Jiang Xingchen prepared the meal, and when he returned to the house, the old man was holding his hair tightly, looking like he was thinking hard.
On the other side, Meier was very free, smiling, and extremely relaxed.
"Gongzhu!" The old man hesitated for a long time and then said weakly.
"Are you ready to go, old man?" Meier asked without moving.
"Let's go... let's go!" The old man said in a very unconfident tone.
"Have you really left?" Mei'er asked again, her eyes turning into crescent moons.
"Of course we're leaving!" The old man blew his beard and glared in anger, and he couldn't help but laugh.
"Then you can't regret your chess. My brother said that you are a true gentleman who has no regrets when you lose chess. You just regretted dozens of moves!"
"Dozens of steps!" Jiang Xingchen grinned, and the hand holding the plate trembled: "This old man..."
"What's wrong with being a gentleman? Grandfather, will I keep my word?" The old man blushed a little when Mei'er said it, and shouted angrily.
"Okay! General!" Meier smiled and took a step forward.
"Uh!" The old man was dumbfounded: "Where did her horse jump from..."
At this time, Jiang Xingchen said: "Don't get off, let's eat first!"
The old man seemed to have met his savior. Like a child, he reached out and scratched the chessboard and said loudly: "Old ancestor, I am hungry, this game does not count, I will play again after eating!"
Mei'er, Xin'er, and Jiang Xingchen were immediately speechless. To be able to cheat to such an extent is simply...
Shaking their heads, Mei'er and Xin'er ignored the old man and ran over to help Jiang Xingchen clear the table and serve food.
While eating, the old man still looked gloomy, his eyes always vacant, and he would unconsciously murmur while chewing the steamed buns: "Where did that horse jump from..."
"Hey!" Jiang Xingchen sighed and thought to himself: "I knew I would never play chess again. The old man is so addicted to the rhythm, and he has a typical addiction to smelly hands. He even eats like this. How can he go out to find wild pheasant eggs?"
return!"
After finishing the meal, the old man wanted to continue, but Mei'er refused to play with him. It was really no fun to play chess with a bad chess player.
The old man's hands felt itchy and uncomfortable, but he could only watch Jiang Xingchen sit back in his seat.
Starting again, Jiang Xingchen found that Meier's chess game was much longer than that of the first player. It was no longer easy for him to win the game as casually as before.
"This girl, she learns things so fast. She is as good at backgammon as she is at chess!" Meier's intelligence amazed him.
The old man showed the usual characteristics of a bad chess player: shut up!
"Gong pawn! Boy, Gong pawn, we've crossed the river... The car has sunk to the bottom, hurry up, it's obvious that the general is... Vaulting horse, you are a vaulting horse!"
"Old man, the horse's legs are tied up!" Xin'er whispered to the side.
"Oops!" The old man was shaken by the blow, and finally blushed and stopped saying anything...
In the next two days, heavy snow fell and the temperature dropped again. Jiang Xingchen estimated that it would be at least 30 degrees below zero, making it the coldest time of the year.
In such weather, no one goes out, and the whole village stays at home, guarding the warmth of the fire.
The old man didn't go anywhere. He asked Jiang Xingchen to make another chess set and ran to the Jingtian mercenary group with the chessboard all day long. Mei'er couldn't play, so I'll find a novice to do it!
So on the evening of the next day, Han Xiaowu found Jiang Xingchen and almost shed tears when he spoke.
"Sire, please take care of the old man. He keeps us playing chess all day long... It's okay to say that, but his chess game is stinky... We can't win yet. Once we win, he will cheat and betray us if he doesn't regret it.
Chessboard... Sometimes our team members play chess by themselves, and this old man is right next to us to help us, and he is even more anxious than us. He can't move without moving... I can't live this life..."
The corners of Jiang Xingchen's mouth kept twitching, forcing Han Xiaowu to say such words that he couldn't live for a long time. How much resentment did the old man arouse!
However, before he could find the old man, Du Rushan, who had been out for three days, came back.
"Sir! We traveled to the three surrounding towns and couldn't buy any food at all..." Du Rushan's expression was extremely solemn when he reported.
"No food!" Jiang Xingchen was stunned for a moment, and his expression darkened.
"We have inquired about it. It snowed too much and it has been cloudy for a month! They say this is a once-in-a-century disaster that will definitely affect next year's spring plowing... In other words, next year's grain production will definitely be reduced..."
Jiang Xingchen narrowed his eyes and said, "Is someone hoarding food?"
"Yes!" Du Rushan nodded and said: "Two days ago, the news of a once-in-a-century disaster came out from Hongyuan City. People began to rush to buy food, causing the price of food to skyrocket. Now food merchants everywhere are limiting the supply and only selling
To the residents of our territory, we don’t even sell takeaways at high prices... and the prices of salt, oil, meat and other commodities are also rising, and even charcoal has tripled in size!"
"Man-made!" Jiang Xingchen immediately thought of this possibility. Unstable food prices would cause panic. How could Dingbei Hou not try his best to control food prices? Therefore, it is certain that someone did this deliberately.
After pondering for a moment, Jiang Xingchen exhaled and asked, "Have you bought the charcoal? Where are the other necessities?"
"I bought a lot of charcoal and everything else...but the cost was a bit high!" Du Rushan said.
"It's okay! Money doesn't matter, just buy things. You've worked hard, go and rest first!"
"Yes!" Du Rushan nodded, bowed and walked out.
Jiang Xingchen sat alone in the room, lowering his eyes and thinking. After a while, he started writing a letter and then found Meier.
"Brother! We need to use the messenger bird again!" Meier hesitated. The temperature was too low now, and the messenger bird was not suitable for long-distance flights. However, seeing her brother's expression, she knew that the matter was urgent and hurriedly brought the bird cage over.
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When the pink messenger bird soared into the sky despite the wind and snow, in Hongyuan City, Dingbei Hou was also worried about food.
He has long been worried that something like this will happen when he encounters a severe winter that has never happened in a century. Someone has indeed said this before, so he has been trying his best to stabilize food prices and avoid causing panic.
But the news broke out so suddenly that it spread throughout the streets and alleys almost instantly, and spread to all the towns in the territory, leaving no time to react.
And then he discovered that almost immediately before the news broke, many external forces suddenly appeared and rushed to buy food. Then the major families in the territory rushed to buy, causing this food crisis.
Now, although he has united with several big nobles to move out all the grain stocks and sell them to civilians at low prices, he still cannot meet the demand. Panic has arisen, and countless people queue up every day to buy grain.
"There must be someone behind this matter. You'd better not be found out by me!" Dingbei Hou thought bitterly. Foreign forces suddenly attacked and snapped up most of the food on the market, causing a serious food shortage in the territory.
, the inventory is simply not enough! If the nobles and rich people hand over the food they have hoarded, it will be able to alleviate the problem, but it will probably cause another panic.
"Where can we get food?" Dingbeihou paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back.
At this time, a subordinate's report came from outside the door: "Master Hou, Qi Yue leads the young master of the Wang family in Linshui City to ask for an audience!"
"Young Master Wang, he seems to be one of those people who have been pestering me to buy the secret recipe... I remember that he specifically asked Grand Duke Qi Yue to come forward and write me a letter. What is he doing here? Could it be..."
With thoughts flashing through his mind, Marquis Dingbei ordered his subordinates to let the young master of the Wang family come in.
"Master Marquis! I've taken the liberty to come here to see you..." The young master of the Wang family smiled broadly, and could no longer see the depressed mood he had felt in the previous period.
"Stop talking nonsense and tell me what you have to say!" Dingbei Hou interrupted him with a wave of his hand and said stiffly. You, a junior, have nothing to do with me.
The young master of the Wang family paused, twitched his lips, and smiled again: "I see that the major restaurants in Hongyuan City are not doing well, presumably due to lack of food, so I came to discuss a business deal with Mr. Hou..."
"How much food do you have?" Dingbeihou asked.
"Haha!" The young master of the Wang family showed a proud look in his eyes again, and said: "At least the two major restaurants and the bun shop are enough. If there is no food, your reputation as a gourmet city will be ruined... My conditions are also very simple...
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"Go talk to Mo Hongxian about this matter!" Dingbei Hou interrupted him again with his hand and said calmly: "See you off!"
Just kidding, your little food is enough for restaurants and bun shops, so what are you talking to me about? What I need most now is to calm the panic in the hearts of the common people.
"Uh!" The young master of the Wang family froze on the spot, his face turned red from holding back. He thought that he had food and would definitely have the upper hand this time, but he never expected that Marquis Dingbei would not abandon him at all.
"This, Lord Marquis! Can Mo Hongxian make the decision?" The young master of the Wang family had to ask again. The last time he sold the secret recipe, it was the Marquis of Dingbei who bought it.
"Yes!" Marquis Dingbei said only one word, and turned away without wanting to say more. He was already annoyed enough, so how could he bother to talk to him about this?
"Okay! Then I'll go find Mo Hongxian!" The young master of the Wang family said something full of anger and turned away. Now you are short of food, but you are still so arrogant.
Dingbeihou turned around, looked at the back of the young master of the Wang family, and snorted coldly. He knew that the other party was a member of the rush to buy food, but there was nothing he could do. You can't take back the food that others bought by force. The nobles in your own territory
Everyone is panic buying and hoarding food.
"I'll settle the score with you later!" Dingbei Hou thought to himself, withdrew his gaze and continued to think of ways.
This heavy snow has affected most of the empire, and the surrounding territories must be short of food! Moreover, the roads are blocked by the heavy snow, so light vehicles can travel easily, but transporting large quantities of food will be difficult! Even if there is food in other territories, it will be difficult to transport it here.
It’s too late for Hachimura!
When Marquis Dingbei was thinking about it, things developed exactly as he expected. The same news broke out in several surrounding territories and the areas with the heaviest snowstorm, and the cheap grains on the market were quickly sold out.
It was a severe winter that had not happened in a century, and grain production would be reduced next year. News like this spread everywhere, and the sensation caused by Jiang Xingchen and the old man's victory over the terminal illness was quickly drowned out.
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