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After Liu's father and Lin Weizhong entered the city, the rain became lighter. Occasionally, there were some pedestrians wearing straw hats and raincoats on the street. The baskets they carried were full of wild vegetables and mushrooms, which they must have picked from the mountains and forests outside the city.

There were only a few shops open on the street, some of which were closed. It seemed that life in the city was not easy either.

The three of them walked for a long time before they found an inn. The door was open and there was only one waiter who was dozing off at the counter. When he heard someone coming in, he came to his senses and hurriedly greeted them.

"Sir, do you want to be a top-notch person or stay in a hotel?"

"Little Brother, we want a guest room and three more bowls of noodles!"

"Okay, I'll take you to your room first and bring the noodles over in a bit!"

The three of them walked on the road for four days and camped in the wild for three nights. Although they had a tent, they were indeed very tired.

I also asked for three buckets of hot water so I could wash and change into dry clothes.

After a while, the waiter brought three bowls of noodles and put them on the table. They were just ordinary plain noodles with a few leafy vegetables floating on them.

"Waiter, can you tell me what's going on in the city right now?"

"Sir, it's been raining every day. What can happen in the city? There are fewer people walking around. Look, we only have three customers like you in our store right now."

"Are all the grain stores in the city open? Can I buy grain?"

"Oh, you're asking about this. The government grain store is open for two hours every morning, and the purchase limit for each person is still ten kilograms of coarse grains and five kilograms of fine grains per day.

There are also some private grain stores that have no purchase limit, but the prices are twice as expensive as those in government-run grain stores. This is also to prevent some merchants from hoarding grain to make a fortune during national disasters.

Even though it is raining now, the court is happy.

However, grain reserves are still tight, and new grain can only be harvested next summer, and the food shortage problem can only be solved in the fall of next year."

This waiter knows quite a lot. It seems that the inn teahouse is indeed the center of news and gossip, and the best place to get information. Father Liu thanked him politely:

"Thank you, little brother."

"You're welcome. Please enjoy your meal. I'll go get some hot water for you." Then he left.

Hot water was brought in a short while later. After the three of them had their fill, they took a hot bath, changed into clean clothes, and had a good rest in the inn for the night.

When I woke up early the next morning, I felt refreshed.

The three of them came to the hall in the morning. The same waiter from yesterday came up to them and asked them when he saw them were about to leave.

"Sir, are you leaving now? Are you staying at the hotel tonight?"

"Well, I'll go out and take a look first, and come back later."

"Okay, I'll clean your room for you in a bit, and you can come back and live here without any worries!"

"Thank you, Xiaoer!"

It was still drizzling on the streets in the early morning. There were a lot more pedestrians in the morning than when they arrived yesterday. Everyone was carrying a basket and holding an umbrella, or wearing a hat and a raincoat to shelter from the rain.

Some people hurriedly held the baskets in their arms, using their bodies to protect the baskets from getting wet by the rain, while some people ran very fast with empty baskets.

Father Liu asked the three of them to follow the crowd and walked two streets, then they came to a shop with a long queue. Judging from the name, it should be a government shop. The people coming out of it didn't have much food in their hands, so the flow was fast.

The three of them stood at the end of the line, preparing to queue up. Before they had queued for long, a man shouted to the people queuing outside:

"Today's food is sold out, come early tomorrow!"

"What bad luck! I haven't been able to buy any food for two days!"

"Yeah! I haven't been able to buy any for two days. I have to go earlier tomorrow. If I can't buy any, I'll have to buy more expensive food!"

"Come earlier tomorrow..."

"If you really have no food, go to Qian's grain store and buy some. It's a bit expensive, but you have to survive!"

After the other man finished speaking, he walked towards another shop on the street.

So, Liu's father took the other two and went to Qian's grain store, where they saw a bookstore open in the middle.

Whenever the three of them saw a bookstore, they would go in and take a look, and buy any books they found that were suitable.

After a stroll, Liu's father bought a county annals and inquired about the conditions of some surrounding prefectures and counties.

This county town is quite far away from Quguan County, and its location is right on the edge of the two prefectures.

The area in the middle is equivalent to the area of ​​two cities, mainly because the Dahuan Mountain Range winds between the two counties, and there is no suitable place to build a county town in the middle.

It shouldn't take that long to get to the next county town. The further east you go, the lower the altitude becomes, and the mountains, basins, plains and other terrains are more suitable for farming and living.

There are two prefectures in the southern part of Zhongzhou, Hexi Prefecture and Hedong Prefecture. Hexi Prefecture consists of 9 county towns, and Hedong Prefecture consists of 10 county towns.

Shanqing County, where they were going, was at the easternmost part of Shandong Prefecture, close to the east. The shop owner could only tell them the approximate location, and he didn't know the exact location because he had never been there.

Father Liu only had a general understanding that due to transportation problems in ancient times, many people might never have left the village in their entire lives, let alone go to other county governments.

Therefore, whenever Liu's father arrived at a place, he would try his best to find some local books to read, whether they were county chronicles, national chronicles, or travelogues of mountains and rivers.

No matter which dynasty, studying was always an expensive thing. I bought a county annals, a very thin book, which cost more than 800 coins. I paid one tael of silver in exchange for one copper coin.

Ink and paper, two of the four treasures of the study, are consumer goods, and are useful if you want to go to school to study.

These all need to be purchased continuously. An average family cannot afford the cost of a student's writing brushes, inkstones, and tuition fees for a year.

We also have to add some personal connections. In ancient times, one usually had to study for ten years to guarantee a good result, which was what people at that time called "ten years of hard study."

Not only spiritually but also monetarily.

How could Mr. Liu not know this truth? He should still spend the money, and the books he bought can be passed on to his children in the future.

After Liu's father came here, he slowly made some plans in his mind. Studying and doing business are definitely things he must do in the future.

After coming out of the bookstore, Father Liu was also thinking about things. After he came here, he had been making some plans in his mind. Of course, studying and doing business are definitely things he must do in the future.

Therefore, if they read more, learn more, and think more, they will definitely be able to live better in the future. It would be even better if they can achieve something and change the difficult lives of people at this time.

He still needs to plan for the long term. He has always been a person with ideas and plans. He can't just live his life in mediocrity wherever he goes.

For the sake of his daughter and granddaughter, he also has to make himself stronger.