On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

Chapter 36: Going through a dog hole?

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Logically speaking, since Li Shiyang has said so much, generally speaking, no one should raise any objection.

It was natural for everyone to follow Li Shiyang's arrangement, and let Li Shiyang take Li Shiyue and Li Wangshui to find the gap in the city wall, so as to achieve the purpose of entering the city this time - to buy salt.

But Father Li is special!
Father Li shook his sleeves and looked at Li Shiyang with a fake smile: "Nephew Shiyang, I followed you out this time just to go to the clinic to buy medicine. You only went to buy salt and not medicine. Didn't I follow you out for nothing?
Let me go with you, I am agile and will not be a burden to you!"

Li Shiyang had already seen what kind of person Li's father was. However, he could ignore what Li's father said, but he still had to give face to Li Shiyue.

So, after Li Shiyang glanced at Li's father, he went to see Li Shiyue. Li Shiyue looked constipated and cursed Li's father in his heart, but he still had to put on a dark face and said to Li's father: "Dad, what medicine do you want to buy?
Give me a list. I have a good brain and I will remember them all for you. If I can go to the city and have the spare money, I will buy them for Dad, okay?"

".This, this is something you, a little girl, can understand? I'd better go there myself."

How could Li Shiyue be willing to take his father with him?

With a man like Mr. Li, who has such a cold temper, it would be great if he didn't go out and cause trouble for others.

Therefore, Li Shiyue frowned, pursed her lips tightly, touched the hatchet on her waist, and said with some impatience: "Dad, you'd better not go. I think Qin Tao is in good health and there is no need for her to take medicine.

If we need to prepare any medicine, we can buy it in the next small town after we leave the city.

There is no need to buy medicine in this city.

We went into the city to do the important business of buying salt for everyone. Brother Shiyang and I asked for my father to be brought along when we came out.

Now that we know the situation in the city, please don't add to the chaos."

As he spoke, Li Shiyue drew the hatchet from his waist and performed some knife moves while staring at Li's father.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was a conflict between Li Shiyue and his own father.

Not to mention that Mr. Li had divorced his mother some time ago. Even if they hadn't divorced, Li Shiyue was Mr. Li's biological daughter, and it would always be bad for outsiders to interfere in the conflict between the father and daughter.

Therefore, when seeing Li Shiyue threatening Li's father, the people around him all looked up at the sky and down at the earth, ignoring the two of them, and no one came out to say anything to smooth things over.

Finally, it was Li Shiyang who stood up and said, "Since Uncle Wangguang cares so much about buying medicine, let's go together.

I'll just say this first. Sister Shiyue, Uncle Wangshui and I are going to buy salt for everyone. If we can get into the city, Uncle Wangguang can do whatever he wants. We won't be responsible."

Li Wangguang was choked by Li Shiyang's words and began to hesitate to go forward.

But Li Wangguang thought of what Qin Tao had said to him before he left: "Wangguang, this recipe was given to me by a witch from my mother's family. She said that if you drink this, you will definitely give birth to a son!

Wangguang, go buy some for me to drink, and I will give you a son to carry on your family line!"

Thinking of Qin Tao's words and his son, Li Wangguang plucked up his courage and responded to Li Shiyang's words with a stiff face.

After agreeing on the time and place for the rendezvous with Mazi and Mole, Li Shiyue gave some instructions to Li Qiutian and then followed Li Shiyang to the west side of the city wall together with Li's father, Li Wangshui and others.

As a result, near noon, after walking for more than an hour, they finally found the gap.

Li Shiyue looked at the dog hole in front of him that was blocked by weeds and dug out by Li Shiyang, and suddenly his heart felt like a grassland again.

Li Shiyue's expression clearly expressed four words - "It's actually a dog hole." She tilted her head and looked at Li Shiyang with a somewhat amusing look.

Li Shiyang squatted down and took away the broken wooden board that was placed behind the weeds. He raised his head and smiled at Li Shiyue and said, "Otherwise, why do you think it was an oversight of the city wall?
This hole looks like a dog hole from the outside, but it is actually quite big inside. It has been dug out a lot, so an adult can still crawl through it.

But, I haven't been here for a long time, so I don't know what it's like over there. Come, give me the knife, I'll go over there and take a look, if there's nothing wrong, you can come over later."

After a cup of tea, Li Shiyang finally came out again. He smiled and handed the hatchet to Li Shiyue, then said to the three people, "There is no one over there. It looks similar to what I saw before, no change.

Come on, you go first, I'll cover you."

After Li Shiyue crawled in, the cricket pupa took a few steps and realized that the hole had been artificially enlarged and could indeed allow an adult to crawl through it.

After coming out from the other end of the city wall, Li Shiyue shook off the dirt on his body while observing the exit. It seemed to be a dead end somewhere in the city. The entrance was blocked by a pile of broken baskets.

The few of them walked out of the alley cautiously. Li Shiyue looked at the street outside and saw that although there was no bustling crowd, it was not completely silent either. There were still a few people scattered around.

Seeing the situation outside, Li Shiyang turned around and bowed to Father Li: "Uncle Wangguang, let's part ways here.

My sister October, Uncle Wangshui and I went to buy salt, and Uncle Wangguang went to buy medicine.

According to what we agreed outside, we will meet under the jujube tree outside the city tonight."

Li Shiyang straightened his expression and said to Father Li solemnly, "If Uncle Wangguang doesn't arrive under the tree on time, I won't wait for you."

Li Shiyue didn't even want to look at Li's father. He turned around and followed Li Shiyang out of the alley and onto the street, leaving Li's father alone.

Li Shiyue hid her hatchet in the backpack she was carrying behind her. Li Wangshui also carried a backpack on his back, which was the one he had picked up in the dead end just now.

The backpack can’t be said to be broken, but it’s just a little dirty. It can still be used.

“I know a salt shop. Let’s go there and ask the price. If it’s suitable, we can buy it there.

If everything goes well, we'll go to the pharmacy. It's inevitable that we'll have headaches and fevers on the road, so it would be good if we could prepare some medicine."

As a result, when he arrived at the salt shop, Li Shiyue saw that even the price of the lowest quality poisonous black salt was three times higher than usual. He immediately understood why there were so few people at the door of the salt shop.

It may be because the price of salt is too high and people in the city are reluctant to buy it, or they simply cannot afford it.

Li Shiyue naturally didn't want to buy the lowest quality black salt. This black salt contained a lot of impurities and toxic substances that people at that time called salt poison. Eating too much of this salt would make people sick.

But the price of the better green salt was so high that even Li Shiyue, who had a gold cake on him, couldn't bear to buy it.

In the past, the Li family ate yellow salt, which was better than black salt. As the name suggests, yellow salt is brownish-yellow in color, lighter than black salt, but not as bright white as green salt.

Thinking about the needs of his family along the way, Li Shiyue used all the silver given by his mother to buy one and a half kilograms of yellow salt.

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