At noon, Zhang Tianhao went directly to several Chinese medicine stores to buy some Chinese medicine with a depressed look on his face.
However, he buys a lot of traditional Chinese medicine, and he buys it by the pound. Anyway, there is still a lot of space in his car, and then he sends it home directly.
The original Chinese medicine is no longer available. Now he plans to boil some more and put it in the space ring, so that when he wants to drink it, he can drink some at any time.
"Boss, why is there such a long queue in the store over there?"
He stood in front of the counter of a traditional Chinese medicine store and looked at the long queue on the opposite side. While paying, he asked with some doubts.
"Oh, sir, I don't know. They are buying salt. Nowadays, the price of salt has really skyrocketed. The current price of salt is more expensive than oil. You can't even afford salt. Alas!"
"The price of salt has increased. When did it increase? Why didn't I know?"
He also looked puzzled. After all, the price of salt has increased. For the sake of stability, the Japanese cannot increase prices for no reason.
"It seems that sir is not very clear. The price of salt has increased for more than half a month, and each person can only buy one pack, not more. Now one pack of salt is not enough!"
The owner of the drugstore also looked helpless and could only casually explain the situation to Zhang Tianhao in a low voice.
Being out of money is not a good thing for ordinary people. If he doesn't buy more salt from there now, he usually doesn't care at all. After all, he won't ask about the small things in life.
Usually I don't eat in the office, or I eat in restaurants outside, and I don't think about it at all. Now it seems that the article here may be really big.
"If anyone dares to sell too much at one time, they will be jailed, and the punishment will be very strict."
"Be in jail!"
He didn't understand that this was done by the Japanese against the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the mountain, and the purpose was to cut off the salt on the mountain. If that was the case, he couldn't imagine it.
"Thank you, boss."
Zhang Tianhao carried the last big bag of Chinese medicine and walked directly to his home.
And his car has already been filled with a lot of Chinese medicinal materials, all of which he selected and hand-picked.
When he got home, he looked at the empty kitchen. There was nothing. He needed to purchase firewood, charcoal, or oil and salt.
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"Lao Hu, you finally came out, you finally came out!"
After Li Dong took Lao Hu out of the prison, he also looked sad. After all, he had to ask Lao Hu for instructions on many things, but Lao Hu had been locked in the prison and couldn't get out. It really made him anxious.
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"Lao Li, how did you rescue me? It seems not easy, right?"
"Come on, let's talk after we go back. This is not a place to talk." He waved to the rickshaws, and then the two of them got into two rickshaws respectively.
He quickly disappeared outside the police station and headed towards Lao Hu's mountain goods shop.
When Lao Hu got out of the car with difficulty, he looked at the mountain goods store in front of him with a look of relief. He returned to the mountain goods store again.
It is quite difficult to come back alive this time.
He was already prepared to die inside, but reality still gave him hope and allowed him to survive again.
When he opened the door of the mountain goods store, nothing here had changed, but it had been nearly twenty days since he left.
Things have changed and people have changed. Although it was only twenty days, it seemed like a long time.
"I'll help you in and go upstairs to have a rest!"
"I'll just sit here, I really miss you." Lao Hu also smiled bitterly, "I didn't expect that I could come back alive. Lao Li, thank you."
"You don't need to thank me. I'm just a runner at best. I don't have that much money to spend on everything."
Then, Lao Li told him the whole story.
Lao Hu did not expect that Shenlan would actually come into contact with Lao Li, and he was always cautious.
"Comrade Shenlan is still trustworthy, but we have no way to contact him. He will only contact us when he needs it."
"Isn't he from our line?"
"No, he has nothing to do with any of us. He can help us, which is pretty good. After all, others are in trouble." Hu Yishan naturally knew Zhang Tianhao's identity, so it was normal for him to give Li Dong a thousand yuan.
"By the way, let's talk about what happened during this period. I'm in prison and I don't have time to understand these things."
When Li Dong heard this, he realized that it was Hu Yishan's idea, so he roughly described everything that had happened in the new capital during this period, and helplessness flashed across his face.
"Awesome, really awesome."
"Do you know who did these things?"
"I know what the heck, I'm in jail. By the way, have the medicines been delivered?"
"It has been sent there. The brothers had to walk up the mountain road on their backs. It took three days to find the team. There are Japanese soldiers everywhere, and they are still chasing our team."
Lao Li sighed: "There are still many casualties on the mountain. If these medicines had not been delivered in time, I don't know how many soldiers died in the hospital bed instead of on the battlefield."
"However, I have good news for you. A Japanese brigade was dragged into the mountains by Commander Li, surrounded and ambushed. Only less than a hundred people escaped, and all the others were wiped out."
"It's a good thing, it's a really good thing!"
When Hu Yishan heard this, he didn't understand. This time he participated in a big victory, which can be said to be the best news since the beginning of spring.
"But, Lao Li, what do you think about the Japanese bank being stolen?"
"I don't have anything to see. Anyone who can steal a Japanese bank must be a very capable person. I don't want to say more. The Japanese have almost turned the entire Xinjing upside down, but they still haven't caught the thief.
Not even a hair from the bank people, let alone people, was found."
"However, a Japanese guild hall not far from my home in the east of the city was captured by the Japanese, and the ronin inside was also arrested. I don't know the specific reason, but a very heavy guild hall was lifted out of the guild hall.
The guy came out. I just couldn’t see what it was!”
"Well, this is none of our business, let the Japanese go dog-eat-dog!"
Next, the two started talking there.
"By the way, Lao Hu, the price of salt has risen crazily now. It has doubled at least ten times compared to before, and it is even more expensive than oil."
"Why is the salt so high? What happened?" Lao Hu was also stunned. After all, salt is a necessity. People eat salt and they have to eat it every day.
"It's not like the damn Japanese. They have raised the price of salt, and each household can only sell one pack of salt at a time. No more. If there are more, they will be arrested and imprisoned. It has been more than half a month.
That is, the second day after you entered, the price of salt suddenly rose."
"Comrades in the mountains have contacted us. Many soldiers have swollen feet because they have no salt to eat, and even walking is almost a problem."
Li Dong also had a look of impatience. After all, he had never expected that such a thing would happen.
"When did it happen?" Hu Yishan was also a little stunned. He had never thought that he would be short of salt to such an extent.
"Five days ago, comrades from the mountains came to Xinjing to find our comrades and explained the situation. Let us think of a way to send a batch of salt there."