Chapter 1461: 1462 Some people are hungry and some eat meat.
Chapter 1461 1462 Some people are hungry and some eat meat.
Wearing patched clothes, the man walked to the door of the rice store carrying an empty rice bag. His complexion was not very good, and he looked like he had not had a good rest for a long time.
He is a laborer and has been working in Neverwinter City recently. The main task is to clean up the ruins hit by aerial bombs and fill the big holes in the road with collapsed construction debris.
The situation in Neverwinter has been really bad recently, because a bomb hit the sewage pipe, and now half of the city is filled with a disgusting smell.
Before the Datang Group left here, part of the sewers were built. Later, the Tang Group left. As the largest port in Dorne, Neverwinter followed the Datang Group's high standards and built many underground facilities.
Many of these facilities have been in use for more than ten years, and some are still functioning. However, the Tang Empire's bombing destroyed part of it and paralyzed the operation of the entire city.
The sewer problem is just one of many problems. The biggest problem in Neverwinter City recently is actually the skyrocketing prices.
Rice has now increased to more than five times what it used to be, and local people who can barely survive on meager wages are now almost unable to survive.
“Boss, buy rice for 2 gold coins.” The man took out two shining gold coins from his pocket and handed them to the waiter behind the counter.
After the man checked it, he put the coins into the drawer. Then he carefully took out a ladle of rice from the rice vat at the back, poured it into the man's rice bag, and weighed it carefully on the scale.
“Boss, what I gave you is two gold coins.” The man glanced at the pitiful amount of rice and thought that the other party had given him the wrong amount, so he reminded him.
The guy returned the rice bag to the man and said disdainfully: "Yes, it's two gold coins! Now these two gold coins can only buy so much rice."
"What? This, this is only two kilograms, right? I only have so much savings at home, how can I exchange for so little rice?" The man immediately became excited when he heard this, and couldn't stop grabbing the rice bag. Trembling.
"There's nothing we can do! The price is the same now! If you have the money, buy it quickly. I'm telling you, it will go up again tomorrow." The guy pointed to the wooden sign behind him with the price of rice written on it and kindly reminded him. One sentence.
It turns out that the price of rice, which only increased five times yesterday, has increased twenty times today! Yes! Overnight, it turned out to be four times more expensive than the previous day!
"Twenty times the price of rice? Doesn't this official care about it?" Seeing the sky-high rice price, the man's whole face became distorted.
He worked hard in the city, moving bricks and broken pieces for a day and earning less than 10 silver coins. But now, I can only buy one or two pieces of rice. In other words, the money he makes every day now is not even enough to support himself.
And he still has a family to support: Tang Dynasty bombers destroyed the textile factory. His wife is a textile worker and is now home on vacation, and her salary has been suspended.
The black-hearted textile factory owner said that when the machines in the factory are repaired and work starts, wages can be recalculated. But when will this happen?
You know, the Tang people not only destroyed the textile factory, they also bombed the power plant. When the power is restored and the textile factory resumes work, it is estimated that it will not be until this time next year.
He is the only one in the family who earns so little money. The few gold coins they saved in the past few years have been spent on buying food and food in the past few months. The two gold coins just now are actually their last bit of property. .
But now... there is only enough food for them to eat for another two days. "Boss! Okay! Give us a little more... we really have no money." The man almost knelt down in front of the waiter at the counter.
It’s a pity that no matter how humble he is, no one will give him more food: now in the city, even the nobles can hardly afford meat. There is a shortage of supplies, transportation is paralyzed, and if prices don’t rise, it will really be damned.
While the man was begging, a man wearing more ragged clothes also came to buy rice. He had less money, so the guy only gave him 20 ounces of rice.
The man also began to beg, and finally he knelt down and started kowtowing, but he kowtowed until his forehead bled, and no one gave him another bite to eat.
The man who came first tightened his grip on the rice bag in his hand, fearing that others would **** it away, and walked out of the cannibalistic rice shop. Holding on to his family's last hope, he staggered back to his rented house.
That house is almost in the suburbs, and the rent is cheap. Moreover, he has lived here for more than five years and is familiar with the landlord. Occasionally, he can default on the rent, which is somewhat convenient.
When I got home, I saw the old man next door sitting at the entrance of the alley, crying like crazy. It turned out that the old man's wife had just starved to death, and the old man had not eaten seriously for several days.
The man didn't stop, he didn't even look at his neighbor, and just returned home with the only food he had. After hearing that the price of rice had risen again, his wife secretly hid aside and wiped away tears. The man's mother sat on the bed and couldn't stop sighing.
There was a desolate atmosphere throughout the city. The people hurriedly walked through the circular craters filled with broken bricks and rubble, walking beside the ruins of collapsed buildings, with almost no communication.
Everyone is hoarding food as much as possible, even though the city lord's palace has issued relevant notices, promising that a large amount of food supplies will be shipped soon, and any form of hoarding is prohibited.
But in fact, the nobles were still hoarding a large amount of food, and the common people still didn't have enough to eat. At the end of the dispute, the city lord personally arrested dozens of people buying grain and found more than 20 kilograms of rice in their homes, confirming their charge of stockpiling grain.
After killing these unruly people in public, the city lord once again assured the people that the food would be delivered soon, and everyone was asked to be calm.
Regrettably, the city lord's guarantee was of no use. Although some food was indeed transported to Neverwinter City, most of it was allocated to the army.
The army dare not be short of food, but the civilians in Neverwinter City can go hungry again. Anyway, there are troops nearby, so we are not afraid of these unruly people rebelling, right?
And not everyone is starving, the nobles in the city still have something to eat, and some factories are even giving out meat and vegetables as rewards - this is the case with the large factory outside the city that produces radar.
Yes, Pan Yiping was able to get meat and enough food for his workers. After all, he is a popular figure in the military. If anyone's things are missing, his will not be missing either...
(End of this chapter)