The days passed slowly, and within three days, all the villagers in Gujiagang became impatient.

Some men went to work in the county town, and sent some messages back to them.

Those people said that the price of food in the county town changes every day. If the food at home is not enough, they have to prepare early and rush to buy food. Some people

who have more food stored are eager to move after hearing the news. They think they should be able to make a small fortune.

So, some people secretly borrowed other people's donkey carts and dragged the food they could save from their own mouths to the county town to sell.

The price of grain was 20% higher than before, and they were extremely happy. After getting the money, some of their family members were still shouting with joy.

But when the clan leader Gu Yuxi found out about this, he was furious.

That night, he convened a clan meeting in the ancestral hall of the Gu clan.

There, he scolded the families who sold grain!

"How can you be so stupid, you unlucky people who got your heads chopped off? How many times have I told you that you can't sell food, you can't sell food, food is our lifeblood! Without food, what will you eat in the future? By then, everyone will have nothing to eat, even if you have money, you can't buy it!"

As a clan leader, Gu Yuxi couldn't watch his clan members make mistakes, nor could he watch them starve to death. So, tonight, in front of everyone, he personally took action, pressed all the heads of those families to the ground, and beat them with 20 sticks.

After beating someone up, he still had to frown and give earnest advice to the others present.

"In the face of life and death, money is nothing but external things!"

"The current situation is getting worse and worse. The weather is getting hotter and hotter. If a drought really happens in the future, perhaps the fields we planted next year will experience a large-scale reduction in production. Now maybe you don't lack those grains, maybe you really think that you can get by by tightening your belts and eating two meals a day. But I want to tell you, once a drought or disaster occurs here, most people will not be able to survive."

"If we save more food now and choose to save more food, then most of us will be able to survive until next year..."

At today's meeting, clan leader Gu Yuxi said a lot in one breath.

He was talking until his mouth was dry, and the others were also dizzy from listening.

Some people even felt the blue veins on their faces exposed as they listened.

Because the voice of the clan leader Gu Yuxi at this time was really too loud, and the emotions were particularly intense. The hoarse and roaring look was like a madman. Anyone with a normal mind would feel very scared when seeing it.

After listening to clan leader Gu Yuxi muttering for two full hours, the vast majority of people present had actually realized that the situation was still quite serious.

Some people felt from the bottom of their hearts that it was not worth it to sell grain just to earn an extra 20% of income.

Some people, however, felt that their clan leader just liked to meddle in other people's business and had let them lose such a chance to make a small fortune.

...At this moment, clan leader Gu Yuxi knew very well in his heart that there were still more people in his family. People's minds were not unified and everyone had their own ideas.

So, after his voice became completely hoarse, he still couldn't help but repeatedly emphasize to the clan members present that they could not sell food, really could not sell food!

Moreover, he also strongly suggested that those who sold food should now use money to buy it back. Otherwise, no one could predict what would happen in the future.

The villagers who heard his suggestion reacted strongly when they heard this.

Some people regretted it so much that they felt that they really shouldn't have sold the food. So, after they returned home, they discussed it for a night. They decided to go to the county town tomorrow morning and use the money to buy back all the food they had sold before. Even if they lost 10 to 20 kilograms of food, it didn't matter.

However, after the whole family quietly went to the county town, they found that the price of food today was much higher than the price of food yesterday.

In other words, the money they earned from selling food yesterday could not buy back all the food they had sold.

Moreover, the loss was more than just a little bit. If they calculated carefully, they found that if they really went to buy, they would lose about 50 to 60 kilograms of food.

There was no other way.

The father and son wandered around the county town again and again, asking about various things everywhere, and finally they found that the prices in the county town were really too high, and they were getting higher and higher.

This trend of rising prices cannot be stopped by anyone.

However, there was a detail that caught their attention. That is, the people who lived on fishing boats all year round, in order to buy food, they now either resorted to bartering. Or they reduced the price of their own fish a little bit and sold them to farmers who had food.

Therefore, the father and son discussed it quietly and decided that they could use the money to buy back the grains first.

They could take out a portion of the grains they bought back and exchange them with the fishermen.

Thus, the father and son exchanged for more than 300 kilograms of salted fish.

After returning home with a full donkey cart, the clan leader Gu Yuxi was the first to know about it.

He was a shrewd man. After careful calculation, he found that this transaction was successful. And the family did not lose money at all.

From that time on, he suggested that those clan members who sold grains should quickly follow this model and make up for all the losses they had previously suffered. They

could eat glutinous rice and old rice.

Salted fish, dried fish, smoked fish, and smelly fish are even more edible...

In short, the more edible things there are, the better.

Chen Xuanxuan is now a farmer. After hearing this, she was a little tempted.

In a sense, exchanging vegetarian rice for fish is a good deal.

After all, fish is still a vegetable.

"Boss, why don't we hurry up now and buy some fish while those people are selling fish cheaply?"

"I'll make grilled fish for you every day. By the way, we can also make fish balls."

"As long as our fish balls are good, we might be able to make a lot of money."