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Chapter 512 Old Man Liu!

Luoyang City,
Since King Yan began to provide disaster relief in Luoyang City, the lives of the people in Luoyang City have been greatly guaranteed in a short time.

Each of the six disaster relief porridge sheds in the city cooks hundreds of pots of rice porridge every day, and each pot of rice porridge is thick enough to hold chopsticks.
After all, with His Royal Highness King Yan's saying that the chopsticks float up and the head falls to the ground, there is a guarantee that these officials in Luoyang City would dare to be perfunctory.

But the opening of the porridge shed for disaster relief is only one aspect of it, because Li Mo also announced in Luoyang City that he would buy Luoyang locusts at a price of one penny and ten catties from now on.
As a result, the enthusiasm of the people was immediately mobilized. The price of locusts that cost a penny and ten catties sounds extremely cheap.

But locusts are easy to catch, and they don’t need any physical strength at all. They can be grown up, women, children, old people, or children.

And if we just look at the probability of catching locusts, the probability of women and children is not much slower than those of adult men, and even faster!
Moreover, Luoyang can be said to be the hardest hit area for locusts, even if those crops and food have been eaten up,
But there are still endless locusts all over the mountains and plains, and it is very easy to catch them. Even a child can catch dozens or even hundreds of catties a day. As for those dexterous women and strong men, they can catch even more in a day. up!
Even if it is purchased at a price of one penny and ten catties, but the quantity is large, this is definitely not a small gain.

As for the money obtained from selling locusts, you can go directly to the porridge shed for disaster relief to buy grain. The original grain price in Luoyang City was [-] Wen a catty of rice, and [-] Wen a catty of noodles.

But now in the porridge shed, only eight Wen a catty of rice, seven Wen a catty of noodles,

Although the price of grain is still [-] to [-]% higher than that in normal years, it is much better than the price of grain that costs tens of pennies per catty.

So now not all the people in Luoyang City are waiting to be fed, waiting for the daily relief porridge shed to start relief.

Once they got their own bowl of porridge and slurped it down, relying on the power of the rice porridge, the people immediately started to catch the locusts.

And each of them can be said to be very enthusiastic about their enthusiasm, and the common people are like this. As long as they don't starve to death, as long as they have something to do, the common people are the most docile and well-behaved in the world!
So early this morning, after the three members of Old Man Liu's family in Luoyang City received their own bowl of disaster relief porridge, they gurgled down their stomachs, and immediately began to prepare to catch locusts outside the city!

In fact, Old Man Liu's family didn't originally have three members. There were six members in their family, but three of them starved to death under the catastrophe, so only Old Man Liu was left with an older daughter and a younger son!

Old man Liu's youngest son is only thirteen or fourteen years old this year. When he was half a child eating me to death, the porridge shed in the city of Luoyang would put porridge twice a day.
Although it is two bowls of thick porridge, for Liu Ergou, it is only half full, and he can't make big moves, otherwise he will still be hungry all day long!

As for Liu Caihua, the eldest daughter of the Liu family, she is older than Liu Ergou. She is fourteen or fifteen years old, and she was originally a maidservant in a wealthy family.
But it is a pity that under the locust plague, even some big families in Luoyang City can't keep it. It is not bad to be able to barely maintain the livelihood of their own family members. Why would they hire these servants? After all, they have to worry about not hiring a servant their rations,

Based on the current food price in Luoyang City, it is definitely not cost-effective to hire a servant, so the big family didn't say anything, and returned Liu Caihua to Old Man Liu!

Originally, the old man Liu's family of three couldn't support them any longer. If King Yan hadn't come so quickly, their old Liu family would have been extinct from now on!

"Father, I was very full yesterday. Let's work harder today and try to charge more. Can I have another bowl tonight?"

It was Liu Ergou who spoke, licking his lips and speaking, his eyes were full of hunger.

"You idiot, thanks to the fact that you still have the face to say that yesterday you picked up more locusts than your sister cauliflower, and thanks to you being able to eat those two big bowls, I will make you poor sooner or later!"

Old man Liu's face turned black immediately, and he cursed angrily, old man Liu is a typical Henan farmer, facing the loess and back to the sky, honest and honest, he could have dealt with it for most of his life, but he didn't expect to come here when he was old After doing this once, the whole family was almost ruined!

But this is also the portrayal of ordinary people in this era. There is no life guarantee at all. Who knows what will happen today, and who knows what will happen next year. It is not easy to save their lives!
"Then...then I'm hungry!"

After being scolded by the old man Liu, Liu Ergou immediately felt aggrieved and said that King Yan is now buying locusts in the entire Luoyang City.Yesterday, their family of three went out and caught a total of [-] catties of locusts in one day. The [-] catties of locusts were exchanged for [-] Wen. In addition to the porridge for disaster relief, King Yan also sold grain at [-] Wen per catty. On the other hand, old man Liu bought a whole lot of five catties yesterday,

The central line of Luoyang City now distributes porridge twice a day in the morning and evening. If they don’t work, it’s no problem to save their lives with these two times of porridge. But yesterday, they caught [-] catties of locusts in a day, and they were already exhausted and hungry. direct call

Old man Liu was also polite, and directly used a whole catty of noodles to make a big pot of pimple soup. It is a pity that the wild vegetables in and around the city have been eaten up by locusts, otherwise, there will be a lot of wild vegetables Put it in the pot, and it will be a big pot of wild vegetable pimple soup. In this famine year, having such a pot of wild vegetable pimple soup is enough to enjoy!
But even if there are no wild vegetables, a pot of pimple soup will make Liu Ergou greedy. Old man Liu and Liu cauliflower haven't eaten much of the whole big pot of pimple soup yesterday, and Liu Ergou has eaten half of it. !

"Father, I don't want to eat you for nothing. I promise to catch two hundred catties of locusts today, won't you?"

Although he was scolded head and face by the old man Liu, Liu Ergou was not at all unhappy. These days, he was talking about a loving father and a filial son. Isn't it normal for a son to be scolded by his parents?

"You brat, if you can catch two hundred catties today, I'll make you a steamed bun tomorrow!"

Old man Liu immediately laughed and cursed, two hundred catties of locusts is three catties of noodles, and if three catties of noodles make a meal of steamed buns, it is definitely enough!

(End of this chapter)