At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 9, Unbearable Hunger and the Real Da Qin
  Entering Yang County, Xu Fan and Chen Lin came to the back of a compound. A servant opened the back door and let Xu Fan and the others in.

This is a big family in the county, the Jing family. It is said that when this land was still called Dachu, it was a big noble. Although it declined in the Qin Dynasty, it was still the first-class big family in Yang County, even if it was the county magistrate. All should be respected.

The first time Xu Fan sold firewood, the housekeeper of the Jing family asked for Xu Fan's firewood and told Xu Fan that if he wanted to sell firewood in the future, he could come to him. Later, Xu Fan also provided live fish, and he always followed the instructions. Bought at the highest price.

In fact, the Jing family wanted to win over Xu Fan as a retainer. As long as they became a retainer of the Jing family, they would receive not only three meals a day, but also a meal of meat every day and 100 yuan a month. In the words of later generations, this treatment was Ashore.

The retainer system can be regarded as a good system left over from the Warring States Period. Even during the unification period of the Qin Dynasty, it was not discontinued and even continued to develop. It is said that when Han Xin was in poverty, he became a retainer of a pavilion chief. This is also considered an unprecedented system. Okay, what's the use of a pavilion chief keeping customers?

Maybe he wanted to tell everyone that he had entered the gentry class by raising a retainer, just like the middle class in later generations bought luxury leather bags, imagining that he had entered the rich class.

But what is fake is what it is, and if there is a slight wave, the illusion created by the middle class in later generations will be shattered to pieces. The same was true in the Qin Dynasty. Because the pavilion chief could not afford to support Han Xin, a freeloader, he asked his wife to drive Han Xin away. In the end, he relied on a local old woman to raise Han Xin for several months, leaving behind a story about how one can earn a fortune.

Xu Fan faced such a pie falling from the sky and did not bite it. Did he know that in the troubled times of the late Qin Dynasty, Chu had the largest number of rebels here. Xiang Yu, Liu Bang, and even Chen Sheng could all be considered Chu people.

The Jing family used to be a great noble of the Chu State. After the death of the First Emperor, they would definitely revolt. However, Xu Fan had never heard of the fact that there was a prince named Jing among the rebels at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

Historically, they may have revolted, or they may not have revolted, but they didn’t understand it. They knew without even thinking that the Jing family was probably cannon fodder among the rebels in the late Qin Dynasty. To become a disciple of such a cannon fodder family was not to seek death. So Xu Fan decisively rejected the Jing family's kindness.

Xu Fan and Chen Lin piled firewood into the backyard. For several hundred kilograms of firewood, Chen Lin got ten yuan and Xu Fan got thirty yuan. At the same time, Xu Fan brought three live fish weighing ten kilograms and got two hundred yuan.

Then the two of them took the money to go to the county town. As a result, the prices there were unbearable for both of them. The price of rice rose to 210 yuan per stone, a quarter higher than half a month ago, and the price of salt rose to The price of other agricultural products such as oil, kelp, chicken, duck, and fish has increased by % to %.

"That's what happens when there is a glut of food. After the autumn harvest, the price of food will drop to only half again!" Chen Lin said helplessly to Xu Fan.

He has experienced this kind of price fluctuation too many times. When he needs food, he can't afford it. When he sells rice, he can't get the price. He has become accustomed to it. At this time in previous years, he didn't even dare to walk into the market. Now he still has something in his pocket. Having a few dollars is already an improvement.

But the progress was still too small. Originally, he wanted to buy some salt and rice, but such a high price made him decide to eat wild vegetables for a few more days. The money was kept to pay off the oral gifts. As long as he survived this most difficult month, he would be able to earn dozens of more pennies. This hope suppressed his feeling of hunger.

On the contrary, Xu Fan decided to buy it when he saw the prices in the market soaring, even though he knew that prices here would come down in less than a month.

But the feeling of hunger was unbearable for him. During the three months since he came to this world, he only had porridge and wild vegetables every day, and only a handful of times he was full.

His general belly, which had not been reduced for 10 years, had disappeared without a trace, but hunger surrounded him tightly. This kind of hunger was completely different from what he had experienced as a child. It was the kind that burned like wildfire. There is never that feeling of fullness in the whole body. Eating enough can solve this problem, but Xu Fan just can't eat enough. Now he feels like he is being punished every moment. Now Xu Fan understands a little bit. The ancients were obviously very simple, but they would think of punishments like the eighteen levels of hell. It turned out that they lived in a state of hell all the time. The so-called eighteen levels of hell were their most real feelings recorded. Time is hell, but death is not so terrible.

Xu Fan bought six buckets of rice and one liter of salt, leaving nine Qin half liang.

When leaving the city gate, Xu Fan took out the nine coins and Chen Lin took out three coins. Although this money was not included in Qin's law, it was indispensable. If they didn't pay it, it would be difficult for the two of them to enter the county next time. Can not enter.

The county is not so easy to get into. The rural areas of Yang County are already on the verge of bankruptcy. However, there are no beggars in Yang County. It’s not because these people don’t want to beg, but because these people will be arrested as long as they get close to the county. Prisoner.

Not long after the two left the county town, six people surrounded Xu Fan and Chen Lin.

"Hand over the food!" the six men shouted, pointing at Xu Fan and Xu Fan with the tips of their wooden sticks.

Of course Xu Fan and the others won't hand it over.

One person stabbed Xu Fan with a wooden stick, but Xu Fan grabbed the wooden stick with his backhand, and then swept at them. Within two rounds, all six thieves fell to the ground.

The reason why this fight ended so quickly was not because Xu Fan was so powerful after traveling through time. Even his state before traveling through time was enough to defeat these six people. Their state was really too bad.

If the children in the Chen family are skin and bones, then these people are naked ducks. They are obviously adults, but they do not weigh more than 60 pounds. Their movements are as stiff as mummies, and they look like those on TV. People who suffer from weight loss and are about to starve to death are exactly the same. They are not so much robbing as they are sending themselves to death.

These people have become so miserable that Xu Fan, the person who was robbed, wondered whether this was the Qin Empire or the old society.

There seems to be no difference!
  Think about Xu Fan putting half of his rice in Chen Lin's basket, leaving his bamboo basket underground, and then left with Chen Lin.

"You are showing kindness here again. You can't save them. Even after eating this meal, they will starve to death." Chen Lin said angrily.

"At least I will feel better and feel that their death has nothing to do with me!" Modern life has taught Xu Fan that things have nothing to do with him and should be ignored. Because he has been deceived too many times, but in this era, it is impossible for Xu Fan to be deceived. It is too real, but this truth is too cruel.

(End of this chapter)