Chapter 92+93 : Natural Disaster and Man-Made Calamity
Time passed day by day.
Qingjiang County still showed not the slightest sign of rain.
Every day, the blazing sun hung high in the sky, scorching the earth. Fields cracked open in great patches.
Many ordinary common folk in the surrounding villages, across ten li and eight townships, could only sell their fields and land in order to survive, hoping to exchange them for some grain and endure this drought.
As for Qingjiang County City, the price of clear water had risen from one wen per cup to ten wen, and there was still a trend of further increase.
Because no one knew how many fruits and vegetables planted in farmland and mountain forests had withered to death, the prices of fruits and vegetables being bought and sold in the county city had also increased tenfold.
The rest was much the same.
Dongxi Village.
The Jianyi family was busy in full swing.
