Chapter 10 The price of food has risen ridiculously

While the carpenter was repairing the door, Gan Fanren sat on a stone and kept thinking.

There will be another three years of drought in the future. It would be too conspicuous for their family to eat and drink in such a small village. Even if they pretended with pot ash, they couldn't pretend for long.

When Hui Niang finished her confinement, their family would have to leave.

Go to the capital.

It is under the feet of the emperor, with many people and eyes, and it will definitely be able to cover up the secret of their daughter.

Now they still have to live there for another month, so they should buy some food so as not to arouse suspicion.

And I don't know if there is any limit to my daughter's golden finger. If it is suddenly taken back by the fairy goddess one day, they will have some extra food to eat.

In addition to Gan Fanren's desire to move, many people in the village also had the idea.

"After the flood, there will be a great epidemic. We must leave as soon as possible."

Several families in the village left the village.

Wang Li saw them leaving, chased after them and spat.

"A bunch of cowards, isn't it just a water level increase? Look how scared they are."

"I have a miserable life. My daughter-in-law is gone, and so many people in the village have left. My winery business will be affected."

After she finished cursing, she quietly slipped to the door of Gan's house to peek.

In the house, Gan Fanren opened his daughter's swaddling clothes and took out the silver, intending to buy some food while there was food in the town.

Gan Tian was so scared that she pretended to sleep and didn't dare to open her eyes.

But her inner voice exposed her.

[This moment has finally come. What should I do? How should I explain that the money is missing. 】

【No, I'm just a baby and I can't talk, why should I explain. 】

【Yes, yes, yes! I'm just an innocent little baby, I don't understand anything, and none of this has anything to do with me. 】

Listening to his daughter's inner voice, Gan Fanren almost laughed to death.

He pretended to be surprised.

"Oh, why is the money less?"

Hui Niang said in cooperation: "It must have been lost accidentally during the bumpy journey."

Gan Tian nodded slightly.

Yes!

That's it.

Outside the house, Wang Li's eyes widened.

Isn't Gan Fanren just a poor scholar? How can he take out six taels of silver, so much money.

Looking at the six taels of silver, Wang Li's face showed a trace of greed.

When Gan Fanren arrived in town, the owner of the grain store was frowning.

With so much waterlogged grain, he couldn't sell it at normal prices, so he had to sell it with tears in his eyes.

After selling grain for a day, he didn't sell any. When he saw Gan Fanren coming to buy grain, he was so happy that his teeth were bared.

Gan Fanren spent one or two taels of silver and bought 20 dan of rice.

He spent more silver and asked the store to deliver it to the village for him.

The store owner readily agreed.

Seeing that Gan Fanren bought a cart of waterlogged grain, the villagers couldn't help but talk about it.

"Has this scholar Gan become stupid from studying so much that he is spending money to buy grain soaked in water?"

"That's right! The grain soaked in water doesn't taste good, and it's better to wait with the money. When the grain arrives from a few days ago, buy more."

Wang Li was jealous of Gan Fanren's family's money. Now seeing that Gan Fanren bought a lot of grain soaked in water, she thought Gan Fanren was stupid: "It is said that scholars are good for nothing. This scholar is just stupid."

"Our family is rich, so we won't learn from his poor behavior to buy grain soaked in water."

"If we want to eat, we have to eat the best refined rice."

Some villagers flattered Wang Li: "Of course, who is as rich as your family?"

Wang Li felt a little flattered when she heard the villagers' flattery.

Soon, the villagers regretted their decision.

There was no other reason.

Although the fresh rice was good, it was expensive.

Because the surrounding villages had been hit by the disaster, the price of the new rice was ridiculously high.

One stone of rice cost two taels of silver.

This was simply a sky-high price!

Faced with the people's protests, the owner of the grain store didn't even raise his eyelids.

"You think it's too expensive? One tael of silver is one stone of soaked rice."

"A few days ago, Mr. Gan bought twenty stones for one tael of silver. Why is it only one tael of silver per stone here?"

"That was the price before. It's not the same now. If you can afford it, buy it. If you can't afford it, get out."

The villagers would have been fine if they didn't mention Gan Fanren. They felt heartbroken when they mentioned the owner.

At that time, he thought that the soaked rice would be thrown away anyway, so he might as well sell it cheaply. He never thought that food is so scarce now.

If he had known this, he would never sell it no matter what.

Wang Lishi realized that Gan Xiucai was not stupid, but she was.

Because of the flood, the crops in the fields were washed away, and they might not have food to eat in the next few months.

The food at home would not last long.

But she was unwilling to spend one or two taels of silver to buy soaked rice.

She rolled her eyes and thought of the food in Gan Fanren's family.

Gan Xiucai was the only young and strong man in his family, and the rest were either women or children. How could they eat so much food?

They should take it out and give it to their Wang family.

Wang Li thought about it, took her husband and her son, ran to the door of Gan's house, and banged on the door.

"Gan Xiucai, Gan Xiucai..."

In the middle of the night, her voice was so long that it sounded like a ghost.

Gan Tian, ​​who was drinking milk, was so scared that she dropped the bottle.

Gan Fanren blew out the candles and did not go out.

Wang Li shouted outside the door for half a night, but no one opened the door. Instead, she fell ill because of the heavy dew.

When he came the next day, he had lost the momentum of last night.

"Mr. Gan, I knocked on your door last night, why didn't you open it?"

Gan Fanren was chopping wood in the yard. After hearing Wang Li's words, he put down his axe and said calmly.

"It was so late at night, I thought it was haunted and didn't dare to open the door."

Wang Li had just eaten her daughter-in-law a few days ago. After hearing Gan Fanren's words, her face turned pale with fear.

"Pfft, pfft, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"You are a scholar, how can you believe in ghosts and gods?"

"I came here to ask you something serious. Do you still have the water-soaked grain? Give me ten dan."

Gan Fanren saw Wang Li coming to make trouble and raised his eyebrows: "Okay, I don't want much, just give me five hundred coins."

"Five hundred coins, why don't you go and grab it? That's water-soaked grain, you are so mean to sell it so expensively."

Wang Li pointed at Gan Fanren's nose and scolded him, as if Gan Fanren had done something unforgivable.

The grain ticket owner charged one tael of silver for one dan, and she didn't dare to say a word. Gan Fanren was still shouting that he was making money with a dirty mind when he gave her five hundred coins and ten dan.

Gan Fanren glanced at her and said, "I gave you the original price and you still think it's expensive. You don't want to take it for free,

do you?" "I just gave a steamed bun to a beggar on the street, and he kowtowed to me twice. You want to take away ten stone of rice with empty words. It's too shameless. I'm afraid that the ancestors under the ground will be ashamed if they hear it."

Gan Tian waved her hands excitedly in the house.

[Daddy is so handsome, Daddy is mighty.]

[Curse this shameless old hag to death.]

The people in the village half-jokingly said, "Wang Li, what you did is not kind. One tael of silver and twenty stone is the purchase price. In order to let the store deliver it to the village, Gan Xiucai also added money for the carriage."