As soon as I was reborn, my fiancé came to propose marriage!

Cui family.

"Mom, I'm hungry, I want to eat rice!"

As soon as Cui Xiang woke up, he rubbed his eyes and shouted outside the door.

According to the Cui family's situation, they could eat a bowl of rice once every ten days or half a month, but the family's grain had been sold long ago, leaving only some coarse grains.

Zheng felt so distressed when she heard her son's crying for food that she immediately decided to go to the town to buy some rice and some flour!

Cui Xiang can eat half a bag for several months.

She called Cui Xiang "my darling" all the time and coaxed him to go back to sleep, while she carried the backpack on her back and went to the town.

When Zheng came back, she saw Cui Xiang was so hungry that he was rolling around in the yard of his home.

Father Cui looked at him helplessly.

When he saw Zhou coming back, he excitedly got up from the ground, his body covered with dust and dirt, looking dirty.

But Zhou still treated him as a treasure and thought he was good no matter how she looked at him.

He didn't notice that Zhou looked sad, so he reached out and pulled her back, almost pulling her down.

"Mom, take it out quickly, I'm hungry!"

Zheng's facial features wrinkled into a ball.

"Son, let's eat it in two days. Can we eat sweet potatoes today?"

"No, no, I want to eat!"

When Cui Xiang heard that there was no food, he anxiously banged his head against Zhou's stomach, as if he would not give up until he had something to eat.

"If you don't give me food, I won't take the top spot in the imperial examination!"

"I won't go to school!"

Cui Xiang knew that Zhou could not bear to hear this, so he shouted at the top of his voice just to threaten her.

Zhou looked helpless.

Father Cui was also a little annoyed. He shouted angrily, "Didn't I tell you to go to town to buy food? Why don't you give the child food?"

Zhou was exhausted from the trip, and when she heard that Cui's father still had a temper, she became even angrier.

"You try yelling at me again!"

"Do you know how much a pound of rice and flour costs now? If you were able to earn money, would my precious son still be crying here?"

"How much is one pound? Can it be sold at a high price?"

Father Cui didn't take it seriously, thinking that the bitch was just looking for trouble.

"100 coins per pound!"

Zhou looked at him with disdain.

"What a lousy store this is, why don't you just rob it!"

Father Cui was so anxious that he started cursing.

No one from the Cui family has been to the town during this period, so they have no idea about the current grain prices.

Not to mention the Cui family, the entire Xiaoqiao Village is like this.

There are probably not many villages like Yulin Village where the village chief immediately called everyone together to stockpile grain after learning about the price increase.

Not to mention Xiaoqiao Village, which was not united to begin with.

Zhou went to lift the rice jar and saw that there was only half a jar of brown rice in it. The family only had fifty coins to spend.

The two taels of silver that Cui Yunzhu gave as a betrothal gift had already been used up by them, and with the money from Cui Yunli added, it was all gone in less than a year.

Now, let alone 100 wen, the family can only take out wen. I originally thought that buying a pound of rice and flour would only cost or wen.

Who knew that now you can’t even buy a pound of it!

Zhou began to get anxious because all the food at home had been sold out, leaving only some brown rice and sweet potatoes and cabbages from the fields.

How can we get by if we have nothing?

“Why is it so expensive?”

Father Cui was still shouting from the side.

"I don't know shit. It's like this everywhere in town. Don't mention that they're so expensive. Even if you have money, you can't buy them!"

"The biggest grain store in town has closed down. The owners have all run away. It's impossible to buy anything there."

“Other stores charge higher prices!”

Zhou became even more impatient when she saw his cowardly appearance.

"what is it now?"

"Wow, wow, wow, wow, I don't care, I want to eat it, I want to eat it!"

Cui Xiang rolled on the ground like a scoundrel, his face covered with snot and tears, looking extremely disgusting.

But Zhou didn't feel it at all. Instead, she felt very heartbroken. Suddenly, she thought of something.

She grabbed Father Cui's hand with a wicked smile and said, "Let's go to my uncle's house!"

What could she think of?

Of course, the person I thought of was Cui Yunli.

It is said that the idiot Cui Yunli married came from a wealthy family, and she heard some time ago that she was pregnant.

However, the custom in the village is that after a girl gets married, her parents have to bring hens, eggs and other supplements to the doctor when she is about to give birth.

Zhou didn't want to spend money, so she never asked about Cui Yunli's affairs. She only knew that she was pregnant.

Think about it, that idiot has only one son, and his daughter is pregnant now, so she must be worshipped as an ancestor by them!

It’s not too much to go to his house and ask for two kilograms of food!

Cui's father also thought it made sense. They could take Cui Xiang with them and go to Wang's house for a meal before coming back.

It’s so joyful to eat and take at the same time!

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Wang family.

The Queen Mother took the remaining money at home to the town to buy a chicken to stew for her pregnant new bride, but she came back empty-handed.

Wang's father was displeased. "I asked you to buy a chicken, but you didn't buy anything. What will the child do if he starves?"

The one in the belly is their precious grandson, and no one can let him go hungry!

The Queen Mother looked worried and told the King Father about the situation in the town.

The two of them, like Zhou and Cui's father, sighed after hearing it.

However, they have no sense of crisis and do not understand that there may be more terrible things in the future.

I just feel that the skyrocketing food prices are really making it impossible for people to survive!

The Queen Mother looked at Cui Yunli, who was chopping wood outside the kitchen in tattered clothes and with chilblains on her hands, and walked up to her and kicked her.

Cui Yunli hasn't had a full meal for several days, and she has to sleep in the woodshed every day. Now she is so weak that she falls down at the slightest touch.

After she fell to the ground, the Queen Mother asked the King's father to help her drag her away.

The grandson's food supply has not been resolved yet, and Wang's father was very upset and said impatiently.

"You idiot, why are you dragging her along? Your most urgent task now is to find a chicken for my grandson to eat!"

"What do you know? Food is so expensive now. Where would we get the money to support one more person?"

"Hurry up and drag her out! Don't stay in our house!"

Wang's father thought it made a lot of sense. It was 100 wen per pound, not to mention the price of chicken, which was several hundred wen per pound!

A chicken weighs more than two taels!

His meat is not that valuable, why don't these people go and rob it?

The Cui family really couldn't afford to support her anymore. "Quick, quick, send her away, send her back to the Cui family. She can go wherever she wants. We don't want her anymore."

As the three were arguing, the door was kicked open with a "bang".

Zhou, along with Cui's father and Cui Xiang, walked in proudly, only to see Wang's father and mother standing in front.

She raised her chin to look at people, then raised her legs and tried to walk towards the main house. As she walked, she asked arrogantly, "Where's my daughter? I'm here to see my grandson!"

People who don’t know her would think she is the one who is pregnant with a golden nugget when they see her like that.