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Chapter 213 - 213 209 Panic Buying
Chapter 213 - 213 209 Panic Buying
?Chapter 213: Chapter 209: Panic Buying Chapter 213: Chapter 209: Panic Buying Too many people were clamoring for rice seeds, and the scene was extremely chaotic. In the midst of the commotion, shoving and jostling could easily lead to accidents, and Ruo Shui, fearing trouble, hurriedly soothed everyone loudly, “Everybody, don’t rush. All our rice has been turned over to the Imperial Court. The Governor’s Office will distribute it in due time. After the autumn harvest, you can just go to the Governor’s Office to buy it. This time, the official fields also planted the third crop of rice, so everyone needn’t worry about there being no seeds for sale. Moreover, the seeds for this third crop were selected from the late rice. If there isn’t enough this time, there will be another batch after the autumn harvest. We absolutely won’t run out of seeds.”
County Magistrate Zhang also quickly added his voice, “That’s right, I guarantee that the third crop rice seeds from our Shaxi County will be more than sufficient for all the villagers to plant. So there’s no need to rush to buy rice seeds. Let the Ruo Family first weigh out this harvest. And the seeds must be carefully selected.”
Still, some people were not at ease, thinking that buying early would set their minds at rest. They stubbornly pleaded with the Ruo Family’s people to agree to sell them a few kilograms first, fearing they wouldn’t be able to buy them later.
“There’s no need to pick, I just want to use the rice from that plot which yielded one thousand six hundred and thirty-six kilograms per acre as seed! Ruo Shui, Uncle Niu once carried you down the mountain. Sell me a few dozen kilograms of seeds. Won’t you grant your uncle this favor?”
“Me too, Ruo Shui, sell me thirty kilograms. I’ve seen your family’s grains passing through the winnowing machine and not a single grain was shriveled! I’ve checked, each and every grain is plump, suitable for seed. Auntie held you when you were little and gave you a piece of sugar cane, haven’t you forgotten? Sell Auntie thirty kilograms first!”
“Granny Lei, your sixth child was delivered by my own hands…”
One by one, they began to invoke relationships in their eagerness to secure some seeds, bringing up anything and everything. Others who had been reassured by the County Magistrate’s promise and were not initially worried also dared not give up, and they followed suit, pestering the Ruo Family’s people.
If they didn’t, they were afraid they wouldn’t be able to buy any later, or that prices would be too high and they wouldn’t be able to afford it.
After all, the news of a yield of a thousand kilograms per acre would likely attract people from other counties to come and buy.
There were only so many seeds, and with silver to be made, if someone was willing to pay a high price, they couldn’t believe that the Ruo Family and the Governor’s Office wouldn’t sell to them instead. How could it be their turn, these ordinary people, to buy?
Just as with grain in a year of disaster, which was exorbitantly priced, they wanted to buy but couldn’t.
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