The Daily Life of the Husband and Wife Selling Dog Food Through Time Traveling

The person who came was Old Man Xu, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. He stood outside the gate of the courtyard and looked inside. Seeing Jiang Ning and the others came out, he smiled, rubbed his hands together and said, "Excuse me."

Surprised, Jiang Ning invited him into the courtyard and sat down at the stone table. Han Zhiyuan brought another bowl of water, and Jiang Ning smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, long time no see."

Old Man Xu smiled, the wrinkles on his face were clustered together, and he said in a somewhat earnest tone: "How are you two doing these days? Are you still used to living here?"

Jiang Ning smiled gently, and replied: "It's okay, thank you for your concern."

Old Man Xu tilted his ear towards him, as if he didn't hear clearly.

Jiang Ning knew that his old problem was that he couldn't hear things that had nothing to do with money, so his smile remained the same, he leaned slightly, and raised his voice: "We live very well, thank you very much."

Old man Xu finally heard it clearly this time, he smiled, nodded and said: "That's good, that's good, if you have any difficulties, if you lack anything, you can tell me, if I can help, I will definitely help you." Do not refuse."

This is really strange. When he rented this dilapidated house to two people, he didn't behave like this. Jiang Ning still remembered that he collected the rent for half a year, signed the contract, and ran away like a jerk. Having talked to Jiang Ning and the other two, they were even more afraid of avoiding this place, as if they still remembered that this house used to be a "ghost house", why did they take the initiative to send it to their door today?

Do not go to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing, doubts are doubts, but Jiang Ning still said sincerely: "Then thank Mr. Xu first."

Old Man Xu chuckled, and started chatting with him about other topics, chatting here and there, just not getting to the point. Jiang Ning has always been patient, so he chatted with him about homework, and occasionally glanced at the man holding a writing brush behind the window sill. Han Zhiyuan who was scratching blindly.

Finally, after dragging for a long time, old man Xu finally couldn't hold it back, and finally explained the purpose of his visit secretly. Jiang Ning suddenly realized that it turned out that he wanted to increase the rent because he saw that the two of them lived in a good and comfortable place. No wonder...

After Jiang Ning listened to his insinuations, he tapped on the table with his fingertips, and said seriously: "Mr. Xu, you are not very kind. We agreed at the beginning, 25 cash per month, and half a year's rent first. Let's not say anything else, the rent was paid easily, and the deed was signed in the end, and it has only been a few months, and you want to increase the rent, where does this come from?"

Old man Xu rubbed his hands in embarrassment, smiled dryly, and said in a low voice, "This is not... this..."

Jiang Ning waved his hand, and although his tone was still gentle, he said with an irresistible strength, "Let's not talk about anything else, the deed has been signed, and the black and white letters are clearly written, isn't it?"

Old man Xu licked his chapped lower lip, nodded and said, "That's what happened...but—"

Jiang Ning smiled suddenly: "Since that's the case, it's probably not feasible for you to increase the rent without reason."

Hearing these decisive words, Old Man Xu wiped away tears, slapped the table, and began to howl.

The rapid changes before and after saw Jiang Ning caught off guard and dumbfounded. He hasn't said anything yet, right?Why are you crying?The voice of the old man who was over half a century old was loud, and several sparrows fluttered away from the left and right of the room.

The old man Xu was crying and slapping the table, and he still shouted: "Old man, I have nowhere to put my old face... This year is not going well... Old man, I will not be able to live... My son went to serve in the military...Leave me, a widowed old man..."

The long-drawn-out cry accompanied by the sound of slapping the table was surprisingly rhythmic. Jiang Ning was amazed. Seeing that the old man was playing tricks, he didn't intend to stop for a while. After thinking about it, he Standing up, he sighed and said, "In this case, let's go to the government."

Old man Xu was dumbfounded immediately, stopped crying, and stopped clapping the table, and said in a daze, "What, what?"

Jiang Ning looked at him with a smile, his eyes were calm, and he made a gesture of invitation: "Since we signed the deed, and there was a dental assistant to testify that day, if you want to increase the rent without authorization, then we will go to the government, please Lord Guan, give me a verdict, if the truth is on your side, we will admit it, apart from anything else, the penny that should be given is not too much for you, on the other hand, if you lose this lawsuit, I'm afraid..."

Old Man Xu stood up nervously, wiped his eyes, rubbed his hands uncomfortably, forced a smile and said, "Here, we have something to discuss, why bother to go to the government office? It's easy to go to the government office Is it?"

Jiang Ning still smiled with a good temper: "Then let's continue to discuss it?"

Old man Xu immediately nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice, and echoed: "Yes, yes, discuss it carefully, discuss it carefully."

Jiang Ning smiled and stretched out his hand: "Please sit down."

The old man Xu sat down a little nervously, and he didn't have the rainbow-like momentum before. He looked a little weak, and he didn't even dare to sit down. Maybe he was frightened by Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning saw it in his eyes, and sighed in his heart, no matter what, he was just a sagging old man. Thinking about it this way, he couldn't bear to argue with him too much, so he pushed the bowl of clear water on the table towards him , opened the mouth and said: "We talked about it well before, Ding is Ding, Mao is Mao, why do you suddenly want to increase the rent today?"

Old man Xu took a sip of water, sighed and said, "Now my old face has been erased, so it doesn't matter if I tell you about it."

As he spoke, he leaned his elbows on the stone table, squinted his eyes and looked outside the courtyard door, and said: "I'm afraid it's not good to look at the year, I'm a widowed old man, and I can't do any work, so I can only think about it." other ways."

Jiang Ning frowned slightly, and asked, "But it's only February now, and spring has just started, so why are you talking about the difference in age?"

Old Man Xu waved his hand, shook his head and said, "At first glance, you are a young offspring who has never planted or farmed. Look at the weather, it is very dry. Since the end of the new year, you have not farmed for more than a month. After a drop of rain, the Dragon King will not go to court, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the newly planted seedlings have no rain and are dying."

He paused, then sighed again: "Seeing that the vernal equinox is approaching, the weather is so sunny, so there is no intention of rain. The spring rain is not fat, so this year will be sad..."

Jiang Ning listened, thought for a moment, and then said tactfully: "Even so, it's not very good for you to make up your mind about the rent."

Old man Xu was silent, and after a while he smiled wryly, and wanted to say something, but he fell silent again.

Jiang Ning looked at the old man with hair as white as snow, wrinkles as deep as gullies, and a look of helplessness. After thinking for a while, he slowly said: "Although the rain is not falling now, everything is still unknown. Since you can estimate these If you want to increase the rent of ten and twenty yuan here, it is better to go to the market to buy grain and store it at home, so you may not be able to pass this test safely."

He said, got up and walked to the window and whispered something to Han Zhiyuan, then Han Zhiyuan held a brush in one hand and found a cloth bag from the desk drawer for him, Jiang Ning walked back with the cloth bag and handed it to him. The old man Xu, who was confused, said gently: "This is a year's rent, and it will be counted until February of the next year. Please be careful."

Old Man Xu was immediately overjoyed. He rubbed his hands, took the cloth bag over, and counted it again. Sure enough, the money was not bad, so he smiled wrinkled and crowded together. He hurriedly thanked him, and asked tentatively: "How long are you going to live in Yuezhou?"

Jiang Ning smiled calmly: "I haven't planned this yet, let's take it day by day."

Old Man Xu laughed, chatted with him a few more words, and was about to leave, but Jiang Ning suddenly stopped him and asked, "What if there is a drought?"

Old Man Xu tilted his ears and raised his voice: "What did you say?"

Jiang Ning: "..."

He repeated it patiently, old man Xu heard it clearly, and said with a smile: "What about the drought? If it's a minor drought, you'll suffer for a few months. If you bear it, you can still live. If it's a moderate drought, you'll suffer for half a year. It’s just that people suffer a lot. If there is a severe drought, if you grit your teeth and endure it, you will either not be able to get through this year, or you will pass it. If there are plagues, famines and locusts after the severe drought, it is better to escape early.”

After Old Man Xu finished speaking, he went out. Jiang Ning stood at the door and watched him go away. The slightly hunched figure walked slowly along the winding field path...

Han Zhiyuan blew on the ink on the rice paper, and when it was dry, he folded it up and stuffed it into the crevice of the desk, then jumped out of the window, stretched his waist and said, "How long will it take for the listing time?"

Jiang Ning looked at the sky, the sun was still shining brightly, and the sky was clear. He nodded and said, "Well, take it easy."

This delay lasted for about ten days. Seeing that the vernal equinox and Qingming had passed, there was still no rain, but the weather was getting drier and drier. By the end of March, the wind suddenly came from the south. The news of the spring drought caused chaos in the market in Yuezhou City.

It is said that the drought in the south is more severe than in Yuezhou. Although there was no goose feather and auspicious snow in Yuezhou last winter, there was still a lot of light snow. In places further south, there were not even a few light snowfalls, let alone a drop of rain after the beginning of spring. , The land even cracked.

Spring sows and autumn harvests, now that the seeds have been sown, but no growth has been seen, it can be seen that this year must be very difficult. People in Yuezhou City suddenly panicked, and the sorghum market that had just stabilized began to panic again, because sorghum, as a coarse grain, is naturally the cheapest and cheapest. But even this kind of sorghum, which is usually the cheapest, is now priceless.

The prices of other grains soared all the way, and they were still sold out by panicked people within a few days. Seeing that they were profitable, the grain shops raised their prices like crazy, and the entire grain market was in chaos. For three days, Yu Nian's grain shop, which had been quiet for a long time, opened to sell grain.

Sorghum was originally priced at 220 cents a liter. Although Yu Nian’s grain shop’s stock was not much, only [-] shi, the price was lower than other grain shops, so it attracted many people to rush to the shop. to buy.