Of course, except for Liu Yu'er and Yang Huiyun, they have never been to the north, so they don't know.

Fang Zhiwen continued: "The emperor's health is not good. Now the third prince is acting in charge of the government. The third prince Renyi has been exempted from many excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes. The past few years have been good and there have been no disasters at all. The disasters happened many years ago.

"

Village Chief Yu frowned so hard that he could kill a fly.

Then he slapped his hands and said: "It's broken! If this happens, we will be deceived!"

Fang Zhiwen and several brothers looked at each other, wondering what the village chief Yu meant.

"Uncle Village Chief, what did you say?"

Yu Fugui took a deep breath and said slowly: "Last month we had a convoy here, saying they were passing by to go to Guanhai City. They said they were coming from the north and were going to collect some seafood to sell back.

Then we asked about the situation in the north, and they said that there have been droughts and floods over the past few years, and the food harvest has been poor, so prices have risen.

At the same time, other edible items have followed the price increase, because this seafood can also be considered a meat fish, and it has also risen with the tide. These seafood used to earn four or five cents per pound, but now they can earn forty or fifty cents!

Some young people in our village got interested. Taking the money they had at home, they went to various villages to collect seafood, preparing to form a convoy to sell in a place farther north..."

When Fang Zhiwen and others heard this, except for those who said that the disaster in the north was a bit unbelievable, they did not hear the purpose of the other party's deception.

Jiayin said with some confusion: "It's a good thing to form a team and sell it. Even if you earn four or five cents, you won't come back with a loss. Why is the village chief uncle so worried?"

Yu Fugui looked innocent when he saw the good news, sighed, and explained: "I'm not worried about them forming a convoy to do business, I'm worried about why those people want to lie to us? There was no disaster there, but they told us that there was a disaster.

, and also said that prices have risen sharply, what benefit does this bring to them?

I always feel like I am trying to trick the young people from our village out. You know, most of our village relies on the young and strong young people to establish their families. If they all leave, the sky will fall if something happens to the family."

After hearing this, Jiayin and his party also felt that something was wrong.

It would be fine if those people just wanted to swindle some money or something, but obviously not, they just created a rumor and left.

And I also spent a few more pennies to collect some seafood from here.

What's the point of telling such a lie? You clearly know that the other party will find out as soon as they arrive in other cities. After all, as long as you get to the city, there will be more businessmen coming and going, and the information will flow faster, and you will soon find out that they are lying.

There is no need to tell such a lie.

Do you really want to defraud all the strong laborers in this village? What are you doing to defraud them?

Jiayin looked at the village chief and said, "What are the young people in your village doing now?"

The village chief was stunned and replied: "They have all gone to sea..."


Chapter completed!