Chapter 648 Being a full dead man
Yang Lan: "What's the difficulty? Our Hulu Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides. Isn't it enough to go up the mountain to cut some dead branches?"
"First use these firewood to make some porridge, and a few young and strong people will eat their fill, and go up the mountain to chop firewood with me."
The villagers did not speak, but looked at the village.
Mun Zheng suddenly wanted to grab a handful of grass leaves as a cigarette: "Brother Lan, these firewood are all from the government office."
Yang Lan didn't care: "If you don't say it, I won't say it, who knows? Besides, when encountering such a big snow disaster, the government should have allowed us to go up the mountain to chop firewood."
Mengzheng looked at Yang Lan deeply and did not let go: "There is still some extra money in the clan, and although it is not much, I can only buy a few scales of charcoal. Silang, you and Brother Lan go to the charcoal shop in the city and buy some low-priced firewood."
Every winter disaster year, the charcoal shop will sell charcoal or firewood at a price lower than 50% of the market price.
Yang Laosi was dissatisfied, but he still put on his paper clothes and set off with Yang Lan.
"Silang, are you cold? Why don't you wear my jacket?"
Yang Laosi refused: "No! How long has it been since you were frozen? You will be uncomfortable! I am used to freezing. Besides, this is a new paper coat, which cost me fifty cents to buy!"
Poor families can't afford a squid coat. Sometimes a family of ten can only use straw mats, huddled at home and don't go out.
If you really want to go out, you will spend money to buy paper clothes.
The paper clothes are sewn with multiple layers of bark paper, so the warmth effect is just that, but the sales in Henan County are quite good.
The paper clothes craftsman can sell more than 100 pieces every day.
The two of them came to Xingyang County in the wind and snow and headed straight to the charcoal selling site. "What? Fifty quids per scale?! What daydreams do you have in the sky? Do you know what the rice price is now? Bangbang, don't stop it!"
The guy in the charcoal shop beat the two of them up!
Yang Laosi was dissatisfied: "Didn't you say you should sell charcoal at 50% below the market price? I've inquired just now, and the market price is only 100 cents."
The guy's eyebrows drooped, and his lips curled: "Who told you, who would you buy it? Anyway, I don't have it here. Go and go, go there!"
The guy drove the two out and complained in a low voice: "Any cat and dog dare to come to the charcoal shop, which is annoying to me."
Yang Laosi was blown by the cold wind and couldn't help but shrink his neck: "Brother Lan, let's go. I haven't seen a charcoal shop selling charcoal at a low price in any year, so the village is believing in the fools of those yamen runners."
Yang Lan turned around and walked towards Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau: "Anyway, we've come, let's go and see if there are any free ones. Ointment. Under the rule of Duke Yun, the health center has begun to distribute frostbite cream for free, and Lizhong Decoction has driven away the cold. We don’t ask for so much, just mix some anti-cold medicine. "
Yang Laosi's eyes widened: "Really fake? Are they so rich? The same is true in Hezhong County. Have you been cheated? "
Frostbite cream is made of pork fat, pepper and camphor. Ginseng and dried ginger are also added to Lizhong Decoction.
Can such a precious thing be distributed to ordinary people for free? !
How come it sounds so unreal? "Can I fool you?! Do you still remember Lao Meng, the clerk in our county? He was admitted to the main inspector of Hezhong Prefecture, and now he is from the eighth rank! When I went to Hezhong Prefecture, I met him. He also invited me to have a bowl of Lizhong Soup."
Old Meng, Yang Laosi knew him. "He really passed the exam to the main surveyor? When he was measuring the land in our village, he said that the area of the countryside in our village was not as large as in the booklet. For this reason, he was scolded by the main Bo. Could it be that what he said was true?"
A dissatisfaction slowly arose in Yang Laosi's heart. The registered fields are larger than the actual ones, which means they have to pay more taxes?
The land tax in Henan County is not low. If you pay more, you may be able to support several people.
The two of them went to Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau as they talked, and as expected, they were driven out again. "Come on, go back." Yang Lan's eyes showed a hint of sarcasm.
Yang Lan walked in front, and Yang Laosi followed closely behind.
In this way, Yang Lan can help him block some cold wind.
The houses in the county are much better than those in Hulu Village, including thatched houses, mud brick houses, and even blue brick houses.
In the alley sheltering in the wind, many people were curled up. They were covered with straw and snowflakes were falling on their heads.
Some of them didn't move at all, maybe they were frozen to death.
Even if you are alive, you are just leaving it to fate.
"They are all people without land. They live by odd jobs on weekdays. In winter, the store can't use these hired workers, so they no longer use them."
Yang Laosi said lightly: "If the next year is still a disaster year, our village will probably sell land and land. At that time, I will be a tenant farmer. It will be a day when I can live."
Yang Lan felt sad and cursed: "Don't Hu Qin! With me here, can you starve and freeze to death?"
When the two returned to the village, the sun had already set.
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In the dilapidated house at the east end of the village, there was a dim fire, and the fragrance of rice porridge floated in the air.
Yang Laosi shouted and rushed in: "Mun Zheng, you are too unfair. You fool us away, but you ended up secretly making porridge!"
Mun Zheng glared at him: "What did you say? Say it again!"
Yang Laosi's eyes finally moved away from the hot and white-blooded pottery jar, and then he noticed that there were two or three women lying beside the fire.
It should be a woman, right? She was so thin that her chest was flat, but she was wearing a slutty skirt.
The jumping fire covered the women, making their faces look a little bit brighter, no longer like dead blue and gray. "Sister Taohua?! Lan Nier?!" Yang Laosi recognized these women and was shocked: "Didn't they marry to Hongfu Village? Why did they become like this?!"
Hongfu Village is much richer than Hulu Village. Most of their villages do craftsmanship, selling soy sauce, vinegar, and carpenters. Anyway, their life is better than their food in the soil.
Mun Masahiro frowned: "Peohua's husband's family service yamen has gone bankrupt. Lan Nier's husband was taken to the army and said he was going to Guangde Mansion. Have you bought firewood?"
Yang Laosi understood that he had to bring his own food to the army. I guess Lan Nier's husband took all the food away.
Yang Lan returned the money to the clan: "They don't sell it, and the Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau won't send anything. Now the firewood is 100 cents a duct, and the rice price has also risen to 3,200 cents."
The villagers in the house did not respond to this.
The price is far higher than their perception and sounds particularly unreal.
Muan was staring blankly at the fire in front of him. All the fire in the village was here. When the fire was extinguished, there would be no warmth in this winter.
Jun Zheng stretched out his hand to roast the fire, and Yang Lan's tempting voice sounded in his ears: "Meng Zheng, why not listen to me, let's go up the mountain to chop firewood! Even if we are going to die, we have to be a suffocating ghost! We have so much food, and it would be a good deal if we are frozen to death!"
(End of this chapter)