The farmer has a mall

Chapter 67
"It is said that they are here to collect rice, and the price is twice as high as usual. Many people in the village are selling their grain."

If you want her to say that with Master Qian's character, can he collect grain at such a high price with such kindness?
There may be something tricky in it.

Gu Nanyan frowned: "The official road is blocked, how did they come here?"

"I heard that the officers and soldiers cleared the official roads. The Qian family came here in a carriage taking advantage of the fact that the snow will be lighter."

Gu Nanyan nodded, she doesn't care if others sell it or not, but she can't sell it herself.

But she still went to the village chief's house.

The Qian family is a businessman, and they will definitely not engage in loss-making business. If they charge a high price, they will definitely sell it at a higher price.

The village chief was also a little worried. After hearing Gu Nanyan's words, he hurriedly summoned the villagers and analyzed the pros and cons to them.

After the autumn harvest in the village, there is more or less food in the family at home, and most people are still very obedient, saying that they will not sell it.

But there are always a few people who are greedy for money and refuse to listen to persuasion, and Gu Mancang is one of them.

The second son said, take advantage of the high price, sell the grain quickly, and earn a lot of money.

If it is not enough to eat, go to his mother to borrow it, and pay it back after the price of food comes down.

The heavy snow fell for another three days before it stopped. Houses were crushed and collapsed in many places, and many people even froze to death in their sleep.

Even in Shangshan Village, a family froze to death.

Only then did everyone realize the seriousness of the matter, and those who sold the food all regretted it.

Those who didn't sell were naturally very grateful for Gu Nanyan's reminder.

Many people risked being buried in the snow and ran to the Qianjia Rice Shop to buy rice on foot, but after asking, the price was five times higher than before!
Moreover, the price of rice grains is changing every day, getting higher and higher day by day.

Inside the Qian Mansion, Master Qian was sitting beside the brazier drinking tea with a relaxed expression.

Madam Qian said worriedly: "I heard that the Ninth Prince has come to Mingshan County. Will the master do this to offend him?"

However, Master Qian said indifferently: "Who is the Ninth Prince? He is the Emperor's own younger brother. How could he care about such a small matter."

Now most of the food in the city is in his hands, and he has the final say on how much to sell, at worst, take out some old rice and broken rice in a few days, set up a shed at the gate of the city to serve porridge, and those ignorant villagers will treat him Thanks Dade.

"But he is a prince anyway, I'm afraid..."

Before Madam Qian could finish speaking, Master Qian waved his hand impatiently.

"You are a woman who cares about these things. If you have that time, you might as well care about Tianci. He caught a cold yesterday and had a fever. You send someone to call for a doctor."

Madam Qian cast a reproachful glance at him.

"You don't need to say, I invited you last night, and the doctor said there is nothing serious."

"It's not all about you, you have to hug him for a stroll in the yard in the cold weather."

Madam Qian complained a little, although the child was not her own, but now the child is under her knee, she likes it very much.

Master Qian was a little embarrassed: "I have never raised a child, how do I know that he is so easy to get sick?"

In the past, Niang Hui helped take care of her. After all, she had given birth before and took good care of the child.

But since what happened last time, Mr. Qian was impatient to see her, and had already restrained her feet.

"Continuing like this is not an option. It's the first time Tianci's nanny is giving birth, so it's better to let Huiniang out."

Madam Qian didn't have any objection to Mrs. Li, after all, she always got along well with several concubines.

Unexpectedly, Master Qian flatly refused upon hearing the words. Now that he sees Mrs. Li, he will recall the scene of being pushed to the ground and beaten by a girl at the gate of the court.

Madam Qian knew that he didn't like it, so she didn't mention it anymore, and asked the servant girl to carry Tianci directly into her room to take care of it herself.

As the saying goes, snow does not turn cold into snow, and the sky is clear, but people die from frostbite every day, and countless people are infected with wind and cold.

In this era of lack of medical care and medicine, this is a big deal.

Gu Yao sat across from Gu Nanyan, the cold air in his body was quickly dissipated by the heat in the room.

He has been checking the disaster situation around recently, and has not seen his granddaughter for several days.

I happened to pass by Shangshan Village today, so I came to have a look.

Seeing that Gu Nanyan was only wearing a thin jacket, but her small face was hot and red, a smile appeared on Gu Yao's old face.

I don't know where Sister Nan got her wonderful idea, this thing called Dilong is indeed much more useful than the charcoal basin, he only came in for a quarter of an hour, and he was already sweating.

"Grandfather passed by here today to see you, and by the way, let me tell you that if you have nothing to do recently, stay at home and don't go out."

More and more people died, and the outside gradually became chaotic. Sister Nan was so delicate, what if she ran into bad guys when she went out.

Gu Nanyan also heard that it was not peaceful recently, so she didn't refute it, and nodded obediently.

"Where is grandfather going this early in the morning?"

She had just gotten up not long ago, and Gu Yao had already come from town before she had breakfast.

Gu Yao sighed worriedly when he heard his granddaughter's question.

"The Zhenbei Army is stationed ten miles outside the city. Grandpa went over to have a look."

Seeing his frown, Gu Nanyan asked, "But what happened in the army?"

Gu Yao saw that his granddaughter guessed it, so he didn't hide it: "Many people in the army have contracted the cold and developed a fever, and the remaining medicinal materials are not enough, and the medicinal materials in the city are also in short supply. I plan to take a few people to a town farther away to see. "

Gu Nanyan frowned upon hearing this.

The army can only live in tents when they are stationed outside. Sleeping in the open field with such a big snow, when the cold wind blows, there will be ghosts if you don’t get sick.

It's just that the snow is so heavy, the scope must be quite large, it is likely to be a nationwide snowfall, Mingshan County is short of medicine, and other counties may also be short of medicine.

Gu Yao's trip is probably going to be empty.

Why did Gu Yao not understand this truth, but there is no other way, he can't just watch his soldiers die of illness one by one.

Seeing his sad face, Gu Nanyan lowered her head and thought for a moment.

She was a soldier in her previous life, so she still has a good impression of soldiers.

These people are not afraid of life and death, regardless of personal interests to defend their families and the country, and the suffering they suffer is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Now that there are difficulties, as a protected member, how can I stand by and watch.

So Gu Nanyan took out a pen and paper and began to write and draw on it.

"Grandfather, instead of going outside to look for medicine, it is better to send people to search for it in the mountains. These are the medicinal materials that I know can grow in winter. Take them and ask people to draw a few more pictures and distribute them to your subordinates."

She paused, and then said: "If you find it, you can send it over. I have a prescription here, which is much better than the usual medicine for treating wind and cold."

Gu Yao took the paper from his granddaughter in a daze, and looked at it.

There are some patterns of flowers and plants drawn on it, and the name and growth environment are also noted next to it.

Gu Yao looked at Gu Nanyan with complicated eyes, of course he knew about his granddaughter treating Li Zhao.

Gu Nanyan used to like to read some medical books in the General's Mansion. His father loved her so much that he sent people to search the entire capital and bought a whole large box.

Gu Nanyan doesn't like to go out either.Except for going to her grandmother, the rest of the time is spent in the study.

It's just unexpected that Ms. Nan is able to teach herself, and she can even cure a disease like tuberculosis.

However, Gu Yao thought it was Gu Nanyan who read a few medical books and saved Li Zhao by mistake.

"Grandfather knows." Gu Yao smiled kindly, and stuffed the few pieces of paper into his sleeves.

After all, this was the first time his granddaughter asked him, and it was hard for him to refuse.

"I'll have someone look for it when I go back, and I'll have someone bring it to you tomorrow, so we'll have to trouble our sister Nan."

Just play with the kids.

The medicinal materials were delivered early in the morning of the second day, and there were quite a lot of them, and two carts were full.

Gu Nanyan asked Gu Yao to collect only common medicinal materials, which are very common.

But it took a lot of effort to pick so many in just one day.

After Gu Nanyan received the medicinal materials, she moved into her room.

When she built the house, she purposely left a small cubicle out, and the door was a whole wooden board without hollow patterns.

In the house, only a small window was left on the roof.

After entering the compartment, she put all the herbs with fresh soil into the space.

These things are just a cover, in fact, what is really useful is the medicine in her space.

Gu Nanyan stayed in the house for a whole day, unpacking the packs of Ganmaoling Granules stored in the space and putting them into several porcelain bottles.

This granule has few side effects, and the efficacy is quite good. The most important thing is that it is convenient to take.

She also thought about the large number of Zhenbei soldiers, and it would be too troublesome to put them in porcelain bottles, so she poured them out again, and the corner of her eyes happened to glance at a container in the corner, and her eyes lit up.

(End of this chapter)