Chapter 053: It’s just a waste of money.
"My daughter has called me a few times in the past few days. You were busy in court, so I didn't have time to tell you." Cheng Yurong raised the corners of her lips, happiness written all over her face. .
Shen Hong picked up a piece of fish belly with chopsticks and put it in her bowl. She liked to eat fish, so the fish belly was given to her first every time.
"My daughter feels sorry for you. I have called you mother a long time ago. Eat more, I see you have lost weight."
The situation at home is getting better and better, and he is less worried, and the days are getting more prosperous.
"You've lost weight too, eat more elbows." Cheng Yurong gave him his favorite elbows.
"Thank you, madam."
The couple showed off their affection in front of several children, not afraid of teaching them anything bad.
Shen Zhiyuan and his brothers pretended not to notice and immersed themselves in cooking.
Xu Wanrou didn't even dare to make a sound, and she felt like she had pressed the mute button while eating.
"Second brother, you have been outside for the past few days, please pay attention to safety." Shen Hong picked up the bowl and chopsticks and took a few bites of the food before speaking suddenly.
Shen Zhiqing was stunned for a moment, then nodded. "Is it because of the floods in the south? I vaguely feel that there are some new faces in the city, and their movements are strange. They look like refugees but are not like them."
"Some people pretend to be refugees and come to the capital to seek refuge with relatives and friends. These people have recently become stalkers of Dali Temple. The target of the investigation."
Shen Hong looked solemn.
"Dad, there were droughts in many places in the north in the past two years, and the grain harvest was very low. The people could barely survive by relying on food transportation from the south.
This year has only eased a little, and it is the south's turn to suffer from the once-in-50-year flood. Dai Viet... can Can you withstand it?"
Shen Zhiqing frowned, worried that other countries and nomads would take the opportunity to attack Yue again.
He will open a cake shop in the next two months, so he knows the national conditions very well.
"Isn't there going to be... war everywhere again?" Shen Zhiyu's expression was solemn. His father had only been home for five months. If he went to the battlefield again, would he be able to come back safely?
Shen Zhiyuan looked gloomy and put down his bowl and chopsticks. Although he has come out of the Pine Garden in the past two months, he still has not cared about the people's livelihood and the national conditions, and his understanding of the outside world is still five years ago.
At that time, the country was peaceful and the people were safe, with no drought or flood.
"The floods in the south have affected five prefectures and cities, and hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced. I heard that the Central Plains has also been flooded by rains in the past few days, and many people have died." "The
price of food has risen to the point where the people cannot afford it. To the point of selling children.
The treasury allocated a total of one hundred thousand taels of silver, but in the hands of the people, each person could only get a bowl of gruel."
"The granaries in the towns and counties are either empty or empty . Not half of the food is moldy, and the court has dismissed dozens of officials."
Shen Hong sighed. Official corruption is very common in Dai Viet Kingdom, and it is difficult to clean up, let alone prevent it.
"Husband, I saved tens of thousands of kilograms of grain in the past few months. You can use your daughter's name to send it to the south for disaster relief! There are also ten thousand kilograms of medicinal materials. There will definitely be a plague after the flood."
Cheng Yurong donated a lot of money. The food and medicinal materials she purchased made her feel a little distressed, but compared with life, she still felt that life was more important.
When the north suffered a drought three months ago, she heard her daughter mention that there would be floods in the south that would occur once in fifty years, and food prices soared to the point where a pound of rice cost one or two silver.
The flood was followed by the plague, which caused a heavy blow to Dai Viet. The following year, several nomadic tribes invaded Dai Viet. Shen Hong led the children of the Shen family to send troops to attack.
Finally, he defeated the enemy in the winter of the third year. After returning to Beijing with wounds all over his body, he was "killed by righteousness" by Shen Qingqing.
"Madam, as long as you are willing, tens of thousands of kilograms of grain can only feed tens of thousands of people for a day, which is still a drop in the bucket."
Shen Hong did not mean to hit Cheng Yurong. There were too many victims, even if there were a few in the south who were not affected. Several prefectures hit by floods have now seen a large influx of victims.
It caused disorder, food prices skyrocketed, and the lives of ordinary people in the city became increasingly difficult. Shen Zhiqing wanted to help, but all the money he had saved over the years was spent on the cake shop.
At this time, money was used to buy food, but it was just wasted money.
Shen Zhiyuan also wanted to use the monthly silver saved in the past five years to buy food, but considering that food is so expensive now, his thousand taels may not be able to buy a few kilograms.
Ruan Ruan listened to his parents' words and suddenly thought that if he donated tens of millions of kilograms of food and medicinal materials, wouldn't he be doing great good deeds and accumulating merit?
The food in her mall system is very cheap. Two kilograms of rice only cost one merit, and one kilogram of flour costs one merit.
Two kilograms of corn flour only cost one merit, and two kilograms of dried noodles cost one kilogram.
Another two kilograms of potatoes require one merit, and three kilograms of sweet potatoes require one merit.
Only rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn flour are the cheapest here, but there are no potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn in Dai Viet.
Therefore, she can only use her merit to buy rice.
Ruan Ruan opened the system panel and continued to search for cheaper food among first-class commodities.
Finally, I found taro, a coarse grain with a yield of eight thousand kilograms per mu. Five kilograms only requires one merit.
This kind of taro has been improved, and the yield per mu has been increased from three to four thousand kilograms to eight thousand kilograms. Not only is it durable in storage, it also eliminates an alkaloid called saponin.
From now on, if you touch taro directly with your hands, your skin will no longer itch.
Taro is the easiest and most nutritious whole grain.
If you make porridge with taro and rice, it will taste very delicious and very filling.
In his previous life, Ruan Ruan liked taro porridge the most.
Now the mall system is at level 4, and she has saved 4.5 million in merit gold, which her brothers have saved for her by doing good deeds in the past two months.
[Mom, Dad, I want to do good deeds and gain more merit this time, and I can't just rely on you and my brothers.
I hope you won't be surprised when you see a lot of grain in Zhuangzi, just regard it as a gift from your ancestors. ]
[One meritorious deed can buy two kilograms of rice, and five kilograms of taro only requires one meritorious deed. I will buy these two grains.
With the accumulated merit of 4.5 million, we can buy 2 million jins of rice and 32.5 million jins of taro, which can almost solve the flood problem. ]
Two million kilograms of rice?
Seventeen and a half million kilograms of taro?
Overhearing their daughter's thoughts, Shen Hong and Cheng Yurong opened their mouths wide and remained motionless.
The five Shen Zhiyuan brothers saw their parents' stunned expressions and guessed that they must have heard what their sister was saying.
Ruan Ruan had no idea and was busy buying food in the mall system, frantically clicking on the quantities of rice and taro.
Fortunately, there is no purchase limit for this kind of thing, and the quantity units can be sold in hundreds or tens of millions.
She knew which village Cheng Yurong had placed the grain she had purchased in the past two or three months. When she bought rice and taro, she directly set the address to a certain village, and it had probably been delivered to her home by now.
After working for a quarter of an hour, Ruan Ruan got tired, grabbed a small spoon and started eating rice cereal with all his strength.
When Shen Hong and Cheng Yurong saw Ruan Ruan return to normal, they knew that she had purchased almost 20 million kilograms of grain.
The two couples looked at each other, and after a quick dinner, he asked his two men to take the tokens and leave the city, secretly going to a certain mountain villa.
An hour later,
the two men returned to the general's mansion smoothly. They handed what they saw and the booklet recording the food to Shen Hong.