Chapter 250 The Plague of Locusts
"What reason?" Zhou Ying asked in a daze.
"It is said that there is sand, and the teeth are gritty." Fang Qing hesitated to speak up to this point: "If you want me to say, you shouldn't provide them with delicious and delicious food, just pimple soup, and save their fuss It's over."
Zhou Ying was not surprised when she heard this. It is inevitable that there will be sand and dust in the dried vegetables. Now that there is no extra water to boil, sand is inevitable.
Then he took a look at a few people and saw that they were not injured, so he breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What about now, what's the situation over there now?"
"Pressed down by officers and soldiers.
By the way, the head of the pavilion asked the bosses of each family to come to Tianfu to gather immediately, presumably it was about the porridge shed. "
"I see, you can do whatever you want." After Zhou Ying finished speaking, she got up and washed her hands, then went back to the room and changed her clothes before going out.
But instead of going directly to Tian Mansion, he went to Hong Yun Building to find shopkeeper Liu.
It happened that he was going out too, so the two of them walked towards Tian Mansion together.
On the way, Zhou Ying asked, "Uncle Liu, what do you think of this matter?"
Shopkeeper Liu was stunned for a moment and said, "It's not very easy to handle. If the porridge shed can't continue to open, there will be chaos again."
"Can't we drive them away?"
"Drive away?" Shopkeeper Liu looked at her in surprise.
He always knew that she was a kind person, but he didn't expect to say such heartless words.
But it is exactly what he wants. It is a good thing for a person to have a kind heart, but it can't be too much, otherwise he is stupid.
"That's right, our place is not optimistic now, we didn't receive much food last year, so most people have limited food reserves, and now we can't buy it even if we want to.
What's more, the water here is getting less and less. Do you think it will be affordable for so many people? "
"You hit the nail on the head. To tell you the truth, I plan to close the shop in three days."
"No?"
"Really, our food stocks are limited, but the barracks needs more food, so most of the food and meat are provided there."
"Is there a shortage of food in the barracks?"
"Yes, Dongyang Mansion did not collect taxes last year, so the military rations had to be withdrawn by the court.
But…….
Now half of Ming Dynasty is suffering from drought, and the five prefectures from south to north of Kaiyang have just encountered locust plague recently, which can be said to be fruitless.
You said there is still food there, so you can only make up. "
"Locust plague?" Zhou Ying exclaimed.
Although she has never seen it, she has heard of it in her previous life and watched it on TV. Once the locust plague is over, it can be said that there will be thousands of miles of red land, and no grass will grow. Some children can be killed by the locusts.
Thinking of this, I remembered the dream I had when I lived in the Mother God Temple, and there was a scene of a thousand miles away.
If the prophecy is true, will there really be a flood that blew thousands of miles away?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but start to feel hairy.
"Indeed, our Dongyang is already considered good." Shopkeeper Liu told her the situation of those places in detail.
Then he said: "So, save some food for yourself, and live a small life at home honestly."
"So, you also plan to stop at the porridge shed?"
"I'm not afraid of your jokes, there are only less than one thousand catties of rice and four hundred catties of white flour left in Hongyun Building."
"It's almost the same, so we have to work together."
"Well, but we can't open this head, I don't think we need to open it, just watch it." Shopkeeper Liu said with a smile.
Zhou Ying was stunned for a moment, thinking of what Fang Qing said before, that some porridge sheds have so thin porridge that people can be seen.
It seems that there are indeed people who are more anxious than them.