia sat not far from him, listening to him report these things.

He was always paying attention to what was going on in the village.

"Then what does Uncle Hai think we should do?"

Yu Dahai knew that the villagers were just worried, so he smiled and said: "It's normal for them not to believe it. After the village chief comes back after buying food, they should believe it."

"So Uncle Hai means to let the big guys wait in the town?"

Yu Dahai nodded, but when he saw Bai Xia smiling and saying nothing, his heart moved and he asked, "Miss, do you have any better ideas?"

Bai Xia put down the storybook he had been reading all day and pointed to the village.

"Uncle Hai, do you think everyone is short of food?"

"I am in need"

"Then why are they unwilling to spend money to buy food?"

"Afraid of being cheated?"

"This is part of it"

Bai Xia shook his head, and Yu Dahai thought about it again, thinking about what he said over and over again, and couldn't help frowning: "Is it possible that they actually have food?"

"of course not"

"I believe no one knows better than you, Uncle Hai, what life is like for each family in the village during this period of time here."

"The reason why they didn't spend all their money, but spent part of it to ask the village chief to buy food, is because they felt that there was a lot of food, and they could buy it even if they didn't go there for a day."

Yu Dahai doesn't know why. Isn't this true?

"Even so, they always know that food is hard to buy now. Aren't they afraid that the food will be sold out and they won't be able to buy it?"

"So what if they can't buy it? They have just finished the autumn harvest and there is still food to eat. In their hearts, being frugal may not mean they can't survive."

"In this case, wouldn't our food be unable to be sold?" Hearing this, Yu Dahai frowned.

If everyone thinks like this, even if food is in short supply, they won't be able to earn much money.

(End of this chapter)