Because the discussion was about the most important issue for everyone who was going together, the fifty-eight families who decided to go along were called to discuss it together with those who could make the decision.
Qi Kangfu spoke first: "Brother Lianba asked others to go to a nearby village, and I rode with him to look for a remote village. We were both lucky, and we found someone with food."
Qi Kangfu gave a thumbs up to Zhiba who was standing next to Qi Kang'an with admiration. Zhiba smiled shyly and waved his hand.
"The designated grain cannot be good grain like that in Sanhe Town. Every household in that place called Yangcun stores last year's corn cobs,,,"
Old Man Qian was puzzled, "How come last year's corn cobs are still there?"
"I don't know where they heard about the conscription in their village. It was said that the grain could be used to pay for the head, but every household didn't sell it and kept it. As a result, there was no conscription at all, and the people who collected the grain had already left. They couldn't
I am also worried, as I can no longer afford even one meal.
When we went to ask, they burst into tears when they heard that they wanted to buy grain. The price they gave us was 20% less than what we had received before. One hundred pounds of grains was only one hundred cents.
There is a millstone in their village, and they want to grind everything into corn flour for us. If we buy corn kernels, they will charge us a salary to grind them into flour. If we buy corn flour directly, it will cost 120 cents per 100 kilograms, but
I won’t give you the stick.”
Old man Qi asked in an anxious voice: "How many are there?"
This time it was Lianba who replied: "I asked Li Zheng and he said that the whole village together would probably get this amount."
He stretched out an index finger and shook it.
"A thousand pounds?"
He grinned and patted his thigh, "My Uncle Lu, that's one thousand, it's at least ten thousand kilograms of dried corn on the cob."
"Ten thousand!!!" That must be at least three or four thousand kilograms of corn kernels.
"Well, that village is in the middle of nowhere, but there are many people of all ages. If you don't believe me, just ask Fuzi. The left and right sides of the road into the village are covered with corn cobs as far as the eye can see."
At this time, Qi Yuanwai was puzzled, "There is so much food, why do you still say that people are so poor that they can't even afford food?"
Qi Kangfu pursed his lips, "Uncle Qi, what's the reason? The land is too remote. No matter how much grain you plant, you still can't get it at whatever price the harvester says."
This is something that ordinary people can't do anything about. It doesn't matter who the higher-ups are when they go to collect grain every year. If you think the price they offer is too low, they won't accept it. But if he doesn't accept it, no one else would dare or be willing to do it.
If you don't collect it, you can only pile the food into your own hands.
But even if the price is low, the people are reluctant to eat the grain they have saved, and they only hope that someone will come to collect the grain so that they can have some money left on hand.
If there was anything else that they didn't understand, they sighed and stopped talking.
I hope the old man doesn't take these words seriously. He is a pure farmer who has lived for decades. There is nothing strange about these.
After seeing that they were silent, he asked Lianba: "Are you sure we can harvest those corns?"
It's not that he was just thinking blindly. If Beiyang Town wants to make money from them, does the county magistrate of Beiyang Town know that there is grain in a place called Yangcun?
Qi Kang'an slapped his thigh and said, "Dad, no matter what other people are doing, let's go and collect it first. Who dares to steal it from us if we get it?"
Besides, after Bao'er's rectification in the morning, everyone in the town is now eager to chase us, and they don't have enough food on hand. It's not that we don't buy from them, it's that they don't have any."
He learned about it in the morning and found out that if the residents of Beiyang Town were excessive, they were indeed excessive. All the refugees' money was taken away from them.
But speaking of evil, Qi Kangan found that the people in the town were not evil at all, at least they did not look at them with green eyes like the group of refugees who surrounded them when they passed through the hinterland of the mountains.
The twenty days of escape experience made Qi Kangan grow up very quickly.
If he had encountered this kind of thing before, he would have just lamented that they were pretty lucky, and he might even have thought that Beiyang Town was pretty good, and that the people here at least still had their consciences.
But now he understands that it was just the beginning of the war, and not many people passed by or came to Beiyang Town.
According to what he learned in the morning, they were the second large group of refugees who came to Beiyang Town to seek refuge.
There were many people in the first group, which was quite a coincidence. It was the rich man they met on the road after leaving the village. What was even more coincidental was that the rich man's surname was Wu.
Others who passed through or settled directly in the surrounding villages were small groups of refugees.
According to his inquiries, the largest number of people was only a dozen or so, and each of them looked miserable, just like the ones they saw outside the city gate before entering the town.
If there are many people like them in Beiyang Town like the people from the Wu Mansion before, the county magistrate will earn a big share, while the townspeople will earn a small share. Over time, they can only use "earning" to make money from the refugees.
Can you still be satisfied?
After these thoughts went through his mind, Qi Kang'an said again: "Beiyang Town only said that we could stay for ten days at the beginning. After only one night, it said that those who are willing to settle down can settle down. I think those who we don't want to stay can do it."
It’s better to leave as soon as possible.”
This view was strongly supported by Qi Bao'er. She sat in the old man's arms and raised her paws and said: "I agree with my father, we can't stay in Beiyang Town for a long time."
As Qi Kang'an said, everyone still has other ideas. You are tired from the journey. It's hard to find a place to rest. Naturally, you hope to breathe for a few more days.
But the little godman also said this, so everyone had to worry. Is it possible that Beiyang Town not only wants to make more money from them, but is there other dangers?
Old Man Qian asked: "Bao'er, will something happen if we stay too long?"
Tian Dazui also asked anxiously: "Aunt Bao, did you find anything when you went out this morning?"
"No, but it's safer if we leave earlier than later."
Pretending to be rich can shock people for a while, but over time, greed will expand.
But if you don't pretend to be rich, you will be hindered in anything you do in Beiyang Town, a place that has changed a bit.
Just talking about the men looking for food everywhere today, if there were not so-called rich households among them, it would be impossible for them to search all over the town in less than one day, let alone to be able to go out of the town at will.
People were running around the village.
The old man Qi made the final decision: "Anzi, you and Wanba take people to Yangcun overnight. We want as much corn as we can get. We have to leave tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest."
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Qi Kang'an and Wei Ba both got up immediately and ordered more than thirty men to go together. The women were not idle either, so they had to clear out the carts for them to take to transport corn.
After a while, only the Lao Qi family were left in the house.
Old man Qi signaled Qi Kangfu to close the door and then asked Qi Bao'er: "My dear, is something wrong?"
Or did Piao Zai find out something?
But if you look at the sunshine outside the house again, Piaozai probably won't be able to get out at this time.
Qi Baoer asked back: "Master, before we arrived at Beiyang Town, did we think that Beiyang Town would be in this situation now?"
No, no, but I still have some calculations in my heart. Beiyang Town is not kind to refugees like them.