Traveling through ancient times, storing supplies and not fleeing famine

Xia Shengsheng settled the children down and returned to the alley they had just been to.

There are two people going around looking for something.

Xia Shengsheng deliberately made a sound to lead the two people away in another direction.

When Xia Shengsheng came back to look for the children again, he had already retrieved the donkey cart, and there was no other donkey cart following behind him.

"Let's go! We still have to go back and buy some food to bring back. I won't take you shopping today. I'll take you shopping when we have the chance in the future!"

These words were said lightly and casually, and neither Shanshan nor Sicheng noticed anything unusual.

Ye Chao, however, felt full of uneasiness.

Xia Shengsheng's behavior was no different from usual. She brought a few children, talking and laughing all the way back to Niutou Town from Ning'an Prefecture.

He also bought 200 kilograms of black flour, 200 kilograms of brown rice, 100 kilograms of rice and flour, and 100 kilograms of millet.

After buying the food, I also bought a few chickens, half a pork, a set of offal, 20 kilograms of radishes, and 20 kilograms of cabbage.

The radishes and cabbages nowadays are all stored from last winter. Although the price is not too high, it is not low either.

Three cents per pound is almost as expensive as coarse grains.

Normally in autumn when a large number of vegetables are ripe, two pounds of cabbage and radishes only cost one cent.

Now is the time when there is a shortage of food and we can only pick some wild vegetables. The vegetables stored last autumn are sold at a very high price.

We have to buy some even if it’s high, otherwise what will happen if more than 20 people work for a month?

You have to buy some and keep them there. If you need something later, Xia Shengsheng can go to Qiqi to replenish it at any time without having to go to the town to buy it.

I also bought a large batch of bowls and chopsticks so that I don’t have to borrow them from other people tomorrow.

When we got home, everyone had already had lunch.

Mr. Ma and Widow Wei had also finished packing up long ago, but they did not leave. Instead, they helped with some chores.

"Sister-in-law and Liuzhi haven't left yet. Go back after you finish packing. There are still a lot of things waiting for you at home."

Xia Shengsheng greeted the two people first.

"It's okay. Everything was arranged before I left home. We are paid so much, why do we only have to work for half a day and then run away?

We feel at ease when we help with simple tasks.”

Fifteen cents a day is really the best wage for a woman who can only do housework and farm work at home.

They left after only staying for half a day, and they were a little scared, afraid that Xia Shengsheng would think they were lazy and no longer need them.

Xia Shengsheng had never thought about it this way. If the time was agreed upon in advance, then he should let people go off work at that time.

Otherwise, wouldn’t that be exploiting others?

After much persuasion, the two people were persuaded to go back and an agreement was reached on the time to go to work tomorrow.

When Dayi saw Xia Shengsheng pulling something back, he called two people to help Xia Shengsheng carry it into the house.

The kitchen is needed for cooking. If everything is piled up in the kitchen, you won’t be able to move around.

I can only put it in the bedroom for now, but it’s not a big bedroom and there’s no place to put my feet.

Xia Shengsheng wishes the house would be built tomorrow, but now he is getting more and more upset the longer he lives in it.

"Uncle Chen and his crew have come back twice, and they said that this trip will be almost done. After they finish pulling the goods, they will officially start work tomorrow morning!

The donkey shed is being built quickly and has been completed.

Uncle Chen bought the wood ready-made. He originally wanted to ask the village carpenter to make it, but Uncle Chen said it seemed like it would rain in the next two days. He was afraid of wasting time, so he directly brought back the ready-made wood from the town.

The soil needed for the wall has been dug up and is now being turned into mud blocks. A part of it has already been built.

But tomorrow we will assign most of the people to start building the house, and only leave about three or four to build the wall. With so few people and the building being high, it may take a little longer to complete everything.

I see you moved another sheep back today, do you want to build a separate sheepfold for it?"

Dayi explained everything that happened today to Xia Shengsheng clearly. Xia Shengsheng thought that the 20 workers that Chen the craftsman needed before were for building the house, and there was no plan at that time to hire people to build the wall.

So in terms of manpower, we should add a few more people.

We are not afraid of having too many people and too much wages. As long as we can shorten the construction period, it is also a kind of savings!

“I’ll talk to Village Chief Ma and ask him to add five more people so as not to delay the construction of the house.

We definitely need a sheepfold, build it as soon as possible in the next two days!"

Dayi didn't expect that Xia Shengsheng would agree to add more people. In fact, he also had this idea.

Do they earn money based on the length of work? The shorter the days, the more money they earn.

The longer the construction period, the less they earn.

It would be best to have a few more workers.

As for the sheep pen, it is even simpler. Just assign two people to do it, and they can finish it in one day. It is not troublesome at all!

Xia Shengsheng explained everything and sent the children away.

I went back to the room, closed the door and locked it from the inside.

He took a set of clean clothes and the medicinal powder that he had prepared earlier to treat external injuries and stop bleeding.

When she took off her clothes, blood flowed from her waist. Fortunately, the clothes she was wearing were very dark in color and the wound was only in an inconspicuous position on her waist.

We stopped and walked along the way, and when buying things, I let a few children get off the car to place orders with the store owners, and finally the store owners took them back to the car.

So almost no one noticed that she was injured.

Those people are really difficult to deal with.

Moreover, the two people who started out were later followed by three others.

And after catching up with him, he killed him directly.

Xia Shengsheng's original intention was just to get rid of a few people!

Unexpectedly, they were relentless and every strike was fatal.

How could Xia Shengsheng let them succeed so easily?

The last few people all turned into corpses.

Lying in some deep, deserted alley.

Xia Shengsheng was also injured, but fortunately, it was not serious.

She first cleaned the wound, then used an embroidery needle and thread to sew it up, sprinkled hemostatic powder on it, wrapped it with gauze, and changed into clean clothes.

I had just changed my clothes when there was a knock on the door.

Xia Shengsheng packed up all her things and opened the door. It turned out to be Ye Chao.

"How are you?"

Ye Chao had already smelled the blood on Xia Shengsheng when he was in the car.

But because he was afraid that the two younger children would be scared, he didn't say anything.

After coming back, Xia Shengsheng looked like nothing had happened. He chatted with others for a long time before going back to the room to treat his wound.

I waited anxiously outside, and only dared to knock on the door when I heard the noise in the house gradually died down.

Xia Shengsheng rubbed Ye Chao's head and asked, "Why don't you call me mom anymore?"

When Ye Chao looked up, tears were already in his eyes. Although he didn't remember his past, he could feel that those people had murderous intentions towards him.

I felt that he was carrying all kinds of dangers.

I felt that Xia Shengsheng was hurt because of him.

He didn't dare call Xia Shengsheng "mother" anymore, and even wanted to leave, for fear of bringing danger to this warm little home.

"I, I'm leaving tomorrow..."