After the marriage was broken off, the husband's family regretted it

Daniu: "Mom, I heard from the people in the village that my uncle died several days ago. He must have died during the rainstorm. But Dazhuang and his friends didn't come back. I also heard that my second uncle went to look for them, but they didn't want to come back, so my uncle was hastily buried by my second uncle."

Yun Tao said helplessly, "If I had known this would happen, I would have never done it. It's only a matter of time before your uncle ends up like this. All three of his sons have been miscarried. None of them is filial. What else can we do? Let's talk about it. The person is dead, and his own sons don't feel sorry for him, but he expects us outsiders to feel sorry for him. Let's just let this matter go."

"Besides, he has not been kind to us, and he can't bear to see us doing well. Daniu, go and prepare the goods. I feel that the price of grain will increase this year. When you go to the capital to deliver the goods, ask about the price of grain and come back. If you have enough time, ask in the county town as well."

Daniu also knew that this was a critical moment, so he didn't say anything extra and just went about his work.

Yun Tao looked at the grain in the warehouse, wondering what was going on in his mind.

After the road from the village to the prefecture was clear, Daniu took the villagers there. The cargo was several times more than before.

The guys in the city were particularly happy when they saw this: "Brother Daniu, you are finally here. You don't know that we have been short of goods for a long time. Because of the heavy rain, the goods from nearby can't be delivered."

Daniu was very surprised and said, "What? Are the major cities nearby also experiencing heavy rain? I thought it was only happening here."

"Brother Daniu, it's very tragic. Some poor families with poor houses, young and old, were buried in the ruins. There are also elderly people who are in poor health and did not make it. Anyway, I heard that the crop losses were very serious this time, and many grains were completely lost. I don't know how high the grain price will go this year, but it has already started to rise. White rice is now one tael of silver per catty. It has never been so expensive before. Even wheat bran costs 10 copper coins per catty."

Daniel was shocked. My God, is it so expensive now? Fortunately, there was plenty of food at home, and the food in the granary made him feel at ease.

After delivering the goods, Daniu wandered around the prefectural city for a few hours. Seeing that it was still early, he stayed in the county town for another hour. After finishing his work, he went straight back to the village.

Daniu went home and found Yuntao directly.

"Mom, I'm back. When I went to the capital this time, I heard from my second brother that the nearby towns were also affected, not just ours. Mom, it seems that what you said is true. Food prices are really going to go up, but I don't know what the specific situation will be in the future."

"Mother, it depends on whether the imperial court will distribute food. If it does, it will be better. If not, the price may be higher."

Yun Tao: "Even if they can give out as much as they can, there are so many mouths to feed. Besides, the court has to support the army, so where can they get so much food? Besides, if there are corrupt officials, how much do you think the common people can get? Maybe a family can only have a mouthful of porridge."

Think about it, this is the truth. There have always been many corrupt officials since ancient times. Where do so many honest officials come from?

A week passed, and those villagers who had not harvested their crops went to the village chief's house to make trouble.

Villager 1: "Village head, how do you want us to survive? The price of food has risen again. We can't even buy wheat bran. We can only buy millet, corn and so on. And it costs more than 20 yuan per kilogram. Isn't this just robbing people?"

"These used to cost three or four coins per pound, but now they have increased many times. Only the price of rice has not increased so much, but it still costs more than one tael of silver per pound. Such precious food is not something we peasants can eat."

The village chief also had a severe headache.

It's very annoying to hear these people chattering.

Stop arguing. What's the point? Now we need to find a way to overcome this difficulty.

Villager 2: "Village chief, it's your fault for not notifying us. Your families have rushed to harvest the crops in the fields. This shows that you knew it was going to rain heavily, so why didn't you notify us? Village chief, if you had notified us, we would have rushed to harvest the crops, and we wouldn't have ended up like this."

The village chief was furious and even looked at the person who was saying it. "I didn't say that. If I said it, would you believe me? What did I tell you before? I said that you'd better follow Yun Tao's steps to know the direction of the wind in the village. Yun Tao has recruited such a smart person, and some of you are still working in their workshop. Don't you know that? Now, if I say this, will you believe it?"

"How can I tell you something that I am not sure of myself? What if there is no heavy rain? Will you blame me again? I told you to harvest the crops, and you want to ask me to compensate for the crops. I am in a difficult position now, how can I be easy?"

"You don't have good eyesight. You see it's been raining all the time, so something must be wrong. Look at Aunt Zhang's family in the village. They braved the rain and worked hard to harvest crops in the fields. Now they have enough food and drink and live a happy life. Why don't you say that you also learned from them to harvest crops at that time?"

The village chief was so angry that he said a lot of things at once. Maybe he had never spoken so long in his life.

Villager 3: "Okay. Stop talking. The food price has gone up so much that we can't afford it. Let's think about what we should do. Village chief, do you think this is okay? Can we spend some money to buy food from you? You have a lot of food, too. As long as we can make it to next year, each of us can save a little. Of course, the price is definitely higher than usual."

Villager Three's voice got smaller and smaller as he spoke.

The village chief understood what he meant. It was higher than usual but much lower than the market. And it was still much lower, just a few more coins than usual.

The village chief and his family are not happy. Food is in short supply now.

What is the price of grain now? If I sell it to the villagers, what will I do if I don’t have enough food? And if I don’t have enough food, I have to spend money to buy it outside, and the price at that time will not be the same as the price I sell it to them.

The village chief looked at the villagers, the villagers looked at the village chief, and everyone looked at each other.

At this time, it was the village head's wife who spoke up, "Fellow villagers, we don't have much food at home. If we sell it to you, we won't have enough for ourselves. And there are too many of you. We may not have enough food at home."