Poor family mother and son

Chu Qing went to read the notice, and saw that it read:

There was a severe drought, there was no rain for several months, the seedlings were weak, and the price of grain was difficult to suppress.

For the sake of the common people, starting today, each grain store in the mansion will take turns to sell rice at a low price, with a limit of one bucket per household, and it will stop when it is sold out.

The signature is: Yibin Mansion Chamber of Commerce.

Who is this announcement fooling? !
"Price parity" is a joke. Grain prices continued to rise in early February this year, but the increase was not large. After all, the price of grain will rise after the first month of the year every year, and the grain price is the lowest only during the autumn harvest.

There is also "sold out", what is the total amount of this sold out?It can be said to be one stone, or it can be said to be a hundred stones, there is no fixed number!

At a time when food prices are rising steadily, isn't it frightening the common people and creating panic by publicly saying that "food prices are hard to control"?

This year is a drought, and the current drought is not particularly severe, and the people can still irrigate the fields with water instead of without water.

Furthermore, after all, there are many rivers in the south, even if there is a drought in one place or two places, the six prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River will not fail to harvest grain.

If the government of Yibin really cared about the people, why didn't they transfer grain from various places earlier, curb the price of grain, and lead the people to tide over the difficulties together?
Instead, he made a promise to Chu Qing explicitly and secretly, and wanted to choose a location to grow cotton?
The day before was rejected by Chu Qing, and the next day, a chamber of commerce issued an announcement to make the people panic that there was no food to eat, and then there were rumors on the street that the Si Mian member Wai Lang asked him to raise chickens and ducks?
Combined with the letter revealed by Deputy Wang Qianhu just now, Gao Zhifu has woven a net for Chu Qing!

It's a pity that there are no mobile phones in this world, so I can't take a screenshot or record a video, otherwise I will record today's scene, there are pictures and the truth!

But it’s okay if there are none, the scene where people all over the street go to the grain store to buy food is something everyone has seen, Chu Qing first wrote a note to Gao Zhifu: let the situation develop in a bad direction, and let the panic expand.

If there are pictures and the truth, change the word "indulgence" into: guidance.

This matter still needs to be observed, fermented and fermented, Chu Qing turned around and left.

There is another important thing to do today: investigate locusts.

Now that I have thought that "there will be locusts in extreme drought", I have to seriously visit the local farmers to find out where the floods flooded last year and where there are more locusts in autumn.

There are things like locusts everywhere, more or less.Even in modern rural areas, if you go to Daejeon to see, you can still catch a few.

Therefore, success or disaster does not depend on the presence or absence, but on whether there are many or not.

When they came to the field, the seedlings were indeed thin and slender, and the farmers were organized by the village to gather a few carts pulled by donkeys, and the old man drove them to the river to pull water.

The young and strong people carried buckets on their shoulders and went to carry water in groups.

Chu Qing had a horse, so he and Xiangzi rode first to the river to have a look.

The drought was really severe, and the laundry stones by the river were tall and exposed as a whole.

In the past, they were only the height of an instep above the water.

Chu Qing stood beside the stone, its height had reached a palm above the ankle bone.

And there is only dry gravel under the stone, and you have to walk two steps forward to touch the water.

The river has thinned.

An old man squatted far away on the ground and didn't know what he was groping for. Next to him was a donkey cart. He was waiting for the people who went to carry water in the deep water to bring back the water.

"Old man," Chu Qing walked over to greet him, "I'm asking you, do you know if there is any chicken or duck selling around here?"

He was talking on his mouth, but his eyes were fixed on the soil that the old man was twisting in his hand.

The sandy soil by the river was relatively loose, and he could clearly see that the old man had already dug out a fist-deep hole, and there were a few neatly arranged, yellow, cylindrical things in the soil in his hand.

Those are locust eggs.

When the old man heard someone talking, he instinctively turned the back of his hand up so that people could not see what was in his hand.

"Oh, ducklings? It seems that there are no ducklings for sale, and no one can hatch many. You have to keep them yourself, or you won't have enough." The old man replied, and asked at the same time: "Do you want to buy ducklings?"

Chu Qing knelt down next to the old man: "Yes, I want to buy more."

The old man moved to the side, moved again, and finally stood up, looking at Chuqing with some vigilance, and then at Xiangzi who was leading two horses not far away.

"What do you do?" the old man asked, very wary of the man in men's clothes but with a woman's voice.

In the distance, a young man who had fetched water was walking this way with a pole, and the old man unconsciously moved his body in that direction, as if looking for support.

"I'm in business, and I want to buy some ducklings and chickens to sell in the city. I see that the yamen posted a notice asking people to raise chickens and ducks!" Chu Qing said.

She is still dressed in men's clothes today, she looks like a clerk in a certain shop, but she doesn't have the vigor of a businessman.

The old man looked up and down clearly, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like a businessman.

When buying ducklings and chickens, you only ride a horse, don’t need a cart, and don’t bring a box. What should you use to store and transport them?
While speaking, the young man who carried the water had already approached and asked, "Second Uncle, who is this man?"

"I'm in business," Chu Qing repeated what he had just said.

Hearing this, the young man immediately put down his shoulder pole and asked, "Are two-month-old chickens and ducks all right? Why do you want to buy chicks and ducklings? It's unlucky, and it's not easy to feed. Two-month-old chickens can feed well. live!"

"Qijin, do your job!" the old man scolded.

"Second Uncle, if someone buys it, let's sell it! Otherwise, it will smell bad and you will have to pay for food!" The young man named "Qi Jin" muttered, a little afraid of this Second Uncle, and wanted to express his thoughts.

"Get out! Go to work!" The old man still scolded, and Qijin had to pour the water into the big tank on the cart, and then walked into the river with the empty bucket.

Chu Qing smiled: "The two-month-old chickens and ducks cost a bit of food, but it's okay, how much do you sell them for?"

"Not for sale!" The old man said firmly.

"Why? I think it's fine for the master to let no less than fifty. If you have any extra, sell them to me?" Chu Qing continued.

It's not that I really want to buy it, but I want to see if everyone has raised it, if it continues to incubate, and to see the attitude of the people towards this matter.

The old man's hand holding the dirt was tight, and he turned his back and ignored it.

Chu Qing ignored the old man, she passed the old man and took two steps in front of him, knelt down, grabbed a handful of soil, looked at it, shook it off, and then dug deep with her hands.

The sand that was pulled out was switched between his hands, and he muttered: "Oh, don't think this soil is so dry that it can't support the crops. It may support too many things. Look at this thing..."

While talking, he blew away the locust eggs that were stained with soil in his hands, and muttered: "This is a common saying, the drought is extremely..."

The old man rushed over from behind, knocked the sand out of Chu Qing's hands, and shouted in a low voice, "Shut up!"

This move is a bit reckless.Although the old man looked angry, he still looked back guiltily, and saw Xiangzi looking at him unkindly, and walking towards this side.

The old man was a little at a loss, and looked over to the villagers who were carrying water, hoping that they would come over soon.

Chu Qing stretched out her hand to signal Xiangzi not to be nervous, and then said to the old man, "Old man, let's sit down here and talk."

Chu Qing pointed to a big washing stone by the river, the water here was too shallow to fetch water with a bucket, and those young and strong were farther away.

The old man didn't move, Chu Qing smiled and said, "I'm Master Cotton."