It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 184

Although Jiang Yan asked this, he was very confident in his heart.

A few days ago, she had spent at least ten copper coins to buy the same amount of food in Heyang County.

Considering the closure of Heyang County and the unrest in the surrounding areas that caused the price of grain to soar, even if the price in Zhongyuan Prefecture was low and it could not be sold for five copper coins, two would be easy to get.

Sure enough, the doorman not only did not dislike it, but even showed some satisfaction when he saw the pickled fish. Although the size of the fish was not so good, the quantity was enough to make up for it.

With the doorman's tacit consent, Jiang Yan trotted into the city, and the scene she saw made her dazed.

There is a huge difference between Zhongyuan Prefecture and Heding Prefecture.

She had not yet set foot in the capital of Zhongyuan Prefecture, so she had no basis for comparison, but as far as the county towns were concerned, not to mention the impoverished Rongcheng County where Dongshan Village was located, even the other more affluent counties in Heding Prefecture had not been as lively as this for a long time.

In the past two years, Heding Prefecture has been immersed in sorrow and anxiety caused by separation from relatives, lack of food and clothing, and uncertainty about their future.

Jiang Yan felt a little envious and a little jealous. It seemed that the storm in Heding Prefecture had not dissipated at all.

Intellectually, she knew clearly that most of the suffering in Heding Prefecture came from Governor Fang, Commander Lu and the old emperor, but some emotions were just unreasonable.

Jiang Yan found a pawnshop on the corner of the main street, exchanged a small silver lump for copper coins, and used the copper coins to buy two slightly thick second-hand clothes. The copper coins he received immediately shrank by half.

Walk four or five hundred steps east along the main street and you will reach the market.

The crowd had already dispersed at this time. Jiang Yan searched for a long time before buying a backpack and a straw hat from an old man. They were not expensive, only four copper coins.

Then came two bags of dry biscuits as hard as rocks, a small bag of air-dried rabbit meat, a paper bag of coarse salt, a small bag of malt sugar, a pair of thick-soled cloth shoes, two pieces of vegetarian rags... and he also booked a medium-sized room in the guesthouse.

Jiang Yan felt the remaining copper coins in his sleeve again and again, and counted them. There were still forty-four left.

She was even more envious of the people in Zhongyuan Prefecture. After leaving Heding Prefecture, money was still money. It was really... a special kind of money.

The middle-class room Jiang Yan booked was extremely small. After putting a narrow bed and a small square table in it, there was basically no space to move around. However, the price was very cheap, only a few copper coins more expensive than the lower-class room.

The last time he stayed in a lower-class room, he fell seriously ill in the morning. Although it had nothing to do with the room, Jiang Yan still subconsciously wanted to avoid it this time.

She spent four copper coins to buy a few buckets of hot water from the guesthouse and hid in her room to wash. She could have washed in the mountains, but she had no change of clothes, so it felt like a waste of time to put them back on.

After washing the clothes, Jiang Yan picked up her backpack and went out to find shops to inquire about things around the county town.

"Why are you asking this?" The lady who was in charge of the guesthouse was sitting on a bench cracking sunflower seeds. Seeing Jiang Yan, a stranger, asking about their county's affairs, she immediately became curious.

Jiang Yan looked around and saw that the lady of the guesthouse had no objection, so he also pulled a bench and sat down facing each other, saying in a cryptic tone, "Has the lady ever heard of the Heding Prefecture?"

"Wei Zeng, what happened?"

"About a month ago, the city of Heding and its surroundings were breached, and a fire burned the city to ashes. The people were left homeless and looked for shelter everywhere."

The lady at the guesthouse looked at Jiang Yan: "You too?"

Jiang Yan nodded: "I finally escaped with great difficulty. I often heard the caravans coming to our prefecture say that Zhongyuan Prefecture is rich and there are few disasters, so I came here to take a look."

"What did you see?"

"You have many wealthy people here, and the caravan certainly didn't scare us. I just don't know if there will be many disasters. If it's not dangerous, I'll call on the villagers to find a way to move here."