Don't panic when fleeing the famine, the peasant girl is busy farming

Chapter 21
The father and daughter came out of Yuelai Restaurant, growling with hunger.

Jiang Erniu originally planned to buy two steamed buns to satisfy his hunger, but Jiang Erya had already gone to the wonton stall on the street, and she asked for two bowls of wontons.

Two steamed buns cost only one penny, but a bowl of vegetarian wontons costs two pennies, and those with meat fillings are even more expensive, at three pennies a bowl.

What Jiang Erya wanted was minced meat.

Jiang Erniu felt a little sore because he had to give six cents for a meal.

But thinking that his Er Ya had never eaten meat since he was so old, he felt guilty.He didn't have a penny in his pocket before, but now he has it.

He told Jiang Erya to sit still, while he ran to buy a big meat bun.He handed the big meat bun to Jiang Erya as if offering a treasure.

Jiang Erya looked at the big meaty bun in front of her, and immediately thought of the original owner, the big meaty bun that the original owner had been thinking about, her father finally bought it for her.

It's a pity...she can't eat anymore.

Jiang Erya took the bun silently, broke the bun in half, and stuffed most of it into Jiang Erniu's mouth.It was too late for Jiang Erniu to refuse.

Jiang Erya took the remaining half of the bun in her hand, took a bite out of interest, and chewed slowly.

Jiang Erniu thought she was worried about the future, so he said, "Ah, you don't have to be afraid if you get separated.

You have to believe in your father. He has plenty of strength. He works hard and farms hard. He will definitely be able to support you.

Besides, there are still advantages to separating the family, you will no longer have to work all day long like before..."

Jiang Erya calmed down, nodded, and replied, "Well, I trust Dad." She also believed in herself.

With the system in place, she will definitely allow her and her father to live a good life.

Soon, the wontons were served.

Jiang Erya frowned.

"Is this soup too little?"

I just finished eating half a meat bun, and my mouth was dry and greasy. I was about to drink a few sips of wonton soup, but unexpectedly, the stall owner only gave me half a bowl of soup, so little that even the twelve small wontons at the bottom of the bowl were too small. Can't float.

The stall owner explained: "It hasn't rained for more than two months, and the well is almost out of water, so the soup is given less, and I hope the customers will forgive me.

If it doesn't rain again, and if there is such a shortage of water, our stall will not be able to stand. "

Jiang Erniu nodded after hearing the stall owner's words, and said, "Yes, this day is too weird, and our paddy fields are also short of water. If this continues, I'm afraid that in autumn, the grain will not be harvested."

The stall owner looked around and said quietly: "I saw that you, father and daughter, both make wontons and big meat buns, and I think you still have some money at home.

If you have spare money, stock up on food as soon as possible.With food in hand, don't panic.

The weather is getting more and more dry, and the price of grain in the grain store has begun to rise.If there is really no grain harvest in autumn, the price of grain will have to increase several times.

At that time, the money in our hands is worthless. "

"What? The price of food has increased?" Jiang Erniu was a little anxious.

"It's not that the price has increased. From the past two days, the price has been one day. I said that our wonton stall will not be able to continue, and there is also a reason for the increase in food prices."

After hearing what the stall owner said, Jiang Erniu became even more anxious, and he asked Jiang Erya: "What should I do?
Even if the two acres of paddy fields we got were harvested, it would have to wait until the autumn harvest.

There is still one or two months before the autumn harvest, but we don't have a grain of grain in our hands.

We only have 490 Wen in total, after deducting the money for the two bowls of wontons and the big meat bun, we have [-] Wen left.

I don't know how much the food in the grain store has increased to a few cents a catty. Is the grain bought for 490 yuan enough for us father and daughter to last until the autumn harvest? "

Jiang Erya speeded up the speed of her hand: "Father, eat quickly, let's go to the grain shop to see the situation after eating."

The father and daughter went to the grain store after eating wontons, and at a glance, they were full of cursing people who came to buy grain.

When I asked, the old grain stored last year had risen to thirteen cents a catty, and even the old grain that had been stored for many years and had obviously deteriorated cost seven pennies a catty.

But even so, people who came to buy grain still lined up in a long line. While cursing the weather and the owner of the grain shop, they obediently paid for the grain.

Jiang Erniu scratched his head: "But last autumn harvest, I helped the family sell surplus grain, and the grain shop only gave me five hundred Wen."

If you sell and buy, you lose too much, right?

One stone in Daqing is equal to ten buckets, which is equal to one hundred liters.Stones, buckets, and liters are all volume units, and if they are replaced by weight units, one liter of grain is equal to one catty of grain.

That is to say, Lao Jiang's family sold their surplus grain to the grain shop last fall, and only sold it for five cents a catty.

The people behind Jiang Erniu heard Jiang Erniu's words, and said impatiently: "What kind of business can't you make a difference?

Can you sell and buy the same?

Look at the sky above your head again, does it look like it's going to rain?
Hurry up and stop talking, if you want to buy it, buy it as soon as possible. If it is too late, the boss of the black-hearted grain shop will raise the price of grain again.

If you don't buy it, just walk away and make way for me. "

Jiang Erniu was still hesitating, but Jiang Erya pulled him out of the grain buying queue.

"Don't pull me, I still have to buy food. If we don't buy food, what shall we eat?"

Jiang Erya said: "Father, don't be in a hurry, I have a solution for the food, you give me the money, I have to buy some other things."

In her portable manor, although there is only one mu of land for the time being, it can harvest a batch of grain in seven days.

In Daqing, one mu of land produces three stones of grain, that is, three hundred catties.

Calculated according to the output of the one mu of land in the portable manor, three hundred catties can be harvested in seven days. The father and daughter can't finish eating. How can they go hungry?

The grain in the manor was at most six days away from being harvested. Jiang Erya planned to go back to the village to borrow the rations needed for these six days.

Borrow ten catties, return twelve catties.The extra two catties will be regarded as interest.She is willing to pay such a high interest rate, but she does not believe that the entire village cannot borrow food.

The problem of food is easy to solve, but Jiang Erya really can't change other important necessities of life.

The two of them, father and daughter, had just been separated from Lao Jiang's family, so they had almost nothing.

Li Zheng was willing to let them live in the two side rooms of the ancestral hall in the village.But pots and pans, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, etc., they have to find their own way.

The 15 taels of silver in her backpack are temporarily hard to see.The only thing she can use is the few hundred Wen in her father's hands.

With less money, there are many things to buy, so there is no need to waste money on buying food.

What's more, the grain shop sells old grain, which is definitely not as delicious as the new grain produced in her manor.

Thinking about it this way, Jiang Erya didn't want to buy grain anymore.

Jiang Erniu held the money bag, and carefully explained to Jiang Erya: "Ah, we have to go hungry if we don't have food. Be good, let's buy food first. If you want anything, wait until Dad earns money." I'll buy it for you again, okay?"

Jiang Erya couldn't explain the existence of the manor, and she didn't want to bother to explain it now, so she put on a fierce face and said, "Just say whether you will give it or not!"

Jiang Erniu was taken aback fiercely, and Jiang Erya took the opportunity to snatch the money bag from his hand, and went straight to the grocery store.

(End of this chapter)