Chapter 57 Famine

Li Xiaoyao exhaled two breaths of anger and simply ignored him. He only turned his head and looked at the shopkeeper Sun and asked, "What's the plan of Yan and Master Song?"

"Yan Fuyin has to go back to Taiping Mansion to wait for the crime. He can't help him if he doesn't plan to beat him. He doesn't have any idea. Lao Song is going to go home to retire." Manager Sun sighed gently and replied sadly.

"Well," Li Xiaoyao lowered his head and thought for a long time, turned his head to look at Wei Shuisheng and discuss, "Brother Shuisheng, speaking of Master Song's matter is also implicated by us. His family doesn't seem to be rich. I want to give him more money, at least I won't let him have no food and clothing in his later years, don't you think?"

"Well, it's up to you." Wei Shuisheng replied in a low voice.

"How much money do you have in your hand?" Li Xiaoyao turned to look at the shopkeeper Sun and asked. The shopkeeper Sun quickly took the baggage next to him and pushed it to Li Xiaoyao: "The house has sold a total of 5002 taels of silver and gave 130 taels to Master Song. The water in the shop is 1403 taels, all here."

Li Xiaoyao lowered his head for a moment and pushed the burden to the shopkeeper Sun and told him, "I'll add another seven taels of silver here for 600 taels, and give it to Master Song tomorrow." Li Xiaoyao said, turned around to take the baggage he had brought, opened a few small gold cakes and came out. Lv Feng stared sadly at the gold cakes in Li Xiaoyao's hand. These gold cakes used to be his things.

"This is forty taels. You take it with you. Tomorrow, you and Yan Fu Yin will go to Taiping Mansion to find a suitable shop. It's not easy to open a tea shop in Taiping Mansion. It's also called Wisteria House. No matter how much money you earn, don't care about anything else. Stop and talk about it first. After the Spring Festival, I'll send Brother Zhao Wu to help you." Li Xiaoyao carefully said, and the shopkeeper Sun was stunned. He took a look at Wei Shuisheng and nodded: "The fifth master thinks about the long run. I know. Don't worry." With that, he took the gold cake and put it into the bag, said a few more words and left.

Li Zonggui didn't follow him again. According to the original statement, when he arrived in Tang County, he should also go to his relatives.

"What should I do now? What else can you do? Ah? Go to Zhengcheng again, but there is no place to even settle down!" Lv Feng looked at Li Xiaoyao and said with a gloating smile. Li Xiaoyao put his finger against his chin and tilted him for a while. He suddenly laughed and said slowly, "Your kindness, I want it now. I want to know what deal Beiping and Wu Guo have done. It's up to you for three days."

Lv Feng opened his eyes and stared at Li Xiaoyao. Li Zonggui laughed and turned his head to look at Wei Shuisheng. When he was about to speak, Wei Shuisheng stretched out his hand and flicked Li Xiaoyao's forehead: "Don't play tricks on him. How can he inquire about it?"

Li Xiaoyao smiled and did not answer. He only stared at Lv Feng and waited for him to speak. Lv Feng smiled awkwardly: "Xiaowu, change it?"

"That's okay. You are the hero of Shangqingmen. I have always looked at you highly. Your favor is naturally very valuable. Since this, it seems that I was wrong before. Is your favor, that's it just the case? This person, naturally, just... I have to bother to find more work for you to offset the 1,000 taels of gold. This man is worthless and has to work more. There is no way!" Li Xiaoyao shook his head and sighed. Wei Shuisheng choked into his throat and coughed in a muffled voice while looking at Li Xiaoyao and Lv Feng. Forget it, he'd better stop talking. Lv Feng is also a slippery and provocative master. If Xiaoyao is pressed, he is also more peaceful.

Li Zonggui laughed so much that he couldn't speak. He reached out and patted Lv Feng to express his deep sympathy. Lv Feng looked at Li Xiaoyao angrily and said hatefully, "No, that's it! I think who dares to marry a girl like you?! I won't let you get married!"

"If you can't get married, you can't get married. I have a brother who has a dowry. It's better to buy a few in the future, but it's useless for those who are not enough like you!" Li Xiaoyao looked up and down at Lv Feng and curled his lips and said. Wei Shuisheng really coughed up this time. He raised his hand and patted Li Xiaoyao's head and scolded him, "What are you talking about?! You, this!" Wei Shuisheng couldn't go any further. He turned his head to look at Li Zonggui, who had fallen laughing in **, and frowned: "Don't laugh. Tomorrow you can go to a bookstore and buy a few women's four books and women's books for Xiaoyao to learn!"

Lv Feng looked at the muffled Li Xiaoyao and wanted to laugh, but when he thought about the work he had just taken, he swallowed back his words and begged the girl. Forget it, put up with it and put up with it for a while.

"Xiao Wu, what you said, where is the most convenient place to ask?" Lv Feng looked at Li Xiaoyao and asked politely. Li Xiaoyao looked at him and answered seriously, "I know the most about this matter, but the four people, Mr. Liang and their second prince in Peiping, Lord Fang and Prime Minister Lin of Wu, the four of them can ask anyone."

Lv Feng's chest was blocked by Li Xiaoyao's words and he couldn't speak. Wei Shuisheng helped Lv Feng speak: "Xiaoyao, if you have a way, mention him. Don't make it difficult for him."

Li Xiaoyao turned his head and looked at Lv Feng: "Brother Shuisheng has spoken for you. Okay, just pour me a cup of tea."

Lv Feng stood up reluctantly, poured a cup of tea and handed it to Li Xiaoyao. Li Xiaoyao took a few sips of tea and looked at Lv Feng and said, "Lord Fang has negotiated with others. Prime Minister Lin just came here. What are you here for? There must be documents for this kind of thing. Prime Minister Lin came to draw a name.

Lv Feng jumped up, lit Li Xiaoyao, and patted his head again. He didn't expect such a simple thing. What's so difficult is? At night, I touched Prime Minister Lin's tent and turned it out to have a look, right?! It's all made this little girl dizzy!

The next morning, Lu Feng set out to chase Prime Minister Lin's team to the south. Li Xiaoyao, Wei Shuisheng and Li Zonggui visited Tang County for a day. Zheng Cheng could no longer enter. The closest to Bijia Mountain was Tang County. Later, he bought grain, cloth, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, and inquired about Tang County. The three took a closer look and stayed for another night. The next morning, they set out to go back to Bijia Mountain.

The next day, Lv Feng rushed back. The agreement between Wu and Beiping was simple. There were few. Zheng Cheng returned it to Wu and allowed Beiping to borrow Zhengcheng for a year. Wu provided 30,000 yuan of military grain to the Beiping army every month. On the first day of each month, he diplomatically cut it at the north gate of Zhengcheng.

Li Xiaoyao was stunned. It seemed that the State of Beiping wanted to take advantage of Zheng Cheng and attack the State of Liang on both sides. So Beiping was single-minded to swallow the State of Liang. As for the failure of the State of Wu to send troops, they actually didn't care. The State of Wu actually promised to provide food every month! According to her calculation, not to mention the supply of food, she asked Peking University for a sum of money to buy the road, but I'm afraid they will have to agree! At this moment, Peiping must not be able to have bad relations with Wu again. These bastards have made another business at a loss!

These have nothing to do with Bijiashan. Li Xiaoyao turned around and left it behind. This monthly supply of 30,000 liters of grain. Where can this grain be adjusted? It's winter now. This is the north. It's ripe once a year. By next year, there will be a small half a year. It seems that the price of grain will rise!

Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng thought the same as Li Xiaoyao. 30,000 dan in this month is not a small amount, and the south is fighting with South Vietnam. The area of Chizhou has become a battlefield. This harvest can't be expected. Last year, the drought was severe in the Taiping Mansion. Naturally, the extra money and grain are pressed out of the people. Li Zongliang hurriedly Arrange people to buy grain from Zhengcheng and Tang County, and there is not much grain on the mountain.

But after all, they knew it was too late. Zheng Cheng didn't mention it. After Yan's Yin left, Lord Fang stayed and served as the governor. The city supplied grain according to the number of people every day. In the past, the lively grain market simply closed down. Tang County was still the same, but the price of grain was the same day by day. The government came forward. Tang County had household registration, according to the number of people. , the supply of two catties of affordable grain per person per day is limited, and if you want more, you have to go to the market.

He was busy on the pen rack for seven or eight days and couldn't buy back a few catties of grain. Li Zongliang had to arrange more people to hunt in the mountains every day, marinate meat, eat more meat and eat less rice noodles.

Li Xiaoyao and Li Zonggui calculated carefully that the grain storage on the mountain will survive until the end of spring tomorrow. When summer comes, there will be more food coming out of the field, and the rice grain in the south should also come over. The famine may be over.

But the situation is much worse than Li Xiaoyao and others expected. It seems that 30,000 loads of grain per month are all transferred from several nearby counties. The north is not rich, and it is approaching the end of the year. In the cold weather, tax collectors and government officials all went to the countryside to collect grain by township and by head. Zheng Cheng did not mention it. Previously, because Qingye is already uninhabited for a hundred miles. Now several counties such as Tang County and He County, which are next to Zhengcheng, are also in a hurry and chaotic because of this forced expedition.

The Spring Festival has not arrived, and gradually there are three or five groups of escapees who help the elderly and children, push carts and backpacks, and escape from the wilderness. However, this time it is not to go south, to Taipingfu, but there are checkpoints everywhere to the south. There is no guide, and it is not allowed to go south, so they have to go north and to Beiping. Lord Fang, who guards Zhengcheng, closes his eyes and doesn't care about it at all. Groups of people fled to Beiping, and the Beiping army simply withdrew a passageway, and there were even guidelines along the way, which warmly welcomed the people of the State of Wu to Beiping.

Li Xiaoyao, Lv and Li Zonggui followed him. Strangely, they were also relieved. They went south. It was about the Spring Festival. The counties along the way had to whitewash the peace. These bunch of bets were not good-looking in the past. On the one thing, they affected the county's appearance, and on the other, they had to pay for relief. Naturally, no one was willing to let them go to Beiping. Beiping is a famous local people. There is no shortage of people and land. Naturally, the more people come, the better. Besides, the people in this disaster are all the people of the State of Wu. In addition to the charity of the people of Beiping, it is beneficial to increase the pride of the people of Beiping. Lv Feng laughed loudly by Li Xiaoyao's analysis, and what the little girl said was a little reasonable.