Pet wife Imperial Examination Road

The courtyard suddenly became clear, Yun Yun sat down on the ground panting, he didn't know that he was absolutely wrong to do so.As soon as he saw his aunt like that, he put that family affection behind him.

Cheng Mu helped Yun Yun up, and patted the ashes on his body, "That's good, they won't come again in the future, saving you trouble."

"Am I being too unkind?"

"No, you did a good job. They are like leeches, and they won't let go easily once they suck blood. Let them suffer a little today, and they won't come again in the future. As for being an official, they will be in the future. , we lived our ordinary lives."

Yun Yun agrees with this, even if his cousin becomes an official in the future, it has nothing to do with them.

By the time the drama was over, it was completely dark.

The Yunsun family chose this time to come, probably because they wanted to stay overnight and have a meal the next morning. They really had a good idea!

When Yun Yun went to scoop rice for dinner, she began to worry when she saw that there was only half a jar of rice left. He and Cheng Mu had to eat about two or three catties of rice a day, and this month they ate seven or eighty catties.

Cheng Mu also knew the food at home. The rice he bought before was still not enough, and there were still some noodles left. In the cold winter, the two of them ate more, and eating was still a big problem.

While Yun Yun was cooking in the kitchen, Cheng Mu opened the interlayer of the cabinet, and there was a small box with a small jade pendant inside.

The pattern on the jade pendant is auspicious clouds, which he wore when he was just born, and has never left since then, pure suet jade.If you do, you should be able to make a lot of money.

This is also the only thing he had before, which he originally wanted to commemorate.Looking at Yupei intently, Cheng Mu didn't even notice that Yun Yun was standing beside him.

Yun Yun looked at the little jade pendant in Cheng Mu's hand, such a delicate pattern should be a very precious thing.

"My mother left it to me. She said that my grandfather personally sent it over on the day I was born."

"Then keep it safe and don't lose it."

Those people are already gone now, and keeping this jade pendant is also a way to think about others. Cheng Mu put the jade pendant away and planned to go to the town to be fooled in a few days.Yun Yun, on the other hand, did not doubt his identity at all.

Seeing that it is already mid-August, the weather is not so hot in autumn, but there is still no rain.

Cheng Mu put on the jade pendant and went out of the mountain wearing a straw hat.

Just after walking out of the village, Li's daughter-in-law was walking up the mountain with a small basket.

"Sister-in-law, what are you doing here?"

Li's daughter-in-law has a family of more than ten people, and the family has six or seven acres of land. This year's drought has undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to her family.The face that was rosy before was sunken now. Fortunately, no one died at home. "I'll go to the mountain to see if there is anything to eat?"

Cheng Mu persuaded, "Sister-in-law, don't go, the foot of the mountain has been dug up, and there is no wild vegetables left. The deep forest is not safe at all, and we can't take this risk for food."

Li's daughter-in-law sighed, "Cheng Mu, there are only two people in your family, and the price of rice was not that high when you bought rice before. I heard yesterday that the price of rice has risen to seventy or eighty yuan a catty. Rice has risen to this price, and other food is not much better. There are old and young here, and I will really starve to death if I don’t think about it.”

"Did you tell Rizheng?"

"It doesn't work if you say it. Lizheng said that he reported it to the town." After finishing speaking, Li's daughter-in-law walked up the mountain.

Cheng Mu looked at her back with mixed feelings in his heart. He and Yun Yun were lucky, there were more families in the village who couldn't get away with it.

It usually takes more than an hour to walk, but Cheng Mu arrived today after walking for more than two hours.

Along the way, there are refugees in exile begging for food on crutches. They are lying on the side of the road in a place where there is no sun, and they see someone passing by and asking for food.

Most people go to the town to buy food, and no one has the time to manage so many beggars on the roadside.

After Cheng Mu came to the town, this time it was even more desolate than last time.There is no one selling things on both sides of the road, and many restaurants and shops are closed.Some people with swollen bodies were lying on the side of the road, their faces crooked and drooling.

When going to a pawn shop, the queue is no shorter than that of a rice shop, and most of the men bring women's jewelry to pawn.

The pawn shop also took the opportunity to make a fortune, and now they give away two or three taels of money that can usually be sold at five taels. Anyway, this is the price, whether you like it or not.

"Next." The shopkeeper shouted.

Cheng Mu stepped forward and took out the jade pendant from his arms.

The shopkeeper looked at the jade pendant for a long time, and glanced at Cheng Mu from time to time.This is high-quality mutton fat jade, which is usually found in wealthy families, but the person in front of him is wearing linen clothes and has rough skin, so he doesn't look like a rich family.

"Where did you get this jade pendant?"

Cheng Mu's heart skipped a beat. In this remote place, no one would recognize the jade pendant given by grandpa. He calmed down and said, "This is a gift from my grandpa. I came here to pawn it now that my family is down. Is there a problem?"

The shopkeeper looked at it for a long time, and there was no problem at all. This jade pendant is indeed the best. "No problem, how much do you want?"

"How much do you think it's worth?" Cheng Mu asked back.

"Ming people don't talk dark words, the lack of this jade pendant is good jade, how about 100 taels?"

Cheng Mu knew that this jade pendant was definitely not worth 100 taels. When he was in his teens, he went to the pawnshop to ask for it when he had nothing to do. At that time, it was only 80 taels. Now more than ten years later, the jade pendant cost 200 taels no matter what.

"Shopkeeper, I'm also in a hurry to use the money, so I wonder if I can be yours first, and you don't want to sell it. I can redeem it later when I have money, okay?"

The shopkeeper kept playing with the jade pendant without even raising his eyes and said, "Of course it's fine. How long do you want to keep it?"

"What's the longest time?"

"Three years. But let me say it first. After three years, you will have to redeem it at three times the price, which is 300 taels. And this time you have to take out 20 taels as a deposit."

Although Cheng Mu was a little bit reluctant, but thinking of Li's daughter-in-law's sunken eye sockets and sallow cheeks, he hated her. He didn't want Yun Yun to become like that.

After signing and depositing, Cheng Mu went to the rice shop to buy rice with 80 taels of silver.Rice has risen to 75 Wen a catty.Many people shook their heads and went back after asking about the price of rice, and many people chose to buy millet.

"Rice is 75 renminbi, millet is [-] renminbi, buy it now, if you don't buy it now, the price will rise again tomorrow!" the waiter yelled at the top of his voice.

"How much is the noodles?" Cheng Mu asked.

"Forty wen noodles, but last year's old noodles, and there are still a hundred catties left that no one wants." The waiter explained.

At the same price, people would naturally choose millet instead of white flour, but Cheng Mu had his own idea. He bought all the remaining 20 catties of noodles, and then bought [-] catties of millet and [-] catties of rice for four taels of silver. Put the more than [-] taels of silver under it away.

He couldn't take so much rice noodles home, so Cheng Mu put them here first, and was going to rent an ox cart to take them home.

As soon as I walked out of the gate of the rice shop, I met a familiar person.