Natural disaster at the beginning: I will lead the system to build a safe zone
Chapter 145: The Beginning of Chaos
Qinghe County, not far from Guangming Village, has begun to show signs of unrest.
It is now half a month after the grain shop in the county town closed. Since the price of grain had already risen a lot before the shop closed, the savings at home of the people are not that abundant.
So even though most people rushed to stock up on food in the last few days, facing the high food prices, they could only stockpile a limited amount. If there were many people in the family, it would be good if they could hold on for half a month.
So those whose families were about to run out of food would wait in front of the grain store every day, hoping that the door would open one day.
At the beginning, everyone's emotions were relatively stable. Although some were anxious that their families would soon run out of food, they could still patiently wait. After all, there was news that people from the three large grain shops, Chen, Wang, and Qian, had already gone out to collect grain.
But as time passed, the grain shop still didn't open, and more and more people were short of food, and everyone began to become anxious.
Chen Mansion,
The housekeeper hurried to the study to find Chen Huairen: "Master, the person who went outside to collect grain is back."
Chen Huairen stood up excitedly and asked, "How is it? Did you receive the food?"
The butler lowered his head and shook it slowly.
Chen Huairen's excitement suddenly stopped, and he asked disappointedly: "Didn't you collect any food at all?"
The housekeeper replied, "The people who collected grain went to more than a dozen nearby villages. Due to the recent disasters, grain production has dropped severely, and the villagers themselves don't have enough to eat, so they are unwilling to sell. Our people paid a high price to buy the grain, but after scraping together only enough to get one stone of grain."
After hearing this, Chen Huairen smiled bitterly and said, "One stone of grain is not enough."
If one stone of grain was given to only one person, it could sustain them for a while, but he was facing the people of the entire county, and this amount of grain was probably not enough to fill everyone's teeth.
"What about the other two families? Have they received the grain?" Chen Huairen asked again.
The housekeeper still shook his head: "We didn't get much. Although they were going in a different direction than us, not many of them were willing to sell grain. Moreover, the price they offered for grain was not as high as ours, and they didn't get as much as we did."
After listening to this, Chen Huairen sat in a chair and pondered. The housekeeper didn't dare to disturb him, but he didn't dare to leave directly. He could only stand quietly by the side and wait for instructions.
After pondering for a long while, Chen Huairen finally said, "Well, tell my wife to let them get ready."
The housekeeper was shocked and cried out, "Master!"
Chen Huairen did not look up at him, but just sat quietly behind the desk. Seeing this, the housekeeper had to retreat respectfully. After the housekeeper left, Chen Huairen murmured to himself: "Qinghe County, the world is changing!"
As if to confirm Chen Huairen's words, a murder case caused by food robbery occurred in Qinghe County today.
The incident happened at the city gate. The civilian who was killed was a young man who had returned from visiting his relatives in a village outside the city today. As for how he got out, it was naturally that he bribed the guards at the city gate.
Letting someone out secretly is no big deal for these guards.
It would be fine if he just came back to visit his relatives, but he should never have brought back food in such a high-profile manner.
It's a tragic story. This man's family lives in a village outside the city and makes a living by farming. He is the only one among his brothers who is relatively successful. He is eloquent and capable, and makes a living by doing some small business. After all, he has saved some money and bought a small house in the city.
With a house, his family had the confidence to find him a wife with better conditions, so unlike his other brothers, he married a woman from the county town. This is also what he is most proud of.
After all, in this age where people pay attention to matching each other's social status, not everyone has the ability to start from scratch and then marry a city girl.
However, this woman had too many daughters in her family, so his wife was not very favored at home, and had to support the family from time to time.
However, he had finally married a city girl, and his family had lived a decent life in the past, so the man turned a blind eye to his wife's behavior of supporting her parents' family.
But all this changed after the extreme heat and the food shortage. With the savings in the man's family, if there were still grain shops selling grain, they could at least hold on for a while. But he learned about the closure of the grain shops too late. When he hurried over, only Chen's grain shop was selling the last bit of grain, and each person was limited to buying one dou of grain.
He hurried back and asked his wife to bring her two children with her, but he only managed to buy four dou of rice. How long would this amount of rice last?
To make matters worse, his wife's family clearly had surplus food, but were unwilling to help them at all, which made the man very angry but helpless.
He had a big fight with his wife because of this, but it was useless. Life at home had to go on, and no matter how angry he was about his wife's behavior of subsidizing her parents' family and the ungrateful family, he couldn't let his children starve because of lack of food, so he thought about his own family.
His family lives in the countryside and has land, so they grow some food themselves.
So the man found a city gate guard he was familiar with, invited him to dinner, drinks and tips, and then he agreed to secretly open a back door for him, giving him the opportunity to leave the city and go to the village.
After all, it is better to have one's own home. Seeing their son, daughter-in-law and grandson starving in the city, the man's parents collected food from their home and gave him enough food for at least one month to take back.
As a result, as soon as he entered the city, he was spotted by a few hooligans. They had very sharp noses and followed him by smelling the scent. When they saw that the man was alone, they started to rob him.
This was life-saving food, so the man was unwilling to give up. During the scramble, he was pushed down and his head accidentally hit a sharp stone, and he died on the spot.
By the time the guards finally arrived, the hooligans had already seen the situation and ran away, leaving the poor man lying alone on the ground.
The guards had no choice but to return the man's body to his family and report the matter to County Magistrate Wu.
Magistrate Wu was still immersed in the backyard without any sense of crisis. When he heard about this, he just scolded the person and sent him away: "You still have to ask me about this kind of thing? Have you caught those hooligans? If not, go and catch them. As for the family of the dead, isn't it enough to send them some food? Don't bother me if there is nothing else!"
Seeing the county magistrate's attitude, the guards naturally became lazy as well. They just pretended to patrol every day and actually didn't catch any gangsters.
The thugs were a little scared at first, after all, they were the ones who killed the person. But in the end, the incident passed peacefully without anyone coming to catch them.
After tasting the sweetness of stealing food, they became more and more aggressive, and more and more people were robbed.
At first, when they were robbed, everyone would be at a loss and helpless and ask for help, but no one would pay attention. So everyone started to follow suit and started to rob others of their food when they had no food. Qinghe County gradually became chaotic...
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