Dressed as a vicious old lady, she transformed her whole family into farming

Chapter 16 What is this?
The price of food outside is not cheap now. Rice used to cost only two cents, but now it has almost doubled five or six times.

Naturally, salt and seasonings have also increased.

There's almost nothing cheap these days.

Lin Wan organized the contents of the basket, which was a heavy pile, and carefully tied the pot to the top to cover the contents of the basket.

If someone sees that there are so many good things in the backpack, there will always be someone interested in the money.

I pulled some more cloth, the worst kind of cotton cloth, and covered it on the iron pot, so that it didn't look like there was anything good in it.

Can save a lot of trouble.

Lin Wan carried the heavy backpack on her back and deliberately pretended to be relaxed so that others could not guess how many things were in her backpack.

Arriving at the place agreed upon with Zhang Goudan, he was already waiting there.

Seeing Lin Wan coming, Zhang Goudan quickly paid and took the basket from her.

The heavy weight made Zhang Goudan's hand sink. Lin Wan raised his hand to hold it: "Don't let anyone see it."

Zhang Goudan nodded, feeling a little more wary.

"Mom, the prices of everything have gone up now. When I went to buy salt, it still cost ten cents. When I came back from shopping, it had already become fifteen cents."

Zhang Goudan sighed.

Lin Wan handed him the salt and nodded without saying anything. In troubled times, these are normal phenomena.

"Mom, I bought Zhao Cuixi a plain hairpin for three cents. Xi'er followed me and got nothing, so my son..."

Zhang Goudan was still explaining, but Lin Wan interrupted: "Well, that's right. When life gets better, I'll buy something better."

Zhang Goudan was stunned and stopped walking. Looking at Lin Wan's thin back in front of him, his eyes were filled with tears for some reason.

Lin Wan took a few steps and saw that there was no one around her. She looked back at Zhang Goudan, who was in a daze, and waved to him: "Come on, the bullock cart will leave in a moment."

"Oh, here we come, mother."

Zhang Goudan calmed down his emotions and quickened his pace to follow.

Most of the folks who went to the market on the other side of the oxcart have returned.

Uncle Ma waited for a while and counted the heads. Except for one who had given a message that he would not come back tonight, everyone was here. Then he drove the ox cart slowly away.

Everyone saw that the basket on Lin Wan's back seemed to be full. Li Erniu couldn't hold back her inner thoughts and said, "Zhang family, you bought so many things, your family is still so rich these days."

Lin Wan sighed and shook her head in embarrassment: "This is not the last time I went to Linjia Village. I asked for some when I came back, otherwise my family would starve to death. You can buy good things there, but it's not enough so I just ordered rice cereal."

"Yes, life is getting more and more sad now. The price of rice in the town is so high, I really can't live anymore." Aunt Zhou Laicai, who was sitting next to her, shook her head.

"No, we had no food to eat before, and the court even distributed some food. I don't know if it will be distributed this year."

"Forget about rice, the price of corn has increased, so black noodles are the cheapest."

When it comes to food, everyone talks about it one by one. Just talking, it feels like a big stone is weighing on my heart.

"By the way, I heard that the town has not been very peaceful recently," Uncle Ma, who had been driving the car, suddenly said when he saw everyone being dull.

"What's going on?" Lin Wan turned to look at the back of Uncle Ma's head and asked.

Everyone's curiosity was also aroused.

Uncle Ma waved the whip in his hand and bent his back: "If someone doesn't have money to eat, just go and rob the rich people's food. These days, the rich can't do anything big as a fist."

"Has anyone's home been robbed?" Lin Wan felt nervous after catching the information. "No! Food was robbed from Zhao Wanwan's house on West Street in the town. I heard that people died, but I don't know if anyone went to catch the robbers."

"It's hard to catch him. To be able to conquer Zhao Wanwan, he must have strength in numbers. In this year of disaster, the officials are probably too busy to take care of it." Lin Wan hooked the basket on her back and slapped it away. Li Erniu's hand was about to lift the cotton cloth. "

Li Erniu was still a little unconvinced. Looking at the red back of her hand, she raised her hand to slap Lin Wan.

Lin Wan watched, and before her slap fell, he slapped Li Erniu on the face.

The good temper during this period may not have made these people forget what a fierce master Lin Wan was.

Snapped!
"what!"

Li Erniu covered her face: "What are you doing!"

"You didn't do anything. There are bugs on your face."

"You fart!"

Lin Wan opened her hands innocently, and in the middle of her palm lay a green bug that had been squashed.

The uncle opposite saw the green bug in Lin Wan's hand, and his eyes widened: "Oh, isn't this a locust?"

"What, locusts?"

"Where are the locusts!"

"There won't be another locust plague!"

The word "locust" evokes the fear in everyone's heart. The locust plague passes without leaving a trace. Once it arrives, it is like an army pressing down on the country!There was really no harvest, even the leaves of wild vegetables could be eaten completely.

There is no way to survive.

"Uncle, take a look," Lin Wan handed the insect in her hand to the uncle.

He took it and looked at it again and again, and finally nodded: "It is indeed locusts. But don't be so nervous, it may not be a locust plague."

Everyone also slowly became quiet, and after all, a locust was discovered.

Uncle Ma seemed to be walking a little faster, and everyone was silent all the way.

No one even cared about Li Erniu's beating.

After getting off the oxcart, Lin Wan hurried back home. Looking at the weak house in front of her, she felt helpless. Even if the door was closed, such a house would not be able to stop the gang of bandits and thieves.

When the two entered the door, they found several people at home waiting eagerly. Lin Wan said to Zhang Zhuzhu: "Close the door and bolt it."

Even if you can't stop the bandits, at least stop the villagers first and keep your wealth from being exposed!
"Okay." Zhang Zhuzhu carefully blocked the door.

Lin Wan then went back to the house and took out the things in the basket. The iron pot was difficult to untie, so Lin Wan used the iron pot to cover it and exchanged it for some fat and lean meat in the mall to make some lard. , and bought some rapeseed oil, and some unavailable condiments, all of which are wrapped in oil paper.

If it's expensive, be more expensive so as not to reveal your secrets.

I bought a few more quaint bowls, and I only have 30 points left.

Zhang Goudan watched Lin Wan take out everything one by one, and he wondered if he had become stronger recently. He didn't feel so heavy all the way back.

I also thought that it was normal for me to be stronger because I had eaten well recently.

Lin Wan patted the things on the table and said, "Girl Xi'er, go boil the fat pork to get the oil. You guys can go find some wild vegetables. Let's make twice-cooked pork."

"Twice-cooked pork..." Several people looked at each other, and finally fixed their eyes on Lin Wan's face, asking in confusion: "What is this?"

(End of this chapter)