Chapter 259 Uneasiness

Chen family.

"You're back so soon?"

Looking at Chen Qi who had just opened the door and walked in, Mrs. Chen, who was sewing clothes, immediately put down the needle and thread in her hand and asked, "Have you borrowed it?"

It was her idea to borrow food from Wang Chen, but she was a woman and couldn't come forward, so she forced her husband to go to Wang Chen's house for help.

Mrs. Chen is very aware of Chen Qi's character, who often sacrifices to save face and suffers the consequences.

It is also difficult for him to ask him to borrow food.

"Borrowed it."

Chen Qi put the storage bag in his hand on the table and sat down dejectedly.

He felt that he was too incompetent and could not even support his wife and children. He had to borrow food from others and was not worthy of being a man!

Mrs. Chen's eyes lit up: "How much did you borrow?"

Chen Qi shook his head in confusion: "I, I don't know either."

He really doesn't know.

"You, you!"

Mrs. Chen hated the fact that iron cannot become steel, so she took the storage bag and opened it to check.

"Almost three hundred pounds!"

After checking, she said happily: "They are all spiritual grains, so Jin'er and Yu'er have the qualifications to practice!"

Chen Qi's two sons have all five elements and both have the potential for cultivation.

The couple also placed high hopes on them.

The two sons are still young, and when they are growing up, if they want to have a solid foundation, they must use the qualifications of cultivating immortals to strengthen their bones and soul and condense their magic power.

The problem is that the prices of Lingmi Linggu and animal meat are too expensive.

The rise is outrageous!

Chen Qi smiled bitterly: "I have to pay it back."

He doesn't want to be an old man with debts. The problem is that it is really difficult to pay back so much spiritual grain.

"Let's talk about it after we get through this."

Mrs. Chen sighed: "Fellow Daoist Wang is very loyal, we can't let him be sorry..."

She secretly made a decision in her heart!

Wang Chen's kindness must be repaid.

But how to repay, you have to think carefully.

Mrs. Chen was thinking in her mind, and Wang Chen's face suddenly appeared in her sea of ​​consciousness, as clear as if she was right in front of her eyes.

This smart and capable woman couldn't help but clenched the storage bag in her hand.

At this moment, Wang Chen had just arrived in Fangshi.

Even though it was not a market day, there were still people setting up stalls in the market.

In addition, there are many shops near Fangshi. This area is actually the CBD of Dongwuzhai.

Wang Chen walked around but didn't buy anything.

But he was surprised to find that the price of spirit grain in the grain store was as high as fifteen pieces of spirit grain per pound!

Such a price is really beyond Wang Chen's understanding.

At that time, he cultivated the spiritual fields in Yunyang faction, and sold the white jade rice to grain merchants for fifty pounds per spirit.

It is equivalent to two broken spirits per kilogram.

If the grain store sells it to other people, it will definitely increase the price, but even if the price of grain increases sharply, the most expensive ones are not that expensive.

This price is simply destructive!

Wang Chen finally understood why Chen Qi asked him to borrow food.

He simply cannot afford the current rice!

Not only the price of spiritual rice has risen sharply, but the price of ordinary tribute rice has also risen with the tide, reaching a staggering level.

Moreover, the owner of the grain store looks like he wants to buy it or not. If he doesn’t buy it, the price will rise tomorrow!

As for the reason, Wang Chen heard several possible truths in the teahouse.

The first is that the autumn grain production in Yunyang's hometown has been greatly reduced.

Tahao Peak soared up, almost draining Tianyun Mountain's spiritual veins to dryness.

Without the nourishment of this spiritual vein, the quality of the spiritual fields in Yunyang's hometown has deteriorated greatly, and the rice yield has seriously declined.

Food prices naturally soared.

In fact, this situation should have happened half a year ago.

However, in order to stabilize people's hearts, Guiyuanmen, who occupied the hometown of Yunyang at that time, purchased and mobilized a large number of spiritual rice from other places, which stabilized the price of food from soaring.

But Guiyuan Sect would only do such a loss-making thing once, and then ignore it.

As a result, the crisis becomes apparent after winter!

It is said that several immortal cities such as Yunshan Yunhai have limited portions for purchasing Lingmi Linggu and do not allow large-scale purchases.

In addition, in the past month, the pirate cultivators in the outer areas have been very active. Demonic cultivators and evil cultivators have appeared frequently, and traveling merchants traveling from north to south have not dared to come out to sell goods.

Under such circumstances, how could Dongwuzhai, which was like an isolated island in a foreign land, not be attacked?

In fact, Dongwuzhai is not bad. At least life is relatively stable. No matter how expensive the price of rice is, it is limited. You can get over it if you persevere.

The real misfortunes are those small villages with poor risk resistance.

Once the casual cultivators in these small villages don't have enough to eat, they will easily fall into internal strife and fight each other to plunder each other's wealth.

Etiquette, integrity and moral character are not worth mentioning in the face of survival!

Recently, there have been many fleeing casual cultivators in Dongwuzhai.

The market is not very stable.

Wang Chen didn't take a few steps out of the teahouse when he saw someone doing "human market" business on the street.

"This fellow Taoist."

Probably because Wang Chen took a second look, he was spotted by a tooth man. He came over, nodded and bowed and asked, "Would you like to buy a maid back? If you are an ordinary person, you can make a bed, fold a quilt, and warm the bed." The food was very good.”

As he said that, Yaren also pulled over a thirteen or fourteen year old girl.

"Look at how she is. She is a virgin, and she can be brought home with just one hundred moves!"

How much is one hundred spirits now?

Just a few hundred kilograms of rice!

The girl, who was worth hundreds of kilograms of rice, looked at Wang Chen timidly, with a look of hope in her eyes.

She is thin, but her appearance is not bad, and she is a little beauty after taking good care of herself.

Wang Chen ignored the other party's gaze, not to mention the tooth man who was hawking, and left on his own.

He is not a saint, and he does not have the ability to save everyone.

Just take good care of yourself!

Back home, Wang Chen sneaked into the underground secret room and took out the storage bag stored in a secret place.

Re-counted his inventory of food.

According to the current market price, the price of these confiscated Lingmi Linggu has increased by at least five times.

What a win!

But Wang Chen didn't feel any joy.

Because of these Lingmi Linggu, he kept it for himself and had no intention of selling it.

Although selling high and paying low is a good idea.

However, under the current situation, the price of Lingmi rice may remain at a high level for a long time, and after selling, it may have to be bought back at the same or even higher price.

Of course, there is food in hand and he doesn't feel panic. At least Wang Chen's heart must be very stable.

In the next few days, more people poured into Dongwuzhai.

It seems that all the casual cultivators from hundreds of miles around have gathered here.

The most direct consequence of this is that the public security situation in Dongwuzhai suddenly became bad.

Although the city lord's mansion has a guard hall to do the dirty work.

But relying solely on the power of Wei Tang is obviously not enough to suppress these outsiders.

It happened that at this time Xin Han announced his retreat and handed over all the affairs of the City Lord's Mansion to his concubine.

And Concubine Ji’s younger brother—Jin Shelangjun!

This pair of siblings has the attitude of manipulating the good Dongwuzhai to death.

Disturbing.

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