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While choosing, she pretended to glance at the grain store across the street and asked her mother-in-law, "Why are there so many people buying grain here? How long will the line last? I never saw such a long line when I went out with my mother before."

Li Xiaoman also agreed: "Sister, there are too many people here. I wanted to go in just now, but was chased out by a fierce, black-faced man. I was scared. How about we buy it tomorrow!"

Seeing that they had picked a little of each vegetable, my mother-in-law couldn't help but kindly remind them, "This is your first time buying vegetables! How many people are there in your family? Don't buy too much, or you won't be able to keep the vegetables."

Jing Chunxi: "There aren't many people at home, but we can still keep some radishes, onions, and eggplants. We're not worried. Besides, we're out of food, and my parents aren't free, otherwise they wouldn't have urged my brother and me to go out and buy some."

When she heard they wanted to buy food, the mother-in-law looked across at them and said, "If you want to buy food, you should hurry up early. The amount of food sold is fixed every day. Each family can only buy five kilograms at a time. Once it's sold out, there will be no more.

It’s useless to queue up today, you won’t be able to buy it.”

"Isn't it said that only Jiujiang County is short of food? Why is our Ezhou also in such a tight spot? We are a land of fish and rice." Jing Chunxi was curious. He hadn't heard that several counties in Hubei were affected by the disaster, and he hadn't seen any food being snatched away along the way. The grain shops all had food, but the price was a little higher than last year, which was not too outrageous.

"Children don't understand if they don't go out, right? Ezhou has grain, but now they don't dare to bring it in. Instead, they move the granary outside. The government sends a fixed amount of grain to the city every day, and it requires manpower and horses every day. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so expensive.

I'm afraid the victims of Jiujiang County will go mad with hunger and riot. If that happens, it will be our Ezhou that will be burned, killed, and looted. The officials are also making plans for the people of Ezhou, so no one dares to complain."

Jing Chunxi was surprised by her mother-in-law's words. Even Xiaoman, who was picking vegetables, looked up at her. It was rare to see ordinary people praising officials. It seemed that the governor of Ezhou City was a good official.

Jing Chunxi asked quietly, "Didn't the capital send disaster relief grain to that place? Why? Isn't it enough?"

Grandma picked up some straw and helped Xiaoman tie up the vegetables she had picked, saying, "Don't you see how many people there are in Jiujiang County? That little bit of disaster relief food is not enough for them to eat. Including this year, there hasn't been a harvest in two years.

I don’t know how many people have died since last year. The government announced that they died of plague, but that was just to deceive the people. In my opinion, they just starved to death.

Fortunately, our Ezhou City didn't have such a corrupt official."

After the mother-in-law said this, she probably felt that it was not good to talk about the government in this way, so she stopped talking about this topic: "A total of thirty cents. If you want to buy food, you'd better come earlier tomorrow. You definitely won't be able to get a queue today." As she said this, she really put a few more green onions into their vegetable baskets.

Xiao Man stood up and stretched, saying, "That's really boring. I have to make another trip tomorrow."

Then he looked around, his eyes lit up, and he said, "Sister, are you hungry? I see there are white rice cakes across the way. I'll go buy two."

After saying that, he lifted the basket of vegetables at his feet into Jing Chunxi and said, "Sister, wait for me."

He ran away.

Grandma looked at his back and smiled: "Brother, you are greedy."

Seeing Jing Chunxi still squatting, he pulled out a small stool from his side, only about the size of two palms, and beckoned her, "Sit down and wait!"

Jing Chunxi thanked her and said, "How many people are there in my mother-in-law's family? If even a wealthy family can only buy five kilograms of grain a day, wouldn't they have to queue up every now and then? No one at home would have to do any work."

"Oh!" The mother-in-law laughed out loud: "Only a girl like you would think so. Which wealthy family doesn't have grain stored in the cellar? Why do we have to queue up like this to buy it?

Although the government controls the granaries in our Ezhou City, the price of grain is not necessarily higher than in other places. People can enter and exit the city gates freely, and wealthy families can buy and sell grain at will.

The reason we moved the granary out was because we were worried about a riot over there and people seizing the granary."

Jing Chunxi thought about it and it made sense. They were able to successfully pull more than a dozen carts of grain into the city yesterday. I'm afraid the gatekeepers would think they were some wealthy family going out to buy grain!

If they can enter, then other people transporting grain can enter as well.