Mrs. Prime Minister

Chapter 234: Yunqing is Happy (3)
After the transition from silence to excitement, Feng Lanjin put Yun Qing down in the alley nearer to the street.

Although it is night, there are always night markets in Jiangnan.

It's just not very lively.

Walking out of the alley side by side with Feng Lanjin, Yun Qing saw that most of the people in very delicate clothes were playing around, and most of the stalls were ordinary people with yellow faces and thin faces in coarse clothes.

Yun Qing's heart tightened, and she sneered, "It seems that the locust plague in the south of the Yangtze River is only for ordinary people." Those noble people from merchants' homes, as well as those in the government, she didn't see the impact of the locust plague on them at all.

"These are inevitable things."

No matter how poor a place is, the poor will always be the people.

"Don't worry about these things, you haven't eaten all day today, I'll take you to eat something first."

Feng Lanjin originally planned to take Yun Qing to a restaurant for dinner, where there were more food, and he could find some food suitable for people in the capital, but Yun Qing stopped in front of a stall selling dumplings.

"Let's just eat here."

Feng Lanjin's eyes flashed, "Alright."

The stall was set up by a young couple, and no one cared about the small stall. Seeing Feng Lanjin and Yun Qing approaching at this time, the two quickly wiped the benches and tables for them with smiles on their faces.

The husband and wife were obviously malnourished for a long time. They were sallow and emaciated and looked very haggard, and their clothes were patched a lot, but they were very clean.

Huh?Yun Qing actually found a small soybean sprout behind the husband and wife. The little child was only about three or four years old. It fits too well, it's a little too big, and it looks very empty on his body. The little child's thin chin is pointed, and he looks timidly at Yun Qing and Feng Lanjin.Hiding behind their parents dare not speak.

Not only the children, but even the two young couples were a little restrained. It really looked like Feng Lanjin and the two of them were not dressed like they were here to eat at a small stall.

"What do you two want to eat?"

"Two bowls of dumplings." Yun Qing smiled kindly at the man.

"Okay, please wait a moment."

The dumplings are freshly made, and the small dumplings are squeezed out of the little lady's hands in vain and fat, and then put into the pot with hot water. From boiling to calm again, after pouring cold water three times in this way, it boiled again, and the woman took the dumplings out of the pot, and then the man brought them over and placed them in front of the two of them.

The dumplings are stuffed with leek and pork, and the taste is not bad.

The soup is overflowing, and it can be seen that the dumplings were made with heart.Yun Qing felt a little relieved, it was not easy to run a small business under such a locust plague situation, and it was really rare that they didn't cut corners.

Yun Qing was very hungry, but she just had no appetite.After barely eating one, I didn't move my chopsticks again.

"What, it's not to your liking?"

"No." Yun Qing covered her stomach, "Maybe I was so stimulated at the banquet just now that I didn't remember it, and now I don't have much appetite when I see the food."

Feng Lanjin had a good appetite and ate a big bowl.

Yun Qing noticed that the little soybean sprout had been timidly staring at her and Feng Lanjin with a pair of big clear eyes, especially when the two of them put down their chopsticks, there was a bit of desire in their eyes.

For some reason, Yun Qing thought of Feng Wuyou, Xiao Wuyou was almost like a princess when she was in the mansion, her cheeks were very round and her flesh was very cute.In comparison, I feel that this child is very pitiful.She waved at the child, showing a faint smile.

"Little brother, come here."

When the child heard Yun Qing calling him, he didn't dare to look at him, hugged his mother's leg and shrank behind his mother's leg.

The woman smiled apologetically, "The two gentlemen are laughing, this child is a bit shy."

Yun Qing took the bowl and walked to the child's side, "Want to eat?"

The child didn't dare to answer, his cheeks were very thin, and his eyes were surprisingly big. Yun Qing felt a little pity in his heart, and gave the child the dumpling with only one chopstick, "I'll eat it for you."

"Mother..." The child didn't dare to answer, and looked up at his mother.

The woman's eyes hurt, but she declined, "My lord, I can't help it. This child has just eaten and is not hungry."

"Children should not be hungry when they are growing up." Yun Qing stubbornly smiled and handed the bowl to the child, with a mischievous look in his eyes, "Could it be that my little brother disliked me for eating it?"

"Where are you talking, sir." The woman smiled slightly, knelt down and touched the child's short yellow hair, and said lovingly, "Thank you, brother."

"Thank you brother."

After finishing speaking, he took the bowl from Yun Qing's hand and started to gobble it up.

Yun Qing felt a pain in her heart when she saw it.

I chatted with the stall owner, "This kid is about three or four years old, and now it's time to grow up, so he can't be hungry."

The woman saw that Yun Qing was very kind, so she started chatting with him. She looked at the child pitifully, and said sadly, "We have nothing to do. The harvest in the first half of this year was not good, and the government's tax revenue will be even worse. There is not much left. We, husband and wife, don’t understand other things. My husband-in-law goes out to work during the day, and I stay at home to do needlework. At night, I come out to set up a stall, and earn as much as I can. Today’s grain prices It’s so expensive, if you don’t do more work, I’m afraid you’ll starve to death.”

"How far has the food price risen now?"

A trace of surprise flashed in the woman's eyes, "The two gentlemen should not be from Jiangnan."

Feng Lanjin replied with a smile, "My brother and I just came to Jiangnan from the capital today."

The woman showed an expression of "that's how it is", and sighed, "It's no wonder you don't know that the locust plague in the south of the Yangtze River is serious now, and the harvest in the second half of the year seems to be zero, so the current price of rice is ridiculously high. Ordinary rice It takes twenty renminbi to buy a catty, so the supply is in short supply. We ordinary people can only save a little money to buy rice. Those big families are afraid that they will be able to eat every meter, so they can’t stock up on food at home. Some even pay to buy rice at the rice shop, so sometimes we may not be able to buy a single grain of rice even if we line up for a whole day.”

Feng Lanjin frowned stubbornly.

This situation is even more serious than what Zhao Qian said.

The woman couldn't stop crying as she spoke, she wiped away her tears and said embarrassingly, "Let the two gentlemen watch a joke."

Yun Qing shook her head, "Didn't the government express anything?"

Speaking of the horror and hatred in the eyes of the government woman and her husband, she lowered her voice, "If there is no government, maybe our people's life will be better."

(End of this chapter)