Song Yuanhuanzhi

Chapter 65 Price Increase
In the Bingwu year of Tianjian, Dingyou month Renchen, Yinghuo guarded Nandou.

Zhan said: Buying (dí) is expensive, but five grains are not enough.severe drought...

——Records of Qin Tianjian in Bingwu Year
In the early morning of the next day, the wind blew on the face like a knife, Song Huan sent the two cubs to school, then wrapped up her clothes and went to the rice shop.

Although the transmission of information in this era is lagging behind, in the same place, the speed of transmission of the mouths of the people is not too bad.

The long queue in front of the rice shop is proof.

Song Huan guessed this kind of situation.

This era is not as good as the previous life. Here, what these people face every day is wandering between surviving and trying to live.

Therefore, they are also the most sensitive to food price fluctuations.

Song Huan was lucky, he was one step ahead of them, and was able to stockpile 150 catties of grain in advance.

But according to today's situation, it is impossible for Song Huan to stockpile 150 catties of grain.

Song Huan ate the steamed buns while waiting in line to buy food.

After queuing for two full hours, it was finally Song Huan's turn.

The price this time has directly changed from yesterday's ten cents a catty to twenty cents a catty, with a purchase limit of twenty cents.

There were too many people buying grain, and the queue was too long. They only bought [-] catties of rice in one day, and it was already dark before the third shop had time to go.

The situation is more serious than Song Huan expected.

Song Huan didn't even have the mood to look at the traps outside the city, he just wanted to buy enough food.

For two days in a row, the price of rice went from twenty cents a catty on the third day of the winter month to thirty cents a catty on the fourth day of the winter month, and then to fifty cents a catty on the fifth day of the winter month.

From the purchase limit of twenty catties to ten catties, and then to five catties.

Song Huan only bought [-] catties of grain in the next two days.

In the three days from the third day to the fifth day alone, I spent [-] Wen.

In just four days, food prices have risen four times. Song Huan also spent four taels and 36 renminbi, but only got 220 catties of grain. One hundred catties of soybeans.

As long as you don't eat dry rice and drink some porridge every day, you should basically be able to last until August next year.

Today, on the sixth day of the winter month, Song Huan decided not to queue up to buy food.

Instead, go to the traps outside the city to have a look. If there is any prey, she will take it home and not sell it. If not, she will chop more firewood and prepare it.

The weather is getting colder and colder. If there is not enough firewood, the food will not be cooked.

Song Huan was already a familiar face in front of the officers and soldiers guarding the city, but because of the severe situation, even if the officers and soldiers on duty knew what Song Huan was going out of the city for, they still had to interrogate him routinely.

Song Huan arrived at the forest, and now two months later, her hunting range has expanded again.

Song Huan walked for more than an hour before arriving at the nearest trap.

Song Huan was very disappointed, hunting here was not as easy as in Darongshu Village.

Last time, she dug a big trap next to the trace of the wild boar. She didn't know whether the wild boar was too smart or she was too unlucky. Until now, that trap has not been triggered.

Three days of her time were wasted in vain.

Song Huan walked to the river again.

This is a river that runs through two mountains. So far, Song Huan has not found any signs of human habitation in the past two months.

Song Huan guessed that this river should be a branch of Guijiang or Yangjiang, meandering down.

The trees on both sides of the river are mixed with yellow and green, and the roots of the trees are wildly tied to the river.

A tall tree looks like a fishing rod, hanging high above the river. The top of the tree exudes greenness, which is reflected on the water after being illuminated by the sun.

Because it is the dry season, the stones exposed to the water are slightly yellow, and the stones under the water are integrated with the mud.

The water is crystal clear, and occasionally one or two palm-sized fish swim in the water.

When Song Huan discovered the river, the water level had already dropped. In order to catch fish, Song Huan built a slanted stone dam in a relatively narrow part of the river.

If the fish come down from the upper reaches, the road will be blocked by the stone dam built, so they can only follow the exit specially set out by her, and follow the current to reach the shallow water area.

Then surround the shallow water beach with stones and divide it into small pools.

In this way, it is difficult for fish to swim out of these small ponds.

And because the water in the small pond is relatively shallow, it is easier to catch fish in this way. This trick is called catching turtles in urns.

Shallow water beaches also need to clean up the stones inside, so that the fish may be more comfortable staying there and reduce the probability of them escaping.

And she can also visit it every few days instead of running every day.

At the end, break down some tree branches on both sides of the river to block the gaps between stones, so that the chance of fish swimming out of the gaps between stones is also reduced.

It is worthwhile to spend a lot of time making a large trap, which saves a lot of time and effort when catching fish.

When Song Huan came, he saw six fish, one of them was quite clever, hiding under the branch of a tree, only showing a little silvery white body, Song Huan almost didn't notice it.

Song Huan picked a few wild taro leaves and wrapped the fish with them before putting them into the basket.

Song came to the place where the chicken feet candy was discovered, and now it is the season for it to mature.

The scientific name of chicken feet candy is Zhiqizi. It also has many aliases, such as jujube, dragon claw fruit, chicken feet pear, longevity fruit, etc. It depends on how the place likes to call it.

It tastes sweet and sour. In order to save money, it is also a good choice to use this to make snacks for Adi and Qingqing.

Song Huan only picked the pulp and left the branches on the tree, which also saved space. Song Huan didn't stop until he picked most of the bag.

In this situation, Song Huan actually considered whether to go back to Darongshu Village first.

After all, Darongshu Village has more prey, so it is no problem to maintain food and clothing.

But moving back, not to mention brother's studies, it is impossible for her to return to Darongshu Village safely with the more than 300 catties of grain stored in that room.

So this entanglement is actually just adding to her troubles, not because she doesn't want to go back to Darongshu Village, but because the current situation has left her no choice.

Fortunately, at least there are county government officers in the county who can maintain order.

It's okay if nothing happens in the village, but if something happens, she can't beat her with two fists.

Speaking of it, it is not without benefits for the bandit leader to be a neighbor.

Whenever he was bored, he would fight with himself. Although every time Song Huan was beaten out of strength and his body was bruised, his progress was visible to the naked eye.

She has been here for three years, and although she has some foundation in martial arts, she has nothing to do with the powerful physique possessed by the original owner.

It was as if she had a huge treasure in her body, but she could only look at it empty-handed, unable to find a way to open it.

And through the bandit leader's inadvertent hints, she gradually learned how to use her own power from the moves, from unfamiliar to proficient, from complicated to unified.

She also persisted from the quarter of an hour at the beginning to half an hour later, slowly getting longer and longer.

She survived one by one, and at the same time, she could occasionally cheat each other.

This taste has to be said, very fun!
The complex terrain of the deep forest was like walking on flat ground under Song Huan's feet, his feet were light and his body was as light as a swallow.

In the end, Song Huan was lucky enough to catch a pheasant, knocked it out and threw it directly into the basket.Carrying another handful of firewood, he returned home before night fell.

When I got home, the two little ones were obediently practicing calligraphy at the desk under the oil lamp.

In the past few days, Mrs. Wang was the one who picked up the two little ones from school. Song Huan would be late in line to buy rice, and sometimes came back after dark, so this matter could only be entrusted to her.

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