Natural disasters in books: I stockpiled goods to escape famine in ancient times

One party was interested in making friends, and the other party accepted everyone who came. The three of them had a great time chatting in the second half of the night.

Xie An and Shen Yan both felt that they had become closer to Song Shiwei through this conversation. Until the moon disappeared behind the stars and dawn broke in the east, the two of them actually pulled Song Shiwei aside and started to treat him as a brother, which made people around them laugh and cry.

If Zhang Wu was here at this moment, he would definitely be able to see the indifference in Song Shiwei's eyes despite his smile.

After saying goodbye to the two and returning to his resting place, Zhang Wu just came out of the tent.

"Master, do you need me to buy anything else besides food?"

"Prepare some medicinal materials for common diseases. Ask the doctor to prepare medicine bags. If you have winter clothes, buy a few sets. As for the rest, it's up to you," said Song Shiwei, taking out a silver note from his arms.

Zhang Wu smiled and waved his hand: "I haven't touched the money I got from the last raid on the bandits. Master, you don't have to pay me."

Song Shiwei ignored his words and directly stuffed the banknote into his hand, not allowing him to refuse: "What is given to you is yours. You are not a child anymore. You must learn to save your own money, otherwise you will not be able to get the money to marry a wife in the future."

Zhang Wu was suddenly at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

Hearing Huang Changyuan calling someone over there, Song Shiwei didn't say anything more. He waved his hand and asked him to leave. As for himself, he didn't want to hang around in the city at all.

There were ten people from Dahe Village who came to the city to shop. They emptied the village's ox cart to load the shopping carts. Zhang Wu also drove a horse-drawn carriage over. After agreeing on a rough time to leave, dozens of people entered the city with everyone's expectations.

The officials took all the exiles directly into the city with the documents. Because they had official documents, no entrance fee was required. However, in order to prevent any trouble, the exiles also gave some benefits to the soldiers guarding the city.

Song Shiwei was just about to go into the tent to rest, but his hand that was about to lift the door curtain stopped. After thinking for a moment, he walked up to Huang Changyuan.

Huang Changyuan saw Song Shiwei coming over and hurried forward: "Brother Song, why haven't you gone to rest yet? Is there something wrong?"

Song Shiwei nodded gently: "After thinking about it, I still want to tell the village chief that it is better to arrange some people to go to the city gate to take charge of the response. There are many disaster victims outside, and I am afraid something will happen."

Huang Changyuan thought about it and figured out the key point. He slapped his forehead and said, "It's my fault. I forgot such an important thing. I need to find someone to pay attention to the movement at the city gate to prevent the victims from robbing them when they come back from shopping. Thank you, Brother Song, for reminding me."

Song Shi smiled and waved his hand: "The village chief has too many things to do every day. It's because everyone can't do without you. I just didn't think about it for a moment. I will go back to rest first. If there is anything, please call me."

"Okay, okay, go and have some rest. You must have worked hard keeping watch last night."

After sending Song Shiwei away with great gratitude, Huang Changyuan quickly called the remaining strong laborers in the village and asked them to keep an eye on the movements at the city gate. Fearing that they would not take it seriously, he explained the disadvantages one by one, which scared them so much that their faces turned pale and they kept promising to pay attention.

Until Huang Changyuan made arrangements, Song Shiwei went back to the tent to catch up on some sleep. Before going to bed, he did not forget to go into the space to take a comfortable bath, and put several pieces of ice in the tent, for fear of being woken up by the heat later.

Huang Changyuan had made all the necessary arrangements outside the city, and the people who had come into the city to buy food were now at the grain store, and everyone was shocked by the current grain prices.

"What? Two hundred coins for a stone of brown rice? Why don't you just go and rob it?"

The others were also shocked. You know, in the past, a stone of brown rice only cost 40 cents. It has increased by more than three times, which is simply life-threatening. Not to mention rice and white flour, which ordinary people dare not even think about.

Everyone looked at Huang Ping, waiting for his decision.

Huang Ping was a little unsure at this time, so he asked tentatively: "How about we ask a few more companies?"

Without waiting for others to respond, Zhang Wu walked straight into the grain store. Amid the confusion of the crowd, he bought one stone of rice, one stone of white flour and one stone of brown rice. He quickly paid the money and moved the grain into the carriage.

"Brother Zhang Wu, why did you buy it directly, and buy so much at once! What if other grain stores are cheaper than here, wouldn’t you be at a huge loss?" Liu Daming couldn't help but say.

Zhang Wu put the grain away, then turned to face the crowd: "I asked the officers and soldiers when I came in. This is the only grain store in the city that still sells grain. The others have closed down long ago. The harvests have been poor in the past two years, and this year there is drought everywhere. It is normal for prices to rise. Let's buy more grain now while we can."

When everyone heard that this was the only grain store open in such a huge city like Yingchang, they were shocked.

Huang Ping didn't hesitate any more and directly asked people to go in and buy food. Since they were not as wealthy as Zhang Wu, everyone skipped the expensive rice and flour and chose coarse grains instead.

In order to encourage everyone to buy more food, Huang Ping mentioned the fact that he had silver notes as early as after entering the city. However, he did not say that they were sent by Xie An. Instead, he said that he borrowed them from Xie An and Shen Yan. He was mainly afraid that he would not be able to buy food even if he had money in the future.

Seeing that they were about to use all the five hundred taels of silver to buy food, Zhang Wu hurriedly called Huang Ping and said, "My master asked me to prepare some more medicine packs for common diseases. I will go to the clinic first, and we will meet at the city gate later."

Huang Ping suddenly remembered that the people in Po Miao Village had no medicine for heatstroke, and he became alert. He pulled Zhang Wu aside and asked him carefully about the things he was going to buy later. He wrote them down carefully before letting him leave. After buying the food, he also planned to go to the clinic to buy some medicine bags in case he had any illness on the road.

The purchasing power of five hundred taels of silver notes is still quite large. Although Huang Ping only planned to buy four hundred taels of coarse grains, the grain store refused as soon as he heard it, saying that there was insufficient stock. In the end, he only sold coarse grains worth one hundred taels of silver.

Just kidding, even if it really exists, I can't afford to buy it like this, otherwise what will I do if others can't buy it.

With only one hundred taels of silver, Huang Ping and his companions were able to buy tens of thousands of kilograms of coarse grains, enough to feed the villagers of Dahe Village for a long time. With four hundred taels of silver left, Huang Ping thought about the villagers, gritted his teeth and went to the market to buy four mules, and also equipped them with the simplest and cheapest carts. The purchased grain filled several carts.

Afterwards, he went to the clinic to get some medicine packs for common diseases, and finally bought some salt before rushing to the city gate.

When everyone arrived, Zhang Wu had already been waiting for a while. After all, he was only buying things for two people, and the variety was not too many, so he was naturally faster than Huang Ping and the others.

When leaving the city, Zhang Wu stopped everyone, looked at the disaster victims outside the city from a distance and said, "Everyone, please pay attention to those refugees. We bought so much food that it's too conspicuous."

After hearing this, the others felt that it made sense and their faces became serious.

The lives of the entire village, young and old, are loaded on the car!

However, when everyone saw more than 20 strong laborers left in the village when leaving the city, they felt a little relieved.