Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

Seeing Shen helping Xiaoliang deal with Xiaoye and Xiaotao, Liu was instantly unhappy, "Her second aunt, what are you doing?"

"What can I do? It was your child who beat up my Xiaoliang..." Before Shen could finish her words, she was slapped in the face by Liu.

Not willing to be outdone, Shen grabbed her hair and yelled, "Why are you hitting me?"

"Your family secretly ate the rabbits raised by my children. Even if the children fought, they only hurt the fur. How can you be so nervous to be violent to the brother and sister? You are still their second aunt after all." Liu was not to be outdone. She also grabbed her hair and hit Shen's face with her other hand. Shen was hit and fell to the side.

Xiao Ye, Xiao Tao and Xiao Liang were stunned and forgot about the fight.

Liu was a kind person, usually submissive, and she would swallow her anger and endure even when she suffered a loss. Today, when she saw her child being bullied, she didn't say much nonsense to Shen and just started fighting. Seeing her angry look, she suppressed Shen.

Shen was shocked and tried to struggle out of Liu's palm, but could not get free. "Someone come, someone is going to die." Shen saw that he was no match for Liu and could only howl.

Liu usually works a lot and eats little, and gives in on everything. It doesn't matter how hardship she endures, but her children are her bottom line, and she will never tolerate her children being bullied.

"Mom, it was Second Uncle's family who ate our rabbits. Xiaoliang just admitted it." Xiao Ye came back to his senses and stood next to Liu. He felt that Liu looked particularly majestic when she stood up.

"Her second aunt, I won't say much to you. Just remember this, if you bully my child again, don't blame me for being rude to you. If you eat secretly in the future, remember to wipe your mouth clean." After saying that, he let go of the hand that was holding Shen's hair, threw a handful of hair in his palm to the ground, and left with Xiaoye and Xiaotao.

The news of Liu being beaten spread throughout the Sheng family compound in no time.

Cui was stunned. "I said she was just pretending to be honest and obedient. She was the one who instigated the fourth brother to divide the family last time. She has a lot of bad intentions." Cui was silent for a while and said to Chunhua.

This incident did not affect the progress of the Sheng family's move. It took the whole family two days to move most of their belongings using a ox cart.

Half a month later, Zhang Qingfeng and Zhang Qingnian came to Xiaolan's home. Zhang Shanfeng asked them to go to the town to find out and take a look at Xiaolan's family situation. If the situation was urgent, they would all move together.

As family members, they don't have different opinions. She always remembers how kind her grandparents were to her.

As soon as Xiao Lan, her father and two uncles arrived in the town, they noticed the increasing number of refugees. After they had walked a few steps, they saw two horse-drawn carriages hurriedly passing by and heading towards the county town.

At first she didn't take it seriously, thinking that these people were temporarily seeking refuge in the county town. At this time, two horse-drawn carriages and mule-drawn caravans passed by. This time was very different from the previous ones. The mule-drawn carts were carrying a lot of stuff, and the horse-drawn carriages were also full of luggage. This didn't look like they were going to the county town for a short period of refuge.

Her father and her two uncles walked forward a few steps, and when they found that she had not caught up, they broke out in a cold sweat. This was not a peaceful year, and there were so many refugees. What if something happened? They hurried back to find her.

Seeing her standing not far away in one piece, her eyes fixed on the direction where the carriage and mule cart were going, they instantly felt more at ease. "Xiao Lan, what are you doing? Hurry up and catch up."

Xiao Lan walked quickly to Sheng Xuan's side, pointed at the convoy that just passed by and said, "Dad, why do I feel something is not right?"

"What's wrong?" Sheng Xuan immediately became serious.

Xiao Lan thought about it and said to Sheng Xuan, "Is it possible that the people in this town are also going to move?"

Zhang Qingfeng and Zhang Qingnian also became nervous, "Could it be?"

"How about we go to the county town and have a look? If the people in the county town are taking refuge in the more distant provincial capital, it means that the famine is not under control." Xiao Lan thought for a moment and said.

"Let's go to Tianxianglou first. If the restaurant has moved away, it means the famine is really severe." Xiao Lan said after thinking it over.

As one of the most well-known wealthy families in the town, the owner of the restaurant, Mr. Zhao, should have paid more attention to his own safety during such a panic. If they did not move, it meant that this was just the panic of some people and there was nothing wrong at all.

Xiao Lan figured it out and hurriedly urged Sheng Xuan, Zhang Qingfeng and Zhang Qingnian to go to Tianxiang Tower.

Tianxianglou was operating as normal, with guards guarding the door. It looked quite deserted, with not many customers eating inside.

The four of them just looked at it from a distance and did not go in.

Seeing that the restaurant had not moved, the group felt relieved. Zhang Qingnian smiled and said, "Shall we go to the county town to have a look?"

Xiao Lan nodded, but she felt much more relaxed.

Although there were many refugees in the county, they were able to barely fill their stomachs thanks to the emergency food distributed by the government.

Seeing that there would not be any major chaos in the county town, the few people gradually felt relieved.

At noon, the group had some noodles and were targeted by a hawker. Nowadays, people who are willing to go to a restaurant to eat noodles are generally not short of money. The four people in the group were dressed in ordinary clothes, but they were very straightforward in paying for the meal and competed with each other to pay. Only people with money would do this.

This broker was a regular customer of this noodle shop. When he saw Xiao Lan and her group finished their noodles, he came over to try to get close to them. After they introduced themselves to each other, they got to know each other. The broker's surname was Liu, and his name was Liu Dafu. He lived in the county town. According to the owner of the noodle shop, he was quite famous locally.

After sorting out the relationship between them, the broker smiled and said, "I can tell at a glance that you are extremely close, you are actually uncle-in-law." After a while of greetings, Liu Dafu asked them directly if they wanted to buy a house or land.

Sheng Xuan refused subconsciously, "We don't live here. Even if we buy the land, no one will farm it. Besides, the world is in such a mess now. If we buy the land, it will be a waste of our money."

Liu Dafu smiled and said, "Brother Sheng, you are wrong. No matter how chaotic the world is, as long as the contract for the land is in your hands, whether it lasts for half a year or a year, or for three to five years, the land will always be here. It cannot be moved or burned. The land is still the same land. If you don't want to farm it, you can rent it to others. This is a sure-win business. Even though the world is in chaos now, it also has its advantages. In disaster years, the land price is low, and the grain price is high. There are many good fields waiting to be sold. In peaceful times, you don't even have to think about it. I think buying anything is not as reliable as buying land."

It’s not known whether Sheng Xuan, Zhang Qingnian and Zhang Qingfeng were interested, but Xiao Lan’s eyes were getting brighter and brighter as she listened.

Seeing that one of the four men had been persuaded, the broker thought that he had a plan, even though he was just a kid, so he lobbied even harder, "Now an acre of good farmland only costs eight taels of silver. In a good year, it can be no less than fifteen taels of silver. Besides, in a good year, who would easily sell land?" Then he whispered to them, "Let me tell you the truth. The world is not that chaotic. The big Sun family in Dafeng County has not made any moves. It's just that the small families run away very quickly if they are not threatened."