Rebirth of Shuangshu

Chapter 113 Re-entering Cannes
With the rain, the drought in Huaguo passed.

Although I missed the spring, the vitality of the grass and trees is stronger than imagined.Although the mountain forest is not as dense as before, the young grass hides in the shadows and absorbs water hungrily.Dead trees sprout new shoots.They are late, but they are here.

Reopen the passage to the village.

When the villagers returned to their long-lost home, they felt unreal.

The slave catchers had long since fled.The village was messed up by them.Some people's bed boards were collapsed by them.

Because we are leaving, everyone will not clean up, and still live in the back mountain.

The fence on the mountainside has been strengthened and still works.Gongshugou led his disciples to search around and found everything that was still usable.

Lin Xiaoxiao took Zhong Qian and Wu Yong out.The three of them happened to be one person and one donkey.Originally, there were two donkeys in the village, but another donkey was added later. Unfortunately, the breeding has not been successful.

Zhong Qian was going to Tancheng to inquire about news, while Lin Xiaoxiao and Wu Yong were going to Tanjiacun.They agreed to meet up in Tancheng.

The sky was still cloudy and rainy.Such light rain is just suitable for moistening the land.

Lin Xiaoxiao wore a straw coir raincoat.In this muggy weather, raincoats are more breathable than plastic raincoats.

In fact, the summer in Hua Country is not as hot as in Rui Country.

When she came to Tanjia Village, Lin Xiaoxiao walked on the street with her donkey, feeling a little heavy.

Tanjia Village is close to Leshui and because it is close to Tancheng, it was originally a prosperous fishing village.After half a year of drought, natural disasters and man-made disasters, today's Tanjia Village is empty.

It was almost noon, and the whole village could count the amount of cooking smoke seen on one hand.

Lin Xiaoxiao and Wu Yong came to someone's house and knocked on the door, but they couldn't get a response from inside.

"I don't know if the matter of the slave hunting team is over. They should be guarding against the slave hunting team." Wu Yong said.

Lin Xiaoxiao nodded: "Go to the pier and have a look."

The two came to the pier by Leshui at the entrance of the village.

I saw five or six boats abandoned on the shore.The wharf is still there, but no fisherman is seen.

The water level of Leshui is obviously not as good as in previous years, but fortunately, the bottom is not bottomed out, and the river can flow.

With such a scene, Tanjia Village will not recover until next year at the earliest.

Lin Xiaoxiao sighed: "Let's go, let's go to Tancheng."

Zhong Qian has been waiting at the gate of the city.He arrived first, and after inquiring about some information, he rented a yard in the city.

Lin Xiaoxiao stored a lot of money in the warehouse, especially cloth coins.She intends to take this opportunity to clear part of it and exchange it for supplies.In this era, materials are more important than money, and sometimes money may not be able to buy materials.

In addition, Lin Xiaoxiao plans to sell some shady gold, silver and jade articles.Anyway, they are leaving, and they are not afraid of follow-up troubles to find them.

Lin Xiaoxiao called Zhong Qian to discuss together: "The waterway is impossible, we can only go by land. According to what you said, buy some supplies and exchange them on the road. I have some utensils here, see if you can sell them. It's cheaper It doesn’t matter, just exchange as much supplies as possible. Donkeys and carriages are all needed.”

Next, Zhong Qian started to take Wu Yong out to sell or buy something.The purchased supplies were directly put into the warehouse by Lin Xiaoxiao.

It's just that they never got a donkey or a wagon.It's no wonder that there was a shortage of food before, and people couldn't get enough to eat, so what to feed donkeys and horses.

After a few days, Wu Yong made a discovery.

"Shannv, someone is wandering around our yard."

Lin Xiaoxiao and Zhong Qian immediately understood.Zhong Qian's continuous large-scale transactions have attracted the attention of interested people.

Lin Xiaoxiao said: "Tan Cheng's place is almost done, it's time for us to change places."

Therefore, Zhong Qian and Wu Yong went out as usual, and Lin Xiaoxiao stayed at home alone.

Lin Xiaoxiao purposely made noises in the yard, so that people outside would know that there was still someone at home.After waiting for two hours, she teleported directly back to Niu Shou Mountain.It's a pity that there is a donkey that I can't take away, so I can only stay in that yard.

After Zhong and Wu went out, they wandered around the city as usual.After Wu Yong confirmed that no one was following them, the two went straight to the city gate and returned to Niu Shou Mountain without stopping.

Lin Xiaoxiao's next destination is Cannes.

Going to Kangcheng, the mountain secret road is closer.

Lin Xiaoxiao felt very sad about the lost donkey, so she decided not to ride the donkey this time.

There were two more people on this trip, Mei Ya's two older brothers, Fang Da and Fang Er.Lin Xiaoxiao intends to take the younger generation around more to cultivate their ability to handle affairs.

The five people came out from the secret road, Lin Xiaoxiao took out the SUV and drove all the way to the outside of Kangcheng.

Cannes was originally a city of scholars, not as prosperous as Tancheng, but the folk customs are worse than Tancheng.

After entering Cannes, Lin Xiaoxiao found that it was more lively than Tancheng.To be exact, there are more people in Cannes than Tancheng.

After careful inquiry, they knew the reason.

It turned out that when the country of Hua asked the cities to pay tribute to property and slaves, the upper-class nobles in Cannes were unwilling to turn the people into slaves, so they raised funds to buy slave quotas.

Later, the slave hunting team was rampant outside the city, and the upper echelons of Cannes simply canceled the city entry tax and moved the savages outside the city into the city.Slave catchers were not allowed to enter the city, so the population loss in Cannes and its surrounding areas was minimal.

However, during the severe drought in Hua Country, there was a natural well in the school palace in Kangcheng that never stopped running.Relying on this well, the government controls the water consumption of each household, and the whole city is united.During the drought, no one in Cannes died of thirst due to lack of water.

Originally, the commerce in Cannes was underdeveloped. Most of the shops in the city sold the Four Treasures of the Study, and most of the people in the city made a living by farming.With the water supply, although the food production in the city has decreased, no one died of starvation.

In order to protect the people's livelihood, the upper-class nobles in the city will open warehouses to release grain every half a month, and each family takes turns to be the host.

People who are truly knowledgeable in this age are indeed worthy of admiration.

Now, it's finally raining.Don't worry about lack of water anymore.The only problem is food.In the future, the products on the outside mountains will be richer, which can make up for some losses caused by drought.

Lin Xiaoxiao stood on the street with people coming and going, listening to the voices of passers-by, and seeing the smiles on their faces.Although everyone looks thin, but the spirit is very good.

Scholars in this era are practical.What a relief.

When she arrived in Cannes, what Lin Xiaoxiao wanted to buy was of course books.

She went straight to the bookstore.Now that she has money and supplies in hand, she can make big purchases.

Bookstores are still copying books.In order to shorten the waiting time, Lin Xiaoxiao took out dried sweet potatoes.

In fact, she can take the money, but she just wanted to help the people here, so she took out the food.

Because she ordered a lot of books, in the end she took out a total of [-] kilograms of dried sweet potatoes in exchange.

This incident also alarmed the nobles in Cannes.

A few days later, when Lin Xiaoxiao was picking up the book, she met two gentlemen from the academy.

Coincidentally, she had met these two gentlemen before, that was the time when she happened to be interrogated as witnesses in the case.

(End of this chapter)