Gu Qi, she just wants to farm

Chapter 230 Crisis and Money Coexist (3)

Gu Qi's expression moved slightly.A few months ago in Yuan'an Town, due to the impact of refugees, the disaster situation was far more serious than this time. However, at that time, there were many yamen servants patrolling the city to maintain order, and the yamen servants outside the city were also responsible for checking out bandits and bandits, but they did not prevent them from fleeing. refugees into the city.

As for the well at that time, as long as the people registered in Yuan'an Town could receive a bucket of water for free every day, if they wanted to get more, they only needed to pay an extra ten cents for each bucket.For refugees without household registration, although there is no free water available, they only need to pay an additional [-] cents for each bucket of water.

It can be seen that although the epidemic in Yuzhou Prefecture was serious before, Yuan'an Town was still able to maintain an orderly and barely maintained.Based on this alone, the original government office in Yuan'an Town is worthy of praise for its governance ability and its heart for the country, the people and the people.

Today, just a few months later, the situation in front of me is quite different from before.

Obviously, the team of the Yafumen in Yuan'an Town has been completely replaced.As for the time, calculated from the words of the Yacha at the gate of the city, it was undoubtedly a month ago.

The strange thing is that there was no heavy rainfall in the south of Yuzhou Fuya a month ago.

So what reason prompted the court to suddenly replace a small town official with a good reputation and no major fault in himself at this time.

In other words, who predicted in advance that the disaster situation in Yuzhou Prefecture was about to ease, and it was not bad at all. Before the rain fell in the south of Yuzhou Prefecture, they controlled several small towns in the south of Yuzhou Prefecture near the borders of other state capitals. ? -
Gu Qi has heard about it in his previous life. The ancients had the method of watching the sky at night, calculating the calendar, measuring bad luck, observing the weather and hoping for luck.The official family also has a special Si Tianjian who is responsible for watching Yan astronomy and calculating fortune and misfortune.

Gu Qi looked at the sky, the sky was clean and clear, without a few clouds, and the sunshine in spring was not too hot, but it shone on people with a faint warmth.

Could it be that the change in Yuzhou this time involved the legendary art of viewing images and extending calendars?

Gu Qi has never studied the Taoist method of star observation and deduction, so he doesn't know whether the method is really miraculous, but he thinks there are indeed those capable people and strange people in the world.Anyway, it's not because they read the weather forecast.
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Ask Jiang Ping to send the two barrels of water back to the inn, while Gu Qi took Yuan Fang to the restaurant.

It is said that the restaurant is actually just an idle shop, and another tent is built outside which extends two Zhangxu wide.There is a scrawled plaque on it, with the words "Yuan'an Town Restaurant" written on it.

Near noon, many people gathered inside and outside the restaurant.

There are yamen servants responsible for maintaining order, documents responsible for registration and counting, and workers and cooks who deliver food and distribute points.

Other than that, there are diners who queue up in an orderly manner to buy food outside the tent.

Gu Qichao looked around and saw that most of these diners were dressed as servants, or guards in neat uniforms, so he knew that the familiar people who would come here to buy high prices at this time should be some foreign businessmen.

Thinking about it, it costs five yuan for a grain bun, and ten yuan for a steamed bun with white flour.Where is it that ordinary people can afford.

Not to mention that there are not many people of original origin in Yuan'an Town who are still staying behind at this time, and even if there are, they will find other ways to buy grain if they think about it.

It's just that the method of buying grain is inside the city or outside the city?
Gu Qi frowned slightly when he thought about the entrance fee of [-] Wen per head regardless of household registration at the gate of the city.
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The rations originally stored in the carriage were trampled and damaged by the gatekeepers when they entered the city.Regardless of whether Gu Qi and his group intend to stay in Yuan'an Town for a long time or plan to leave early, at this time they have to buy the rations they will need in this restaurant that clearly shows that they are slaughtering sheep.

Keeping things simple when going out, Gu Qi thought for a while and ordered two boxes of miscellaneous grain buns, plus a basket of white flour steamed buns.It's not that Gu Qi is stingy with his subordinate brothers.Martial arts practitioners already eat a lot, so they said that there are 11 people in their line of work, and they eat less than three to five steamed buns per ton every month. Three meals a day, they consume more than 100 steamed buns alone.

The money spent is nothing. The actual problem is that although the soft white flour steamed buns taste good, they are not easy to store.

Wowotou is different. Although the dried cornwotou has a bad taste due to the lack of moisture, it can be stored for at least three or four days according to the weather at this time.

Gu Qi bought a lot of food, and after paying the money, many people in the store came to look at it frequently.Some looked at it curiously, some looked at it with disdain, but more of it was a kind of exploration with unclear meaning.

This look reminded Gu Qi of the sarcasm, even contemptuous smiles that the leading yamen servants would sometimes raise when they looked at the crowd before entering the city, as if they were waiting to see a good show.

Gu Qi lowered his eyes, it seems that the eyes of Yuan'an Town are all over every corner of the town.
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When Gu Qi and Yuan Fang returned to the inn carrying three boxes of rations, Shun Zi and Liu Jiang also just came back.Everyone reunited in Gu Qi's living room.

While sharing the rations, Shunzi couldn't help but speak first: "Seventh Sister, Yuan'an Town is quite weird.

Just now Liu Jiang and I went to the area in the south of the town together, and found that there are dozens of houses, large and small, with their gates closed on the front and back streets.Some were even locked. "

"What's so strange about this? Seventh Sister said that there was a disaster in Yuzhou Prefecture, and the life in Yuan'an Town was not easy a few months ago. Maybe everyone fled and disappeared." Ah Da didn't think so.

Shunzi ignored Ah Da, and continued, "It would not be surprising if only the people left. But Liu Jiang and I heard movement in those locked houses."

"What do you mean? You mean there were actually people in there?"

Shunzi nodded: "I can't hear clearly. But there are indeed people inside."

After finishing speaking, Shunzi raised her head and glanced over the crowd: "I reckon that there are quite a few people."

Gu Qi raised his eyebrows: "Does every house have it?"

Liu Jiang shook his head: "I checked 35 houses. There are about six houses with people in them."

Shunzi interface: "My place is about the same. Liujiang and I check separately. I check Dongtou, and he checks West. The houses on Dongtou are not big, with a total of forty or so households. There are about seven Hachinohe's backyard can hear the movement inside."

Given the current situation in Yuan'an Town, it's not surprising that people are leaving the building empty.It is not surprising that the house is locked from the outside.But the locked house is full of people, which is a bit intriguing.

The lock is on the outside of the far door.If it were ordinary people, who would shut themselves in it?It’s fine for one family to lock, and it’s the same for more than a dozen families...

Gu Qi narrowed his eyes, opened them again after a long while, looked at Shunzi, and asked, "Have you seen the look of those locks outside the courtyard door? Are they all similar?"

"Ah..." Shunzi was taken aback and scratched his head, apparently he didn't expect Gu Qi to ask such details, so he was a little dazed for a while.

Liu Jiang's expression moved slightly, and he thought for a moment and said: "They are all long copper locks. The old and new locks are slightly different. But they should be taken from the same place."

(End of this chapter)