It's a lot for the poor people, but not much for the two masters.
Is one hundred coins worth of grain expensive?
Just look at those elderly people who were also eavesdropping and you will know that this price is absolutely tempting.
"Grandma, let's sell 150 kilograms of grain later."
Xiushui throws out this amount.
The old lady was not surprised at all.
If they were to follow normal consumption, with what they had eaten in the past few days and the remaining two days' rations, it would be a great achievement if they could squeeze out 100 kilograms.
But...who told her to have system space so she can cheat?
As for those excited families, even if they are tempted by the price, they probably won’t be able to afford much food.
It was just as she guessed.
After asking around, the old village chief finally came up with a number: his family could squeeze out 50 kilograms of food rations.
The nearby villagers contributed 40 kilograms.
When the old lady heard this, she simply said that she could sell 160 kilograms.
As soon as she announced the number, everyone was envious and jealous.
The old lady didn't want to attract attention, but who could blame her for having no money?
"All our money was taken away by the old man. We have so little food now that we have no other choice but to exchange it for money to buy salt.
I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but we've been out of salt since yesterday.
Walking such a long distance every day without eating salt...I can't do that.
For the next two days, my whole family had to drink wild vegetable soup. Alas, poor kids.
Fortunately, Xiushui has collected a lot of wild vegetables. I can save some money to buy salt after two days of hard work."
After she complained, everyone was not so jealous anymore.
After all, everyone in the village knew that Xu Qingshan had previously controlled the Wen family's money.
Now the old lady is selling all her surplus grain in order to buy salt...
It's really normal. After all, people will feel weak without salt.
Someone persuaded me.
“Old sister, who knows if we can buy food in the next city.
In the years of famine, the most precious thing is food.
If you sell everything at once, what will happen to the whole family if something goes wrong?"
Some people who were planning to follow their example and drink wild vegetable porridge gave up the idea of selling grain after hearing this.
No matter how high the price is, it is life-saving food.
No one can guarantee what the next city will be like. What’s the use of having money if the city is deserted?
In short, food is hard currency on the road of escape.
Therefore, many people think that Mrs. Wen’s behavior is too irrational.
I even believe that she really took out all the food.
"I don't want to give it all away. But I can only sell this little bit of grain for two days. If I make some money later, I can use it to buy salt.
One hundred and sixty kilograms seems like a lot of money, so after buying grain, how much money will be left for salt...it's hard to say."
Well, this calculation makes it easier to understand why the old lady sold all her grain.
After all, it's a gamble that the price will change to the middle price after two days.
Some people were tempted by what they heard, but when they thought it was just a gamble, they gave up the idea.
Forget it, forget it, it’s better to have food in hand.
After the old lady said this, I no longer envied those people who had more than 100 kilograms of grain in their family.
In fact, some families had more than 100 or 200 kilograms of grain.
After all, there are so many people and they haven't divided up, so how can they not have some food?
However, more people means more food.
The Wen family has so many talents but only has one or two hundred kilograms of food. I really don’t envy them.
Without the people with red eyes watching them, the Wen family's food exchange operation calmed down.
Those who joined these companies later also set out together.
At this moment, everyone thought again, how could this group of people who came out of a bandit’s lair hide money?
Did the bandits not search them thoroughly enough, or did they leave it to them out of pity? No, it was absolutely impossible.
"There's definitely something fishy going on here. The bags they're carrying look very soft. I suspect this group of people might be digging up corpses."
The group of people who were originally complacent about selling grain for money, looked unhappy when they touched the silver in their arms.
Money dug out from the corpse!
unlucky.
When everyone looked at Old Lady Wen again, their eyes were filled with sympathy.
The old lady's face was numb.
"So what if they touched the corpses? Have you ever seen those corpses gnashing their teeth or eating or grabbing people?
Ghosts and gods are described as being so powerful, but no matter how powerful they are, can they be more powerful than starving to death or freezing to death?
Besides, how many people and how much land has this money circulated through? Who knows who has touched it, and in the end, won’t it still be used in the same way?
Well, this is obviously wrong, but it also makes so much sense that everyone is scratching their heads and unable to refute it.
The old village chief also laughed.
"Right, right, right! In fact, when people become evil, they are scarier than even imaginary ghosts and gods.
Rumors say ghosts and gods are terrifying and ferocious, but has anyone actually encountered or seen a ghost or god? Everyone is just spreading rumors.
On the contrary, people, such as those bandits, and the bandits who were defeated later are more terrifying!
Is money a crime?
No!
It just passes through everyone's hands. The guilty ones are those who use the money to do bad things."
This is a bit confusing, but everyone knows one thing: money is not a sin and it is very popular.
Xiushui and the old lady looked at the old village chief with admiration. The old man did say something philosophical.
Tsk, is money a crime? No! Are modern vegetables that have been drugged with all kinds of drugs a crime? No!
The guilty ones are the ones who do evil.
"Grandma, it's a shame for our village chief to be a village official. It's even more of a shame for him to flee to another place and not even be able to be a village official.
The ancients were really smart. Smarter than me anyway.”
"You are quite self-aware, but my granddaughter is also very capable.
It’s just that you are young and still need to learn these social customs.
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