The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

At this time, Bai Xing'er, Zhuzi's wife, Tianfu's mother, Lu Ershen and other women were surrounding Lu Qingqing.

Bai Xing'er looked at Lu Qingqing and spoke first:

"Daya, are you going to buy food tomorrow?

If you go, let’s go together.”

As soon as Bai Xing'er said this, the women nearby looked over.

Lu Qingqing didn't really need to go, but she was afraid they wouldn't be able to find a place to sell grain at a high price, so she said:

"Go, let's go together tomorrow."

Bai Xing'er happily agreed when she heard this.

"Okay, then I'll come to your house tomorrow morning to see you."

In the crowd, Tian Fu Niang pondered for a while, then asked hesitantly:

"Daya, you went to the city today, I think you can see things more clearly.

You know, in our team, almost every household still has some food.

What do you think? Should we buy more food?

I think that since everyone in the city is scrambling for food, the price of food must be very high.

The food we have will last for some time.

Otherwise, wait for a while and see.

What if food prices are cheaper by then? "

Before Lu Qingqing could reply, Zhuzi's wife spoke first.

"Auntie, this matter cannot be delayed. Have you forgotten the drought we experienced in Lujia Village?

When the drought broke out, the price of food would increase several times every one or two days.

Moreover, later on, you couldn’t buy food even if you spent a lot of money.

In my opinion, while the current food prices are still acceptable, we should consider buying some.

Whether prices go up or down, we don’t care. We just need to focus on whether we have enough food to eat.”

Upon hearing this, the old village chief's wife nodded in agreement.

"I think what Zhuzi's wife said is right. We should just store enough food for a year.

Don’t worry too much about whether food prices rise or fall in the future.

In the final analysis, money is not as important as human life!"

After the old village chief's wife finished speaking, the women gradually made up their minds.

Seeing that everyone had almost finished their discussion, Lu Tianli raised his voice and shouted:

"Okay, now those who want to buy food can stay, and those who don't want to buy food can go back!"

After seeing a small number of villagers from the mountain leave, Lu Tianli continued:

“Everyone stays here just to buy food.

Now, let me tell you about the county’s grain purchasing situation.

Nowadays, every grain shop checks household registration before selling grain, but each shop has a daily purchase limit.

Only the first few orders are sold each day, and each person can purchase up to two kilograms per day.

If you want to buy more food, you have to find a way to buy it at a high price.

If anyone wants to buy grain at a high price, please gather at the village entrance at 6:15 AM tomorrow.

If you want to go to the grain store to queue up to buy expensive grain, manage your time and leave as early as possible.

By the way, the road to the city is not safe nowadays.

If you don't want to go with the villagers, bring your weapons and go as many people as possible."

After Lu Tianli finished speaking, he let everyone disperse.

But at this time, most people still didn't leave.

Many people found familiar families at the foot of the mountain and asked to borrow their horse-drawn carriages to help transport some food.

In fact, there are ox carts running back and forth on the road from Baoshan Town to Yining County.

But first of all, the ox cart is very slow and you need to wait in advance.

Secondly, and most importantly, you need to pay for the round-trip fare when riding an ox cart.

After all, the villagers were reluctant to waste the fare.

Besides, borrowing things in the village is very common these days.

However, whether the person being borrowed is willing to lend it out depends on the individual situation.

Like Wu Hongren before, his family had the only mule cart in Baoshan Town.

But if villagers come to borrow the bus once, they will be charged a fee.

However, after Lu Qingqing's team arrived, almost no one wanted to borrow Wu Hongren's mule cart anymore.

Because there were many carriages in the team, and no one collected money.

Villagers from the foot of the mountain often come to borrow the car, and every time they borrow it, they bring some things from home as a thank you gift.

At this moment, there are especially many people coming to Lu Qingqing to borrow carriages.

Because she purchased silk, she dealt most with the women living down the mountain.

As a result, soon more than a dozen women came over.

The dozen or so people gathered around Lu Qingqing and soon realized that they were there to borrow a carriage.

They looked at each other and smiled awkwardly, but no one left.

Seeing this, the old village chief's wife, Bai Xing'er and other women were worried that Daya might offend someone.

They offered to help, and several women from each family helped to take in one or two people.

Fortunately, people these days are generally thin.

Also, because they had little money, they could not buy much food.

Therefore, it was no problem to fit three or four people in a carriage and load it with one or two bags of grain bought by each family.

Seeing that the matter was settled, everyone went back home.

On her way back, Lu Qingqing passed by the pharmaceutical factory and was stopped by Manager Hua.

Manager Hua looked at Lu Qingqing and led her to the pharmaceutical factory, saying as they walked:

"Manager Lu, I also followed what Captain Lu said about the food.

Our pharmaceutical factory provides meals, but you have never eaten here.

I will have someone deliver your share of the food to you later."

As he said this, fearing that Lu Qingqing would not accept it, he explained:

"We're not taking advantage of the pharmaceutical company!

According to the pharmaceutical factory's regulations, the manager's food expenses are not low.

This food belongs to you, please don't refuse it."

When Lu Qingqing heard Manager Hua say this, she smiled and agreed.

The two chatted as they entered the pharmaceutical factory, which was still as busy as usual.

Lu Qingqing took a look around and saw that the factory building on the west side had already been topped off.

Manager Hua followed beside her and talked to Lu Qingqing about the approximate completion date of the factory, when the remaining employees and medicinal materials would arrive, and other matters.

Not long after, she came to the inner room and saw a few more barrels of medicinal materials in her office. She closed the door and added space water into them and stirred them evenly.

After coming out, tell Manager Hua that he can drag the bucket out.

After Manager Hua agreed, he called someone to come and drag the man away.

These days, Lu Qingqing comes here once or twice almost every day.

What the entire pharmaceutical factory accumulates the most now is actually the processed medicinal material residue.

After Manager Hua sent Lu Qingqing away, he looked at the pile of medicinal material residue in the warehouse, thought for a while, and went back to the house to write a letter.

The potential of this pharmaceutical factory has not yet been fully realized.

Judging from the current situation, dozens more people can be transferred over.

Except for a small amount of residue left for processing, the rest are all boiled and then rolled into pills.

Manager Hua was thinking as he started writing.

The next morning, after Qin Lang went to work in the fields, Lu Qingqing harnessed the carriage and went out.

When she arrived at the village entrance, there were already quite a few people standing there.

Several women who borrowed Lu Qingqing's carriage greeted her enthusiastically when they saw her.

Widow Meng took out a porcelain bowl from the basket she was carrying and handed it to Lu Qingqing, saying:

"Daya, I just cooked some edamame this morning. They're not worth much, so please don't despise them."